Full Fee Transparency
Every engagement begins with a written fee disclosure. There are no embedded commissions or distribution arrangements that influence our product recommendations. The fee you see in the engagement letter is the fee you pay.
The team behind every brief
Who Sits Across the Table When Your Wealth Is Being Discussed?
A small, specialist team in Poprad with deep focus on capital protection, structured advisory, and independent client service across Slovakia and Central Europe.
Small Enough to Know You. Experienced Enough to Matter.
Atelier of Edinburgh was founded in Poprad in 2011 by advisors who had observed, at first hand, how bank-tied advisory models create systematic conflicts between client interests and distribution targets. The founding principle was straightforward: capital protection advice should be independent, documented, and free of product-placement incentives. Over the following fourteen years, the team has advised more than 180 families and individuals across Slovakia, the Czech Republic, and Austria. Every client engagement is led by a named senior advisor — there are no handoffs to junior staff for routine correspondence, and no cases managed entirely by automated tools. The indigo-tech precision you see in our workspace reflects the rigour we apply to every brief: structured, evidence-based, and specific to each client's situation.
The Principles Behind How We Work
Fourteen years of independent practice have produced a set of operating principles we apply without exception.
Named Advisor Continuity
Your file is managed by one senior advisor throughout the engagement. If that advisor changes — through planned transition, not attrition — you are informed in writing and introduced to their successor before any handover occurs.
Written Output for Every Meeting
No meeting concludes without a written summary of what was discussed, what was decided, and what the next steps are. This documentation discipline protects both client and advisor and creates a clear audit trail.
Conservative Structural Defaults
Where there is genuine ambiguity between a more complex structure and a simpler one, we default to simplicity. Complex arrangements carry implementation risk and regulatory scrutiny. Simplicity, properly documented, is often more protective.
“What I value most is that the same advisor who took the first meeting in 2019 is still managing our file today. There has been no rotation, no reassignment, and no moment where I had to re-explain our situation from scratch. That continuity is rare.”
— Lucia F., Banská Bystrica
Speak Directly With the Team Before You Commit to Anything
An introductory call carries no obligation. We prefer that clients decide to work with us based on a real conversation, not a website.