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Advice built around the client, not the product.

Ashworth & Vale was founded in 2011 by two advisors who left larger firms over a simple disagreement: that recommendations should never be shaped by what a firm is incentivized to sell.

Our story

We started with four clients and a shared conviction: that most financial advice fails not because it’s wrong, but because it’s generic — built for a hypothetical client rather than the one actually in the room.

Fifteen years later, we’ve kept the model deliberately small. Every client works directly with a senior advisor who stays with them for years, not a rotating team learning their situation from scratch each quarter.

We’re independent and fee-based, which means our advice isn’t tied to any product we’re paid to sell. It’s a slower way to grow a firm. We think it’s the only honest one.

Our Boston office, founded 2011

What guides our advice

Independence

We hold no proprietary products and take no commissions from third parties. Every recommendation is judged on one question: is this right for the client.

Independence

If we can’t explain a strategy in a way you’d repeat to a friend, we haven’t finished the work. Complexity is not a substitute for clarity.

Long-term accountability

Advisors stay with their clients for the life of the relationship. The person who built the plan is the person who answers for it.

Fifteen years, in brief

2011

Founded in Boston by Eleanor Ashworth and Marcus Vale, with four founding client families.

2015

Opened a corporate advisory practice to serve founders navigating fundraising and early M&A.

2019

Crossed $1B in assets advised; grew to a team of twelve advisors across wealth and corporate practices.

2023

Launched a dedicated succession-planning practice for family-owned and multi-generational businesses.

2026

Now advising on $2.4B in assets for 140+ client relationships, with the same senior-advisor model we started with.

The team

Eleanor Ashworth

Founding Partner, Wealth Management

Marcus Vale

Founding Partner, Corporate Advisory

Renata Holt

Partner, M&A Advisory

David Kwon

Partner, Tax & Estate Planning

Sofia Ferreira

Senior Advisor, Wealth Management

James Turner

Senior Advisor, Retirement & Succession

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