MRC Group LLC

The firm provides ongoing portfolio management and investment advisory services primarily to individual and high-net-worth clients, preparing an Investment Policy Statement for each engagement and offering discretionary trading and regular portfolio monitoring. It also discloses providing consulting services to small businesses and may offer advice to business or corporate clients in addition to its individual-focused services.

The firm’s investment process combines fundamental, quantitative, technical and charting analysis and generally emphasizes equities while also using mutual funds, ETFs, fixed income and inflation-protected bonds. It employs options and other derivatives strategies (including covered, uncovered and spread positions) in client accounts and offers performance-based fee arrangements to eligible clients, with discretionary implementation governed by client agreements.

Noteworthy for a solo independent adviser, the firm accepts performance-based fees for qualified clients — a practice relatively uncommon among peers — and documents procedures to manage the resulting conflicts of interest. The principal’s outside consulting for small businesses and the firm’s active use of derivatives in client portfolios distinguish its mix of individual wealth management and occasional business-oriented advisory work, a combination the brochure identifies and discloses as a potential source of conflicts.