Our Core Philosophy


Our DNA is Different

Founded in 2009, Lyons Wealth Management is recognized as a top-ranking Wealth Advisor and Portfolio Manager having earned a 5 Star Rating by Morningstar. We believe that every investor should have a written financial plan to determine their "number" in order to reverse engineer a plan to reach their goals. This number is the amount of investment value you'll need to achieve a full and happy retirement that could last as long as 30 years! Most investment professionals follow a planning protocol but, in our opinion, they fall short in it's execution.

They then use the "status quo" approach to money management. While this may be a fantastic business model for the investment firm, it doesn't accomplish the real essence behind "why" investors seek a "professional" in the first place. If you have sat in front of "pie charts" and been told that "strategic asset allocation" is the key to success, then you are familiar with what this exercise entails. They are simple static allocations, enhanced with the promise of rebalancing, and the tease of "tax-loss harvesting". It's not a sophisticated approach to money management but it is easy to monitor and charge you a fee in return for a lack of any sophistication. Again, a great business model and revenue enhancer for the firm applying it.

WE DON'T DO THIS.

We do believe in the capital markets and agree that over time the markets and portfolio values will be higher. However, we differ from the mainstream philosophy of plowing investors through bear markets and telling them to "be patient" and "hold the course". When bear markets show themselves and investors are at their highest level of emotional risk it's often due to fear, driven by media hype and doomist headlines. This is the point when investors will most likely make a potentially life changing and unrecoverable financial decision to "get out" at the worst possible time.

It is our observation that bear markets show tell tale signs of their coming onset. So, similar to weather prediction, we do recognize the black economic clouds on the horizon, hear the thunder in the distance, and rely on our proprietary methods to try to avoid large swaths of the prolonged downturn storm.


We know that timing is never perfect, but to protect investors from this sort of thing is what most folks hire a portfolio manager for in the first place.

Lyons Fundamental Small Cap Value Strategy

Are you missing out on this market rally? Wall Street has seen a surge in small-cap stocks lately, with the Russell 2000 index climbing over 10.7% in the past month versus 5.5% gains in the S&P 500 and 6.1% uptick in the Nasdaq Composite. This rally coincides with cooling inflation data and hopes for Fed rate cuts in 2024.
We utilize our Fundamental Process, including our proprietary GRAPES valuation model, to screen the universe of mid, small and micro-cap companies, use the link below for more information.

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Our Award Winning Investment Strategies

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Lyons Enhanced Yield
Portfolio

Delivering consistent, reliable cash flow, Each position is fully hedged to control downside exposure, Portfolio net yield target of 12-15% annually, Fully liquid No lockup period, no capital calls

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Lyons Tactical Allocation Portfolio (SMA)

Greater long-term upside capture through sustained full market participation and full equity allocations to multi-year, continuous time periods

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Catalyst/Lyons Tactical Allocation (Mutual Fund)

The Fund’s objective is to seek total return from long-term capital appreciation and current income.

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Lyons Core Portfolio

Investing in income generating common and preferred stocks and corporate bonds with long-term holding periods intended to optimize tax efficiency

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Lyons Fundamental Small Cap Value Strategy

Targets long term growth of capital through buying undervalued small and mid cap companies with improving business prospects.

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Own a Large Stock Position

Did your advisor say sell and diversify? Keep your stock with Lyons Income Overlay. You don't have to diversify with our cusotmized solution for large concentrated stocks.

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Lyons CoinDesk Large Cap Select Index SMA

CoinDesk Large Cap Select Index (DLCS), designed to measure the market capitalization weighted performance of some of the largest and most liquid digital assets that meet pre-defined trading and custody requirements.

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