Ropes Wealth Advisors 13F annual report

Ropes Wealth Advisors is an investment fund managing more than $515 billion ran by Kristin Fazio. There are currently 211 companies in Mrs. Fazio’s portfolio. The largest investments include Apple Inc and Microsoft, together worth $66.2 billion.

$515 billion Assets Under Management (AUM)

As of 12th October 2023, Ropes Wealth Advisors’s top holding is 195,650 shares of Apple Inc currently worth over $33.5 billion and making up 6.5% of the portfolio value. Relative to the number of outstanding shares of Apple Inc, Ropes Wealth Advisors owns more than approximately 0.1% of the company. In addition, the fund holds 103,673 shares of Microsoft worth $32.7 billion, whose value grew 14.4% in the past six months. The third-largest holding is Ishares Tr worth $56.3 billion and the next is Vanguard Index Fds worth $44 billion, with 188,808 shares owned.

Currently, Ropes Wealth Advisors's portfolio is worth at least $515 billion. The total portfolio value may be much higher due to cash assets that are not publicly disclosed such as fixed income, real estate, or cash equivalents.

Careers at Ropes Wealth Advisors

The Ropes Wealth Advisors office and employees reside in Boston, Massachusetts. According to the last 13-F report filed with the SEC, Kristin Fazio serves as the Chief Compliance Officer at Ropes Wealth Advisors.

Recent trades

In the most recent 13F filing, Ropes Wealth Advisors revealed that it had opened a new position in Ishares Tr and bought 2,012 shares worth $769 million.

The investment fund also strengthened its position in Apple Inc by buying 1,568 additional shares. This makes their stake in Apple Inc total 195,650 shares worth $33.5 billion. Apple Inc soared 22.2% in the past year.

On the other hand, there are companies that Ropes Wealth Advisors is getting rid of from its portfolio. Ropes Wealth Advisors closed its position in NextEra Partners LP on 19th October 2023. It sold the previously owned 75,170 shares for $4.57 billion. Kristin Fazio also disclosed a decreased stake in Microsoft by approximately 0.1%. This leaves the value of the investment at $32.7 billion and 103,673 shares.

One of the average hedge funds

The two most similar investment funds to Ropes Wealth Advisors are Somerville Kurt F and Cohen Capital Management. They manage $515 billion and $515 billion respectively.


Kristin Fazio investment strategy

Ropes Wealth Advisors’s portfolio is diversified across 13 sectors. Currently, their heaviest sector is Technology — making up 14.7% of the total portfolio value. The fund focuses on investments in the United States as 57.8% of the portfolio companies are based in the United States.

The majority of the companies in the fund’s portfolio are large-cap stocks. Stocks with a size of more than $10 billion in market cap make up 58% of the total holdings value. On the other hand, small-cap stocks make up only 1.9% of the portfolio. The average market cap of the portfolio companies is close to $152 billion.

The complete list of Ropes Wealth Advisors trades based on 13F SEC filings

These positions were updated on October 19th based on the fund’s latest 13F filing. Quickly find out what the most recently closed or increased positions are.

Security Shares Owned Value Allocation
Apple Inc
0.81%
195,650
$33,497,174,000 6.51%
Microsoft Corporation
8.88%
103,673
$32,734,805,000 6.36%
Ishares Tr
12.76%
407,615
$56,294,142,000 10.94%
Vanguard Index Fds
9.16%
188,808
$44,029,569,000 8.56%
Exxon Mobil Corp.
9.29%
108,782
$12,790,606,000 2.49%
Amazon.com Inc.
4.23%
87,196
$11,084,356,000 2.15%
Procter And Gamble Co
3.04%
67,105
$9,787,945,000 1.90%
JPMorgan Chase & Co.
0.33%
67,450
$9,781,652,000 1.90%
Johnson & Johnson
2.88%
61,171
$9,527,360,000 1.85%
Alphabet Inc
0.27%
110,638
$14,522,015,000 2.82%
Berkshire Hathaway Inc.
8.34%
23,114
$13,408,101,000 2.61%
Pepsico Inc
4.43%
44,256
$7,498,795,000 1.46%
Home Depot, Inc.
2.87%
24,012
$7,255,472,000 1.41%
Automatic Data Processing In
2.43%
28,611
$6,883,285,000 1.34%
Pfizer Inc.
5.39%
201,003
$6,667,280,000 1.30%
Nushares Etf Tr
0.47%
174,479
$5,860,734,000 1.14%
International Business Machs
2.73%
38,809
$5,444,936,000 1.06%
NextEra Energy Inc
26.63%
92,376
$5,292,226,000 1.03%
Abbvie Inc
9.19%
34,266
$5,107,708,000 0.99%
Spdr S&p 500 Etf Tr
4.26%
11,238
$4,804,143,000 0.93%
Canadian Natl Ry Co
9.61%
43,472
$4,709,322,000 0.92%
Air Prods & Chems Inc
1.59%
16,302
$4,619,987,000 0.90%
NextEra Energy Partners LP
Closed
75,170
$4,566,578,000
Spdr Gold Tr
0.28%
24,882
$4,266,019,000 0.83%
Vanguard Intl Equity Index F
30.11%
151,451
$8,139,963,000 1.58%
Merck & Co Inc
0.63%
39,428
$4,059,066,000 0.79%
Meta Platforms Inc
4.01%
13,422
$4,029,419,000 0.78%
DraftKings Inc.
Closed
207,276
$4,012,863,000
Cisco Sys Inc
8.56%
74,629
$4,012,047,000 0.78%
Akamai Technologies Inc
0.58%
37,449
$3,989,816,000 0.78%
Mcdonalds Corp
4.64%
14,358
$3,782,379,000 0.73%
Oracle Corp.
3.77%
35,046
$3,712,072,000 0.72%
Chevron Corp.
13.90%
21,604
$3,642,824,000 0.71%
Vanguard Star Fds
19.25%
66,561
$3,562,345,000 0.69%
Abbott Labs
0.51%
34,019
$3,294,701,000 0.64%
Magellan Midstream Prtnrs Lp
Closed
57,687
$3,130,105,000
Howard Hughes Corporation
Closed
37,602
$3,008,160,000
Walmart Inc
7.75%
16,867
$2,697,539,000 0.52%
Coca-Cola Co
8.94%
46,211
$2,586,875,000 0.50%
Mastercard Incorporated
26.20%
6,521
$2,581,802,000 0.50%
Bristol-Myers Squibb Co.
14.42%
44,337
$2,573,323,000 0.50%
Eli Lilly & Co
9.35%
4,645
$2,494,969,000 0.48%
Lowes Cos Inc
3.57%
11,792
$2,450,809,000 0.48%
Vanguard Tax-managed Fds
15.54%
55,815
$2,440,227,000 0.47%
Tjx Cos Inc New
0.67%
27,402
$2,435,490,000 0.47%
Deere & Co.
2.96%
6,371
$2,404,287,000 0.47%
Idexx Labs Inc
23.28%
5,474
$2,393,616,000 0.47%
Chubb Limited
8.02%
11,465
$2,386,784,000 0.46%
Vanguard Bd Index Fds
11.53%
33,984
$2,371,420,000 0.46%
Union Pac Corp
17.99%
11,516
$2,345,084,000 0.46%
Becton Dickinson & Co.
2.23%
9,058
$2,341,703,000 0.46%
Roper Technologies Inc
0.51%
4,835
$2,341,494,000 0.45%
General Electric Co.
17.97%
20,071
$2,218,849,000 0.43%
Texas Pacific Land Corporati
No change
1,203
$2,193,449,000 0.43%
3M Co.
1.52%
22,756
$2,130,423,000 0.41%
Vistra Corp
Closed
87,214
$2,093,136,000
AMGEN Inc.
2.92%
7,758
$2,085,012,000 0.41%
Illinois Tool Wks Inc
9.86%
8,789
$2,024,195,000 0.39%
Caterpillar Inc.
7.08%
7,402
$2,020,682,000 0.39%
NVIDIA Corp
3.45%
4,645
$2,020,512,000 0.39%
Schwab Strategic Tr
Closed
59,857
$2,017,779,000
Kennedy-Wilson Holdings Inc
Closed
120,298
$1,995,744,000
Visa Inc
4.17%
8,573
$1,971,820,000 0.38%
Vanguard Specialized Funds
6.49%
12,574
$1,953,804,000 0.38%
Kimberly-Clark Corp.
3.15%
15,855
$1,916,077,000 0.37%
Intel Corp.
13.07%
53,413
$1,898,815,000 0.37%
Alibaba Group Hldg Ltd
No change
21,687
$1,881,130,000 0.37%
Texas Instrs Inc
25.88%
11,547
$1,836,120,000 0.36%
Honeywell International Inc
1.12%
9,881
$1,825,402,000 0.35%
Vanguard Whitehall Fds
0.74%
17,516
$1,809,746,000 0.35%
General Mls Inc
0.04%
27,376
$1,751,790,000 0.34%
Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.
166.14%
5,219
$1,688,854,000 0.33%
Broadcom Inc.
30.18%
2,023
$1,680,313,000 0.33%
American Express Co.
51.62%
10,645
$1,588,139,000 0.31%
Spdr Index Shs Fds
No change
50,850
$1,576,859,000 0.31%
Adobe Inc
1.32%
3,064
$1,562,334,000 0.30%
Linde Plc.
1.48%
4,050
$1,507,968,000 0.29%
Intuit Inc
1.29%
2,834
$1,448,075,000 0.28%
Dominion Energy Inc
Closed
24,233
$1,354,877,000
Costco Whsl Corp New
25.26%
2,391
$1,350,891,000 0.26%
Disney Walt Co
17.44%
16,071
$1,302,555,000 0.25%
Qualcomm, Inc.
5.06%
11,679
$1,297,074,000 0.25%
Northern Tr Corp
12.29%
18,663
$1,296,705,000 0.25%
Hershey Company
0.25%
6,426
$1,285,622,000 0.25%
Boeing Co.
3.85%
6,465
$1,239,241,000 0.24%
Accenture Plc Ireland
12.84%
3,964
$1,217,466,000 0.24%
Colgate-Palmolive Co.
11.64%
16,072
$1,142,846,000 0.22%
Fortinet Inc
0.08%
19,300
$1,132,524,000 0.22%
Centerpoint Energy Inc.
Closed
38,389
$1,130,940,000
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc.
5.72%
2,193
$1,110,031,000 0.22%
Select Sector Spdr Tr
2.95%
32,365
$2,921,597,000 0.57%
Danaher Corp.
8.43%
4,451
$1,104,195,000 0.21%
BP plc
9.44%
28,279
$1,094,963,000 0.21%
General Dynamics Corp.
29.26%
4,930
$1,089,378,000 0.21%
Ishares Tr
Closed
20,053
$1,847,814,000
Comcast Corp New
80.98%
23,473
$1,040,783,000 0.20%
Sysco Corp.
Closed
13,414
$1,035,963,000
CVS Health Corp
19.72%
14,825
$1,035,099,000 0.20%
Uber Technologies Inc
Closed
32,574
$1,032,596,000
PotlatchDeltic Corp
Closed
20,550
$1,017,225,000
Norfolk Southn Corp
11.11%
5,010
$986,619,000 0.19%
S&P Global Inc
15.82%
2,679
$978,900,000 0.19%
Vanguard Mun Bd Fds
Closed
19,305
$977,991,000
Unitedhealth Group Inc
16.33%
1,906
$961,231,000 0.19%
Vertex Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
10.59%
2,735
$951,069,000 0.18%
Tesla Inc
1.42%
3,703
$926,565,000 0.18%
DocuSign Inc
No change
20,349
$854,658,000 0.17%
Lockheed Martin Corp.
1.16%
2,085
$852,736,000 0.17%
Moodys Corp
No change
2,656
$839,748,000 0.16%
Cloudflare Inc
11.87%
12,915
$814,155,000 0.16%
Bank America Corp
17.94%
29,363
$803,956,000 0.16%
RTX Corp
31.31%
11,026
$793,536,000 0.15%
AT&T, Inc.
66.22%
51,612
$775,207,000 0.15%
Verizon Communications Inc
16.44%
23,783
$770,821,000 0.15%
Nike, Inc.
9.37%
8,047
$769,437,000 0.15%
Ishares Tr
Opened
2,012
$768,946,000 0.15%
Salesforce Inc
0.62%
3,739
$758,194,000 0.15%
Broadridge Finl Solutions In
4.07%
4,151
$743,237,000 0.14%
Novo-nordisk A S
95.23%
8,100
$736,614,000 0.14%
Starbucks Corp.
11.41%
7,718
$704,433,000 0.14%
NRG Energy Inc.
Closed
20,390
$699,173,000
Emerson Elec Co
8.64%
6,992
$675,206,000 0.13%
Asml Holding N V
2.42%
1,143
$672,890,000 0.13%
Wisdomtree Tr
Closed
14,100
$645,639,000
Blackstone Inc
No change
5,868
$628,698,000 0.12%
Techtarget Inc.
No change
20,485
$621,925,000 0.12%
Ameriprise Finl Inc
37.91%
1,885
$621,447,000 0.12%
VanEck ETF Trust
No change
12,403
$608,974,000 0.12%
Prologis Inc
0.39%
5,415
$607,617,000 0.12%
Mondelez International Inc.
81.23%
8,518
$591,149,000 0.11%
Dover Corp.
1.13%
4,208
$587,025,000 0.11%
DoorDash Inc
Opened
7,326
$582,197,000 0.11%
Sherwin-Williams Co.
7.60%
2,260
$576,413,000 0.11%
Rockwell Automation Inc
13.19%
2,016
$576,314,000 0.11%
Cummins Inc.
1.38%
2,506
$572,521,000 0.11%
Duke Energy Corp.
2.46%
6,486
$572,412,000 0.11%
J P Morgan Exchange Traded F
0.35%
11,252
$567,663,000 0.11%
Medtronic Plc
99.75%
7,205
$564,608,000 0.11%
Philip Morris International Inc
42.43%
6,089
$563,702,000 0.11%
American Elec Pwr Co Inc
26.21%
7,367
$554,131,000 0.11%
Blackrock Inc.
14.09%
835
$540,084,000 0.10%
Biogen Inc
6.97%
2,068
$531,497,000 0.10%
Taiwan Semiconductor Mfg Ltd
1.62%
6,090
$529,238,000 0.10%
RPT Realty
No change
10,345
$526,147,000 0.10%
United Parcel Service, Inc.
32.11%
3,328
$518,693,000 0.10%
Exact Sciences Corp.
Closed
7,483
$507,422,000
Brown-Forman Corporation
0.24%
16,315
$944,746,000 0.18%
Invesco Exchange Traded Fd T
29.82%
3,313
$469,388,000 0.09%
Starwood Ppty Tr Inc
Closed
26,480
$468,431,000
Conocophillips
58.66%
3,776
$452,365,000 0.09%
Williams Cos Inc
82.68%
13,266
$446,933,000 0.09%
Cigna Group (The)
43.90%
1,557
$445,411,000 0.09%
Ishares Inc
7.47%
9,297
$442,426,000 0.09%
Spdr Ser Tr
Opened
4,814
$442,021,000 0.09%
Shell Plc
32.32%
6,805
$438,106,000 0.09%
Enterprise Prods Partners L
34.48%
15,938
$436,221,000 0.08%
Analog Devices Inc.
26.72%
2,480
$434,223,000 0.08%
Schwab Strategic Tr
59.54%
6,104
$431,891,000 0.08%
Advanced Micro Devices Inc.
21.29%
4,199
$431,741,000 0.08%
Oneok Inc.
Opened
6,806
$431,682,000 0.08%
American Tower Corp.
37.43%
2,603
$428,003,000 0.08%
Paychex Inc.
No change
3,694
$426,029,000 0.08%
Ishares U S Etf Tr
2.21%
8,378
$417,958,000 0.08%
Aflac Inc.
No change
5,390
$413,714,000 0.08%
Eaton Corp Plc
23.31%
1,899
$405,019,000 0.08%
Ametek Inc
Opened
2,740
$404,862,000 0.08%
Dimensional Etf Trust
No change
15,162
$397,244,000 0.08%
Applied Matls Inc
8.40%
2,845
$393,864,000 0.08%
Morgan Stanley
80.08%
4,781
$390,434,000 0.08%
Republic Svcs Inc
27.70%
2,688
$383,067,000 0.07%
Vanguard Scottsdale Fds
Opened
5,015
$381,040,000 0.07%
10x Genomics, Inc.
35.13%
9,212
$379,995,000 0.07%
Dell Technologies Inc
0.85%
5,503
$379,157,000 0.07%
Us Bancorp Del
16.84%
11,265
$372,421,000 0.07%
Fidelity Covington Trust
No change
19,910
$371,254,000 0.07%
Schwab Charles Corp
13.69%
6,725
$369,203,000 0.07%
Moderna Inc
15.74%
3,566
$368,332,000 0.07%
Palo Alto Networks Inc
No change
1,524
$357,287,000 0.07%
Vanguard Index Fds
Opened
3,405
$625,809,000 0.12%
Zimmer Biomet Holdings Inc
0.19%
3,091
$346,872,000 0.07%
Intuitive Surgical Inc
3.45%
1,174
$343,148,000 0.07%
Zoetis Inc
32.49%
1,972
$343,084,000 0.07%
Vmware Inc.
Closed
2,741
$342,214,000
Laboratory Corp Amer Hldgs
11.44%
1,675
$336,759,000 0.07%
Stryker Corp.
3.24%
1,196
$326,831,000 0.06%
Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
Opened
396
$325,892,000 0.06%
Littelfuse, Inc.
Opened
1,315
$325,226,000 0.06%
Novartis AG
19.03%
3,187
$324,582,000 0.06%
United Rentals, Inc.
3.19%
728
$323,647,000 0.06%
Microchip Technology, Inc.
18.02%
4,060
$316,883,000 0.06%
Ge Healthcare Technologies I
42.90%
4,602
$313,120,000 0.06%
Yum Brands Inc.
5.52%
2,431
$303,729,000 0.06%
Intercontinental Exchange In
Opened
2,752
$302,775,000 0.06%
Vanguard World Fd
Opened
3,906
$562,368,000 0.11%
Eog Res Inc
Opened
2,367
$300,041,000 0.06%
DuPont de Nemours Inc
57.01%
3,974
$296,421,000 0.06%
Pacer Fds Tr
Closed
6,268
$294,300,000
Aptargroup Inc.
3.81%
2,323
$290,468,000 0.06%
WEC Energy Group Inc
22.37%
3,557
$286,488,000 0.06%
Target Corp
14.43%
2,567
$283,850,000 0.06%
Darden Restaurants, Inc.
0.92%
1,980
$283,576,000 0.06%
Travelers Companies Inc.
0.41%
1,712
$279,587,000 0.05%
Vanguard World Fds
No change
1,605
$276,901,000 0.05%
Northrop Grumman Corp.
7.53%
628
$276,439,000 0.05%
Bank New York Mellon Corp
12.38%
6,372
$271,766,000 0.05%
Valero Energy Corp.
5.29%
1,914
$271,233,000 0.05%
Old Natl Bancorp Ind
No change
18,370
$267,100,000 0.05%
Energy Transfer L P
No change
18,835
$264,255,000 0.05%
Goldman Sachs Etf Tr
Closed
3,201
$259,985,000
Ulta Beauty Inc
31.58%
650
$259,643,000 0.05%
Avery Dennison Corp.
Opened
1,406
$256,834,000 0.05%
Diageo plc
Closed
1,401
$253,833,000
Fiserv, Inc.
Opened
2,244
$253,482,000 0.05%
PayPal Holdings Inc
6.68%
4,260
$249,040,000 0.05%
Atmos Energy Corp.
Opened
2,349
$248,830,000 0.05%
Aptiv PLC
0.71%
2,518
$248,250,000 0.05%
Bhp Group Ltd
No change
4,350
$247,428,000 0.05%
Vanguard Scottsdale Fds
36.94%
3,284
$246,793,000 0.05%
Spdr S&p Midcap 400 Etf Tr
No change
538
$245,672,000 0.05%
Netflix Inc.
Closed
709
$244,945,000
Dow Inc
39.56%
4,660
$240,244,000 0.05%
Carrier Global Corporation
Opened
4,296
$237,139,000 0.05%
Franklin Resources, Inc.
Closed
8,700
$234,378,000
Dominos Pizza Inc
Opened
613
$232,164,000 0.05%
CME Group Inc
Opened
1,152
$230,653,000 0.04%
Astrazeneca plc
7.90%
3,277
$221,918,000 0.04%
Ppg Inds Inc
Closed
1,660
$221,743,000
Agilent Technologies Inc.
Opened
1,924
$215,142,000 0.04%
Marsh & McLennan Cos., Inc.
Opened
1,114
$211,994,000 0.04%
Teradyne, Inc.
Closed
1,970
$211,795,000
Wells Fargo Co New
Closed
5,650
$211,197,000
Illumina Inc
2.33%
1,537
$210,999,000 0.04%
CDW Corp
Opened
1,045
$210,839,000 0.04%
Parker-Hannifin Corp.
Closed
615
$206,708,000
Corteva Inc
Opened
4,032
$206,277,000 0.04%
Tootsie Roll Inds Inc
Closed
4,566
$205,059,000
Gilead Sciences, Inc.
5.39%
2,720
$203,807,000 0.04%
Booking Holdings Inc
Opened
66
$203,541,000 0.04%
Baxter International Inc.
Closed
5,010
$203,206,000
Iamgold Corp.
No change
21,000
$45,150,000 0.01%
Nektar Therapeutics
33.33%
11,580
$6,897,000 0.00%
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