J.C. Goodgal, Inc.

J.C. Goodgal, Inc. provides personalized, discretionary investment advisory and asset-management services to individuals, high‑net‑worth clients, small pension and profit‑sharing plans, trusts, estates, charitable organizations and small businesses. The firm reports managing roughly $16.2 million across about two dozen client accounts and also offers related financial planning and estate‑planning consultations.

The firm follows a strategic asset‑allocation, core‑and‑satellite approach that uses passive index and ETF positions as the core while adding active managers or specialist positions in satellites; portfolios are globally diversified and may include equities, fixed income, mutual funds, options and futures where suitable. All accounts are managed on a discretionary basis and fees are charged as a percentage of assets with quarterly advance billing.

What is distinctive in the firm’s brochure is the breadth of disclosed affiliated activities and related‑party arrangements uncommon for a firm of its size: the ADV details multiple Castalia‑branded affiliates that provide corporate finance and offshore company management and notes the firm’s involvement in managing a domestic limited partnership and other fund‑related roles. The brochure also emphasizes that the firm does not accept commissions or performance‑based fees, maintains a Code of Ethics, and expects clients to vote their own proxies, with these governance and affiliation disclosures highlighted alongside its client‑service practices.