A. FIRM DESCRIPTION
Odyssey is a Georgia Limited Liability Company, located in Roswell, Georgia, originally founded
in 2007, and approved as a registered investment advisor with the Securities and Exchange
Commission on August 27, 2022. Odyssey will begin providing investment advisory and financial
planning services in September 2022. The Firm is wholly owned by Robert F. Fezza and Stephen
A. Siders. Mr. Siders also acts as the Firm’s Chief Compliance Officer.
B. ADVISORY SERVICES
Odyssey dedicates itself to understanding the intricacies of each client. For all investment
advisory and related services described below, we tailor our products in accordance with the
client-specific needs obtained from documented discussions, a financial plan and/or risk
assessment. Before providing investment advisory services, Odyssey takes multiple factors into
consideration, including but not limited to, investment objectives, investment time horizon, risk
tolerance, and the client’s financial circumstances.
Investment Advisory Services
We offer discretionary investment advisory services through one or more third-party Sub-
Advisors (“Sub-Advisor”). We reserve the right to decline to offer our services to a client or
prospective client if we deem it to be in the best interest of the client, prospective client, or Firm.
If a client engages us for investment advisory services, we require an executed Investment
Advisory Agreement (“IAA”) between the client and the Firm prior to the Firm providing our
services to the client. The IAA outlines the services and fees the client will incur for the Firm’s
services. Upon execution of the IAA, the Firm will work closely with the client to identify their
specific needs and objectives and the suitability of the products and/or model portfolios (the
“Portfolios”) offered by the Sub-Advisor.
As part of our discretionary authority, we retain the ability to hire and fire any Sub-Advisor as
necessary to best service our clients’ accounts. We review several factors when determining
which Sub-Advisor is most suitable for our Firm and its clients. Please see Item 8 - Methods of
Analysis, Investment Strategies and Risk of Loss for additional information on how we select a
third-party service provider or Sub-Advisor.
Odyssey has engaged Forum Financial Management, LP (“Forum”) as a third-party Sub-Advisor
to provide back-office services for the benefit of our client’s accounts. These services include, but
are not limited to, account administration, technology, and trading. As such, clients understand
and expressly permit Odyssey to share relevant client information with Forum. Forum maintains
a privacy policy whereby Forum does not disclose non-public information obtained from Odyssey
to any non-affiliated third parties, except as required to process transactions on client’s behalf
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or if required by law or regulation. Odyssey pays Forum a fee for its services. Clients are not
charged any other additional fees by Odyssey for Forum’s services.
Clients will only have a direct relationship with the Firm and the Firm will serve as the
communication conduit between the client and Forum (or any other Sub-Advisor). In third-party
managed accounts, the Sub-Advisor will retain discretionary authority to formulate, monitor, and
revise the investments held in the Portfolios. Clients must authorize the Sub-Advisor to direct
trades for clients’ accounts with the custodian. However, this discretionary authority is limited to
implementing transactions necessary to allocate the client’s assets among the Portfolios as
directed by the Firm. The Sub-Advisor will be responsible for providing ongoing rebalancing of
the Portfolios to ensure they continue to align with the stated investment objective and risk
tolerance of the Portfolio. The Sub-Advisor will not have the authority to provide the client with
any investment advice, determine the suitability of its portfolios for the client, or change the
Portfolio in which the Client’s assets are invested in.
The Sub-Advisor will not have possession or custody of cash and/or securities in any accounts,
nor any responsibility or liability for custody, which will remain solely with custodian.
The Sub-Advisor utilized by the Firm may not achieve the best rate of returns or charge the lowest
fees in comparison to other third-party investment advisors and managers. The Firm may utilize
additional independent third parties to assist it in recommending and monitoring the Sub-Advisor
as necessary under appropriate circumstances.
Investments Held Away
Odyssey occasionally advises clients with respect to investment accounts not directly supervised
and managed by Odyssey. The accounts include, but are not limited to, 401(k), 403(b), and 529
accounts. The fees for such services will be deducted from the accounts managed by Odyssey.
This advice will generally include asset allocation and fund selection. The fee for assets held away
is the same fee for assets under direct management, which will be evidenced in the client’s
advisory agreement. Funds selected will be primarily chosen on their asset class description and
fees in a manner consistent with portfolios directed by the Firm.
Financial Planning and Consulting Services
If a client engages the Firm to provide financial planning and consulting services, we require a
written Financial Planning Agreement (“FPA”) executed by the client prior to the engagement of
services. We provide our clients
with an in-depth analysis of their current financial situation, as
well as detailed recommendations related to the client’s financial goals. The financial plan may
include one or more of the following:
• Personal Financial Planning
• Investment Analysis/Asset Allocation
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• Risk Management and Analysis
• Analysis of Cash Flow and Debt
• Employee Benefits and Compensation
• Education Planning
• Business Planning
• Retirement Accumulation and Income Planning
• Insurance Needs/Planning
• Tax Return Review and Planning
• Wealth accumulation and Preservation Strategies
• Estate Planning
• Charitable Giving Solutions
• Financial Considerations of Divorce Planning
• Multi-Generational Planning
If an inherent conflict of interest exists between the interests of the Firm and the interests of the
client, the client is under no obligation to act upon our recommendations. Should the client elect
to act on any recommendation made by the Firm, the client is under no obligation to affect the
transactions through the Firm.
Clients are advised that certain assumptions may be made with respect to interest and inflation
rates and the use of past trends and performance of the market and economy. Past performance
is in no way an indication of future performance. The Firm cannot offer any guarantees or
promises that the client’s financial goals and objectives will be met.
Qualified Plan Consulting Services
Our retirement plan consulting services are available to sponsors of qualified plans (“Plan(s)”).
The Firm may be engaged to provide investment advisory services to Plans, whereby the Firm
assists a business in ensuring its investment offerings in the Plan are consistent with the
investment objective designed by the Plan. This includes recommending investments to the Plan
Sponsor and/or Investment Advisor, assist the Plan Sponsor in ensuring the investments follow
the firm’s Investment Policy Statement, complete suitability analysis for Plan Participants,
provide non-discretionary portfolio recommendations to Participants based on the suitability
analysis, and consult with Plan Participants.
In such engagements, the Firm will serve as an investment fiduciary as that term is defined under
The Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (“ERISA”). The Firm will generally provide
services on an “assets under management” fee basis per the terms and conditions of a
Retirement Plan Consulting Agreement between the Plan and the Firm.
Subscription Fee Service
Odyssey offers a subscription service, personal planning and ongoing financial advice, which may
or not include investment management for a minimum annual fee. Subscription clients sign an
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agreement for 12 months of financial advice to be provided monthly on various topics and via
various formats. We create a plan to guide our clients towards achieving specific financial goals
or for analysis of specific client financial issues. These services are provided on a non-
discretionary basis. These services do not require active management of a client account but
focus on the client's overall financial situation. Subscription clients do have the option for
Odyssey to manage their investments and custody their assets at Schwab or elect to keep their
assets outside of Odyssey's management.
C. TAILORED RELATIONSHIPS
At Odyssey, we offer the same suite of services to all of our clients. The advisory services and
recommendations offered by the Firm are based on the individual needs of our clients and the
suitability of products and services. Recommendations presented to clients and the
implementation of such recommendations are dependent upon the information provided by the
client to build the client’s financial profile which outlines each client’s current situation (goals,
income, objectives, and risk tolerance levels) and used to construct a client specific action plan
to aid in the selection of a portfolio through the sub-advisor.
We will make every effort to comply with the wishes of the client but cannot guarantee absolute
adherence due to our use of the Sub-Advisor. However, it is incumbent upon the client to disclose
any restrictions and preferences in writing to the Firm prior to the implementation of our
recommendations. If the restrictions prevent the Firm from properly servicing the client account
Odyssey reserves the right to terminate the relationship.
D. WRAP FEE PROGRAMS
Our Firm does not participate in and is not a sponsor of wrap fee programs; however, we may
recommend third-party wrap fee programs to clients.
Wrap Fee Programs are arrangements between broker-dealers, investment advisors, banks and
other financial institutions, and affiliated and unaffiliated investment advisors through which the
clients of such firms receive discretionary investment advisory, execution, clearing, and custodial
services in a “bundled” form. In exchange for these “bundled” services, the clients pay an all-
inclusive (or “wrap”) fee determined as a percentage of the assets held in the wrap account.
E. ASSETS UNDER MANAGEMENT
When calculating regulatory assets under management, an investment advisor must include the
value of any advisory account over which it exercises continuous and regular advisory or
management services. Our assets under management as of 12/31/2023 are $263,970,000.
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