professional investment consulting
Build an institutional-quality investment program and free up time to grow your business
If you’re an advisor spending time managing investments that you would rather spend on client acquisition and relationships, FE can help you:
- Deliver regular market updates to build trust
- Handle investment questions with confidence
- Develop an investment philosophy that resonates
- Build systems and processes that scale with growth
- Educate clients about markets and provide perspective
- Analyze current portfolio and provide recommendations
- Have effective conversations around investment performance
- Launch an investment committee to institutionalize decision-making
- Transition client investments from legacy to new solutions in a tax-sensitive fashion
- Deploy institutional-grade asset allocation, due diligence, and investment selection processes
how we work with you
research & communication
Monitor Markets
Stay abreast of economic and market developments. Gather data from trusted sources.
Curate Insights
Build striking visuals to communicate important concepts and trends.
Distill Messaging
Craft clear communication that eliminates noise and focuses on the signal.
transition strategy
Listen & Diagnose
What are the pain points? What role can we play in the solution? Whether it’s designing model portfolios or a second opinion on manager diligence, we’ll take time to understand your situation.
Set Goals
What does your ideal situation look like? We’ve worked with hundreds of advisors and seen many different paths to investment success. We’ll define yours and create a plan to get there.
Implement
Provide accountability. Keep what works and adapt what doesn’t. We’re experienced with various enterprise software solutions (custodians, trading, reporting, CRM). We’ll work with your team to deploy resources and make it happen.
Review & Iterate
Maintain an honest and transparent process throughout. Understand and address the roadblocks, iterate with new ideas, and reach the goal.
investment process
Risk Analysis
What risk exposures are embedded in the current solution? Are they intentional/ necessary?
Capital Markets Survey
Determine what rate of return can reasonably be targeted. Will it satisfy client goals?
Asset Allocation
Craft allocations that can meet goals and that clients can tolerate.
investment Selection & Diligence
Populate the allocation with well-researched managers/ funds.
15 Years
Professional Investment Experience
2,000 +
Advisors Supported Throughout Career
$25 Billion
Assets Previously Managed in Other Organizations
Thousands
Lives Impacted
simple pricing
initial call
introductory 1 hour call to determine scope of work
We’ll discuss your specific needs and see where we can help. No charge.
Free
standard consulting rate
*negotiable, depends on scope of work
Once the scope of engagement is finalized, we charge a simple hourly rate with transparent invoicing.
$140 per hour*