Schwartz & Co.

Day-to-day leadership sits with CEO Edward A. Schwartz, while the five Schwartz brothers hold senior roles across the firm’s three businesses. Matthew J. Whitty directs institutional services, David R. Breuhan serves as a portfolio manager focusing on corporate and public retirement plans, and Matt Miller leads the investment banking group. The firm operates as a family-controlled RIA and FINRA broker-dealer, so ultimate investment and strategic authority remains with the Schwartz family principals.

It runs a material institutional business alongside its wealth management practice. The Institutional Services Group advises on defined-contribution plans, providing fiduciary oversight, participant education, and investment monitoring. Clients include Walbridge and PVS Chemicals. This business is paired with an in-house investment bank, which advises on M&A, LBOs, and capital raises, forming an uncommon three-line structure for a family-led RIA.

The firm offers both managed portfolios through its RIA and direct deal exposure through its investment banking arm. The banking group, led by Matt Miller, advises clients on mergers, acquisitions, and private capital raises, giving the firm a window into direct private-market transactions that many similarly sized wealth managers lack. Additionally, Treasurer Joseph E. Schwartz serves as CIO for a private owner-operator of senior living facilities, indicating some direct operating-company involvement by firm leadership.

Schwartz & Co. is registered with the SEC as a Registered Investment Advisor and with FINRA as a broker-dealer. This dual registration allows the firm to execute trades and provide investment banking services internally — an integrated model uncommon among family-controlled RIAs, which more often outsource either trade execution or deal advisory.

The firm remains controlled by the Schwartz family across generations. Founder Gregory J. Schwartz, Sr. serves as Chairman. His five sons hold key roles: Edward as CEO, Gregory Jr., Peter, and Walter as Principals, and Joseph as Treasurer, Director, and Shareholder. Third-generation members, including Gregory Schwartz III and TJ Schwartz, are active in client-facing investment advisory and institutional services roles, suggesting a deliberate multi-generational transition.

The firm’s headquarters are in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, and it maintains a full-service office in Naples, Florida. The Naples office extends its wealth management reach to a region with significant retiree and high-net-worth household density, while the institutional and investment banking operations remain concentrated in Michigan.

The investment banking group advises on middle-market transactions, including M&A, LBOs, and capital raising for public, private, and private-equity-backed companies. The firm does not publish a stage-specific mandate, but its focus on buy-side and sell-side advisory for sponsor-backed deals suggests it engages at the growth-equity and mature-private-company stages rather than early-stage venture.