Colin Ducharme

Colin Ducharme, CFA®
Senior Managing Director Financial Advisor Truist Investment Services, Inc.

948 Laskin Road

Virginia Beach, VA 23451

Colin.ducharme@truist.com

Phone 757-446-6880

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About me

Background

Colin Ducharme is a Senior Managing Director and Financial Advisor who helps lead The Compass Group. He offers clients insights drawn from more than two decades of investment management experience and originally joined BB&T Scott & Stringfellow – now Truist Investment Services Inc – in 2011. Colin’s career journey includes roles as a founder, portfolio manager, investment analyst, engineer and professional athlete. This diverse background enables him to connect with a wide span of client family and entity types to offer differentiated lenses for unique perspective. 

As a founder and portfolio manager he seeded, managed, and grew a high-returning equity strategy and created and listed (NYSE) the firm’s first active ETF, ringing the The Closing Bell. As an analyst he generated investment recommendations across the size and style spectrum for Lipper Award-winning teams managing >$9 billion in assets. As an engineer he streamlined manufacturing operations on a Fortune 500 defense contractor’s factory floor. 
Colin is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) in Virginia and a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) charterholder.

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Education

Bachelor of Arts
University of Virginia 2000
Master of Business Administration
Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2006
Master of Science in Materials Science and Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2006
Stanford Executive Program Certificate
Stanford Graduate School of Business 2024

Personal Interests

As a professional athlete he played for top-league teams in Italy and France. As a collegiate student-athlete he majored in physics and minored in astronomy while playing ACC basketball at UVA and then continued to earn Division II National Player of the Year at Longwood University. 

A passionate community volunteer, Colin currently serves as the Chair of the Investment Subcommittee for the Longwood University Foundation. He has founded collegiate scholarships and donates time to mentor students at several schools and levels. 

Originally from Richmond, Colin has lived in Virginia Beach for over 15 years and loves family time with his wife Dr. Jamie Ducharme, their children Evie and Win, and their dog, cat, and fish. Outside the office, Colin enjoys fishing, boating, fitness, and traveling with family and friends.

Specialties

  • Cash-flow forecasting, business planning, asset accumulation strategies, savings and tax planning, executive compensation, retirement distributions

  • Innovative, customized risk management strategies and solutions in partnership with McGriff and Truist Life Insurance Services, designed to protect every facet of your assets and income.

  • Market strategy insights, strategic and tactical asset allocation guidance, open-architecture investing platform, long-term investment strategies, alternative investments, private equity and debt offerings, and more

  • Wills; trust, estate, gift, wealth transfer, and generation-skipping tax planning; estate administration and settlement; and more

  • Philanthropic strategies, charitable structure evaluation, private foundations and grant management, donor advised funds

  • Exclusive educational events, whitepapers, articles, podcasts, legacy planning, next-generation education

  • Top-notch service delivery and support for the private banking needs of business-owners

  • Market strategy insights, strategic and tactical asset allocation guidance, open-architecture investing platform, long-term investment strategies, alternative investments, private equity and debt offerings, and more

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