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Overview:
Premier Independent Investment Firm
We pride ourselves on doing one thing really well: providing objective investment advice that is solely focused on wealth preservation and long-term consistent and reasonable growth for our clients' capital.
We manage portfolios for individuals, families and non-profit organizations across the nation. The minimum investment amount for a Clifford Swan portfolio is $1 million.
Independent, Unbiased Advice
Our independent, unbiased advice is dedicated to your best interest and based on our own research. We do not have any financial ties to funds, stocks or bonds and are not compensated by the sale of any of these products. We are paid a percentage of assets managed, period.
As members of the Investment Advisor Association (IAA), we adhere to the highest industry standards and we are registered as an investment advisor with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Our founder, A.M. Clifford literally invented the term 'investment counselor' when he founded the firm in 1915; his protégé Philip V. Swan carried that tradition forward. See article, Fiduciary or Suitability, for more background on investment counseling.
Our Team Effort Benefits You
Clifford Swan Investment Counsel is a team of professional colleagues in partnership with their clients. Our investment process is a collective effort, with substantial internal research from our investment team. A personalized portfolio is designed for you from the investment selections identified by the team. This collective effort results in better management and more informed decisions to achieve your long term goals. |
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History:
Clifford Swan - A Shared Heritage
A.M. Clifford founded his firm in Los Angeles and Pasadena in 1915, and was one of the first to coin the term 'Investment Counselor.' Some seventy years later, Philip V. Swan, who began his career with the Clifford family, founded his own Investment Counseling firm, Philip V. Swan Associates in Pasadena. Phil Swan observed the need for families to have an advisor they could rely on and trust to help them achieve their financial goals. In 2007, the two firms joined together to form Clifford Swan Investment Counsel, based on a shared heritage and shared values of independent advice, rigorous objective research and commitment to clients. Today, Clifford Swan serves multi-generations of families and not-for-profit organizations throughout the nation.
A. M Clifford – A Pioneer of Independent Investor Counsel
Many of the principles of conduct first prescribed by A.M. Clifford in his treatise, The Investment Counselor (1925), and later adopted by the Investment Advisor Association (IAA), have been used by Congress, the Securities Exchange Commission, and the U.S. Supreme Court in defining the standards of fiduciary conduct that are applicable to all investment advisors.
Clifford's principles also helped define the first non-profit association to represent this new profession, the Investment Counsel Association of America (ICAA), formed in 1937. The ICAA later played a role in the creation of the Investment Advisors Act of 1940. The ICAA later became the IAA, of which we are charter members.
A.M Clifford was one of the early investment advisors, pioneering a new profession of the Independent investor counselor.
He was motivated by chance and imagination. He had opened his brokerage firm in Los Angeles in 1911, when that city’s population numbered less than four hundred thousand. In 1915, one of his wealthy clients asked him to review her $30 million in assets, and from then on Clifford called himself “an investment counselor and financial analyst.” By 1921, Clifford was focusing exclusively on investment counsel and charging fixed fees for his services. |
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