Cooper, Clay Stephen

Clay Stephen Cooper provides tailored investment management and advisory services to individuals (including high‑net‑worth clients), trusts, pension and profit‑sharing plans, and businesses, serving roughly 150 clients through a two‑advisor team with about $81 million in assets under management. The firm conducts an initial consultation and maintains ongoing portfolio monitoring and reporting, and prefers a $100,000 account minimum that it may waive in certain circumstances.

The firm uses a blend of fundamental and technical analysis and implements both long‑term and short‑term purchase strategies while developing client profiles to set risk tolerance and target asset allocations. Notably, the majority of the firm’s assets are managed on a non‑discretionary basis—assets are listed as approximately $81,000,000 of non‑discretionary AUM—though clients may opt into discretionary authority if desired.

Clay Stephen Cooper’s advisory practice is affiliated with other registered advisers (including Main Street Advisors) and its representatives also act as licensed insurance agents, receiving commissions for insurance sales; the principal is licensed to sell life and health insurance and reports spending about 5% of his time on that business. The principal’s professional credentials (inactive CPA, ChFC, CLU, CASL) and the firm’s combined advisory and insurance activities, including a designated focus on senior‑planning education through the CASL credential, distinguish it from many peers.