First, we will help determine your time horizon, spending, risk tolerance and vision for the life you want for yourself and your family. With that important roadmap in hand, we evaluate your assets, compensation and property ownership to design a portfolio that maximizes tax benefits.

Then we take care of all the details: opening and transferring your accounts, making investment transactions and handling the recordkeeping aspects of managing your assets.

Simply put, we believe our system of active management is a unique combination of finding value and managing risk that drives portfolio performance. It is a hallmark of our investment philosophy that we believe serves clients well.

Our overall approach to investing, and to managing risk in particular, is different — and we believe better. We place as much emphasis on risk as on return. Our investment department carefully examines your risk tolerance on an asset-by-asset basis, then looks at it from an overall account point of view. Selecting the most attractive investments for your risk tolerance can result in safer outcomes.

Our steps to adjust your investments for risk can bring about a measurable decline in overall portfolio risk without automatically reducing your returns. In some cases, our decisions can even raise them.

TPM^® stands for Total Portfolio Management, a proprietary investment and financial planning tool at Altfest that reflects the integrated approach we apply to our clients’ financial lives, as well as the rigor of our analysis. Rather than designing a portfolio in isolation, we use TPM^® to take into account all your assets and liabilities, and include future earnings, spending requirements and life goals.