I have been working in the fields of Estates & Trusts, Tax Planning and Charitable Planning for several years now. It was from this turn in my career that I developed an interest... no... an obsession... in investing. Reviewing client account statements and seeing the end results of the buy and hold strategy as executed over periods of decades has made me feel that buying and holding a core set of holdings is an excellent strategy for accumulating wealth. To that end, I took the Series 65 and formed a firm which operates as a Registered Investment Advisor in the state of Florida. No clients as of yet, but I'm not stressing about that.
For my own portfolio, which I run in a concentrated manner, i've got ...More several companies that I deem to be "core holdings" and which I have no intention on selling, along with several other more opportunistic positions that I hold and trade around. Occasionally, I'll trade options positions, just for the purpose of utilizing the leverage they provide.
I'm not in the top tax bracket, but I try to manage my portfolio with a tax sensitivity in anticipation of climbing into that bracket one day.... :)
