Advent Capital Strategies, LLC

The firm provides discretionary investment management and retirement-plan consulting to individuals, families, trusts and employer‑sponsored plans, including church 403(b) and company 401(k) arrangements, and it also works with charitable organizations and corporate or business clients. The firm’s disclosures indicate it serves a relatively small number of accounts overall but reports a client mix that includes a broader set of institutional clients such as pension/profit‑sharing plans, insurance companies, banking or thrift institutions, state or municipal entities, other investment advisers, and sovereign‑wealth‑type clients.

Advent’s investment approach emphasizes passive, asset‑class‑based portfolios built primarily with index mutual funds and ETFs, with client objectives, time horizons, and risk tolerances used to set tailored asset allocation targets and investment policies. Portfolios are managed on a discretionary basis and the firm also uses model portfolios available through its custodian’s model marketplace while providing plan‑level services such as investment menu design and participant education for retirement plans.

What is distinctive for a one‑advisor, lower‑AUM independent adviser is the reported breadth of institutional and plan clients alongside its individual clients, an uncommon mix for firms of this size. The firm is affiliated with a separate entity that provides financial education and coaching, and the brochure discloses the principal’s outside roles in ministry and financial education as separate activities that the firm says do not affect its advisory responsibilities.