Arbor Capital Management

Arbor Capital Management

Arbor Capital Management launched in 1997 as a registered investment advisor, operating from downtown Anchorage with a secondary office in Fairbanks. The firm is led by Principal Ty Schommer, who also directs fixed-income strategies and ERISA plan advisory, and President Matt Kolesky, who concurrently oversees the firm's Arbor Digital unit. The principals bring credentials including the AIF, CFP, CIMA, and CDAA designations, offering personal financial planning alongside institutional-caliber portfolio construction. Strategy spans public-market portfolio management, fixed-income execution, and digital-asset exposure through the Arbor Digital arm — an early entrant into Bitcoin allocation pathways that Kolesky first explored mining at home in 2010. The firm constructs client portfolios across equities, fixed income, and alternatives, with a planning overlay that includes Social Security optimization, required-distribution modeling, and estate-transfer structures. Its client base stretches from Alaska across the Lower 48, reflected in the firm's tagline: "Pioneered in Alaska with a national presence." Arbor runs lean, with five named professionals spanning advisory, client service, and operations. Susan Liang joined as Client Service & Operations Specialist in March 2022, while Michele Kitta contributes over two decades of financial and risk-management experience. In October 2024, the firm hosted a public webinar on Social Security and retirement planning, underscoring its direct-to-client education model. The entity operates without external private-equity vehicles, club co-investment networks, or disclosed philanthropic arms. A structural differentiator is the in-house digital-asset advisory via Arbor Digital — a dedicated capability that separates it from conventional Main Street RIAs. While most peers in the wealth-management tier add crypto via third-party SMA platforms, Arbor built its own exposure framework, pairing a fixed-income specialist with a president who traces his crypto thesis to Bitcoin's earliest mining era.