About Us


The Future Fund LLC is an SEC-Registered Investment Advisor. We've identified megatrends that we believe are the most influential multi-year secular growth opportunities shaping the future. Our focus is on companies that can change the world by capitalizing on these fundamental changes in their markets.

Focused on leading secular growth opportunities

We manage concentrated, high-conviction secular growth portfolios for clients in both a long-only and a hedged equity structure.

Discovering unrecognized equity value

We believe transformative companies will displace legacy industry incumbents in several key sectors.

How we differ

1

Focused portfolios backed by intensive research

We apply deep industry research and create concentrated, high-conviction portfolios.

2

Unique return profile

We are benchmark agnostic and do not manage to an index, thereby creating high active share and a non-correlated return profile.


3

Blending people, investment, and operational expertise

Our partners have decades of investment experience and first-hand operational skill gained from managing companies.

 

4

Opportunistic and tactical

We strive to exploit short-term dislocations in the market, creating incremental alpha.


5

Managing risk on multiple levels

We manage risk intensively, both fundamentally and quantitatively.


6

Fully aligned with investors

We have a fully transparent business model, tied to investment performance to ensure our clients’ interests come first.

Our Philosophy

Centered on Transformative Companies Creating Long-Term Value

Our Philosophy

Focused on Key Secular Megatrends


megatrends explained

HOW MEGATRENDS ARE SHAPING OUR FUTURE

Megatrends have been changing the way people live for hundreds or even thousands of years.

Read our brief on how we believe these global forces are impacting businesses, economies, cultures and individuals today, and setting a path for the future.

Our Process

Targeting Businesses Capitalizing on Secular Trends Over Three to Five Years

Our Process

Portfolio Managers


Gary and David began working together in 2013, both specializing in growth stock investing based on fundamental research. With career foundations as analysts, they employ deep fundamental research and modeling to select catalyst-driven secular growth candidates for client portfolios.

Their shared history and prior successes at investment management firms allow them to come to consensus quickly, making investment decisions targeted to benefit clients. Both strongly believe in active management, proprietary research, and high conviction strategies that are not tied to benchmarks.

Gary Black

Portfolio Manager |
Managing Partner,
The Future Fund LLC
  • Nearly 30 years' portfolio management, investment, research, and operational experience
  • MBA, Harvard Business School, BSc in Economics The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania

Bio

David Kalis, CFA

Portfolio Manager |
Partner,
The Future Fund LLC
  • 25+ years' proven success managing small- and mid-cap portfolios and leading investment teams
  • BA in Economics, University of Michigan
  • Chartered Financial Analyst®

Bio

Advisory Board

Richard Bindler

Richard Bindler

Advisory Board Member
  • Founder, Bindler Investment Group
  • Managing Partner, $11MM BMS de-SPAC Opportunity Fund
  • Advisory Board member, Cresset Capital, a $30B boutique family office
  • Chair, Chicago Advisory Board of Cahn Fellows
  • MBA, Boston University
    BS, University of Florida

Bio

J. Philip Clark

J. Philip Clark

Advisory Board Member
  • Managing Director, Phoenix Capital Partners Real Estate Private Equity $2B AUM
  • Founder, Epoch Investment Partners $25B AUM, Sold to TD Bank
  • National Managing Director, Alliance Bernstein
  • President, InveQuest Securities

Bio



Ross Gerber

Ross Gerber

Advisory Board Member
  • Co-Founder, President, CEO, $2.2B AUM Gerber Kawasaki Wealth and Investment Management
  • SunAmerica’s Archon and Million Dollar Branch Award recipient
  • BA Communications, Annenberg School at the Univ of Pennsylvania, concentration in Business Law at the Wharton School of Business

Bio

Robert Keith Board

Robert Keith

Advisory Board Member
  • 26-year career at Alliance Bernstein
  • Served as Head of the Global Client Group Business Unit
  • Led world-wide institutional and third-party distribution, marketing and product strategy for AllianceBernstein.
  • President and CEO of Alliance US mutual fund business

Bio

Insights & News

Active ETF Growth

Active ETF AUM has increased 10-fold in last 10 years (+40% CGR) due to higher transparency, lower fees, and favorable tax benefits.

Elon Musk/Twitter and Tesla

Gary Black, Future Fund managing partner, talks with Bloomberg Radio about Elon Musk and the Twitter deal and it’s effect on Tesla shares. Listen to the interview.

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