Fortress Estate Solutions, PLLC

Fortress Estate Solutions advises individuals, families, trusts, estates and business entities, offering financial and investment planning, active portfolio management, and related services that include estate, charitable, tax, mortgage/debt and business planning. The firm works with private clients on both one-time planning engagements and ongoing, fee-based asset management relationships.

Investment advice is tailored through a client-information process that identifies objectives, risk tolerance and cash-flow needs, and portfolios are managed using a mix of fundamental and technical methods. The firm’s investment toolkit includes long- and short-term trading, option writing strategies, and conservative cash investments (money market funds, CDs and short-term government or commercial paper) to preserve liquidity and enable opportunistic trades.

Compared with many peers, the firm combines comprehensive estate and charitable planning with relatively active trading and options strategies, an uncommon mix for a small advisory practice. It also maintains written policies intended to limit conflicts of interest—including a formal Code of Ethics, pre-clearance and timing limits on personal trades—does not accept performance fees or commission-based sales, and uses a custodial arrangement with a major broker-dealer for client accounts.