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Cornerstone Investment Services, Inc.

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Client AUM

$40,559,144

Clients

80

Advisors

1

of 1 employees

About

Cornerstone Investment Services provides ongoing investment supervisory services and basic financial planning at no additional charge to a mix of individuals, trusts and nonqualified retirement accounts, as well as to charitable organizations and corporate plan sponsors including pension and profit-sharing plans. Like many independent advisers, the firm operates on a fee-only basis and commonly charges percentage-of-assets-under-management fees for portfolio management.

The firm emphasizes risk-aware, medium-to-long-term portfolio construction primarily using no-load mutual funds, ETFs, interval funds and select limited partnerships, and draws on third-party research to monitor managers and allocations. For retirement plan sponsors it prepares written investment policy statements, benchmarks investment options, conducts trustee reviews, and provides participant education and enrollment meetings.

What is distinctive for a firm of this size is the active institutional work: CIS regularly serves plan sponsors and may act as an ERISA fiduciary (typically as a Section 3(21) adviser and, in some instances, as a 3(38) manager), performs periodic cost reasonableness reviews and oversees third-party recordkeepers/TPAs. The firm also manages plan assets held away when provided duplicate statements and maintains a policy against receiving transaction-based compensation.

Client services

Financial planning Portfolio management

Expertise

Retirement plans for business owners (SEP, solo 401k) General retirement planning Wealth management

Occupation focus

Founder/Business Owner

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Fee options

Percentage

$0 - $500,000: 0.3125% $500,000 - $1,000,000: 0.2000% $1,000,000 - $5,000,000: 0.1500% $5,000,000+: 0.1250%

Project-based

$200/hour in 15-minute increments with minimum one hour billed per project

Other

Account minimum: $250,000 Fee-only: Setup fee, quarterly investment management fees, hourly fees in some cases

Main office

Indian Trail NC

Advisors at this office

1

Most active in

North Carolina · South Carolina · Wyoming

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