When constructing portfolios, we focus our attention on time-tested, sound investment practices.

This results in high-quality, prudently built portfolios, featuring appropriate diversification and an emphasis on cash-flows. This is the basis of our equity Model Portfolio, the core of Brock Wealth Management’s equity investment offering since August of 2013. Our portfolios are managed in a discretionary manner, while prioritizing transparency and fluid communication with our clients.

An emphasis on cash-flows

History tells us that a very large proportion of total return stems from the cash flows generated by the securities we hold. We believe that companies that pay a healthy, stable, and sustainable dividend to their shareholders are more likely to yield strong returns over time for investors.

Appropriate diversification

No single holding should have undue influence on the overall portfolio. This means that we will recommend holding a diverse assortment of securities to ensure that we are limiting risk in the portfolio. We also pay attention to the historic volatility of any individual security, and how it impacts the risk profile of the portfolio.

A portfolio approach

Investment decisions should be made in the context of the entire portfolio. A client’s Investment Policy Statement drives our overall asset allocation recommendation.  Every recommendation we make looks not only at the quality of the individual security but at its impact on the portfolio as a whole.

A portfolio you can live with

While our goal is never to be our clients’ moral compass, we are sensitive to client concerns about the world around us, and we will frequently incorporate into our security-selection process security-specific or sector-specific client-imposed constraints, or broader thematic client preferences pertaining to environmental, social, and/or governance (ESG) factors. BMO Nesbitt Burns is extremely well-resourced in this, through its partnership with BMO Capital Markets, which has devoted a wing of its equity research team to ensure that our fundamental research coverage is complemented by qualitative reporting on ESG factors for covered companies.