We believe investment decisions are best made in context of a greater purpose. Your wealth is a tool to help you achieve meaningful goals, such as retirement security, educating your children, or passing wealth to the next generation. We position your investment strategy carefully around those goals, bringing greater meaning to the performance of your financial strategies.

We believe that keeping assets invested through full market cycles is crucial to superior investment performance. Most investment strategies have life cycles much greater than the typical market fluctuation. Our focus on fundamentals over a 3-5 year time frame brings much greater clarity than watching the dramatized headlines and daily fluctuations of narrow indices.

Hasty, emotional decisions are sometimes confused with good instincts, but rarely yield the same results. Ourresearch process brings great conviction to our investment choices; that conviction guides us through both calmand turbulent times with equal strength and resolve.

We believe fundamental value drives long term returns, and we focus on valuation, earnings, and growth to measure investment opportunities. We are not market-timers or day-traders, and are careful not to let emotional decisions alter well-planned strategies. We rely on traditional principles to keep us on track, making gradual adjustments to our portfolios throughout market cycles to take advantage of opportunities in valuations and mispriced risk.

Taxes and Fees can diminish returns over time, so we seek out low-cost and tax-efficient investments to implement our strategies. We evaluate managers based on their net returns so we can judge how they have performed, relative to their peers and indices, net of management fees. We blend many kinds of investments into maximum-efficiency portfolios without bias towards any one type, allowing us to seek out opportunity wherever it presents itself.