Mindset Wealth Management

Mindset Wealth Management

Mindset Wealth Management launched in 2024 when the four managing partners — James Humphries, Mark Vandygriff, Seth Hickle and Peter Bjelopetrovich — left a regional RIA to build a firm around the derivatives-heavy stock management they had refined at Charles Schwab, where they met on the active-trader desk during the post‑2008 bull market. Their thesis is straightforward: the industry has defaulted to mutual funds and ETFs, and clients who want direct equity exposure with risk‑management overlays have few dedicated options. The firm deploys capital through individually managed SMA structures, layering put‑option protection, covered‑call writing and fixed‑income alternatives onto concentrated portfolios of US equities. The team does not publish a standard allocation pie, but the website identifies direct equities, options, and fixed‑income alternatives as the three asset classes they manage. No named portfolio holdings are disclosed, and the firm has not reported participation in fund commitments or external‑manager allocations. Its licenses project a nationwide US footprint from a single Indianapolis office. As of the firm’s own website in early 2026, the professional headcount is four — the four named partners, who each carry the title Managing Partner and Advisor. The website lists no additional offices, no philanthropic foundations and no disclosed club memberships. No verifiable deployment or AUM figure has been published; the firm remains silent on total assets. Mindset’s structural differentiator is its insistence on human connection as the non‑outsourceable core of wealth management — a posture the website defends by naming automated, cookie‑cutter solutions as the industry default the firm was built to replace. The founding document positions the four‑partner team as a tight, personality‑aligned group that selects clients for mindset fit rather than for a particular profession or asset level, a governance model that keeps investment authority concentrated in the hands of the four men who built the practice.