Money Management

Rhodes Capital Management, Inc. is an investment trading management services group founded by Richard Rhodes in 2001. The firm’s active investment and trading regime uses a combination of macroeconomic analyses in the development of major themes, upon which rigorous quantitative and technically driven research is applied to create and manage its portfolios. These services are available to individuals, families, trusts and corporations.

We at Rhodes Capital have two very simple goals in terms of managing our client funds each year:

• To provide positive absolute performance gains year in and year out; and to outperform our S&P 500 benchmark each year.
  
  
• Do more of what is working for us; and less of what’s not.
  

While these goals may seem simple in thought, they are difficult in practice; however, our daily personal attention to detail and “hands on” management style for each account provides us with the best opportunity to do so rather than the larger and more impersonal money management firms.

Quite obviously, 2008 was a dismal year for the US and world stock markets; however, there were few if any small measures of comfort:

• If your portfolio was hurt this year; you are not alone. Most money managers were “destroyed” this year; they simply did not see this coming.
  
  
• Don’t beat yourself up; learn from your mistakes and losses, and take a more proactive roll in reassessing your money manager. Will your money manager perform in both up and down markets?
  
  
• The time to plan for portfolio downturns isn’t in the middle of the downturn, but in advance.
  

If you would like more information on how Rhodes Capital can help you navigate both bull and bear markets through disciplined money management, please contact us.