Philip Vongontard, CFA, LLC

The firm provides discretionary investment management to private investors, including individuals, trusts, retirement accounts, participant-managed plans, and certain charitable entities. Services are delivered on a fee-only, asset-managed basis with a typical account minimum (often $500,000) that the firm may waive in some cases.

Its investment process is individualized and discretionary, combining fundamental, technical and cyclical analysis to construct portfolios across a global investment universe that includes developed, emerging and frontier markets. The firm employs a range of strategies — long-term holdings, short-term trades, trading strategies and use of options, derivatives and fixed-income instruments — and applies formal risk guidelines and ongoing account reviews to monitor consistency with client objectives.

Noteworthy for a firm of this size, it manages roughly $312 million of client assets while operating with a single-advisor, employee‑owned structure, resulting in an unusually high AUM per advisor. The firm follows the CFA Institute Code of Ethics, maintains written personal-trading and proxy-voting policies, does not take physical custody of client assets (relying on custodian relationships and documented standing transfer authorizations), and permits clients to direct brokerage when desired.