We invest the way great endowments invest, for families.

The endowment model earned its reputation across decades of institutional results: broad diversification, long horizons, and discipline about costs. We apply it to family portfolios, with one addition institutions never worry about: taxes.

What is the optimal way to manage my investments?

Own a genuinely diversified portfolio, hold it across full cycles, keep costs and taxes low, and rebalance on discipline instead of emotion. That is the endowment answer, and after two decades of managing money this way we have found no better one. The work is in the application: which assets, which accounts, which order, and which exceptions your family's situation actually justifies.

How the endowment model translates for families

Institutions never pay capital gains taxes; families do. So we apply the model through a tax lens: asset location, loss harvesting, low turnover, and tax-advantaged alternatives. Cheyne studied under Roger Ibbotson at Yale and built the firm on the principles David Swensen proved at the Yale endowment. The lineage is the method, adapted for the fact that families measure wealth after tax.
How the endowment model translates for families

What we will not do

We will not chase last year's winner, time headlines, or hold a position we cannot explain in two sentences. Compounding requires staying invested, and staying invested requires a portfolio you can live with in a bad year.

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