Direct Indexing Strategies

Natixis Investment Managers Solutions Direct Indexing provides fully customizable SMAs that seek to track an index before taxes and outperform it after taxes. These separately managed account portfolios can be customized for specific tax or other investment strategies.

To learn more and see case studies, download Direct Indexing: A Smarter Way to Index.

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Tax-Efficient Investing in Separately Managed Accounts (SMAs)

Why Direct Indexing – 5 Investor Applications


  • Maximize after-tax return
    Accounts use active tax loss harvesting, selling securities that have lost value to offset taxes on capital gains.

  • Transition investment accounts
    Accounts can accept securities in-kind to minimize the tax consequences of moving assets to a new broker or firm.

  • Unwind concentrated positions
    Accounts can accommodate existing equity positions, selling shares gradually to minimize capital gain taxes.

  • Customize a portfolio
    Portfolios can favor or exclude specific sectors or securities to align with investor values or diversification goals.

  • Offset future capital gains1
    Investment losses accrued can be carried forward to offset capital gains in future years.

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Direct Indexing SMAs Are the Most Tax-Efficient Way to Index

  Index Mutual Fund Index ETF Direct Indexing SMA
Track Index Pre-Tax ✔ ✔ ✔
Dividend Tax ✔ ✔ ✔
Capital Losses to Offset Gains ✘ ✘ ✔
Actively Tax Managed ✘ ✘ ✔
High-Net-Worth Focused ✘ ✘ ✔
Fully Customizable ✘ ✘ ✔

Specialized Investment Portfolios

Tax-managed Equity Indexing
Tax-managed
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In many cases, taxes have a greater impact on bottom line investment returns than fees. Our portfolios are actively tax-managed using a proprietary stratified sampling process that prioritizes tax loss harvesting over tracking error to minimize taxable capital gains.

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Sustainable ESG Indexing
Sustainable/
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Our proprietary methodology can apply environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors to create personalized indexes. Positive screening favors stocks with positive ESG ratings or best-in-class within sector. Negative screening excludes specific securities or sectors based on an investor's preferences.

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Racial Equity Indexing
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Designed to track the S&P 500® reasonably closely pre-tax, but with a deliberate focus on racial equity and justice. Invests in companies that are leaders in diversity, equity and inclusion and avoids companies that cause, contribute to, exploit or profit from racial injustice.

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Managed ETF Portfolios
Managed ETF
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Broad, strategically allocated ETF portfolios offer proactive equity tax loss harvesting and rebalancing. Comprehensive services focus on duration management in the fixed income allocation. Conservative, Moderate, Aggressive and Global Equity portfolios. Conservative and Aggressive income portfolios.

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1 A tax liability is the total amount of tax debt owed by an individual, corporation or other entity to a taxing authority.

2 Capital gain is a rise in the value of a capital asset (investment or real estate) that gives it a higher worth than the purchase price.

3 A portfolio tilt is an investment strategy that overweights a particular investment style.

Natixis Advisors, LLC does not provide tax advice. Please consult with your financial advisor or tax professional.

Investing involves risk, including the risk of loss.

Sustainable investing focuses on investments in companies that relate to certain sustainable development themes and demonstrate adherence to environmental, social and governance (ESG) practices; therefore a portfolio’s universe of investments may be reduced. It may sell a security when it could be disadvantageous to do so or forgo opportunities in certain companies, industries, sectors or countries. This could have a negative impact on performance depending on whether such investments are in or out of favor.

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