Investment Services and Mandates

Segregated Global Balanced Portfolio — Private Clients or institutions
Shaunessy Investment Counsel invests and manages portfolios on behalf of several distinct groups of clients. The most numerous group is private clients who have retained Shaunessy to invest globally in stocks and bonds. The investment mandate for these private clients is: (1) capital preservation, conservative blue chip investments (2) global diversity, and (3) annualized returns of approximately 8% annually.

These portfolios are not pooled. Each client has an individual segregated account held in trust, monitored and reported on by a custodian (e.g. TD Waterhouse Institutional Services). The custodian provides detailed reports directly to the client and also provides web-enabled 24/7 view of the portfolio. Shaunessy has sole and discretionary trading authority as defined and limited by an Investment Management Agreement. Assets can only be transferred out of the account to another previously designated account in the client’s name.

Segregated Large Cap/ Specialty Portfolios — Private Clients or institutions
Private clients with institutional-sized portfolios (generally in excess of $5 million) seek to benefit from Shaunessy’s large cap(-italization) equities strategies. At the present time four large cap strategies are offered: Canada, U.S., International and gold sector.

These large cap strategies (based on a quantitative model) offer a means of outperforming broad indexes (and index-based ETFs), such as the TSX Composite or the S&P 500, without adding active manager risks or costs. Our large cap strategies may also complement other investment managers and styles, including options strategies.

All assets are held in a segregated custodial account with similar attributes and safety provisions as described above. Applicable fees depend on portfolio size and the instruments used.

Portfolio Tracking Service

Total Portfolio Tracker is a service whereby, in conjunction with a Segregated Large Cap/ Specialty Portfolio, we track and provide oversight for all of a client’s capital market assets, including those held by other managers or in mutual funds, in order to report total portfolio asset mix, returns, and provide analysis on the entire portfolio. Shaunessy uses the portfolio management platform developed by Advent Software Inc.

Fees

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