Nashville, TN Office

Astra provides investment advisory and portfolio management services to high net worth and individual clients, institutional investors, and privately offered pooled investment vehicles, and it acts as investment adviser to one or more private funds. Services described in the brochure include discretionary and non-discretionary portfolio management, targeted investment objective services (often via third‑party funds or models), and a research/trade‑idea exchange for a flat fee; regulatory assets under management were reported at $179,551,937 as of January 1, 2026.

The firm manages accounts using a mix of fundamental, technical, quantitative and qualitative analysis and implements strategies that range from long‑term buy‑and‑hold to short‑term tactical trades, option‑related strategies and discretionary macro approaches. Astra’s offerings explicitly include alternative and private strategies (private equity, venture, real assets, direct lending, hedged strategies), and the firm discloses use of derivatives and commodity‑linked instruments (futures, forwards, swaps, options, FX and credit derivatives) as part of certain strategies and separately managed approaches.

What distinguishes Astra from many supported peers is its registration and activity as a Commodity Trading Adviser (CTA) and its reliance on the CFTC Regulation 4.7 exemption to offer certain commodity trading advice only to Qualified Eligible Persons, which imposes additional investor sophistication and portfolio thresholds. The firm also serves as adviser and an affiliated managing member to private pooled funds it sponsors or manages, manages pooled vehicles on a discretionary basis, and maintains specific conflicts‑mitigation policies (including trading restrictions when a firm affiliate has board access) to address those fund‑sponsor and director‑related conflicts.