Smith Graham & Co Investment Advisors, L.P.** is a large advisory firm based in Houston. It manages $6.07 billion of regulatory assets for 99 client accounts. It has been registered with the SEC as an adviser since 2001 and has operated in the jurisdictions of New York, Pennsylvania, and Texas.
Smith Graham & Co Investment Advisors, L.P.** provides portfolio management for pooled investment vehicles and portfolio management for businesses and institutional clients. It doesn't provide financial planning services to its clients. On top of advisory services, the firm doesn't engage in other business activities.
The assets under management (AUM) of Smith Graham & Co Investment Advisors, L.P.** is $6.07 billion. The firm's AUM has grown by 197% since the beginning of its operation, and $50.74 million of the total AUM is attributable to clients outside of the United States.
The advisory firm has several streams of revenue. Clients pay Smith Graham & Co Investment Advisors, L.P.** for their services and products based on a percentage of assets under management, fixed fees, and performance-based fees. Flat-fee based compensation is the most transparent and the one you can safely predict in advance. These fees don’t include brokerage commissions, interest, taxes, and other account expenses.
The firm provides services to charitable organizations, pooled investment vehicles, banking or thrift institutions, corporations or other businesses, pension and profit sharing plans, state or municipal government entities, and sovereign wealth funds and foreign official institutions. The largest group of clients of Donna Sims Wilson is state or municipal government entities with 21 clients and $2.28 billion of assets under management. Among the 9 most similar advisory firms, Smith Graham & Co Investment Advisors, L.P.** has the highest percentage of state or municipal government entities out of all clients.
The amount of regulatory assets under management is $6 billion for 61 clients. None of the firm’s clients are foreign persons or businesses.
Smith Graham & Co Investment Advisors, L.P.** also advises several private funds. Namely, five real estate funds.
The company employs 40 people that are either part- or full-time employees. 45 percent of the employees work as investment advisers or researchers. No employees are registered as investment adviser representatives with the state securities authorities.
There isn’t anyone with the role of looking for and bringing in new clients on behalf of the firm. The firm compensates employees in addition to the salary for bringing in new clients. Employees don’t receive compensation from other entities for client referrals.
Donna Sims Wilson has been acting as President since 1 Oct 2014. Cyril Mathew Theccanat has served as the Chief Investment Officer since 1 Mar 2009. Brian J Tortorella joined the executive team most recently as the Managing Director, Head Of Mortgage And Real Estate Debt.
The principal office where Smith Graham & Co Investment Advisors, L.P.** performs its advisory services is located at 6900 Jpmorgan Chase Tower, Houston, TX 77002, which is also the mailing address of the firm. An additional office of the firm is in New York, NY. It doesn’t run an office outside of the United States.
You can reach the main office by calling the phone number 713-227-1100 or by fax 713-227-0912. The normal business hours are 8:00 am to 5:00 pm on Monday - Friday. You can find more information about the New York firm at smithgraham.com.