Altrius Capital Blog

At Altrius, we invest our company’s retirement plan assets side by side our clients owning the same stocks and bonds that our clients do.  In addition, I also invest all of my personal savings in the same 35 U.S. stocks, 40 international companies and approximately 100 bonds we own.  “Eating what we cook” is one of the many ways we align the interests of our clients with our own interests. 

Topics: Investing, Wealth Management, Long Term Investment

This is a question raised by politicians and individuals alike both on the left and right of the political spectrum.  I actually like when I receive questions or assertions from clients and investors regarding the validity of economic numbers as I believe being  a skeptic and questioning data makes for sounder long-term investment decisions.  I’m certainly one myself, in addition to being a contrarian (a necessary trait for a value investor); however, though questioning economic numbers and their sources is important, it is also vital to look at all of the pieces of the economic puzzle in their entirety when developing an economic and investment outlook and strategy.

Topics: Investing, Advice, Wealth Management, Long Term Investment

 

Though defaults have been higher than average during the past two tumultuous years, our Unconstrained Fixed Income strategy has provided the greatest returns this year yielding over 16 ½% gains and soundly besting the approximate 10% and 3% returns for our U.S. and International stocks through July 18th.

 

Topics: Investing, Wealth Management, Long Term Investment

I recently received a letter from a client inquiring about the bond funds and individual bonds:

Topics: Wealth Management, Financial Advice, Mutual Funds