S Squared Advisors LLC

S Squared Advisors LLC provides discretionary investment management through tailored managed accounts for individuals, trusts and family office entities, implementing strategies described in each client’s managed account agreement. The firm reports managing roughly $79 million in client assets and accepts clients on a case-by-case basis consistent with stated investment objectives.

The firm’s investment process is a bottom-up, multi-stage, multi-factor ranking methodology that combines volatility and value-oriented fundamental factors to construct a “minimum variance value portfolio,” applied across S&P 500 and Russell 2000 constituents. It offers six strategies — including long-only, a 200% long hedged strategy with a short S&P hedge, small-cap, macro, a dynamic hedged strategy that uses futures/options, and an elevated asset allocation that can include crypto and precious metals — and employs option overlays, short positions, futures and other derivatives and may use borrowing to implement leverage.

Distinctive practice elements disclosed in the brochure include a 20% performance-based fee for certain Hedged strategy clients subject to a high-water mark and a qualified-client threshold (clients with net worth above $2.2 million), as well as regular performance reporting to clients. The firm’s documented use of leverage and derivatives in separately managed accounts and its reliance on performance-based compensation and performance disclosures differentiate it from many peers in the supported-firm category.