Welcome to Southport Capital Risk Management

Advisor Support for

Growing Your Practice

Adding a Layer of Protection to Retirement Portfolios

Why Southport Capital Risk Management?

Effective risk management strategies can be very beneficial to investors, particularly those near or in retirement. At Southport Capital Risk Management, in addition to helping you mitigate market risk, we go further to help you address other risks that your retirement clients face, including health care risk, long-term care risk, and the risk of running out of money in retirement. And we make it easy for you to provide Medicare insurance, Social Security benefits optimization, tax planning and preparation, estate planning and much more. Becoming the central resource for retirement clients has never been easier.

Elevate What You're Doing

Grow Your Business Through Organic Marketing

We provide advisors with turnkey marketing support to reach existing and prospective retirement clients. This includes complete event and workshop packages at no charge—marketing strategy, venues, training, educational event materials, as well as meeting space for individual appointments. We know what your potential clients want to learn about, and have created everything you need to help you present information, gain trust, and set up individual appointments. We provide you with access to a complete scope of marketing services, including digital, web, video, print, PR, social media and much more.

Adding a Layer of Protection to Retirement Portfolios

Why Southport Capital Risk Management?

Effective risk management strategies can be very beneficial to investors, particularly those near or in retirement. At Southport Capital Risk Management, in addition to helping you mitigate market risk, we go further to help you address other risks that your retirement clients face, including health care risk, long-term care risk, and the risk of running out of money in retirement. And we make it easy for you to provide Medicare insurance, Social Security benefits optimization, tax planning and preparation, estate planning and much more. Becoming the central resource for retirement clients has never been easier.

Elevate What You're Doing

Grow Your Business Through Organic Marketing

We provide advisors with turnkey marketing support to reach existing and prospective retirement clients. This includes complete event and workshop packages at no charge—marketing strategy, venues, training, educational event materials, as well as meeting space for individual appointments. We know what your potential clients want to learn about, and have created everything you need to help you present information, gain trust, and set up individual appointments. We provide you with access to a complete scope of marketing services, including digital, web, video, print, PR, social media and much more.

Southport Capital

For Investments

At Southport Capital, we understand the unique challenges that come with managing wealth. For over 25 years, we have served as a trusted partner of individuals, families, and institutions, providing wealth management guidance and solutions based on a thorough understanding of each client’s situation and goals. We bring proven expertise to bear on every aspect of a client’s wealth – from accumulation and growth through preservation and distribution. Southport is registered with the SEC as a Registered Investment Advisor, required by rule to adopt and enforce a code of ethics that reflects our fiduciary duties.

John Woods, Chief Executive Officer

John J. Woods is the father to four boys and husband to Janelle Blaylock Woods. John attended Tennessee Tech where he was a member of the football team. He is in his 30th year in Financial Consulting and the last twenty six years as Executive Director at Oppenheimer and Company.

Prior to that, John was Vice President at Lehman Brothers. John is a former owner of 7 Speed and Agility Facilities and owned Sports A Rama and Honeycutt Sporting Goods for 5 years. His two oldest sons played football at Kentucky and 16U football and baseball at Walton High School, as well as 643 Baseball. John has served on several committees at NYO.

He is President of Friends of Chastain Park Foundation, serves on the Board at 643 Baseball Foundation and is the Chairman of Walton High School Touchdown Club. John is currently the owner of the Chattanooga Lookouts.

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