SUCCESSFULLY managing a retirement portfolio can be one of the most challenging tasks for an investor or money manager. Launched in 1993, WBI developed the Retirement Income strategy to help investors maintain income in retirement by protecting capital during market declines.
With aging population dynamics in the U.S. and the apparent thirst for yield in most developed nations, investors have been chasing higher returns in junk bonds or risky high-yield stocks. Investors with a long investing lifecycle might want to take that chance, as higher yielding investments historically provide more cash flow. But they can also dramatically increase the risk of losing capital – capital that can’t easily be replaced by older investors through another lifetime of work or savings. With market volatility increasing and indicating increased risk, investors who are retired or are approaching retirement need to have an effective plan to protect capital from another devastating bear market.
Our Philosophy
Over any calendar year, we feel a retired investor should limit a loss of capital to about 10% instead of incurring normal bear market losses of 50% or more.
By generating cash flow close to your income need, you can avoid liquidating underlying shares of your investment.
When market conditions are favorable, your portfolio needs to capture consistent return to grow capital and income to keep pace with inflation that can rob you of your purchasing power.
The Retirement Income strategy targets a balanced portfolio of stocks and bonds for conservative investors who need income in retirement.
Provide relatively high current income
Maintain a rising income stream to keep pace with inflation
Active risk management to protect capital from large losses in bear market cycles
60% Stocks | 40% Bonds
Allocations are subject to change.
The Retirement Income strategy uses our Power Factor® security selection, bond model, and dynamic trailing stop process to manage capital. Stocks go through rigorous analysis to meet our high standards of quality and timeliness. A combination of “power factors” are applied to our daily screening for financial analysis of each stock to find the best opportunities to buy. Our dynamic trailing stop process raises cash as stock prices fall to help protect investor capital and harvest gains. The process is designed to keep us invested when market trends are deemed favorable or to build cash when conditions indicate a high degree of risk with a low probability of success.
By seeking to protect capital when market conditions are unfavorable, our Retirement Income strategy can bring you into retirement with a larger capital base than passive approaches, enabling a steady stream of income even through market downturns. Consistency in income withdrawals is one of the potential advantages of our retirement strategy.
Assumes a $1M initial investment with $50K annual withdrawals adjusted for inflation. 2000-2019
| Annual Withdrawal Amounts | ||||
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2% Annual Adjustment for Inflation |
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Initial Investment |
Starting Year (2000) |
Ending Year (2019) |
Total Income* |
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WBI Retirement Income |
$1,000,000 |
$50,000 |
$72,840 |
$1,214,868 |
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50/50 Blended Index |
$1,000,000 |
$50,000 |
$72,840 |
$1,214,868 |
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S&P 500 |
$1,000,000 |
$50,000 |
$0 |
$1,058,157 |
Source: Morningstar, Net of Fee, Monthly Return, 2020. Blended Index: 50% S&P 500 TR Index/50% Bloomberg Barclays U.S. Aggregate Bond TR Index. Indices are unmanaged and may not be invested in directly. *Hypothetical $1,000,000 investment, income withdrawals taken quarterly with a 2% annual upward adjustment.
Performance shown is composite performance which includes both Traditional and Tax-Smart Strategies. Prior to 8/25/2014, the composite only included accounts invested in a model allocated to individual securities. On 8/25/2014, the composite added a second model of accounts invested in an allocation amongst Affiliated ETFs. The model implemented through the use of individual securities and all iterations of the models implemented through Affiliated ETFs are substantially similar. The Affiliated ETFs do not have performance history of comparable duration; therefore, performance of the models implemented through Affiliated ETFs could have been better or worse over the same period and is not indicative of future performance.
An important potential benefit of active management is the risk protection for the investor, most critically during major market downturns. The worst bear markets of the past two decades have been devastating for investors who tried to buy and hold popular passive-index strategies but failed. A 40-50% decline like the S&P 500 realized during the Dot-Com Crash and Financial Crisis is catastrophic for many, especially those in or nearing retirement. We are committed to helping protect investors from these types of major losses.
Source: Morningstar, Net of Fee, Monthly Return, 2020. Blended Index: 50% S&P 500 TR Index/50% Bloomberg Barclays U.S. Aggregate Bond TR Index. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Indices are not managed and may not be invested in directly.
A strategy that balances risk and return effectively can sustain your investment through market ups and downs. Long term, the goal of our Retirement Income strategy is to preserve capital when markets are unfavorable, and participate in the upside when our process indicates positive momentum.
Our risk-managed approach generally leads our strategy to outperform in bear markets by minimizing loss, and may underperform in the later stages of a bull market as risk increases.
The chart to the right shows our strategy’s excess return over the S&P 500 during the bull and bear markets of the last two decades. While underperforming during the bull markets, we significantly outperformed during bear markets.
In our experience, investors are more likely to be successful at investing when losses are kept within their risk tolerance. We look at risk metrics to ensure the strategy is working as designed to capture less drawdown, low downside capture, and positive risk-adjusted return over the markets.
Source: Morningstar, Net of Fee, Quarterly Return, 2020. The S&P 500 Index represents the total return index. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Returns are annualized for periods of 1 year or more. Indices are not managed and may not be invested in directly.
See above for important information regarding composite performance.
Past performance does not guarantee future results. This is not an offer to buy or sell any security. No security or strategy, including those referred to directly or indirectly, is suitable for all accounts or profitable all the time. Performance shown is composite performance which includes both Traditional and Tax-Smart Strategies. The Tax-Smart SMA program accounts are subject to investment risk, including the possible loss of principal. The ETFs in the Tax-Smart SMA program accounts may invest in other ETFs, mutual funds, and Exchange-Traded Notes (ETNs) which will subject the account to related additional expenses of each, and the risk of owning the underlying securities held by each. Investment risks may include but are not limited to: market, economic, political, interest rate, currency exchange, leverage, liquidity, credit quality, model, portfolio turnover, trading, REIT, high yield stocks, nondiversification, concentration, commodities, options, new fund, and client specific restrictions. WBI’s Passive ETFs are not actively managed and WBI does not attempt to take defensive positions in declining markets. You should not assume that any discussion or information provided here serves as a substitute for personalized investment advice from WBI or any other investment professional. If you have questions regarding the applicability of specific issues discussed to your individual situation, please consult with WBI or your chosen professional advisor. This information is compiled from sources believed to be reliable, accuracy cannot be guaranteed. Information contained in this Presentation may constitute “forward-looking statements,” identified by terminology such as “should,” “expect,” or “continue,” or the negatives thereof or other variations thereon. Due to various risks and uncertainties, actual events, results [or the actual performance of the Adviser’s investments] may differ materially from those reflected or contemplated in such forward-looking statements. WBI’s advisory operations, services, and fees are in the Form ADV, available upon request. The allocation to ETFs can provide increased tax efficiency over traditional SMA approaches. We believe the structure of the Tax Smart Program provides several benefits in addition to the potential for increased tax efficiency. However, Clients should understand that tax-qualified accounts, such as IRAs, do not benefit from any additional tax efficiencies of the “Tax-Smart” structure. Please consult with a tax professional prior to making investment decisions.
WBI has an inherent conflict of interest in investing in or recommending Affiliated ETFs as follows: 1) WBI and affiliates receive management fees from Affiliated ETFs. To avoid receiving two layers of management fees in situations where clients invest in Affiliated ETFs through SMA and Platform accounts, WBI will either: (i) waive the management fee at the account level; or (ii) credit the management fees paid by the Affiliated ETFs to WBI and its affiliates with respect to an account’s investments in Affiliated ETFs against the account-level advisory fees the account owes WBI, and 2) WBI’s affiliated broker-dealer, Millington Securities, Inc., receives compensation (including payment for order flow, commissions or other fees) for transactions effected on behalf of Affiliated ETFs. Trades WBI places through Millington will be subject to WBI’s duty of best execution and applicable law.
Net of Fee Performance (NFP) is net of the maximum WBI investment management fee. WBI uses a model fee approach which consists of netting down 100 bps from gross returns on a monthly basis. Both NFP and Gross of Fee Performance (GFP) were restated effective February 28, 2017, to reflect the exclusion of management fees paid by the Affiliated ETFs to WBI held through the WBI Tax-Smart SMA program accounts which resulted in understating GFP, and as a result, NFP. Additional information is available upon request.
Benchmark performance does not include deductions of transaction and custodial charges or investment management fees, which would likely reduce performance results. Because the strategy involves active management of a potentially wide range of assets, no widely recognized benchmark is likely to represent performance of any managed account. WBI managed accounts may own assets and follow investment strategies which cause them to differ materially from the composition and performance of the benchmarks shown. Indices are unmanaged and may not be invested in directly.
S&P 500 TR Index: includes a representative sample of large-cap U.S. companies in leading industries where all payouts (dividend) are reinvested automatically. Bloomberg Barclays US Aggregate Bond TR Index: a component of the US Universal Index and covers the USD‐denominated, investment‐grade, fixed‐rate, taxable bond market of SEC‐registered securities. Blended Index: 50% S&P 500 TR Index/50% Bloomberg Barclays U.S. Aggregate Bond TR Index.
Power Factors: proprietary factor-based security selection models that evaluate U.S. and international stocks for high-yield dividend, dividend growers, value, yield, and quality. P/E: indicates multiple an investor can expect to pay for a share of stocks to receive one dollar of that company’s earnings P/S: valuation ratio that compares a company’s stock price to its revenue per share P/FCF: valuation metric of securities used to compare a company’s per share market price to free cash flow per share ROA: Indicator of how profitable a company is related to its total assets FCF/Debt: ratio of a company’s cash flow from operations to its total debt CFYLD: evaluation ratio of a stock’s operating cash flow per share against its market price per share ROIC: performance measure indicating the percentage return that investors in a company earn on invested capital ROE: measures the ability of a firm to generate profits from its shareholders’ investments in the company RSI: momentum indicator comparing recent gains and losses in an attempt to determine overbought or oversold opportunity
The WBI Dynamic Trailing Stop (DTS) is not a stop loss order or stop limit order placed with a brokerage firm, but an internal process for monitoring price movements. While the DTS may be used to initiate WBI’s process for selling a security, it does not assure that a particular execution price will be received.
Other strategies may have different results.
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