Compass Wealth Advisors

Compass Wealth Advisors provides discretionary investment management and financial planning services to individual households, overseeing roughly $32.5 million across about 165 client accounts. The firm serves retail clients and is compensated primarily through asset-based advisory fees, with a household account guideline noted in its brochure.

Portfolios are customized to client objectives and typically include mutual funds, ETFs, REITs and individual equity and debt securities; the adviser assesses risk tolerance and time horizon at engagement and on an ongoing basis. The firm’s investment process incorporates both fundamental and technical analysis, including charting, and it follows an active portfolio approach that may generate more trading than a pure buy-and-hold strategy.

Noteworthy aspects compared with many peers include managing a relatively large client roster for the firm’s scale and an explicit preference for TradePMR/First Clearing for custody and brokerage services, which the brochure states can affect execution decisions. The firm also does not vote client proxies (instead forwarding materials to clients) and routinely deducts advisory fees directly from client accounts under the California custody safeguards described in its disclosure.