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Marc Bernstein

Stone Creek Advisors, LLC
Marc Bernstein
Tel: 716-247-4448 8899 Lake Glen Court Clarence Center, NY 14032
A Solid Rock in Turbulent Waters
About Marc Bernstein
As the President and Co-Founder of Stone Creek Advisors, LLC, a fiduciary investment management firm headquartered in Western New York, I am focused on developing and maintaining relationships with individuals, plan sponsors, endowments & foundations, and other professionals in the Western New York region and around the country. I am committed to providing real-world solutions to help individuals and organizations reach their goals and objectives over meaningful time periods through thoughtful data driven active asset allocation with risk management as the top priority.

I have been working in the investment industry for two decades. My focus is on creating custom solutions to meet the individual goals and objectives of each client. I take great pride in my work and continuously strive to add value for my clients. It is extremely fulfilling to be able to help interested parties find the most suitable solutions to meet their needs. My deep respect for and commitment to my clients has allowed me to build many meaningful and lasting relationships.

I greatly enjoy spending time with my family, and my hobbies include reading, watching movies, and being a huge Buffalo Bills fan.
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 Employees

Name of Custodial Firm:

Schwab

States Licensed in:

All

Communities served:

Buffalo, NY as well as all around the country

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

Compensation and Fees
Fee Structure:

Fee-Only

Compensation Methods:

Based on Assets

Fee % Based on Assets:

1

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

Preferred meeting methods
I provide a free initial consultation:

Yes

Education
BA - Psychology:
State University of New York at Buffalo - Buffalo, NY
8/1991 - 1/1995
22 Years of Experience
Compliance
Investment Advisor RepresentativeYes
Acknowledged fiduciaryYes
Compliance Disclosures in Last 5 yearsI have a clean record
Criminal Disclosures in Last 5 yearsI have a clean record
Office Hours
Monday8:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Tuesday8:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Wednesday8:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Thursday8:30 AM - 6:00 PM
Friday8:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Saturday8:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Sunday8:00 AM - 6:00 PM
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