Joseph Malhas is a financial advisor at Private Financial Counseling in Los Angeles, CA, with seven years of industry experience. He holds Series 63 and Series 65 licenses and previously worked at firms including NinePointTwo Capital, Freeman Spogli & Co., Merrill, BOFA Securities, Ares Management, and UCLA. He is the founder and principal of NinePointTwo Capital, an SEC-registered investment adviser. Private Financial Counseling provides discretionary wealth and portfolio management primarily to individuals and high-net-worth families, offering customized investment strategies across various asset classes. The firm’s approach integrates quantitative models with fundamental and third-party research, managing portfolios with a medium- to long-term focus and incorporating a diverse set of investment tools tailored to client objectives.

Timothy Streufert is a financial advisor at Private Financial Counseling with eight years of industry experience. He holds a Series 65 designation and has previously worked at NinePointTwo Capital LLC and Ares Management. He is also the founder, principal, and Chief Compliance Officer of NinePointTwo Capital LLC. Private Financial Counseling provides discretionary wealth and portfolio management primarily for individuals and high-net-worth families, as well as trusts, retirement-plan participants, corporations, and charitable organizations. The firm uses a proprietary quantitative rules-based selection approach combined with fundamental and third-party research to manage portfolios with a medium- to long-term focus.

Stephen Scherer is a financial advisor with Private Financial Counseling in Los Angeles, CA, with 28 years of industry experience. He has been a partner and president of Scherer & Bradford, a law firm, since 1992. Scherer has worked at PFC Capital Group, Inc. since 1981. Private Financial Counseling provides discretionary wealth management and portfolio management primarily to individuals and high-net-worth families, as well as trusts, retirement-plan participants, corporations, and charitable organizations. The firm combines proprietary quantitative selection methods with fundamental and third-party research to manage portfolios over medium- to long-term horizons.