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  • Iron Capital Perspectives
  • November 8, 2013
  • Chuck Osborne

Wisdom

Wisdom (n): Knowledge that is gained by having many experiences in life. – Merriam-Webster Dictionary Several years ago I sat down with the team here at Iron Capital and together we defined our guiding principles. We have used these as entirely internal guidelines for our behavior at work and how we approach serving our clients….


  • Iron Capital Perspectives
  • October 15, 2013
  • Chuck Osborne

We Are Never The First

I remember the late winter storm in 1994 that hit the entire East Coast from Florida to Maine. It dumped more snow on Atlanta than we have seen since and was deemed the “Storm of The Century.” In the next six years I believe there were three or four more “storms of the century” or…


  • Iron Capital Perspectives
  • October 1, 2013
  • Chuck Osborne

Crying Wolf

Sometimes we forget how much wisdom there is in the classic children’s stories. Consider Aesop’s Fable “The Boy Who Cried Wolf.” The first time he cries wolf everyone comes running, worried about the wolf attacking the sheep. The second time much the same and so on, until people finally get tired of all the false…


  • Iron Capital Perspectives
  • August 20, 2013
  • Chuck Osborne

What Is Risk?

The stock market has been down four whole days in a row and media is all abuzz. Interest rates are on the rise as market participants continue to worry about the Fed’s tapering off of quantitative easing. The rate on the ten-year Treasury has now gone from 1.5 percent to 2.8 percent. That is a…


  • Iron Capital Perspectives
  • July 15, 2013
  • Chuck Osborne

He Said “If”

Ben Bernanke has spoken again, this time to clarify that he did in fact say “if:” The Fed will begin tapering if the economy continues to improve. Markets are up across the globe, because improvement doesn’t seem all that probable as we continue to slog along at a now less than a 2 percent pace…