“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

Regime Based Investing is the next generation of modern money management, leveraging an increased understanding of market psychology and investor behavior.  This paper describes the idea and various implementation methods used to protect capital from times of market duress without sacrificing upside participation.Read More

Leveraging the UMA technology of Adhesion, Auour is providing an investment solution for RIAs and IBDs that want to upgrade to the next generation of downside protection. October 03, 2016: Auour Investments announced that their Instinct family of strategies is now available on Adhesion Wealth Advisor Solutions’ unified managed account platform. The Instinct family of...Read More

We have expressed our concerns with the bond markets, specifically the negative rates being experienced around the globe as central banks attempt to boost economic activity through low rates.  These actions have taken a toll on the increasing number of retirees that had depended on the income from their savings as they have seen the...Read More