After a 30 year career at Cooke & Bieler, Russell Redenbaugh founded Kairos Capital Advisors with the belief that the conventional money management business of being "better than the market" is insufficient for preserving and building real long term wealth for clients. Hiding behind relative results is good for the money manger but not for the money. Why should managers be paid well to lose less? Instead, Russell built a firm that manages his own and his clients' money with the goal of building long term wealth by focusing on an absolute return, rather than relative return, strategy. Investing across multiple asset classes with an absolute return strategy produces far fewer losing years while at the same time achieving strong relative long-term returns with lower risk. The paradox of an absolute return approach is that, done well, it will produce an excellent relative return.
Russell chose the name "Kairos" from the Greek word meaning, "That moment in which vision, bold action and opportunity converge to achieve extraordinary accomplishment." This is a definition by which he has led his life. Blinded at the age of 16, Russell learned early in his life to discover unconventional ways to achieve. He translated those lessons into graduating top of his class in college and graduate school at Wharton, working his way up from analyst to Chief Investment Officer while helping build a multi billion dollar investment firm, serving under three Presidents as a Commissioner on the U.S. Civil Rights Commission and reaching the height of athletic accomplishment by winning three gold medals from 2003 to 2005 in the world jujitsu competition in Brazil…fighting sighted opponents.
Kairos Capital Advisors brings this capacity for seeing and acting on unconventional opportunities to an investment process that preserves and grows the capital of Kairos' investment clients.
Kairos Capital Advisors is a Registered Investment Advisor (RIA). Integrity is critical for an advisor. Accordingly, all investment accounts are individually owned by our clients and are held in custody at Charles Schwab. Client record keeping is performed both by Charles Schwab and an independent third party firm. This prevents us from misusing client assets or misstating client performance numbers.