About us
We have been successfully investing and advising clients since 1973 - over 50 years.
New Vernon Wealth Management (NV-WM) is an SEC registered investment advisor and successor to SF Investment Advisors. The firm was founded by Nate Shapiro as SF Investments in 1972, registered as a US broker dealer in 1973, and subsequently as an investment advisor.
In 2004, Arshad Zakaria and Tom Patrick launched New Vernon Capital - one of the first, large multi-asset hedge funds focused on investments in India. The Shapiro Family, led by Nate and Steve Shapiro, became partners in New Vernon and more broadly with the Zakaria Family and vice versa. That partnership has florished for over 20 years, and is now stronger than ever.
In 2010, Mansoor Zakaria joined the firm to focus on building the wealth management business. In 2013, we spun off SF Investments advisory business and renamed it New Vernon Wealth Management. SF Investments remains as a registered broker-dealer, and an affiliate of NV-WM.
Since we are primarily a focused financial/investment firm and not a hustling sales and marketing firm - a meaningful part of the increase in our AUM has come from performance. Since NV-WM is fee-only and does not take commissions to push financial products, our success is very directly tied to our clients success - when they win, we win.
Our focus is on building trusted, structurally-aligned, long-term relationships with high net worth individuals, families and institutions by providing personalized financial advice, investment management and highly personalized service that preserves, protects and grows their wealth.
