Neil Waxman

Neil Waxman is Managing Director of Capital Advisors, Ltd., an independent, privately owned wealth management firm founded in 1991 and based in Shaker Heights, Ohio. His firm profile says he has more than 35 years of experience as an advisor, coordinator, and facilitator for high-net-worth families and their companies, with stated focus areas in wealth management, business succession planning, and corporate transaction strategies.

Waxman’s professional credentials include CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ professional, Accredited Estate Planner®, and FINRA Series 7 and 63 registrations. A Wrestlers in Business Network board page lists his education as Edinboro University and Washington and Lee University School of Law.

His registration history, as summarized by advisor-profile sources using public regulatory data, shows a career dating back to 1983, including Capital Analysts, Capital Advisors Ltd., Lincoln Investment, and life settlements. Capital Advisors’ own materials describe the firm as fiduciary, independent, and focused on comprehensive financial planning, investment planning, estate planning, retirement planning, and business succession.

Waxman is also active in civic and professional organizations. Capital Advisors lists board memberships or affiliations including M7 Holdings, Signet, Jewish Federation of Cleveland, University School, Jewish Education Center of Cleveland, Cascade Capital Corporation, Wrestlers in Business Network - Cleveland Chapter, and Director Emeritus of the Society of Financial Service Professionals.

• Public sources do not verify Neil Waxman as an active angel or seed-stage startup investor. The strongest verified profile is as a wealth-management and business-succession advisor.
• Capital Advisors’ investment approach is planning-led: the firm says its proprietary CFM Horizon™ model helps clients understand risk, cash flow, asset allocation, estate planning, retirement planning, tax planning, and business-succession implications.
• The firm says it believes risk should be defined both qualitatively and quantitatively, using client facts, risk tolerance, and objectives to build strategic and tactical portfolios.
• Capital Advisors emphasizes diversification, strategic asset allocation, higher-quality equities, active managers, passive assets, liquid alternatives, and tactical allocations intended to reduce downside exposure.
• Waxman’s own quoted planning frame is: “A holistic financial plan balances threats, opportunities, risks, and rewards.”
• For private-company or venture-like investments, Waxman has publicly advised investors to decide in advance whether such opportunities fit their total portfolio and risk tolerance, rather than reacting when a deal appears.