Pearl Capital Investments
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Client AUMClient assets under management
$15,319,412
Clients
13
Advisors
2
of 2 employees
About
Pearl Capital Investments is a registered investment adviser that provides discretionary portfolio management and related advisory services to individuals and high‑net‑worth/qualified clients. The firm focuses on managing publicly traded equities and related derivatives and provides ongoing monitoring, portfolio construction, and rebalancing within client accounts.
The firm combines quantitative analysis with fundamental research and modern portfolio theory to build custom asset allocation model portfolios, and implements strategies that can include long and short positions, option writing, and margin. Advisors construct portfolios to client risk profiles and exercise discretionary trading authority to execute and monitor allocations and style drift.
Pearl Capital is distinctive among peers for publishing illustrative performance information and for employing performance‑based compensation tied to account returns—practices that are uncommon for supported firms. It also explicitly uses derivatives and options strategies within separately managed client accounts and operates with a small advisory team and limited client roster focused on qualified high‑net‑worth investors rather than retail individual clients.
Client services
Expertise
Fee options
0.50% annually
Tiered performance fee: 10% on returns 0-9.99%, 15% on returns 10%-19.99%, 20% on returns 20% and above, applied above high-water mark with best-of-net adjustment; exemption from performance fee on first 5% of annual returns for investors with net capital contributions over $1,000,000
Account minimum: $250,000
Main office
Houston TX
Advisors at this office
2
Most active in
Texas
Also doing business as
Pearl Capital Investments · Pearl Capital Investments LLC
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Forms ADV
Advisors at this firm
Michael P
Series 65
Houston, TX
Pearl Capital Investments
Michael Pearl is a financial advisor at Pearl Capital Investments in Montgomery, TX, holding a Series 65 designation with four years of industry experience. Prior to joining Pearl Capital Investments, he worked at USA Compression Partners, LP and Anadarko Petroleum. Pearl Capital Investments is a small registered investment adviser serving high-net-worth and qualified individual clients through discretionary portfolio management. The firm employs a combination of quantitative techniques, fundamental analysis, and modern portfolio theory, and is notable for its use of performance-based compensation and explicit derivatives strategies within separately managed accounts.
John E
Series 65
Houston, TX
Pearl Capital Investments
John Elvig is a financial advisor at Pearl Capital Investments in Houston, TX, holding a Series 65 designation with four years of industry experience. Prior to joining Pearl Capital in 2021, he worked at NextDecade Corporation and Fieldwood Energy, and spent six years at Anadarko Petroleum. Pearl Capital Investments is a small registered investment adviser serving high-net-worth and qualified individual clients through discretionary portfolio management of publicly traded securities and derivatives. The firm employs a combination of quantitative techniques, fundamental analysis, and modern portfolio theory in its model-based asset allocation, and it is notable for its use of performance-based compensation and explicit derivatives strategies.
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