Investment Management

Marnoa builds disciplined, process-driven portfolios by combining macroeconomic insights with rigorous security selection. Our approach is designed to manage risk, reduce bias, and support clients’ long-term financial goals.

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Investment Planning Across Your Financial Future

Investment strategy brings together asset allocation and portfolio decisions in a way that aligns with your goals.

Portfolio Construction

Portfolio construction begins with a clear understanding of your objectives, time horizon, income needs, tax considerations, and risk tolerance. Portfolios are built using a disciplined asset allocation framework designed to achieve meaningful diversification. Each portfolio is structured to withstand market volatility rather than react to it.

Where appropriate, portfolios may include both public market investments and selective exposure to alternative asset classes. The objective is to maintain a transparent portfolio that evolves with your circumstances and remains aligned with your long-term financial goals.

Active Portfolio Management

Active portfolio management is focused on identifying and acting on investment opportunities throughout market and economic cycles. We continuously assess markets, valuations, and evolving conditions to uncover relative value, including during periods of market stress or extremes.

By combining macro insights with security level analysis, we position portfolios to capture attractive risk-adjusted returns while maintaining a clear understanding of what you own and the expected return over your holding period.

Risk Management

Risk management is central to building an investment strategy that can be sustained over time. We help align portfolio risk with your goals, time horizon, income requirements, and personal comfort level. This includes diversification across asset classes, both public and private, evaluating both upside potential and downside exposure, reviewing concentration risk, and assessing how your portfolio may respond under different market conditions. 

The objective is not to eliminate risk, but to manage it thoughtfully and deliberately so your portfolio remains resilient and aligned with your broader financial plan.

Tax-Efficient Investing

Tax-efficient investing focuses on structuring your portfolio with after-tax outcomes in mind. We assess how various sources of return are treated and how they fit within your overall tax position. By coordinating investment decisions with your broader tax strategy, we help minimize inefficiencies while maintaining a consistent portfolio aligned with your long-term objectives.

We also consider account selection, asset location, and income planning to support greater tax efficiency throughout different stages of your financial journey.

Retirement-Focused Investing

Retirement-focused investing requires a thoughtful transition from accumulation to income. We help structure portfolios to support withdrawal needs, manage longevity risk, address inflation, and balance income generation with long-term growth. This may include coordinating registered, non-registered, pension, and corporate assets where applicable.

Our approach is designed to help your investment strategy support retirement lifestyle needs while remaining aligned with tax planning, estate goals, and overall financial security.

Investment Strategy for Business Owners

Business owners often need investment strategies that account for both personal and corporate wealth. We help assess retained earnings, corporate investment accounts, compensation planning, tax considerations, and long-term succession or exit goals. This planning connects business liquidity with personal retirement, family priorities, and portfolio design.

Our role is to help ensure investment decisions inside and outside the corporation are coordinated, tax-aware, and aligned with your broader wealth strategy.
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Our Investment Management Process

We construct portfolios across public and alternative investments using a time-tested systematic framework.

Discovery

We begin by getting to know you and what matters most to you, including financial goals, investment experience, risk tolerance, time horizon, income needs, tax position, and the priorities that shape your broader plan.

Strategy

We build your investment strategy around you, applying our asset allocation framework, thoughtful diversification, and risk management to align your portfolio with your goals and broader financial plan.

Implementation

We bring your strategy to life through asset allocation and constructing your portfolio across asset classes and geographies, with careful attention to security selection, tax efficiency, diversification, liquidity, and each position's role. We also coordinate with your other advisors where needed.

Optimization

We actively monitor, rebalance, and refine your portfolio over time as markets evolve and your circumstances change, staying connected with you to ensure it remains aligned with your financial plan and supported by ongoing insight and thoughtful oversight.

Meet the Marnoa Team

Our team brings together financial planning, investment management, tax-aware strategy, and professional coordination.

Pedro Ribeiro, CIM®, FCSI®
Founder, CEO and Portfolio Manager

Pedro, founder of Marnoa, is a Portfolio Manager with over 25 years’ experience providing personalized, goal-based financial guidance. He holds CIM® and FCSI® designations and advises clients in Canada and the U.S.

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Nadeem Kassam, CFA®, MBA
Chief Investment Strategist, Chief Operating Officer and Portfolio Manager

Nadeem is Chief Investment Strategist and COO at Marnoa, with 15+ years’ experience across portfolio management, research, and strategy. A CFA charterholder, he brings disciplined, institutional insight to client portfolios.

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Christopher De Sousa, CIM®
Portfolio Manager

Christopher De Sousa is a Portfolio Manager at Marnoa, specializing in disciplined, long-term portfolio construction. He combines data-driven analysis with diversified strategies to support growth and capital preservation.

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Why Work With Marnoa for Investment Management?

Investment management should be disciplined, transparent, and connected to your broader financial goals. At Marnoa, we help you make portfolio decisions with long-term structure through:

  • Goal-based, not product-driven investing
  • Disciplined portfolio strategy
  • Integration with your full financial plan
  • Tax efficiency and risk management
  • Ongoing monitoring and optimization
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What Our Clients Say

Built on trust, clarity, and consistent support, our client relationships are the foundation of our work.

I’ve been working with my wealth consultant for a while now, and they’ve been awesome. Super easy to talk to and really know their stuff. They helped me make smart decisions with my money without all the confusing jargon. Definitely recommend if you want someone who actually cares about your goals.
Wilson
Current Client • Solicited • 2025
If you are looking for a group of people to help you meet your financial goals, Marnoa is a great company to work with. We set out plans many years ago and worked to towards accomplishing those plans. Adjustments were made along the way and we always felt that we were being listened to with any concerns we had. Now that we have reached retirement we are experiencing the benefits of having worked with Marnoa.
Bruce
Current Client • Solicited • 2025
I want to take a moment to express my sincere appreciation for Marnoa Wealth Management. Their professionalism, insight and unwavering commitment to my Family's financial goals have been nothing short of perfection. They not only provide sound investment advice, but also take time to understand our personal objectives by offering tailored strategies that reflect both prudence and foresight. Their transparency, responsiveness and deep market knowledge have given us immense confidence during these uncertain economic times. I truly value their Partnership and peace of mind they provide in managing not only my wife and mine, but our daughters personal wealth growth as well. Wish had known them years ago.
Scott
Current Client • Solicited • 2025
I can't say enough about the people at Marnoa Private Wealth Counsel. They are a close knit team and will go above and beyond for their clients to make them feel comfortable with the investments that they recommend for you. I have recommended them to other family members, that's the confidence I have in this team to make my money grow.
Wayne
Current Client • Solicited • 2025
Any testimonials represent the experiences and views of individual clients and are not representative of all client experiences. The clients providing testimonials were clients of the adviser at the time the testimonial was provided. Neither direct nor indirect compensation was provided in exchange for the client’s testimonial.

About Marnoa

Marnoa is an independent wealth management firm serving professionals, business owners, retirees, families, and cross-border households in Canada and the United States. Our investment philosophy is long-term, disciplined, and strategic, with an emphasis on portfolio construction, risk management, transparency, and alignment with each client’s broader financial plan.

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Investment Management FAQs

Explore answers to some of our most frequently asked questions. Looking for more information? Please reach out to us.

An investment manager helps design, implement, monitor, and adjust your portfolio based on your goals, time horizon, risk tolerance, tax situation, and broader financial plan. The role is to bring discipline, structure, and ongoing oversight to investment decisions.

Our approach is goal-based and planning-led, rather than product-driven. As fiduciaries, we use a disciplined, time-tested, and systematic investment process, focused on transparency, risk management, tax awareness, and alignment with your long-term financial plan.

Your portfolio is built around you. We take the time to understand your goals, time horizon, income needs, comfort with risk, tax position, and broader planning priorities, then design a portfolio where each investment decision supports your overall wealth strategy.

Portfolios are reviewed on an ongoing basis and adjusted when appropriate. Changes may be driven by market conditions, rebalancing needs, tax considerations, liquidity requirements, or changes in your personal, business, or retirement goals.

We evaluate investment strategies based on their role within your plan, cost, risk, diversification, and long-term suitability. Depending on your needs, your portfolio may include active strategies, passive exposure, or a combination of both.

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