Alternative Strategies, LLC represents investment management firms who all have the common characteristic of lower risk levels. We expect less risk to result in less money lost in market down turns.


Chuck Riley formed Austin Capital Management in 1993 as a boutique hedge fund of funds asset management firm catering to family offices and high net worth investors. Today, ACM manages over $1 billon for institutional investors (including Taft-Hartley, ERISA, corporate, endowment/foundation) as well as high net worth investors in four strategies: All Seasons Fund (directional long/short equity), Safe Harbor Fund (low volatility, multi-strategy, fixed income like replacement), Multi-Strategy Funds (a blend of 60% All Seasons and 40% Safe Harbor) and Next Generation Fund (emerging managers).

Austin Capital Management, Ltd. (“ACM”) is an affiliate of Victory Capital Management and a subsidiary of KeyCorp. Victory provides our firm and clients with the benefits of significant financial and administrative backing, while allowing us to maintain full operational control of the firm and our investment process .


Contravisory Research and Management opened for business in 1972 as an equity research firm providing equity investment managers with buy and sell recommendations based on the firm's long-term relative price trend research analysis. Currently Contravisory Research covers 2000 mostly large cap and midcap stocks, 200 ADR's, 100 industry groups and 9 sectors for its research clients. The firm's strength is spotting changes in the direction of a stock’s price, up or down, relative to their peer stocks, industry and sectors.

Contravisory Management began intensively marketing its investment management in 1999. The approach is opportunistic because the fund's investments are not limited to set criteria involving market capitalizations and is agnostic toward growth versus value stocks. Investment decisions result strictly from their proprietary research methodologies. Their strength is identifying and capitalizing on the long-term relative price trends, both positive and negative, that exist in the market.

The firm now manages more than $600 million in Core Equity and a long/short hedge fund. Contravisory's clients are divided between high net worth individuals, 22 municipal pension funds, numerous religious institutions, corporations and foundations. The firm is 100% employee owned.