Ball & Company

Ball & Company Wealth Management serves individual clients, including high net worth households, as well as corporations and other business entities, providing comprehensive financial planning, consulting, and discretionary investment management. The firm reports approximately $203 million in assets under management and delivers portfolio management and planning services on a fee basis, including asset-based fees and fixed or hourly planning fees.

The firm typically begins client relationships with financial planning and consulting and requires new clients to be willing to engage in a full wealth management relationship that combines both planning and ongoing investment management. Investment decisions draw on fundamental, technical and cyclical analysis, and portfolios are constructed across mutual funds, ETFs, structured notes, individual equity and debt securities, options, and, when appropriate, hedge funds or fund-of-funds.

What is noteworthy for a small advisory team is the combination of scope and capabilities: Ball & Company manages assets held both at custodians and within variable annuity/variable life products or employer-sponsored plans, and it explicitly treats cash as an asset class for fee purposes. The firm generally imposes a $1 million minimum (with discretionary exceptions), and its $203 million AUM with a small advisor team results in a relatively large asset-to-advisor ratio compared with many peers.