Introduction
Fiduciary Trust International, LLC (“FTI” or the “Firm”) is an investment advisory firm providing highly
customized portfolio management, research and related wealth management services to high and ultra-high
net worth individuals, families and nonprofit institutions. FTI also provides advisory services to privately
offered investment funds, and, in some instances, serves as sub-adviser to certain advisory clients.
FTI was formerly known as Athena Capital Advisors, LLC and was founded in 1993 by Dr. Lisette Cooper.
The Firm is wholly-owned by Fiduciary International Holding, Inc. (“FIHI”), which in turn is wholly-
owned by Fiduciary Trust Company International (“FTCI”), a trust company headquartered in New York.
FTI and FTCI each are subsidiaries of Franklin Resources, Inc., a publicly-owned, NYSE-listed, global
investment management organization operating as Franklin Templeton.
FTI’s principal place of business is in Lincoln, Massachusetts. FTI also has places of business in New York,
New York, San Mateo, California, and Boca Raton, Florida.
As of September 30, 2023, discretionary assets under management were $4,988,086,184 and non-
discretionary assets under management were $476,790,843, totaling $5,464,877,027.
Financial Advisory, Wealth Management and Family Office Services
FTI serves a sophisticated group of high and ultra-high net worth private investors, including individuals
and families with substantial wealth, as such investors’ external chief investment officer and investment
staff. Many of FTI’s family clients have a variety of accounts and affiliated entities such as trusts, limited
liability companies and family limited partnerships and FTI typically advises all of these accounts and
entities on their behalf.
FTI also works with endowments, foundations and other institutions and provides outsourced chief
investment officer services, governance, advisory and portfolio planning and diagnostic services to such
entities.
FTI frequently works with advisory clients’ family office staff, lawyers, accountants, tax experts and other
service providers. FTI assists clients’ extended families and is skilled in addressing intra-family matters,
estate planning, charitable giving and distribution planning. Some of FTI’s employees serve in an individual
capacity as trustee, or agent for the trustee, of family trusts. FTI also assists the investment committees,
boards of trustees, executives, financial staff, attorneys and other service providers of its institutional
clients. FTI tailors the solution to best fit the needs of the advisory client.
Portfolio Management Services
FTI’s services most often include the creation of a tailored investment policy statement (IPS), strategic asset
allocation and tactical implementation, third party investment manager selection and monitoring, and
consolidated performance reporting. FTI has strong quantitative and derivative expertise, and, as and where
appropriate, creates customized hedges or other sophisticated transactions and structures for our advisory
clients. FTI’s portfolio management team periodically reviews and/or revises the IPS to account for changing
client circumstances and needs as well as any changing market conditions.
FTI manages advisory client accounts on a discretionary or non-discretionary basis, as agreed upon with each
advisory client. FTI will work with advisory clients at any point along the discretionary spectrum to
construct and manage portfolios designed to achieve an advisory client’s objectives. FTI welcomes advisory
client involvement at any point in the investment decision-making process.
For advisory clients with values-based priorities as well as financial goals, FTI has the capability and
experience to construct portfolios that align with personal values and social impact objectives. Such
advisory clients receive the same customized and personalized service FTI provides to all advisory clients.
Advisory clients may impose reasonable restrictions on investing in certain securities, types of securities or
industry sectors.
FTI develops a customized investment approach for each advisory client based on their risk tolerance, return
requirements, investable and other assets, time horizon, need for liquidity, legal and tax considerations,
inter-generational issues, impact/social investing preferences (if any) and any other special needs and
circumstances. Advisory client investment strategies are generally diversified across a range of asset classes
as appropriate, including U.S. equities, foreign equities, real estate, private equity, hedge funds and other
alternative investments, bonds, derivatives, futures and cash equivalents.
FTI considers multiple client-specific factors when making investment recommendations. These factors
include assessing how well the advisory client’s risk tolerance fits with the proposed investment strategy
and investment manager’s philosophy, the composition and needs of the advisory client’s current portfolio,
and terms and structure of the proposed investment(s). Depending on an advisory client’s specific
circumstances, FTI may advise investing via a separately managed account with a third-party investment
manager, via a mutual fund or ETF, or via a third-party private investment vehicle or through one of our
private investment funds (“FTI Private Funds”—see below). FTI generally does not offer separate account
managed services in connection with which it directly purchases securities for advisory clients but may
accommodate these services as and when appropriate.
FTI encourages advisory clients to carefully review the investment recommendation memos that FTI
prepares when recommending investment strategies.
Private Investment Funds
FTI has created and expects to continue to create pooled investment vehicles that are typically structured
as fund of funds or access vehicles to underlying funds (each a “FTI Private Fund” and together, the “FTI
Private Funds”). The FTI Private Funds are not registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as
amended (the “Investment Company Act”) and the interests are not publicly offered under the Securities
Act of 1933. FTI serves as a sub-advisor to certain FTI Private Funds, pursuant to a sub-advisory agreement
between the management company of the fund and FTI. Where appropriate and suitable, FTI recommends
to advisory clients that they invest in one or more of the FTI Private Funds. Not all advisory clients will be
offered the opportunity to invest in a FTI Private Fund.
Certain FTI Private Funds provide diversified commingled investment strategies for eligible clients. Certain
other FTI Private Funds were created to generally allow eligible clients the opportunity to combine their
funds to meet minimum participation thresholds to invest in third party private investment vehicles such as
hedge funds, private equity funds or real estate funds. Participation in these vehicles is at an advisory client’s
election and is limited to eligible clients who are accredited and qualified investors.
All relevant information pertaining to the FTI Private Funds, including the compensation received by FTI,
other fees and expenses, withdrawal rights, minimum investments, qualification requirements, suitability,
risk factors and potential conflicts of interest is set forth in the respective FTI Private Fund’s disclosure
documents, governing documents, and other offering materials (collectively the “Offering Documents”), as
supplemented by information concerning the FTI Private Funds set out in this Brochure. Each investor is
required to receive, review and execute (as applicable) the Offering Documents prior to being accepted as an
investor in any of the FTI Private Funds.
Sub-Advisory Services
FTI is an indirectly wholly-owned subsidiary of FTCI. FTI has entered into sub-advisory agreements with
FTCI and certain affiliates of FTCI (“FTCI Affiliates”) to act as sub-adviser to and provide investment
management services (“Sub-Advisory Services”) to clients of FTCI and FTCI Affiliates (“Sub-Advisory
Clients”). FTI manages the Sub-Advisory Clients designated assets based on the investment strategy as set
forth in the investment management agreement between each such Sub-Advisory Client and FTCI or the
FTCI Affiliate, respectively.
Research Services
FTI has an experienced Research Team. This team conducts due diligence with respect to all investment
recommendations made by FTI or investments made by FTI for our FTI Private Funds. More specifically,
the Research Team reviews potential and existing investments, tracks the performance of most sectors of
the markets, and identifies investments with independent third-party managers demonstrating knowledge
and expertise in a particular investment strategy. Upon a client’s request, FTI may conduct due diligence
on and meet with third-party managers of specific investments identified by the client. FTI regularly and
continuously monitors the performance of its third-party managers.
From time to time, FTI evaluates investments that are offered by, or through, the direct or affiliated business
operations of FTI’s clients. In response to a client’s request, and as deemed suitable and appropriate, FTI’s
Research Team gathers information on such opportunities and distributes the information gathered. FTI
considers these opportunities as they arise and recommends them to other clients if the investment is
otherwise suitable and appropriate, but with full disclosure that a pre-existing relationship attaches to the
opportunity. FTI does not receive additional fees or commissions for making such recommendations to
clients.
FTI has expertise in alternative investment management, including the design of customized portfolios of
hedge funds and other private investments. FTI’s extensive relationships, and those of our clients, provide
unique knowledge and insight regarding specialized investment funds.
Other
FTI does not provide legal or tax advice.