A. Description of Your Advisory Firm
Warther Private Wealth ("Advisor", "we", "our" and "us"), is a registered investment advisor located in
the State of Ohio, which is organized as a Limited Liability Company ("LLC") under the laws of Ohio.
Warther Private Wealth was founded in 2002 in Akron, Ohio. Warther Private Wealth is owned by
Robert W. Warther (CEO/Founder). This Disclosure Brochure provides information regarding the
qualifications, business practices, and the advisory services provided by Warther Private Wealth.
Warther Private Wealth is dedicated to improving the financial lives and fulfilling the family legacies of
clients. As a private investment advisory firm, we offer independent, unbiased financial advise focused
on each individual clients' unique needs and priorities. Warther Private Wealth offers a wide range of
services, access to global investment opportunities and multi-generational estate and financial
planning strategies.
B. Description of Advisory Services Offered
Warther Private Wealth offers investment advisory services to individuals, high net worth individuals,
and other professionals in Ohio and other states (each referred to as a "Client", "you", and "your").
Investment Management Services
Warther Private Wealth provides customized investment advisory solutions for its Clients which is
achieved through continuous personal Client contact and interaction while providing discretionary
investment management and consulting services. Warther works with each individual Client to
determine their investment goals and objectives as well as risk tolerance and financial situation in
order for us to create a portfolio strategy. We construct our portfolios primarily with equities, bonds and
low-cost exchange-traded funds ("ETFs").
Warther Private Wealth is primarily long-term focused, but the Advisor may buy, sell or re-allocate
positions that have been held less than one year to meet the objectives of the Client or due to market
conditions. Warther Private Wealth will create, implement and monitor the portfolio to ensure it meets
the goals, objectives, circumstances, and risk tolerance agreed to by the Client. Every client has the
authority to place restrictions on the types of investments to be held in their portfolio, subject to
acceptance by the Advisor.
We will complete an initial due diligence meeting with each client to determine the client's personal
financial situation and objectives and to analyze the client's financial documentation. As applicable, we
then review the client's financial situation including assets and liabilities, investment portfolio,
retirement plan, risk management plan, risk tolerance, and estate plan, as well as other areas relevant
to the client's financial health. The Advisor may use other types of investments as appropriate to meet
the needs of each Client.
Warther may recommend redistributing investment allocations to diversify the portfolio. Warther Private
Wealth may recommend specific positions to increase sector or asset class weightings. We may
increase cash holdings as deemed appropriate based on your risk tolerance and short and long term
goals. Warther Private Wealth may recommend selling positions for reasons that include, but are not
limited to, harvesting capital gains or losses, business or sector risk exposure to a specific security or
class of securities, overvaluation or overweighting of the position(s) in the portfolio, change in risk
tolerance of Client, generating cash to meet Client needs, or any risk deemed unacceptable for the
Client's risk tolerance.
At no time will Warther Private Wealth accept or maintain custody of a Client's funds or securities,
except for authorized deduction of the Advisor's fees. All Client assets will be managed within their
account(s) at the Custodian, pursuant to the Client investment advisory agreement.
Financial Planning Services
We typically offer a variety of financial planning services to individuals and families, pursuant to a
written financial planning or consulting agreement. The services that are offered depend on the Client's
financial situation, depending on their goals, objectives and financial situation. Financial planning will
typically involve providing a variety of advisory services to clients regarding the management of their
financial resources based upon an analysis of their individual needs. If you retain our firm for financial
planning services, we will meet with you for a complimentary initial consultation to gather information
about your financial circumstances and objectives. Once we specify those long-term objectives (both
financial and non-financial), we will develop shorter-term, targeted objectives. Once we review and
analyze the information you provide to our firm, we will deliver a written plan to you, designed to help
you achieve your stated financial goals and objectives.
Financial plans are based on your financial situation at the time we present the plan to you, and on the
financial information you provide to our firm. You must promptly notify our firm if your financial
situation, goals, objectives, or needs change.
You are under no obligation to act on our financial planning recommendations. Should you choose to
act on any of our recommendations, you are not obligated to implement the financial plan through any
of our other investment advisory services. Moreover, you may act on our recommendations by placing
securities transactions with any brokerage firm.
Portfolio Management Services
We offer discretionary and non-discretionary portfolio management services. Our investment advice is
tailored to meet our clients' needs and investment objectives, including your accounts that have been
collaterally assigned. If you retain our firm for portfolio management services, we will meet with you to
determine your investment objectives, risk tolerance, and other relevant information (the "suitability
information") at the beginning of our advisory relationship. We will use the suitability information we
gather to develop a strategy that enables our firm to give you focused investment advice and/or to
make investments on your behalf. As part of our portfolio management services, we may customize an
investment portfolio for you in accordance with your risk tolerance and investing objectives. We may
also invest your assets using a predefined strategy, or we may invest your assets according to one or
more model portfolios. Once we construct an investment portfolio for you, or select a model portfolio,
we will monitor your portfolio's performance on a periodic basis, and will rebalance the portfolio as
required by changes in market conditions and in your financial circumstances.
If you participate in our discretionary portfolio management services, we require you to grant our firm
discretionary authority to manage your account. Discretionary authorization will allow our firm to
determine the specific securities, and the amount of securities, to be purchased or sold for your
account without your approval prior to each transaction. Discretionary authority is typically granted by
the investment advisory agreement you sign with our firm, a power of attorney, or trading authorization
forms. You may limit our discretionary authority (for example, limiting the
types of securities that can be
purchased for your account) by providing our firm with your restrictions and guidelines in writing. If you
enter into non-discretionary arrangements with our firm, we must obtain your approval prior to
executing any transactions on behalf of your account.
Our fee for portfolio management services is negotiable and based on a percentage of your assets we
manage according to the following fee schedule:
Assets Under Management Annual Fee
First $250,000 2.25%
$250,001 - $1,000,000 2.00%
$1,000,001 - $3,000,000 1.75%
Over $3,000,000 1.25%
Our annual portfolio management fee is billed and payable quarterly in advance based on the value of
your account on the last day of the previous quarter. If the portfolio management agreement is
executed at any time other than the first day of a calendar quarter, our fees will apply on a pro rata
basis, which means that the advisory fee is payable in proportion to the number of days in the quarter
for which you are a client.
At our discretion, we may combine the account values of family members living in the same household
to determine the applicable advisory fee. For example, we may combine account values for you and
your minor children, joint accounts with your spouse, and other types of related accounts. Combining
account values may increase the asset total, which may result in your paying a reduced advisory fee
based on the available breakpoints in our fee schedule stated above.
We will send you an invoice for the payment of our advisory fee or we will deduct our fee directly from
your account through the qualified custodian holding your funds and securities. We will deduct our
advisory fee only when you have given our firm written authorization permitting the fees to be paid
directly from your account. Further, the qualified custodian will deliver an account statement to you at
least quarterly. These account statements will show all disbursements from your account. You should
review all statements for accuracy. We will also receive a duplicate copy of your account statements.
Either you or our firm may terminate the portfolio management agreement by providing written notice
to the other party within five business days of acceptance without penalty to you. After the five
business days, either party may terminate the portfolio management agreement by providing 30 days
written notice to the other party. You will incur a pro rata charge for services rendered prior to the
termination of the agreement. If you have pre-paid fees that we have not yet earned, you will receive a
prorated refund of those fees.
Pension Consulting Services
We offer pension consulting services to employee benefit plans and their fiduciaries based upon the
needs of the plan and the services requested by the plan sponsor or named fiduciary. In general, these
services may include an existing plan review and analysis, plan-level advice regarding fund selection
and investment options, education services to plan participants, investment performance monitoring,
and/or ongoing consulting. These pension consulting services will generally be non-discretionary and
advisory in nature. The ultimate decision to act on behalf of the plan shall remain with the plan sponsor
or other named fiduciary.
We may also assist with participant enrollment meetings and provide investment-related educational
seminars to plan participants on such topics as:
• Diversification
• Asset allocation
• Risk tolerance
• Time horizon
Our educational seminars may include other investment-related topics specific to the particular plan.
We may also provide additional types of pension consulting services to plans on an individually
negotiated basis. All services, whether discussed above or customized for the plan based upon
requirements from the plan fiduciaries (which may include additional plan-level or participant-level
services) shall be detailed in a written agreement and be consistent with the parameters set forth in the
plan documents.
Either party to the pension consulting agreement may terminate the agreement upon 30 days written
notice to the other party in accordance with the terms of the agreement for services. The pension
consulting fees will be prorated for the quarter in which the termination notice is given and any
unearned fees will be refunded to the client.
Investment Advisory Consulting Services
We offer investment advisory consulting services that are tailored to meet our clients' needs and
investment objectives. Once you have retained our firm for asset allocation services, we will gather
information about your financial situation and objectives, and assist you in determining your investment
goals, objectives, risk tolerance, and retirement plan time horizon. We will initially provide you with
recommendations as to how to allocate your investments among categories of assets. We will then
review your account on a periodic basis. Where appropriate, we may provide you with
recommendations to change your asset allocation in an effort to remain consistent with your stated
financial objectives. You are free at all times to accept or reject any of our investment
recommendations. Our fee and billing methodology for investment advisory consulting services is the
same as our Portfolio Management Services fee stated above.
Rollover Recommendations
Effective December 20, 2021 (or such later date as the US Department of Labor ("DOL") Field
Assistance Bulletin 2018-02 ceases to be in effect), for purposes of complying with the DOL's
Prohibited Transaction Exemption 2020-02 ("PTE 2020-02") where applicable, we are providing the
following acknowledgment to you. When we provide investment advice to you regarding your
retirement plan account or individual retirement account, we are 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. The way we make money creates some conflicts with
your interests, so we operate under a special rule that requires us to act in your best interest and not
put our interest ahead of yours. Under this special rule's provisions, we must:
• Meet a professional standard of care when making investment recommendations (give prudent
advice);
• Never put our financial interests ahead of yours when making recommendations (give loyal
advice);
• Avoid misleading statements about conflicts of interest, fees, and investments;
• Follow policies and procedures designed to ensure that we give advice that is in your best
interest;
• Charge no more than is reasonable for our services; and
• Give you basic information about conflicts of interest.
We benefit financially from the rollover of your assets from a retirement account to an account that we
manage or provide investment advice, because the assets increase our assets under management
and, in turn, our advisory fees. As a fiduciary, we only recommend a rollover when we believe it is in
your best interest.
Assets Under Management
As of December 31, 2023, we provide continuous management services for $261,196,514 in client
assets on a discretionary basis, and $530,467 in client assets on a non-discretionary basis.