Bertrand Investment Strategies, L.L.C.

Bertrand Investment Strategies serves individual and trust/estate clients by providing investment advice and acting as a liaison to third‑party money managers rather than directly managing client assets. The firm works with clients to document objectives, recommend suitable third‑party managers, assist with account onboarding and paperwork, and provide ongoing administrative and reporting support.

BIS’s advisory process begins with gathering a client’s financial information and risk profile and then recommending a third‑party manager when appropriate; the firm monitors those managers’ performance and delivers the managers’ disclosure materials to clients. The firm discloses that it and its recommended managers may use fundamental, charting and technical analysis and that BIS does not have trading discretion or custody of client funds.

What is noteworthy is BIS’s referral‑based business model: it receives an ongoing portion of the advisory fees paid to the third‑party managers and discloses related economic benefits and incentives from those relationships. The firm’s managing member also conducts licensed insurance activities (about one quarter of her time), a disclosed potential conflict of interest that BIS addresses through written disclosures and procedures, and BIS does not sponsor wrap programs, hold custody, or routinely vote client proxies.