Shoker Investments

Shoker Investments provides discretionary portfolio management and integrated financial planning to individuals, pension and profit-sharing plans, trusts, estates, charitable organizations, and small businesses, and the firm also reports serving state and municipal government clients. Services include ongoing asset management, investment advice for accounts not under direct supervision, and periodic printed and electronic communications to clients.

The firm follows a strategic asset-allocation framework that combines individual stocks, low-cost exchange-traded index funds, and predominantly individually selected fixed-income securities, using fundamental analysis and a long-term investment perspective. Portfolios are managed on a discretionary basis under a limited trading authorization, with explicit attention to after-tax efficiency and the option to employ leverage or equity option strategies when authorized by the client.

Shoker Investments manages roughly $420.7 million in discretionary assets with a two-advisor team, producing an unusually high level of assets under management per advisor relative to typical peers. The firm’s routine client periodicals and its documented willingness to use borrowing in separately managed accounts and to employ options in certain market conditions are noteworthy practices that set it apart from many small advisory firms that generally avoid leverage and derivatives.