Our Story

As the Chief Investment Officer, Gordon C. Eckler, III is responsible for managing Charles Third LLC’s family office, Bissell Trust and endowment. Gordon formed the family office in 2019 after a rewarding 16 year career trading fixed income and commodities derivatives.  

Gordon studied Political Science and Mathematical Finance at University of Southern California, and Los Angeles City College. He is an avid racer and owner of sailboats up and down the coast of California and B.C. Mexico. 

Wealth is the slave of a wise man and the master of a fool.”
“For greed, all nature is too little.”

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Charles Third LLC represents a lifework of passion for financial markets. The balance and amalgamation of world views distilled through price is equal parts humbling and lucid. At our best as an organization, we attain superior returns in virtue of a beautiful marriage of discretionary and non-recursive systematic risk.