Our approach

Quality companies, disciplined sizing, and a method we have named kerchunker®.

Three principles, refined over thirty years, applied with discipline whether the market is calm or breaking.

Quality

We invest in businesses with durable economics — pricing power, capital discipline, and management we would trust with our own.

Discipline

Position sizing is a risk decision, not a conviction decision. We size to survive being wrong.

Preservation

Compounding is interrupted by drawdowns. Avoiding the worst losses matters more than catching the best gains.

The kerchunker® methodology

A sound. A discipline. A registered name for the way we move.

kerchunker® is our shorthand for the rule we apply when a position compounds past its weight: trim, redeploy, and let the next opportunity earn its place. It is the audible click of risk management, applied on schedule rather than on emotion.

Overweighttrim above targetkerchunkTarget weightredeploy to next idea
Avoiding financial hurricanes

Preservation is a principle, not a slogan.

Most of investing's long-term return comes from not losing it back. We design portfolios with that asymmetry in mind — defensive in construction, opportunistic at the margins. Performance commentary available on request, with required disclosures.

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