Anton Ladnyi, CFA - Portfolio Architect
Anton Ladnyi is a CFA Charterholder and the founder of A.L. Capital Advisory, a boutique quantitative investment advisory serving Cross-Border Europe. He spent eight years working inside two of the world's most demanding financial institutions - Goldman Sachs Equity Research and J.P. Morgan Wealth Management - where he applied the same institutional frameworks he now deploys for private clients across Europe, including UCITS and Irish-domiciled fund selection, dividend withholding tax mitigation, and US estate tax exposure for non-US-resident investors. He holds the CFA Charter from the CFA Institute and is an active CFA Institute Member. His advisory is fee-only: no products, no commissions, no structural conflict of interest.
Portfolio architect describes the role precisely: someone who designs the structure of a portfolio - the asset allocation, the risk budget, the rebalancing rules, the fund domicile and share-class choices, and the written policy that governs all of it - and then hands it over for the client to implement and own. It is deliberately not asset management. There is no custody of client assets, no trade execution, and no percentage-of-assets fee. Clients place their own orders through their own broker - Interactive Brokers is the most common choice among current clients. The architecture is the deliverable.
Eight years inside Goldman Sachs and J.P. Morgan
Eight years inside two of the world's foremost financial institutions form the analytical foundation of every client engagement at A.L. Capital Advisory.
Verified CFA Charterholder - every level independently checkable
The CFA designation is the most rigorous credential in the investment management industry - a three-level examination programme covering financial analysis, portfolio management, ethics, and quantitative methods, completed over a minimum of three years. Anton passed all three levels and was awarded the CFA Charter by the CFA Institute. He is an active CFA Institute Member and adheres to the CFA Institute Code of Ethics and Standards of Professional Conduct.
Why I built this practice
Institutional finance has a structural problem. The analytical rigour applied inside investment banks and asset managers - Black-Litterman optimisation, Monte Carlo simulation, formal governance documents - is not inaccessible to private investors. It is simply not offered to them, because the bank wealth management model is built on product distribution, not on advice.
The advisor at your bank is compensated by product sales. The independence of their recommendation is compromised before the meeting starts. A.L. Capital Advisory operates on the opposite structure: fee-only, with no product shelf, no commissions, and no conflict between what serves the client and what generates revenue for the firm.
The same frameworks applied at Goldman Sachs and J.P. Morgan, applied personally, with full transparency about every assumption and every trade-off.
— Anton Ladnyi, CFA · A.L. Capital AdvisoryEvery client engagement is grounded in CFA Institute standards. The Investment Policy Statement you receive is the same governance document used by pension funds and endowments. The risk assessment produces your actual risk-aversion coefficient, not a segment label. The portfolio allocation uses a Bayesian posterior framework - not a product tier.
The frameworks behind every engagement
Every engagement draws on the same quantitative architecture developed and refined across eight years of institutional practice. These are not models borrowed from textbooks - they are the tools used professionally at Goldman Sachs and J.P. Morgan, now applied directly in client mandates.
Start with a Portfolio Health Check · €150
A written diagnostic of your current holdings - correlation matrix, concentration risk, factor attribution, and one single highest-leverage action. Written personally by Anton within 48 hours. The €150 is credited in full toward the €750 Strategic Session if you proceed.
Which one: the Health Check if you have existing holdings to diagnose. The Strategic Session if you need an allocation built. If both apply - start with the Health Check; the €150 is credited.
Portfolio Health Check · €150 → Strategic Session · €750 Read the Research