“We are your portfolio managers, not simply middlemen between the client and the portfolio manager”

Our Mission:

Deliver excellence through our thought process and investment action:

• Accurately assess each client’s true objectives and translate them into capital market exposure that strives to effectively achieve these goals
• Consistently fulfill the highest standards in client communication in terms of timeliness, education, and relevance

Be your primary financial advisor/portfolio manager:

• Whether you have one or several advisors, we understand that most affluent investors have a fundamental need for a loyal and trusting relationship with one go-to financial advisor
• We can work with you under either scenario, but strive to be that key financial advisor

What Differentiates the Upland Group?:

• We are your portfolio managers, not simply middlemen between the client and the portfolio manager
• We have 60* years of combined backgrounds in research, strategy, and security analysis
• Past positions* include: President and CEO of asset management firm, Director of Research, Chief Investment Officer, and Senior Portfolio Manager
  

Our Investing Mindset

Our team has two main investing strategies, Growth and Balanced, both utilize a core equity approach where return objectives are less benchmark oriented, but rather more personalized, specifically to help meet client risk aversion and income needs.

Security selection includes

• Top down and bottom-up analysis
• Seeking growth-at-reasonable prices
• Tactical Asset Allocation

We Avoid Attempts to Generate Returns From

• Shorting
• Foreign debt as a direct holding
• Leverage Stock

Characteristics We Typically Avoid

• Story stocks with no history of earnings
• Excessive valuations
• Over leveraged balance sheets