Skokie, IL Office

Snowden Capital Advisors LLC serves a mix of high‑net‑worth individuals, family offices, foundations, pension plans, endowments, and other institutional clients. The firm provides discretionary and non‑discretionary portfolio management, investment consulting and third‑party manager selection, financial and estate planning, and both wrap and non‑wrap advisory programs.

Advisors typically construct customized model portfolios and may delegate investment implementation to unaffiliated sub‑advisers or third‑party managers while retaining overall client oversight; the firm also offers an Assets Held Away (AHA) program to advise on externally custodied assets and a Held Away Retirement Plan Program to manage employer‑sponsored retirement plan assets. Investment tools span mutual funds, ETFs, fixed income (including non‑U.S. dollar instruments), alternatives, derivatives and margin strategies, and the firm conducts ongoing due diligence and periodic account reviews.

Compared with many peers, Snowden combines multi‑team scale (121 advisors and roughly $8.9 billion in regulatory AUM) with institutional capabilities: its disclosures highlight work for governmental and ERISA clients, programmatic relationships with custodians and bank cash‑sweep and securities‑backed lending arrangements, and the use of global custodian platforms—features that support a notable non‑U.S. and institutional client presence and frequent use of third‑party managers. The firm’s brochure also discloses affiliated broker‑dealer and insurance agency relationships, a strategic collaboration for a co‑branded charge card, and explicit processes for selecting and monitoring sub‑advisers and third‑party programs.