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ACM Begins Managing Corporate Trust Accounts

Through directed trust provisions, ACM begins providing investment management services to individual and family trusts that are administered by a corporate trustee.  The directed trust provision bifurcates trust administration and investment management services, enabling a trust owner to “direct” the bank to use a preferred investment management service like ACM. Bank of Texas embraces this flexible provision to provide additional benefits to a trust...

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ACM Navigates Volatile 2011 Stock & Bond Markets

“Generally speaking, the equity allocation in our portfolios are at or near the low end of investment policy ranges, and, conversely, our fixed income allocation are at or near the high end of their allocation ranges. In both asset classes out primary focus is “quality.”…We are avoiding exposure to commodities, commodity-oriented stocks, emerging market stocks and bonds…Today these investments are far too...

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ACM Pinpoints 2009 Bear Market Lows

“We added significant equity exposure at or near the exact market lows in March that preceded the current market rally. In most cases the amount of equity exposure added ranged from 10% to 15% and was concentrated in depressed value funds. Looking back many years from now, it will be clear that this period represented a good opportunity to buy stocks at...

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ACM Predicts 2007-2008 Housing Collapse, Financial Crisis, & Recession

“While many economists and Wall Street strategists are predicting a “soft landing” for the economy, we are less optimistic. We have long believed that the housing boom was being driven to a much larger extent by aggressive lending practices than underlying fundamentals, and as a result, we believe that we are entering a housing slump that will be deeper and longer than...

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ACM Calls Bottom of 2000-2002 Bear Market

“…the current level of the stock market represents an attractive investment opportunity…in relation to short-term interest rates, these prices represent the most attractive values investors have seen since the early 1980’s.” – David Ackerman, ACM Quarterly Commentary, October 22, 2002 _________________________________________________________________________________________ THE S&P 500 RECORDED ITS BEAR MARKET LOW THAT SAME MONTH AND WENT ON TO DELIVER A TOTAL RETURN OF MORE...

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