About Carrick Bend Advisors LLC
Carrick Bend Advisors is a San Francisco Bay Area registered investment advisory (RIA) firm centrally located in San Mateo, California that specializes in fee-only, comprehensive portfolio and wealth management services. We offer our services to individuals, small businesses, and retirement plan sponsors.
Like the carrick bend, a knot used to join the ends of two large ropes, we integrate disparate investments into a strong whole. We are particularly adept at creating an effective investment strategy and managing multiple account portfolios with taxable, tax-deferred, and tax-free investments.

  • Our clients’ objectives and goals drive our investment and financial planning advice.
  • We partner with our clients, working with other professionals our clients select to help meet their financial and life goals.
  • We charge for our services based upon clearly disclosed fees.
  • We offer concise and unbiased advice without ever earning commissions.

We bring industry-leading private client portfolio and wealth management to our current clients and introduce our new clients to a standard previously available only to the most affluent.

Carrick Bend Advisors LLC provides industry-leading, unbiased, professional portfolio and wealth management services to help our clients identify and achieve their financial goals.
About the Principal
Carrick Bend Advisors was founded by Brian Berberet, CFA, who brings more than 14 years of institutional and private client portfolio management, securities research, and institutional equities trading experience to the firm.

Berberet has held the Chartered Financial Analyst™ designation since 1996. The CFA program, of the CFA Institute, tests and grants expert status in core areas of the investment process, specifically in securities valuation and portfolio management.

Berberet worked eight years at the San Francisco-based mutual fund company Highmark Capital Management.

  • He co-managed a small cap mutual fund that received a four-star rating from Morningstar.
  • He served as an associate portfolio manager of a large cap equity income mutual fund.
  • He developed successful equity portfolio strategies for his prior firm’s private client group.

As an equity analyst, Berberet covered the banking, telecommunications services, entertainment, utilities, gaming and leisure, and R.E.I.T. industries. His work experience also includes institutional equities trading.

Berberet is on the Board of the CFA Society of San Francisco and is the Co-Chair of the Public Awareness Committee.

Berberet is also a Board Member of the Downtown San Mateo Association (DSMA) and is a member of its Business Development Committee.

He also serves on the Investment Advisory Committee for the City of San Mateo.

Brian is originally from Santa Barbara and earned a BBA in Finance from the University of Texas at Austin.