Our Clients
We understand giving discretion to a financial advisor to make strategic investment decisions on your behalf is not for everyone, but we generally only take clients on a fee-based structure through advisory services. As a portfolio manager in Stifel’s Solutions Program, Mark adapts strategies designed to combine customized investment management with the ability to quickly react to market conditions for clients who choose discretionary advisory services.
We understand our clients put a lot of trust in us, and that responsibility is what drives us toward discipline and diligence each day. Serving clients who choose advisory services allows us the time to provide focused attention to the strategic analysis of our client’s investments. Because of the specific attention and services we provide to our clients, we typically only accept clients that have $500,000 or more of investable assets. Under some circumstances, we may accept a client with fewer assets, while maintaining a fee-based discretionary structure.
While most of our accounts are fee-based through advisory services, we also work with some clients who prefer to remain transactional through brokerage services. Information on the differences in these services, including costs, is accessible in Stifel’s Form CRS, available at www.stifel.com/CRS.
Where we reasonably believe it to be in a client’s best interest, we recommend:
The Solutions program requires a minimum investment, which varies by strategy. Ask your Financial Advisor for a Disclosure Brochure, which further outlines the fees, services, exclusions, and disclosures associated with this program. Since all investment decisions in a Solutions account are made by the Financial Advisor without having to receive prior client approval, it is important that Solutions clients have detailed knowledge of the Financial Advisor’s individual investment philosophy and decision-making process before entrusting him or her with their portfolio. You should consider all terms and conditions before deciding whether the Solutions Program and any particular strategy are appropriate for your needs.
We understand our clients put a lot of trust in us, and that responsibility is what drives us toward discipline and diligence each day. Serving clients who choose advisory services allows us the time to provide focused attention to the strategic analysis of our client’s investments. Because of the specific attention and services we provide to our clients, we typically only accept clients that have $500,000 or more of investable assets. Under some circumstances, we may accept a client with fewer assets, while maintaining a fee-based discretionary structure.
While most of our accounts are fee-based through advisory services, we also work with some clients who prefer to remain transactional through brokerage services. Information on the differences in these services, including costs, is accessible in Stifel’s Form CRS, available at www.stifel.com/CRS.
Where we reasonably believe it to be in a client’s best interest, we recommend:
- Advisory Services
For more details, including costs, please refer to Stifel’s Form ADV Part 2A, Wrap Disclosure Brochure, available on our website at www.stifel.com/disclosures/investment-advisory-services/ program-disclosures, for detailed information about the fees and expenses that clients incur in connection with Stifel’s investment advisory programs and to Stifel’s Form CRS, available at www.stifel.com/CRS. - Non-Advisory Products (Brokerage Services)
For more details, including costs, please refer to Stifel’s Relationship Guide at www.stifel.com/relationshipguide and to Stifel’s Form CRS, available at www.stifel.com/CRS.
The Solutions program requires a minimum investment, which varies by strategy. Ask your Financial Advisor for a Disclosure Brochure, which further outlines the fees, services, exclusions, and disclosures associated with this program. Since all investment decisions in a Solutions account are made by the Financial Advisor without having to receive prior client approval, it is important that Solutions clients have detailed knowledge of the Financial Advisor’s individual investment philosophy and decision-making process before entrusting him or her with their portfolio. You should consider all terms and conditions before deciding whether the Solutions Program and any particular strategy are appropriate for your needs.