in many ways our clients are a lot likeus. while they initially come to us for investing and wealth management services,we often develop a relationship. we really get to know them and understand whatreally motivates their decisions and we find we share a lot of the same corevalues. family is such a big part of what we do. every decision we make is not justaffecting ben beck or jim bode; it impacts our clients lives – theirfamilies. there is nothing we take more seriously than that responsibility. fitness and health is huge -- a huge part ofour lives and our clients lives. to be financially independent is important butyou have to be around, and that's one
thing money can't buy. it's your health andthose things are interrelated. when we think about why our clients work with us we understand that the overall returns on how much money we make themis extremely important, but the real reason they work with us is because theytrust us. we build properly diversified portfolios of individual companies, notproducts personally for each of our clients and over the long term what thattranslates into is not a cookie-cutter one size fits all investment portfolio,but a highly disciplined methodology that helps clients achieve their financialgoals, because the one thing that i canguarantee investment world is that the
future will be different from today
