Aces Advisors

Aces Advisors provides portfolio management and financial planning to individuals, high-net-worth households, retirement plans, and business entities. The firm offers ongoing investment management and one-time or comprehensive financial planning covering retirement, tax, insurance, college, and debt/credit planning, consistent with common services offered by independent advisers.

The firm documents client goals and risk through Investment Policy Statements and uses a mix of fundamental analysis, modern portfolio theory, and technical analysis to construct portfolios, employing long- and short-term trading as well as options strategies. Unlike most peers, Aces Advisors reports that the bulk of its assets are managed on a non-discretionary basis, while also offering a held-away implementation service (Pontera) that can use an order management system to apply tax-efficient allocation and opportunistic rebalancing.

Distinctive features include the firm’s emphasis on non-discretionary relationships combined with an active held-away oversight capability for workplace accounts and HSAs, and its use of options trading as part of the investment toolkit. The firm requires use of a specific institutional custodian, does not participate in wrap fee programs, and generally does not aggregate trades for multiple client accounts, factors that can affect execution and operational handling compared with many peers.