Discover what the freedom to do more means for you, your firm, and your clients
What could you accomplish with an all-encompassing investment team to help free up your time and amplify your potential as a financial partner to your clients?
OUR SERVICES
Tailored to meet your specific needs and desires, our suite of services includes both continuous and à la carte solutions such as:
Continuous services for East Bay clients
Model Portfolio Construction
and Maintenance
Proactive Portfolio Analysis
& Manager Due Diligence
Proactive Investment Recommendations
Economic and Market
Commentary Reports
Annual On-Site
Office Visits
Ready-to-Use Client Communications
Access to Exclusive East Bay Client Resource Library
Documentation of Investment-Related Discussions
Exclusive Coverage of All Inbound Investment Opportunities
À la carte* services for East Bay clients
Requests for client and/or
prospect portfolio reviews
Custom research
topics by request
Specific client communications
for your firm
Evaluation of portfolio
management strategies,
processes or tools
Virtual meetings, in-person
meetings, or phone calls with
clients and/or prospects
The à la carte items shown are examples and
may include other services as requested
*À la carte services and other models available for an additional fee
As a planning-focused advisor, two things are true:
First, you know what you offer your clients is incredibly valuable.
And second, you don’t have the bandwidth (or maybe even the desire) to dive deeply into the vast and constantly changing investment world.
Why work with us?
Invigorating
Insights
By bringing new investment ideas to your attention, we increase your knowledge and capabilities.
Maintain Your
Fiduciary Duties
We support your fiduciary process by helping you identify the most appropriate investment solutions and strategies for your clients.
Client-Facing
Support
Share our up-to-date and in-depth commentaries, charts, and graphs with your clients (most can be private-labeled to match your firm’s branding).
What does it cost?
Discover our flat-fee model
Traditional outsourced solutions like TAMPs typically charge an asset-based fee, meaning as you succeed—your costs will grow. While hiring an internal CIO may be an appealing option as well, the time and capital commitments are significant. Often, advisors come to us searching for a third option that can provide more custom, client-focused solutions without taking too much time, energy, and resources away from other important firm goals and initiatives.
We’ve found that offering a flat-fee pricing model ensures our piece of your pie doesn’t grow as your firm revenue grows, while still enabling us to serve as a trusted, go-to resource for your advisors and clients.
Our flat-fee pricing starts at $3,875 a month and varies by complexity.**
Why choose an OCIO over another investment solutions provider?
We know there are different ways to fulfill your investment solutions,
but which option could allow the most growth for your firm?
TAMPs | In-House CIO/ Director of Research |  | |
|---|---|---|---|
Compensation Structures | Asset-based pricing that can be expensive as the firm grows. | Salary plus compensation, cost of benefits, and performance-based fees. | Transparent, flat-fee pricing that does not increase based on AUM. |
Average Cost / Year | If you are a $200M RIA and are paying 20 bps for TAMP services, that equates to $400K/year in TAMP costs. | $367,000* annually (not including performance bonuses, expenses tied to the employee, etc.) | $3,875 per month.** |
Further Considerations | TAMPS may not provide the investment customization desired. | High fixed costs regardless of performance and the firm bears the full responsibility for research and staffing. | Not locked into long-term contracts. No surprise or hidden fees, no compensation based on performance, and no increase in fees based on advisor growth. |
*Data gathered from Charles Schwab’s 2023 RIA Benchmarking Study: “Compensation: A key component of a talent strategy.”
**East Bay Investment Solutions’ base rate for 2024.
Frequently asked questions
Investment Related FAQs
Absolutely. Working with advisors to make sure they have allocations they are comfortable with and can clearly communicate with their clients is an important part of our role.
Yes. We can work with advisors on providing client education and solutions that fit a variety of needs.
Yes. Send us the investment-related questions you receive from a client, and we will be happy to respond. We always respond to you, the advisor, and you can customize the client response to fit your needs.
Yes. We know advisors may have different approaches to how and when they communicate with clients, but you can expect to receive some type of communication from us during periods of extreme market volatility or dislocation.
General FAQs
In terms of frequency and intensity, that is totally up to you. Generally, the “work” in the onboarding phase is on our end, so it’s more a function of how frequently you’d like to meet. During onboarding, we dive deep into your investment approach and assess what enhancements can be made.
On a formal basis, we prefer to meet monthly but can be flexible if clients ask to skip meetings. On an informal basis, you can always reach out to us via phone or email at any time.
We offer a flat-fee pricing mode, which is unique in an industry used to asset-based pricing. This means our piece of the pie doesn’t grow as your firm revenue grows.
Yes, we take all the notes from our meetings highlighting who attended, the topics discussed, along with any decisions that were made. This saves you time and serves as institutional knowledge of prior investment decisions and rationale, and can be beneficial if a regulator questions investment decision-making.
Yes. As an example, we can analyze a prospect or client portfolio along with providing talking points. For clients and prospects, we can be included in your virtual meeting and even in-person meetings under certain circumstances.
Yes. As a client, you would have full access to the East Bay Client Center, a portion of our website that contains the library of collateral. These pieces are exclusive to East Bay clients and are not distributed or shared elsewhere.
There are a variety of pieces available from monthly pieces, to quarterly (Word document, PowerPoint slides, YouTube recording), along with other informational pieces published over time. Some of these include our thoughts on topics like cryptocurrency, commodities, preferred stocks, high yield bonds, and emerging market debt, to name a few.
Yes, we have many clients that do this. There are some guidelines that need to be followed, and we would recommend verification with your compliance department before making that change.
As a non-discretionary consultant, the guidance we have received is that it’s not necessary to include East Bay in your ADV, though we would recommend verification with your compliance department.
We are happy to provide referrals at the appropriate time. Just as your time is valuable, so is our client’s time and we will provide referrals as a last step in the decision-making process.