Shoker Investments

Shoker Investments

Shoker Investments was founded in 1990 by Randall Shoker, a former 1980s stockbroker who established the firm as Shoker Investment Counsel, Inc. to remove commission-driven conflicts. The firm operates from Oxford, Ohio, and has been fiduciary and fee-only since inception. Its client base spans individuals, pension plans, and charitable organizations, a mix that has remained consistent across three decades. The firm delivers active portfolio management and discretionary advisory. Its service stack covers financial planning, tax-efficient investing, estate planning, retirement income management, and corporate benefit assistance. Shoker Investments structures its client book around a high-concentration model: each advisor carries fewer than 80 clients, compared with the 1,000-client loads common at large brokerages. While specific portfolio holdings and asset-class mixes are not publicly disclosed, the firm emphasizes custom portfolio construction rather than off-the-shelf products and states it never sells annuities, high-cost mutual funds, or insurance products. Team scale is intentionally small. Randall Shoker continues as President and CIO, supported by Operations Manager Anne Bandy, who joined in 2010, and three recent additions: Operations Director Chelsea Vitale and Associate Wealth Manager Kevin Rybka, both hired in 2024, and Client Services Specialist Jerry Hughes, added in March 2026. There are no satellite offices; all operations run from Oxford, Ohio. The firm does not operate adjacent private-fund vehicles, venture arms, or real-asset subsidiaries, and it maintains no disclosed affiliation with peer networks or club-investment platforms. Shoker Investments distinguishes itself structurally through an uncompromising fee-only, non-scaled advisory model. Every adviser carries fewer than 80 relationships, a cap the firm foregrounds against an industry where representatives can serve over 1,000 households. The practice is built on discretionary authority — the firm manages assets directly rather than executing client-directed orders — while accepting no third-party compensation, referral fees, or product commissions. That constraint acts as both a compliance posture and a deliberate growth brake, making the firm's architecture closer to a multi-generational family shop than a scalable wealth platform.