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Institutional Investing

A customized investment strategy — always in perfect alignment with your goals.

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Elevate your financial objectives.

The investment team at Bergamot has a long history of working with institutional investors — ranging from Corporate Pension Funds and Endowments, to Foundations and Fund of Funds. We offer a unique set of customized solutions, focused on both traditional and non-traditional investment opportunities.

You'll receive thoughtful, unbiased advice from our team of experienced industry professionals.

Working closely with your investment team, we first develop a deep understanding of your organization's overall financial objectives. We then customize investment solutions using our proprietary models that align with your risk tolerance, time horizon and income needs to ultimately help you reach your investment goals.

Our dedicated team of client service professionals brings a high level of industry experience and knowledge, working seamlessly alongside our investment team to deliver a world-class experience to our clients. Our ultimate goal is to partner with you to elevate your organization's financial objectives and fulfill its fiduciary responsibilities.

The evolution of our investment process.

Over the past 43 years, there has been an evolution of our investment process. What started with valuation and earnings revision analysis, has evolved into a more dynamic process that captures information in real time and processes that information to identify potential buy and sell opportunities in our equity universe.

Understanding the core of our investment process

We utilize a comprehensive 3-step investment process to create customized portfolios that are uniquely tailored to your investing needs.

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Valuation

Our proprietary valuation model

The first step in our investment process utilizes our proprietary valuation model which enables us to compare multiple valuation metrics to their historical averages. This produces a subset of stocks from the investment universe that are “cheap” relative to their long term growth prospects.

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Our Micro Elements Model

Separating the news from noise

As information has become more widely and abundantly available through various platforms, it has become increasingly important to have a way to organize and process it — ultimately separating the "news" from "noise".


Our unique Micro Elements model allows us to capture data and process it in a highly thorough and efficient manner — enabling our investment team to focus their research efforts on companies that we feel have a higher likelihood of outperforming their respective benchmarks.

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The importance of investor sentiment

Investor sentiment is an important factor in determining what is being discounted by investors and may allow us to take advantage of opportunities to buy where we feel multiples may be able to expand — and sell where we feel investors are too optimistic about a company’s growth prospects.

Our unique Micro Elements model helps us to capture investor sentiment — the component of a stock price that is not statistically explainable. Combined with our knowledge of industry and sector dynamics, this allows us to potentially identify the best time to enter and exit an investment position.

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Fundamental Analysis

A comprehensive study of company growth projections

Finally, we focus our efforts on gaining a thorough understanding of each company's specific competitive dynamics within its own industry growth landscape — challenging the assumptions underlying their expected growth rates and ranking them as suitable candidates for investment.

We welcome an opportunity to learn about you and your needs.

Insights

Thoughtful perspectives from our wealth management team to help navigate what matters to you most. Discover the latest on everything from market news and trends — to wealth planning and emerging investment opportunities.

By Christopher Liong January 13, 2025
“Winners never quit and quitters never win.” – Vince Lombardi Happy New Year to all! We wish everyone a safe, healthy and prosperous year and hope that 2025 has gotten off to a good start as we look forward to what the year has to bring. In honor of Quitter’s Day (the second Friday of January when many people abandon their resolutions for the New Year) and the start of NFL Playoffs, we start with this quote. After a nice bounce post-election in the S&P 500, the market has since settled and is roughly flat since November 5, 2024. This newsletter will have a slightly different format to start the year, as we review the year that was and discuss some things to look out for in 2025. 2024 Year in Review Below are the full year returns of various indices (including dividends) through 12/31/24.
2024 Election
By Christopher Liong November 6, 2024
“We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution of the United States of America.” - Preamble to the United States Constitution After months of political rhetoric, back and forth accusations and approximately $16b spent on advertising, the results are finally in, and investors can now refocus on policies and the direction of growth for our country. These words should remind us what OUR great country was built on and that we will always find a way to not only succeed, but thrive. Elections.  With the potential for a Republican sweep, the US Dollar has jumped to a new three-month high, interest rates are up, the price of oil is down and bitcoin surged to a new all-time high of over $75k. Historically, the market has rallied between Election Day and year-end on average...
By Christopher Liong September 25, 2024
As we enter the first days of fall and finally have that first interest rate cut behind us, we always ask ourselves, “What next?” This past week, saw a plethora of analysts provide historical performance post rate cuts, so instead of trying to reinvent the wheel, we will share with you a summary of “The Week In Charts.” We are always reminded of that favorite caveat “past performance is not indicative of future performance,” so we will try our best to provide some perspective to these charts and tables. Interest Rates. So how does the market perform after the first interest rate cuts and what sectors perform best? These charts and tables were published by Canaccord Genuity Capital Markets. This first chart shows that when the initial rate cut occurs, when the S&P 500 Index is near a high, the market tends to do well over the next 12 months, with the exception being the financial crisis in 2007/2008… 

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