April 15, 2025 Chris Weil I considered a number of subjects for this newsletter, each of which could (and has) filled bookshelves, before...

January 15, 2025 Chris Weil As is true in so much in life, the answer to the question posed is … it depends; in this case, it depends on...

October 15, 2024 Chris Weil and guest writer Kit-Victoria (Weil) Wells Caution when expressing pride at a particular achievement is...

July 15, 2024 Chris Weil At Christopher Weil & Company we have philanthropy in our DNA. We have for many years routinely supported a...

January 15, 2024 Chris Weil What this quarter’s newsletter is not, is my swan song, although it might read as such. Since first becoming...

October 15, 2023 Chris Weil Every now and again you have a moment when you glimpse above the fray and see clearly how the journey got you...

July 15, 2023 Chris Weil The very successful screenwriter William Goldman (“The Princess Bride,” “All the President’s Men,” “Butch...

April 15, 2023 The truth that has been brought home to the millions of us who are bank customers by the Silicon Valley Bank experience is...

January 15, 2023 In my last quarterly commentary, I wrote on the emergence of Environmental, Social and Governance (“ESG”) criteria as...

October 15, 2022 To: Clients & Friends From: Chris Weil A number of conservative State Attorneys General recently delivered a letter to...

Recall Murphy’s Law: if something can go wrong, it will go wrong. Append Weil’s corollary: Murphy was an optimist.

April 15, 2022 TO: CLIENTS & FRIENDS FROM: CHRIS WEIL NOTICE: This Report & Commentary includes comments regarding what is normally a...

Can Google be your Financial Planner? We argue that its relationship building and nuance that give us the edge.

October 15, 2021 Generally, the older you get the stickier your assets become. The reasons? Over time, people tend to become comfortable...

July 15, 2021 I have thought long and hard about whether to write on the subject of income inequality. It is not that the data itself is...

April 15, 2021 Latin – once a mandatory language for the educated classes, at least in the Western world – has long since fallen out of...

January 15, 2021 A mantra for 2021: “Let normal be the new normal.” The problem is, of course, that “normal” has always and forever...

Chris reflects on his early days as a sales trainee, the benefits of being viewed and treated as a colleague, and why that matters as we str

What we are experiencing now is certainly a “terrible moment.” And when the history of this “moment” is written, and outcomes known, my scen

A message that started out as a memo to staff is expanded upon in this newsletter as Chris elaborates on his investment management philosoph