We offer our tactical overlay strategies to exchange-traded product (ETP) sponsors, institutional asset managers, registered investment advisors (RIAs), and family offices primarily on an index or model licensing basis.

MER Tactical Equity Overlay™

A quantitative, rules-based investment strategy engineered to capture core equity upside while systematically mitigating severe drawdowns and left-tail risk. The overlay utilizes a proprietary quantitative framework—combining a daily volatility circuit breaker with a disciplined weekly multi-market, multi-indicator trend confirmation filter—to dynamically rotate capital between "risk-on" target equity assets and "risk-off" capital-preservation assets consisting of short-term U.S. Treasuries or cash equivalents.

It is specifically designed to be applied across a wide variety of equity strategies, leveraged and unleveraged market indices, factor models, and equity exchange-traded products.

Key Strategy Advantages:

  • Asymmetric Risk-Return Profile & Drawdown Defense: Systematically curtails catastrophic drawdown risk and deep left-tail losses to preserve compounding capital and accelerate recovery times following severe market stress.
  • Disciplined, Rules-Based Execution: Eliminates behavioral biases and subjective forecasting through codified algorithms designed for efficient calculation and administration by independent calculation agents (such as Solactive, Syntax, Indxx, or IndexOne).
  • Multi-Market Structural Adaptability: Built to integrate seamlessly across diverse equity strategies, indices, factor models, and equity exchange-traded products, delivering resilient historical performance across distinct macroeconomic and volatility regimes.

Strategy Profile:

  • Target Benchmark: Underlying Strategy or Equity Benchmark (e.g., S&P 500 Index, S&P MidCap 400 Index, Nasdaq-100 Index, or Russell 3000 Index, etc.)
  • Structure: Tactical Multi-Market, Multi-Indicator Trend Framework
  • Mechanics: Weekly Multi-Market, Multi-Indicator Trend Confirmation with Daily Volatility (VIX) Risk Failsafe
  • Allocation States: 100% Target Equity Asset ("Risk-On") vs. 100% Short-Term U.S. Treasuries/Cash Equivalents ("Risk-Off")
  • Portfolio Role: Tactical Risk Overlay / Asymmetric Returns and Capital Preservation

Contact Us to Learn More

To request detailed methodology, institutional fact sheets, or discuss index and model licensing opportunities for our Tactical Overlay Strategies, please contact us at info@mercapitalmanagement.com.

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P: 703-740-1765
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