Method
Hancock Investment Advisors utilizes total return as the foundation for our investment management decisions. We recognize that a fundamental, math-based decision making process is critical to making the best risk versus reward decisions.  Hancock Investment Advisors evaluates the performance of an investment portfolio over three different time frames and seven different interest rate scenarios. We calculate a portfolio’s income potential in conjunction with its market value change to determine the portfolio's true return. Calculating multiple potential outcomes for an investment portfolio allows us to optimize the portfolio’s return while maintaining an acceptable level of risk.

Hancock Investment Advisors employs the same total return approach when evaluating individual securities for purchase or sale. Comparing investment options with various yields, maturities and cashflows is confusing without the benefit of calculating the security’s total return. Only through the understanding of a security’s risks will we be able to evaluate whether a return is acceptable. Our math-based approach takes assumptions about interest rates out of the equation and focuses on risk versus reward.

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