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Customized Wealth Building Strategies For Investors. Gary Geraci , President | 617-242-1025 | gary@geracicapital.com. About Geraci Capital Management . Provides clients with discretionary and non-discretionary financial advisory services
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Customized Wealth Building Strategies For Investors Gary Geraci, President | 617-242-1025 | gary@geracicapital.com
About Geraci Capital Management • Provides clients with discretionary and non-discretionary financial advisory services • Located at 23 Cook Street, in Charlestown, MA • Founded as an LLC in June 2009 by Gary Geraci and is recognized by the Mass State Securities Board as a Registered Investment Advisor • The company specializes in top-down, tactical asset allocation • Scottrade is the primary broker and custodian, providing clients with accounting, tax, and account maintenance services • Assets are also managed at secondary broker and custodian locations, including TD Ameritrade, Fidelity, and Charles Schwab Gary Geraci, President | 617-242-1025 | gary@geracicapital.com
About the Investment Manager • Gary Geraci is the President and Investment Manager at Geraci Capital Management • His investment management style is best described as ‘value oriented’ and ‘contrarian’ • The manager believes that markets are inefficient, often mispricing asset values, providing investors with potentially market beating risk adjusted returns • He invests based on the fact that we are in a secular bull market in hard assets. The manager also believes that coincident worldwide policy error is a high probability future event due to ongoing interest rate repression, exploding sovereign debt levels and money printing, which requires a tactical and highly selective approach to the asset allocation process. • Mr. Geraci has nearly 2 decades of financial services experience, most notably holding positions as a founder and CFO of a venture backed Internet company, and as a founder and President of an Investor Relations consultancy • Previously licensed Series 7 and 63 for a position at a securities brokerage firm • Mr. Geraci received an MBA with a concentration in finance from Bentley’s McCallum Graduate School of Business in 1999 • Mr. Geraci received a Bachelor of Arts degree with a major in political science and minor in economics from the University of Rochester in 1994 Gary Geraci, President | 617-242-1025 | gary@geracicapital.com
Client Benefits • Low Cost Fee Structure: • Fees are limited to a percentage of assets under management for discretionary accounts or based on a pre-negotiated flat fee for non discretionary, advisory services • No commissions, loads, or distribution fees ever charged by Advisor • Discounted transaction costs on trades charged by broker • Individual security and ETF selection whenever possible, for low cost, and efficient investing • Peace of Mind – Client assets are held at Scottrade, an SIPC insured, well known financial institution with 3 decades of operating history • Conflict-free Counsel • Unparalleled Client Services • Continuous Access to Market Moving Financial Information: • Market Navigator quarterly investment newsletter • Periodic Inter-quarterlyupdates on tactical investment ideas • Quarterly portfolio tracker updates, including explanations behind additions and deletions to managed portfolios Gary Geraci, President | 617-242-1025 | gary@geracicapital.com
Company Differentiators • An economically efficient and low cost transaction model • Top-Down (macro), Tactical Asset Allocation • A contrarian, value oriented, and opportunisticviewpoint of the investment process • Flexibly tailored portfolios to meet client risk profiles: • Long and short strategies • Portfolio insurance and alternative investments, including precious metals, foreign currencies, and commodities • Balanced portfolios • Concentrated sector focused portfolios • A rifle as opposed to shotgun approach to investing Gary Geraci, President | 617-242-1025 | gary@geracicapital.com
Sampling of Prior Tactical Calls • Purchased a basket of inexpensive dividend paying, US multi-national equities yielding over 5%; Q4 2009, Market Navigator • Introduced a timely palladium long position; Q4 2009, Market Navigator • Increased positions in the then under-owned agriculture commodities sector; March 5, 2010, Inter-QuarterlyUpdate • Identified a buying opportunity in NYMEX crude and increased positions in undervalued foreign oil stocks; May 18, 2010, Inter-Quarterly Update • Increased holdings of gold and gold stocks, platinum and silver; February 17, 2011, Inter-Quarterly Update • Profitably reduced silver positions prior to 35% correction. Subsequently re-built positions; May 6, 2011, Inter-Quarterly Update • Reduced equity positions while increasing short exposure; May 16, 2011, Inter-Quarterly Update • Eliminated virtually all short positions in September 2011, prior to S&P’s 15% rally into year end • Select managed accounts held shares in the attempted takeover target, Potash in 2010, and also in Northgate Minerals, which was acquired in 2011 (now Aurico Gold) • Tactically reduced precious metals positions near recent highs in early October, 2012, and re-built positions subsequently in Q4 at lower, post correction prices Gary Geraci, President | 617-242-1025 | gary@geracicapital.com
Demographic Breakdown of Client Accounts Holder’s Age: • 14% are < 35 years of age • 68% are between 35 to 45 years of age • 9% are between 46 to 55 years of age • 9% are > 56 years of age Approx. 20 Families - 50 Accounts Aggregate Family AUM Size – 5 Largest: $1.1M, $750K, $550K, $450K, and $400K Individual Account AUM Size – 3 Largest: $550K, $450K, and $370 Account Type: • 14% are Custodial (UTMA) Accounts • 7% are Roth Accounts • 12% are SEP Accounts • 38% are IRA Accounts • 7% are Trust Accounts • 22% are Brokerage Accounts Gary Geraci, President | 617-242-1025 | gary@geracicapital.com
Targeting Investable Trends • The gradual disintegration of the US Dollar’s reserve currency status and its de-emphasized central role in the international monetary system. The collapse of the post Breton Woods global currency regime and the rise of monetary assets. • The impact of currency debasement and competitive devaluation on the investment landscape • The impact of worldwide demographic shifts, climate change, depletion, and supply shortages on commodity prices, on the investment landscape • The unintended consequences of misguided government fiscal and monetary policies leading to potential policy error, including funding and currency crises • The destabilizing impact of money printing on trade patterns, living standards, civil obedience, and geopolitical stability Gary Geraci, President | 617-242-1025 | gary@geracicapital.com