Midwest Investment Advisors, LLC

Midwest Investment Advisors is a single-advisor independent firm that offers ongoing portfolio management and financial planning to individuals, high-net-worth clients, trusts, and business entities, including pension and profit-sharing plans. Services are delivered through individualized investment policy statements and discretionary portfolio supervision, with financial planning provided on an hourly and negotiable-fee basis.

The firm typically seeks limited discretionary authority to implement client investment policies and uses multiple methods of analysis (charting, fundamental, technical, and cyclical) while employing a broad set of instruments, including mutual funds, equities, fixed income, ETFs, REITs, private placements, options, short sales, and margin transactions. Accounts are reviewed at least quarterly and custodial and execution services are provided through the firm’s recommended custodian rather than by client-directed brokerage.

What is distinctive about the firm is the combination of a high client-to-advisor ratio for a solo practitioner and an atypical client mix that includes corporate entities and pension/profit-sharing plans, as well as portfolio management for institutional-type clients. The principal’s affiliation with an accounting firm, together with the firm’s custody requirement and use of higher-risk strategies (options, short sales, margin), differentiates its operating model from many independent single-advisor peers.