| Ralph Parks Investment
Group in the News - Page 2 |
| A Technical Approach to Investing |
| by The Wall Street Transcript |
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RALPH PARKS is the Chief Executive Officer and Founder of Ralph Parks Investment Group, LLC. Before founding Ralph Parks Investment Group, he was a Senior Vice President of Investments at
Smith Barney in Rochester, New York, from 1993 to 2005. He has more than 35 years of investment
industry experience. Prior to his position at Smith Barney, Mr. Parks was a Partner at Edward D.
Jones & Co, also based out of Rochester, New York, from 1989 to1993.
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| Source:The Wall Street Transcript |
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| Declaration
of Independence |
| by Ramond Fazzi |
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More planners
are leaving wirehouses to become fee-based RIAs.
Over the past 35 years, Ralph Parks has been a successful
broker doing his share of financial planning at the
three wirehouses where he's worked. But his employment
hasn't been without challenges. When he became distrustful
of investment research at one firm always known for
its impeccable analysis he bought his own to the tune
of $10,000 a year.
It was a fortuitous decision in hindsight, since 20
years later the firm was nabbed for writing erroneously
favorable reports for its investment banking clients
and had to pay the Securities and Exchange Commission
and the state of New York hundreds of millions of dollars
to settle their cases against the firm.
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| Source:Financial
Advisor Magazine-January
2006 |
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| Ask
The Experts, |
| Gina Griffo, Ralph
Parks Investment Group |
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More and more
investment advisors are ditching big brokerage houses
to start their own firms, and, namely, their own fund
families. Ralph Parks Investment Group, a
registered investment advisory which opened its doors
in November, has similar ambitions. The firm, formed
by a pair of former Smith
Barney investment advisors, is planning to
launch the first of four proprietary mutual funds by
the end of the first quarter. The no-load mutual funds
will include a long/short domestic fund, and international
funds based on the economies of India, Germany, and
Great Britain. A fee structure hasn't been established
but it will hover around 3%.
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| Source: Institutional
Investor-January 2006 |
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| With
Ralph Parks of Ralph Parks Investment Group LLC |
| By Jeff Benjamin |
Even at age 67, Ralph Parks has no interest in discussing the notion of his own retirement.
"The only thing that will retire me is bad health or a pine box," said Mr. Parks, founder and chief executive of Ralph Parks Investment Group LLC in Rochester, N.Y.
He launched the firm in November after having spent more than 40 years managing
client assets for a host of brand-name brokerage industry firms.
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| Source: Investment
News -January 2006 |
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