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VERIFIEDMarc Bernstein
Stone Creek Advisors, LLC
8899 Lake Glen Court
Clarence Center, NY 14032
716-247-4448
A Solid Rock in Turbulent Waters
About Stone Creek Advisors, LLC
Stone Creek Advisors is a fee based, fiduciary, investment management firm headquartered in Buffalo, NY. We employ a data driven, disciplined, repeatable process to take the emotion out of investment decisions. Strict investment guidelines, investment discipline, guardrails, and monitoring tools keep risk management at the forefront of our practice. We proactively adjust client portfolios to capitalize on opportunities created by investor over and under reactions in the market.
We believe that a solid financial plan is the most important step to reach investor's goals. We work with our clients to design their personalized portfolio around their ideal vision for their future. Over time, we will transition their taxable portfolio(s) slowly and do periodic tax loss harvesting to manage their tax liability.
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General Information
Firm Start Year
2022
No. of Employees
5-9
CRD#
4821898
Firm CRD#
283087
Name of Custodial Firm
Schwab
States Licensed in
All
Years of Experience in Financial Services
22
Number of Years with Current Firm
3
Work Experience
I spent 13.5 years as Vice President-Client Consultant for Manning & Napier, a Rochester, NY based investment management firm and the largest in New York State outside of Wall Street in which I was responsible for servicing approximately $1.1B in client assets and ensuring my clients were positioned appropriately to achieve their respective goals and objectives. I was then recruited by and joined Sandhill Investment Management, an asset manager located in Buffalo, NY, as a Partner and Investment Advisor. I had great success in my approximately 5 years with Sandhill. Following the pandemic, after extensive study and research and study, I came to the inevitable and painful conclusion that the macroeconomic environment had/has fundamentally changed and that I no longer had the necessary tools to help my clients to successfully navigate the new environment we now live in. This lead my Partner and our Chief Investment Officer, Kasey Wopperer, whom was a colleague of mine at Manning & Napier to form Stone Creek Advisors in July 2022. We believe that as a result of the massive shifts in the macroeconomic environment, economic and market cycles will be significantly shorter than they have been for the past four decades and as a result, investors have to be much more active and nimble with a focus on risk management in order to successfully achieve their respective goals and objectives.
Work with the following types of clients
Businesses, Individual Investors, Non-Profit Organizations
Advisory Services Provided
Financial Advice & Consulting, Investment Advice & Management, Financial Planning, Portfolio Management, Retirement Planning, 401K Rollovers, Wealth Management, Money Management, Risk Management, Financial Planning for Individuals, Financial Planning for Businesses
Services
Investment Types
Bonds, FOREX & Currency, Stocks, Alternative Investments, Commodities
Can meet clients in the following ways
Your Office, Your Home
Compliance
Investment Advisor Representative
Yes
Acknowledged fiduciary
Yes
Compliance Disclosures in Last 5 years
I have a clean record
Criminal Disclosures in Last 5 years
I have a clean record
Qualifications & Membership
Securities Licenses
Series 6, Series 63, Series 65
Firm Information
Firm's Number of Clients
170
Firm's Number of Planning Clients
100
Firm's Number of Managed Clients
170
Assets Managed by Firm
220
Advisor's Number of Clients
170
Advisor's Number of Managed Clients
170
Advisor's Number of Planning Clients
100
Total Assets Under Management by Advisor
220
Compensation and Fees
Fee Structure
Fee-Only
Minimum Portfolio Size for New Managed Accounts
None
Compensation Methods
Based on Assets
Fee % Based on Assets
1
Education
BA - Psychology
State University of New York at Buffalo
8/1991 -1/1995
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Disclaimer
One Seven (One Seven) is a registered investment adviser with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Registration with the SEC does not imply a certain level of skill or training. Services are provided under the name Stone Creek Advisors, LLC, a DBA of One Seven. Investment products are not FDIC insured, offer no bank guarantee, and may lose value.