Breakforth Investment Management, Inc
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About
The firm provides personalized financial planning and investment management primarily to individual clients, covering cash flow, retirement, education, tax and estate planning as well as periodic portfolio reviews. It offers a range of engagement structures—advisory service agreements, investment management agreements, retainers, and hourly planning—and performs tax-preparation work separately on a limited-fee basis.
Portfolios are implemented using a strategic asset-allocation, core-and-satellite approach that centers passive index funds and ETFs as the core while adding individual stocks and actively managed funds where appropriate. The firm generally operates on a non-discretionary basis: clients retain final approval of investment decisions, trades are executed only with client concurrence or under a limited power of attorney, and accounts are reviewed at least quarterly.
Noteworthy features relative to peers include an explicit fee-only model with no acceptance of commissions or commissioned product sales, and the firm’s substantial reliance on non-discretionary management rather than discretionary authority. The firm also provides limited tax-return preparation as an ancillary service, a practice that is less common among similar single-advisor independent advisers.
Client services
Expertise
Fee options
Retainer Agreement fees starting at $6,000 annually, negotiable
$0 - $2,000,000: 0.75% $2,000,000 - $5,000,000: 0.50% $5,000,000+: Negotiable
$250 per hour for tax preparation and hourly planning engagements
Account minimum: $0.00 Minimum fee: Minimum annual fee is $0.00 Fee-only: Yes, fee-only financial planning and investment management firm; no commissions accepted.
Main office
Pittsburgh PA
Advisors at this office
1
Most active in
Pennsylvania
Also doing business as
Breakforth Investment Management, Inc · Breakforth Investment Management, Inc.
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