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<div class="hero__eyebrow">Established San Francisco · MCMXXXVII</div>
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Quietly compounding<br>the wealth of <em>America's families</em><br>for eighty-eight years.
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Osborne Partners has guided high-net-worth families through every market cycle since 1937.
Today we manage more than two billion dollars across thirty states for clients who value
discretion, longevity, and a partner who answers the phone.
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<div class="stat"><div class="stat__num">$2B+</div><div class="stat__label">Assets under stewardship</div></div>
<div class="stat"><div class="stat__num">1937</div><div class="stat__label">Founded · San Francisco</div></div>
<div class="stat"><div class="stat__num">88</div><div class="stat__label">Years of compounding</div></div>
<div class="stat"><div class="stat__num">30</div><div class="stat__label">States served</div></div>
<div class="stat"><div class="stat__num">24 yrs</div><div class="stat__label">Avg. employee tenure</div></div>
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<div class="section__eyebrow">Our practice</div>
<h2 class="section__title">A complete wealth manager,<br>built for the long view.</h2>
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Six interlocking practices, delivered by one accountable team. Every client is matched —
deliberately — with the wealth counselor and investment specialists best suited to their
circumstances. Our average employee tenure is twenty-four years, so the partner you meet
today is likely the partner you'll meet in 2046.
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<p class="card__body">Multi-asset, active, and tax-aware portfolios across global equities, fixed income, real assets, and alternatives. Sized to your specific tax picture and liability schedule — never to a model.</p>
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<div class="card__num">II.</div>
<h3 class="card__title">Wealth Planning</h3>
<p class="card__body">Cash flow, retirement, education, philanthropy, contingency. Modeled across decades, not quarters. Coordinated with your CPA, attorney, and banker by your dedicated CFP® counselor.</p>
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<div class="card__num">III.</div>
<h3 class="card__title">Estate & Generational Transfer</h3>
<p class="card__body">Trusts, intentional gifting, GRATs, IDGTs, charitable strategy. Patrimony moved across two and three generations, quietly, with your attorney.</p>
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<div class="card__num">IV.</div>
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<p class="card__body">Founders, executives, and equity-rich families navigating single-stock risk. RSU schedules, 10b5-1 plans, exchange funds, ISO/NSO/83(b) — diversification without unnecessary tax friction.</p>
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<p class="card__body">A single, accountable point of contact across CPA, attorney, banker, insurer. Document vault, decision log, quarterly review — for households whose financial life has outgrown a spreadsheet.</p>
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<div class="card__num">VI.</div>
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<h3 class="card__title">Independent & Employee-Owned</h3>
<p class="card__body">Ten employee-owners, no outside investors, no parent company. Our fiduciary obligation is to clients alone — never to a public quarterly print.</p>
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<h3 class="card__title">Active, Tax-Aware Management</h3>
<p class="card__body">We do not chase indexes. We construct portfolios after-tax, holding period by holding period — because what compounds is what's left after the IRS has been paid.</p>
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<p class="card__body">Every client receives a written Investment Policy Statement, signed and revisited annually. No generic risk buckets — your IPS reflects your taxes, your family, your intent.</p>
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<h3 class="card__title">Long Tenure, Long Memory</h3>
<p class="card__body">Average employee tenure is twenty-four years. The firm has navigated thirteen recessions. Your counselor will remember the call you made in 2009 — because they were the one who took it.</p>
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"We do not mistake activity for value. We compound. We document. We answer the phone."
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— Justin McNichols, CFA · Chief Investment Officer
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Long-only, multi-asset, tax-aware. We don't chase markets — we outlast them. The firm
has weathered the Depression, the Carter inflation, the dot-com bust, the Global Financial
Crisis, and the COVID drawdown. The posture has been the same in each: <em>patient discipline,
documented decisions, no surprises</em>.
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<h3 class="card__title">Quarterly Wealth Report — April 2026</h3>
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With all of the negativity surrounding the Iran conflict, there is actually a positive
side effect. The investment team examines what the headlines miss.
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<h2 class="section__title">Rooted in the Bay Area.<br>Trusted across thirty states.</h2>
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Two offices — One Embarcadero in San Francisco and Middlefield Road in Menlo Park — anchor
a practice that today extends from Tiburon to Tarzana, Carmel to Connecticut. Most new
clients come to us through introductions from the families we already serve.
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A first meeting is unhurried, in person, and never billed. We learn what you've built, what
you owe, what you owe to whom, and where you'd like the next thirty years to go.
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