Prime Cognos is a financial services and software company. It's focus is on the intelligent management of capital throughout all market conditions. Most institutional investors (pension funds, endowments, trusts) and affluent individuals invests differently than the general public. The global markets provide the richest individuals and institutions access to strategies not typically found in the investment options (index funds, mutual funds, etc.) available to traditional retail investors. At Prime Cognos it's our mission to level the playing field by providing these smart time-proven investment strategies to everyday investors.
Our overall strategy is to:
- incorporate and derive advantages from a range of economic and market related data
- use to technology and computational power to efficiently process information and discern patterns to drive investment performance
- optimize asset allocation to reduce investment risk
- navigate through all market conditions
To accomplish the overall strategy a multi-faceted approach is taken incorporating:
- Macro-economic factors
- foreign and domestic debt, income, inflation, and interest rates
- capital in-flows and out-flows
- productivity growth
- labor participation
- consumer sentiment
- Corporate fundamentals
- earnings growth
- management effectiveness
- corporate debt levels
- financial engineering and irregular accounting detection
- Technical analysis
- trends and trend reversals in industries and individual assets
- strengths and weaknesses in price and volume levels
- investment momentum
- Quantitative analysis
- probabilistic and statistical insights
- portfolio optimization
- a variety of performance and risk assessments
- Cost reductions
- tax loss harvesting
- cost basis optimization
- economies of scale from the pooling of capital
Prime Cognos implements and uses a variety of technologies to accomplish it's overall strategy. For a general background on basic portfolio composition and risk management, view our Investor Education section.
To find out more about the services and software that make up Prime Cognos choose the Investments link on the top menu and submit the form on that page. Also when you register online you'll find a variety additional information on the financial mechanisms we use.