After graduating from Hillsdale College, Cleves decided to join his father in the family business, which at the time was the high-end life insurance and estate planning space.
This was the initial launch of our investment business as we partnered with LPL Financial as our broker dealer.
Our firm opens its doors to its new building in Maumee, Ohio on Independence Day 2003. Today, this is referred to as our “Principle” building.
Our first new office is opened in Houston, Texas led by Steve Schwartz. Today, our Houston office has five dedicated team members which along with Steve Schwartz, includes Michael Miller, Matthew Schwartz, Denise Brock, and Joanna Serra.
We (at the time “TFO-TDC”) launched its Retirement Plan Services business and brings on Chris Winters as its Director. Today, this team continues to be led by Chris and has four additional colleagues who help run it.
We established “TDC Investment Advisory” a dba of TFO-TDC, LLC and launches with Charles Schwab as our custodian.
In six short years, our firm reaches a significant milestone by surpassing $1B in assets under management.
We opened our third office in downtown Winchester, Virginia led by Melanie Marks Hitchen and Stephanie Smith-Tremoulis.
Our firm reaches the $2 billion milestone in assets under management and retirement plan assets under advisement.
At this time, our team had grown to 15 full-time colleagues.
We opened Pando Tree Trust Company (now doing business as TFO Trust Company), a South-Dakota based trust company as part of our commitment to being more for our clients and serving their unique needs.
In 2019, we opened a 28,000 square foot expansion on to our existing building we termed our “Strategy” building. The TFO Living office was in partnership with Herman Miller, a high-performance workplace to deliver an elevated experience for both our clients and colleagues.
We rolled out “RightTrak”, a fully digital, self-paced financial, 15 module financial education curriculum for our client families. With the goal of helping our clients’ children and grandchildren learn healthy financial habits early in life, RightTrak includes videos, games, quizzes, assignments, real-life scenarios and more to create a financial learning experience like no other. We have also partnered with high schools and college athletic programs to spread the impact of the RightTrak program.
Total Assets Under Management*
Office Locations*
Total Colleagues*
Families/Business Serves To*
Despite our growth over the years, we share the overwhelming feeling we are just getting started. We believe our commitment to continuously enhancing our client’s investment experience combined with our ongoing efforts to improve our colleague experience, will help us assist more families and businesses reach their objectives.
* As of December 31, 2024