Thurston Springer Advisors

Thurston Springer Advisors serves a broad mix of individuals (including high-net-worth clients), corporations, charitable institutions, foundations, endowments, estates, and retirement plans, providing financial planning, portfolio management, retirement-plan consulting, and sub-advisory services. The firm also acts as an ERISA fiduciary and offers both non‑discretionary 3(21) and discretionary 3(38) retirement-plan investment manager services to plan sponsors.

The firm’s investment methods include Tactical Momentum and Earnings Momentum processes alongside charting, fundamental and technical analysis, and cyclical approaches; strategies implemented can include long and short positions, options, margin, and periodic model rebalancing across equities, fixed income, commodities, and regional indices. Thurston Springer operates wrap fee programs (including “Compass Account III”), can place client assets with third‑party managers, and generally manages accounts on a discretionary basis under its Compass agreements.

Compared with many enterprise peers, Thurston Springer maintains closer operating ties to broker‑dealer and insurance activities: it is affiliated with Thurston Springer Financial and related entities, and certain advisor representatives are licensed insurance agents who may receive commissions for insurance sales. The firm also documents relationships with financial institutions (including a networking arrangement that places representatives on institutional premises and references bank loan participations among its fixed‑income instruments), features that together reflect distribution and product relationships that are less common among large enterprise advisers.