Asset Management Quotes

“At Mayflower-Plymouth we aim to employ capital and maximize ROI for central banks, sovereign wealth funds, pension funds, corporations, foundations and endowments, and individual investors around the world.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“A portfolio that exists in service to God is a portfolio blessed by God.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“We believe in active portfolio management but not aggressive portfolio management.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

“Portfolio resilience protects assets from loss.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“Capital is a lot like people; it needs to be employed.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“Over the past 35 years, the percentage of intangible assets almost tripled. While indispensable for value creation, the potential speed of obsolescence can dampen the resilience of intangible assets.”
― Roger Spitz, Disrupt With Impact: Achieve Business Success in an Unpredictable World

“Active capital management aligns with biblical principles. I believe Jesus’ Parable of The Tenants illustrates this well. Capital should be actively stewarded, and never idle and never passively held.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“At Mayflower-Plymouth, we aim to steward capital the way nature stewards capital.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

“There’s nothing more disastrous than unemployed capital.”
― Hendrith Smith

“Disengaged ownership of capital causes ownership of capital disengaged.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“At Mayflower-Plymouth, our investment process is driven by our Principles of Permaculture Capital Stewardship, a set of principles that emphasize modeling nature to preserve capital and maximize ROI.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“Investment Portfolios should be actively managed.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

“There’s no amount of data that can replace an investors ability to empathize with the entrepreneur. There’s no amount of computational capacity that can replace a genuine and instinctive understanding of business management.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“Everyone knows about market risk and management risk. But there are a variety of non obvious risks to consider when managing a portfolio of investments. They include political risk, share premiums and discounts risk, Interest Rate risk, Income Risk, Tax law changes risk, valuation risk, and liquidity risk, among others. This is why professional active portfolio management is the way to go.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“The fee asset managers charge is for the value they provide. If a farmer grows a fruiting tree, you pay him more for the tree than you would pay him for just a seedling. Why? Because of the effort, energy and skill the farmer put into growing that tree plus the added value of the income (fruit) that tree provides are a testament to the farmers value add and he deserves to be compensated for that value add. It’s the same kind of thing with the 2 & 20 you pay the portfolio manager.”
― Hendrith Smith

“At Mayflower-Plymouth, we analyze global markets, analyze businesses and employ a range of strategies that emulate natural ecosystems to deliver holistic and industry-consistent investment returns. Our approach emphasizes preservation, steady compounding growth and steady returns for our capital partners and clients.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“Mayflower-Plymouth Capital LLC is a Capital Management Firm based in Arlington Virginia and operating internationally.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“As Asset Managers, our purpose is to grow wealth. Our clients should be wealthier because of our management. And society should be wealthier because of our investments. This is a priority at Mayflower-Plymouth.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

“In nature, capital is never stagnant. Capital exists in service to life - at all times.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, Investing, The Permaculture Way: Mayflower-Plymouth's 12 Principles of Permaculture Investing

“To acquire an asset at greater cost than value is simply unwise.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, Investing, The Permaculture Way: Mayflower-Plymouth's 12 Principles of Permaculture Investing

“Our Principles of Permaculture Capital Stewardship set us apart from other Asset Management firms. These principles allow us to model nature in the way we steward Capital to ensure portfolio resilience, steady ROI and profit.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“An important part of hedging against risk is quite simply keeping assets safe. When it comes to our Assets Under Management, preventing loss is critical.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

“The expectation for capital is always that it grows.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

“We believe that the capital in our portfolio should be a platform for utility and a facilitator of life.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, Investing, The Permaculture Way: Mayflower-Plymouth's 12 Principles of Permaculture Investing

“We believe that active management and passive management are not necessarily contradictory ideas.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, Investing, The Permaculture Way: Mayflower-Plymouth's 12 Principles of Permaculture Investing

“Business will forever be a platform for people to exchange value. People are largely unpredictable, and value is largely subjective. This is the space where humans will always outperform AI – the space where active management will always be necessary.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, Investing, The Permaculture Way: Mayflower-Plymouth's 12 Principles of Permaculture Investing

“We believe that capital must be cared for – stewarded.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, Investing, The Permaculture Way: Mayflower-Plymouth's 12 Principles of Permaculture Investing

“All stakeholders should benefit from the capital we allocate in our portfolio, on a net value add basis.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, Investing, The Permaculture Way: Mayflower-Plymouth's 12 Principles of Permaculture Investing

“Being net value adders puts us better positioned for long-term growth and longevity – because in the long term, capital flows to net value adders.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, Investing, The Permaculture Way: Mayflower-Plymouth's 12 Principles of Permaculture Investing

“Since business is an exchange of value, with the greatest profits afforded to the businesses that add the most value most additionally – being a net value adder positions us to achieve the greatest ROI.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, Investing, The Permaculture Way: Mayflower-Plymouth's 12 Principles of Permaculture Investing