We offer wrap fee programs as described in this Wrap Fee Program Brochure. Our wrap fee accounts
are managed on an individualized basis according to the client’s investment objectives, financial
goals, risk tolerance, etc.
A wrap fee program allows our clients to pay a specified fee for investment advisory services and the
execution of transactions. The advisory services may include portfolio management, and the fee is
not based directly upon transactions in your account. Your fee is bundled with our costs for executing
transactions in your account(s). This results in a higher advisory fee to you. We do not charge our
clients higher advisory fees based on their trading activity, but you should be aware that we may
have an incentive to limit our trading activities in your account(s) because we are charged for
executed trades. By participating in a wrap fee program, you may end up paying more or less than
you would through a non-wrap fee program where a lower advisory fee is charged, but trade
execution costs are passed directly through to you by the executing broker.
The benefits under a wrap fee program depend, in part, upon the size of the account, the costs
associated with managing the account, and the frequency or type of securities transactions executed
in the account. For example, a wrap fee program may not be suitable for all accounts, including but
not limited to accounts holding primarily, and for any substantial period of time, cash or cash
equivalent investments, fixed income securities or no-transaction-fee mutual funds, or any other type
of security that can be traded without commissions or other transaction fees.
In order to evaluate whether a wrap [or bundled] fee arrangement is appropriate for you, you should
compare the agreed-upon Wrap Program Fee and any other costs associated with participating in
our Wrap Fee Program with the amounts that would be charged by other advisers, broker-dealers,
and custodians, for advisory fees, brokerage and execution costs, and custodial services comparable
to those provided under the Wrap Fee Program.
In addition to the advisory services, the wrap fee program includes certain brokerage services of
Charles Schwab & Co., Inc. (“Schwab”) a broker-dealer registered with the Securities and Exchange
Commission and a member of FINRA and SIPC. We are independently owned and operated and not
affiliated with Schwab. Schwab will act solely as a broker-dealer and not as an investment advisor to
you. It will have no discretion over your account and will act solely on instructions it receives from
us [or you]. Schwab has no responsibility for our services and undertakes no duty to you to monitor
our firm’s management of your account or other services we provide to you. Schwab will hold your
assets in a brokerage account and buy and sell securities and execute other transactions when we [or
you] instruct them to. We do not open the account for you.
Schwab does not charge transaction fees for U.S. listed equities and exchange traded funds. Since we
pay the transaction fees charged by the custodian to clients participating in our wrap fee program,
this presents a conflict of interest because we are incentivized to recommend equities and exchange
traded funds over other types of securities in order to reduce our costs. To mitigate this conflict our
firm upholds our fiduciary duty in selecting the appropriate asset for a given portfolio and the cost
to trade that asset is not taken into account when determining that appropriateness.
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Our Wrap Advisory Services
Wrap Portfolio Management:
We emphasize continuous and regular account supervision. As part of this service, we generally create
a portfolio, consisting of individual stocks or bonds, exchange traded funds (“ETFs”), mutual funds and
other public and private securities or investments. The client’s individual investment strategy is tailored
to their specific needs and may include some or all of the previously mentioned securities. Each portfolio
will be initially designed to meet a particular investment goal, which we determine to be suitable to the
client’s circumstances. Once the appropriate portfolio has been determined, we review the portfolio at
least annually and if necessary, rebalance the portfolio based upon the client’s individual needs, stated
goals, and objectives. Each client has the opportunity to place reasonable restrictions on the types of
investments to be held in the portfolio.
Our firm utilizes the sub-advisory services of SEI Investments Company (“SEI”) for portfolio
diversification and access to additional asset classes. As part of this process, we will provide initial due
diligence on the programs available, gather information from clients about their financial situation,
investment objectives, and restrictions, and deliver the required account paperwork and disclosure
documents if the client selects a program. Prior to referring
clients to SEI, we will ensure that they are
licensed, or notice filed with the respective authorities.
Our firm also offers variable annuity management for certain annuities which are sold on a fee-only
basis. These arrangements are custodied direct with the sponsor and the terms and conditions will
be set forth in a separate agreement entered into by the client with the sponsor. The fees for these
offerings vary but will never exceed the fees disclosed for our Wrap Portfolio Management service.
The maximum fee for our Wrap Portfolio Management service is 1.75% of the assets under
management in each household which may also be a flat dollar amount not to exceed 1.75% of assets
under management. Our firm’s annualized fees are generally billed on a pro-rata basis monthly or
quarterly in arrears based on an average daily balance of the account(s) value during the billing
period. Our advisory fee will be assessed on cash and cash equivalents unless otherwise agreed to in
writing. The exact arrangements shall be indicated in the executed client agreement. It should be
noted that our firm is not assessed transaction charges for either the sub-advised accounts or fee-
based variable annuities, as these costs are built into the program/ product fees borne by the client.
The total estimated fee, as well as the ultimate fee that we charge you, is negotiable and will based
on the scope and complexity of our engagement with you. Fees will be automatically deducted from
your account. As part of the fee deduction process, you are made aware of the following:
1. Clients must provide our firm with written authorization permitting direct payment of
advisory fees from their account(s) maintained by a custodian who is independent of our
firm;
2. Our firm provides clients with electronic access to quarterly performance reports showing
the fee amount, the value of the assets upon which the fee was based, the specific manner in
which the fee was calculated as well as a disclosure that it is the client’s responsibility to
verify the accuracy of fee calculation, and that the custodian does not determine its accuracy;
and
3. The account custodian sends a statement to the client, at least quarterly, showing all account
disbursements, including advisory fees.
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Fees for sub-advisory services rendered to our clients by SEI are billed on a pro-rata basis quarterly
in arrears based on the average daily balance of the account(s) value during the billing period. Our
firm calculates the quarterly fee due to us and instructs SEI the amount to deduct from your managed
account. Our fee will be in addition to fees that are imposed by SEI for programs and managers they
make available, which they deduct separately. SEI establishes and maintains their own separate
billing processes, which we have no control of. The advisory fee paid to our firm shall not exceed the
fee published for this service. The terms and conditions under which the client shall engage SEI will
be set forth in a separate agreement between the client and SEI.
Other Types of Fees & Expenses:
You may pay custodial fees, charges imposed directly by a mutual fund, index fund, annuity or
exchange traded fund which shall be disclosed in the fund’s prospectus (i.e., fund management fees
and other fund expenses), mark-ups and mark-downs, spreads paid to market makers, fees (such as
a commission or markup) for trades executed away from Schwab at another broker-dealer, wire
transfer fees and other fees and taxes on brokerage accounts and securities transactions. These fees
are not included within the wrap-fee you are charged by our firm. It is important to note that our firm
does not include the trading cost associated with unsolicited trades made by clients in our wrap-fee
program. The client will be billed directly for these fees.
Our investment advisory representatives receive a portion of the advisory fee that you pay us, either
directly as a percentage of your overall fee or as their salary from our firm. In cases where our
investment advisory representatives are paid a percentage of your overall advisory fee, this may
create an incentive to recommend that you participate in a wrap fee program rather than a non-wrap
fee program (where you would pay for trade execution costs) or brokerage account where
commissions are charged. This is because, in some cases, we may stand to earn more compensation
from advisory fees paid to us through a wrap fee program arrangement if your account is not actively
traded.
Termination and Refunds:
Either party may terminate the advisory agreement signed with our firm for Wrap Portfolio
Management service in writing at any time. Upon notice of termination pro-rata advisory fees for
services rendered to the point of termination will be charged. If advisory fees cannot be deducted,
our firm will send an invoice for due advisory fees to the client.