LNW Wealth Management, LLC (“LNW”) is a limited liability company founded in 2001 and owned by Laird
Norton Wetherby Trust Company, LLC. Both entities, along with its affiliates Laird Norton Wetherby Wealth
Management, LLC and LNW Trust Company of South Dakota, LLC, operate under the trade name of LNW
(also known as Laird Norton Wetherby).
LNW’s clients are predominantly wealthy individuals and families with complex holdings and a need for
comprehensive investment and financial advice. LNW may advise and provide services to many different
accounts and entities related to its clients, including personal and retirement accounts, education savings
accounts, accounts of minor children, revocable and irrevocable trusts, family partnerships, foundations,
charitable organizations and similar entities. The complexity of clients’ financial lives often requires that
LNW work in close collaboration with other advisors that the client has engaged, including other investment
advisors, attorneys, CPAs, insurance professionals, and bill payment services. LNW is not affiliated with, and
has no financial arrangements with, any of these other advisors.
To guide and inform its work with each client LNW will jointly formulate an investment policy statement (IPS)
that summarizes the client’s goals, objectives, constraints, risk tolerance and unique circumstances,
including such factors as time horizon, projected future liquidity needs, current holdings, tax considerations,
and personal market or investment views. A client may have more than one IPS; for example, when one
account or entity within a client relationship has a distinct legal status or unique goals, objectives,
constraints, circumstances or risk tolerance. The IPS guides LNW in objectively formulating suitable
investment and financial recommendations for each client.
As a consequence of the complexity of clients’ financial lives and the customized advice LNW offers, each
client’s investment portfolio is unique, although it may share common characteristics with portfolios that
have similar investment objectives. Because each portfolio is unique, investment results may vary, even
between accounts that have similar investment objectives or similar portfolios. Idiosyncratic factors that
can influence the composition of a client’s portfolio and investment results include (but are not limited to):
• Whether LNW has been given discretion over any part or all of the portfolio.
• Decisions made by the client whether to invest (or not invest) in any security or
investment product LNW may recommend from time to time.
• The timing of initiation of the portfolio, or any investment or part of the portfolio,
including amounts added to or withdrawn from the portfolio.
• Whether the portfolio contains any legacy holdings or positions (those that pre-date
engagement of LNW), or investments made by the client during the engagement that
have not been recommended by the team which LNW may agree to incorporate into
portfolio reporting or analysis as requested by the client.
• Investment constraints and restrictions imposed by the client on the types of
investments that may be made or the types of securities that may be purchased for the
portfolio, which LNW may consent to but not recommend.
• Regulatory constraints that may apply to any part or all of the portfolio.
LNW’s Integrated Investment & Wealth Advisory Offering
LNW offers personalized service and a comprehensive wealth management offering which scales in scope
and complexity for each client’s financial situation and goals.
LNW’s wealth management offering is tailored to each clients’ individual needs and goals
– both initially and
as those needs and goals may change over time. Most commonly LNW is engaged to provide an integrated
offering that includes investment management, wealth planning, and collaborative professional services.
While not exhaustive, following are examples of the integrated services LNW offers:
• Investment Management: (i) development of an Investment Policy Statement
customized for the client’s time horizon, risk tolerance and investment targets; (ii)
design of an asset allocation tailored to client-specific circumstances; (iii) development
of financial modelling or financial projections to test and support asset allocation
decisions; (iv) investment product due diligence, selection and recommendation; (v)
discretionary and/or non-discretionary investment implementation, ongoing
supervision, monitoring and portfolio rebalancing activities; (vi) quarterly client
investment and performance reporting; and (vii) periodic meetings with the client’s
wealth management team, either virtually, at LNW’s offices or at other mutually
convenient locations. In certain cases, LNW will accept direction from clients regarding
specific investments and will hold specific securities in the client’s account.
• Wealth Planning: The scope of wealth planning services is determined by the client and
may also include planning in connection with (i) financial independence/retirement
planning; (ii) capital and liquidity needs analysis and related financial modelling; (iii)
philanthropy planning and implementation; (iv) education planning; (v) employee stock
option planning; (vi) consideration and evaluation of financing transactions and risk
reduction strategies for concentrated equity positions; (vii) advice incident to major
asset purchases and sales; and (viii) managing philanthropic plans, tax strategies,
wealth transfer strategies, and legacy plans
as desired.
• Collaborative Services: LNW also provides, or coordinates the provision of, other
related financial services such as estate, financial and tax planning in consultation with
other professionals that the client has engaged, including attorneys and accountants.
Its team may: (i) coordinate with client’s CPA on matters of income tax planning and
reporting; (ii) coordinate with client's lawyer on matters of estate planning and gifting;
(iii) coordinate with client's third-party providers of life, disability, and other lines of
personal insurance; and (iv) coordinate with client's third-party bill payment service
provider.
Through this offering LNW will provide investment advice and recommendations regarding the types of
investments that LNW believes to be appropriate for its clients. When providing investment advice, LNW will
recommend the purchase of various publicly available funds such as mutual funds and exchange traded
funds (“ETFs”). LNW may also recommend investments in private securities and/or hiring third party
investment managers. LNW may agree to manage individual stocks or bonds in limited circumstances.
LNW provides investment management services to LNWM Renewable Power Fund, L.P (the “Fund,”) a
privately offered pooled investment vehicle. Access to the Fund was limited to clients who met the Fund’s
qualification requirements. This Fund is now closed to new investors. LNW is the general partner and
investment advisor to this Fund, which is structured as a Washington domiciled limited partnership. An
investment in this Fund is considered illiquid and subject to limitations on withdrawals; it is not suitable for
all clients.
As of December 31, 2023, LNW managed $4,235,203,782 on a discretionary basis and $398,716,911on a
non-discretionary basis.