Sponsor Listing
Platinum Sponsors
Direxion Investments
Direxion Investments is a powerful ally for both strategic and tactical investors seeking to solve for better investment outcomes.
Building on over 17 years of experience with highly liquid, tactical and strategic institutional-style ETFs and Mutual Funds, Direxion Investments provides a wide range of index-based products that offer directional options, magnified exposure, and long-term rules-based strategies.
Our diverse suite of products help traders and investors stay nimble in the short-term, and pursue strategies for the long-term, as they navigate today’s ever-changing markets.
Founded in 1997, Direxion has 4 offices in the U.S. and Hong Kong.
For financial advisors, individual investors, institutions, and active traders, Direxion specializes in providing solutions that deliver:
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- A means toward seeking specific outcomes, such as broader diversification, dampened volatility and income or alpha generation
- Efficient access to non-correlated asset classes and strategies
- Flexibility to position portfolios opportunistically for near- and long-term market trends
- Liquid, cost effective access to sophisticated strategies
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Our role is to complement your core investment strategies, not to replace them. Our funds allow you to seek opportunities in all market conditions offering fresh solutions to challenge old standards.
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CEROS |Advisors Preferred, LLC
Ceros Financial Services, Inc. is a full-service brokerage platform and outsourced trading desk to investment management firms. RIAs and hybrid advisors rely on Ceros for flexible, powerful and comprehensive back office systems and services. Ceros takes an active, consultative approach to helping advisors grow their businesses, offering direct access to trade stocks, bonds, options, ETFs, equity, commodities and futures trading. At Ceros, our sole focus is on making our clients’ businesses run as successfully as possible. We’re a dedicated, highly skilled group of professionals who have been involved in the RIA custody business for many years. Because our focus is on serving the needs of investment advisors and fund managers, we are able to do so with a minimum of distraction, conflict of interest or bureaucracy.
A sister company to Ceros Financial Services – Advisors Preferred, LLC acts as the named advisor for mutual funds. Advisors are recognizing the value in outsourcing the compliance, regulatory, and trading responsibilities of running a mutual fund so that they can concentrate on just the money management in a sub-advisory role. For over a decade, Ceros has provided trading services for advisor-run mutual funds. Now, between Ceros and Advisors Preferred, we can help all types of advisors who manage mutual funds.
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Guggenheim
Investors seeking to include specific market exposures in their portfolios can access dozens of Guggenheim’s Rydex strategies. Each follows a specific benchmark, and our benchmark, and our benchmark replication includes sector strategies, as well as broad market benchmarks—both leveraged and inverse exposure. For 25 years, investors have relied on us to help express their market conviction using such innovative beta allocations.
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ProFunds
ProFunds and ProShares combine to serve investors as one of the country’s leading providers of alternative mutual funds and ETFs. We offer the nation’s largest lineup of alternative ETFs, and we are the world’s largest provider of geared (leveraged and inverse) exchange trade products. Founded in 1997, ProFunds offers over 100 broad index, sector and geared mutual funds. ProShares, which was launched by the founders of ProFunds in 2006, provides access to more than 150 alternative investments delivered with the liquidity and cost effectiveness of ETFs. ProFunds and ProShares provides a broad spectrum of long term and tactical strategies that can help you go beyond the limitations of conventional investing and build better portfolios to face today’s market challenges. Our wide array of mutual funds and ETFs are designed to help you reduce volatility, manage risk and enhance returns for your clients.
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Gold Sponsors
Princeton Fund Advisors, LLC
Princeton Fund Advisors, LLC, (“PFA”) is a Registered Investment Advisor with the SEC and, together with its affiliates, manages approximately $2.3 billion of assets for institutional and private clients worldwide. PFA teams with successful investment managers across a variety of investment strategies, including private equity and hedge funds, to develop and promote liquid and interval funds primarily in alternative investment strategies for retail institutional distribution channels. The firm’s Investment Committee Members contribute more than 70 years of alternative asset management experience to the portfolio construction and management process. PFA has offices in Denver, Colorado and Minneapolis, Minnesota.
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Trust Company of America
Trust Company of America is the only independent RIA custodian offering fully integrated, real-time technology and personalized back-office services designed exclusively for RIAs. TCA’s unified technology, custody, and service platform gives advisors the freedom to seamlessly optimize their clients’ portfolios while building smarter, more efficient businesses. Headquartered in Denver, Colorado, TCA has been redefining the scale, efficiency, and sophistication of the RIA trading model for nearly 20 years.
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Silver Sponsors
EventShares
- POLICIES EVOLVE.
- COMPANIES CHANGE.
- MARKETS REACT.
Actions in Washington D.C. can be a powerful leading indicator for investment returns. We believe this presents the opportunity to identify long-term, undervalued investments. At EventShares, we identify changes in policy and invest in the most impacted companies.
We’re focused on educating investors about the potential benefits of investing in government policy and legislation. The world of policy investing and policy factors is a relatively new concept for investors and advisers. It is important to remember Policy ≠ Politics. Download the Guide to Policy Investing white paper HERE which covers:
Why policy is a leading indicator for companies and sectors?
How do actions in Washington D.C. create opportunities to buy mispriced assets?
Which market segments are most impacted by policy?
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John Hancock Investments
About John Hancock Investments
John Hancock Investments provides asset management services to individuals and institutions through a unique manager-of-managers approach. We operate as an independent and well-resourced investment advisor. This structure enables us to be highly responsive, develop funds based on investor need, and then search the industry to find the portfolio management teams with the best skill set, track record, and experience to manage those funds. Our funds provide access to specialized portfolio teams at some of the best managers in the world. Our independence and experience as one of the longest-tenured manager of managers enable us to achieve what we believe is an exceptional level of oversight. Our approach to investing has led to a diverse set of investments deeply rooted in investor needs, along with strong risk-adjusted returns across asset classes.
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ProShares
ProShares and its affiliates have been at the forefront of the indexing revolution since 1997. ProShares offers one of the largest lineups of ETFs, with more than $30 billion in assets. The company is the leader in strategies such as dividend growth, alternative and geared (leveraged and inverse). ProShares continues to innovate with products that provide strategic and tactical opportunities for investors to manage risk and enhance returns. ProFunds, the affiliated mutual fund company to ProShares, manages index funds across a wide spectrum of asset classes, including broad-based equities, sectors and fixed income.
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RIA Database
RIA Database provides searchable, web-based databases for the financial services industry. We offer comprehensive profiles and information on RIA firms, broker-dealer firms, registered representatives, independent advisors, banks and trust companies.
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Equity Advisor Solutions
Equity Advisor Solutions provides custody and back-office solutions to RIA’s, Hybrids, TAMP’s, Broker- Dealers and more. Equity specializes in:
- Custody of all asset types, including alternative assets, on one custodial platform
- Back-Office solutions that streamline your business and create efficiencies including billing, performance reporting and delivery, customized client portal, document storage, client vault and audit assistance
- Technology that includes portfolio rebalancing, ability to run multiple models in the same account, customized mobile app for your firm, reporting and analytics
- Technology integration (portfolio management and CRM systems).
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CMT Association
Founded in the late 1960s, the CMT Association has represented Wall Street’s community of technical analysts for nearly 50 years. From its start as a small group of technicians in NYC, the CMT Association has become a beacon for professionals worldwide. Today, we deliver value through diverse education and networking opportunities, member advocacy, career advancement, and the highest standards of professional ethics. Our analytical philosophy is grounded in observing and understanding market activity. This is comprised of behavioral economics, quantitative methods and rules-based trading and testing.
The CMT Program offers the opportunity to earn a globally-respected credential in this discipline of capital-market analysis. The curriculum spans a wide array of tools, methods and styles in technical analysis. Successful candidates demonstrate their mastery of the concepts and applications they have learned by completing a series of examinations, culminating in receiving their CMT charter.
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Innovation Sponsors
Team Financial Strategies
Team Financial Strategies (TFS) is an independent RIA with offices in Abilene and Granbury, TX. The firm has been in operation since April of 2005. TFS has a broad range of experience and expertise between CFP® practitioners and CPA’s. Jody Team is the President and CEO of TFS and has more than 16 years of industry experience. TFS advises clients to build and manage wealth through financial planning and investment management strategies. TFS manages over $80 million for individuals and institutions. TFS is the sub-advisor for The Texas Fund, an open-end fund that invests in companies headquartered in Texas.
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Financial Communications Associates, Inc.
Financial Communications Associates / Active Managers Resource Center provides marketing assistance to RIAs and investment managers who utilize active investment management strategies. Linda Ferentchak has developed marketing materials and public relations programs for active managers since 1992 and has an extensive portfolio of projects on dynamic and tactical asset allocation, sector rotation, fund timing, technical analysis, market timing and other active disciplines.
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