CTS Consulting, LLC

CTS Consulting, LLC is a state-registered, single-advisor independent advisory firm that provides discretionary portfolio management and focused consulting to individual clients, including both non-high-net-worth and high-net-worth individuals. The firm also offers accounting and tax-planning services through its advisory practice as a separate line of business.

The firm builds personalized investment policies with clients and implements them across a range of strategies, using fundamental and technical analysis as well as mutual fund/ETF analysis; portfolio approaches employed include long- and short-term purchases, trading, options strategies (including covered calls and spreads), margin, and investments in partnership interests. Accounts are managed on a discretionary basis and reviewed regularly by the firm’s sole management personnel, with attention to each client’s objectives, time horizon, risk tolerance and liquidity needs.

What distinguishes this firm from many peers is its affiliation with accounting services — the managing principal maintains CPA credentials (inactive) and provides accounting/tax-planning services alongside investment advice, with the option to reduce or waive those fees for advisory clients. The firm is small and closely held, managing a limited number of client accounts (approximately $35.7 million across about two dozen clients), does not vote client proxies (clients retain that responsibility), and maintains the surety bond required by state regulation.