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<div class="hero__eyebrow">The Osborne Method</div>
<h1 class="hero__title">Long-only. Multi-asset.<br><em>Tax-aware</em>. Patient.</h1>
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We have one job: to compound the wealth of the families we serve, after taxes, after fees,
after the inevitable wobble of markets. That job has not changed since 1937. Neither has
the discipline that gets it done.
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<div class="section__eyebrow">Five tenets</div>
<h2 class="section__title">What we believe.</h2>
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<h3 style="font-family:var(--font-display);font-size:24px;margin-bottom:8px;font-weight:600">Compounding rewards patience.</h3>
<p style="color:var(--ink-soft);line-height:1.6">A dollar invested at the firm's founding in 1937 — earning the long-run return of US equities at roughly 10% — became more than $26,000 by 2026. That math does not work without time. We do not interrupt it.</p>
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<h3 style="font-family:var(--font-display);font-size:24px;margin-bottom:8px;font-weight:600">Taxes are returns.</h3>
<p style="color:var(--ink-soft);line-height:1.6">A pre-tax return of 10% net of a 35% tax is 6.5%. A pre-tax return of 9% deferred for thirty years is closer to 9%. We construct portfolios <em>after-tax</em>, holding period by holding period — because what compounds is what's left.</p>
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<h3 style="font-family:var(--font-display);font-size:24px;margin-bottom:8px;font-weight:600">Diversification is real, but oversold.</h3>
<p style="color:var(--ink-soft);line-height:1.6">Multi-asset portfolios reduce variance — but they also dilute conviction. We hold ~30–60 names per equity sleeve, not 500. We know each one. We can defend each one. We sell each one when the thesis breaks.</p>
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<h3 style="font-family:var(--font-display);font-size:24px;margin-bottom:8px;font-weight:600">Active is worth the fee — when it's actually active.</h3>
<p style="color:var(--ink-soft);line-height:1.6">Closet-indexers should charge index prices. Real active managers — concentrated, opinionated, willing to look wrong — should charge for what they do. We charge accordingly.</p>
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<h3 style="font-family:var(--font-display);font-size:24px;margin-bottom:8px;font-weight:600">Plans matter more than picks.</h3>
<p style="color:var(--ink-soft);line-height:1.6">An investment policy statement, signed and revisited annually, is worth more than any quarterly tactical call. The plan tells us what to do at 7am on a panic morning — so we do not have to invent it then.</p>
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<div class="section__eyebrow">The process</div>
<h2 class="section__title">How a portfolio actually gets built.</h2>
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<div class="card__num">01 · Discovery</div>
<h3 class="card__title">Listen first.</h3>
<p class="card__body">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. Nothing is assumed. Nothing is sold.</p>
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<div class="card__num">02 · IPS</div>
<h3 class="card__title">Write the rules.</h3>
<p class="card__body">A written, signed Investment Policy Statement codifies your goals, return targets, risk tolerance, liquidity needs, tax picture, and constraints. It governs every decision that follows.</p>
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<div class="card__num">03 · Construct</div>
<h3 class="card__title">Build the portfolio.</h3>
<p class="card__body">Asset allocation, sector tilts, and security selection — all driven by the IPS, not by the morning's headlines. Tax lots are tracked from purchase. Cost basis matters.</p>
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<div class="card__num">04 · Steward</div>
<h3 class="card__title">Tend it carefully.</h3>
<p class="card__body">Quarterly reviews, annual IPS revisits, rolling tax-loss harvesting, rebalancing within written bands. Surprises are minimized; transparency is total.</p>
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<h3 class="card__title">Show every cent.</h3>
<p class="card__body">Quarterly reports delivered to the client portal. Performance, attribution, taxes, allocation drift. If your portfolio did something, you will know what and why.</p>
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For a household nearing retirement with an eight-figure balance sheet, fifteen-year liability
horizon, and California tax residency. Actual allocations vary by client and IPS.
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<span>US Equities</span><strong style="font-family:var(--font-mono)">38%</strong>
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<span>Foreign Equities</span><strong style="font-family:var(--font-mono)">18%</strong>
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<span>Fixed Income (Muni-tilted)</span><strong style="font-family:var(--font-mono)">26%</strong>
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<span>Real Assets</span><strong style="font-family:var(--font-mono)">10%</strong>
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<span>Alternatives</span><strong style="font-family:var(--font-mono)">5%</strong>
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<span>Cash & Equivalents (SGOV)</span><strong style="font-family:var(--font-mono)">3%</strong>
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