WFA is owned by Mr. Kirk Stovesand and Mr. Yusuf Balogun. WFA has been providing advisory services
while registered under the SEC since 2014, prior to that while registered with the State of California.
As of December 31, 2022, WFA managed $239,219,291 on a discretionary basis. Additionally, WFA
provides ongoing monitoring, reporting and advice to approximately $58,104,568 in assets under
advisement.
Investment Management Services:
WFA manages investment portfolios for individuals, qualified retirement plans, trusts, charitable
organizations, corporations and small businesses. WFA will work with a client to determine the client's
investment objectives and investor risk profile and will design a written investment policy statement.
WFA uses investment and portfolio allocation software to evaluate alternative portfolio designs. WFA
evaluates the client's existing investments with respect to the client's investment policy statement. WFA
works with new clients to develop a plan to transition from the client's existing portfolio to the portfolio
recommended by WFA. WFA will then continuously monitor the client's portfolio holdings and the
overall asset allocation strategy and hold review meetings with the client regarding the account as
necessary.
WFA will typically create a portfolio of no-load mutual funds, and may use model portfolios if the models
match the client's investment policy. WFA will allocate the client's assets among various investments
taking into consideration the overall management style selected by the client WFA primarily
recommends portfolios consisting of passively managed asset class and index mutual funds. WFA
primarily recommends mutual funds offered by Dimensional Fund Advisors (DFA). DFA sponsored
mutual funds follow a passive asset class investment philosophy with low holdings turnover.
Client portfolios may also include some individual equity securities in situations where disposition of
these securities would present an overriding tax implication or the client specifically requests they be
retained for a personal reason. These situations will be specifically identified in the client’s Investment
Policy Statement (IPS).
WFA manages mutual fund and equity portfolios on a discretionary basis according to the investment
policy selected by the client.
A client may impose any reasonable restrictions on WFA’s discretionary authority, including restrictions
on the types of securities in which WFA may invest client’s assets and on specific securities, which the
client may believe to be appropriate.
WFA may also recommend fixed income portfolios to investment management clients, which consist of
managed accounts of individual bonds. WFA will request discretionary authority from investment
management clients to manage fixed income portfolios, including the discretion to retain a third-party
fixed income manager. WFA will prepare a Fixed Income Investment Policy Statement for any client
qualifying for separate fixed income portfolio services.
Pursuant to its discretionary authority, WFA will retain a fixed income securities manager. The fixed
income securities manager will be provided with the discretionary authority to invest client assets in
fixed income securities consistent with the client’s Fixed Income Investment Policy Statement. The
manager will also monitor the account for changes in credit ratings, security call provisions, and tax loss
harvesting opportunities (to the extent that the manager is provided with cost basis information). The
manager will obtain WFA’s consent prior to the sale of any client securities.
On an ongoing basis, WFA will answer clients’ inquiries regarding their accounts and review periodically
with clients the performance of their accounts. WFA will periodically, and at least annually, review
clients’ investment policy, risk profile and discuss the re-balancing of each client's accounts to the extent
appropriate. WFA will provide to investment manager any updated client financial information or
account restrictions necessary for investment manager to provide sub-advisory services.
In addition to managing the client’s investment portfolio, WFA may consult with clients on various
financial areas including income and estate tax planning, business sale structures, college financial
planning, retirement planning, insurance analysis, personal cash flow analysis, establishment and design
of retirement plans and trust designs, among other things. Additionally, WFA manages Health Savings
Accounts (HSAs) on behalf of clients. Based on the client’s investment objective, WFA will affect trades in
the client’s HSA account directly with the Health Savings Administrator.
Employee Benefit Retirement Plan Services:
WFA also provides advisory services to participant-directed retirement plans through third party
administration services, which are online bundled service providers offering an opportunity for plan
sponsors to provide their participants with daily account access, valuation, and investment education.
WFA will analyze the plan's current investment platform, and assist the plan in creating an investment
policy statement defining the types of investments to be offered and the restrictions that may be
imposed. WFA will recommend investment options to achieve the plan's objectives, provide participant
education meetings, and monitor the performance of the plan's investment vehicles.
WFA will recommend changes in the plan's investment vehicles as may be appropriate from time to time.
WFA generally will review the plan's investment vehicles and investment policy as necessary.
For certain retirement plans, WFA also works in coordination and support with Buckingham Strategic
Partners, LLC (“Buckingham”). Retirement plan clients will engage both WFA and Buckingham.
Buckingham will provide to the client additional discretionary investment management services and will
exercise discretionary authority to select the plan investments made available to the plans’ participants
by selecting and maintain the plans’ investments according to the goals and investment objectives of the
plan.
WFA will continue to work with plans to monitor plan investments, provide fiduciary plan advice
including regular considerations of the goals and objectives of the plan, and provide participant
education services to the plan.
Financial Planning Services:
WFA also provides advice in the form of a Financial Plan. Clients purchasing this service will typically
receive a written financial report, providing the client with a detailed financial report designed to achieve
their stated financial goals and
objectives.
In general, the financial plan will address any or all of the following areas of concern:
• Personal: Family records, budgeting, personal liability, estate information and financial goals.
• Tax & Cash Flow: Income tax and spending analysis and planning for past, current and future
years. WFA may illustrate the impact of various investments on a client’s current income tax and
future tax liability.
• Death & Disability: Cash needs at death, income needs of surviving dependents, estate planning
and disability income analysis.
• Retirement: Analysis of current strategies and investment plans to help the client achieve his or
her retirement goals.
• Investments: Analysis of investment alternatives and their effect on a client’s portfolio.
WFA gathers required information through in-depth personal interviews. Information gathered includes
a client’s current financial status, future goals and attitudes towards risk. Related documents supplied by
the client are carefully reviewed and a written report is typically prepared. Should a client choose to
implement the recommendations in the plan, WFA suggest the client work closely with his/her attorney,
accountant or insurance agent. Implementation of financial plan recommendations is entirely at the
client’s discretion.
Consulting Services:
Clients can also receive investment advice on a more limited basis. This may include advice on only an
isolated area(s) of concern such as estate planning, retirement planning, reviewing a client's existing
portfolio, or any other specific topic. WFA also provides specific consultation and administrative services
regarding investment and financial concerns of the client.
Additionally, WFA provides advice on non-securities matters. Generally, this is in connection with the
rendering of estate planning and/or income tax planning advice.
WFA Smart Investing:
For certain lower asset balance clients, WFA may utilize an automated investment program (the
“Program”) which WFA refers to as WFA Smart Investing. Clients utilizing this program are invested in a
range of investment strategies we have constructed and manage, each consisting of a portfolio of
exchange-traded funds (“Funds”) and a cash allocation. Clients may instruct us to exclude up to three
Funds from their portfolio. The client’s portfolio is held in a brokerage account opened by the client at
Charles Schwab & Co., Inc. (“CS&Co”). We use the Institutional Intelligent Portfolios® platform
(“Platform”), offered by Schwab Performance Technologies (“SPT”), a software provider to independent
investment advisors and an affiliate of CS&Co., to operate the Program.
We are independent of and not owned by, affiliated with, or sponsored or supervised by SPT, CS&Co., or
their affiliates (together, “Schwab”). We, and not Schwab, are the client’s investment advisor and primary
point of contact with respect to the Program. We are solely responsible, and Schwab is not responsible,
for determining the appropriateness of the Program for the client, choosing a suitable investment
strategy and portfolio for the client’s investment needs and goals, and managing that portfolio on an
ongoing basis. We have contracted with SPT to provide us with the Platform, which consists of technology
and related trading and account management services for the Program. The Platform enables us to make
the Program available to clients online and includes a system that automates certain key parts of our
investment process (the “System”).
The System includes an online questionnaire that can help us determine the client’s investment
objectives and risk tolerance and select an appropriate investment strategy and portfolio. Clients should
note that, if we use the online questionnaire, we will recommend a portfolio via the System in response to
the client’s answers to the online questionnaire.
Client may then indicate an interest in a portfolio that is one level less or more conservative or aggressive
than the recommended portfolio, but we then make the final decision and select a portfolio based on all
the information we have about the clients. The System also includes an automated investment engine
through which we manage client portfolio on an ongoing basis through automatic rebalancing and tax-
loss harvesting (if the client is eligible and elects).
We charge clients a fee for our services as described below under Item 5 Fees and Compensation. Our
fees are not set or supervised by Schwab. Clients do not pay brokerage commissions or any other fees to
CS&Co. as part of the Program. Schwab does receive other revenues, including (i) the profit earned by
Charles Schwab Bank, a Schwab affiliate, on the allocation to the Schwab Intelligent Portfolios Sweep
Program described in the Schwab Intelligent Portfolios Sweep Program Disclosure Statement; (ii)
investment advisory and/or administrative service fees (or unitary fees) received by Charles Schwab
Investment Management, Inc., a Schwab affiliate, from Schwab ETFs™ Schwab Funds® and Laudus
Funds® that we select to buy and hold in the client’s brokerage account; (iii) fees received by Schwab
from third-party ETFs that participate in the Schwab ETF OneSource™ program and mutual funds in the
Schwab Mutual Fund Marketplace® (including certain Schwab Funds and Laudus Funds) in the client’s
brokerage account for services Schwab provides; and (iv) remuneration Schwab may receive from the
market centers where it routes ETF trade orders for execution.
We do not pay SPT fees for the Platform so long as we maintain $100 million in client assets in accounts
at CS&Co. that are not enrolled in the Program. If we do not meet this condition, then we pay SPT an
annual licensing fee of 0.10% (10 basis points) on the value of our clients’ assets in the Program. This fee
arrangement gives us an incentive to recommend or require that our clients with accounts not enrolled in
the Program be maintained with CS&Co.
Additionally, WFA offers a cash management aggregator system named Flourish Cash. Flourish Cash is a
service offered by an unaffiliated third-party, Flourish Financial LLC, a registered broker-dealer and
FINRA member. A Flourish Cash account is a brokerage account whereby the cash balance is swept from
the brokerage account to deposit accounts at one or more third-party banks that have agreed to accept
deposits from customers of Flourish Financial LLC. Flourish Financial LLC is an indirect, wholly-owned
subsidiary of Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company. Please refer to the applicable disclosures
provided separately by Flourish Financial upon account opening.