Guardant Wealth Advisors LLC

Guardant Wealth Advisors is a registered investment adviser that provides portfolio management, limited financial planning, family office advisory and retirement plan advisory services to individuals, high-net-worth clients, trusts, estates, charitable organizations, corporations and other business entities. The firm’s ADV describes services for both retail and institutional clients and notes it works with retirement plan fiduciaries under ERISA Section 3(21).

The brochure states the firm provides both discretionary and non‑discretionary management but reports that its assets under advisement have been managed on a primarily non‑discretionary basis, so clients often retain final approval for transactions. Investment work is customized around asset allocation and portfolio construction and can include direct securities, mutual funds and ETFs, independent managers and privately placed investments, using fundamental, technical, quantitative and qualitative analysis.

Notable disclosures in the ADV include recent material changes that formalized a 2.00% advisory fee cap, clarified negotiable fee practices and removed certain planned activities; the document also details the firm’s family office services and ERISA retirement-plan monitoring. The brochure further discloses that some supervised persons are licensed insurance agents and that the firm recommends independent managers and private collective vehicles, signaling a mix of services and potential conflicts of interest that may be less common for firms with a similar organizational profile.