KTE Capital Management, LLC

KTE Capital Management provides discretionary investment portfolio management to individuals, families and trusts, generally working with accounts at or above $100,000 and managing approximately $10.9 million in client assets. The firm tailors advice to individual client circumstances and accepts client-imposed restrictions on securities, asset classes, markets and trading types.

KTE follows an active, downside-focused approach that emphasizes diversification and exposure to companies it characterizes as essential-service businesses, using individual equities, sector and thematic ETFs and indexed investments. The firm may implement both long and short positions and use options and other derivatives, and it may employ borrowing or margin in separately managed accounts as part of portfolio execution.

The firm is affiliated with a separate adviser that serves as general partner and sponsor of a private limited partnership fund, and KTE discloses it does not recommend its clients invest in that fund. The combination of that fund sponsorship/affiliation and the explicit use of shorting, derivatives and borrowing in client accounts—together with the founder’s multi-decade corporate finance background and role as a business-school guest lecturer—are atypical among solo independent advisers and are disclosed and managed through the firm’s policies.