Six years ago I started my own investment portfolio. It has since returned 848.5%. That number didn't come from luck or a hot stock. It came from building a system developed around an organized understanding about portfolio construction, market microstructure, factor investing, behavioral finance (if you do not know what any of these topics are yet, do not worry — that is why you are here), and how the most exceptional financial vechicals approach risk. What mattered wasn't collecting vocabulary. It was a pattern I kept falling into: learn something, understand it well enough to rebuild it from scratch, then find a way to explain it to someone else. That pattern became The Investment Framework — a method that goes far beyond understanding security fundamentals. It's a way of thinking about markets, risk, and capital that most people don't encounter until they're deep into a career in finance — if ever.
Now it's becoming a club at Colegio Interamericano. This form takes 2 minutes. It helps us understand who's interested, what you care about, and whether TIF is the right fit for you. If you're serious about understanding how money actually works — not the textbook version — keep reading.
Gwynne Starrs and the TIF team.