Corley Capital LLC

Corley Capital LLC is a small, state-registered independent advisory firm that provides one-time financial planning and ongoing discretionary investment management to individuals as well as trusts, estates, charitable organizations and business entities. Services described in the brochure include comprehensive planning topics (cash flow, debt management, retirement, tax and estate planning, insurance review and college savings) alongside implementation and management of client investment portfolios.

The firm says it tailors portfolios with an investment policy statement for each client and applies a mix of fundamental, technical and cyclical analysis when selecting allocations. Portfolios may include long-term holdings as well as shorter-term trading, and the adviser may use instruments and strategies such as options contracts, margin, short sales and allocations among workplace retirement or college plan options under discretionary authority.

Notable aspects relative to many peers include a modest scale of assets under management (approximately $17.6 million across a small client base) and an explicit willingness to recommend or use a wide range of investment vehicles — from ETFs and ETNs to structured products and interests in real estate or oil and gas partnerships. The brochure also discloses that the firm accepts client-directed brokerage at its discretion, relies on custodian statements rather than producing its own periodic written performance reports, and does not impose a stated account minimum.