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  • Iron Capital Perspectives
  • December 23, 2013
  • Chuck Osborne

Perception vs. Reality

I used to work with a guy who was fond of saying that clichés exist for a reason. “Perception is greater than reality” is certainly one of those clichés. Coming to the end of this year I keep hearing the same thing, both from clients and some pundits: When is the market going to crash?…


  • Iron Capital Perspectives
  • November 27, 2013
  • Chuck Osborne

Health Insurance and Other Things for Which We Should Be Thankful

Up 43 percent! If only that were our investment results, but it is not. That would have been the increase in Iron Capital’s health insurance premiums if we had renewed our policy on schedule in January. Fortunately we have a good agent who advised us to renew early, giving us almost one more year before…


  • 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…