5280 Capital

5280 Capital provides discretionary portfolio management and financial consulting to individuals, trusts, estates, pooled investment vehicles, and other entities. The firm is small by advisor counts and scale (two listed investment adviser representatives, roughly 48 clients, and about $34 million in assets under management) and manages both separately managed accounts and a pooled investment vehicle.

The firm tailors portfolios to client objectives using a mix of fundamental, technical, cyclical, and economic analysis and employs long‑ and short‑term trading, strategic asset allocation, and covered option strategies as appropriate. 5280 Capital monitors accounts continuously, rebalances as conditions or client circumstances change, and may recommend investments in limited partnerships and other alternative structures in limited cases.

Distinctive features include acting as the investment manager for a private pooled fund and accepting performance‑based compensation alongside asset‑based accounts, which the brochure acknowledges can create side‑by‑side conflicts that the firm manages under its fiduciary framework. The firm also discloses operational practices and affiliations that are less common for similar-sized advisers — including the use of covered options and borrowing/margin-related charges in fund and account activity, and affiliated accounting/tax and insurance businesses operated by the principals — with these relationships and potential conflicts disclosed to clients.