The Amber Hour Story

Family-Office Experience. Without the Institutional Overhead.

Amber Hour Private Wealth was founded on a simple conviction: families with significant wealth deserve the sophistication, coordination and personalization of a family office — without needing $100M to access it.

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Chris Chorlins, CFP®

From Family Office to Amber Hour

Before founding Amber Hour Private Wealth, Chris Chorlins served as Managing Director at a large multi-family office, where he worked directly with ultra-high-net-worth families on the full scope of their financial lives — investment strategy, estate coordination, tax planning integration, philanthropy, family governance and heir preparation.

That experience — working inside a multi-family office, seeing the complete picture of how complex family wealth actually operates — is the foundation of Amber Hour's approach.

What Chris brought from that environment was not just investment knowledge. It was an understanding of how the different dimensions of family wealth interact: how an estate structure affects investment strategy, how a liquidity event affects a family's dynamic, how unprepared heirs can undo in years what took decades to build.

Amber Hour was founded to make that level of insight available to families who have earned the need for it — without requiring the asset level of a family office or the institutional scale of a wirehouse.

"The families I worked with at a family office level weren't looking for a better portfolio. They were looking for someone who could help them think through the whole picture — and make sure the people around them were working together."

— Chris Chorlins, CFP®, Founder

CFP® · 20+ Years Experience

Chris holds the CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ designation and brings more than two decades of wealth management experience to every client relationship, including significant time working with ultra-high-net-worth families at the family office level.

What Family Office Experience Means for You

The Sophistication Your Wealth Deserves

Seeing the Whole Picture

Family offices are built around total-family financial integration. We bring that same perspective to every client — looking at your investments, trusts, tax situation, estate plan and family dynamics as a single, interconnected system.

Coordinating the Advisors

Coordinating advisors can be an important part of comprehensive wealth management. Where appropriate, Amber Hour may help clients work with their attorneys, CPAs and other professionals so that strategies are considered together.

Preparing the Next Generation

The most sophisticated families invest as much in heir preparation as in portfolio management. We bring that mindset to every multigenerational family we serve.

Values-Based Governance

Family offices help wealthy families articulate what they want their wealth to do in the world — and create structures that endure. We bring that same intention to family governance, philanthropy and legacy planning.

Independence from Institutions

Amber Hour is designed to provide personalized advice for families with complex wealth. Advisory services are offered through Savvy Advisors, and clients should review the applicable disclosures regarding services, fees and conflicts of interest.

For Families With Complex Wealth

Families with significant investable assets may find that a traditional family office is not the right fit. Amber Hour focuses on coordinated wealth management tailored to clients' circumstances.

Why This Matters

The Gap Between Families Who Need Sophisticated Wealth Management and Those Who Can Access It

Families with $10M to $50M in wealth may have complex financial circumstances, including trusts, entities, estate planning, and multiple generations. These circumstances may benefit from coordinated advice tailored to the family's objectives.

Different advisory firms offer different service models. Families evaluating providers may wish to consider each advisor's experience coordinating investment, estate, tax and family governance considerations.

Amber Hour is a boutique advisory practice focused on coordinated wealth management, with advisory services offered through Savvy Advisors.

Families evaluating advisory options may wish to ask how each provider would address their investment, estate, tax and family considerations.

The answer, increasingly, is an advisor who has worked at the family office level — and built a practice specifically designed to serve families like yours.

That's the story of Amber Hour.