J W Korth & Company

J W Korth & Company

J W Korth & Company was founded in 1982 and operates from Lansing, Michigan, advising high-net-worth individuals, banks, and business entities. The firm structures discretionary and non-discretionary managed accounts with an explicit focus on predictable, consistent investment income from bond portfolios. Its client base spans self-directed investors, financial advisors, and institutional allocators. Strategy revolves almost entirely around fixed income. The firm runs managed money accounts, margin advisory, and a concierge bond desk branded Shop4Bonds, which provides direct access to municipal, corporate, and international bond offerings alongside bond analysis tools. It clears through RBC Capital Markets Corporation (DTC #0235), with Euroclear settlement via Bank of New York, suggesting cross-border execution capability for non-US debt. The firm also maintains a trade desk for financial professionals and proprietary traders. No venture capital, private equity, or direct-lending vehicles are publicly disclosed. Scale is opaque. No AUM or deployment figure is published. The registered membership footprint — FINRA, SIFMA, SIPC, and MSRB — confirms broker-dealer registration and municipal securities authority, but team size and geographic reach beyond the Lansing headquarters are not disclosed. Adjacent vehicles include an educational brand, Bonds4You, which distributes a periodic bond-market newsletter, and the Shop4Bonds online self-service platform. Structural differentiator: J W Korth operates as a specialized fixed-income shop in an industry dominated by multi-asset aggregators. Its concierge bond desk and self-directed Shop4Bonds interface create a dual-channel model — white-glove advisory for managed clients and execution-only access for advisors and institutions — without competing on equities, alternatives, or wealth-management cross-sell.