Gateway Financial
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About
Gateway Financial works with individual clients — including high-net-worth households — as well as pension and profit-sharing plans and other businesses. The firm offers ongoing portfolio management, project-based and ongoing financial planning, and employee benefit plan services, along with educational programming for clients and the public.
The firm primarily employs passive investment management and asset-allocation models grounded in modern portfolio theory, using index mutual funds and ETFs, while also applying fundamental, technical, cyclical, and charting analyses and engaging outside managers when appropriate. It provides monitoring and advice for held-away accounts and assists clients in selecting and coordinating with third‑party managers, potentially including held-away assets in its overall advisory assessments.
Notable for a single-advisor practice with roughly $40 million in assets under management, Gateway combines small-firm advisory services with institutional platform relationships (SEI Private Trust and Altruist) that supply reporting, rebalancing, and other support, and from which the firm receives certain soft-dollar or platform benefits. The firm also publishes paid online educational content (YouTube videos, courses, downloadable materials), provides employee plan consulting, does not accept custody except to debit fees, and does not vote client proxies — operational features that may set it apart from many peers.
Client services
Expertise
Fee options
Project-based financial planning fixed fee ranging $500-$30,000
$0 - $500,000: 1.10% $500,001 - $1,000,000: 0.90% $1,000,001 - $2,500,000: 0.75% $2,500,001+: 0.50% $0 - $2,500,000: $2,500 Minimum for Employee Benefit Plan Services $2,500,001 - $3,333,333: 1.00% for Employee Benefit Plan Services $3,333,334 - $5,000,000: 0.75% for Employee Benefit Plan Services $5,000,001 - $10,000,000: 0.65% for Employee Benefit Plan Services $10,000,001+: 0.50% for Employee Benefit Plan Services
$500 per hour for financial planning
Ongoing financial planning fees typically $2,000-$5,000 upfront and $4,000-$30,000 per year, paid quarterly or monthly
Minimum fee: Employee Benefit Plan Services have a $2,500 minimum Fee-only: Hourly financial planning at $500/hour; project-based planning fixed fees range $500-$30,000; ongoing financial planning fees $2,000-$5,000 upfront plus $4,000-$30,000 annually
Main office
Northfield OH
Advisors at this office
1
Most active in
Ohio
Also doing business as
Gateway Financial · Gateway Financial, LLC
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