About Us

Our Story

Altar Rock exists because wealthy clients deserve more than you’re getting today.

With over a century of combined wealth management experience, Altar Rock is the realization of the career-long dreams of our cohesive core team who met and worked together variously at Bernstein, Cresset, Fidelity and JP Morgan. Over our careers, we helped drive key innovations. But the firms' near-term profit motives often came first, so products and deals were in focus — not client outcomes, let alone the steady pursuit of structural alpha.

Today, Altar Rock offers something new: a wealth manager with a disciplined process built upon research and common sense — to help support your critical lifetime needs, wealth enhancement and transfer objectives, and next-level aspirations. Our subsidiary Path Matters LLC develops proprietary, leading-edge analytics.

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Meet Our Leaders

Archan K. Basu, CFA

Chief Investment Officer

A proven investor in public and private markets, Archan focuses on the key questions that investors face: macro strategy, plan design, risk budgeting, asset allocation and vehicle/manager selection.

Andrew Barnes

Chief Client Officer

Andrew Barnes provides investment, fiduciary and credit advice aligned to families’ unique needs around lifetime spending, wealth transfer and philanthropic objectives.

Nikolai Kovtunenko

Head of Risk & Analytics

Nikolai builds analytical engines to measure and manage risk. He has managed risk in capital markets, sales & trading, and private equity. He has worked for startups to global investment banks, in Asia, Europe and the US.

John Kasameyer, CFA

Head of Portfolio Strategy

John is a multi-asset, multi-horizon, multi-manager strategist who has built 10,000+ bespoke model portfolios since 2011 consistently exceeding goals for asset growth, portfolio results and client satisfaction.

Nikolai Kovtunenko

Head of Risk & Analytics

Craig Blackwell, CFA

Head of Research

Craig leads research on economies, asset classes, and investment managers. He helped develop Fidelity's industry-leading business-cycle framework, and consulted to thousands of wealth advisors to improve their model portfolios.

Isheka Agarwal

Manager, Operations

Isheka runs essential investment and operational processes and assists clients with their day-to-day needs. She holds an AB in Applied Math and Economics from Harvard University.

Craig Blackwell, CFA

Head of Research

Isheka Agarwal

Manager, Operations

Isheka runs essential investment and operational processes and assists clients with their day-to-day needs. She holds an AB in Applied Math and Economics from Harvard University.

Advisory Board

Charles Fishkin

Adjunct Faculty Baruch College. Formerly SVP Alliance Bernstein and Director, Office of Risk Assessment, SEC.

Warren Litman

Chief Financial Officer at Cobble Hill LifeCare. Formerly lead wealth management Quantitative Analyst at Bernstein.

David Weinreb

Former Trusts & Estates Partner within Ballard Spahr’s Private Client Services group and Wealth Management Group Director at Bernstein.

Jamie McLaughlin

Co-founder of the UHNW Institute. Former CEO of Geller & Co. Three-term Connecticut state senator.

David Berger

Former CEO of Uniguest and CEO of Campden Wealth. Previously CEO of Private Investor Collective.

Tom Conophy

Former Chief Technology/Information Officer at AutoNation, Staples, InterContinental Hotels and Starwood Hotels.

Rick Bookstaber

Co-founder and Head of Risk at Fabric. Inaugural Chief Risk Officer at Morgan Stanley, Salomon Smith Barney, and the University of California Regents.

Jeff Roush

Co-founder and Head of Strategy at Fabric. Formerly Chief Operating Officer at Harris Private Bank/myCFO and co-founder of Argos Wealth Advisors.

Mukesh Prasad

Surgeon, Weill Cornell Hospital. Co-head, Innova Capital Partners. Special Advisor to US Dept of Commerce.

Altar Rock LLC is a Registered Investment Adviser. This website is limited to general information regarding Altar Rock’s investment advisory services. Nothing here should be viewed as a substitute for personalized investment advice from Altar Rock — which would begin with a review of the client’s situation, needs, objectives and aspirations — or as tax, legal or accounting advice.

Investments involve risk and are not guaranteed. Different investments involve different types — and varying degrees — of risk. Past performance is not indicative of future performance. Do not assume that future performance of any specific investment, strategy, vehicle or manager referenced directly or indirectly herein will be profitable.

Any charts, graphs, vehicles, managers or strategies shown here are illustrative only, may be altered without notice, and should not be used as the sole basis for any investment decision.

Projections of structural alpha constitute neither actual nor hypothetical performance. They additionally assume the application of investment discipline, stable tax laws and rates, and efficient portfolio construction — none of which, by nature, can be guaranteed.

Altar Rock's investment advisory services are only offered in certain regulatory jurisdictions. If your location is one where we are not permitted to operate, we may decline to serve you.

Table of Fees for Services

Any charts, graphs, vehicles, managers or strategies shown here are illustrative only, may be altered without notice, and should not be used as the sole basis for any investment decision.

Altar Rock's investment advisory services are only offered in certain regulatory jurisdictions. If your location is one where we are not permitted to operate, we may decline to serve you.

Table of Fees for Services

Any charts, graphs, vehicles, managers or strategies shown here are illustrative only, may be altered without notice, and should not be used as the sole basis for any investment decision.

Altar Rock's investment advisory services are only offered in certain regulatory jurisdictions. If your location is one where we are not permitted to operate, we may decline to serve you.

Table of Fees for Services

Any charts, graphs, vehicles, managers or strategies shown here are illustrative only, may be altered without notice, and should not be used as the sole basis for any investment decision.

Altar Rock's investment advisory services are only offered in certain regulatory jurisdictions. If your location is one where we are not permitted to operate, we may decline to serve you.

Table of Fees for Services