Your Alternatives Have a Job.
Are They Working?

Many advisors added alternatives for a reason. Few have a framework to test whether they are actually worth the fees.

The Accountability Framework

Alternatives Were Hired to Do Three Jobs.
01

Diversify

Move independently - driven by a completely different force than what's already in the portfolio. Diversification is only real if the strategy is uncorrelated to equities, fixed income, and other alternatives. Does yours qualify?

02

Contribute

Earn across trend environments - not just in the regimes it was built for. A diversifier that only performs in specific macro conditions spends most of its time as dead weight. Does the allocation earn its seat at the table?

03

Be Ownable

Give advisors a mechanism they can explain - and clients a strategy they can actually hold through difficult periods. Shorter drawdowns. Faster recovery. A story driven by business competition, not opaque macro forces.

Longboard Was Built for One Kind of Advisor.

You want to know if the specific alternatives you're investing for clients pass the test that many funds quietly fail.

If that's the question, we can help answer it.

Next Step

Audit Your Current Alternatives.

We will apply the three-job audit framework to any Fund you request

  • If your allocation passes all three tests, you'll know.
  • If it doesn't, you'll know exactly where the gaps are.
  • No pitch before the numbers.
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OPTIMIZED LIQUID ALTERNATIVES

An investment approach that combines carefully selected liquid alternative strategies—such as trend following, multi-strategy, gold, long-short equity, and others — to achieve low correlation to traditional portfolios. Seeking true diversification beyond what bonds can offer, designed to pursue absolute returns across market cycles, and a smoother investment experience.

Absolute Returns
Seeks higher returns than bonds across market cycles1

Smoother Experience
‍Aims to reduce volatility and smooth the ride compared to traditional investments

OUR STORY

Led by Chief Investment Officer Cole Wilcox - a recognized thought leader in alternatives - our award-winning research2 has been prominently featured in best-selling investment books, influential academic papers, leading investing podcasts, and major media outlets including The Wall Street Journal, CNBC, and Bloomberg.

With more than 20 years of specialized experience in alternative investment strategies, we manage a low-correlation mutual fund and build custom alternative investment models and solutions tailored for wealth managers and investment advisors.

Cole Wilcox

Chief Investment Officer
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Sarah Baldwin

Portfolio Manager
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Howard Fraser

Managing Partner
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Liquid Alternative Insights

Our team delivers expert insights on liquid alternative investments and market trends.

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Beta: Measure of the systematic risk of a security or portfolio in comparison to the market as a whole.

Bloomberg Barclays US Aggregate Bond Index: The Bloomberg Barclays US Aggregate Bond Index, or the Agg, is a broad base, market capitalization-weighted bond market index representing intermediate term investment grade bonds traded in the United States. Investors frequently use the index as a stand-in for measuring the performance of the US bond market.

Correlation: Correlation in finance measures how two assets or variables move in relation to one another. Expressed numerically by a coefficient between -1.0 and +1.0, it is the foundation of portfolio diversification. Assets with low or negative correlations are combined to reduce total investment risk without sacrificing expected returns.

Maximum Drawdown: The maximum loss from a peak to a trough of an investment or portfolio, before a new peak is attained.

Russell 2000 Small-Cap Index: A small-cap stock market index of the smallest 2,000 stocks in the Russell 3000 Index.

S&P 500 TR Index: A capitalization-weighted index of 500 stocks. The index is designed to measure performance of the broad domestic economy through changes in the aggregate market value of 500 stocks representing all major industries.

S&P GSCI: Serves as a benchmark for investment in the commoditymarkets and as a measure of commodity performance over time.

S&P GSCI Gold Index: A widely recognized benchmark that tracks the performance of gold prices in the global market. It reflects the value of a hypothetical portfolio of gold futures contracts traded on leading exchanges, providing a comprehensive view of the gold market’s movement. The index is designed to be a reliable and transparent measure of gold’s performance, excluding any influence from other factors like interest rates or currency fluctuations.

SG Trend Index: A leading benchmark for tracking the performance of a pool of the largest managed futures trend following based hedge fund managers that are open to new investment. The SG Trend Index is equal-weighted and reconstituted annually. The SG Trend Index is formerly known as the Newedge Trend Index.

Sharpe Ratio: Risk-adjusted evaluation of return on an investment, which indicates how well an equity investment is performing compared to a risk-free investment, taking into consideration the additional risk level involved with holding the equity instrument.

Sortino Ratio: Risk-adjusted evaluation of return on an investment that is a variation of the Sharpe Ratio, in that it only factors in downside risk. It is used more to evaluate high-volatility portfolios.

Standard Deviation: A measure of an investment’s volatility. Standard Deviation measures how much the investment returns deviate from the mean of the probability distribution of investments (how much the investment will deviate from its expected return). Investors use this metric to help determine an investment or portfolio’s annual return by considering its historical volatility.

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