Hughes & Company Investment Advisory, LLC
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About
Hughes & Company Investment Advisory, LLC provides financial planning and investment advisory services to individuals, high‑net‑worth clients, estates, trusts, and business clients. The firm offers comprehensive written plans, project‑based planning modules, a monthly subscription planning option, and discretionary portfolio management implemented through third‑party money managers.
The firm’s investment approach emphasizes passive management using index mutual funds and ETFs, and it typically implements client portfolios via outside managers while conducting periodic due diligence on managers’ holdings, strategies, and business controls. Hughes & Company accepts discretionary trading authority to implement agreed plans and uses an institutional custodial and trading platform to execute client transactions.
Distinctive features for a small advisory firm include the combination of a subscription‑based ongoing planning service alongside project‑based engagements and AUM advisory relationships, and a relatively small client base with roughly $1.5 million in discretionary assets under management. The brochure also discloses the firm’s use of the Betterment Institutional platform for custody and execution and receipt of non‑economic support services from that platform, a relationship the firm describes and monitors as a potential conflict of interest.
Client services
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Fee options
$0 - $800,000: 0.70% $800,001 - $1,500,000: 0.65% $1,500,001 - $2,000,000: 0.60% $2,000,001+: 0.55%
Monthly subscription fee for Comprehensive Financial Planning ranging from $25 to $999 depending on household income.
Minimum fee: Minimum fee for comprehensive financial planning is $900 per year. Fee-only: Comprehensive Financial Planning: Initial plan development fee $500-$1200 plus monthly fee $75-$999 depending on household income. Project-Based Financial Planning fee $399-$599 per module.
Main office
Marietta GA
Advisors at this office
1
Most active in
Georgia
Also doing business as
Hughes & Company Investment Advisory, LLC · Hughes, Derek William Donald
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