Mike Dow – Dow Capital Managment, LLC

Specialties

Dow Capital Management offers the services of a world-​class investment firm dedicated to improving clients’ financial lives and making their futures more secure. As an independent firm, Dow Capital Management provides objective advice and is committed to excellence for its clients.

History

Established in 1937.

There is apparently a stockbroker gene in our branch of the Dow Family. The Dow’s first started in the brokerage business in the late 1930s when my uncle became a stockbroker in 1937 and my father, Cliff, Sr., joined him in 1939. Their younger brother came on board shortly after World War II. The fourth sibling of the first generation, a sister, served as a secretary to her three brothers some years later; and, during all my father’s years in the business, my mother, Louise, served him in a part-​time secretarial capacity. After my dad passed away in 1974, my mom continued to work in our office for several years; and, until she passed away in 2003, at age eighty-​eight, she was monitoring the financial news channel on CNBC and faxing us summaries of what was going on in the world — its economies, politics, business developments, and stock markets. Because she knew what we needed to know and transmitted it to us when we needed to know it, we considered our «Nannygrams» of more value to u