East West Advisers

The firm provides discretionary portfolio management to individual and institutional clients, including educational institutions and endowments, across equity and fixed-income strategies. It offers tailored account types—Special Situations, Investment Accounts, and management support for defined-contribution plan menus—and also acts as advisor to a private pooled investment vehicle.

Its investment approach combines bottom-up security selection with top-down asset-allocation, with an emphasis on low expenses, diversified exposure, appropriate liquidity, and a long-term orientation rather than high-frequency trading. For the pooled fund the adviser maintains a core long-equity portfolio supplemented by listed equity options intended to mitigate downside risk, generate premium income, and capture option time decay; the fund’s structure also includes a performance-based fee subject to hurdle rates.

What distinguishes the firm from many small independent advisers is that it sponsors and advises a private pooled vehicle with a formal general-partner structure and performance-based compensation—arrangements more commonly seen at larger firms. The fund’s use of listed options, an independent third-party administrator, annual audited financial statements, and dual-control transfer procedures are notable operational features that the firm highlights as part of its governance and risk-mitigation framework.