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Sweetwater is an
investment manager regulated by the Securities and
Exchange Commission under the Investment Advisors Act of
1940. As and SEC registered advisor we are subject
to the rules governing the behavior of fiduciaries. This
regulatory schema imposes high standards of conduct and
increased protection for investors. Unlike
brokerage firms, our sole focus of conduct must be to do
what is best for the client.
We view our first charge
as the preservation of capital and then to produce
steady, if unspectacular year over year performance.
The methods we use to select and monitor investments
have been proven over time and market vicissitudes to be
effective.
We tend to be long
term, value based investors with low turnover and
therefore tax efficient. Over the 20 years we have
employed our style of investments we have found that our
disciplines tend to reduce risk in client portfolios as
the overall market risk increases and to increase
exposure when the market presents little risk.
Most clients view us as
the manager of the core of their investment holdings the
money they always want to have available. A good number
of our investment management clients are executives of
high technology companies who employ us to create a
portfolio that balances the risks of over concentration
in their company stock and expose to the technology
world.
Our style of investment
management requires patience, understanding, realism and
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