Palm Beach, FL â February 18, 2026 â The Palm Beach Hedge Fund Association (PBHFA) today announced a strategic partnership with Joseph Gunnar & Co., LLC, a full-service broker-dealer, investment adviser, and investment bank focused on emerging growth markets.
âWe are thrilled to work directly with Joseph Gunnar & Co. as a strategic partner,â said David S. Goodboy, Founder of the Palm Beach Hedge Fund Association. âI look forward to sharing Gunnarâs suite of services with our diversified financial membership base and anticipate a long, mutually beneficial relationship.â
Joseph Gunnar & Co.âs Chief Executive Officer and Chairman, Joseph A. Alagna, added, âWe are proud to partner with PBHFA, an organization representing a sophisticated and globally connected investment community. South Florida has emerged as a major hub for hedge funds, family offices, and alternative asset allocators, and this partnership reinforces our commitment to serving emerging growth companies and the investors who support them.â
Membership in PBHFA is open to hedge fund and alternative asset professionals, ultra-high-net-worth investors, venture capitalists, family offices, financial traders, and select service providers. The association serves more than 1,900 members through networking events, educational programming, and industry conferences.
About Joseph Gunnar & Co., LLC
Joseph Gunnar & Co., LLC is a full-service boutique investment banking, securities, and wealth management firm with main offices in New York. The firm provides a full array of financial services, including investment banking, private wealth management, global institutional equity, fixed-income, and derivatives sales and trading, equity research, and advisory services to a diverse range of corporate clients, institutional investors, and high-net-worth individuals. Joseph Gunnar & Co., LLCâs affiliate, Buttonwood Funds, also offers suitable individual and entity investors membership interests in pre-IPO venture investments.
Joseph Gunnar & Co., LLC is a registered broker-dealer with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board (MSRB) and is a member of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), the Securities Investor Protection Corporation (SIPC), the NASDAQ Stock Market, and a limited underwriting member of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE). For more information, visit www.josephgunnar.com.
About the Palm Beach Hedge Fund Association
The Palm Beach Hedge Fund Association is a South Floridaâbased trade organization with global reach. While membership is primarily domiciled in Florida, members hail from Eastern Europe, Ireland, England, Germany, South America, the Caribbean, Africa, and across the United States.
PBHFA members include active hedge fund managers and professionals, ultra-high-net-worth investors, family offices, financial traders, investment bankers, academics, financial institutions, funds of funds, foundations, allocators, and leading service providers, including third-party marketers, data providers, prime brokers, administrators, auditors, lawyers, risk managers, and fintech firms.
Since launching in autumn 2013 with an original core of five members, the association has grown to more than 1,600 members. It has become a leading voice and go-to resource for the South Florida financial community.
Media Contact (Joseph Gunnar):
Anna Stone
Chief Marketing Officer
Email: astone@jgunnar.com
