Aaron Farnsworth
Managing Principal
The practice
Larkspur, California.
Since 2006.
A percentage fee charges you most in exactly the year you should be diversifying.
Most of our clients arrive with one stock worth more than the rest of their life combined, and a tax bill waiting behind it. We plan the exit over years, not quarters, and we quote a flat fee so our advice does not get more expensive as the position grows.
Every account a household holds is managed against one plan — the trust, the 401(k), the option grant and the joint account, read as a single balance sheet.
Concentration built the wealth. It will not be what keeps it.
What we look for
A flat fee, quoted yearly
Agreed before we start, in writing, unchanged by what the market does.
Every account, one plan
Trusts, options, retirement and joint accounts read as one balance sheet.
A tax plan first
The order of sales matters more than the selection. We start there.
The same advice, priced two ways
Our flat fee against the industry's standard 1%. The work does not change with the balance, so the fee should not either.
| Portfolio | Our flat fee | 1% of assets | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| $5M | $34,000 | $50,000 | $16,000 a year |
| $10M | $42,000 | $100,000 | $58,000 a year |
| $25M | $58,000 | $250,000 | $192,000 a year |
| $50M | $74,000 | $500,000 | $426,000 a year |
People
Twenty-five people, and the person you meet is the person who does the work.
- Headcount
- 25
- Offices
- 2
Alice Sterling
Managing Principal
Andrew Ashworth
Senior Wealth Adviser
Benjamin Grantham
Senior Wealth Adviser
Catherine Vance
Senior Wealth Adviser
Christine Lockhart
Wealth Adviser
Edward Oxendine
Wealth Adviser
Henry Lockhart
Wealth Adviser
Jacob Thistlewood
Wealth Adviser
Margaret Marlowe
Portfolio Manager
Margaret Whitfield
Portfolio Manager
Ronald Blackwood
Portfolio Manager
Roland Harkness
Financial Planner
Vivian Sheffield
Financial Planner
Arthur Comstock
Financial Planner
Constance Norcross
Head of Client Service
Curtis Whitcomb
Head of Tax
Rosalind Halloway
Head of Estate Planning
Bernard Sedgwick
Chief Investment Officer
Josephine Chadwick
Chief Compliance Officer
Norman Merriweather
Director of Research
Harriet Wadsworth
Director of Operations
Warren Garrick
Client Associate
Lydia Radcliffe
Client Associate
Edmund Carrington
Trading Operations
Open role
We are hiring a portfolio manager, in Larkspur.
Eight years managing concentrated positions, and real fluency in the tax code around them.