Investment Philosophy


ZRC Financial is dedicated to long-term investing. Rather than chasing performance or market timing, ZRC strives to add value to your portfolio while reducing risk. We believe our thoughtful and steady approach to investment is the most prudent way to build wealth and secure prosperity over time.

Mutual Fund Investing
  We live in an uncertain world where investment markets can shift unexpectedly. Because we cannot predict the future, we design portfolios of mutual funds that offer the investor several important benefits - diversification, professional money management, and liquidity.
   
Diversification
 

The idea of diversification has been with us for a long period of time. In the world of investments, there are many things we cannot control such as the return on a given asset class, capital market conditions, economic conditions and political issues. However, we can control the way we divide your investment portfolio among asset classes to balance your investment return against your risk. The key to managing risk is to spread your investment dollars over several investment categories to reduce the overall volatility of your portfolio. Remember that you want your portfolio to meet your investment goals over the long term. That is successful investing.

By investing in mutual funds, which hold many stocks, you can eliminate the single security risk. When you own a broadly diversified portfolio of stocks and bonds, only market risk remains. However, market risk should decline over time as reinvested dividends and interest are compounded.

Additionally, diversification allows us to create a solid foundation of U.S. stocks, international stocks, and bonds that include both growth and value styles of investing, blue chip stocks, and lesser known stocks spread across the major sectors of the economy. Long-term investment success requires broad diversification and helps the investor stay with her/his investment plan. Our goal is to design a portfolio of mutual funds, which helps you achieve your goals with a lower risk and higher total return than the average mutual fund.

   
Professional Money Managers
  We seek out professional money managers who have consistently outperformed their peer group's median. Such a money manager has exhibited a successful investment style over a minimum of three years relative to the risk they assumed. They scrutinize and re-evaluate their investments on a regular basis and have a trained staff of investment professionals to assist them.
   
Liquidity
  Mutual funds are very liquid. If necessary, they can be converted to cash quickly and easily if your investment goals ever change.