John M. Ferraro
John M. Ferraro serves as Chief Investment Officer of Longhouse Wealth Management, where he brings a disciplined analytical background to portfolio construction, retirement income strategy, and fiduciary investment oversight.
Before entering investment management, John built a career as a Senior Scientist Principal Engineer in the Aerospace Industry, working in environments where precision, documentation, risk awareness, and repeatable processes mattered. That training continues to shape how he evaluates markets, builds portfolios, and helps guide retirement plan decisions.
John’s investment process is shaped by the same disciplined thinking used in complex engineering environments: define the objective, understand the constraints, measure the risks, and build a repeatable process.
Portfolio Construction
Designed around client goals, risk tolerance, income needs, tax awareness, and long-term discipline.
Risk Management
A focus on what can go wrong, how portfolios behave under stress, and how decisions fit the broader financial plan.
Retirement Plan Oversight
Supporting employer retirement plans with investment lineup review, fiduciary process, and disciplined plan governance.
Retirement Income
Helping clients think through distributions, liquidity, sequence-of-return risk, and sustainable income needs.
Chief Investment Officer | Longhouse Wealth Management
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John serves as Chief Investment Officer, helping guide investment strategy, portfolio construction, and retirement plan investment review.
The aircraft imagery reflects part of John M. Ferraro’s engineering background before entering investment management. During his aerospace career, John contributed to radar systems associated with advanced fighter aircraft, including the F-22, F/A-18, and F-35. These images are not meant to suggest investment performance or endorsement by any aircraft manufacturer or government agency. They are included to show the kind of high-stakes engineering environment that shaped John’s disciplined, process-driven approach as Chief Investment Officer of Longhouse Wealth Management.
His prior work as a senior scientist principal engineer emphasized analysis, documentation, systems thinking, and risk control. Those principles now inform his investment decision-making process.
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John’s investment work is part of the broader planning and advisory process at Longhouse Wealth Management, a Native American-owned registered investment advisory firm based in Encinitas, California.
