This Disclosure document is being offered to you by ICA Group Wealth Management (“ICA Group”
or “Firm”) about the investment advisory services we provide. It discloses information about our
services and the way those services are made available to you, the client.
Our Firm became a registered investment adviser in April 2021 and is owned by ICA Group Holding
Company, LLC. Chad Renner is the President and Chief Executive Officer; Kelly Bauman and Paul
Gunderson are Co-Chief Compliance Officers.
We are committed to helping clients build, manage and preserve their wealth. Our Firm provides
services that help clients to achieve their stated financial goals. We will offer an initial
complimentary meeting upon our discretion; however, investment advisory services are initiated
only after you and ICA Group execute an Investment Management Agreement.
INVESTMENT AND WEALTH MANAGEMENT AND SUPERVISION SERVICES
We manage advisory accounts on a discretionary and non-discretionary basis. For discretionary
accounts, once we have determined a profile and investment plan with a client, we will execute
the day-to-day transactions without seeking prior client consent but within the expected
investment guidelines. We may accept accounts with certain restrictions, if circumstances
warrant. We primarily allocate client assets among cash, individual stocks, bonds, exchange
traded funds (“ETFs”), no-load or load-waived mutual funds, equities, corporate bonds, municipal
bonds, U.S. Government Treasuries, certificates of deposit, options and structured products. We
generally invest Client’s cash balances in money market funds, FDIC Insured Certificates of
Deposit, high-grade commercial paper and/or government backed debt instruments. Ultimately,
we try to achieve the highest return on our client’s cash balances through relatively low-risk and
conservative investments. In most cases, at least a partial cash balance will be maintained in a
money market account so that our firm may debit advisory fees for our services related to this
service.
Portfolios will be designed to meet a particular investment goal, determined to be suitable to the
client’s circumstances. Once the appropriate portfolio has been determined, portfolios are
continuously and regularly monitored, and if necessary, rebalanced based upon the client’s
individual needs, stated goals and objectives.
During personal discussions with clients, we determine the client’s objectives, time horizons, risk
tolerance, and liquidity needs. As appropriate, we also review a client’s prior investment history,
as well as family composition and background. Based on client needs, we develop a client’s
personal profile and investment plan. We then create and manage the client’s investments based
on that policy and plan. It is the client’s obligation to notify us immediately if circumstances have
changed with respect to their goals.
Once we have determined the types of investments to be included in a client’s portfolio and have
allocated the assets, we provide ongoing investment review and management services.
With our discretionary relationship, we will make changes to the portfolio, as we deem
appropriate, to meet client financial objectives. We trade these portfolios based on the
combination of our market views and client objectives, using our investment process. We tailor
our advisory services to meet the needs of our clients and seek to ensure that your portfolio is
managed in a manner consistent with those needs and objectives. Clients have the ability to leave
standing instructions with us to refrain from investing in particular industries or invest in limited
amounts of securities.
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If a non-discretionary relationship is in place, calls will be placed presenting the recommendation
made and only upon your authorization will any action be taken on your behalf.
In all cases, clients have a direct and beneficial interest in their securities, rather than an undivided
interest in a pool of securities. We do have limited authority to direct the Custodian to deduct our
investment advisory fees from your accounts, but only with the appropriate written authorization
from clients.
Where appropriate, we provide advice about any type of legacy position held in client portfolios.
Typically, these are assets that are ineligible to be custodied at our primary custodian. Clients will
engage us to advise on certain investment products that are not maintained at their primary
custodian, such as variable life insurance, annuity contracts, and assets held in employer
sponsored retirement plans and qualified tuition plans (i.e., 529 plans).
You are advised and are expected to understand that our past performance is not a guarantee of
future results. Certain market and economic risks exist that adversely affect an account’s
performance. This could result in capital losses in your account.
Investment Management Platforms Available Through LPL
As further described below, many of ICA Group’s IARs recommend investment advisory programs
offered through LPL. Below is a description of the platform of advisory products and services
available through LPL that are offered by ICA Group. For more information regarding the LPL
programs, including more information on the advisory services and fees that apply, the types of
investments available in the programs and the potential conflicts of interest presented by the
programs, please refer to the applicable program’s account agreement and LPL’s Form ADV Part
2A and program brochure.
i. SWM II Account
Although clients do not pay a transaction charge for transactions in a SWM II account, clients
should be aware that our Firm pays LPL transaction charges for those transactions. The
transaction charges paid by our Firm vary based on the type of transaction (e.g., mutual fund,
equity or ETF) and for mutual funds based on whether or not the mutual fund pays 12b-1 fees
and/or recordkeeping fees to LPL. Transaction charges paid by the ICA Group for equities and ETFs
are $9. For mutual funds, the transaction charges range from $0 to $26.50. Because our Firm pays
the transaction charges in SWM II accounts, there is a conflict of interest in cases where the
mutual fund is offered at both $0 and $26.50. Clients should understand that the cost to ICA Group
of transaction charges may be a factor that our Firm considers when deciding which securities to
select and how frequently to place transactions in a SWM II account.
In many instances, LPL makes available mutual funds in a SWM II account that offer various classes
of shares, including shares designated as Class A Shares and shares designed for advisory
programs, which can be titled, for example, as “Class I,” “institutional,” “investor,” “retail,”
“service,” “administrative” or “platform” share classes (“Platform Shares”). The Platform Share
class offered for a particular mutual fund in SWM II in many cases will not be the least expensive
share class that the mutual fund makes available and was selected by LPL in certain cases because
the share class pays LPL compensation for the administrative and recordkeeping services LPL
provides to the mutual fund. Client should understand that another financial services firm may
offer the same mutual fund at a lower overall cost to the investor than is available through SWM
II. In other instances, a mutual fund may offer only Class A Shares, but another similar mutual
fund may be available that offers Platform Shares. Class A Shares typically pay LPL a 12b-1 fee for
providing shareholder services, distribution, and marketing expenses (“brokerage-related
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services”) to the mutual funds. Platform Shares generally are not subject to 12b-1 fees. As a result
of the different expenses of the mutual fund share classes, it is generally more expensive for a
client to own Class A Shares than Platform Shares. An investor in Platform Shares will pay lower
fees over time and keep more of his or her investment returns than an investor who holds Class
A Shares of the same fund.
Our Firm has a financial incentive to recommend Class A Shares in cases where both Class A and
Platform Shares are available. This is a conflict of interest which might incline our Firm, consciously
or unconsciously, to render advice that is not disinterested. Although the client will not be charged
a transaction charge for transactions, ICA Group pays LPL a per transaction charge for mutual fund
purchases and sales in the account. our Firm generally does not pay transaction charges for Class
A Share mutual fund transactions accounts, but generally does pay transaction charges for
Platform Share mutual fund transactions. The cost to our Firm of transaction charges generally
may be a factor ICA Group considers when deciding which securities to select and whether or not
to place transactions in the account.
The lack of transaction charges to our Firm for Class A Share purchases and sales, together with
the fact that Platform Shares generally are less expensive for a client to own, presents a significant
conflict of interest between our Firm and the client. In short, it costs our Firm less to recommend
and select Class A share mutual funds than Platform shares, but Platform shares will generally
outperform Class A mutual fund shares on the basis of internal cost structure alone. Clients should
understand this conflict and consider the additional indirect expenses borne as a result of the
mutual fund fees when negotiating and discussing with your ICA Group the advisory fee for
management of an account.
ii. Manager Access Select Program
Manager Access Select offers ICA Group’s clients the ability to participate in either the Separately
Managed Account Platform (the “SMA Platform”) or the Model Portfolio Platform (the “MP
Platform”). In the SMA Platform, ICA Group will assist in identifying a third-party asset manager
(“TPAM”) from a list of TPAMs made available by LPL. The selected TPAM will manage the client’s
assets on a discretionary basis, including the investment and reinvestment of assets as directed
by LPL and authorized by the client, in accordance with the selected model. ICA Group will be
responsible for providing initial and ongoing assistance regarding the TPAM selection process.
iii. Optimum Market Portfolios Program (“OMP”)
OMP offers ICA Group’s clients the ability to participate in a professionally managed asset
allocation program using Optimum Funds shares. Under OMP, client will authorize LPL on a
discretionary basis to purchase and sell Optimum Funds pursuant to investment objectives chosen
by the client. ICA Group will assist the client in determining the suitability of OMP for the client
and assist the client in setting an appropriate investment objective. ICA Group will have discretion
to select a mutual fund asset allocation portfolio designed by LPL consistent with the client’s
investment objective. LPL will have discretion and authority to both transact Optimum Funds
pursuant to the portfolio selected for the client and to rebalance the account.
iv. Model Wealth Portfolios Program (“MWP”)
MWP offers ICA Group’s clients a professionally managed mutual fund asset allocation program.
ICA Group will obtain the necessary financial data from the client and assist the client in
determining the suitability of the MWP program based on the client’s investment objectives. ICA
Group will initiate the steps necessary to open an MWP account and have discretion to select a
model portfolio designed by LPL’s Research Department consistent with the client’s stated
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investment objective. LPL’s Research Department, a third-party portfolio strategist and/or
Advisor, through its IAR, may act as a portfolio strategist responsible for selecting the mutual
funds or ETFs within a model portfolio and for making changes to the mutual funds or ETFs
selected.
The client will authorize LPL to act on a discretionary basis to transact in mutual funds and ETFs
and to liquidate previously purchased securities. The client will also authorize LPL to effect
rebalancing for MWP accounts.
Each client entering into an LPL Program will be provided a written LPL disclosure brochure that
outlines in detail the services provided and fees charged, along with other important information
about the selected platform. Clients should thoroughly read the brochure upon receipt.
The LPL Platforms can or will not be suitable for, and therefore not offered to, all of our clients.
Please refer to Item 5 for important information related to fees associated with these platforms.
Investment Management Platforms Available Through Charles Schwab & Co., Inc.
(“Schwab”)
As further described below, ICA Group’s IARs recommend investment advisory programs offered
through Schwab. The following Schwab sponsored programs are available to our clients:
Managed Account Marketplace (“Marketplace”)
The Marketplace program allows the IAR and the client to choose a TPAM from an extensive list
that Schwab has compiled; however, neither Schwab nor CSIA screen, evaluate or monitor the
TPAMs in the Marketplace program.
In each of the above-referenced Schwab Programs, the TPAMs provide discretionary investment
advisory services and will manage clients’ assets in the programs in accordance with the
investment strategies chosen by the clients.
Also, Schwab serves as the client’s custodian and broker in the Schwab Programs. ICA Group
provides ongoing investment advisory services, including gathering necessary client financial data
and assisting the client in determining an appropriate Schwab Program, including selection of
TPAMs, in accordance with the investment strategy or strategies suitable for and in line with each
client’s investment guidelines.
Each client entering into a Schwab Program will be provided with a written Schwab disclosure
brochure that outlines the services provided and fees charged, along with other important
information about the selected Schwab Program. Clients should thoroughly read the brochure
upon receipt.
The Schwab Programs can or will not be suitable for, and therefore are not offered to, all of our
clients. Please refer to Item 5 for important information related to fees associated with the
platforms.
Investment Management Platforms Available Through ICA Group
ICA Group offers its Clients a professionally managed asset allocation platform known as “ICAMP.”
ICA Group will obtain the necessary financial data from the Client and assist the Client in
determining the suitability of the ICAMP program based on the Client’s investment objectives and
investment risk tolerance. ICA Group then will initiate the steps necessary to open an ICAMP
account and have discretion to select a model consistent with the client’s stated investment
objective and investment risk tolerance.
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For this investment platform, client authorizes ICA Group to act on a discretionary basis to
transact
in mutual funds, ETFs, and other suitable asset classes and to liquidate previously
purchased securities. The client also authorizes ICA Group to effect rebalancing for ICAMP
accounts according to the designed strategy specifications.
Within ICAMP, ICA Group has seven (7) discretionary Model Portfolio strategies that range from
Capital Preservation to Aggressive Growth, which include the following:
1. Capital Preservation: A broadly diversified portfolio that aims to manage drawdowns for
a client that has a low tolerance for risk and volatility. This strategy is generally suitable
for clients with a short-term, medium-term, or long-term investment horizon.
2. Income: A broadly diversified portfolio that aims to manage drawdowns and provide
income for a client that has a low to conservative tolerance for risk and volatility. This
strategy is generally suitable for clients with a short-term, medium-term, or long-term
investment horizon.
3. Conservative Growth: A broadly diversified portfolio that aims to manage drawdowns
and provide growth for a client with a low to medium tolerance for risk and volatility. This
strategy is generally suitable for clients with a medium-term or long-term investment
horizon.
4. Moderate Growth: A broadly diversified portfolio that aims to manage drawdowns and
provide growth for a client with medium tolerance for risk and volatility. This strategy is
generally suitable for clients with a medium-term or long-term investment horizon.
5. Growth: A broadly diversified portfolio that aims to manage drawdowns and provide
capital appreciate for a client with medium to high tolerance for risk and volatility. This
strategy is generally suitable for clients with a long-term investment horizon.
6. Growth Plus: A broadly diversified portfolio that aims to manage drawdowns and provide
capital appreciation for a client with an above average tolerance for risk and volatility.
This strategy is generally suitable for clients with a long-term investment horizon.
7. Aggressive Growth: A broadly diversified portfolio that aims to manage drawdowns and
provide the very highest growth potential possible for a client with a high tolerance for
risk and volatility. This strategy is generally suitable for clients with a long-term
investment horizon.
Concierge Model Platform: This platform is for an IAR who has portfolios that they are already
using to achieve risk alignment for their client but still wants to take advantage of outsourced
model management.
FINANCIAL PLANNING
Through the financial planning process, our team strives to engage our clients in conversations
around the client’s goals, objectives, priorities, vision, and legacy – both for the near term as well
as for future generations. With the unique goals and circumstances of each client in mind, our
team will offer financial planning ideas and strategies to address the client’s holistic financial
picture, including estate, income tax, charitable, cash flow, wealth transfer, and client legacy
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objectives. Our team partners with our client’s other advisors (CPAs, Enrolled Agents, Estate
Attorneys, Insurance Brokers, etc.) to ensure a coordinated effort of all parties toward the client’s
stated goals. Our team is not qualified to, and does not, offer legal, accounting or tax advice. Our
services include various reports on specific goals and objectives or general investment and/or
planning recommendations, guidance to outside assets, and periodic updates.
Our specific services in preparing your plan may include:
Review and clarification of your financial goals
Assessment of your overall financial position including cash flow, balance sheet,
investment strategy, risk management, and estate planning
Creation of a unique plan for each goal you have, including personal and business real
estate, education, retirement or financial independence, charitable giving, estate
planning, business succession, and other personal goals
Development of a goal-oriented investment plan, with input from various advisors to our
clients around tax suggestions, asset allocation, expenses, risk, and liquidity factors for
each goal. This includes IRA and qualified plans, taxable, and trust accounts that require
special attention
Design of a risk management plan including risk tolerance, risk avoidance, mitigation, and
transfer, including liquidity as well as various insurance and possible company benefits;
and
Crafting and implementation of, in conjunction with your estate and/or corporate
attorneys as tax adviser, an estate plan to provide for you and/or your heirs in the event
of an incapacity or death.
A written evaluation of each client's initial situation or Financial Plan is provided to the client. An
annual review will be provided by the Adviser, if indicated by the Client and Adviser per the
Agreement. More frequent reviews occur but are not necessarily communicated to the client
unless immediate changes are recommended.
If the client decides to follow the recommendations, the client has the option, but is under no
obligation, to request that ICA Group implement such recommendations through the Firm’s
Investment Management Services. Should a client request ICA Group to implement such
recommendations, the client will receive the services outlined in our Investment Management
section below. Furthermore, certain IARs of ICA Group sell brokerage and insurance products
when the client and IAR believe it to be in the client’s best interest. Insurance products are sold
by IARs in their separate capacity as an independent insurance agent with ICAG Insurance Agency,
LLC or with appointed carriers not affiliated with the ICA Group. Brokerage products are sold by
IARs in their separate capacity as a registered representative with LPL. If the IAR implements
insurance or insurance transactions in this separate capacity, he/she earns a sales commission but
does not also charge investment management fees on those investments. This could present a
conflict of interest since the IAR is incentivized and earns compensation and/or commission(s) for
implementing insurance and brokerage product recommendations made as part of the Firm’s
Financial Planning Services. This conflict is mitigated by the IARs zealously attempting to always
act in the best interest of all clients. Please see Items 5, 10 and 14 below for additional information
concerning such conflicts.
Retirement Planning Consulting Services
ICA Group’s Retirement Planning Services help our clients to determine when they can retire,
based on their desired lifestyle. ICA Group provides clients with guidance on what is financially
feasible based on current assets, retirement plans and other factors. We will review existing
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assets, liaise with your estate planning attorneys, tax and other professional advisors to develop
a comprehensive retirement plan to meet your needs.
RETIREMENT PLAN SERVICES
For employer-sponsored retirement plans with participant-directed investments, our firm
provides its advisory services as an investment adviser as defined under Section 3(21) of the
Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended (“ERISA”).
When serving as an ERISA 3(21) investment adviser, the Plan Sponsor and Our Firm share fiduciary
responsibility. The Plan Sponsor retains ultimate decision-making authority for the investments
and may accept or reject the recommendations in accordance with the terms of a separate ERISA
3(21) Plan Sponsor Investment Management Agreement between Our Firm and the Plan
Sponsor. Under the 3(21) agreement, or Firm provides the following services to the Plan Sponsor:
Screen investments and make recommendations.
Monitor the investments and suggests replacement investments when appropriate.
Provide a quarterly monitoring report.
Assist the plan sponsor in developing an Investment Policy Statement (“IPS”).
Recommend QDIA alternatives.
Recommend non-discretionary model portfolios.
We can also be engaged to provide Plan Consulting Services. Plan Consulting Services include
financial education to Plan participants, benchmarking the Plan services, education to fiduciary
committee members, and monitoring the service provider. The scope of education provided to
participants will not constitute “investment advice” within the meaning of ERISA and participant
education will relate to general principles for investing and information about the investment
options currently in the Plan. We may also participate in initial enrollment meetings and periodic
workshops and enrollment meetings for new participants.
When servicing as in a 3(38) fiduciary capacity, our Firm is granted full trading authority over the
Plan and have the responsibility for the selection and monitoring of all investment options offered
under the Plan in accordance with the investment policy statement and its underlying investment
objectives and strategies for the Plan. Plan participants have the ability to exercise control over
the investment selection from the plans line up of investments, and we have no authority or
discretion to direct the investment of assets of any participant’s account under the Plan.
DISCLOSURE REGARDING ROLLOVER RECOMMENDATIONS
A client or prospect 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) rollover 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). Our Firm may recommend an investor roll over plan assets to an IRA for which
our Firm provides investment advisory services. As a result, our Firm and its representatives may
earn an asset-based fee. In contrast, a recommendation that a client or prospective client leave
their plan assets with their previous employer or roll over the assets to a plan sponsored by a new
employer will generally result in no compensation to our Firm. Our Firm therefore has an
economic incentive to encourage a client to roll plan assets into an IRA that our Firm will manage,
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which presents a conflict of interest. To mitigate the conflict of interest, there are various factors
that our Firm will consider before recommending a rollover, including but not limited to: (i) the
investment options available in the plan versus the investment options available in an IRA, (ii) fees
and expenses in the plan versus the fees and expenses in an IRA, (iii) the services and
responsiveness of the plan’s investment professionals versus those of our Firm, (iv) protection of
assets from creditors and legal judgments, (v) required minimum distributions and age
considerations, and (vi) employer stock tax consequences, if any. All rollover recommendations
are reviewed by our Firm’s Chief Compliance Officer and remains available to address any
questions that a client or prospective client has regarding the oversight.
We are fiduciaries under the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 and when we provide investment
advice to you regarding your retirement plan account or individual retirement account, we are
also fiduciaries 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.
We have to act in your best interest and not put our interest ahead of yours. At the same time,
the way we make money creates some conflicts with your interests.
CONSULTING SERVICES
We also provide clients investment advice on a more-limited basis on one or more isolated areas
of concern such as estate planning, real estate, retirement planning, or any other specific topic.
Additionally, we provide advice on non-securities matters about the rendering of estate planning,
insurance, real estate, and/or annuity advice or any other business advisory / consulting services
for equity or debt investments in privately held businesses. In these cases, clients will be required
to select their own investment managers, custodian, and/or insurance companies for the
implementation of consulting recommendations. If client needs include brokerage and/or other
financial services, we will recommend the use of one of several investment managers, brokers,
banks, custodians, insurance companies, or other financial professionals ("Firms"). Consulting
clients must independently evaluate these Firms before opening an account or transacting
business and have the right to effect business through any firm they choose. Clients have the right
to choose whether or not to follow the consulting advice provided.
CO-BRANDED INVESTMENT ADVISOR REPRESENTATIVES
Our firm offers services through our network of investment advisor representatives (“IARs”). IARs
may have their own legal business entities whose trade names and logos are used for marketing
purposes and may appear on marketing materials and/or disclosure statements and client
statements. The Client should understand that the businesses are legal entities of the IAR and not
of our firm. The IARs are under the supervision of our firm and the advisory services of the IAR
are provided through our firm. A complete listing of the entities is listed on our ADV Part 1.
WRAP FEE PROGRAM
We also provide services on a wrap fee basis as part of the SWM II wrap fee program. For more
detail see description of the SWM II Account above. A wrap fee program is an arrangement where
brokerage commissions and transaction costs are absorbed by the Firm. The fee covers
transaction costs or commissions resulting from the management of your accounts, however,
most investments trade without transaction fees today, so our payment of these and other
incidental custodial related expenses should not be considered a significant factor in determining
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the relative value of our wrap program. Participants in the Program may pay a higher aggregate
fee than if brokerage services are purchased separately. Additional information about the
Program is available in ICA Group’s Wrap Brochure, which appears as Part 2A Appendix 1 of the
Firm’s Form ADV. Our “wrap” fee may be more or less than the fees and commissions charged by
other advisory firms, third-party managers, and brokerage firms if the services were acquired
separately. The factors that bear upon the cost of services are the size of the account, type of
transaction and whether trades are placed through a brokerage firm other than the custodian
resulting in per trade commissions being charged.
ASSETS
As of December 31, 2023, we manage $1,161,142,958 in discretionary asset under management
and no non-discretionary assets under management.