Advisory Services Offered
Phil D. Wheat and Lori Givens co-own Wheat-Givens Financial, LLC (“WGF” or “the Firm”), which began
doing business in 1996 (formerly known as Phil D. Wheat, CFP®) in McKinney, TX.
WGF offers client the choice of discretionary or non-discretionary asset management services combined
with financial planning through the Wheat-Givens Financial, LLC Wrap Fee Program (hereinafter referred
to as the “Program”), where it serves as the Program’s sponsor and sole Portfolio Manager. WGF offers
Clients ongoing asset management services through determining individual investment goals, time
horizons, objectives, and risk tolerance. Investment strategies, investment selection, asset allocation,
portfolio monitoring, and the overall investment program will be based on the above factors.
Discretionary
When the Client elects to use WGF on a discretionary basis, the Client will sign an Advisory Services
Agreement granting limited trading authorization, which allows WGF to determine the securities to be
bought or sold and the amount of the securities to be bought or sold. WGF will have the authority to
execute transactions in the account without seeking Client approval on each transaction.
Non-Discretionary
When the Client elects to use WGF on a non-discretionary basis, WGF will determine the securities to
be bought or sold and the amount of the securities to be bought or sold. However, WGF will obtain
prior Client approval on each and every transaction before executing any transaction.
WGF Wrap Program fees include Financial Planning and consulting services for clients in the following
areas:
• pre-retirement and post-retirement financial consulting
• customized investment allocation plans
• investment and estate planning
• corporate retirement plans
• advisory services
• business continuation and executive/owner benefit planning
• educational and special needs funding strategies
Clients are provided with a written comprehensive financial plan that is presented to illustrate their current
financial situation and objectives and to provide specific recommendations of how their goals can best be
attained. The plan will include as many of the areas above as the client wishes.
WGF charges a quarterly investment advisory fee based on your assets under management. Fees per
household will not exceed the following maximums:
0.25% per calendar quarter (1.00% annualized) up to and including $500,000
0.125% per calendar quarter (0.50% annualized) for amounts in the household accounts above $500,001
*No fees will be charged for short-term assets (money market funds, CDs) held in accounts.
This is a blended fee schedule, meaning different asset levels are assessed different fees, then combined for
a total investment fee. WGF Wrap Program fees are computed and payable quarterly in advance during the
first month of each calendar quarter and will be calculated based on the market value of the client account
assets held on the last day of the prior quarter. Fees shall be deducted from the client’s Wrap Fee Account
on a quarterly basis unless otherwise instructed by the client. If there are insufficient money market funds
available at the time fees are due, WGF will withdraw the amount(s) due once those funds become available
through client-authorized transactions. This may result in multiple fee billings within the same billing
period. No late fees will be charged on past-due fees.
WGF, in its sole discretion, may charge a lesser investment advisory fee based upon certain criteria (e.g.,
historical relationship, type of assets, anticipated future earning capacity, anticipated future additional
assets, dollar amounts of assets to be managed, related accounts, account composition, negotiations with
Clients, etc.).
For all services, Clients may terminate their engagement with WGF within five (5) business days of signing
an Agreement with no obligation and without penalty. After the initial (5) business days, the Agreement
may be terminated by WGF with thirty (30) days written notice to Client and by the Client at any time with
written notice to WGF. If the account is terminated prior to the end of a quarter, the fee for that quarter will
be prorated for the number of days the account was open during that quarter, and any overpayment will
be returned to the client following the closing of the account.
Fee Comparison
Clients may be able to
purchase services similar to those offered under the Program from other service
providers either separately or as part of a similar wrap fee program. These services or programs may cost
more or less than our Program, depending on the fees charged by such other service providers. For
example, the Program Fee, which is fixed regardless of the number of transactions occurring in the account,
may be more or less than paying for execution on a per-transaction basis.
• 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. WGF does not include
cash or cash-equivalent balances when calculating fees to eliminate this conflict.
• 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.
Conflict of Interest. When managing a client's account on a wrap fee basis, we receive as compensation
for our investment advisory services, the balance of the total wrap [or program] fee you pay after custodial,
trading and other management costs (including execution and transaction fees) have been deducted.
Accordingly, we have a conflict of interest because we have a financial incentive to maximize our
compensation by seeking to reduce or minimize the total costs incurred in your account(s) subject to a
wrap fee.
• For example, our wrap fee arrangement creates incentives for our firm to trade less frequently or
select investments that reduce our costs, and in some cases increase expenses that are borne by the
client.
Additionally, an increasing number of custodians generally do not charge commissions [or transaction fees]
for online trades of U.S. exchange-listed equities, U.S. exchange-listed ETFs, and no-transaction-fee (“NTF”)
mutual funds. This means that, in most cases, when we buy these types of securities, we can do so without
paying commissions to the account custodian. If you choose to enter into a wrap fee arrangement, your
total cost to invest could exceed the cost of paying for brokerage and advisory services separately.
Additional Fees
WGF pays all custodian fees and transaction fees for all accounts under this Program. However, custodians
may charge other related costs on the purchases or sales of mutual funds, equities, bonds, options, margin
interest, and mark-ups, markdowns, or spreads paid to market makers. Mutual funds, money market funds,
and exchange-traded funds may also charge internal management fees, which are disclosed in the fund’s
prospectus. WGF does not directly receive any compensation from these fees.
The Firm selects mutual funds by criteria, such as past total return performance as well as risk,
diversification, internal fund fees, price to earnings ratios, and volatility measures. Broker compensation is
not a selection criteria because we do not use “sales charge” funds. If a fund has a sales charge, we will not
recommend it unless the fund company will waive the sales charge in an Advisory Service account. Some
funds have what is known as a 12b-1 charge as a part of their annual fee structure. This is normally in the
0.25% range. Some part of 12b-1 fees comes to the broker as compensation. If the fund family offers the
same fund without 12b-1 fees, we either recommend the non-12b-1 version fund, or if the version without
the 12b-1 fees has become available after its counterpart was already in place in an account, we subtract
the 12b-1 fees from client fees on a quarterly basis.
Additional Compensation
WGF nor its employees receive compensation, other than the portfolio management fee, for the
recommendation to the Client or the Client’s participation in the Program.