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Sentinel Wealth Management, Inc.

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About

Sentinel Wealth Management provides discretionary investment management and financial planning to individuals, trusts, estates, corporations and retirement plans, with a focus on individual and high‑net‑worth clients. The firm prepares individualized investment policy statements and manages client portfolios using interviews, questionnaires and periodic reviews.

Sentinel constructs portfolios using Modern Portfolio Theory and emphasizes portfolio‑level risk management, implementing asset allocations primarily with no‑load mutual funds and ETFs and reviewing accounts at least quarterly. The firm also uses short‑ and intermediate‑term bonds and selectively incorporates alternative strategies (commodities, managed futures, REITs) to address interest‑rate, inflation and correlation risks, and rebalances on a discretionary, as‑needed basis.

Noteworthy features include a relatively large asset base—about $389 million—managed by a two‑advisor team across roughly 97 clients, resulting in a high assets‑per‑advisor and assets‑per‑client profile compared with peers. Sentinel requires client custody at either Fidelity or Schwab and discloses receipt of platform products and services from those custodians; it also does not vote client proxies and notes that rollover recommendations to managed IRAs can present a potential conflict of interest.

Client services

Financial planning Portfolio management

Expertise

Wealth management Passive / index investing Tax-loss harvesting

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Fee options

Fixed

$0 to $20,000 fixed fee for Financial Plans

Percentage

$0 - $1,000,000: 1.00% $1,000,001 - $3,000,000: 0.75% $3,000,001 - $5,000,000: 0.50% $5,000,001 - $10,000,000: 0.40% $10,000,001 - $20,000,000: 0.25% $20,000,001+: 0.20%

Other

Account minimum: $1,000,000

Main office

11710 Plaza America Drive, Suite 2000

Reston VA 20190

Advisors at this office

2

Most active in

Maryland · Texas · Virginia

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Advisors at this firm

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James J

CFP®, ChFC®, PFS™, Series 63, Series 65

Reston, VA

Sentinel Wealth Management, Inc.

James Joseph is a CFP®, ChFC®, and PFS™ credentialed financial advisor with 30 years of industry experience. He has been with Sentinel Wealth Management, Inc. since 2002. Sentinel Wealth Management provides discretionary investment management and financial planning services to individuals, trusts, estates, corporations, and retirement plans. The firm employs a Modern Portfolio Theory approach with diversified asset allocation using no-load mutual funds, ETFs, and alternative strategies, serving primarily clients with larger account sizes through a two-advisor team.

Wealth management Passive / index investing Tax-loss harvesting
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Nicholas J

Series 65

Reston, VA

Sentinel Wealth Management, Inc.

Nicholas Joseph is a Series 65 licensed advisor at Sentinel Wealth Management, Inc. with one year of industry experience. Prior to joining Sentinel, he worked at Ernst & Young LLP for a total of six years and held academic positions at the University of Virginia and James Madison University. Sentinel Wealth Management provides discretionary investment management and financial planning services primarily to individual and high-net-worth clients. The firm employs Modern Portfolio Theory to construct portfolios focusing on risk management, utilizing mutual funds, ETFs, bonds, and alternative strategies, and manages approximately $389 million in assets across about 97 clients.

Wealth management Passive / index investing Tax-loss harvesting
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