The Compass Institute was founded in 1997 to identify an alternative strategy to safely overcome the flaws inherent in Modern Portfolio-based traditional asset allocation vehicles.

The Institute's research serves to enhance retirement education of both individual investors and retirement plan participants.

To date, the most valuable innovation emerging from the Institute's research is an objective investment strategy called Adaptive Asset Allocation™ (AAA). AAA is independent of manager judgment and unrestricted by predetermined asset class allocation rules.

In 2004, this strategy was made available to the public under the name HORIZON™. Audited back-tests of this strategy applied to mutual fund portfolios and 401(k) plans offered by over 40 private and corporate organizations have averaged nearly 12% annualized investment return since 1997.

We also provide Plan Diagnostic Services to plan sponsors wishing to improve the quality of their current retirement plan offering.

Papers detailing our discoveries and innovations pertaining to the management of any well-balanced collection of funds (or ETFs), such as found in employer-sponsored retirement plans, are also available in our collection of publications.