STRATEGIC WEALTH ADVISORS GROUP, Inc.

Strategic Wealth Advisors Group serves individual clients, including high-net-worth individuals, and provides financial planning, consulting, discretionary investment management and retirement-plan advisory services. Its planning offerings range from comprehensive plans to a la carte analyses covering income, tax, estate, insurance, long-term care and retirement topics, with periodic reviews and follow-up as needed.

The firm implements investment management primarily by allocating client assets to registered independent managers and monitoring those managers on an ongoing basis, making discretionary allocations based on each client’s objectives and risk tolerance. In its financial planning work SWAG uses a mix of fundamental and technical analysis, documents recommendations in writing, and delivers planning engagements on fixed-fee or hourly bases while leaving implementation decisions to clients.

Compared with many peer teams, SWAG routinely offers public educational seminars and workshops and maintains a defined ERISA service line that can act as a limited-scope 3(21) fiduciary for retirement plans—features less common among firms of its size. The firm also discloses an affiliated insurance business and declines proxy-voting authority for client securities, items clients may consider when evaluating governance and potential conflicts.