Shelter Rock Management

Shelter Rock Management

Shelter Rock Management was founded in 2006 by portfolio manager Sean Chaitman, a former senior equity research analyst who had worked in both growth and value investment funds. The firm began managing client assets in 2007, just before the financial crisis, an experience Chaitman says forged the firm's dual mandate to grow and protect client wealth across cycles. It operates as an independent, SEC-registered investment advisor based in Jericho, New York, serving individuals, high-net-worth families, and small-to-medium-sized business owners. The firm runs its own in-house equity and fixed-income strategies rather than allocating to external managers. Chaitman and his team have managed internally developed growth and income portfolios for over a decade, earning Morningstar ratings that they cite as a validation of their process. On the retirement side, Shelter Rock advises on corporate defined-contribution plans, drawing on the custodian services and specialist network of Fidelity Investments. The client service model layers retirement-income sequencing, tax-loss harvesting, and estate planning coordination alongside discretionary portfolio management — a multidisciplinary approach managed without a separate family-office charter. Team size and total assets under advisement are not publicly disclosed. The firm's footprint is concentrated in its Jericho headquarters, with no additional offices listed. In May 2025, the firm published a video message from Sean Chaitman on its website, reaffirming the firm's commitment to fiduciary advisory services and its positioning as an independent operator on the Fidelity institutional brokerage platform. No separate philanthropic foundation or co-investment vehicle is publicly documented. Structurally, Shelter Rock differs from many of its peers by retaining full discretion over security selection and portfolio construction rather than farming out allocations. Chaitman's background as a former sell-side analyst means the investment function is built around direct fundamental research — not manager selection. The centrality of one named decision-maker, with no publicly disclosed internal succession plan, makes the firm's governance architecture unusually concentrated for an SEC-registered advisor.