Core Alpha, Inc.

Core Alpha provides investment advisory and financial planning services to individuals, trusts, and small businesses, with a client base concentrated in non‑high‑net‑worth individuals. It offers several portfolio programs — including CORE and Explorer model portfolios, American Funds portfolios, SEI managed account solutions, and third‑party model and independent manager implementations — and provides estate‑planning support through a third‑party digital service.

The firm follows a dynamic (tactical) asset‑allocation approach that actively shifts allocations among asset classes and uses a range of instruments including mutual funds, ETFs, interval funds, structured notes, ETNs, and variable annuity subaccounts. Implementation and trading are highly platformed and outsourced: the firm uses a wrap‑fee managed account program, outsourced trading and personalized index tools, manager‑sponsored models, independent managers (e.g., 55Ip), and a participant account platform for held‑away assets, with group‑based portfolio reviews performed regularly.

Several of the firm’s affiliations are atypical for similarly sized supported advisers: associated persons are connected to a FINRA‑registered broker‑dealer, to insurance sales activities, and to accounting/tax preparation services, and the firm discloses referral and commission arrangements tied to those relationships. Core Alpha’s combination of broker‑dealer and insurance affiliations, broad use of alternative and structured investment vehicles, and reliance on multiple outsourced platforms for implementation and held‑away account management distinguish its operating model from many peers.