Dan
is Chief Executive Officer of Ascani Wealth Management, LLC, which provides money management, securities brokerage, financial research, and other services to investors. He has more than two decades of professional
investment experience and holds FINRA Series 7, 24, 63, and 65 securities
licenses as a Registered Representative of Kovack Securities, Inc., and a Registered Investment Advisor Representative of Kovack Advisors, Inc. Kovack provides operations, compliance, and other administrative services to Ascani Wealth Management. Dan also holds a Series 3 commodities license.
Dan
is also Managing Director of Gemini Futures LLC,, an Introducing Broker (IB),
Commodity Pool Operator (CPO), and Commodity Trading Advisor (CTA)
registered with the CFTC where he manages the Gemini Long/Short
Gold Fund.
His
specialties encompass areas such as alternatives, commodities, hedge funds
and asset allocation strategies. Throughout his career, Dan has been active
in the development of strategic investment products, utilizing his skill in
developing technical and mathematical trading systems in order to directly
manage client investment portfolios.
His
expertise in developing and executing trading strategies has been recognized
by many well-known investment firms. Since the early 1990s, prominent
financial institutions such as the Rushmore Funds (now known as the
Cappiello-Rushmore Funds), Rydex Investments, the Rogers Raw Materials Fund,
and the Perth Mint of Western Australia have turned to Dan for counsel and
support in developing innovative strategies to apply to new investment
products.
During his career, Dan has frequently been quoted in the press and is active
in the investment circuit. He is a regular speaker at numerous investment
conferences and has been a guest on TV and radio shows providing expert
market commentary and investment analysis on subjects including gold,
commodities and exchange traded funds. In addition, during the 1980s and
1990s and prior to his employment as Executive Vice President at Weiss Capital Management,Inc., Dan hosted
his own radio and television shows on local and syndicated television and
radio stations on the West Coast.
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