Description of Services and Fees
We are a registered investment adviser based in Plantation, Florida. We are organized as a sub- Chapter
S corporation under the laws of the State of Florida. We have been providing investment advisory
services since 2000. Allen Giese and Steve Tepper are the firm's owners. Currently, we offer the following
investment advisory services, which are personalized to each individual client:
Portfolio Management Services
Financial Planning and Consulting Services
The following paragraphs describe our services and fees. Please refer to the description of each
investment advisory service listed below for information on how we tailor our advisory services to your
individual needs. As used in this brochure, the words "we", "our" and "us" refer to Northstar Financial
Planners, Inc. and the words "you", "your" and "client" refer to you as either a client or prospective client
of our firm. Also, you may see the term Associated Person throughout this Brochure. As used in this
Brochure, our Associated Persons are our firm's officers, employees, and all individuals providing
investment advice on behalf of our firm.
Portfolio Management Services
We offer discretionary portfolio management services. Our investment advice is tailored to meet our
clients' needs and investment objectives. If you retain our firm for portfolio management services, we will
meet with you to determine your investment objectives, risk tolerance, and other relevant information (the
"suitability information") at the beginning of our advisory relationship. We will use the suitability
information we gather to develop a strategy that enables our firm to give you continuous and focused
investment advice and/or to make investments on your behalf. As part of our portfolio management
services, we will customize an investment portfolio for you in accordance with your risk tolerance and
investing objectives. Once we construct an investment portfolio for you, we will monitor your portfolio's
performance on an ongoing basis and will rebalance the portfolio as required by changes in market
conditions and in your financial circumstances.
If you participate in our discretionary portfolio management services, we require you to grant our firm
discretionary authority to manage your account. Discretionary authorization will allow our firm to determine
the specific securities, and the amount of securities, to be purchased or sold for your account without your
approval prior to each transaction. Discretionary authority is typically granted by the investment advisory
agreement you sign with our firm, a power of attorney, or trading authorization forms. You may limit our
discretionary authority (for example, limiting the types of securities that can be purchased for your
account) by providing our firm with your restrictions and guidelines in writing.
Financial Planning and Consulting Services
We offer broad-based and consultative financial planning services. Financial planning will typically involve
providing a variety of advisory services to clients regarding the management of their financial resources
based upon an analysis of their individual needs. If you retain our firm for financial planning services, we
will meet with you to gather information about your financial circumstances and objectives. Once we
specify those long-term objectives (both financial and non-financial), we will develop shorter-term,
targeted objectives. Once we review and analyze the information you provide to our firm, we will deliver a
written plan to you, designed to help you achieve your stated financial goals and objectives.
Financial plans are based on your financial situation at the time
we present the plan to you, and on the
financial information you provide to our firm. You must promptly notify our firm if your financial situation,
goals, objectives, or needs change.
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You are under no obligation to act on our financial planning recommendations. Should you choose to act on
any of our recommendations, you are not obligated to implement the financial plan through any of our other
investment advisory services. Moreover, you may act on our recommendations by placing securities
transactions with any brokerage firm. We may, at our sole discretion, waive or offset the financial planning fee
should you choose to implement the plan through our portfolio management services. We reserve the right to
determine whether the financial planning and/or consulting fees will be waived or offset by the advisory fees
earned in the implementation process. The scope and complexity of the financial planning services provided
will determine the waiver or offset of the fee.
Wrap Fee Program
We do not participate in or sponsor a wrap fee program.
Types of Investments
We primarily recommend mutual funds; however, we may also offer advice on equity securities, including
exchange traded funds, warrants, corporate debt securities, commercial paper, certificates of deposit,
municipal securities, and U.S. Government securities.
Additionally, we may advise you on any type of investment that we deem appropriate based on your
stated goals and objectives. We may also provide advice on any type of investment held in your
portfolio at the inception of our advisory relationship.
You may request that we refrain from investing in particular securities or certain types of securities.
You must provide these restrictions to our firm in writing.
IRA Rollover Recommendations
Effective December 20, 2021 (or such later date as the US Department of Labor ("DOL") Field
Assistance Bulletin 2018-02 ceases to be in effect), for purposes of complying with the DOL’s
Prohibited Transaction Exemption 2020-02 ("PTE 2020-02") where applicable, we are providing the
following acknowledgment to you.
When we provide investment advice to you regarding your retirement plan account or individual retirement
account, we are fiduciaries within the meaning of Title I of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act
and/or the Internal Revenue Code, as applicable, which are laws governing retirement accounts. The way
we make money creates some conflicts with your interests, so we operate under a special rule that
requires us to act in your best interest and not put our interest ahead of yours. Under this special rule's
provisions, we must:
Meet a professional standard of care when making investment recommendations (give prudent
advice).
Never put our financial interests ahead of yours when making recommendations (give loyal
advice).
Avoid misleading statements about conflicts of interest, fees, and investments.
Follow policies and procedures designed to ensure that we give advice that is in your best interest.
Charge no more than is reasonable for our services; and
Give you basic information about conflicts of interest.
We benefit financially from the rollover of your assets from a retirement account to an account that we
manage or provide investment advice, because the assets increase our assets under management and,
in turn, our advisory fees. As a fiduciary, we only recommend a rollover when we believe it is in your best
interest.
Assets Under Management
As of December 31, 2023, we provided continuous management services for $249,866.306 in client
assets on a discretionary basis.
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