Hudson Companies is an SEC-registered investment adviser in Pearl River, New York, managing portfolios for families in Rockland County and Bergen County. The firm was founded in 2008 by Chris Conover, who continues to lead it today. Hudson’s work is the portfolio: the decisions, the trades, the cash flows, and the long-term structure of a family’s financial assets.
Hudson is the firm that manages the money. For a family with substantial wealth, Hudson takes responsibility for the investment portfolio and coordinates the other professionals in the family’s financial life. The accountant, the lawyer, the insurance professionals, and any trustee all work from the same set of facts, because Hudson makes sure they do.
Chris Conover founded Hudson Companies in 2008 and still leads the firm. He started on Wall Street in 1995, and he has lived in Rockland his whole life. He earned a BA in Economics and an MBA in Finance at Fordham, and began doctoral coursework there in behavioral economics. That combination—a lifetime in the county, a career in finance, and formal study of how people actually make decisions about money—shapes how the firm works with families.
Consider a family that has just sold a business. The proceeds are in cash, sitting in a brokerage account. The family has an accountant who handles the tax return, a lawyer who reviews the sale documents, and an insurance broker who handles the policies. Each of those professionals is good at what they do. But nobody is looking at the whole picture. The accountant sees the tax liability. The lawyer sees the legal structure. The insurance broker sees the risk. Hudson sees the portfolio: what the cash should become, how it should be invested, how much should be set aside for the tax bill, and how the family’s spending will flow through the accounts over the next several years. Hudson coordinates the others so the plan stays in one place and still makes sense.
Hudson manages the portfolio. The family pays the firm a fee for that work. Hudson is a fiduciary. The firm’s only interest is the family’s portfolio, because the family is the only source of the firm’s revenue.
Hudson does not prepare tax returns, review legal documents, or sell insurance. Those are the jobs of the accountant, the lawyer, and the insurance professional. Hudson coordinates them. When the accountant needs to know the cost basis of a position, Hudson provides it. When the lawyer needs to understand the liquidity of the estate, Hudson explains it. When the insurance professional needs to know the value of an asset, Hudson confirms it. The family does not have to be the messenger. Hudson is the hub.
The portfolio itself is managed with an eye toward the family’s actual life. A family with a business sale has different needs than a family with a pension and a rental property. A family with young children has different needs than a family with grandchildren in college. Hudson builds a portfolio around those facts, not around a formula. The firm holds a range of investments, but the specific mix depends on the family’s circumstances, goals, and tolerance for risk. Hudson does not sell products. Hudson makes decisions.
Those decisions are made in Pearl River. Hudson meets families where they are, in Rockland County and across Bergen County. The firm works with families who live in Clarkstown, Orangetown, Ramapo, and the surrounding towns. The work is the same regardless of the address: manage the portfolio, coordinate the professionals, and keep the family’s financial life in one place.
Chris Conover’s background matters here. He has lived in Rockland his whole life. He knows the county, the communities, and the families. He started on Wall Street in 1995, so he has seen markets in good times and bad. He studied economics and finance at Fordham, and he began doctoral work in behavioral economics, which is the study of how people actually make financial decisions—not how they should in theory, but how they do in practice. That matters because families with substantial wealth face decisions that are as much emotional as financial. Selling a business, inheriting money, or planning for a generation to come involves feelings about work, family, and legacy. Hudson understands that. The firm does not pretend those feelings do not exist. Hudson works with them.
The coordination work is often the most valuable thing Hudson does. A family may have worked with the same accountant for twenty years and the same lawyer for ten. Those relationships matter. Hudson is not there to replace them. Hudson is there to make sure they are all working from the same facts. When the accountant prepares the tax return, the numbers should match the portfolio. When the lawyer drafts the estate plan, the assumptions should match the investments. When the insurance professional reviews the policies, the coverage should match the assets. Hudson is the thread that ties those pieces together.
That is what a family gets when they work with Hudson: a single firm that manages the portfolio and coordinates the rest. The family does not have to explain the same situation to four different professionals. Hudson does that. The family does not have to wonder whether the accountant and the lawyer are on the same page. Hudson makes sure they are. The family does not have to track the performance of every account in a spreadsheet. Hudson does that.
The firm’s size is part of the value. Hudson is not a large institution with layers of managers and committees. Hudson is a firm led by its founder, working directly with families. When a family works with Hudson, they work with Chris Conover and the team he has built. That means the person making the decisions knows the family’s situation firsthand. There is no handoff to a junior associate. There is no phone tree. There is a direct relationship between the family and the firm.
That relationship is built on the fee structure. Hudson is paid by the family, and only by the family. That is the foundation of the fiduciary relationship. Because the family is the only source of revenue, Hudson’s only incentive is the family’s success. There is no commission on a product. There is no incentive to recommend one investment over another because of a kickback. There is only the work: managing the portfolio and coordinating the professionals.
For a family in Rockland County or Bergen County, that work is available now. Hudson Companies is at 1 Blue Hill Plaza in Pearl River. The firm manages investments for families in the area, and the work is the same regardless of the size of the portfolio or the complexity of the situation. The first step is a conversation.
To talk with Hudson, Schedule a conversation or call (845) 920-1600. The office is at 1 Blue Hill Plaza, Pearl River.
