Glossary
Buy-and-hold investing
Buy-and-hold investing is a philosophy of acquiring assets and owning them for the long term rather than trading them for short-term gains. Value accrues from the quality of the asset and its steady improvement over time. It rewards patience, careful selection, and a committed owner willing to take the long view.
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The opposite of buy-and-hold is the flip: buy an asset, repackage it, and sell it quickly. Buy-and-hold instead treats a purchase as something to own and improve for years. Its strength is patience: good assets are given the time they need to grow into their full quality, in the hands of an owner who is not in a hurry to sell.
Buy-and-hold reflects how AH Equity Partners thinks about ownership, most visibly in its real estate platform, where residential and mixed-use property is acquired to own and improve rather than to flip. It is a long-term philosophy rather than an absolute rule: the group develops and stewards what it owns, and sells only when doing so serves the lasting quality of the whole.