Pinson, AL Office

Dougherty Investment Advisors is a state-registered investment adviser that serves individual clients — including high-net-worth individuals — as well as trusts, estates, pension and profit-sharing plans, and other business entities. The firm provides discretionary portfolio management and financial planning services, with planning that can cover tax, estate, insurance, retirement, education and cash-flow matters.

The firm typically manages accounts on a discretionary basis and says it tailors asset allocation to each client’s goals, using fundamental analysis across equities, fixed income, mutual funds and ETFs and monitoring and rebalancing portfolios as conditions change. Financial planning can be delivered as a comprehensive plan or on an hourly, consultative basis, and the brochure notes a customary account minimum (which may be waived) and ongoing reviews at least annually.

What is distinctive about Dougherty is its affiliation with accounting and tax services; the brochure discloses that clients may purchase accounting or tax work from the firm for separate fees and that such relationships and related conflicts are addressed in its disclosures. The firm also highlights practices less common among peers — assistance with IRA rollovers and securities‑backed lines of credit and explicit discussion of how those services can create economic incentives the firm seeks to manage — while operating as a small advisory team managing roughly $141 million for about 400 clients.