Cornell Capital Management

Cornell Capital Management is a state-registered, single-advisor investment advisory firm that manages discretionary portfolios for a small group of primarily high-net-worth individuals, typically requiring account sizes around $250,000 and overseeing roughly $21.8 million in client assets. The firm provides ongoing portfolio management focused on equities and ETFs and offers tailored investment options and occasional limited financial planning services.

The firm follows a buy-and-hold, fundamental-analysis approach that emphasizes long-term ownership of conservative, blue-chip large-, mid- and small-cap stocks and sector ETFs, with an expressed preference for dividend-paying securities and no use of margin or options. Portfolios are customized to client mandates — including socially responsible, green, or religious exclusions — and the brochure explicitly discusses foreign-investment and currency risks and the use of ADRs and ETFs to achieve diversification.

Notable for its very small scale (one advisor and a handful of clients), the firm concentrates almost exclusively on high-net-worth individuals rather than smaller retail clients, which differs from many independent peers that serve a broader retail base. The brochure also highlights the principal’s long-standing civic and business-network involvement and a set of operating practices — no soft dollars, custodial arrangements with a major custodian, discretionary management, and flexible client-directed broker choices — that together shape a personalized, independent model that can accommodate international investment considerations.