How We Manage Money

Our investment strategy is simple but powerful: We aim to capture most of the market's good times and miss most of its bad times. We believe that missing severe market drops is essential to investment success, because the less investors lose during downturns, the less they have to make up before their gains become true gains during a rebound. Making money is important, but protecting that money can be just as important.

Our unique, active management strategy differentiates us from many investment managers who employ buy-and-hold methodologies. We don't pretend to predict the market - that would be foolish. Rather, our proprietary process is based on science and discipline. Our data-driven model recommends investment changes based on market conditions, and our money managers make changes to the Stadion portfolios and funds based solely on these indicators.

The Rules We Invest By

1. Invest when conditions appear favorable. Stadion uses a combination of technical indicators to measure the "weight of the evidence" for the current market environment. These indicators comprise price and breadth data to identify trends in the market and include:

2. Invest in leaders. Our proprietary system ranks available investment options using objective, price-based data to identify the top intermediate-term performers. When our model tells us to invest, we invest in these recommendations.

3. Sell when our model tells us to. When our holdings hit their sell criteria, they are sold and - according to market conditions - the allocation is either re-invested or moved to a defensive position. We believe this step differentiates us the most from many other investment managers.

A Disciplined Approach

Obviously, no investment strategy is perfect. It's possible to over- or under-emphasize the wrong investment. The intent of Stadion's risk-averse approach aims to deliver satisfying results with less volatility than traditional buy-and-hold strategies, accepting the possibility that Stadion may miss some upswings in order to avoid downside risk. Our investors benefit from our use of large money market or stable value positions to reduce downside volatility. And because we rigorously follow our model, investors should know what to expect from us. After all, pacing and discipline is what's needed to finish any long distance race, and long-term investing is no different.

Past Performance is no guarantee of future results. Investments are subject to risk, and any of Stadion's investment strategies may lose money.