Kevin Grimes, Joe Benoit, and Chris Deeley

Portfolio Managers

Risk Managed Income Strategy
Matt Thompson

Kevin Grimes, CFA
Risk Managed Income Strategy Co-Portfolio Manager

Kevin is Co‐Portfolio Manager on all of the tactical investment strategies of Grimes and Company, Inc. and serves as Advisor to the Grimes Core Equity and Core Dividend individual stock strategies. Prior to joining Grimes and Company, Inc. in 1998, Kevin was an Equity Trader at a large independent brokerage in Boston. He graduated from Babson College, where he volunteers and mentors regularly and sits on the Babson endowment Investment Committee. As an industry leader he sits on Fidelity Investments’ RIA Leaders Committee as well as the Advisory Panel for Charles Schwab Institutional. Kevin has earned the Chartered Financial Analyst® (CFA®) and Certified Financial Planner™ designations. Kevin previously sat on the Board of Directors of the Red Cross of Massachusetts and is a member of The Boston Security Analysts Society (BSAS).

Mike Thompson

Joe Benoit, CFA
Risk Managed Income Strategy Co-Portfolio Manager

As a member of the Grimes and Company, Inc. Investment team, Joe works alongside others managing several of the firms’ proprietary investment strategies. He is Co‐Portfolio Manager of the Grimes Risk Managed Income bond strategies as well as it’s tactical equity strategies. Additionally, he is responsible for working with Advisors to ensure that every client portfolio is managed according to their customized investment plan. Joe joined Grimes & Company in 2006 after graduating from the Mario J. Gabelli School of Business at Roger Williams University with a degree in Finance. Joe is an active member of the CFA Society Boston.
Mike Thompson

Chris Deeley, CFA
Risk Managed Income Strategy Portfolio Manager

Chris has over 20 years of experience both in managing investments and working with clients to achieve their financial goals. Chris is a member of the Grimes and Company, Inc. Investment Team and co-manages it’s Dividend Growth strategy, Fusion Bond strategy as well as his individual clients’ portfolios. Chris joined Grimes & Company in 2017 after working for an independent registered investment advisor just outside of Boston for several years. He is a graduate of Boston College with a BS in Accounting and received his MBA from Babson College. Chris is also a CFA charterholder and is an active member of the Boston Security Analysts Society (BSAS).

Strategy

Risk Managed Income

The Risk Managed Income strategy (RMI) provides tactical fixed income exposure to a spectrum of fixed income categories from high-yield to Money Markets, with six other categories in-between, plus cash. A focus of RMI is to maximize yield in a risk controlled fashion. These categories are selected based on their relative volatility and ranked according to their contribution to yield. RMI is an actively managed fund-of-funds strategy, investing in differing ETF category.

The RMI strategy was launched in January 2012†. Financial advisors, institutional investors and model-portfolio platforms may choose to allocate to the RMI strategy as an alternative to passive, long-only exposure to bond indexes or through mutual funds, ETFs or directly.

We believe that tactical adjustments around beta are good sources of alpha.

Our Philosophy

†LHA has a license from Grimes and Company, Inc. to employ and market the Risk Managed Income Strategy.