5 Star Investing

The firm is an independent, single-advisor registered investment adviser that provides discretionary portfolio management, investment advice, and financial planning-related services to individuals (including high-net-worth clients), corporate pension and profit-sharing plans, trusts and estates, and charitable organizations. It also offers investment education, research and planning assistance, and charges advisory fees based on assets under management; the brochure reports approximately $16.2 million in assets under management across roughly 68 client accounts.

The firm employs a flexible, actively managed approach that blends concentrated stock positions with broader market diversification by using individual equities, bonds, mutual funds, and ETFs. Investment selection draws on fundamental and technical analysis with a value-oriented, multi-cap emphasis for equities and fixed-income allocations that can include government, corporate and high-yield bonds; accounts are typically managed on a discretionary basis and reviewed regularly.

Distinctive features noted in the brochure include that the adviser maintains a parallel public accounting practice as a licensed Certified Public Accountant and explicitly lists charitable institutions among its client types—both of which are statistically uncommon for independent solo advisers. The brochure also discloses participation in an institutional custodial program and that the sole practitioner serves in multiple roles (including compliance officer and president), a governance structure with limited senior oversight beyond the adviser.