Bounds & Company, LLC

Bounds & Company, LLC provides discretionary investment advisory and portfolio management to individuals, families, trusts, estates, charitable organizations, pension and profit‑sharing plans, and business entities. The firm uses standard asset‑based billing and serves individual investors in addition to corporate and institutional clients, the latter being less common among its independent peers.

The adviser employs a mix of fundamental, technical, charting, and cyclical analysis and constructs portfolios from exchange‑traded funds, mutual funds, individual stocks and bonds, and other securities, tailoring allocations to each client’s risk tolerance and goals. Accounts are reviewed at least quarterly and managed on a discretionary basis, with the firm noting use of multiple data sources and trade‑execution practices (block trades and averaged pricing) to address publication, execution, and allocation risks.

What is atypical for a small independent advisory firm is the adviser’s involvement with pooled investment vehicles and commodity‑pool activities, including fund sponsorship/merchant finance arrangements, which the brochure identifies as potential sources of timing and allocation conflicts with advisory clients. The firm discloses these affiliations and describes written policies and allocation procedures, and it also participates in institutional custody/brokerage programs and a separate prime‑broker channel for certain fixed‑income executions.