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Derek Elleman

Advisor at Ridge Investment Advisors

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Location

Novi, MI 48375

Credentials

Series 65

Industry experience

6 years

About

Derek Elleman is a financial advisor at Ridge Investment Advisors with six years of industry experience. He holds a Series 65 designation and has worked at Redhawk Wealth Advisors Inc., Bondurant Investment Management, and KW Andersen Investment Group. Outside of his advisory role, he is the managing member of Elleman Investment Management, LLC, an entity used for bookkeeping and advisory services. Ridge Investment Advisors provides discretionary portfolio management to individuals, trusts, and corporations, focusing on actively managed stock and bond portfolios tailored to clients’ investment policies and objectives. The firm primarily serves individual clients and employs a fundamentally driven, bottom-up investment process with a concentrated equity portfolio and a laddered fixed-income approach.

Client services

Based on Ridge Investment Advisors

Portfolio management

Expertise

Based on Ridge Investment Advisors

Active portfolio management

Fee options

Percentage

$0 - $1,000,000: 1.00% annually $1,000,000.01 - $5,000,000: 0.85% annually Above $5,000,000+: 0.70% annually

Other

Account minimum: $100,000

Location

39555 Orchard Hill Pl, Suite 600

Novi, MI 48375

Most active in

Illinois · Michigan

Work history

Redhawk Wealth Advisors Inc.

2023 - 2024 (1 year)

Bondurant Investment Management

2018 - 2019 (1 year)

KW Andersen Investment Group

2017 - 2020 (3 years)

Ridge Investment Advisors

2014 - Present (12 years)

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