SYM Financial Advisors

SYM Financial Advisors manages roughly $5.8 billion through a 32-advisor multi-team platform and provides wealth management, financial planning, portfolio management, and qualified retirement plan consulting to individuals (including high-net-worth clients), pension and profit-sharing plans, charities and businesses. The firm serves about 1,800 clients and offers both discretionary and non-discretionary management, including an automated program that invests in mutual funds and ETFs held at third‑party custodians.

SYM’s investment process emphasizes top‑down tactical asset allocation guided by an Investment Committee and employs both fundamental and technical analysis to construct model strategies and custom portfolios. Portfolios use mutual funds and ETFs (including DFA funds), may allocate to independent managers and private alternative investments, and the firm also implements option strategies, short sales and margin where appropriate; its automated program supports automatic rebalancing and tax‑loss harvesting.

Two features distinguish SYM relative to most multi‑team peers: the firm reports a minority ownership interest in National Advisors Holdings and an affiliation with National Advisors Trust Company, and it discloses an intent to refer clients to that affiliated trust provider for trust services. The firm’s ADV also discloses the use of client testimonials in advertising and describes operational practices—such as including private alternative investments in assets under management and using DFA funds with adviser‑approval requirements—that are less common among similar advisers.