Atlantes Financial Advisors

Atlantes Financial Advisors Corp. provides personalized portfolio management and financial planning services to individuals and a range of clients including trusts, estates, pension plans and business entities. The firm offers both discretionary and non-discretionary portfolio management as well as consultative and single-subject financial planning tailored to each client’s objectives and risk tolerance.

Its investment approach emphasizes strategic asset allocation with a core-and-satellite framework: passively managed index funds and ETFs are used as core holdings while actively managed funds are added where opportunities exist, and portfolios are globally diversified and periodically rebalanced. The firm uses a mix of analytical methods (including fundamental, technical, charting and cyclical analysis) and documents client objectives via an Investment Risk Analysis Profile.

A distinctive feature disclosed in the brochure is that the firm’s advisors are registered representatives of Purshe Kaplan Sterling Investments and are licensed insurance agents, and they may receive commission-based compensation for securities and insurance transactions in addition to advisory fees—an arrangement the brochure identifies as a potential conflict of interest and discloses to clients. The brochure also describes operational practices that may be of interest to prospective clients, including a preference for Fidelity as custodian with quarterly execution reviews, a business continuity plan with daily off-site backups, and a policy that clients vote their own proxies (the firm does not vote proxies).