About Rick Gonsalves

Rick Gonsalves serves as the President, Chief Executive Officer and Mutual Fund Portfolio Manager at AmericaFirst Capital Management, LLC. He has decades of financial and portfolio management experience, and he’s the architect behind all AmericaFirst SMAs and products.

As a three-time United States Lipper Mutual Fund Award Winner, and the recipient of the 2016 Fund Elite Award, Rick Gonsalves maintains an excellent reputation in his field. He’s studied business administration at both California State University and Sierra College, and he leads a driven team with several decades of combined experience.

Away from work, Mr. Gonsalves loves to work outdoors, play sports, hike, play the guitar, indulge in his love of classic muscle cars and spend time with his pets.

Would you like to know more about Rick Gonsalves and his team at AmericaFirst Capital Management, LLC? If so, visit www.americafirstfunds.com for further information about the services they offer, their rules-based, quantitative approach to portfolio management, and for complete contact details.

Rick Gonsalves: Using Effective Investment Models

Rick Gonsalves of AmericaFirst Capital Management has long immersed himself in investment models to learn how they may work to enhance the overall investment experience. As a portfolio manager and among the thought leaders in quantitative investing, Rick Gonsalves utilizes multiple investment strategies on behalf of his clients to build portfolios that seek to improve his clients’ standing and investment power. 

Researching and creating rules-based investment strategies is one of the many duties Rick Gonsalves performs for his clients. This deep dive into the behavior of a multitude of investment approaches often provides great insight that may shape future investment recommendations. Gonsalves works hard and is serious about the due diligence he conducts to find investment options for his clients.

Over his long career in Finance, Rick Gonsalves finds new ways to help his clients and his investment firm succeed. 

Rick Gonsalves: What are Unit Investment Trusts

Rick Gonsalves, as the President of AmericaFirst Capital Management, has employed many different investment tools to create portfolios for a vast array of individual and institutional clients. He has over twenty-five years of experience in Finance and building investment portfolios for his various employers and clients. Rick Gonsalves and his company provide investors with many of the options they need to grow their portfolios, save for retirement, and more.

One investment tool Rick Gonsalves has created and managed is the Unit Investment Trust (UIT). A unit investment trust — or UIT for short — is a pooled investment vehicle in which a fixed portfolio of stocks, bonds or other securities is selected by a professional investment manager and held in the trust for a predetermined period of time.   A glance at the AmericaFirst website (www.afcm-quant.com) will show a strong history of performance for the Unit Investment Trusts created and managed by Rick Gonsalves.

Rick Gonsalves now spends the majority of his time creating and managing mutual funds but hopes to return to Unit Investment Trusts in the near future.

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