Defiant Capital Group

Defiant Capital Group provides wealth management, financial planning, and family-office style services primarily to high‑net‑worth individuals, families, family offices, foundations and other institutions, and also serves a concentrated client base (about 40 clients) with roughly $50 million in assets under management and two advising professionals. Services include ongoing and project-based financial planning, investment management using both individual securities and third‑party managers, and investment consulting on a non‑discretionary basis.

The firm’s investment approach emphasizes open‑architecture portfolio construction that blends allocations to external portfolio managers and funds with selective individual security positions; its process draws on Modern and Post‑Modern Portfolio Theory and value‑at‑risk analysis and uses fundamental, technical, and thematic security research alongside passive strategies where appropriate. DCG conducts formal due diligence on third‑party managers, monitors portfolios quarterly, and offers tailored investment policy statements and client‑imposed restrictions as part of its advisory relationships.

What distinguishes the firm from many peers is its role as adviser and sub‑advisor to privately offered pooled vehicles (the “Defiant Private Funds”) and its provision of portfolio management for pooled vehicles — arrangements that create side‑by‑side management issues and the potential for performance‑based compensation to investors in those funds. The firm also accepts other investment‑adviser clients and discloses conflicts that arise from recommending affiliated funds, and key personnel engage in related activities such as M&A advisory and venture/fintech advisory roles, which the brochure identifies and describes in its conflict‑management and disclosure practices.