About Our Firm
Pursuit Wealth Management, LLC (“Pursuit Wealth Management”) is a registered investment adviser that provides
investment management and financial advisory services to individual and institutional investors to help them
achieve their financial needs and goals. Founded in 2020, the firm is solely owned by Christian D. Searcy, Jr. and
Melanie Martinez McDonald.
Our firm takes pride in providing personalized service to our clients and acknowledges that it is held to a fiduciary
standard of care.
Types of Advisory Services We Offer
Pursuit Wealth Management offers a variety of advisory services to individuals, high net worth individuals, trusts,
businesses and corporations. These services include:
Investment and wealth management
Financial planning and consulting
Fiduciary and non-fiduciary services for plan sponsors
We work with our clients to determine their investment objectives and risk profile and develop a customized
investment plan based on their individual needs and goals. Pursuit Wealth Management will utilize the financial
information provided by the client to analyze and develop strategies and solutions to assist the client in meeting
their financial goals.
Prior to Pursuit Wealth Management rendering any of the foregoing services, clients are required to enter into one
or more written advisory agreements with Pursuit Wealth Management setting forth the relevant terms and
conditions of the advisory relationship.
Investment and Wealth Management Services
Pursuit Wealth Management manages our clients’ portfolios on a discretionary and, in limited circumstances, non-
discretionary basis. Our investment and wealth management services are tailored to the needs of our clients and are
based on a comprehensive discovery process to understand each client’s current situation, past experiences, and
future goals. With this acquired knowledge we analyze, design, create, and deliver goal-oriented investment
solutions. This planning approach becomes our clients’ investment guidelines, which guides investment strategies
that are designed to be risk appropriate, cost effective and tax efficient.
Our wealth management services generally include a broad range of comprehensive financial planning and/or
consulting services, as well as discretionary or, in limited circumstances, non-discretionary management of
investment portfolios.
Client assets are primarily allocated among individual equity and debt securities, exchange-traded funds ("ETFs"),
and institutional mutual funds in accordance with the client's stated investment objective and risk/volatility
parameters. We may also utilize a sub-adviser to manage all or a portion of a client’s account. Where appropriate,
Pursuit Wealth Management may also provide advice about many types of legacy positions or other investments
held in client portfolios. Clients may also engage Pursuit Wealth Management to manage and/or advise on certain
investment products that are not maintained at their primary custodian, such as variable life insurance and annuity
contracts and assets held in employer sponsored retirement plans and qualified tuition plans (i.e., 529 plans). In
these situations, Pursuit Wealth Management will direct or make recommendations for the allocation of client
assets among the various investment options available with the product. These assets are generally maintained at
the underwriting insurance company or custodian for the plan trustee or administrator and clients retain
responsibility for effecting trades in these accounts.
Participants of a retirement plan may also retain Pursuit Wealth Management to provide advisory services for their
retirement plan account. When providing these services, the firm acts as an ERISA 3(21) fiduciary and is required to
act under the standard of care in ERISA that is generally a higher standard than imposed on our firm under the
Investment Advisers Act of 1940. Advisory services available to plan participants include:
Asset allocation models
Strategic investment allocations
Investment performance reporting
The decision to implement any recommendations rests exclusively with the plan participant and there is no
obligation to implement any such recommendations through our firm.
Pursuit Wealth Management consults with clients on an initial and ongoing basis to assess their specific risk
tolerance, time horizon, liquidity constraints and other related factors relevant to the management of their
portfolios. Clients should promptly notify us if there are changes in their financial situation or if they wish to place
any limitations on the management of their account. Clients may impose reasonable restrictions or mandates on the
management of an account if Pursuit Wealth Management determines, in our sole discretion, the conditions would
not materially impact the performance of a management strategy or prove overly burdensome to the firm's
management efforts.
Pursuit Wealth Management may utilize a third-party asset manager to actively manage all or a portion of its
clients' assets. Pursuant to the terms of the investment advisory agreement, Pursuit Wealth Management shall have
the discretion to appoint and terminate these third-party advisers through a sub-advisory relationship with the
manager. Pursuit Wealth Management evaluates a variety of information about the third-party asset managers we
use for our client accounts, which may include the manager’s public disclosure documents, materials supplied by
the manager themselves and other third-party analyses it believes are reputable. To the extent possible, Pursuit
Wealth Management seeks to assess third-party money managers’ investment strategies, past performance and risk
results in relation to its clients' individual portfolio allocations and risk exposure. Pursuit Wealth Management also
takes into consideration each third-part asset manager’s management style, returns, reputation, financial strength,
reporting, pricing, and research capabilities, among other factors.
Pursuit Wealth Management continues to provide services relative to the discretionary selection of third-party asset
managers. On an ongoing basis, Pursuit Wealth Management monitors the performance of the assets being
managed by an independent manager. Pursuit Wealth Management seeks to ensure the manager's strategies and
target allocations remain aligned with its clients' investment objectives and overall best interests.
Financial Planning and Consulting Services
Pursuit Wealth Management starts with an extensive discovery of a client's family situation which includes assets
and liabilities as well as estate, tax, and insurance needs. The firm then employs a risk tolerance and risk capacity-
focused simulation to get a detailed cash flow analysis and proposed asset allocation. Together, this information is
analyzed to design and develop a proposed financial plan, which is to be dynamic in nature, ever-evolving due to
life changes resulting from changes in cash flow needs, risk tolerance, time horizon, or investment objectives.
Pursuit Wealth Management’s financial planning and consulting services may include any or all of the following
functions:
Business Planning Liability Management
Cash Flow Forecasting Risk Management
Trust and Estate Planning Charitable Planning
Financial Planning Distribution Planning
Investment Consulting Tax Planning
Insurance Planning Retirement Plan Consulting
Education Planning Federal Benefits Analysis
While each of these services is available on a stand-alone basis, certain services may also be rendered in conjunction
with investment management services, as part of a comprehensive wealth management engagement (described in
more detail below).
In performing these services, Pursuit Wealth Management is not required to verify any
information received from the client or from the client's other professionals (e.g., attorneys, accountants, etc.), and
is expressly authorized to rely on such information. Pursuit Wealth Management may recommend clients engage
the firm for additional related services, or we may recommend other professionals to implement recommendations
made by Pursuit Wealth Management. Such additional services by Pursuit Wealth Management or another
professional will be provided for additional compensation, commensurate with the nature, extent, complexity, and
other characteristics of such services. Clients are advised that a conflict of interest exists because the firm will have
an incentive to recommend such additional services based on the compensation to be received, rather than solely
based on the client's needs, and in some cases, based on the prospect of cross-referrals of advisory clients from the
other professional or his or her firm.
Pursuit Wealth Management also provides advice in the form of financial consultations. This service consists of
consultations based on specific investment and financial concerns of the client. Consulting services may include, for
example, assistance with establishing and implementing a retirement plan, preparation or review of an investment
policy statement, the compilation of reports on various investment accounts, and asset allocation recommendations.
The scope and depth of the consultation varies depending on the client's particular circumstances and needs. Pursuit
Wealth Management provides financial planning and consulting services to non-investment management clients for
a fixed fee.
Clients are under no obligation to act upon any recommendations made by Pursuit Wealth Management under a
financial planning or consulting engagement or to engage the services of a third-party professional. Clients retain the
absolute right to decide whether or not to act on such recommendations, and if they choose to act on such
recommendations, whether to engage the Firm or such professional for such services or to engage another
investment adviser or professional of their choosing, which may charge less (or more) for such services. Should a
client choose to implement the recommendations contained in the plan, Pursuit Wealth Management suggests the
client work closely with his/her attorney and/or accountant.
Implementation of financial plan recommendations is entirely at the client's discretion. Financial planning
recommendations are of a generic nature and are not limited to any specific product or service offered by a broker
dealer or insurance company.
No Legal, Accounting or Tax Advice. Pursuit Wealth Management will act solely in its capacity as a registered
investment adviser and does not provide any legal, accounting or tax advice. Client should seek the counsel of a
qualified accountant and/or attorney when necessary. Pursuit Wealth Management may assist clients with tax
harvesting, and we will work with a client’s tax specialist to answer any questions related to the client’s portfolio
account.
Selection of Independent Managers
Pursuit Wealth Management may select certain Independent Managers to actively manage all or a portion of its
clients' assets. Pursuant to the terms of the investment advisory agreement, Pursuit Wealth Management shall have
the discretion to appoint and terminate these third-party advisers. The specific terms and conditions under which a
client engages an Independent Manager may also be set forth in a separate written agreement with the designated
Independent Manager. In addition to this brochure, clients will also receive the written disclosure documents of the
respective Independent Managers engaged to manage their assets. Pursuit Wealth Management evaluates a variety
of information about Independent Managers, which may include the Independent Managers' public disclosure
documents, materials supplied by the Independent Managers themselves and other third-party analyses it believes
are reputable. To the extent possible, Pursuit Wealth Management seeks to assess the Independent Managers'
investment strategies, past performance, and risk results in relation to its clients' individual portfolio allocations and
risk exposure. We also take into consideration each Independent Manager's management style, returns, reputation,
financial strength, reporting, pricing, and research capabilities, among other factors.
Pursuit Wealth Management continues to provide services relative to the discretionary or non-discretionary
selection of the Independent Managers. On an ongoing basis, we monitor the performance of those accounts being
managed by Independent Managers. Pursuit Wealth Management seeks to ensure the Independent Managers'
strategies and target allocations remain aligned with clients' investment objectives and overall best interests.
Fiduciary and Non-Fiduciary Services for Plan Sponsors
Retirement plan sponsors may retain our firm to provide advisory and consulting services for plan assets. 3(21)
fiduciary services available to plan sponsors include:
Reviewing and assisting in the establishment of investment policies and objectives on behalf of the plan
Assistance with development of an Investment Policy Statement
Recommending core investments to be offered to plan participants for selection by the plan sponsor
Recommending investment managers, within the meaning of ERISA Section 3(38), on behalf of the plan, to
be offered as investment options for plan participants
Monitoring of the plan’s investments or investment managers in accordance with the plan’s Investment
Policy Statement or other relevant guidelines
Non-fiduciary consulting services available to plan sponsors include:
Educating plan participants on investment options available within the plan
Preparation of periodic performance reports for the plan’s investments
Assistance with monitoring the reasonableness of the fees and expenses of the plan’s investments or
investment managers in accordance with the plan’s Investment Policy Statement or other relevant guidelines
Benchmarking existing plan service providers to industry peers, and where appropriate, conducting a search
for new providers for the plan sponsor’s consideration and providing our recommendation.
Portfolio Management Services for Wrap Fee Program
Pursuit Wealth Management offers portfolio management services through a wrap fee program. A bundled or
“wrap fee” program is an advisory fee program under which you pay one bundled fee to compensate Pursuit Wealth
Management for portfolio management, transaction costs and custodial services. A wrap fee program may not be
the lowest cost option if you would like to restrict your investments to open-end mutual funds or other long-term
investment products.
Amount of Assets We Manage
As of December 31, 2023, Pursuit Wealth Management has $169,738,689 of assets under management on a
discretionary basis and $4,086,530 on a non-discretionary basis. Additionally, we have $76,808,177 of assets under
advisement. Discretionary assets under management are those for which we have an ongoing responsibility to select
and make securities recommendations that are in line with your financial needs and objectives and then effect those
securities transactions without first consulting you. Non-discretionary assets under management are those for which
we have an ongoing responsibility to select and make securities recommendations that are in line with your financial
needs and objectives and then effect those securities transactions only after consulting with you to inform you of the
transaction(s) and obtaining your approval to move forward.