The Quarter in Review The quote used in our 1st quarter report was “It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.”  We have been investing in accordance with that quote and maintaining a near fully invested stance yet conscious of the growing optimism witnessed in the world markets. ...Read More

We are strong believers in Peter Lynch’s quote, “Far more money has been lost by investors preparing for corrections, or trying to anticipate corrections than has been lost in corrections themselves.” Because fearmongering market pundits profess that a correction is always near, we, therefore, continue to rely on Lynch’s statement. There is no doubt that...Read More

We are ones to look both ways even when crossing a one-way street.  It is ingrained in us to watch for the unexpected. We’re believers in the saying, “It’s the punch you do not see that knocks you out.” Although we stand in a near fully invested stance at the time of this writing, we...Read More

“Confirmation bias is the tendency to search for, interpret, favor, and recall information in a way that confirms one’s preexisting beliefs or hypotheses while giving disproportionately less consideration to alternative possibilities.” – Wikipedia The S&P 500 index, a proxy for the US equity market, has risen 6% in the first ten weeks of 2017 and...Read More

Leveraging Adhesion’s UMA platform, Auour and Ausdal Financial Partners are providing an investment solution to Ausdal’s advisers in preparation of the changing regulatory environment. February 14, 2017: Ausdal Financial Partners, in partnership with Adhesion Wealth Advisor Solutions and Auour Investments has launched a new investment management workflow to address the evolving regulatory environment.  The workflow...Read More

One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived.   – Niccolo Machiavelli With the heightened focus on world politics, it comes as no surprise that The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli is seeing a material increase in book sales.  We have spent some time reviewing his writings and the centuries of debate...Read More

Auour Investments LLC (“Auour”) broadens the distribution of the next generation of downside protection ETF strategies. January 23, 2017: Auour is proud to announce that the Instinct™ family of strategies have been added to Fidelity’s Separate Account Network (SAN).  Starting at the beginning of 2017, registered investment advisors utilizing Fidelity’s custodial services can now access...Read More

Auour Investments LLC (“Auour”) embraces industry best practices for composite performance reporting. January 3, 2017: Auour announces that the firm was independently verified by The Spaulding Group.    As of February 2016, the company claimed compliance with the Global Investment Performance Standards (GIPS) and planned to have third party verification in mid-2017.  Auour decided to accelerate...Read More

We founded Auour Investments in early 2013 and spent the spring and summer building the Auour Regime Model and constructing the investment processes underlying our strategies.  In the fall of 2013, we launched the first of the Instinct family of dynamic core strategies: Global Fixed Income in October and Global Equity in December.  The growth...Read More

For the past 16 years, the world’s population has been living in a test tube.  Various experiments have been run on us.  Though they were pitched as advancements and were instituted with the best of intentions, the experiments proved themselves to be scientific procedures undertaken to…  make a discovery that a common currency shared between...Read More