Haynes Barker Investment Management, LLC

Haynes Barker serves individual clients — including high-net-worth households — as well as trusts, estates, retirement plans, charities and small businesses, providing financial planning, retirement plan consulting, and advisory services on a fixed-fee, hourly or retainer basis. The firm does not maintain an investment management or asset management agreement and does not act as custodian; clients retain control of their assets and custodians deliver account statements directly to clients.

Investment advice is delivered through documented goals and Investment Policy Statements and is often part of comprehensive financial plans that include net worth analyses and cash‑flow, insurance and estate reviews. The firm’s stated investment approach favors a core-and-satellite allocation (passive index/ETF core with selectively used active funds) and it provides specific recommendations while leaving implementation and trading discretion to the client rather than trading on a discretionary basis.

What distinguishes the firm from many peers is that it does not provide ongoing portfolio management for individual accounts and does not use percentage-of-AUM fees, relying instead on negotiable fixed, hourly and retainer fees with no stated account minimums. The two principals also maintain registrations with a broker-dealer and as investment adviser representatives, a structure the brochure discloses can lead to potential conflicts when brokerage or insurance products are recommended; the firm also does not prepare its own performance reports or vote client proxies.