Chasan Capital Management

The firm provides discretionary portfolio management and related advisory services primarily to individual investors and trusts, operating as a single-advisor independent practice that manages a small client base and roughly $11 million in client assets. It also provides asset allocation opinions and recommendations on a special-request basis.

The firm follows a value-oriented investment approach focused on microcap and small-cap U.S. equities, using fundamental analysis and a long-term holding bias while generally maintaining diversified portfolios of fifteen or more securities. Portfolios may include biotech and high-technology names and the firm reserves the right to allocate among other instruments (debt securities, derivatives, mutual funds, ETFs) opportunistically.

Distinctive features disclosed in the brochure include the use of performance-based compensation for qualified clients, a relatively uncommon arrangement among peers, with described procedures to mitigate resulting conflicts of interest. The firm also discloses a prior regulatory matter—operation without proper registration that was later resolved through a consent order, fine, and offer of rescission—and notes that the adviser often holds the same securities personally, with timing and trade-size practices intended to reduce potential conflicts.