Direct Index Investing

Using a process called direct index investing, we can buy a portfolio of individual stocks that closely tracks the performance of a selected index. This can give you greater autonomy, control, and tax advantages over owning an index mutual fund or an
index exchange-traded fund (ETF).
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Benefits

A portfolio designed for you

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Portfolio customization

Get further customization for your investment portfolio through optimized index investing:

  • Transition management – Efficiently transition your portfolio to Everence, while managing tax liability and considering charitable giving opportunities when appropriate.
  • Option to avoid individual stocks – If you want to avoid investing in a particular stock or industry – because you already own it, work for the company or other personal reasons – we will avoid adding it to your portfolio.
  • Rebalancing when needed – Helps your portfolio stay in balance throughout rapid market moves.
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Investing to reflect your values

We can help when you want your faith to inform you financial decisions. Here’s how we do it:

  • Values investing – Everence offers portfolios that reflect faith-based screens.
  • Individualized screening – Tailor the mix of screens to reflect your personal or corporate values, with options to exclude the segments that aren’t right for you. 
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Tax and risk sensitive strategies

For taxable investors, we can balance lowering your tax bill with maintaining your portfolio’s recommended asset allocation:

  • Tax-loss harvesting – We monitor your portfolio daily for opportunities to sell securities that decline in value and offset gains from elsewhere in your portfolios.
  • Gains deferral – When we hold certain positions to defer, reduce or avoid taxes, we try to balance your portfoliosto control risk by underweighting similar securities.*
  • Compliance strategies – Tax-loss harvesting managed to follow IRS rules on realizing losses when buying and selling the same security within a 30-day window.
  • Taxes-saved reporting – A custom report will show you in detail the estimated taxes saved or deferred through active tax sensitive strategies.
  • Tax budget – Set a maximum amount of capital gains taxes you are comfortable paying per year. We’ll continuously manage your portfolio to determine how to best implement your tax budget.
Next steps

Get started

To invest with Everence or learn more, please contact your local Everence financial professional or call us at 800-348-7468.

Disclosure

Advisory services and securities may be offered through a third-party registered investment advisor or registered broker-dealer that is not affiliated with Everence Trust Company. Investments and other investment-related and/or securities products are not NCUA or otherwise federally insured, may involve loss of principal and have no credit union guarantee.