Investment Philosophy

Process-Driven , Discipline & Opportunity

Our philosophy is grounded in discipline, research, and balance. We believe lasting success is achieved through a process-driven approach — one that combines strategic insight with thoughtful execution. Every recommendation we make is guided by a deep understanding of our clients' goals, risk tolerance, and life circumstances, allowing us to build portfolios that adapt to changing markets while remaining steadfast in purpose.

A SENSE OF BALANCE

Fundamentally, we believe investing is about balance — about bringing risk and return, action and patience into equilibrium.

A SENSE OF BALANCE

Fundamentally, we believe investing is about balance – about bringing risk and return, action and patience into equilibrium. We focus on helping our clients find and maintain their own sense of balance when it comes to their investments. Based on your unique goals, expectations paired with your individual tolerance and capacity for risk, we’ll select the tools that suit your purposes and design a globally diversified portfolio tuned to your unique symmetry. Everything we do is process-driven and disciplined through all market cycles.

EXHAUSTIVE RESEARCH, INSIGHTFUL CONCLUSIONS

We seek input from multiple valuable resources to enhance our lengthy experience in the industry to provide insightful recommendations.

EXHAUSTIVE RESEARCH, INSIGHTFUL CONCLUSIONS

We seek input from multiple valuable resources to enhance our lengthy experience in the industry to provide insightful recommendations to our clients. We are continually evaluating existing and new strategies to create diverse solutions including active and passive investments that specifically meet your needs. To complement our in-house portfolio management, we conduct exhaustive research to bring best-in-class third-party managers factoring in performance, fee structure and risk, along with intensive due diligence and manager monitoring.

RISK MANAGEMENT

In striving to manage risk, we adhere to our customized strategic and tactical asset allocation process based on our proprietary methodology, utilizing domestic and global, traditional and non-traditional investments and asset classes.

RISK MANAGEMENT

In striving to manage risk, we adhere to our customized strategic and tactical asset allocation process, based on our proprietary methodology; Utilizing domestic and global, traditional and non-traditional investments and asset classes. From a top-down perspective, our proprietary Milestone Recession Risk Composite™ helps guide our global asset allocations as well as the degree to which we pursue investment options. Through bottom-up research, we carefully select individual securities and actively managed solutions through a process that is driven by quality, growing value, and relative strength criteria.

RE-BALANCING AND MONITORING

We review our portfolio asset allocations and individual security weightings on a regular basis and rebalance back to our target weighting to ensure our portfolios stay ...

RE-BALANCING AND MONITORING

We review our portfolio asset allocations and individual security weightings on a regular basis and rebalance back to our target weighting to ensure our portfolios stay aligned with your unique risk profile, as well as to actively take advantage of seasonality and dislocations in the marketplace. In addition, we monitor our third-party managers and continually have diligent conversations to ensure their strategies are being executed accordingly.

TAX-AWARE & TAX-EFFICIENT

With detailed knowledge of the Canadian tax system, and in working with our client’s strategic partners such as Chartered accountants and Tax Specialists, we harness all the ...

TAX-AWARE & TAX-EFFICIENT

With detailed knowledge of the Canadian tax system, and in working with our client’s strategic partners such as Chartered accountants and Tax Specialists, we harness all the tools available to us to deliver tax-aware strategies and tax-efficient portfolio construction. This tax awareness goes beyond investments, but also through careful estate planning strategies to ultimately keep as much long-term capital in your control. For our small business client’s unique tax needs, we developed our tax-efficient Milestone M-Factor Portfolios specifically designed to be held inside the unforgiving passive tax rates of a corporation.

FEE-BASED APPROACH

Our value goes beyond just investment advice. Milestone prides itself on helping its clients by embarking on a financial journey and providing guidance every step of the ...

FEE-BASED APPROACH

Our value goes beyond just investment advice. Milestone prides itself on helping its clients by embarking on a financial journey and providing guidance every step of the way, through high-touch and meticulous counsel, expertise, and custom-fit solutions. We work with the intention of developing multi-generational relationships with our clients that truly last a lifetime. As their lives unfold and needs evolve, our process is unwavering in its commitment to providing them with the highest levels of service. Taking a fee-based approach allows us to better serve and anticipate our client’s needs.

Alternative Investments

Building an Endowment-Quality Portfolio

Modern portfolio construction for long-term wealth preservation and growth demands moving beyond a traditional mix of public stocks and bonds. As a fully independent Portfolio Manager firm, we incorporate Alternative Investments and Private Assets to create portfolios that have similar attributes as the sophisticated strategies employed by leading endowments and pension funds. With a significant allocation to alternatives and private assets, our objective is to achieve these portfolio characteristics for our clients:

Enhanced Diversification and Risk Management

The primary role of alternatives is to build more resilient and durable portfolios by sourcing returns independent of traditional public markets.
By strategically allocating to alternative investments—such as private equity, private credit, real assets, and select hedge strategies—we aim to reduce overall portfolio volatility and improve downside protection during market stresses.
These non-traditional assets often exhibit a low or negative correlation to public equities and fixed income, providing true diversification benefits and introducing different levers of return.
Significant research shows the inclusion of alternatives and private assets increases the potential for higher long-term risk-adjusted returns.

Source: Fidelity

Improving Risk-Adjusted Returns (The Endowment Model)

Our goal is to deliver superior risk-adjusted returns over a full market cycle, utilizing many of the characteristics of the proven investment philosophies used by the Endowment funds such as Yale and Harvard, who have been leaders in diversified multi-asset class investing for decades.
We are focused on lifting the portfolio's efficient frontier, which represents the curve that optimizes return/risk, by accessing the Expanded Investment Universe of private markets and alternatives which now represent the fastest-growing sectors of the global economy and are typically reserved for institutional investors.
Through our proprietary investment management process and due diligence research, we gain exposure to specialized, actively managed strategies in private real estate, infrastructure, equity, and credit that can generate attractive yields, stable cash flows, and act as a hedge against inflation.
Our approach allows us to invest alongside institutional-caliber managers, targeting areas of the market where specialized expertise and information asymmetry can uncover overlooked potential and value creation.

Source: ATB

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Investment Philosophy