What’s Your OnePoint? | David Mandelbaum

Welcome to our series where we share the voices of our team and what their OnePoint means to them.

Markets move quickly. Narratives move even faster.

For David Mandelbaum, Portfolio Manager at OnePoint BFG Wealth Partners, the real work of investing begins by slowing things down and asking the right questions.

David’s background as a lawyer shaped the way he approaches markets. Legal training demands a careful examination of assumptions, risks, and unintended consequences. After transitioning into the hedge fund world and spending nearly two decades as a portfolio manager, he brought that same discipline to investing.

His OnePoint is simple but powerful:

Translate complexity into clarity so investors can make calmer, more informed decisions.

In a world filled with noise, David focuses on understanding what could go wrong before chasing what could go right.

A Real Example: When Narrative Runs Ahead of Reality

During the COVID pandemic, one client held a significant position in a rapidly growing telehealth company. The story surrounding the company was compelling. Telehealth adoption was exploding, and the market narrative suggested a long runway of growth.

But David stepped back and asked a different set of questions.

Were some of those adoption trends being temporarily accelerated by pandemic policies and behavioral shifts?
What would happen as competition increased?
Could margins compress as the industry matured?

After walking through these risks together, David and the client made the decision to take profits and redeploy capital into investments with more durable earnings and a greater margin for error.

Since then, the stock has declined more than 95 percent.

For David, the satisfaction was never about being right.

It was about helping a client avoid a drawdown that could have disrupted their long-term plan.

Investing Through Clarity

Markets will always produce noise. Headlines change daily. Narratives rise and fall.

David’s focus remains constant: helping clients understand why they own what they own, what risks they are taking, and how those decisions support their long-term goals.

Because confident investing rarely comes from predictions.

It comes from clarity.

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