— Est. 1987
Authority built over decades, not declared.
Vantage & Co. was not assembled to meet a moment. It was built to outlast one. What holds now is what held then.
/ Origin & Continuity
The same standard. Not yet revised.
Founded in New York in 1987, Vantage & Co. established its operating principles before the industry had settled into convenience. Those principles were not aspirational — they were binding.
Each decade since has offered occasion to revise downward. We have not taken it. The continuity is the credential.
What we hold to is visible in what we refuse.
No revision for relevance. No concession to volume. Institutional authority is not a position statement — it is the record of what was upheld when it would have been easier not to.