Updated:
PlanVest Financial
PlanVest Financial is a multi-family office RIA founded in 1999 by Thomas Hugar, managing $750 million from New York with a tax-aware, planning-led model.
PlanVest Financial
PLANVEST FINANCIAL, INC. is an SEC-registered investment adviser in Gaithersburg, MD, registered since 2024. The firm manages approximately $176 million in regulatory assets. It has 8 employees and 6 investment advisers.
General information
Firm type
Multi Family Office
Year founded
1999
AUM
$750 million (Altss estimate)
Location
Region
North America
Country
United States
City
Gaithersburg
Corporate office
New York, NY, United States
Additional offices
Morristown, NJ · Greenville, SC
Principals
Thomas J. Hugar
CEO, CCO
Edward J. Kohlhepp, Jr.
President
Sector focus
Frequently asked questions
Who runs investment decisions at PlanVest Financial?
Thomas Hugar, CEO and Chief Compliance Officer, and Edward Kohlhepp, Jr., President, sit on the investment committee and direct asset allocation and manager selection. Both co-founded the firm in 1999. They are supported by a team that includes multiple CFPs and CPAs, integrating tax and investment decisions.
Is PlanVest Financial a single family office or a multi-family office?
PlanVest operates as a multi-family office structured within a registered investment advisor. While it started serving a core group of families connected to its accounting-practice origins, it now serves a broader client base of high-net-worth individuals and multi-generational families across the US.
Does PlanVest participate in direct investments or only fund commitments?
PlanVest primarily accesses private markets — hedge funds, private equity, and other alternatives — through third-party fund structures. The firm does not market itself as a direct-investment or co-investment shop. Its core competency is manager selection and tax-aware portfolio construction rather than sourcing proprietary direct deals.
What is PlanVest's known posture on tax strategy within its investment process?
Tax planning is integral, not an overlay. Because the firm's principals came from an accounting and tax practice, portfolio rebalancing, manager selection, and withdrawal sequencing are all executed with an eye toward after-tax outcomes. This includes tax-loss harvesting, asset location across taxable and retirement accounts, and charitable giving integrated via donor-advised funds.
How does PlanVest source its clients?
Client sourcing has historically come through accounting and legal professional referrals, with a growing secondary channel from family introductions. The firm's three offices in New York, New Jersey, and South Carolina reflect both deliberate geographic expansion and a pattern of serving families who have relocated from the Northeast to the Southeast.
Does PlanVest Financial maintain philanthropic or foundation structures for clients?
PlanVest does not operate its own charitable foundation, but it structures and manages donor-advised fund programs and private foundation strategies on behalf of clients as part of its integrated estate and tax planning offering.
What investment stages or asset classes does PlanVest explicitly avoid?
PlanVest does not publicly maintain an exclusionary list, but as a planning-led multi-family office rather than a specialist venture or credit platform, it avoids high-risk, illiquid, and speculative direct venture or commodity strategies that do not fit within its manager-selection and asset-allocation framework.
Profile maintained by Altss using OSINT (open-source intelligence), regulatory filings, licensed data partners, and verified direct submissions. Read the methodology. Last updated: . Continuous refresh with full update cycles at least every 30 days.
Need institutional-grade insight on family offices?
Altss delivers:
Prefer a guided tour?
We’ll walk you through: