Encinitas, CA El Camino Ct Office

Cornell Capital Group provides ongoing portfolio management to high‑net‑worth individuals, delivering individualized Investment Policy Statements and discretionary portfolio oversight for a concentrated client base of 13 accounts with roughly $76 million in assets under management. Its services emphasize asset allocation, security selection, and regular portfolio monitoring, and the firm requires clients to custody assets through Schwab Institutional.

The firm’s investment approach blends fundamental analysis, quantitative models, and modern portfolio theory, with a primary focus on equities alongside allocations to fixed income and ETFs. Strategies expressly include long‑ and short‑term trading and the use of derivatives and leverage — options (including covered, uncovered and spreads), margin, and short sales — with documented risk tolerances and quarterly account reviews.

Cornell is notable among peers for employing derivatives and options trading inside separately managed accounts, a practice that is uncommon for supported firms, and for maintaining a very small, exclusively high‑net‑worth client roster that concentrates assets across few accounts. The firm also aggregates trades through block trading, does not use third‑party managers, and discloses receipt of custodial research and services from its Schwab relationship that may create soft‑dollar benefits.