CW Advisors, LLC

CW Advisors is an enterprise wealth management firm that manages roughly $15.2 billion in client assets and provides investment management, financial planning, retirement plan advisory, family office services, and pooled/private fund investments for individuals, high-net-worth families, trusts, estates, charitable organizations, pension plans, corporations, and other institutional clients (including banking or thrift institutions). The firm also operates a business line, CW Advisor Solutions (CWAS), that serves other registered investment advisers through sub-advisory, strategic partnership, and business continuity/succession programs.

The firm implements a Core-and-Satellite investment framework across active, passive, quantitative and ESG-oriented strategies and offers a range of internally managed series (e.g., Prime, Market, Quantitative, Clean/Green) alongside third‑party managers and alternative investments. Investment recommendations and manager oversight are handled through an Investment Oversight Committee; CWA may retain discretionary authority for portfolios or recommend independent managers or private funds where it performs due diligence and ongoing monitoring.

Noteworthy for an enterprise advisor of this size, CWA provides services directly to other advisers and runs a PRISM continuity and succession solution that can transition clients to CWA, and it participates in sub-advisory and outsourcing arrangements that may create referral and affiliation considerations. The brochure also discloses that CWA has in the past advertised predecessor performance tied to a third‑party strategy and was the subject of a 2016 SEC order relating to that matter (a consented cease‑and‑desist order and $100,000 penalty), and that the firm is part of the Osaic corporate group with related affiliates (including trust, broker‑dealer and alternative investment platform relationships) that can be relevant when evaluating conflicts of interest.