Private Investment Funds

Counsel Trust sponsors a series of private (commingled) funds that are available exclusively to its clients. The funds are managed by highly skilled, top-performing investment advisory firms in various parts of the country. Access to these premier firms is made possible through the pooling/fund capability of Counsel Trust. At the same time, Counsel Trust clients benefit from the general investment and asset allocation consulting provided locally. This duel benefit of global and local attention is a unique aspect of Counsel’s private investment funds.

• Counsel Trust created the private funds to provide all clients with access to top-performing managers.
  
   
• The series of funds cover a number of market sectors and management styles to assist in efficient portfolio asset allocation.
  
   
• Each manager has expertise in managing a specific asset class and style.
  
   
• Each manager is tracked for style purity to assure that management decisions and actions parallel the advisor’s stated philosophy.
  
   
• Managers are consistently monitored for risk-adjusted performance relative to an appropriate benchmark.
  
   
• Many of these premier, top-performing managers feature high investment thresholds or minimums. However, Counsel Trust’s ability to pool client assets via private funds permits smaller portfolios to benefit from top flight investment management.
  
   
• Counsel Trust’s large asset base and volume trading enables delivery of these first rate management firms to clients at reasonable fees.
  
   
• The Counsel Trust private funds are tax efficient (unlike retail mutual funds). Counsel Trust funds distribute earned gains and losses as opposed to mutual funds that often distribute phantom gains (taxable gains earned by the fund prior to actually investing). Mutual funds are also not permitted to distribute losses that can be used to offset taxable gains.
  
   
• Unlike mutual funds, the Counsel Trust funds are not required to stay fully invested, thus avoiding the buy high; sell low factor (where managers are forced to buy during euphoric times as money inflows increase; then sell during panic times when money outflows increase). 
  
   
• Counsel Trust’s current private fund lineup:
  
  
  • Stable Value Fund
    
     
  • Intermediate Fixed Income Fund
    
     
  • All Cap Fund
    
     
  • Large Cap Value Fund
    
     
  • Large Cap Core Fund
    
     
  • Large Cap Growth Fund
    
     
  • Dividend Income Fund
    
     
  • Mid Cap Fund
    
     
  • Small Cap Value Fund
    
     
  • Small Cap Growth Fund
    
     
  • Small Cap Quant Fund
    
     
  • International Fund
    
     
  • Absolute Return Fund