Waypoint Wealth Partners (“WWP”) has been providing investment advice since 2004 and
became a Registered Investment Adviser with the SEC on June 17, 2008. WWP is a
privately held company owned by the following principals:
BOWES, CHARLES, L. Founding Partner
BRINTON, ANNETTE E. Founding Partner
HUTCHINSON, COURTNEY B. Chief Compliance Officer
Education and Business Standards
Persons providing advisory services (Investment Adviser Representatives) must be
investment and financial planning professionals. Professional staff members must possess
a BA, BS, or MBA degree and be either credentialed as a Certified Financial Planner,
Certified Public Accountant, Chartered Life Underwriter, or enrolled in a course designed to
achieve such designations or possess the equivalent experience. Other staff members bring
appropriate skills and experiences.
Investment Management Services
WWP offers investment management services on a fee-only basis. WWP offers advice to
clients regarding asset allocation and the selection of investments. WWP’s investment
management services include designing, implementing, and continued monitoring of client
accounts. WWP will invest the account on a fully discretionary basis, limited only by the
client’s individual needs and any restrictions imposed on the account.
WWP may recommend other investment advisers to manage a certain portion of client
assets. WWP will continue to provide advisory services to the client for the ongoing
monitoring and review of the overall account performance. Factors that WWP will
consider in recommending a particular sub-adviser include the sub-adviser’s management
style, performance, reputation, financial strength, reporting, pricing, and research. WWP
will also take the client’s stated investment objectives into account when determining
whether a particular sub-adviser is appropriate. The client will pay the sub-adviser directly
for their advisory services rendered. Fees paid to the sub-adviser are separate from and in
addition to WWP’s management fees.
Wealth Management Services
WWP offers wealth management services as part of their investment management service
offering. WWP’s wealth management offering includes the following:
• Understanding the client’s present circumstances by collecting and carefully
considering relevant personal and financial data.
• Identifying the client’s goals, vision, values and concerns.
• Providing recommendations for specific issues requested by the client which
may include:
- Preparing for or living in retirement
- Investment strategies
- Income tax planning
- Stock compensation analysis and planning
- Life, disability, long term care insurance
- Family savings and cash flow planning
- Education planning and funding
- Charitable gifting
- Employee benefits
- Other issues as needed
• As the client’s financial plans are developed, WWP may help with implementing
the plan, as requested by the client.
• WWP also monitors and makes changes in the plan as circumstances change for
the duration of the client’s agreement with WWP. The client is always
responsible for notifying WWP of changes in their personal circumstances on a
timely basis.
The gathering of information, review of options, and plan development are all done
carefully with the client in a series of in person or video meetings, telephone and by using
electronic communication (e-mail) as appropriate. Proper planning is not a one-time
event. Life circumstances change, goals change and available opportunities may change
over time. Any plan will need to be
adjusted and updated to reflect these changes or it may
become outdated and irrelevant. The initial planning is only the beginning step in a life-
long process.
WWP may provide more limited wealth management services for courtesy accounts, such
as for the accounts of adult children of clients. WWP’s wealth management services do not
include preparation of income tax, gift or estate tax returns nor preparation of any legal
documents, including wills or trusts. Investment Adviser Representatives at WWP are not
practicing tax professionals or attorneys.
Types of Investments
WWP primarily utilizes mutual funds, exchange traded funds, and publicly traded REITs in
managing client portfolios, and may additionally utilize individual stocks and bonds in
particular client circumstances. WWP may also offer advice about any type of investment
held in a client’s portfolio at the beginning of the advisory relationship. The majority of
investments recommended by WWP are in the form of no-load mutual funds, index funds,
exchange traded funds or similar investment products. As a result of employee benefit
perquisites from their position as an owner or executive of a company, some clients may
own, be granted or may consider purchasing options in the shares of their company. WWP
offers advice about such investment decisions, as well as about the sale or liquidation of
these companies. The investment selection offered to clients may be limited by the
knowledge and experience of the personnel of WWP and/or the resources available to it as
a result of its relationships with custodians and other providers in the broader financial
industry. In addition, as a result of these resources, certain investments may be available
to clients of WWP that might not be available to members of the public at large. WWP
believes that the choices available under these restrictions are wide enough to effectively
make the full range of investment options available that might be important for all but the
rarest client. Suitable categories of investments are chosen according to the client’s
attitude about risk and need for capital appreciation or income production, with tax
considerations of all transactions given appropriate weight.
WWP manages client accounts based on the investment strategy discussed below under
Item 8. Individual securities are selected within each category when WWP believes their
characteristics are most consistent with the objectives for the category they were chosen
for. Risk factors of the different investments are considered, particularly in light of the
client’s stated risk tolerance. WWP makes investment decisions for clients based on
information the client supplies about their financial situation, goals, and risk tolerance.
WWP’s recommendations/investment selections may not be suitable if the client does not
provide WWP with accurate and complete information. It is the client’s responsibility to
keep WWP informed of any changes to their investment objectives or restrictions.
Clients may also request other restrictions on the account, such as when a client needs to
keep a minimum level of cash in the account or does not want WWP to buy or sell specific
securities or security types in the account. WWP reserves the right to not accept and/or
terminate management of a client’s account if WWP feels that the client-imposed
restrictions would limit or prevent WWP from meeting or maintaining the client’s
investment strategy.
As of 12/31/2022, WWP’s assets under management totaled:
Discretionary Assets $ 780,957,913
Non-Discretionary Assets $ 0
Total Assets $ 780,957,913