Big Gain
Small Gain
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Big Loss
Avoiding the Big Loss is essential to investment success and peace of mind.
Pacific Park Financial, Inc.
Registered Investment Advisor
HOW WE BEGAN
Our company’s founder and president, Gary Gordon, grew up just outside of White Plains, New York. Gary’s great grandfather was a Jewish immigrant who came through Ellis Island from Russia. It was known that he, and Gary’s grandfather, lost most of their savings during the Stock Market Crash of 1929…
OUR PHILOSOPHY
There are only four investment outcomes and three of them are good. They include: (a) a big gain, (b) a small gain, (c) a small loss, and (d) a big loss. Everyone likes gains. The bigger, the better. On the other hand, the management of losses is the pivotal key to investment success…
WHAT MAKES US DIFFERENT
1. We minimize losses. Many advisers are taught to push an ability to pick great stuff. They are like Warren Buffett. And they can pick the next Tesla or Amazon. When they do talk about protecting your portfolio, they claim that they are “diversified.” Those folks do not even understand the meaning of the…
ACTIVE INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT
The depth and velocity of recent market declines is hard to ignore. The turn of the century brought with it a 50%+ bear right out of the gate. Less than 10 years later the markets witnessed its second 50%+ bear. Two devastating bear markets within one decade. More recently, we have witnessed…
THE SPECIFICS OF AVOIDING BIG LOSSES
Understanding the importance of avoiding big losses begins with an understanding of human emotions. There are two emotional forces that drive investment decisions for investors. Greed and fear. Greed, though, is simply another expression of fear. When investors become irresponsibly greedy, the…
OUR CUSTOM INDEXES
We created the Multi-Asset Stock Hedge (MASH) Index to help investors take advantage of opportunities outside of stocks. The Index is meant to provide a benchmark for investors interested in tracking the returns of non-equity investments with negative correlations to stocks during corrective…
HOW WE GET PAID
Pacific Park Financial is a fee-ONLY adviser (not to be confused with a fee-BASED adviser). Fee-ONLY simply means that we get paid solely based on a small percentage of the assets being managed. That is it. No commissions. No fee-sharing relationships or soft dollar arrangements with fund families…