Exclusive insights.
Transparent outcomes.

Modern investment advisors focused on contemporary financial management and planning.

Individual Wealth Management

Designed to meet the complex wealth management needs of a select group of uniquely wealthy individuals through personalized and collaborative financial planning.

Tactical Portfolios

We craft individually managed tactical portfolios.

Client portfolios are constructed from ETFs, private equity, and individual equities to amplify the impact of investment opportunities.

Dedicated Access

We provide unlimited access to a dedicated financial planner.

Your planner will call you twice per year to align your investment strategy. You can reach out any time in between—no questions asked.

Transparent Reporting

We give you access to transparent investment reporting.

Gain access to our reporting measurement tool to see how your investments perform based on your unique objectives.

Collaborative Advising

We collaborate with your legal and tax advisors.

We work with and can recommend professionals who assist with estate and trust planning, insurance, banking, and alternative investments.

Institutional Asset Management

Engaging with endowments, family offices, pensions, foundations, and other exclusive institutions, we allow clients to see clearly in an ever-changing market.

 

We seek to amplify the impact of their portfolios through a rigorous investment process, overlaid with institutional-grade premium risk management.

Investment Philosophy

Capturing profitable market share is the kernel to value creation in public equity. Companies’ ability to take share is becoming increasingly reliant upon harnessing insights from data.

SWS Institutional’s investment process is engineered to capture the market’s inefficiency of pricing these outcomes in the public equity market.

Portfolio Construction

After a thorough assessment of company fundamentals, we allocate capital to issuers via dynamic position sizing that reflects our relative conviction.

We continually calibrate our fundamental theses in light of new data, allowing for consummate adaptability.

Risk Management

With backgrounds from a multibillion-dollar pension fund, our portfolio managers have a deep understanding of the importance of risk management. This is the key to maximizing odds of repeatability across various market backdrops.

By harnessing the explanatory power of risk management, our goal is to make all sources of relative return to be the direct result of risk factor expression.

Informed Research

Our external communication and marketing is a natural byproduct of portfolio management.

We look to extract insights that assist in informing our client base.

Personalized advising requires an active and ongoing dialogue.

We leverage the experience of our team and our clients so that investment strategies evolve to meet their needs. No matter how the market moves, we are prepared to navigate it together.

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Our team is equipped to help you navigate market movement through calm and challenging times.

Frank Parker
Frank Parker

Founder, Managing Partner

Frank Parker
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Frank Parker
Founder, Managing Partner

A broker reformed

Frank is a reformed broker, reborn through the use of automation and technology to help improve client outcomes. He believes most clients are intelligent enough to control their financial destiny, with transparency being the only impediment. He has made transparency one of the primary tenets of SWS.

  • 16-year veteran of investment management industry
  • Focuses on portfolio forensics for uniquely wealthy individuals, endowments and foundations
  • Bachelor’s degree in economics from Indiana University
Philip Kessler, JD
Philip Kessler, JD

Founder, Managing Partner

Philip Kessler, JD
Philip Kessler, JD
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Philip Kessler, JD
Founder, Managing Partner

An attorney transformed

Phil is a transformed attorney who has utilized his background to build a multidisciplinary career in financial services. He believes that emphasizing the application of technology illuminates one of the remaining components of value in the industry: the advice. He has made technology one of the primary tenets of SWS.

  • 21-year veteran of the investment management industry
  • Focuses on succession planning and private investments for the uniquely wealthy, family offices, endowments, and foundations
  • Juris Doctor degree from the University of Dayton
Michael Parker, CFA
Michael Parker, CFA®

Partner, Chief Investment Officer

Michael Parker, CFA
Michael Parker, CFA
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Michael Parker, CFA®
Partner, Chief Investment Officer

A financial technologist

Mike is the lead portfolio manager for the SWS Growth Equity strategy. With experience on both the buy and sells sides, Mike brings institutional research and portfolio management framework to SWS Partners.

Mike believes in leveraging new technologies across every facet of firm operations. It’s a core tenet to the firm’s investment operations and the investment processes underlying all internally managed strategies. He has helped shape the SWS investment framework to embrace the disruptive capabilities of deploying technology to create value for clients.

  • 21-years of investment experience, most recently as a portfolio manager for $4 billion of actively managed equities at Ohio Public Employees Retirement System (OPERS)
  • Focuses on both asset management and asset allocation for institutions, endowments, foundations, and the uniquely wealthy
  • Holds his CFA charter as a member of the CFA Institute
  • Bachelor’s degree in economics with a finance concentration from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania
Kurt Grove, CFA
Kurt Grove, CFA®

Partner, Portfolio Manager

Kurt Grove, CFA
Kurt Grove, CFA
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Kurt Grove, CFA®
Partner, Portfolio Manager

A meticulous risk assessor

Kurt is an accomplished portfolio manager leveraging experience on the buy-side and in risk management to bring an institutional research and portfolio management framework to SWS Partners.

Kurt believes in focusing equally on a quantitative and qualitative approach to help benefit clients. At SWS, Kurt streamlines the investment process through technology and automation, while focusing on companies that leverage their technology to create value for shareholders.

  • 8 years of experience, most recently as an analyst of active long-only US equities at Ohio Public Employees Retirement System (OPERS)
  • Focuses on both asset management and asset allocation for institutions, endowments, foundations, and the uniquely wealthy
  • Holds his CFA charter as a member of the CFA Institute
  • Bachelor’s degree in business administration with a finance concentration from the Fisher College of Business at the Ohio State University

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