Vantage Wealth Management LLC

Vantage Wealth Management primarily serves individual clients — including high-net-worth households — as well as charitable organizations and businesses, managing roughly $63 million for about 219 clients with a small advisory team. The firm offers discretionary and non-discretionary portfolio management, financial planning and consulting, and employer retirement plan enrollment and education.

The firm tailors investment advice to clients’ stated objectives and typically manages accounts on a discretionary basis, using a mix of methods such as fundamental and technical analysis, cyclical analysis, and modern portfolio theory across equities, fixed income, mutual funds, ETFs, REITs and variable annuities. Financial planning is provided on a one-time or ongoing basis and the firm uses software-driven analysis; tax efficiency is not its primary objective and clients are advised to consult tax professionals.

Noteworthy differences from many peers are that Vantage continues to sponsor a legacy wrap-fee program (closed to new clients) and is also licensed as an insurance agency; the brochure discloses that affiliated insurance agents may receive commission-based compensation separate from advisory fees, a potential conflict of interest. The firm also discloses that some investment adviser representatives are dually registered with another adviser, which can affect program access and creates additional conflict-of-interest considerations, and that it routinely directs brokerage through a single custodian.