The W & W Group LLC

The W & W Group provides customized investment advisory and portfolio management services to individuals, trusts, estates and retirement plans, generally without imposing a firm-level account minimum. It offers both discretionary and non-discretionary management and discloses that it sponsors a wrap-fee program that bundles transaction and custodial costs into its advisory fee.

The firm’s investment process draws on fundamental, technical and cyclical analysis and is oriented toward a generally long-term strategy while permitting shorter-term trading for rebalancing or client needs. Accounts are monitored on a regular and continuous basis, clients receive periodic reporting, and the adviser does not accept proxy-voting responsibility (clients retain proxy voting authority).

What is distinctive about the firm is its scale relative to staffing: it manages roughly $29 million while serving more than 350 clients as a solo advisor, a client load that is uncommon for independent single-advisor firms. The adviser also acts as sponsor and sole portfolio manager of its wrap program and its principal maintains a licensed insurance business, selling insurance products for commissions outside the advisory relationship; the firm also participates in institutional platform relationships (e.g., TradePMR/Altruist) that provide custody and software support.