Guardant Wealth Advisors LLC

Guardant Wealth Advisors provides investment advisory and financial planning services to a mix of individual and institutional clients, including high-net-worth individuals, trusts and estates, retirement plans, charitable organizations, corporations and other business entities. The firm offers portfolio management (on both discretionary and non-discretionary terms), limited financial planning and consulting, family office advisory services, and retirement plan advisory services that qualify as ERISA Section 3(21) investment advice to plan fiduciaries.

The firm tailors asset allocation and portfolio construction to client goals and risk tolerances, conducts due diligence on independent managers and private investments, and uses a mix of fundamental, technical, quantitative and qualitative analysis in its recommendations. The brochure emphasizes ongoing monitoring with periodic reviews and notes that the firm’s engagements have been managed predominantly on a non-discretionary basis, including non-discretionary monitoring and recommendations for retirement plans.

Compared with many solo independent advisers, Guardant provides a broader range of institutional-type services—family office work, ERISA-plan advisory, and relationships with corporations, charitable entities and other advisers—and discloses that certain supervised persons are licensed to offer insurance products on a commissionable basis. The firm also recently updated its disclosure brochure to clarify and enhance transparency around its billing and related practices, reflecting a recent material change in its disclosures.