WGS Management Services, Inc

WGS Management Services, Inc. provides supervisory portfolio management and financial planning to individuals, trusts, estates, and closely held businesses, accepting clients on a case-by-case basis without an explicit asset minimum. Engagements are generally managed on a discretionary basis and include ongoing monitoring and regular written performance and holdings reports.

The firm emphasizes fundamental analysis—using both top-down and bottom-up approaches—to build customized portfolios largely composed of publicly traded equities, bonds, and mutual funds, and allows clients to impose written restrictions on particular securities or security types. Accounts are monitored monthly and reviewed at least semi-annually, with specific triggers (for example, more than a 5% deviation from expected returns) prompting additional review.

Notably, the firm’s principal is a Certified Public Accountant who previously owned and continues to work with a public accounting firm, and the brochure discloses that some investment clients may also be clients of that accounting practice; WGSMS describes this affiliation and its fiduciary responsibilities explicitly. The firm also uses Charles Schwab’s institutional custody and support services (including PortfolioCenter and Schwab research) and discloses the nature of those services and related incentives while stating its duty to act in clients’ best interests.