About this Advisor

Stephen Philip is an investment advisor at Zacks Investment Management, a Chicago-based firm that serves clients across the nation. Philip, who offers investment management services, specializes in working with high-net-worth individuals, families, business owners and retirees. He generally requires his clients to have at least $100,000 in investable assets. Philip says that he’ll communicate with his clients as often as requested, but at least once per year.

As an advisor at Zacks, Philip primarily relies on the investing strategies of low-cost ETFs and active management. He says that each of Zacks Advantage’s risk-delineated portfolios are adjusted on a monthly basis in accordance with Zacks Investment Management’s proprietary 10-year forecast and the Zacks Investment Management team’s market risk analysis. The firm also adjusts portfolio allocations between equity, fixed income and commodities based on monthly, forward-looking risk projections.

Philip holds Series 65 and Series 63 licenses, after passing the Uniform Investment Advisor Law Examination and the Uniform Securities Agent State Law Examination, respectively. He is a fee-based financial advisor who also acts as a registered representative of a broker-dealer. He charges his clients a fee of 0.35% on investments of $100,000 or more.

Prior to working at Zacks Investment Management, Philip was a vice president of client relationships at Merrill Lynch from 2003 to 2011. He is the founding partner of Sustainable Venture Partners, LLC, a venture capital firm that invests in high-growth companies with the mission of creating a cleaner, more energy-efficient future. Philip joined Zacks in 2016.