Windy Hill Ventures, Inc.

Windy Hill Ventures provides investment advice and portfolio management to a mix of individuals, high-net-worth clients, private investment companies, and corporate and nonprofit entities, offering both ongoing discretionary management and one-time or project-based advisory engagements such as evaluations of public or private investments and business-transaction support. The firm also offers training and mentorship for clients who wish to participate actively in or assume full management of their own investments and, separately, provides a limited set of non-investment services.

The firm’s investment approach emphasizes fundamental analysis to identify securities expected to deliver total return over the longer term, and it uses model portfolios with typical holding periods of one to three years to limit turnover and tax impact. Windy Hill also manages higher-risk strategies that target underappreciated stocks and may use equity options and concentrated positions, which the brochure notes are likely to be more volatile than broad-based indices and are intended to be part of a broader diversified allocation.

Compared with many peers, Windy Hill manages a relatively small number of client relationships (about 15) with approximately $34.85 million in discretionary AUM and commonly handles discrete consulting engagements in addition to ongoing advisory work, including the negotiation of contingent fees in some cases. The brochure also discloses that the adviser does not accept performance-based fees, does not vote proxies on clients’ behalf, and allocates a measurable portion of adviser time to non-investment activities (such as supervision of personal assistants and photography), features that are atypical for a firm of this size.