• Better Returns
  • Less Risk
  • The Optimal Equity Equation
  • Enhanced Risk Budgeting
  • Theta
  • Structural Alpha
  • Asymmetric Returns

Welcome to Clothier Springs Capital Management

What's Important:

 

To Our Clients:

The optimal balance between risk and return.

Transparency, liquidity and affordability.

Consistency and repeatability.

The best opportunity to meet their objectives in a volatile world.

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To CSCM:

Simplicity, efficiency, reliability.

Getting the structure right.

Adding value through disciplined activity.

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Reducing the Risk of Investing

 

Our whole approach to investing is designed to deliver lower risk without sacrificing long-term performance.

 

Many investors are reducing their exposure to risk by reducing their exposure to equities. That certainly addresses their risk concerns but it's likely to play against their return requirements in the long run.

We have a better idea.
But don't take our word for it, look at the data. More...

What's New:

October 6, 2011

Premium Points: September 2011

Earning Their Keep in a Difficult Market

Well that wasn't pretty. In fact for equity investors, the third quarter of 2011 was the most unsatisfactory combination of anxiety and disappointment since the first quarter of 2009. And that was nobody's idea of the good old days.

Read Premium Points: the Quarterly Performance Summary and Commentary:

 

July 13, 2011

Premium Blend 2Q-2011

"The markets will fluctuate"

Our quote of the month for March was J.P. Morgan's timeless and pithy summaryof randomness: "The markets will fluctuate." How right he was and how propitious to invoke his wisdom just before a highly unsettled spell in the equity markets.

Read the 2Q-2011 Issue of Premium Blend:

 

From the Blog:

July 7, 2011

2Q-2010 Market Commentary

After an aimless first two months, the S&P 500 (for example) nose-dived on the first day of June and checked its fall only on June 24th, after a 6% sell-off.

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Better Returns

Higher-than-market returns - the primary objective of most investors and nearly all active managers. Beat the market. Out-think the competition.

 

We take a different approach.

Less Risk

Investors have received several emphatic reminders over the last few years that risk is real and carries a heavy price tag. They have also been reminded that the best time to recognize and address risk is before the storm hits, not after.

 

That's a lesson we've attended to very carefully and we're doing something in response.

Optimal Equity Equation

Higher-than-market returns at lower-than-market risk. It sounds like an impossible combination.

But not when you have the structure right.

A Prudent Tradeoff

At the core of our strategies is a prudent tradeoff we make in pursuit of the optimal equity equation.

We seek the right balance between risk and return.