Formed in 1990, Pekin Singer Strauss Asset Management, Inc. has successfully navigated its clients’ capital through numerous challenging investing environments. The Company currently manages well over $800 million in assets on behalf of its clients. The primary investment goal is preservation of capital, balanced against generating superior rates of return over the long-term.
The old saying “experience teaches” is especially valid when it comes to the experience required when making judgments that impact investment goals. This is all the more true in today’s exceptionally volatile markets and largely explains why our clients lean on Pekin Singer Strauss. The firm’s five shareholders, Rick Singer, Ron Strauss, Josh Strauss, Adam Strauss, and Bill Pekin, have in excess of 100 years of aggregate experience in assisting individuals and institutions with wealth creation, income generation, and capital preservation. Our investment professionals have experienced virtually every kind of investment environment and business climate and guided its clients through these environments successfully.
Integrity is of paramount importance at Pekin Singer Strauss Asset Management. To reinforce our focus of preserving and generating wealth for our clients, our shareholders and associates invest alongside our clients. This discipline aligns our interests directly with our clients, and it makes us more careful about security selection and more disciplined with the prices we pay for the securities that we buy.
As an independent investment advisor, Pekin Singer Strauss is free of the myriad industry conflicts, such as being compensated by commissions for trade execution, providing corporate finance services, trading securities from our own inventory, encouraging cross-selling, or having multiple objectives for our research efforts. Our overriding goal is to simply grow our client’s assets.
The shareholders at Pekin Singer Strauss believe in client relationships that endure and thrive over the years. We are aware that the foundations of these relationships are trust, service, and performance, along with a constantly evolving understanding of the changing needs of our clients.
Pekin Singer Strauss launched its first mutual fund, APPLESEED FUND (APPLX) in December, 2006. As the investment advisor to the Fund, we seek to generate market-beating returns by investing in quality, undervalued companies screened for social and environmental responsibility.