Statesville, NC Office

Spark Asset Management Group is a state-registered investment adviser that provides discretionary asset management, retirement advice, and basic financial planning to individuals, trusts, estates, charitable organizations, and corporations. The firm manages client accounts on a continuing basis and offers both discretionary management (the bulk of its AUM) and limited non-discretionary services in certain circumstances, with financial planning included for managed clients at no additional charge.

Investment approach centers on tactical asset allocation through the firm’s Spark Trends models, which combine trend-following algorithms with technical and fundamental research and primarily use ETFs, mutual funds and sub-accounts, with periodic rebalancing. Spark also offers strategic allocation models and specialty “go-anywhere” portfolios that can be more concentrated and actively managed to a client’s objectives.

Notably, Spark manages a subset of separately managed and specialty accounts that may use derivatives and leveraged products—such as options, leveraged/inverse ETFs and ProFunds sub-accounts—an approach that is less common among peers in this category. The firm’s advisors are also registered representatives of a broker-dealer and licensed insurance agents, a dual registration disclosed in the brochure that creates potential conflicts of interest because compensation from those roles is separate from advisory fees.