Institutional Cash Management
Customized separately managed account (SMA) investment solutions are designed to help safeguard your cash balances. We work with you to create a portfolio based on your unique investment policy statement (IPS) objectives with the goal of protecting principal, providing liquidity, and maximizing risk-adjusted returns. We partner with CEOs, CFOs, treasury teams, and founders at organizations of all sizes.
Our Team is an Extension of Yours
Capital Advisors Group was founded 33 years ago to provide customized cash investment solutions that seek to protect principal, deliver liquidity, and maximize risk-adjusted returns. Our experienced portfolio managers, credit analysts, traders, and operations managers seek to act as an extension of your finance team. Our team is exclusively focused on cash investments, and our independence, personal attention, and alignment with your interests help to deliver what we believe are superior results.
Customized Separately Managed Accounts for Your Cash Balances
We believe a separately managed account strategy provides the ability to customize a cash investment solution that aligns with your specific investment needs. This approach also helps to provide transparency, direct ownership of assets, and control over your cash investments with the goal of prudent diversification and safety of principal.
Independence. Insight. Focus.
Independence
We are an independent SEC-registered investment advisor—not a bank or broker—with an experienced team that takes pride in providing unbiased research and investment guidance that focuses on your best interests.
Insight
We draw on our team’s extensive experience through various interest rate cycles to create customized, research-driven cash investing strategies. Using cutting-edge technologies, we prioritize adherence to your investment policy and aim for optimal execution.
focus
We are focused exclusively on institutional cash management and are not looking to sell you banking services or lend money. Senior investment and operations team members have more than 22 years* of average tenure with the firm and are dedicated to understanding your unique situation and becoming a trusted long-term partner.
Evaluating Your Cash Management Options
Integrating Technology in Separately Managed Accounts
Our team is committed to continuously advancing our separately managed account solutions by integrating technology into areas such as credit research, trade processing, compliance, and investment reporting. Our Technology Department is constantly developing code to streamline processes and improve the client experience. We also partner with leading-edge technology firms like Clearwater Analytics.
CounterPartyIQ®
The CounterpartyIQ® online platform is our proprietary credit research system that analyzes more than 100 characteristics of each credit that we cover. Driven by both quantitative and qualitative factors, it informs the credit decisions for your portfolio.
We also offer our clients access to the CounterpartyIQ® platform to provide you with a dashboard for real-time counterparty credit risk monitoring.
33 Years of Thought Leadership
Our quarterly cash updates, blog posts, white papers, research reports, and other content provide unique insights into the markets and inform investors of what we believe are current best practices for cash investments.
Connect with Our Team
Are you interested in having a conversation about your organization’s cash investment needs? Please contact one of our team members.
Ray Facinelli
EVP – Director of Business Development
Based in New York
Stefan Spazek
EVP – Head of Debt Placement
Based in Boston
*Tenure statistics are derived from senior members of Capital Advisors Group’s Investment and Operations teams from employment start date to January 1, 2024, which includes ten employees.