Modern Capital
Mutual Funds

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The Modern Capital Tactical Opportunities Fund

INVESTMENT RATIONALE

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Seek to provide quarterly cash distributions to shareholders without abandoning capital appreciation.

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Provide exposure to both equity and fixed income asset classes.

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Utilize Cash as a tactical asset class without limitations.

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Invests opportunistically to capitalize on potential inefficiencies in the Closed End Fund (CEF) market.

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Can respond quickly to changes in market dynamics with active management.

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Invests in professionally managed CEFs in addition to ETFs, ADRs, Debt & Equity instruments.

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Manages asset allocation tactically to ensure fund health and attempt to maximize cash distributions for shareholders.

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Can potentially generate additional alpha through changes in CEF pricing to NAV.

INVESTMENT PROCESS

Modern Capital's core values are reflected in its investment process.

SOURCING AND EVALUATION

A broad scope of market factors are considered, and may vary from time to time, depending upon the portfolio's current composition. The team seeks to:

  • Establish a general market outlook.
  • Evaluate and constantly monitor all closed-end fund market segments.
  • Assess the capital markets, geo-political and macroeconomic environment.
  • Identify closed-end fund classifications that display significant pricing inefficiencies.

RESEARCH & ANALYSIS

Once a thesis is established, the in-house research team evaluates targeted ideas, based on the critical characteristics, including:

  • Liquidity
  • Underlying securities
  • Historical performance
  • Fund management
  • Gap between share price and NAV
  • Source of discount
  • Leverage percentage
  • Expenses/fees
  • Tax considerations
  • Dividends & Dividend date
  • Comparables with ETFs and open-end funds

TRADING & EXECUTION

The team trades across all sectors and market capitalizations

  • Portfolio typically contains 40 to 80 total long positions in CEFs, ETFs, ADRs and Equity & debt instruments.
  • Average time horizon is less than one year.
  • Actively managed averaging over 300 trades per month.
  • Utilize cash as a tactical allocation.
  • CIO controls final decisions regarding significant position changes and/or portfolio rebalancing.
  • Tactical trading ensures optimal positioning, attractive entry and exit points and takes advantage of market volatility.

PORTFOLIO MONITORING

The portfolio team convenes for a formal discussion to:

  • Challenge research assumptions.
  • Assess the thesis through the filter of the firm's daily and longer-view trading strategies.
  • Optimize return profile by daily trading against core positions.
  • Determine if holdings maintain risk efficiency.

PERFORMANCE HIGHLIGHTS

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