Almanac № 47 · The patient investor's record

Wealth, in season.

Markets have weather, and weather has patterns. Almanac reads the long forecast so you can plant once, tend rarely, and let time do the unglamorous work of compounding.

No minimum. No lock-up. Move your money the day you change your mind.

A single year, planted and tended
Almanac, balanced Cash, left in a drawer
SPRING SUMMER AUTUMN WINTER
Tended since
2019
Members planting
214,000
Average all-in cost
0.34%
Held under care
$9.1B
01 — The standing principles

Three beliefs we never trade away,
no matter the season.

Principle the first

Time is the only edge that never gets crowded.

Everyone wants the trade that pays by Friday. We are not in that business. The investors who do well over thirty years rarely did anything clever in any single one of them — they simply refused to interrupt the compounding.

"The best portfolio is the one you can ignore on the worst day of the year."

So we build for the long forecast. Diversified, low-cost, automatically rebalanced, and engineered to be boring enough that you forget it's there — which is precisely when it works hardest.

Principle the second

Cost is the headwind you can actually control.

You can't choose next year's returns. You can choose how much of them you keep. A percentage point of fees, dripped out quietly each year, can cost a lifetime saver a remarkable share of their final balance.

We publish every line of what we charge — advisory, fund, and spread — in plain numbers, on one page, with nothing buried in a footnote you'd need a magnifier to read.

"A fee you can't see is still a fee you pay."

Principle the third

Calm is a strategy, not a personality trait.

Panic is expensive. The single most reliable way to ruin a good plan is to sell it in a storm. So we design the whole experience to lower the temperature: no red flashing numbers, no push alerts engineered to make you check at midnight.

When markets fall — and they will — you'll get a short, human note explaining what happened and why your plan already accounted for it. No theatre. Just the forecast, updated.

02 — The method, in four motions

Set it up in an afternoon.
Then mostly leave it alone.

i.

Tell us your horizon

Answer a handful of plain questions — when you'll need the money, how much turbulence you can stomach, what you're actually saving toward. No jargon, no upsell.

~6 minutes
ii.

We plant the portfolio

Your money is spread across thousands of holdings in low-cost funds, weighted to your horizon — then planted, all at once, with no guessing about the perfect day.

Same day
iii.

It tends itself

Dividends reinvest, drift gets rebalanced, and tax-loss harvesting works in the background. The garden keeps its shape without you pulling a single weed.

Always on
iv.

You get a quarterly letter

Four times a year, a short, written-by-a-human note: what happened, what we changed, what we didn't. No dashboards demanding your attention at 11pm.

Every season

"I set it up before a long winter, and only remembered it existed when it had grown."

That's the whole idea. The less it asks of you, the better it's doing its job.

a note

Almanac is built for the person who'd rather live their life than watch a ticker. If checking a balance gives you a thrill, we are politely the wrong fit.

03 — The forecast, for your numbers

Move the dials.
Watch patience compound.

Projected balance at horizon
$248,400

Of which $96,000 is what you put in, and the rest is the quiet work of 20 years.

Starting amount$10,000
Each month, after$350
Years you'll let it grow20

Illustration only, at an assumed 6.5% average annual return after our 0.34% all-in cost. Markets don't grow in smooth lines, and past seasons don't promise future ones. This is a fictional demonstration.

The arithmetic of waiting

The first decade builds the habit. The last decade builds the wealth.

Compounding is back-loaded and deeply unfair to the impatient. The years that matter most are the ones furthest away — which is exactly why the hardest part of investing well is starting, and then doing nothing.

Drag the years dial out and watch the curve bend. That bend is the whole reason Almanac exists: to hold your hand off the sell button long enough for it to appear.

Make this your plan
"I'd been meaning to start investing for nine years. Almanac got me planted in an afternoon — and then, mercifully, asked nothing more of me."
Priya CastellanoMember since the autumn of 2021 · Lisbon
★★★★★   4.8 / 5 across 31,000 reviews ·  94% of members still invested after three years
04 — Choose your edition

One honest fee.
Everything else included.

Pocket

The Field Edition

For the first seeds. Everything you need to begin, at the lowest cost we can offer.

0.34% / year, all-in
  • Globally diversified portfolio
  • Automatic rebalancing
  • The quarterly letter
  • No account minimum
Start in the field
Most planted

The Orchard Edition

For balances finding their roots. Tax-smart features that quietly earn back their keep.

0.28% / year, all-in
  • Everything in the Field
  • Tax-loss harvesting
  • Retirement & tax-advantaged accounts
  • Priority human support
Plant the orchard
Estate

The Meridian Edition

For wealth with a long shadow. A dedicated advisor and planning that thinks in decades.

0.22% / year, all-in
  • Everything in the Orchard
  • A named, human advisor
  • Estate & legacy planning
  • Direct indexing
Speak to a person

Almanac № 47 closes here

Plant your first season today. Thank yourself in thirty.