About
One investor, one portfolio, one rule: members first.
The short version
I've been investing my own money full-time in public markets for over a decade. Since January 1, 2016, every liquid dollar I have has run through one strategy — concentrated, contrarian, long-only, macro-aware — and it has beaten the MSCI World through multiple regimes and crises. Almanac is that strategy, opened up to a small circle of members.
Why Almanac exists
It started with friends and family asking what I was buying. The honest answer was never a stock tip — it was a process: where the asymmetry is, why the crowd is wrong, how much to risk, when to admit a mistake. Almanac packages that process properly: every decision published to all members before I trade, a live performance record measured against the benchmark, and a running log of wins, losses and lessons. Not because anyone demanded the transparency — because the discipline of publishing everything makes the investing better.
Why not just buy an index fund?
For most people, most of the time, an index is the right answer — and I say so on the Philosophy page. Almanac exists for people who want more than the index and are willing to sit through the discomfort that pursuing it requires: concentration, contrarian entries that look wrong at first, and stretches of underperformance. If Almanac doesn't beat the MSCI World over rolling five-year periods, it has no reason to exist — and the Methodology page spells out exactly how that gets measured, and what happens if it fails.
The research desk
I run an eight-agent AI research desk — Scout, Analyst, Chartist, Risk Officer, The Skeptic, Sentinel, Scribe and Tracker — that screens, checks fundamentals, red-teams every thesis and monitors every open position around the clock. The machines advise; they never decide. Every published call carries my approval, my timestamp and my accountability. One agent, The Skeptic, exists purely to attack my reasoning before members ever see a call.
Alignment
100% of my liquid public-market portfolio follows the Almanac model. I trade only after every member has been notified and a 15-minute blackout has passed, and then I publish my actual fill. Subscription fees are the only revenue — no commissions, no referral income, nothing from covered companies. If I ever stop being willing to keep my own capital aligned, Almanac shuts down. That promise is the product.