Foster Dykema Cabot & Partners, LLC (FDC) provides private wealth management
services to families and individuals, including high net worth individuals, trusts and
estates. We also provide investment advice to a limited number of pension, profit sharing
plans and non-profit entities. FDC has acquired the advisory business of Foster Dykema
Cabot & Co., Incorporated which was established in 1967.
FDC is part of the Focus Financial Partners, LLC (“Focus LLC”) partnership.
Specifically, FDC is a wholly-owned indirect subsidiary of Focus LLC. Ferdinand FFP
Acquisition, LLC is the sole managing member of Focus LLC. Ultimate governance of
Focus LLC is conducted through the board of directors at Ferdinand FFP Ultimate
Holdings, LP. Focus LLC is majority-owned, indirectly and collectively, by investment
vehicles affiliated with Clayton, Dubilier & Rice, LLC (“CD&R”). Investment vehicles
affiliated with Stone Point Capital LLC (“Stone Point”) are indirect owners of Focus
LLC. Because FDC is an indirect, wholly-owned subsidiary of Focus LLC, CD&R and
Stone Point investment vehicles are indirect owners of FDC.
Focus LLC also owns other registered investment advisers, broker-dealers, pension
consultants, insurance firms, business managers and other firms (the “Focus Partners”),
most of which provide wealth management, benefit consulting and investment consulting
services to individuals, families, employers, and institutions. Some Focus Partners also
manage or advise limited partnerships, private funds, or investment companies as
disclosed on their respective Form ADVs.
We offer clients the option of obtaining certain financial solutions from unaffiliated third-
party financial institutions through UPTIQ Treasury & Credit Solutions, LLC (together
with UPTIQ, Inc. and its affiliates, “UPTIQ”). Please see items 5 and 10 for a fuller
discussion of these services and other important information.
We help our clients obtain certain insurance solutions from unaffiliated, third-party
insurance brokers by introducing clients to our affiliate, Focus Risk Solutions, LLC
(“FRS”), a wholly owned subsidiary of our parent company, Focus Financial Partners,
LLC. Please see Items 5 and 10 for a fuller discussion of this service and other important
information.
In addition to investment management, we offer our clients financial planning advice and
work closely with our clients’ other trusted advisors, including accountants and attorneys,
to provide a comprehensive and coordinated range of financial services. We also provide
family office services at the request of some of the families we work with.
We implement investment advice on behalf of certain clients in held-away accounts that
are maintained by independent third-party custodians. These held-away accounts are
often 401(k) accounts, 529 plans and other assets that are
not held at our primary
custodian(s).
Our advice is tailored to the individual needs of clients. We determine appropriate
investment guidelines for each client portfolio with the client’s agreement, taking into
account the client’s age, their ability and willingness to take risk, their investment
objectives, and their present and future cash needs. We attempt to be tax sensitive in our
investment choices and will, for example, work with clients who come to our firm with
an existing portfolio of securities to make changes over time rather than all at once.
Although we believe we can do a better job for our clients if we are given complete
discretion over investment decisions, clients may ask us not to invest in certain securities
or types of securities.
In addition to investments in stocks, bonds and mutual funds, we also invest in alternative
asset classes, including private equity and private real estate funds, for qualified
investors.
FDC is a fiduciary under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as
amended (“ERISA”) with respect to investment management services and investment
advice provided to ERISA plan clients, including plan participants. FDC is also a
fiduciary under section 4975 of the Internal Revenue Code (the “IRC”) with respect to
investment management services and investment advice provided to individual retirement
accounts (“IRAs”), ERISA plans, and ERISA plan participants. As such, FDC is subject
to specific duties and obligations under ERISA and the IRC that include, among other
things, prohibited transaction rules which are intended to prohibit fiduciaries from acting
on conflicts of interest. When a fiduciary gives advice, the fiduciary must either avoid
certain conflicts of interest or rely upon a prohibited transaction exemption (a “PTE”).
As a fiduciary, we have duties of care and of loyalty to you and are subject to obligations
imposed on us by the federal and state securities laws. As a result, you have certain
rights that you cannot waive or limit by contract. Nothing in our agreement with you
should be interpreted as a limitation of our obligations under the federal and state
securities laws or as a waiver of any unwaivable rights you possess.
Private Investment Funds
FDC or an affiliated special purpose vehicle serve as the manager for a series of private
equity fund-of-funds: FDC Investment Partners II, LLC; FDC Investment Partners III,
LLC; FDC Investment Partners IV, LLC; FDC Partners V, LLC; FDC Partners V-A,
LLC, FDC Partners VI, LLC and FDC Partners VII (each, an “FDC Fund”, and
collectively, “FDC Funds”). The investment program for each FDC Fund is described in
the Disclosure Memorandum for the relevant fund.
As of December 31, 2023, Foster Dykema Cabot & Partners, LLC has $1,709,196,788 in
discretionary assets under management.