RSW Investments

RSW manages discretionary municipal fixed-income separate accounts for individual investors, trusts, estates, charitable organizations, and business entities, primarily through wrap-fee programs and third‑party financial intermediaries. The firm offers three core actively managed mandates—market duration, low duration, and enhanced intermediate duration—designed to match client objectives and managed against customized benchmarks.

RSW’s investment process emphasizes tax‑efficient municipal bond management through coupon selection, yield‑curve targeting, proactive credit research, and active duration/risk management. The firm employs a formal “sale discipline” to harvest capital losses in rising‑rate environments and reinvest proceeds into higher‑coupon callable bonds, and it may engage in more active trading or short‑term treasury exposure when market conditions warrant.

Compared with peers, RSW’s business is distribution‑oriented: it reports roughly $2.3 billion in discretionary AUM while serving about 1,412 clients with a very small advisory team, reflecting an unusually high client‑per‑advisor ratio and reliance on intermediaries. The firm is also notable for its industry affiliations—a related broker‑dealer that distributes registered funds and private funds and affiliates that are registered as commodity pool operators/trading advisors or that sponsor private funds—while it generally does not offer standalone financial planning or routine proxy‑voting for bond accounts.