A. The Company
Compound Advisers is a Delaware corporation that was formed in 2019. The Company began
providing advisory services in February 2020. Compound Advisers was originally registered
as an investment adviser in the State of California in February 2020.
Compound Advisers is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Compound Financial, Inc., a Delaware
corporation (“Compound Financial”). The principal owners of Compound Financial, Inc. are
Jordan Gonen and Jacob Schein, who serve as Compound Advisers’ Chief Executive Officer
and Chief Technology Officer, respectively.
B. Advisory Services
Compound Advisers offers ongoing financial advisory services based on the individual goals,
objectives, time horizon, and risk tolerance of each client (“Advisory Services”). Advisory
Services consist of two areas: “Financial Advice & Planning” and “Investment Management.”
1) Financial Advice & Planning – Financial Advice & Planning consists of developing a
client’s financial plan regarding asset location, liquidity management, asset allocation,
and investment strategy. The allocation is targeted to meet the investment objectives,
time horizon, financial situation, and tolerance for risk for each client.
Financial Advice & Planning services are offered in several areas of a client’s financial
situation, depending on their goals, objectives and financial situation.
Financial Advice & Planning services can be provided in one or both of the following
manners:
Planning
This type of financial planning will involve preparing a financial plan for clients based
on the client’s financial goals and objectives. This planning may encompass one or more
areas of need, including, but not limited to, investment planning, personal savings,
equity, personal savings, executive compensation, cashflow planning, education
savings, retirement planning and other areas of a client’s financial situation.
A financial plan developed for the client will usually include general recommendations
for a course of activity or specific actions to be taken by the client. For example,
recommendations may be made that the client start or revise their cash flow plan,
investment or equity compensation programs, education savings and/or charitable
giving programs, or their retirement savings programs. Compound Advisers may also
refer clients to an accountant, tax advisor, attorney or other specialist or financial
services provider, as appropriate for their unique situation. For certain planning
engagements, Compound Advisers will provide a written summary of a client's
financial situation, observations, and recommendations.
Advice
Clients can also receive financial advice on a more limited basis. This may include
advice on only an isolated area(s) of concern such as equity and other executive
compensation, cash flow planning, estate planning, retirement planning, reviewing a
client's existing portfolio, or any other specific topic. Compound Advisers also provides
specific consultation and administrative services regarding investment and financial
concerns of the client. Additionally, Compound Advisers provides guidance on non-
securities matters. Generally, this includes coordinating with third-party advisers in
the areas of tax, estate planning, insurance and/or annuity advice upon clients’
request.
For these more limited engagements, Compound Advisers may not provide a written
summary. Recommendations are not limited to any specific product or service offered
by a broker-dealer, insurance company or other professional service.
Financial Advice & Planning Disclosures
Should a client choose to implement the Financial Advice & Planning
recommendations made by Compound Advisers, Compound Advisers may recommend
its own services or that of other professionals (i.e., attorney, accountant, tax advisor,
insurance agent, and/or stockbroker). Accordingly, clients are advised that a conflict of
interest exists if Compound Advisers recommends its own services or those of its
employees or affiliates. Clients are under no obligation to act upon any of the
recommendations made by Compound Advisers or its associated persons under a
Financial Advice & Planning engagement and/or engage the services of any such
recommended professional, including Compound Advisers or any of its related persons
such as Compound Tax LLC (“Compound Tax”). The client retains absolute discretion
over all such implementation decisions and is free to accept or reject any of Compound
Advisers’ or its associated persons’ recommendations. Compound Advisers shall
cooperate with any attorney, accountant, broker or other adviser chosen by the client
regarding implementation of any such recommendations.
2) Investment Management – Investment Management consists of implementing a
portion of the clients’ liquid assets. The Client may, but is not obliged to, avail of this
service in conjunction with the Financial Advice & Planning services. Investment
Management services can be categorized as: portfolio construction as well as ongoing
management and supervision.
●Portfolio Construction – Compound Advisers will develop a customized portfolio for the
client based on the client’s risk profile and investment guidelines and that is intended
to address the asset allocation objectives of the client.
●Ongoing Investment Management and Supervision – Compound Advisers will provide
Investment Management and ongoing oversight of the client’s portfolio and overall
account.
Investment
Management services will be provided on a discretionary or non-discretionary
basis. For discretionary Investment Management services, clients will be required to give
Compound Advisers authority to manage the client's assets in accordance with what
Compound Advisers deems to be in the client's best interest based on the client’s
investment objectives and guidelines. Clients will retain individual ownership of all
securities in their account.
Publication of Periodicals or Newsletters
Compound Advisers may publish written content in an online manual, periodic newsletters or
other channels of communication providing general information on various financial topics. No
specific investment recommendations are provided in these communications and the
information presented does not purport to meet the specific objectives or needs of any
individual.
Educational Seminars and Workshops
Compound Advisers may sponsor seminars and/or workshops of an educational and generic
nature. A broad range of topics may be addressed in each seminar or workshop, including
private company equity, asset allocation, alternative asset investing, retirement planning,
estate planning and other investment-related topics. Compound Advisers’ seminars and
workshops are educational in nature and do not involve the sale of investment or insurance
products. Information presented will not be based on any one person’s needs nor does
Compound Advisers make specific recommendations or provide individualized investment
advice to attendees.
Third Party Professionals
Compound Advisers connects clients to other third-party professionals to provide advice and
services (“Additional Services”) relevant to their life goals and plans, including, without
limitation, tax, accounting, asset management and attorneys (each, a “Provider”). Providers
are selected based on Compound’s assessment of their relevant expertise and experience.
Other than for Compound Tax, which provides tax services, there is no ownership or other
affiliation between Compound and third-party Provider, nor any financial or other incentive
that would influence Compound’s selection of these unaffiliated Providers. Generally, each
unaffiliated Provider bills clients directly for their services, unless agreed otherwise.
With clients’ consent, affiliated and unaffiliated Providers may receive information about
clients from Compound Advisers, which may include, as relevant: (1) financial circumstances
and goals, (2) investment objectives, guidelines, restrictions and investment activity; and (3)
life goals, needs and plans. Depending on the Provider, with clients’ consent, Compound
Advisers may receive additional information from that Provider with respect to the specific
advice provided to clients. Clients are free to select their own professional advisers, however,
there may be limitations on such sharing of information.
C. Client Tailored Services and Client Imposed Restrictions
Compound Advisers’ Investment Management services are tailored to meet the specific needs
of each client. In order to provide appropriately individualized services, Compound Advisers
will work with each client to obtain information regarding the client’s financial circumstances,
investment objectives, overall financial condition, income and tax status, personal and
business assets, risk profile and other information regarding the client’s financial and
investment needs.
For those clients who elect to receive Investment Management services, Compound Advisers
will review with clients their financial circumstances, investment objectives and risk profile at
least annually. For Compound Advisers to provide effective Investment Management services,
it is critical that clients provide accurate and complete information to Compound Advisers and
inform Compound Advisers anytime such information needs to be updated or anytime there is
a change in their financial circumstances, investment objectives and/or risk profile.
Generally, clients are permitted to impose reasonable restrictions on investing in certain
securities or types of securities in their advisory accounts, provided, however, that some
restrictions may not be accommodated when utilizing Exchange Traded Funds, mutual funds
or with respect to certain third-party investment managers. In addition, a restriction request
may not be honored if it is fundamentally inconsistent with Compound Advisers’ investment
philosophy, runs counter to the client’s stated investment objectives, or would prevent
Compound Advisers from properly servicing client accounts. Whether clients will be able to
place reasonable restrictions on the types of investments which will be made on the client's
behalf is at the sole discretion of Compound Advisers.
D. Wrap Fee Programs
Compound Advisers does not currently provide portfolio management services to a wrap fee
program(s). Under a wrap fee program, advisory services (which may include portfolio
management or advice concerning the selection of other investment advisers) and transaction
services (e.g., execution of trades) are provided for one fee. This is different from traditional
investment management programs whereby services are provided for a fee, but transaction
services are billed separately on a per-transaction basis.
E. Assets Under Management
As of January 1, 2023, Compound Advisers manages $228,751,287 on a discretionary basis
and $88,101,344 on a non-discretionary basis.