Firm Description
First Capital Advisors Group, LLC (“FCAG,” or, the “Adviser”) is a Delaware
Limited Liability Company formed on August 12, 2015. James Hiles and Jeff
Schulte are the principal owners of the Adviser, and each own 50% of the
membership units of the Adviser. The Adviser is an investment adviser
registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) under the
Investment Advisers Act of 1940, as amended (the “Investment Advisers Act”).
The principal owners of the Adviser each own 25% of First Capital Investment
Partners (FCIP). FCIP serves as Sub-adviser to Client Accounts managed by
the Adviser and may receive advisory fees directly from Advisory Clients of the
Adviser in accordance with the terms of the Adviser’s Investment Management
Agreement (IMA). As a result, the principal owners of the Adviser economically
benefit from fees paid by Advisory Clients to FCIP.
In addition, the Adviser is compensated by Skyview Investment Partners, LLC
(Skyview), a New Jersey limited liability company and federally registered
investment adviser under the terms of a referral agreement, for Client assets
allocated to certain private funds managed by Skyview (Skyview Private
Funds).
Skyview also provides portfolio construction guidance and modelling, access to
its investment professionals for ongoing due diligence and analysis concerning
portfolio performance and execution, and other services and personnel to FCIP
and FCAG advisory clients in connection with FCIP’s advisory agreement with
FCAG and under the terms of the FCIP LLC operating agreement. The principal
owners of Skyview collectively own 50% of FCIP and therefore economically
benefit from fees collected from Advisory Clients of the Adviser by FCIP and
by fees charged to Advisor Clients by the Skyview Private Funds.
The primary types of investment advisory services offered by the Adviser are
financial planning, investment management, investment consulting, and other
advisory services.
Financial Planning
The Adviser develops a comprehensive financial plan for every client. FCAG
begins with an intensive fact-finding session to become totally familiar with the
client’s current financial situation (including income taxes, investments,
insurance, estate affairs, and family circumstances, and other similar items), as
well as their personal goals and priorities for the next several years. Working
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from this comprehensive information, the Adviser then prepares a detailed
financial plan which documents the client’s situation, identifies all areas
which will be impacted, and makes specific goal- oriented recommendations.
The Adviser’s specific goal-oriented recommendations educate and allow a
client to coordinate his/her financial affairs more efficiently, increase cash flow,
prudently reduce income taxes, and improve his/her overall net worth. Once
this written financial plan has been reviewed with the client, the
recommendations that the client approves are scheduled for implementation.
Specific implementation deadlines are established for each recommendation.
Once the initial financial plan is completed and the recommendations are
implemented, FCAG performs a review of services in all applicable areas of
financial planning including estate, retirement, cash flow and tax on an annual
basis.
Investment Management
Investment advisory services offered by FCAG are specifically tailored to meet
the needs of each client. The Adviser ascertains each client’s specific
investment objective prior to delivering investment advisory services. Then,
FCAG will allocate, or recommend that the client allocate, their investment
assets consistent with the client’s specific investment objective. Clients may
impose reasonable restrictions on any of the Adviser’s investment advisory
services at any time. The restrictions must be delivered to the Adviser in writing
and must be signed by the client.
Retirement Rollovers:
A client or prospective
client leaving an employer typically has four options
regarding an existing retirement plan (and may engage in a combination of
these options): (i) leave the money in the former employer’s plan, if permitted,
(ii) roll over the assets to the new employer’s plan, if one is available and
rollovers are permitted, (iii) roll over to an Individual Retirement Account (“IRA”),
or (iv) cash out the account value (which could, depending upon the client’s
age, result in adverse tax consequences). When FCAG provides rollover advice
to a client or prospect regarding a retirement plan account or individual
retirement account, FCAG is acting as a fiduciary within the meaning of Title I
of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act and/or the Internal Revenue
Code, as applicable, which are laws governing retirement accounts. If FCAG
recommends that a client roll over their retirement plan assets or transfer an
IRA into an account to be managed by FCAG, and FCAG will earn an advisory
fee on the rolled over assets, that recommendation creates a conflict of interest.
Accordingly, FCAG operates under a special rule that requires FCAG to act in
the client or prospects best interest and not put FCAG’s interest ahead of the
client’s or prospects. No client is under any obligation to roll over retirement
plan assets or transfer IRA assets to an account managed by FCAG. FCAG’s
Chief Compliance Officer, Jeff Schulte, remains available to address any
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questions that a client or prospective client may have regarding the conflict of
interest presented by such rollover recommendation.
Investment Consulting
FCAG provides institutional retirement plans and plan sponsors with diversified
investment options for their plan participants to choose from. In addition, if
requested by the plan sponsor, FCAG provides plan participants with seminars
and/or educational materials that describe the various investment options
available to them under the plan and general information about investing
including information about different types of investments and their respective
risks and historical returns and investment allocations strategies, FCAG also
offers interactive materials to help plan participants identify an appropriate
investment strategy.
Please note: It is always the client’s responsibility to promptly notify FCAG if
there is any change in their financial situation or investment objective. This
notification of change allows the Adviser an opportunity to review, evaluate, or
revise previous recommendations or services.
Other Advisory Services:
In addition to the services described above, FCAG provides the following
services on a fee basis:
Retirement Income Planning Personal Financial Planning
Withdrawal Rate Analysis Education Planning
Cash Flow & Budgeting Employee Benefits & 401(k) Guidance
Insurance Review & Planning Corporate Retirement Plan Guidance
Estate & Charitable Gift Planning Tax Planning
Business Successions Investment Risk Management
Information Received by FCAG from Clients of FCAG
In performing services for the client, the Adviser is not required to verify any
information it receives from the client or from the client’s other professionals
and the Adviser is expressly authorized by the client to rely on this information.
Each client is advised that it remains the client’s responsibility to promptly notify
the Adviser if there is ever any change in the client’s financial situation or
investment objectives for the purpose of reviewing, evaluating or revising the
Adviser’s previous recommendations or services to the client.
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Assets Under Management
As of December 31, 2022, the Adviser managed $342,954,805 on a
discretionary basis. The Adviser does not currently manage any assets on a
non-discretionary basis.
For further description of the Adviser’s investment objectives and strategies and
associated risks, please see Item 8, Method of Analysis, Investment Strategies
and Risk of Loss.