Invest in Our Expertise
First Financial Wealth Management® and Investment Management strategies are based on your unique financial objectives, we will construct and manage a highly diversified portfolio designed to outperform the market over long periods of time.
With unpredictable financial markets, changing tax regulations, and a shifting political landscape, it's not enough just to build wealth. You need to grow and protect it.
At First Financial Trust, our team of investment management experts will work with you to develop an investment plan that becomes a road map to growing your wealth.
Equities
Choose a growth path that works for you.
We start by listening: learning your time horizon, cash‑flow needs, and sleep‑at‑night comfort level. Then we place your assets in the portfolio whose risk/return profile matches that story, with room to glide smoothly to a higher‑ or lower‑risk sleeve whenever your life changes. Our team of investment professionals screen thousands of companies to uncover the few positioned to compound wealth year after year. The team blends rigorous fundamental analysis with disciplined risk controls, so your portfolio captures market upside without losing sight of preservation.
Our wide array of equity portfolios range from stocks with blue-chip, income producing characteristics to growth stocks with potential to increase in value.
Our portfolio line-up, in order of most conservative to most aggressive, is as follows:
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- Our most conservative stock portfolio
- Provides moderate levels of income and price appreciation
- Appropriate for clients with lower risk than growth stocks
- Emphasis on capital preservation and current income
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- Highly diversified with allocations to many different areas of the market
- Includes domestic companies
- Allocations to large, mid, and small cap stocks in all economic sectors
- Appropriate for clients seeking broad domestic stock market exposure
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- Highly diversified with allocations to many different areas of the market
- Includes domestic and international companies
- Allocations to large, mid, and small cap stocks in all economic sectors
- Appropriate for clients seeking broad stock market exposure
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- Similar to Core Diversified with larger allocations to international and emerging economies
- Composition closely resembles global economic activity
- Appropriate for clients seeking growth through a globally diversified portfolio
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- Diversified portfolio with primarily common stock of US-based companies, and occasionally ETFs and ADRs
- Invests in fundamentally sound companies with strong management, above average earnings growth prospects, and attractive valuations
- Expects long-term growth of capital primarily through price appreciation and to a lesser extent dividend income
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Fixed Income
An important part of your investment portfolio that exhibits lower risk and lower volatility.
We seek a strategy of maximum total return, consistent with preservation of capital and prudent investment management. We believe that fixed income should represent the foundation of your overall investment portfolio, and therefore, we will never sacrifice credit quality to achieve higher returns. We invest in the highest credit quality bonds to minimize credit risk, generally purchasing bonds with credit ratings of A or better. We also purchase bonds with various maturities to minimize interest rate risk.
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- A combination of US Government Agency, US Government Mortgage Backed Security, and high-quality corporate bonds
- None of the bonds are callable
- Evaluated from a risk to return standpoint (where the portfolio of bonds is on the interest rate curve) with modifications made when needed
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- A combination of high-quality general obligation and revenue bonds
- Evaluated from a risk to return standpoint (where the portfolio of bonds is on the interest rate curve) with modifications made when needed
