Ata Management Strategies Inc

ATA Management Strategies, Inc. provides investment advisory and financial planning services to a mix of individuals, pension and profit‑sharing plans, trusts, estates, charitable organizations, corporations and business entities. The firm offers portfolio asset management, financial consultations, and written financial, retirement and estate plans, delivering services under percentage‑of‑AUM arrangements as well as fixed‑fee and hourly engagements for limited or project‑based work.

ATAMS employs both fundamental and technical analysis and implements advice using long‑term, short‑term and active trading strategies; it provides proactive investment supervisory services with monthly oversight, quarterly accounting reports and semiannual client conferences. The firm generally acts with discretionary authority for managed accounts while maintaining regular account reviews and a practice of discussing trades with clients in most instances.

ATAMS is distinguished by its operational ties to an affiliated public accounting firm — the firm’s principal is the sole shareholder of Accounting & Tax Associates, LLC and ATAMS shares office space and support services with several related entities — a structure that is uncommon among peers. With two advisors serving roughly 405 clients, the firm has an unusually high client load per advisor and uses a range of ancillary billing practices (administrative fees, hourly rates, fixed fees and an offset mechanism for commissions an employee or affiliate may receive when acting as a securities agent), and maintains an institutional relationship with Charles Schwab.