SHB Advisors

SHB Advisors provides discretionary investment management to individuals, families and trusts, tailoring portfolios to each client’s stated objectives, risk tolerances and written investment management agreement. The firm generally works with qualified, high-net-worth investors, recommends a $5 million account minimum and manages roughly $21.9 million across a small number of client accounts.

The firm pursues global macro and relative-value strategies across equities, fixed income, foreign exchange and commodity markets, implementing long, short and spread positions through futures, options, exchange-traded funds and over‑the‑counter derivatives, and may hold substantial cash when opportunities are limited. SHB operates with full discretionary authority and may employ margin and short‑term borrowing in separately managed accounts; it charges asset‑based management fees and, for eligible accounts, performance‑based incentive fees and maintains trade-allocation and review policies to address attendant conflicts.

Distinctive features include registration with the CFTC as a commodity trading advisor and membership in the National Futures Association, use of commodity and futures markets under a CFTC 4.7 exemption that limits participation to Qualified Eligible Persons, and explicit use of derivatives and leverage in client accounts. The firm’s brochure discloses a prior SEC enforcement order involving the firm’s principal (a suspension and civil penalty) and describes the calculation and use of calendar‑year trading performance for incentive fees—items that are uncommon among independent advisers.