[ 00 ]The investing thesis

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Equity markets, over any twenty-year window in the last hundred years, have rewarded the patient investor with real, compounding returns. The data is unambiguous. The behavior is the problem.

Our thesis is simple: most retail investors don't lose because they pick the wrong stocks. They lose because they sell at the bottom and buy at the top. The antidote is conviction built on evidence, so we built a research tool that puts the evidence in your hands.

[ 01 ]The behavior gap

The market returned ~10%/yr for thirty years. The average investor earned a third of that.

Annualized real return · 1994–2024
S&P 500
+0.0%
60/40 portfolio
+0.0%
Avg. fund investor
+0.0%
Day-trading retail
0.0%
Source: Composite of Dalbar QAIB + academic literature on retail trading. Illustrative.
[ 02 ]Four beliefs

Everything we build comes from these four convictions.

[ 01 ]

Time, not timing.

There is no edge in trying to predict tomorrow's close. There is enormous edge in not selling when others panic. Deep research is what makes holding possible: you don't flinch out of a position you actually understand.

[ 02 ]

Conviction comes from evidence.

The investor who has read the filings doesn't panic at a headline. Reading one 10-K properly takes an evening, so most people never do it. We compress that work into minutes, with every claim cited, so you actually do the diligence.

[ 03 ]

Costs compound, too.

A 1% advisory fee over 30 years eats roughly a quarter of your terminal wealth. We sell research for a flat subscription. No commissions, no spread games, no payment for order flow, and we never touch your money.

[ 04 ]

Reasoning beats screening.

Stock screeners rank numbers. Our framework reads the filings behind them: 167 checks per company, the bear case next to the bull case, every assumption written down in plain English for you to audit.

[ 03 ]The compounding gap

Six points of annualized return becomes a sevenfold difference over a working life.

$100 invested · 30-year horizon · log scale
Patient (9.7%/yr) Average investor (3.1%/yr)
$100$300$1,000Year 0Year 10Year 20Year 30
Patient ending
$100
9.7% annualized
Average ending
$100
3.1% annualized
Cost of impatience
1.0×
less wealth, same income
[ Manifesto ]

We don't believe in fast money. We believe in the boring, durable, almost-unfair returns that come from showing up every month for thirty years and not flinching. Our job is to hand you research deep enough that you don't flinch.

The Claremont Street team