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To Navigate Turbulent Times
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Stock-Bond Correlation: 40-Year Trend Is Over

  • Historical average (1990-2010): −0.30 (strong diversification)
  • Current level (2020-2025): +0.60 (assets moving together)
  • Crisis spikes (COVID-19, 2022): +0.80 (diversification fails)

The classic negative relationship between stocks and bonds supported the 60/40 portfolio for decades. Inflation shocks and synchronized policy moves have pushed both asset classes in the same direction, removing the natural hedge.

Volatility is higher, and static portfolios experience larger swings. Investors must explore alternative hedges and more dynamic allocation methods.

Passive vs Adaptive ETF Portfolios

Passive Portfolios

  • Fixed allocations (60% stocks, 40% bonds)
  • Rebalances quarterly or yearly
  • Ignores market conditions

Adaptive (AI)

  • AI calculates optimal allocations daily
  • Adjusts to dynamic market correlations
  • Protects downside automatically
  • Captures upside opportunities
  • Uses machine learning algorithms

Passive portfolios are like using a flip phone in 2025. They worked fine in the 1990s when markets were simpler, but today’s volatile, AI-driven markets need smarter tools. Adaptive portfolios are like having a smartphone – same basic function (investing), but with way more intelligence built in.

0% Management Fee Portfolios

Portfolio Options

Explore our range of investment products designed to help you navigate economic and technology cycles with confidence.

01

Clockwise Single ETF Portfolio

Investment Minimum: <$50 — Clockwise ETF NYSE: TIME is an active managed hedged growth fund. TIME rebalances daily to adapt to dynamic technology and economic cycles.

02

Clockwise Diversified Growth Portfolios

Investment Minimum: $50k+ — Clockwise Adaptive Portfolios leverage AI & human experts to broadly diversify ETF portfolios for maximum risk-adjusted growth that rebalance on a monthly basis to align with investors' unique risk preferences and goal time horizons.

03

Clockwise Diversified Income Portfolios

Investment Minimum: $50k+ — Clockwise Adaptive Portfolios leverage AI & human experts to broadly diversify ETF portfolios for maximum risk-adjusted income that rebalance on a monthly basis to align with investors' unique risk preferences and goal time horizons.

Advisor Options

Explore our range of approved independent advisor options designed to help you navigate economic and technology cycles with confidence.

Advisor 1

Free

Clockwise AI (Educational Purposes Only)

  • Investing Education
  • Portfolio Planning

Advisor 2

Subscription

Human Advisor (Avg. $499/mo)

  • Low Complexity (Middle Income Earners)
  • Portfolio Planning
  • Cash Flow Planning

Advisor 3

Fee Based

Human Advisor (Avg. 1%/year)

  • High Complexity (High Income Earners)
  • Portfolio Planning
  • Cash Flow Planning
  • Tax Reduction Planning
  • Wellness Planning
  • Risk Planning
  • Legacy Planning

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Our Mission

Over the last 500 years the Scientific Revolution took us to space, mapped the human genome and created super intelligence, but still limits humanity to a world of scarcity. In this world resources are limited and inefficiently distributed; as a result predictable cycles of boom and bust recur over and over. Clockwise leverages experts, data and machine learning to map these cycles.

Our mission is to connect people with Portfolios and Advisors uniquely designed to navigate the exponential pace of change.

Team

Our expert team combines decades of experience in finance, technology, and economic cycles to guide you through today's complex investment landscape.

Eli Mikel, CFP®, CRPC®

Eli Mikel, CFP®, CRPC®

Chief Growth Officer

James Cakmak, CFA

James Cakmak, CFA

Portfolio Manager

Adam Simon

Adam Simon

Portfolio Manager

Disclosures

Clockwise Capital prioritizes the secure and ethical use of artificial intelligence (AI) to enhance our services while safeguarding client information. Our policy strictly prohibits sharing passwords with AI tools and entering client non-public personal information (NPI) without explicit authorization. We work exclusively with AI providers that demonstrate robust data protection, commit to not retaining or selling client information, and immediately notify us of any breaches. These providers must also indemnify our firm against violations and provide annual compliance confirmations. Employees are required to acknowledge this policy regularly and adhere to rigorous standards to ensure the integrity of our processes and the trust of our clients.

Clockwise Capital subscribes to QuantStreet Capital’s model portfolios; Clockwise is a client of QuantStreet. Clockwise and QuantStreet also work together to offer outside chief investment officer (OCIO) services to other asset managers. This relationship may create a conflict of interest by incentivizing the parties to promote each other. QuantStreet develops model portfolios that integrate certain Clockwise strategies in exchange for 10% of the fee that Clockwise charges applicable clients. Clockwise and QuantStreet also share fees, as determined on a case-by-case basis, when clients retain them to provide OCIO services. Since each of the parties receives a financial benefit when clients use the model portfolios and OCIO services, the parties are incentivized to promote each other. This may create a conflict of interest.