Tocqueville is a wholly independent, privately owned partnership. This eliminates the corporate conformity often found in public companies – a conformity that arises from the need to provide short-term shareholder value. It also allows for an alignment of interests: Portfolio managers at Tocqueville invest alongside clients, putting our own capital into the same investments that we recommend to our clients. And our autonomy ensures that we never sell products or services that our clients do not need. The term “relationship manager” does not exist at Tocqueville.