Ataraxis Capital, LLC

Ataraxis Capital provides discretionary and non-discretionary asset management and financial planning and consulting to individual and high-net-worth clients, with a stated account minimum of $50,000. The firm reports approximately $839,582 in assets under management across two client accounts and offers ongoing portfolio monitoring, asset allocation, and hourly financial planning services.

The firm’s investment process draws on multiple methods of analysis — including fundamental, technical, charting, cyclical analysis and Modern Portfolio Theory — and may employ long- and short-term strategies, options, and margin where appropriate. Clients may grant discretionary trading authority or retain approval of each trade, and accounts are reviewed at least quarterly with attention to risk tolerance, target allocations, rebalancing, and tax-loss harvesting opportunities.

Notably, Ataraxis offers performance-based fee arrangements that are charged in addition to its asset-based advisory fees: a 20% performance fee above a 5% hurdle using a high-water mark, assessed annually and limited to qualified clients under specified asset and net-worth thresholds (different tests for North Carolina versus other jurisdictions). The firm’s principal holds the CFA designation and discloses a salaried outside role as a senior investment analyst at a real estate developer that consumes roughly half of his time, a combination of features that is uncommon among peer independent advisory firms.