Swift Creek Wealth Management

Swift Creek Wealth Management is a small, independent advisory firm that provides discretionary portfolio management and financial planning to a very limited client base — managing roughly $6.0 million on behalf of eight clients. The firm primarily advises on mutual funds and exchange-traded funds and may use firm-developed model portfolios to implement client objectives.

The firm typically operates on a discretionary basis, asking clients to grant trading authority and employing methods such as Modern Portfolio Theory, long-term purchases, and technical analysis to construct and manage accounts. It uses institutional custodians (including Shareholder Services Group and Altruist Financial) and routinely directs brokerage through those custodians rather than rotating brokers for each trade.

Distinctive features include the unusually small number of clients relative to assets under management, a solo-advisor structure, and the firm’s routine requirement that clients direct brokerage to specific custodians, which can affect execution options. The firm also discloses that persons associated with the practice are unaffiliated licensed insurance agents and that it does not vote client proxies on securities held in client accounts.