Our story starts in 1978 when our founder, Robert Zuccaro, was assigned management responsibility for the Axe Houghton Stock Fund. Axe Houghton had been relying on recommendations from the in-house research department yet was underperforming. Robert knew that if he followed the same path, he would not succeed.
After taking the helm of the Axe Houghton Stock Fund, Robert created his own systematic approach to stock selection, focusing on fast earnings growth accompanied by low P/Es. After outperforming the market in his first two years at the helm, Robert was elected President in 1980 and became, at the time, the youngest President in the mutual fund industry at the age of 38. Axe Houghton went on to outperform the S&P 500 for six straight years.
In 1983, Robert left Axe Houghton to start his own firm, Target Investors, Inc. He was subsequently named a top manager by the Wall Street Journal and Nelson’s multiple times,
1 and more recently with Golden Eagle Strategies, LLC (“Golden Eagle”) being recognized by the BarclayHedge’s Monthly Performance Rankings, throughout 2024.
2After managing leading institutional portfolios, corporate and municipal pension funds, as well as mutual funds for 28 years, CIO Robert Zuccaro wound down his business in 2005 and set up his own family office. He continued managing his own money and conducting research in his never-ending pursuit to identify the common characteristics of top performing stocks. Inspired by his ground-breaking research findings, Robert established a new firm in 2013 to put his insights into action.
Robert co-founded the new firm with his son Marc with the commitment to build an institutional quality business from the start. Marc brought global leadership experience—gained through senior roles in product development at top-tier investment banks including RBC Capital Markets and Lehman Brothers in London, Tokyo and New York. Although Robert began developing Golden Eagle’s proprietary investment process long before the internet was born, Marc added the ability to electronically gather, standardize, store, and model millions of data points—enhancing the firm’s research and modeling capabilities.
In 2020, Golden Eagle launched what we believe to be the first Strategy to focus solely on Hypergrowth Stocks for accredited investors. In 2025, we launched the first ever
Hypergrowth ETF to extend Hypergrowth Stocks to the general public.
Read more about Hypergrowth Investing at
InvestingInHypergrowth.com.
