Fordham Financial Services, Inc.

The firm is a small, independent advisory practice that manages roughly $24.8 million for about 41 clients, primarily serving individual and high-net-worth investors as well as trusts, and it also offers financial planning, discretionary portfolio management, and project-based tax and small-business consulting. It states that it provides ongoing portfolio management for clients and prepares full financial plans when engaged.

The firm typically develops a Financial Profile and Investment Plan with each client and manages accounts on a discretionary basis, implementing long-term strategies that rely on ETFs and individual common stocks—often established blue‑chip names. Its methods combine traditional fundamental analysis (financial-strength ratios, P/E, dividends) with technical approaches such as charting and cyclical analysis, and portfolios are generally intended to be held for periods longer than one year.

Compared with many solo independent advisers, the firm also provides services commonly associated with institutional or corporate relationships—such as work for pensions and profit‑sharing plans and small-business consulting—and the firm’s principal maintains CPA credentials and is licensed to sell life, accident, and health insurance, receiving commissions on insurance sales (a conflict the brochure says is disclosed and managed). The firm participates in an institutional custody and services program with a major custodian to obtain trade execution, research and operational support, which the brochure notes can create but seeks to manage as a potential conflict of interest.