Motley Fool Wealth Management

Our approach to helping you pursue financial freedom

Creating your long-term financial strategy involves three distinct components. First, we pick stocks we believe have the potential to outperform competitors in the market. Then, we build high-conviction portfolio strategies in which we believe those stocks can work together to provide returns while striving to manage volatility. And finally, we allocate your assets among those strategies in a way that we believe makes sense for your specific goals and circumstances.

Stock PickingDiscovering potential winners

We believe high-quality businesses can make an excellent foundation for most long-term portfolios. The trick is finding them. That’s where our team of experienced portfolio managers comes in. Using our proprietary Four Pillars of Quality, they find companies they believe can thrive over the long term, potentially rewarding shareholders along the way. This first layer sets the foundation for all we do.

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Portfolio ConstructionManaging risk/reward

It’s one thing to find great stocks. Heck, you may have picked a few winners yourself over the years! But getting select baskets of stocks working together in concentrated portfolios is a whole ‘nother challenge. We run six distinctive portfolio strategies geared toward specific kinds of stocks (see the list to the left) along with one Fixed Income strategy. These strategies only include our portfolio managers’ highest conviction picks and are usually concentrated among just 15-30 holdings. We carefully consider our sector exposure, along with the potential impacts of outside economic and regulatory shifts, adjusting and rebalancing as necessary to maintain what we believe to be an appropriate risk profile for each strategy.

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Asset AllocationMaking it right for you

The final step in the process is to tailor these strategies to your specific needs and goals.* As a fiduciary and Registered Investment Adviser, we always put your interests first. Depending on your specific Investor Profile, we can combine our strategies into over 140 unique portfolio allocations. Your allocation is designed to give you what we believe to be a better potential to meet your long-term investment goals with confidence and peace of mind along the way!

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Stock PickingDiscovering potential winners

We believe high-quality businesses make an excellent foundation for most long-term portfolios. The trick is finding them. That’s where our team of experienced portfolio managers comes in. Using our proprietary Four Pillars of Quality, they find companies they believe can thrive over the long term, potentially rewarding shareholders along the way. This first layer sets the foundation for all we do.

Learn more about how we pick stocks

Portfolio ConstructionManaging risk/reward

It’s one thing to find great stocks. Heck, you may have picked a few winners yourself over the years! But getting select baskets of stocks working together in concentrated portfolios is a whole ‘nother challenge. We run six distinctive portfolio strategies geared toward specific kinds of stocks along with one Fixed Income strategy. These strategies only include our portfolio managers’ highest conviction picks and are usually concentrated among just 15-30 holdings. We carefully consider our sector exposure, along with the potential impacts of outside economic and regulatory shifts, adjusting and rebalancing as necessary to maintain what we believe to be an appropriate risk profile for each strategy.

Learn more about our seven strategies

Asset AllocationMaking it right for you

The final step in the process is to tailor these strategies to your specific needs and goals. As a fiduciary and Registered Investment Adviser, we always put your interests first. Depending on your specific Investor Profile, we can combine our strategies into over 160 unique portfolio allocations. Your allocation is designed to give you the best opportunity to meet your long-term investment goals with confidence and peace of mind along the way!

Get more details on how we allocate

See what makes our
approach stand apart

We believe holding individual stock positions in high-quality companies is a time-tested path with great potential for building wealth. Our in-house portfolio managers’ distinctive analysis, hand-selected holdings, and high-conviction portfolios can set us apart from other firms. But that’s not all…

Fool Wealth Delivers	How We Do It	Why It Matters To You
Personalized Asset Allocation	How We Do ItBased on the information you share, you’ll receive a customized allocation – driven by our high-conviction equity strategies – appropriately diversified and managed for specific risk factors.*	Why It Matters To YouYour financial circumstances and goals are unique to YOU. That’s why we create tailored allocations of our high-conviction equity strategies that we believe can help you pursue the financial future YOU want.
High-Conviction Portfolio Strategies	How We Do ItOur in-house investment team works to find and track investments they believe can achieve the best results for our seven strategies, which range from aggressive growth to fixed income, international, and more.	Why It Matters To YouOver-diversification can dilute your returns. We believe concentrated portfolios can give you a better chance of outperforming the market over the long term.
Active Investment Management	How We Do ItOur team of professional financial analysts and portfolio managers carefully monitor each holding, and do all of the buying and selling within your portfolio.	Why It Matters To YouWhether markets are skidding, soaring, or something in between, you can rely on our experienced portfolio managers to make the tough decisions that might otherwise keep you up at night.
Separately Managed Accounts (SMAs)	How We Do ItYour money is held in an account that is solely yours rather than a pooled vehicle with investors who may have different goals.	Why It Matters To YouIn an SMA, you’re not at the mercy of other investors’ whims. So their actions (e.g. pulling out money at inopportune times) can’t hurt your returns.
Ownership of Individual Stock Positions	How We Do ItUnlike pooled vehicles that simply track the market or certain sectors, you’ll own shares of each individual company within your equity strategies.	Why It Matters To YouYou can see exactly which companies you own, and how many shares of each. You can see how each stock is faring, follow news about the companies you hold, and even cheer them on.
Written Rationale for Every Trade	How We Do ItOur portfolio managers deliver a detailed explanation for every trade they make on your behalf, and the thinking behind their decisions.	Why It Matters To YouWe believe in complete transparency. You’ll not only know what’s happening with your money, but why.
Financial Planning Under One Roof	How We Do ItFor clients with over $1M under management, we assign a dedicated Wealth Advisor to offer comprehensive financial and retirement planning services.	Why It Matters To YouYou’ll receive personalized guidance and advice from an advisor who knows your investment strategy inside and out.