ABOUT US

Eric Lutton, CFA

Chief Investment Officer

Eric began his career trading equity options on the floor of the Chicago Board Options Exchange in 1997 where he learned the power and protective attributes of derivative

instruments. Shortly after leaving the Chicago trading pits for a trading floor at Conseco Capital, Eric worked with fixed-income veterans managing over $35 billion on behalf of institutional investors. After of plenty of cold winters in the Midwest, Eric accepted an offer and moved to South Florida. Here, he worked for a boutique RIA and Hedge Fund, Levitt Capital Management, as an Equity and Fixed-Income Analyst.

He was later offered the role of Portfolio Manager/ Analyst at Gibraltar Private Bank & Trust which dealt with Hight Net Worth and Ultra High Net Worth families. During this time, Eric obtained a Chartered Financial Analyst designation from CFA Institute. After

many years on the “buy side” of the financial industry, Eric had the opportunity to work on the “sell side” at JVB Financial covering institutional and RIA firms for fixed-income securities.

After covering many institutional and RIA clients, Eric was offered an opportunity at a start-up RIA firm named Sound Income Strategies based in Fort Lauderdale as their Chief Investment Officer in 2015. While at Sound Income Strategies, Eric developed all of the firms’ income-based strategies, including value equities. He was also responsible for starting the firms income-based ETF with the ticker FXED. FXED was the #1 top performer in its peer group earning a 5-star rating from Morning Star in its fixed income category out of 155 competing ETFs during 2023 and raked in the top ten since its inception. Eric helped build Sound Income Strategies from the ground up with the founder to over $4 billion in assets under management over a ten-year period from less than $30 million.

With many decades of experience in portfolio management, security analysis and trading, Eric has developed many strategies for income and growth to help meet client goals when navigating financial markets. Developing financial plans for high-net-worth

families to limit losses from market drawdowns, managing tax liabilities and helping build generational wealth is something Eric enjoys and excels at doing.