Defined Outcome Funds – investments designed to align ETF returns to your market views – m+ funds – 11.6.18

Summary:

Now On Demand.

Learn about specific strategies for:

• Maintaining market exposure while protecting against downside risk
• Enhancing upside capture in sideways markets
• Increasing potential growth, without adding additional risk

“Defined Outcome” funds enable Advisors to shape client portfolios around your market views. Certain funds provide capital preservation for investors anxious about today’s elevated market levels – while others provide enhanced upside capture for those more bullish.

m+ funds pioneered Defined Outcome investing which allows Advisors to customize ETF exposures to specific outcomes.

• What is Defined Outcome investing?
• Strategic and tactical applications of various Defined Outcome investments
• Using m+ funds to adapt market results
• Portfolio construction and risk considerations

Speakers:

Steve joined m+ funds in April, 2017 and is responsible for business development activities. He has over 28 years of industry experience having worked primarily in both the Wealth Management segments and in Capital Markets/Derivatives businesses.

Steve started his career with PaineWebber working in the Mortgage-Backed Securities group. He then joined Bankers Trust Company in the Fixed Income Derivatives group and spent approximately 7 years with the firm being located in both New York and Hong Kong. Steve then spent ten years with Merrill Lynch where he worked in both New York and in Tokyo. While at Merrill he co-headed the firm’s Private Client Structured Investments business, as well as the firm’s Private Client Alternative Investments business.

Steve was then recruited by Barclays Bank to oversee their Americas Wealth Management business. He spent 6 years with Barclays during which time he was also appointed to the Board of Directors of Barclays Capital Inc. At the end of 2015, Steve helped execute the sale of his division (the Americas Wealth Management business) to Stifel Financial where he then spent approximately 1 year, prior to joining m+ funds.

Steve holds his undergraduate degree from the University of Texas, Austin and his MBA from Columbia University.

Prior to co-founding m+ funds, Oscar was a Managing Director at Citigroup Global Markets in charge of Americas Structuring and Sales of all structured equity and multi-asset solutions for institutional, high net worth and retail clients. He led the efforts to build a broad and robust structured business for Citigroup, where he pioneered the structured products platform in the mid 90’s and grew the product offering to include quantitative investment strategies, comprehensive structured platforms and wrappers, and MTN trading. Additionally, Oscar was the global head of Multi-Asset Structuring from 2012 to 2013 with teams located in NY, London and HK, as well as the head of Equity Derivatives for Latin America in 2014. He was part of the Equity Derivatives Operating Committee and the Latam Equities Executive Committee.

Oscar was also a Managing Director and head of Multi-Asset Structuring and High Net Worth Sales for the Americas at Bank of America Merrill Lynch prior to joining Citigroup. He managed all structuring and origination, where he and his team were responsible for the creation, delivery and trading of structured solutions for the entire Merrill Lynch advisor base as well as for family offices, ultra-high net worth and institutional clients. Annual notional amounts traded under Oscar’s leadership exceeded $17 billion while at BAML.

Oscar started his career on Wall Street at BNP Paribas, where he worked in a structured finance unit responsible for originating and creating structured solutions for corporate clients. He has an MBA from Columbia University, received his Mechanical Engineer degree from Universidad Metropolitana in Venezuela, and holds securities licenses from FINRA in Series 7, 63, and 24. He resides in Greenwich, CT with his wife and 3 kids.