Welcome to Rockhaven Capital Management, LLC.
Rockhaven is a new type of investment management firm focused on asset management not asset gathering.
I’ve been a professional money manager for the last 25 years, managing individual and institutional accounts for Mellon Bank, Federated Investors, AmSouth Bank, Strong Capital Management, and National City Bank. Over those years I’ve seen the good, the bad, and the ugly side of the investment management industry, but the events of the last few years have really illuminated for me a real weakness in the advice being given to many individual and institutional investors – “buy and hold”. Buying and holding the Standard & Poor’s 500 over the last ten years would have given you a nice 0% return, and a few ulcers. Over my career, I have seen more than my share of up and down markets. I have come to realize that being in the right global asset classes at the right time is far more important to total returns than picking individual stocks or bonds. Fortunately, with the advent and proliferation of low cost ETF’s the task of investing in exactly the asset class of choice is reasonably easy and inexpensive.
Rockhaven is really an outgrowth of what I am doing for my family and myself. Most investors I’ve met have the same long-term goal…to preserve and increase their purchasing power. I believe that this can only be done by continuously evolving with the markets, to be in harmony with what is working. The future is always unknown, but one thing we can be sure of is that “buy and hold” is dead; instead risk management via disciplined asset allocation, or, if you prefer a Global Tactical Asset Allocation strategy is the way of the future.
I have prepared all my working life to implement this
strategy, and I am now at a personal and professional place to be able to
implement it for my family and others. I am very excited for both my future and
that of my investors. If you would like to discuss this further please call me
at 412-260-7917. You can also discover more about Rockhaven at www.rockhavencapital.com, and www.rockhavencapmgmt.blogspot.com.
Sincerely,
Chris Wiles, CFA
“It is not the strongest of the species that
survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the
most adaptable to change.” - Charles Darwin