Stirlingshire Investments

Stirlingshire provides discretionary portfolio management and financial planning to individuals, trusts, and other entities, and notes it does not impose a firmwide account minimum. Services include customized investment management and access to model strategies through the Advyzon Investment Management (AIM) model marketplace, with advisory relationships governed by a written fiduciary acknowledgment.

The firm employs a mix of analytical methods (charting, cyclical, fundamental, quantitative, technical and modern portfolio theory) and uses long- and short-term trading, including short sales, margin and options, alongside allocations to mutual funds, ETFs (including precious-metal ETFs), REITs, private placements and venture capital funds. Stirlingshire generally manages accounts on a discretionary basis and may allocate client assets to third‑party or AIM model strategies, which are billed and withdrawn from client accounts.

Noteworthy operational and conflict-of-interest features include a requirement that clients open brokerage accounts at its affiliated broker‑dealer, Stirlingshire BD LLC, with clearing through Apex, and that SBD receives various clearing-related compensation; many firm advisers are also registered representatives who may earn commissions. The firm also pays third parties for referrals (a Finalis referral arrangement equal to 10% of asset-based advisory fees for certain referred IARs) and retains AIM model strategy fees for Stirlingshire-developed models (with 100% of the model strategy fee for Stirlingshire models transferred to its Chief Market Strategist), arrangements the brochure identifies as potential conflicts of interest.