Argus Equity Partners, LLC

Argus Equity Partners serves individual and high-net-worth clients, providing ongoing portfolio management and financial planning services tailored to each client’s income, tax situation, risk tolerance, and time horizon. The firm prepares an Investment Policy Statement for each client, offers both discretionary and non-discretionary management, and provides custodial quarterly account statements with no stated account minimums.

The firm’s investment process emphasizes fundamental analysis and customized asset allocation, combining model allocations with client-specific restrictions and regular monitoring. While AEPL generally pursues long-term strategies, it also discloses use of shorter-term and higher-risk techniques—including short sales, margin transactions, and options—when deemed appropriate for a client’s objectives.

Notable distinctions include the firm’s explicit use of leveraged and derivatives strategies and its inclusion of exchange-traded precious metal funds, REITs, and non-U.S. securities, which are less common among similarly sized advisors. The brochure also discloses that the firm receives custodial and research-related services (soft-dollar benefits) from recommended custodians, creating potential conflicts of interest, and it candidly reports prior regulatory matters involving the firm’s principal, including a 2012 acceptance, waiver and consent resulting in a $5,000 fine and three-month suspension and an earlier margin-related client claim from 1987 that was resolved.