MAIN MANAGEMENT LLC.  
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Philosophy

Main Management LLC is an asset management firm that was formed in August of 2002. The five founding partners were senior directors at Montgomery Securities, which has since been acquired by Bank of America. They have backgrounds ranging from equity research, investment banking, sales and trading, to building Montgomery Asset Management. Their collective intellectual capital comprises over 130 years of investment experience. This experience helped to create strategies that would alleviate many concerns of family offices or ultra high net worth individuals; low fees, low turnover and tax efficiency. Accordingly, Main chose to use ETFs exclusively in portfolio construction. ETFs are relatively inexpensive and provide tremendous diversification, transparency and liquidity. Moreover combining ETFs with selective option writing strategies effectively reduces volatility, further managing portfolio risks. Main knows that reducing the expenses and turnover in managing portfolios are the simplest way to enhance performance and increase tax efficiency. After all, it’s not the gross returns that matter but the amount the investor retains after taxes and after fees that is most important.

Applying our Philosophy

• ETF’s are used to obtain asset class, sector and sub-sector exposure versus individual stock selection. This approach is similar to picking the right haystack as opposed to seeking out the elusive needle. Accordingly, selecting baskets of stocks minimizes single stock risk.

• We take a contrarian approach with our asset and sector allocation as opposed to running with the popular idea. We believe out of favor asset classes and sectors provide a better risk/reward opportunity over an extended period. This is because asset classes, sectors and stocks revert to their mean valuation over time.

• The importance of after fee, after tax returns cannot be overstated. As a result we maintain a 12-18 month investment horizon combined with low turnover and low expenses.
• Our sell decisions are backed by strict disciplines. Key strategic changes must be approved via the consensus opinion of our investment committee.