Uncontrolled variation is the enemy of quality.

– E Edward Deming

Team

Oak Duke V, is the founder. For the past 30 years Oak has dedicated his professional career to creating strategies. In former rolls at Merrill, Morgan, a billion dollar independent RIA, and as trustee of a FPPTA pension plan, his passion can be seen through the breadth and depth of his inspired work. Oak’s ability to create ideas stems from his optimistic view and interest in living life to the fullest.

When he is not busy designing new strategies, Oak can be found doing the CrossFit WOD, training his two German Shorthaired Pointers, visiting the North Carolina Smoky Mountains, spending time with family and friends, and watching documentaries about space. Born and raised in upstate New York before graduating from the University at Buffalo (Econ) and the University of Miami (MBA), Oak is proud to be living in Florida with his family as he continues to create thoughtfully crafted strategies.

We hope to introduce some more team members here in future.

Backstory

Professional work started way back in history, shortly after college. After obtaining securities licensing cold calling physicists, engineers, and tech executives commenced. In the late ’90s the tech boom was on and most everyone wanted in. At first assets were allocated to the box makers and the OEM component suppliers: Dell, Compaq, Gateway etc. Next, it was on to the disk drive makers, semiconductor OEMs, software, and similar spaces like modems. Really wasn’t difficult to identify and model growth.

Next internet investing happened. Investor allocations moved fast into the new IPO’s in the business to consumer space AOL, AMZN, EBAY and YHOO. As the ubiquity of the internet grew so did the networking space. Memorable names at the time included Ascend ASND, Cascade, and Cisco systems. There were many other names… Redback, Juniper, Sycamore etc. Fun times indeed.

As the tech boom waned, circa 2000, the logical business decision was to transition out of the commission based transaction model preferred by legacy brokerages into fee based asset management. So, landing at a billion dollar RIA headed by CPA’s provided a unique perspective on how disparate businesses were run. It was great looking at the landscape through CFO eyes and gained an appreciation for passive investing.

Fast forward to today. There are many similarities to todays investing and the tech boom. Crypto currency and the coming disruption of block chain technology portend massive change. The hedge fund model affords the greatest flexibility and purest way to monetize opportunities. That’s Duke Capital Group’s mantra going forward.

Welcome and thank you for your interest.

See you in the metaverse, omniverse, or preferably in person.