Riccio & Associates

Riccio & Associates is an independent, solo-operator registered investment adviser that provides fee-based, discretionary portfolio management to individual clients through a menu of model portfolios, and also offers business consulting and advisory services to institutional or qualified clients. Clients select from strategies ranging from aggressive equity to income-oriented allocations, which the firm implements and rebalances on a discretionary basis.

The firm’s investment process combines three levels of analysis: top-down macroeconomic assessment, fundamental security analysis, and technical analysis used primarily for trade timing, with an emphasis on diversification, downside protection and a long-term horizon. Portfolios may include a broad set of instruments—U.S. and foreign securities, mutual funds, closed-end funds, hedge funds and derivatives—used for implementation, hedging or yield enhancement.

What is noteworthy for a small independent adviser is the firm’s substantial non-U.S. client base and its explicit ability to advise on assets held offshore, together with stated experience across U.S. and Latin American markets. The brochure also highlights the firm’s willingness to use emerging-market exposure, closed‑end and hedge-fund allocations and to negotiate performance‑fee arrangements for qualified clients, features that are less common among similarly sized peers.