Fred Wahl

Functions as a College/University

Wells Fargo Alternative Asset Management (WFAAM) advises finds-of-funds and pursues the objectives of those funds by investing in trusts that are sub-trusts of an umbrella trust that pursue a distinct investment strategy under the direction of an independent investment trading manager. Generally, the trading managers' activities may involve investment, holding, sale or trading of any investment instruments including but not limited to: (1) stocks, bonds, warrants, notes, debentures (whether subordinated, convertible or otherwise) (2) money market funds, commercial paper and CDs (3) governmental obligations (or the obligations of any instrumentality thereof) whether publicly offered or pursuant to private placements and (4) options, forward currency contracts, swaps, caps, collars, floors and other over-the-counter derivatives.

Provides wealth management services

Cinque Partners employs a diversified core portfolio with an integrated options strategy. The equity portfolio consists of high quality companies they believe offer attractive growth and value characteristics. Their options strategy seeks to enhance the income potential of the underlying portfolio by selling covered call options on the S&P 500 index on a portion of the portfolio and writing puts on companies they believe have attractive fundamentals and that they would purchase if the price were lower. The strategy seeks to strategically implement protective puts as a portfolio hedge to help further reduce potential risk during the down part of an investment cycle. Cinque Partners utilizes a long-biased investment basis in quality companies drawing from both value and growth disciplines and utilizes option hedges designed to reduce downside risk and exploit market volatility. The firm to outperform the Equity Risk Premium (ERP) with lower downside and income potential to: (1) improved absolute total return (2) reduction in downside risk and volatility and (3) income potential. They believe that outperforming the ERP requires active risk management drawing from multiple sources of value add, including: (1) an equilibrium-based approach which emphasizes risk/reward within their security selection, portfolio construction and options hedge processes (2) translating market volatility into an alpha contributor in a disciplined active framework and (3) the idea that income and capital appreciation need not be mutually exclusive.