What is UAS Investment Management?

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Why choose UAS?

Investment Management

UAS offers “stand-alone” Investment Management Services, available to individuals, institutions, foundations and ERISA related entities seeking counsel for their investment management and consulting needs. The Investment Management process involves assessing broad financial goals, risk tolerance, future distributions and other variables to maintain oversight and management of the investment portfolio. We do not accept commissions and we vigorously maintain our independence to ensure absolute objectivity drives our decisions in managing our clients’ portfolios.

UAS INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT OFFERINGS INCLUDE:

• Assessment of Current Financial Circumstances

• Long- and Short-Term Goal Articulation

• Investment Policy Statement (IPS) Development

• Tailored Investment Strategy in Accordance with the IPS to Determine Overall Asset Allocation

• Implementation of UAS Investment Philosophy in the Selection of Underlying Investments

• Ongoing Due Diligence of Investments and Investment Managers

• Consolidated Reporting of Portfolio

• Ongoing Tax Management of the Portfolio (for Taxable Clients), Review and Rebalancing

INVESTMENT PHILOSOPHY:

Our investment philosophy is uncompromisingly client centric. We believe that the most important consideration in developing a strategy is to fully understand each client's unique goals and preferences. We then marry our understanding of the client with our general philosophy of investments to create a custom portfolio for each client.

Our Investment philosophy has been developed based upon Nobel Prize winning academic research, and is considered "best practice" in our industry. We employ a "core and satellite" approach that combines broad exposure to various assets classes at low cost (core) with targeted strategies (satellites) designed to enhance the overall risk/return characteristics of the investment portfolio. We implement our strategy using institutional mutual funds and money managers, individual securities and alternative investments.

Furthermore, we firmly believe that even a great investment philosophy needs to give due consideration to a few practical matters:

• Manage Portfolios for After-Tax Returns (for taxable accounts)
• Expenses Should Be Minimized
• Use "Best-Of-Breed" Providers

While every client's circumstances are different, we believe all portfolios should be tax managed (if taxable) and cost efficient in terms of trading and other costs. We use institutional investment vehicles to minimize costs and utilize strategies to keep turnover as low as prudently possible. In addition, we maintain several asset-custodian relationships to ensure that we are not captive to any one of them. Just as there is no one portfolio that fits all clients, there is no one asset-custodian that best serves every client. Part of our job is to advise the client regarding which asset-custodian or broker-dealer best suits their needs. This facilitates our ability to seek only the best-of-breed for those services to our clients.

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WHY CHOOSE UAS INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT SERVICES?

Uncompromised Objectivity Through Independence

UAS is not owned by any “product” company nor compensated by any commissions. This allows us to provide investment advice void of conflicts of interest. UAS may place trades through multiple sources, ensuring that the best cost/service/execution mix is met for clients. Clients may custodian assets with virtually any technically advanced provider and UAS regularly works with several that have proven to excel in the cost and service categories.

Specialized Expertise

Only highly educated and credentialed professionals provide investment advice at UAS. Our staff hold some of the most prestigious designations, including CFA®, CFP®, ChFC® and MFP™.

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