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Portfolio Attributes
Resilient portfolio shown to be capable of withstanding financial crises and economic slowdown.
Absolute positive returns.
Significant outperformance over the Index.
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“I am concerned about my retirement planning, mortgage payments and cost of my children’s higher education. Rainforest’s efforts to understand my financial needs and to address them through careful and thoughtful investment is a great help to me.”
Rainforest Notes - january 2026
Our Investment Manager's Commentary for the Month
An Excellent year for Rainforest’s investors
2025 was an excellent year for our investors at Rainforest and we are also off to a good start in 2026.
The beginning of the year is a time when some look to reviewing their finances and to explore avenues to enhance their financial health and well-being.
Our past personal experience as banking customers (from priority to private banking), showed that a boutique investment service is not widely available, or available to relatively few. Many face the usual generic bank/insurance products as their only known option. Others have shared concerns about such products having hidden costs and vested interests, manned by faceless portfolio managers, often employees without real ‘skin in the game’. Constantly changing managers and churning of financial products experienced by some can also mean no long-term commitment/accountability to the end investor.
Rainforest was thus set up to provide what we ourselves looked for - an investment management service that serves clearly and directly the end investor’s financial needs; with simple charges and enduring commitment from the investment manager whose money is ‘in’ and whose mindset is ‘forever’.
“We will only do with your money what we would do with our own.” - Warren Buffett
What does 2026 hold for us at Rainforest?
It will see us continuing the work of building on our investment portfolios when the right opportunities manifest during continual monitoring, calculation and analysis of micro & macro events.
We will constantly bear in mind our topmost priority: “What is best for our investors?” as we continue to steward our investors’ precious money.
We also look forward to more conversations with anyone who might be interested in exploring whether Rainforest’s investment service and product is a good fit for their financial needs.
We wish everyone Good Financial Health in 2026!
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Interview of Richard Choong in The Edge
Investing Wisdom
Value and Quality
“...findings of a review of the 1000 largest US equities (by market cap) over 1975-2013. Value was a higher driver of performance than quality, but companies that were both high quality and inexpensively valued with respect to fundamentals delivered the most consistent outperformance....”
Market Ups and Downs
“It’s in the nature of stock markets to go way down from time to time. There’s no system to avoid bad markets. You can’t do it unless you try to time the market, which is a seriously dumb thing to do. Conservative investing with steady savings without expecting miracles is the way to go. ”
Why Invest in Equities
“Investment possibilities are both many and varied. There are three major categories, however, and it’s important to understand the characteristics of each. So let’s survey the field.
Investments that are denominated in a given currency include money-market funds, bonds, mortgages, bank deposits, and other instruments. Most of these currency-based investments are thought of as “safe.” In truth they are among the most dangerous of assets. Their beta may be zero, but their risk is huge. …
The second major category of investments involves assets that will never produce anything,… forever unproductive… The major asset in this category is gold. …
My own preference - and you knew this was coming – is our third category: investment in productive assets, whether businesses, farms, or real estate. …
Berkshire’s goal will be to increase its ownership of first-class businesses. Our first choice will be to own them in their entirety – but we will also be owners by way of holding sizable amounts of marketable stocks. I believe that over any extended period of time this category of investing will prove to be the runaway winner among the three we’ve examined. More important, it will be BY FAR the safest.”