Personal Return on Investment
As investment professionals, at Highlander we spend a lot of time contemplating how to improve the return on investment that we can provide to our clients. The most common form…
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Mindful Finance Defined
About two years ago we started using the term Mindful Finance to describe our practice as financial advisors at Highlander. Usually the first thing someone asks upon hearing this term…
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Mindfulness: Creating Fertile Ground for Good Outcomes
“Mindfulness means paying attention in a particular way; on purpose, in the present moment, and nonjudgmentally.” – Jon Kabat-Zinn We recently held our first Mindful Finance workshop. Ten brave souls…
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Mindful Finance—the Backbone of Our Advising Strategy
With the advent of 2014 we are proud to announce that we spent all last year on a path to deepen the connection between our internal selves and our external…
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Investing the Highlander Way
At Highlander we take pride in our investment strategies. One of the inspirations to start the firm was to offer professional investment strategies to all. We have observed that professional…
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Values Aligned Investing
At Highlander, we have always taken pride in building unique and robust investment strategies to help our clients achieve their investing and life goals. For our first ten years or…
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Private Equity: If any, how much?
Clients often come to us with interest and questions about investing in private equity. Sometimes it’s about putting money into a friend or family member’s new venture. Other times it’s…
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Towards a Better Future Part II – Women and Finance
Through the process of researching the best way to bring socially responsible investment portfolios to the forefront at our firm we have been pleasantly surprised to see gender become a…
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Towards a Better Future – Values Investing
Over the past 18 months or so we have been re-engaging in research to further our desire to invest in as socially responsible a way as possible. Our main concerns…
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