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Individual Money Management Services

Horizon Investment Services offers various types of investment advisory services. We work with you to determine which service best meets your individual money management needs and investment goals. We do all the work on behalf of your portfolio — trading and facilitating custodial services (via Charles Schwab or TD Ameritrade — or other independent and unaffiliated broker dealers), daily monitoring of the stock market and its effect on your portfolio, and research — leaving you the time to do what you want to do.

Portfolio Strategies

  • The Core Opportunities Strategy is a diversified portfolio of 45 to 50 stocks designed to outperform the broad U.S. stock market without taking above-average risk. Investments will be made in small, mid-cap, and large stocks. This strategy is geared toward investors with a 12-month or longer time horizon, and seeking diversification across industry sectors.
  • The Best Ideas Strategy is our most popular investment strategy. It is limited to the best 30 to 40 stocks recommended in Upside and Dow Theory Forecasts1 that the Horizon Investment Services’ team believes have the best 12-month potential. This strategy represents the “best of both” of these newsletters.
  • The Best Ideas Plus Income Strategy is for investors who may require a balance between cash flow and growth in their investment assets. The stock portion of the portfolio mimics the stock-picking approach and discipline of the Best Ideas Strategy while fixed-income investment provides necessary cash flow requirements.
  • The Upside Plus Strategy is geared toward individuals who want to invest a portion of their assets in a portfolio limited to small and midcap stocks. This Strategy provides a convenient way to invest in the stocks recommended in Upside, along with a few of our midcap favorites from Dow Theory Forecasts.
  • The Dividends Plus Strategy is a structured approach to investing in dividend-paying stocks. Stocks with above-average yields are filtered through our Quadrix® system to create a 50-stock portfolio with the potential for a handsome dividend yield plus outstanding growth. New accounts may be opened only one week each quarter.
  • The Balanced Portfolio Strategy aims to achieve the proper mix of growth, income, and risk for investors who want a more conservative management approach that includes stocks, bonds, and cash.

Minimum Initial Investment: $300,000
Annual Fee: 1.25% of assets; ($3,750 minimum)

1Upside and Dow Theory Forecasts are published by Horizon Publishing Company, LLC, an affiliate company of Horizon Investment Services.

Horizon Investment Services LLC, is registered with the SEC as an investment adviser. The firm manages equity, mutual fund, income, and balanced portfolios for U.S. investors. The composite performance results include all fully discretionary accounts for the strategies shown above managed by Horizon Investment Services and exclude any accounts with significant client-imposed investment restrictions. Accounts are added to the composite after their first full calendar month of investment performance. Accounts that have significant cash flows that total over 30% of assets are temporarily removed from the composite. Composite performance results are presented after brokerage commissions, reinvested income and advisory fees and are asset-weighted, time-weighted total return figures. Performance was reduced by the highest fee charged to any client employing these strategies for the periods under consideration. Actual fees may vary depending on fee schedule and portfolio size. Advisory fee schedules are available upon request or may be found in Part II of Horizon Investment Services’ Form ADV.

The Quadrix® stock-rating system is a product wholly-owned by Horizon Publishing Company, Horizon Investment Services' sister company. Horizon Investment Services has contracted with Horizon Publishing Company to use the Quadrix stock-rating system for its stock-screening processes.

*As of June, 30 2008, the Core Opportunities Strategy composite included 13 accounts with $13.8 million in combined assets. The Core Opportunities Strategy tends to be weighted more toward large-capitalization stocks while also holding small-capitalization stocks, which tend to be more volatile. The inception date of the composite was November 30, 2000. The comparative market index for the Core Opportunities is the total return performance of the Russell 3000 Index. The Russell 3000 Index is an unmanaged index that measures the performance of the 3,000 largest U.S. companies in terms of market capitalization. Past performance is no guarantee of future results.

**As of June 30, 2008, the Best Ideas Strategy composite included 99 accounts with $48.2 million in combined assets. In addition to large and mid-capitalization stocks, the Best Ideas Strategy contains small-capitalization stocks, which tend to be more volatile. The inception date of the composite was July 31, 2003. The comparative market index for the Best Ideas Strategy is a 50/50 blended performance of the Russell 1000 and Russell 2000 indexes, calculated by averaging the cumulative total returns of the two indexes for the periods presented. In our opinion, this blended index represents a fair approximation of the composition of the Best Ideas Strategy. The Russell 2000 index is an unmanaged index that measures the performance of the smallest 2,000 companies in the Russell 3000 Index of the 3,000 largest U.S. companies in terms of market capitalization. The Russell 1000 index is an unmanaged index that measures the performance of the largest 1,000 companies in the Russell 3000 index of the 3,000 largest U.S. companies in terms of market capitalization. The S&P 500 index is presented solely because it is a widely followed index. The S&P 500 index is an unmanaged index that measures the performance of 500 large company stocks weighted by market capitalization. Past performance is no guarantee of future results.

***As of June 30, 2008, the Upside Plus Portfolio composite included 29 accounts with $13.2 million in combined assets. The Upside Plus Strategy contains many small-capitalization stocks, which tend to be more volatile than S&P 500 stocks. The inception date of the composite was November 28, 2003. The comparative market index for the Upside Plus Strategy is the total return performance of the Russell 2000 Index. The Russell 2000 index is an unmanaged index that measures the performance of the smallest 2,000 companies in the Russell 3000 Index of the 3,000 largest U.S. companies in terms of market capitalization. Past performance is no guarantee of future results.

*****As of June 30, 2008, the Best Ideas Plus Income Strategy composite included 8 accounts with $4.9 million in assets. The Best Ideas Plus Income Strategy incorporates the equity positions of our Best Ideas Strategy with a maximum equity exposure of 65%. The remaining portfolio is comprised of fixed income securities such as bond funds, ETFs and cash instruments. In addition to large and mid-capitalization stocks, the Best Ideas Plus Income Strategy contains small-capitalization stocks, which tend to be more volatile. The inception date of the composite was June 30, 2005. The comparative market index for the Best Ideas Plus Income Strategy is a 65/35 blended performance of the Russell 3000 and the Lehman Brothers US Aggregate indexes, calculated by averaging the cumulative total returns of the two indexes for the periods presented. In our opinion, this blended index represents a fair approximation of the composition of the Best Ideas Plus Income Strategy. The Russell 3000 index is an unmanaged index that measures the performance of the 3,000 largest U.S. companies in terms of market capitalization. The Lehman Brothers US Aggregate index is comprised of US-denominated, Investment-grade, fixed-rate, taxable bonds. Past performance is no guarantee of future results.

******As of June 30, 2008, the Dividends Plus Portfolio composite included 3 accounts with $900,000 in combined assets. The Dividends Plus Strategy is a quantitative approach of selecting dividend-paying stocks using the Quadrix® stock ranking system. In addition to large and mid-capitalization stocks, the Dividends Plus Strategy contains small-capitalization stocks, which tend to be more volatile. The inception date of the composite was July 31, 2006. The comparative market index for the Dividends Plus is the total return performance of the Russell 3000 Index. The Russell 3000 Index is an unmanaged index that measures the performance of the 3,000 largest U.S. companies in terms of market capitalization. Past performance is no guarantee of future results.

*******As of June 30, 2008, the Balanced Portfolio Strategy composite included 7 accounts with $6.0 million in combined assets. The Balanced Portfolio Strategy incorporates the equity positions of our Core Opportunities Strategy with an equity exposure ranging from 30% to 70%. The remaining portfolio is comprised of fixed income securities such as bond funds, ETFs and cash instruments. In addition to large and mid-capitalization stocks, the Balance Portfolio Strategy contains small-capitalization stocks, which tend to be more volatile. The inception date of the composite was March 30, 2001. The comparative market index for the Balanced Portfolio Strategy is a 65/35 blended performance of the Russell 3000 and the Lehman Brothers US Aggregate indexes, calculated by averaging the cumulative total returns of the two indexes for the periods presented. In our opinion, this blended index represents a fair approximation of the composition of the Balanced Portfolio Strategy. The Russell 3000 index is an unmanaged index that measures the performance of the 3,000 largest U.S. companies in terms of market capitalization. The Lehman Brothers US Aggregate index is comprised of US-denominated, Investment-grade, fixed-rate, taxable bonds. Past performance is no guarantee of future results.


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Chuck Carlson, President Richard Moroney, Vice President