Montcalm TCR - Wealth Management

A wealth management firm that
blends expert investing with new
economy sustainability and
independent vision.

Our focus is sustainability through growth, collaboration, and innovative investing—for our clients and for society at large.

Our Approach

Montcalm is guided by our long-held values: integrity, collaboration, engagement and our client’s sustainability.

INTEGRITY
We believe in transparency and trust with our clients and partners.

COLLABORATION
We provide a customized approach for each client, with service that is highly attuned to your needs.

ENGAGEMENT
We untie knots in your financial life and work together to develop a clear path to short and long-term wealth goals.

CLIENT SUSTAINABILITY
We create a secure financial future for our clients and care about the broader impact that investing has on the world— economically, environmentally and socially.

We understand risk, reward, and transparency in this new economic landscape, and our expertise helps to protect and grow your wealth.

Our Services

We invest in companies, asset classes, and investment vehicles that provide superior cash flows and are achieving greatness through innovative products, services and environmental and social practices.

CLIENT FINANCIAL GOALS
We are committed to providing expert advice and intelligent risk management that supports your values, needs and goals in the short and long-term.

CULTURE OF UNDERSTANDING
Whether we are undoing knots in your financial life or clearly defining a financial plan based on your values and goals, our role as your advisor or consultant is to guide you to the best investment offerings for your needs.

EXPERTISE
Decades of investment experience across all asset classes has led to our investment philosophy and innovative approach, which is dedicated to people, engaged in relationships and creates sustainable investment results.

We believe that wise investment opportunities have multiple paths to success and take the long view of influencing future developments as shareholders, bondholders, and stakeholders.

SUCCESS
Blending highly attuned personal service, solid values and innovative disruption, we actively seek to enrich the lives of our clients as well as the world around us. The result is a better economic model for everyone. This motivates and inspires us to do our best every day.

Guiding Investment Principles

Female money managers often don’t follow the herd. They tend to look for less crowded markets and under-favored positions.

Our Team

Holly founded Montcalm TCR to create an investment management experience that guides people to engage with their wealth by providing leading-edge investment expertise, transparency and opportunity.

Kristen Taylor joined Montcalm TCR at its founding.
She develops and analyzes investment portfolios with an independent outlook and in close partnership with clients.

HOLLY RUXIN
CEO
Holly stewards Montcalm, a certified B corp, in the blending of expert investing with new economy sustainability and independent vision. Holly works to guide clients to engage with their wealth by providing services that support their values, needs, and goals in the short and long term, while facilitating a holistic trading flow in impactful investments. For over twenty years, Holly has managed client assets and led private client teams

at Morgan Stanley, Montgomery Securities, and Bank of America. Holly began her investment career at Goldman Sachs in the fixed income derivatives division, where she learned indelible lessons about risk management and cultivated an expert understanding of securities, complex derivatives, and fixed income. Holly uses that extensive experience and expertise to devise customized portfolios for Montcalm’s clients, and create financial sustainability within an overall better economic system for all.

KRISTEN TAYLOR
PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT
Kristen joined Montcalm at its founding. She develops and analyzes investment portfolios with an independent outlook and in close partnership with clients. Kristen manages bond and equity portfolios that promote client sustainability and leads private investment research at Montcalm, finding investments that

combine integrity with strong performance potential. Kristen is an integral part of Montcalm’s engaged client service model paired with portfolio management. Prior to Montcalm, Kristen was a client service associate for Morgan Stanley Private Wealth Management in San Francisco and handled CDO operations for JP Morgan’s Trust Services in Houston.

HOWARD COHEN
STRATEGY

Howard Cohen oversees Strategy and Business Development at Montcalm. He is our energetic fire-tender with an intuitive sense of when to add fuel or when to coax the embers to glow a little warmer. His support of the whole team creates lasting systems and processes, enabling us to continuously improve our high standard of service to our clients.

Howard is a seasoned Executive Producer, artist manager and business development professional with three decades of experience working with clients and professionals in the music and technology industries. He is also a devoted and health-conscious granddad.

KAITLYN ABRAMS
PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT

Kaitlyn fosters the foundational alignment of Montcalm’s portfolios with client values and well-being. Integrating portfolio analysis and management, client engagement, ESG research and due diligence on prospective investments, Kaitlyn connects clients with the powerful financial, social and environmental sustainability created in their portfolios at Montcalm.

Kaitlyn’s previous background features work with environmental NGOs, a Master’s in English at the University of Maine and a Master’s in Environmental Governance at the University of Oxford. She founded Spire: The Maine Journal of Conservation and Sustainability and was awarded First Place at the 2018 International Business Ethics Case Competition in Boston. In her free time, Kaitlyn enjoys vegetarian cooking, international travel, exploring the outdoors, and singing and playing the ukulele.

ALISA TANTRAPHOL
HEAD OF PHILANTHROPIC STRATEGY
Alisa inspires clients to invest their charitable dollars in ways that create regenerative social value. She partners with clients to craft charitable giving plans—including both grant-making and investing strategies—that are aligned with each client’s vision for a better world and a better future. She is passionate about connecting clients with not-for-profits and social enterprises that are creating incredible positive impact for both society and the planet.

Prior to Montcalm, Alisa raised over $250 million for a variety of charitable causes, addressing childhood trauma, education disparity, and food insecurity. A Silicon Valley Business Journal Top 40 Under 40 honoree, she graduated from Harvard with honors.

Alisa is a professional photographer, private yoga teacher, and singer/songwriter.

DAVID SHANTZ
CHIEF GROWTH OFFICER

David Shantz’s role is to expand Montcalm’s investor and client community and build out the flexible capital ecosystem needed to bring vitality to investors, clients, companies, communities, and the planet. Over his almost 20-year career, David has a proven track record of fundraising at Fortune 500 companies as well as boutique asset management firms. He brings extensive experience in impact investing from a wide variety of perspectives, including retail impact investing, syndication, and ESG fund management.

Previously, David Shantz was Director of Advisor Relations at Calvert Impact Capital, where he had the opportunity to facilitate deployment of significant private investor capital into underserved communities. He has also held roles in multiple finance firms, including Merrill Lynch, Ameriprise Financial, and Advisorshares. He has deep experience in wealth management, field training, and retail sales. David has an unwavering focus on growth and service in all of its forms.

SUZANNE ANDREWS
CONNECTIONS

Suzanne’s areas of focus at Montcalm are education, communication, and connections. She develops our educational programs for clients and the broader community, to support people in reaching a deeper understanding of their relationship with money and how to invest for their future from a place of positive engagement. Through strategic communications, she articulates our unique services and approach, so that people looking for holistic, transparent, and expert financial services will connect with us.

Previously, Suzanne was a software engineer at Apple and a midwife’s assistant, and she is a proud mom. She is passionate about creating opportunities for people to understand and utilize the power of their money. She co-authored the historic first book for women about angel investing, Impact With Wings.

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Contact Us

info@montcalmtcr.com

1083 Mission Street
Second Floor
San Francisco Ca 94103

415.326.7650

Disclaimer

Montcalm TCR, LLC (“Montcalm”) is a SEC registered investment adviser with an office in San Francisco, California. Certain Investment Adviser Representatives of Montcalm may also be licensed as registered representatives of Mutual Securities, Inc. (“Mutual Securities”) and may transact securities related business in that capacity. Montcalm may only transact business in those states in which it is registered, or qualifies for an exemption or exclusion from registration requirements. Montcalm’s web site on the internet is limited to the dissemination of generic information pertaining to its advisory services, together with access to investment related information and links. The publication of Montcalm’s website on the internet should not be construed by any consumer or prospective client as a solicitation to effect transactions in securities or the rendering of personalized investment advice for compensation, over the internet. A copy of Montcalm’s current written disclosure statement discussing its business operations, services and fees is available upon written request. Montcalm does not make any representation or warranties as to the accuracy, timeliness, suitability, completeness or relevance of any information prepared by any unaffiliated third party whether linked to Montcalm’s web site or incorporated herein. All such information is provided solely for convenience purposes only and all users thereof should be guided accordingly. Past performance may not be indicative of future results. Therefore, no current or prospective client should assume that future performance of any specific investment or strategy (including those recommended by Montcalm)or product made reference to directly or indirectly by Montcalm in its web site, or indirectly via a link to an unaffiliated third party web site, will be profitable or equal the corresponding indicated performance level(s). Different types of investments involve varying degrees of risk, and there can be no assurance that any specific investment will either be suitable or profitable for a client or prospective client’s investment portfolio. Historical performance results, investment indices and/or categories generally do not reflect the deduction of transaction fees, the deduction of an investment management fee, nor the impact of taxes, the incurrence of which have the effect of decreasing historical performance results. Certain portions of Montcalm’s web site may contain discussion of and/or provide access to Montcalm (and those of other investment and non-investment professionals) positions and/or recommendations as of a specific prior date. Due to various factors, including changing market conditions, such discussion may no longer be reflective of current position(s) and recommendations(s). Moreover, no client or prospective client should assume that any such discussion serves as receipt of, or a substitute for, personal advice from Montcalm or from any other investment professional. Montcalm is not an attorney, and no portion of the web site content should be interpreted as legal advice. To the extent that any client or prospective client utilizes any economic calculator or similar device contained within or linked to Montcalm’s web site, the client or prospective client acknowledges and understands that the information resulting from the use of any such calculator/device, is not, and should not be construed in any manner whatsoever, as the receipt of, or substitute for, personalized individual advice from Montcalm or from another investment professional. Each client or prospective client agrees, as a condition precedent to his/her/its access to Montcalm’s web site, to release and hold harmless Montcalm, its officers, directors, owners and employees from any and all adverse consequences resulting from and of his/her/its actions and/or omissions which are independent of his/her/its receipt of personalized individual advice from Montcalm.

Privacy Policy

Montcalm TCR LLC (“Montcalm”), an independent investment advisory and financial services firm, is committed to safeguarding the confidential information of its clients. We hold all personal information provided to our firm in the strictest confidence. These records include all personal information that we collect from you in connection with any of the services provided by Montcalm. We have never disclosed information to nonaffiliated third parties, except as permitted by law, and do not anticipate doing so in the future. If we were to anticipate such a change in our firm policy, we would be prohibited under the law from doing so without advising you first. As you know, we use financial and other personal information that you provide to us to help you meet your personal financial goals while guarding against any real or perceived infringements of your rights of privacy. Our policy with respect to personal information about you is listed below.

We limit employee and agent access to information only to those who have a business or professional reason for knowing, and only to nonaffiliated parties as permitted by law. (For example, Federal regulations permit us to share a limited amount of information about you with a brokerage firm in order to execute securities transactions on your behalf, or so that our firm can discuss your financial situation with your accountant or lawyer.)
We maintain a secure office and computer environment to ensure that your information is not placed at unreasonable risk.
The categories of nonpublic personal information that we collect from a client depend upon the scope of the client engagement. It will include information about your personal finances, information about your health to the extent that it is needed for the planning process, information about transactions between you and third parties, and information from consumer reporting agencies.
For unaffiliated third parties that require access to your personal information, including financial service companies, consultants, and auditors, we also require strict confidentiality in our agreements with them and expect them to keep this information private. Federal and state regulators may also review firm records as permitted under law.
We do not provide your personally identifiable information to mailing list vendors or solicitors for any purpose.
Personally identifiable information about you will be maintained during the time you are a client, and for the required time thereafter that such records are required to be maintained by Federal and state laws, and consistent with the CFP board, CFA Institute and NAEA Code of Ethics and Professional Responsibility. After this required period of record retention, all such information will be destroyed.