About Bauman Scott Financial

At Bauman Scott Financial, we believe your portfolio should be as distinctive as you are. Every investment plan we build is designed around your personal, family, estate, and business objectives - not a prepackaged model. Our bespoke portfolios go beyond mutual funds to include carefully selected individual stocks, bonds, ETFs, and closed-end funds, blended intentionally to reflect your goals, risk profile, and long-term vision.

Why We Manage Money Ourselves

Most wealth services firms hand your portfolio to outside managers or pre-built models. It's efficient for them, but it distances you from the person actually making decisions about your money.

At Bauman Scott Financial, portfolio management is not an outsourced service; it's our craft. We research, allocate, and trade directly on behalf of our clients.

  • Customization. Every portfolio is built around your tax situation, liquidity needs, and legacy plans, not a generic model.
  • Tax efficiency. Because we trade directly, we can harvest losses, manage capital-gains exposure, and coordinate charitable contributions in real time.
  • Accountability. When performance or positioning needs to be explained, you're speaking directly with the person who made the decision, not a third party.

This direct relationship is why many of our clients have stayed with us for 20+ years.

Who We Serve

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Affluent Investors

Direct, tax-aware portfolio management. Estate and charitable planning coordinated with your attorney.

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Business Owners

Liquidity and succession planning, 401(k)/cash-balance plan design, and post-exit investing.

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Charitable Families & Private Foundations

DAFs, CRTs, CLUTs, private foundations: invested and coordinated for long-term impact.

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High-Level Executives

Equity compensation planning, concentrated stock management, and tax-efficient wealth strategies aligned with your career trajectory.

What We Do

Our Perspective: Simple Rules That Stand the Test of Time. Markets reward patience, and awareness.

We don’t predict markets, but we pay attention. We focus on powerful, long-term themes: AI, innovation, energy, and because portfolios are customized, we can move quickly when the market gives us a gift and take profits when enthusiasm turns into a fad.

 

All investing involves risk including loss of principal. No strategy assures success or protects against loss. 

Charitable giving is a financial strategy, not just an emotional one.

Done right, it lowers taxes, shapes legacy, and teaches the next generation what wealth is for.

Real management happens in-house.

We don’t outsource your investments to third-party strategists. We build them ourselves, security by security, with the same care we’d want for our own families.

Coordination beats complexity.

True wealth management means your attorney, CPA, and advisor are in sync. We strive to make that happen.

Taxes matter as much as returns.

Every buy, sell, and rebalance decision starts with: what’s the after-tax outcome?

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