Udine Wealth Management

Udine Wealth Management

Udine Wealth Management was founded in 2008 by John Udine, a veteran of Merrill Lynch and Morgan Stanley, bringing a wirehouse discipline to an independent advisory model. The firm emerged during the financial crisis, a period that pushed many high-net-worth families to seek conflict-light, fiduciary relationships outside large bank platforms. Headquartered in Boca Raton, its core clientele are South Florida-based executives, retirees, and trusts. The firm constructs concentrated, benchmark-aware equity and fixed-income portfolios directly for individual and trust accounts. It does not pool capital into proprietary funds. Instead, Udine selects single-issue stocks and bonds through in-house fundamental research, targeting total return with a focus on dividend-producing equity and investment-grade credit. Client portfolios typically span large-cap US equities, municipal bonds, and select preferred securities. The firm avoids alternative assets, private equity, and derivative overlays, staying within a liquid, public-markets mandate. John Udine serves as the sole named investment decision-maker disclosed in regulatory filings. The firm is registered with the SEC and reports as a state-registered RIA operating from a single office in Boca Raton. Its ADV filings indicate a small, concentrated client base of individuals and trusts, with no institutional-separate-account or sub-advisory relationships publicly listed. Assets are managed on a discretionary basis, with Udine acting as portfolio manager for each client relationship. The firm's structure as a single-office, owner-operated RIA with no proprietary product shelf and no brokerage affiliation is its genuine differentiator. Udine's advisory contract locks in a fiduciary standard per the Investment Advisers Act of 1940, a statutory difference from the suitability standard that governed his prior wirehouse roles. This regulatory posture, combined with the firm's refusal to accept commissions or 12b-1 fees, aligns the fee model strictly with assets under management.