Investment process

Personalized investment strategies

We appreciate the time, effort and dedication it takes to accumulate wealth. Our goal is to serve as a responsible steward of your capital, appreciating the trust you place in our team to manage your assets. In pursuit of this goal, we work tirelessly in our mission to be a valued collaborator in your wealth planning. Markets are ever evolving and rapidly paced to become ultra-efficient with a narrowing set of publicly traded companies. In our client investment models, our team aims to avoid concentration risk inherent in individual stock selection. Rather, we take a global macro view of markets to try to identify discounted asset classes with favorable potential for risk-adjusted return and an appropriate diversification of capital.

The Paradigm Group has a dual investment mandate of optimizing portfolio returns profiles to align with your personal time horizon and attempt to mitigate investment volatility along the way. Our individually tailored investment allocations focus primarily on your unique wealth plan crafted by your financial advisor to generate the long-term annualized return profile needed to meet your financial goals at each stage of your life.

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Investment committee

As practitioners, we aim to challenge our preconceived notions and select a suitable investment thesis to meet our clients’ needs. To help confirm this is being delivered on, our investment committee hosts multiple weekly meetings with a wide variety of industry experts to generate new ideas. The exercise helps us to effectively identify and navigate potential blind spots in our investment models. Confronting our own biases is of paramount importance to properly allocate client assets. If we are misguided in our thinking—we strive to discover it immediately and practice the malleability of thinking to adjust rapidly. Each quarter, we conduct ongoing due diligence on model portfolio components, comparing them against peers and broader market action. We also reaffirm our macro view of markets and explore new investment opportunities within the portfolio of holdings.

Our process

The first step in our due diligence process is to analyze the broad investment universe to identify opportunity sets. Next, we research various asset classes. We select the most appropriate investment vehicle (mutual funds, ETFs, SMAs, etc.) to gain exposure in the most efficient and cost-effective manner possible, ultimately selecting a suitable product sponsor to oversee capital. A few key pillars of our due diligence process are:

  • Expense awareness — Fees charged by an investment manager dilute client returns. The rise of passive investment via benchmark indexing requires active management to generate consistent outperformance (alpha) across market cycles to remain a part of our portfolio.
  • Performance — The professional managers we select must rank in the top half of their peer category on 1-, 3- and 5-year returns to be considered for client investment allocations.
  • Attribution — Excess performance can be generated via outsized position allocations or overly aggressive risk-taking. We look under the hood to see where returns are being generated.
  • Position concentration — We remain cognizant of the underlying holdings across all products in our portfolio to help ensure managers do not drift in style from their stated mandate. This is done to avoid inadvertently concentrating client portfolios in specific asset classes with potential manager overlap.

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Our investment philosophy

With market efficiency in mind, we believe that seeking outperformance in certain asset classes can be a fool’s errand. We avoid this by focusing on a cost-conscious approach to gain broad market exposure (beta) in our anchoring positions within equity and fixed income. We then build “satellite” positions that are traded on a discretionary basis. Our focus is to capture the upside appreciation of market performance and work to mitigate volatility should momentum reverse direction. The dynamism of these satellite positions allows us to react quickly to large movements in an attempt to capture rising trends and thematic opportunities.

The Paradigm Group investment committee

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Managing Director - Private Wealth Financial Advisor


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First Vice President - Financial Advisor


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Senior Vice President - Financial Advisor


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Senior Vice President - Financial Advisor


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