Hanover, PA Office

Element Risk Wealth Advisors provides discretionary asset management, financial planning, and retirement plan consulting to plan sponsors and other institutional and individual clients. The firm’s advisory services include ERISA plan services for 401(k), 403(b), pension, profit‑sharing, cash‑balance and deferred compensation plans, as well as ongoing portfolio monitoring and financial planning deliverables.

ERWA’s investment process is discretionary and uses methods such as fundamental, technical, charting and cyclical analysis, and the firm may allocate client assets to third‑party managers. When appropriate it recommends and places clients with third‑party managers (including a disclosed referral arrangement with Gradient Investments LLC), acts as a liaison, and monitors TPM performance and suitability on an ongoing basis.

Noteworthy distinctions include a formal pension consulting practice with an option to serve as a limited‑scope ERISA 3(21) fiduciary — a capability that is uncommon among peers — and documented exclusions for certain plan assets (e.g., employer securities, non‑public partnerships, most direct real estate and participant loans). The firm also discloses an affiliation with an insurance business where a principal devotes substantial time and may receive commissions, and it operates as a newly formed, small adviser with no reported assets under management and negotiable fees.