Investment Services

Our services include a review and analysis of your current holdings, creation of an investment policy statement, cash flow analysis, asset allocation recommendations, portfolio construction (including manager search and selection) and ongoing performance and tax reporting.

Yes, each client receives an individualized investment policy statement (IPS). The IPS serves as a blueprint for your portfolio’s design, defining your financial goals, time horizon, asset allocation, risk tolerance and any other requirements or limitations.

Yes, your portfolio will be completely customized to address your individual needs, expectations and goals, as outlined in your IPS. As an organization we subscribe to certain standard investment management principles, but your personal portfolio construction and asset allocation will be unique.

It is our practice to incorporate alternative investments when appropriate, including absolute return strategies, private equity, long-short equity managers and managed futures. These as well as other strategies serve to lower portfolio volatility while improving returns.

In most cases we manage the lion’s share of our clients’ portfolios. Occasionally, clients wish to maintain a portion of their assets with another advisor, or manage certain holdings themselves. In those instances, we can advise and even report on investments we do not directly manage.

Absolutely. Our goal is to simplify your financial life, and one way of doing that is by collaborating with your other advisors. Keeping those lines of communication open enables us to provide the best possible advice.

We always prefer to transfer your securities in-kind rather than liquidating your holdings and transferring in cash. We do this for two reasons: it allows us to evaluate your positions more carefully prior to selling any holdings, and makes it easier to consider the tax ramifications associated with repositioning your portfolio.

Should you have certain assets that you do not wish to sell, we can establish a separate account to hold them. We can report on these holdings and consider them in the overall construction of your portfolio.

Manager selection is a critical component in the design of your investment program. We employ a five-step evaluation process, which includes both quantitative and qualitative analysis, designed to identify superior managers that we believe are representative of a given asset class and have a high probability of repeating their excellent historical performance. We are in regular contact with managers and monitor their performance to ensure that they continue to provide consistent value and returns.