This website is provided as a service and for informational purposes only by Ascent Systematic Advisors LLC (“Ascent” or “we”), a registered investment adviser in the State of New York servicing individual and institutional clients.

REGISTRATION INFORMATION

Advisory services are offered through Ascent Systematic Advisors LLC; an investment advisor firm domiciled in the State of New York. The presence of this website on the Internet shall not be directly or indirectly interpreted as a solicitation of investment advisory services to persons of another jurisdiction unless otherwise permitted by statute.

Follow-up or individualized responses to consumers in a particular state by our firm in the rendering of personalized investment advice for compensation shall not be made without our first complying with jurisdiction requirements or pursuant an applicable state exemption.
For information concerning the status or disciplinary history of a broker-dealer, investment advisor, or their representatives, a consumer should contact their state securities administrator.

ACCEPTANCE OF THE TERMS OF USE

By using this website, you agree, without limitation or qualification, to the following terms of use and legal information pertaining to both this website and any material on this website. Please read these terms carefully before using this website. These terms are a binding contract between you and Ascent, as well as its U.S. affiliates. Ascent reserves the right, at its discretion, to amend, change, modify, add, or remove portions of these terms at any time and without notice by updating this posting. We suggest that you check these terms periodically for changes. The terms can be accessed from the link at the bottom of our website pages. This website is offered to you conditioned on your acceptance without modification of the terms, conditions, and notices contained herein. If you use this website after we post amendments to these terms, you accept the amended terms.

If you do not agree to these terms, do not use this website.

All materials on this site are meant to be reviewed in their entirety, including any footnotes, legal disclaimers, restrictions or disclosures, and any copyright or proprietary notices.  Any disclaimers, restrictions, disclosures or hedge clauses apply to any partial document or material in the same manner as they do the whole, and will be deemed incorporated in the portion of any material or document that you consult or download.

If you have entered into an agreement with Ascent, your client relationship with Ascent is governed by such agreement in addition to the terms of this website. In the event of any conflict between the terms on this website and your agreement with Ascent, the agreement shall govern and control.

DISCLAIMER

While Ascent seeks to provide accurate and timely information, there may be inadvertent technical or factual inaccuracies and typographical errors for which we apologize. The information provided on this website, including information and materials contained in the text, graphics, software, links and other items are provided “as is,” “as available” and without warranties of any kind either expressed or implied. To the fullest extent permissible pursuant to applicable law, Ascent and its affiliates, subsidiaries, directors, officers, employees, agents, licensors and any other third party information providers and vendors expressly disclaim all warranties of any kind, whether implied, express or statutory, including, but not limited to, implied warranties of title, merchantability, warranties of fitness for a particular purpose and warranties of non-infringement. Ascent does not warrant, either expressly or impliedly, the accuracy, adequacy, completeness, reliability, timeliness or availability of the information, text, graphics, links or other items contained on this website, and expressly disclaims liability for errors or omissions in the website.  The contents of this website are subject to change without notice. Further, Ascent assumes no responsibility for, and makes no warranties that, functions contained at this website will be uninterrupted or error-free, that defects will be corrected, or that the website or the server that makes it available will be free of viruses or other harmful components.  Please note that some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of certain warranties, so some or all of the above exclusions may not apply to you.

The information provided on this website is provided for informational purposes only. This website is not intended to provide any tax, legal, insurance or investment advice, and nothing on this website should be construed as a recommendation by us or any third party to acquire or dispose of any investment or security or to engage in any investment strategy or transaction. No information contained on this website constitutes an offer, or a solicitation to buy, any security or an offer to provide any specific investment management or advisory services. No security or other product is offered or will be sold in any jurisdiction in which such offer or solicitation, purchase or sale would be unlawful under the securities, or other laws of the jurisdiction.

Ascent and its affiliates reserve the right to determine eligibility for Ascent products and services.

LIABILITY AND INDEMNITY

Ascent expressly disclaims all liability for errors and omissions in these materials and for the use or interpretation by others of information contained on the website. Ascent will not be responsible for any loss or damage that could result from interception by third parties of any information made available to you via this website. Neither Ascent, nor any of its affiliates, directors, officers or employees, nor any third party vendor retained by Ascent will be liable or have any responsibility of any kind for any loss or damage that you incur in the event of any failure or interruption of this website, or resulting from the act or omission of any other party involved in making this website or the data contained therein available to you, or from any other cause relating to your access to, inability to access, or use of the website or these materials, whether or not the circumstances giving rise to such cause may have been within the control of Ascent or of any vendor providing software or support services for this website. In no event will Ascent, its affiliates or any such parties be liable to you for any direct, special, indirect, consequential, incidental damages or any other damages of any kind, even if Ascent or any other party has been advised of the possibility thereof.

Decisions based on information contained on this website are the sole responsibility of the visitor, and in exchange for using this website, the visitor agrees to indemnify and hold Ascent harmless against any claims for damages arising from any decisions that the visitor makes based on such information. The visitor also agrees to indemnify and hold Ascent, its subsidiaries and affiliates, and each of its and their officers, directors, employees and agents harmless from and against all claims, demands, liabilities, damages, losses, or expenses, including attorney’s fees and costs, that arise from the visitor’s improper access to or use of this website, or any violation of the terms of use of this website. In no event will Ascent be liable for any damages, or for repairs or corrections that must be performed, to or on your computer, person or other property, including, without limitation, direct or indirect, special, incidental, or consequential damages, losses or expenses arising in connection with the website or use thereof or the inability by any party to use such website, or in connection with any failure of performance, error, omission, interruption, defect, delay in operation or transmission, computer virus or line or system failure, even if Ascent, or representatives thereof, are advised of the possibility of such damages, losses or expenses.

RESTRICTIONS ON USE OF MATERIALS

This website is owned and operated by Ascent. Permission is granted to display and navigate around this website solely for personal, non-commercial use. Any commercial or public use of this website or any portion hereof is strictly prohibited. Except as otherwise permitted in writing by Ascent, no text, graphics, video, audio, software code, user interface design, logos or any other content of this website may be used, modified, framed, copied, reproduced, republished, uploaded, posted, transmitted, or distributed in any way. You may download material displayed on this website for non-commercial, personal use only if you preserve and retain all copyright and other proprietary notices contained on the materials.

Ascent neither warrants nor represents that your use of materials displayed on this website or links will not infringe rights of the third parties not owned by or affiliated with Ascent.

INFORMATION FOR VISITORS LOCATED OUTSIDE THE U.S.

Nothing on this website shall be considered a solicitation to buy or an offer to sell a security, or any other product or service, to any person in any jurisdiction where such solicitation, offer, purchase or sale would be unlawful under the laws of such jurisdiction.

SUBMISSIONS

Electronic Mail (email) submitted to this website should be considered neither secure nor confidential. Ascent makes no representation whatsoever concerning the security or confidentiality of your email messages and specifically makes no representation that any email message submitted through this website will be received by Ascent.

Any communications or material you transmit to this website by electronic mail or otherwise, including data, questions, comments, or suggestions will be treated as non-confidential and non-proprietary and will become the property of Ascent or its affiliates. Such communications or material may be used for any purpose, including, but not limited to, reproduction, disclosure, transmission, publication, broadcast, and posting. Furthermore, Ascent is free to use any ideas, concepts, know-how, or techniques contained in any communication you send to this website for any purpose whatsoever, including, but not limited to, developing and marketing products using such information.

LINKED WEBSITES

This website may provide links to other websites for your convenience in locating related information and services. Unless otherwise indicated, Ascent does not maintain these other websites and has no control over the organizations that maintain the websites or the information, products or services that these organizations provide. The content to which you link will not have been developed, checked for accuracy, or otherwise reviewed by Ascent. Linking to any off-site pages or other websites is at your own risk. Although we believe that the information from these organizations is reliable, Ascent cannot guarantee its completeness or suitability for any purpose and does not recommend or endorse these organizations or their products or services in any way. Ascent shall have no liability for any electronic content delivered by any third party, including, without limitation, the accuracy, subject matter, quality or timeliness of any electronic content.

Ascent makes no representations whatsoever about the opinions of any third party appearing on a linked website, neither regularly monitors nor has control over the contents of such websites, and does not endorse, and disclaims all responsibility for, the content of such statements or websites.

APPLICABLE LAW AND VENUE

This website (excluding linked websites) is controlled by Ascent from its offices within the State of New York, United States of America. By accessing this website, both you and Ascent agree that the statutes and laws of the State of New York, without regard to conflicts of laws principles thereof, will apply to all matters relating to use of this website. If you take legal action relating to these terms, you agree to file such action only in the New York State Supreme Court, or the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, and you consent and submit to the personal jurisdiction of those courts for the purpose of litigating any such action.

INTEGRATION AND SEVERABILITY

If any provision of these terms is deemed unlawful, void, or for any reason unenforceable, then that provision will be deemed severable from these terms of use and will not affect the validity and enforceability of the remaining provisions. The preceding terms of use represent the entire agreement between Ascent and the user relating to the subject matter herein.

Revised February 2020