Johnson Dunn Capital Advisors, Inc.

Johnson Dunn Capital Advisors is an independent, single-advisor investment advisory firm that manages approximately $156 million for roughly 72 clients, providing fee-based portfolio management to individuals, trusts, estates, charitable organizations, other investment advisers, and business entities. The firm accepts discretionary and non-discretionary accounts and maintains a stated cumulative minimum account opening size while retaining discretion to accept smaller relationships.

The adviser’s stated approach emphasizes a tactical allocation strategy that draws on both fundamental and technical analysis and employs long- and short-term positions, trading and margin where appropriate. Portfolios may include a broad mix of securities — including exchange-listed and over-the-counter equities, fixed income, mutual funds, real estate MLPs and foreign securities — and the firm tailors allocations to client objectives and any investment restrictions the client imposes.

A distinctive feature of the firm is its model-portfolio service, where it develops and updates model strategies used by other registered investment advisers and receives asset-based compensation for those models while not directly managing the other advisers’ client accounts. The brochure also discloses that the firm serves charitable and institutional clients (both less common among similar solo advisory firms) and that its investment adviser representatives hold insurance licenses, a separate source of compensation the firm identifies as a potential conflict of interest.