Investment Associate

Position Description

U.S. Capital Wealth (“
USCW
”) is an independent, full-platform wealth management firm headquartered in Houston, Texas, managing approximately $11 billion across over 5,500 clients and 60+ financial advisors. USCW has a strong footprint in Texas across Houston, Austin, Dallas, and Georgetown, as well as offices in New York City and Massachusetts. USCW is majority owned by Arax Investment Partners, a premier wealth management platform company backed by Red Bird Capital Partners.

USCW’s mission is to combine the deep experience and expertise of its financial advisor teams with the significant breadth and depth of its investment strategies and solutions to deliver an exceptional client experience.

Investment Associate

Branch Office Manager, Houston office

4444 Westheimer Road, Houston, TX

Full-time, exempt

July 2026

We are seeking a motivated, analytically strong early-career professional to join USCW’s investment team as a junior member with a clear path to grow into a senior role over time. The Investment Associate will support the firm’s investment research, portfolio management, and due diligence functions, working directly with the Senior Managing Director and members of his team across asset classes. This is a client-facing role: the Investment Associate will interact directly with clients from the outset and, over time, will assume direct responsibility for servicing client relationships as well as sourcing and developing new client relationships, in each case with the advice and assistance of the Senior Managing Director.

The ideal candidate is a recent graduate holding a Master of Finance degree or an MBA, or a professional with one to three years of experience in the wealth management industry. This individual should have a rigorous quantitative foundation, genuine intellectual curiosity about markets, strong interpersonal skills, and the ambition to develop into a senior investment professional through demonstrated performance, initiative, and continuous learning.

• Interact directly with clients and represent the team professionally in meetings, calls, and written communications
• Participate in, and over time lead segments of, client meetings and portfolio reviews
• Assume increasing and, ultimately, direct responsibility for servicing assigned client relationships, with the advice and assistance of the Senior Managing Director
• Source and develop new client relationships through networking, referrals, and firm-sponsored initiatives, with the guidance and support of the Senior Managing Director
• Identify opportunities to deepen existing relationships (multi-generational engagement, additional assets, ancillary services)
• Maintain high standards of client experience, responsiveness, and follow-through
• This role is not back-office — the Investment Associate is expected to be client-capable from day one and to grow into full ownership of client relationships.

• Support research across equities, fixed income, alternatives, and third-party managers
• Build and maintain financial models, screens, and analytical tools
• Monitor markets, economic developments, and portfolio positioning; summarize implications for the team
• Assist in manager due diligence, including quantitative analysis, document review, and meeting preparation
• Assist in the construction, monitoring, and rebalancing of client portfolios
• Support performance measurement, attribution analysis, and risk reporting
• Help maintain asset allocation frameworks and capital markets assumptions
• Coordinate trade implementation and portfolio transitions with advisory teams and operations
• Ensure…