First Mason Financial, LLC

First Mason Financial, LLC is an SEC-registered investment adviser that manages approximately $185.7 million on behalf of about 382 clients, primarily individuals and high-net-worth individuals. The firm provides portfolio management for individual clients and pooled investment vehicles, along with financial planning, and generally charges clients fees based on a percentage of assets under management.

The firm reports providing continuous discretionary portfolio management, with $185,661,618 in discretionary regulatory assets across 1,068 accounts, and custodial relationships that hold the majority of assets at Fidelity and a smaller portion at Charles Schwab. It uses third-party electronic recordkeeping and communications-archiving services and lists multiple public-facing website and social media accounts in its ADV.

What is distinctive about this adviser relative to peers is that it indicates it provides portfolio management for pooled investment vehicles—an uncommon service for firms in its peer group—and that it operates with a high client and account load per advisor, with a single registered advisor servicing several hundred clients and over a thousand accounts. The combination of pooled-vehicle advisory capability, an unusually high client-to-advisor ratio, and an explicit digital/social presence shapes an operational profile that differs from many similarly sized supported firms.