Advisory Business
Founded in 1993, Breckinridge Capital Advisors, Inc. is an investment advisor with a mission to provide
the highest caliber of investment management. Our investment management services are offered
through separate accounts, which are often customized by clients.
Reflecting our commitment to ESG and sustainability, Breckinridge is a Massachusetts Benefit
Corporation and a certified B Corp (https://bcorporation.net/). We believe these designations help us
to align our goals to create positive, long‐term impact for our clients, employees, and the communities
in which we live, work and invest.
Breckinridge is independently owned by its former and current employees and members of the board.
Peter Coffin, the firm’s founder is the firm’s majority owner. As of December 31, 2023, Breckinridge
managed over $47.8 billion in assets on behalf of 17,848 clients.
Our Clients
Breckinridge manages portfolios for a wide variety of clients, ranging from high net worth individuals
to mutual funds sponsored by unaffiliated parties. Clients commonly access our services through
intermediaries such as other investment advisors, consultants and wrap fee programs. These
programs, advisors and consultants (collectively, Intermediaries) are not affiliated with Breckinridge.
Some clients are directly sourced from institutions. Intermediaries are expected to conduct their own
due diligence of our firm. Each Intermediary will offer all or some of Breckinridge’s investment
strategies to their clients.
Client Relationship Structures
For wrap fee programs, we enter into advisory agreements with the sponsors, not with the underlying
clients. Some advisors have entered into an advisory agreement with Breckinridge, while others
require Breckinridge to enter into agreements with the underlying client directly. Regardless of the
agreement arrangements, the Intermediary, not the underlying client, remain Breckinridge’s primary
point of contact for any underlying client communications, including changes to account guidelines
and restrictions. Therefore, throughout this Brochure, our reference to clients generally includes
Intermediaries. Underlying clients who access our services directly usually appoint an authorized party
to act on their behalf. Any such arrangements
are specified in either the investment management
agreement or separate written documentation.
Limitations to Client Information
When underlying clients access our services through an Intermediary , we will not be provided with
sufficient information from the Intermediary to perform a suitability assessment of our services for
their accounts. We rely on the Intermediaries who, within their fiduciary duty, must determine
whether Breckinridge and Breckinridge’s services are in the client’s best interests. This includes any
assessment of whether a particular wrap free program is appropriate for the underlying client.
Technology and Information Security
Since Breckinridge’s founding, we have always pushed ourselves to innovate technologically. We
believe innovation allows us to better serve our clients. This has led us to develop proprietary
technology and techniques that have enabled us to manage portfolios, analyze issuers, and implement
customizations for our clients. We also rely on third‐party systems and data to operate and service
client accounts on a daily basis. As a result, our firm and these third‐party providers process, store and
transmit large amounts of electronic information about our clients and their accounts, including
transactions and holdings.
The dependence on technology and systems makes us and our service providers susceptible to
cybersecurity risks that include loss of client information or assets, privacy breaches and identity theft,
loss of confidential company information, and disruption of business. These types of events can be
caused by unintentional failures or deliberate attacks. Breckinridge has policies and procedures that
address information security, privacy, identity theft, business continuity and third‐party service
providers. These policies are reviewed regularly and revised as necessary to reflect changes in our
business, the way we process, store and transmit electronic information, or other matters.
A copy of Breckinridge’s information security policies and privacy notice are available upon request by
contacting our compliance team at 617‐443‐0779 or by emailing
[email protected]. In
addition, our privacy notice is available on our website
(https://www.breckinridge.com/privacy‐
notice/).