Firm Description
Your OCIO, LLC (hereinafter “Your OCIO”, “the Adviser”, the “Firm”, “we”, or “us”), a Delaware
limited liability company, was founded in 2021 and is an SEC registered investment adviser.
The Firm provides outsourced Chief Investment Officer and related Advisory services to the
investment entities of a limited number of families and individuals of significant net worth. Your
OCIO creates bespoke solutions for each client based on careful consideration of their objectives and
risk tolerance, working with clients’ other expert advisers as needed to optimize operational and tax
efficiencies.
Your OCIO is a non-discretionary, fee-only Advisory firm. The Firm never acts as a custodian, and
our clients or their selected agents maintain control over their assets. This means that while as our
clients’ Adviser we make specific, separate recommendations for each portfolio, we do not have
authority to make, or execute, investment decisions for clients. Instead, we work closely with each
client and/or their administrative team to ensure that accepted recommendations are executed in an
effective and timely manner. We endeavor to work with each client’s custodian (and administrator,
where such exists) to design smooth and effective processes, including reporting that helps monitor
progress toward agreed specific client objectives as well providing more typical financial reporting data
and metrics.
Neither the Adviser nor its associated persons sell financial products on a commission basis; our only
compensation comes from our clients.
Principal Owners/Ownership Structure
Your OCIO, LLC is owned by Melissa Friedman Lucas.
Chief Investment Officer/Investment Advisory Services
Your OCIO provides outsourced Chief Investment Officer and related Advisory services to the
investment entities of a limited number of families and individuals of significant net worth. We create
bespoke solutions for each client based on careful consideration of their objectives and risk tolerance,
working with clients’ other expert advisers to optimize operational and tax efficiencies. While our
clients have enough assets to both desire and have the ability to pursue sophisticated investment
strategies and customized solutions, by working with us they benefit from shared scale and expertise
not accessible on their own.
At the outset, we work with our clients to help them determine and articulate long term investment
goals and risk tolerance. As part of this process, where desired and appropriate, we help them consider
the role their wealth overall, and/or as resides in one or more specific entities, plays in their lives.
With that information in hand, we help craft an Investment Policy Statement for each investment
portfolio/entity that codifies specific objectives and how they will be pursued, specifically via a multi-
asset class portfolio approach integrated with the client’s tax situation, governance, and where desired,
values-based or impact parameters. Concurrently with Investment Policy Statement work, we
collaborate with the client and their chosen administrative partner(s) to ensure that effective
infrastructure and reporting processes are in place. Where needed and/or desired, this may include
participating in searches for high quality custodians, administrative partners, and/or reporting
solutions. While this work is typically performed at the start of a new investment management
relationship (and re-visited periodically, usually annually), on occasion it will be pursued as a separate
engagement.
To implement agreed investment strategies, Your OCIO recommends investments with independent
investment managers and/or independently managed investment products, including separately
managed accounts, mutual funds, exchange traded funds and collective investment vehicles such as
private fund limited partnerships. We have deep experience, networks, and expertise across multiple
asset classes, including but not solely in the broad alternative asset class universe. We do not make
individual security recommendations, nor do we provide tax, legal or accounting advice, although we
encourage collaboration with clients’ counsel in these arenas.
Your OCIO is a non-discretionary adviser, and we do not act in a custodial capacity. Our experience
suggests that this division of responsibilities enhances the likelihood of portfolios being aligned with
each client’s objectives as well as boosts confidence in the security of their assets.
Guiding the creation of customized, appropriately diversified investment portfolios is part of the
initiation of each Chief Investment Officer/Investment Advisory relationship. We monitor each
portfolio on an ongoing basis, and within portfolios, we keep a watchful eye on each recommended
investment -- both as a standalone, looking forward opportunity and in the context of the role the
holding plays in the pursuit of each portfolio’s agreed objectives and risk tolerance. Through regular
(usually quarterly) reviews, we analyze and discuss progress and challenges and if and as appropriate,
recommend
rebalancing exposures among asset classes, tactical shifts in focus and exit from existing
investments and/or entry into new investments. These recommendations may arise from changing
client circumstances, new information, and/or our evaluation of economic and financial market
developments. Your OCIO endeavors to work with each client’s custodian and administrator to design
reporting that helps quantify progress toward long-term objectives, as we believe it is only possible to
manage what is reasonably accurately measured. Our clients’ typical reporting includes fairly standard
quarterly presentation of investment performance over multiple time periods, both in the absolute and
relative to agreed benchmarks as well as annual big picture assessments of progress toward the
achievement of long-term objectives. We use these reports as the basis of our analyses, discussions with,
and recommendations to our clients and where experience suggests amendment in their content might
enhance our efforts, we work with custodians and administrators to implement the desired changes.
While we communicate with clients outside of these regular reviews, we have seen that the discipline that
structured discussion of accurate, consistently presented information provides an effective backdrop for
constructive decision-making. Additionally, we find that these focused conversations – from the creation
of Investment Policy Statements through episodic, methodical review of portfolio construction and
results – can lead to a virtuous circle that helps clients understand (and where desired, refine) their
objectives and what risks they are comfortable taking in their pursuit, and that maximizes the potential
that their goals are achieved.
Assignment of Agreements
Agreements may not be assigned without client consent.
Types of Agreements
Your OCIO, LLC has two types of client relationships and related agreements.
Chief Investment Officer/Investment Advisory Services
As described above and below in more detail, Your OCIO endeavors, on a non-discretionary and
non-custodial basis, to help Chief Investment Officer/Investment Advisory clients: (1) set reasonable
and measurable goals and define their risk tolerance; (2) for each of their investment entities, produce
an Investment Policy Statement that outlines the means by which their desired ends will be pursued;
(3) create and over time modify bespoke portfolios designed to maximize the possibility of achieving
their objectives; (4) work with their custodian/administrative partner(s) to produce useful, regular and
accurate reporting; (5) use such reporting as the basis for analyzing progress and challenges; and (6)
iterate as goals and market conditions evolve. We become a true, consistent, long-term partner to our
clients, augmenting regular meeting routines with ad hoc communication and in the background,
continuously educating ourselves on financial markets, specific investment opportunities, and the
work processes and effectiveness of individual managers both in client portfolios and which might be
appropriate for inclusion.
The specific scope of work and fee for a Chief Investment Officer/Investment Advisory Agreement
is negotiated with each client and executed in writing prior to the start of the relationship. The
agreement sets forth the services to be provided, the fees for the service and that the agreement may
be terminated by either party in writing with a mutually agreed notice period.
Financial Advisory Services
Occasionally a client will wish to work with Your OCIO, LLC on a consulting basis with the goals of
gaining better understanding of their financial picture, defining their risk tolerance, and drafting an
Investment Policy Statement for one or more of their related entities.
The specific scope of work and fee for a Financial Advisory Agreement is negotiated with the client
and executed in writing prior to the start of the relationship. Typically such agreements contemplate
a one-year engagement. In order not to dilute focus from our primary business, Your OCIO, LLC
only accepts Financial Advisory Agreements in circumstances where we and the client agree that a
longer-term Chief Investment Officer/Investment Advisory Agreement may develop out of, and
supersede, the Financial Advisory Agreement.
WRAP Program
Your OCIO, LLC does not participate in wrap fee programs.
Termination of Agreements
Each client contract includes mutually acceptable termination provisions that allow each of the client
and Your OCIO, LLC to terminate their relationship by notification in writing. For Chief Investment
Officer/Investment Advisory Agreements, terms encompass acknowledgment of Your OCIO, LLC’s
deep and ongoing role in developing and monitoring clients’ investment portfolios and the possibility
of participating in a thoughtful transition to a successor Chief Investment Officer/Investment
Adviser.
Assets Under Management
As of December 31, 2023, Your OCIO, LLC has approximately $315,100,000 in regulatory assets
under management, all managed on a non-discretionary basis.