H. Anthony Ruckel

The firm serves individual clients, their families, and straightforward trusts, providing discretionary portfolio management for individual, custodial, retirement, and trust accounts and limited hourly advice on employer pension and 401(k) plans (generally for existing clients). It generally requires combined assets under management of at least $400,000 for portfolio services and maintains a small client base with personalized account oversight.

The advisor follows a relatively conservative, long-term approach with a meaningful growth component where appropriate, relying primarily on fundamental analysis and using technical analysis only as a secondary tool. Portfolios are invested only in publicly traded securities — common and preferred shares, mutual funds, ETFs, and bond funds — and generally exclude private equity, commodities, futures, and complex derivatives except for publicly traded REITs and, in limited cases, covered-call strategies through listed funds; clients receive regular reviews and semi-annual written performance reports.

A distinctive feature of this firm is that the advisor is also a licensed attorney who maintains a residual law practice (limited to roughly 5–10% of professional time) and handles occasional legal matters for existing or related clients, with disclosure and separate billing/recordkeeping used to address potential conflicts. The firm is a single-advisor practice managing about $29 million across a limited number of relationships, and it will accept client-directed investment restrictions (for example, environmental sensitivities) when documented in writing.