Our Investment Process

Comprehensive wealth management is not a product we push or a formula we follow. It is a prudent and proven process for developing and implementing investment strategies that are customized to each client’s unique goals, priorities, and timelines.

Our investment process applies best practices from institutional investing—and makes them accessible and effective for the time horizons and tax considerations of affluent individuals and families.

Our Process

1. Define & Prioritize Goals. We work with our clients to help them define, set, and meet their unique investment goals.  By thoroughly assessing specific investment goals with consideration to liquidity needs, tax liabilities, investment timeframe, and risk tolerance, we can implement a strategically designed, dynamic asset allocation.
2. Stress Test Goals & Objectives. Our analysis includes a unique process that simultaneously evaluates priorities, investment allocation, and value of assets to determine how confident our clients can be that their most important goals will be met. The investment objectives, asset allocation, and other investment parameters/restrictions are documented in an investment policy statement, which we use as a blueprint for managing relationships.
3. Implement Allocation with Tools & Strategies. While using asset allocation to manage risk in a portfolio, we seek to maximize client returns by employing well-researched, best-in-class separate account managers, mutual funds, and alternative investments. We look for managers with a sensible investment process that is well articulated and consistently applied. We do not want managers who chase returns or change the way they invest depending on what style is in favor at the moment. We believe such discipline is what generates attractive returns over the long term.
4. Monitor Progress Toward Goals. We actively monitor investment performance and meet with our clients on an ongoing basis to reassess goals and objectives, report on their progress, and rebalance their portfolios when and where it is prudent.
5. Reassess, Analyze, Rebalance. We believe that continual monitoring of your investment plan is key to managing risk. We understand that your current situation changes, so reviews are necessary for us to keep up to date with potential changes to your investment goals and risk tolerance. Since markets are cyclical, we consider potential rebalancing of your portfolio to control risk or to proactively take advantage of opportunities.