Washington Avenue Advisors

Washington Avenue Advisors is an SEC-registered investment adviser that serves individuals (including high‑net‑worth clients), trusts, retirement plans, businesses, and non‑profit associations and reports managing about $286 million in client assets. The firm offers financial planning, investment management, retirement and employee‑benefits consulting, and planning services tailored to business owners.

The firm’s investment process emphasizes asset allocation and combines behavioral, fundamental, and quantitative/technical analysis to construct portfolios; it implements strategies through mutual funds, ETFs, individual securities, separately managed accounts, model portfolios and, when appropriate, wrap‑fee programs, with accounts reviewed at least annually. WAA performs due diligence on independent managers it recommends, accepts discretionary authority over many client accounts, and notes tactical and strategic allocation approaches that can affect turnover and tax events.

The brochure discloses several less common features for a firm of this size: recommendations and compensated referrals to other investment advisers, involvement with a private venture fund (Exit Quotient Ventures Fund I, LLP) and a related venture vehicle, and supervised persons who are licensed insurance agents and may recommend commissionable insurance products; it also documents solicitor arrangements for client referrals. The firm reports no disciplinary history but describes these affiliations and compensation arrangements in detail and states they manage the resulting conflicts through disclosure, consent documents, and client‑by‑client review.