Laguna Coast Capital

Laguna Coast Capital provides discretionary investment management and related advisory services primarily to high-net-worth individuals, trusts, estates and businesses, generally implementing relationships that the firm says are sized to meet a $1,000,000 minimum (waivable at the firm’s discretion). The firm manages clients’ accounts through custodians chosen by clients and generates tailored portfolios intended to meet each client’s objectives and risk tolerance.

The advisor constructs portfolios using low-cost mutual funds and ETFs as core holdings but also evaluates and selects individual stocks, bonds and options when appropriate, applying a mix of fundamental, technical and cyclical analysis. While the firm describes a predominantly long-term orientation, it routinely reserves the ability to engage in short-term trading, rebalancing, hedging with cash or options, and other opportunistic adjustments.

Compared with many peers, Laguna Coast is a small, single-advisor practice managing under $100 million for roughly two dozen client relationships and it implements strategies that involve borrowing and derivatives within separately managed accounts — including margin, shorting and options trading — which the firm discloses can increase portfolio leverage and risk. The firm also participates on institutional custody platforms (Schwab and Interactive Brokers) and receives related platform services, which it notes may create conflicts of interest that it seeks to manage.