Overview
- Headquarters
- New York, NY
- Total Firm Assets
- $36.8 billion
- Average High-Net-Worth Client Portfolio Size
- $8.1 million
Fee Disclosure
ROCKEFELLER GLOBAL FAMILY OFFICE PART 2A BROCHURE MARCH 31, 2026
| Min | Max | Disclosed Annual Rate |
|---|---|---|
| $0 | and above | 2.00% |
Estimated Annual Advisory Fees
| Portfolio Value | Estimated Annual Fee | Effective Fee Rate |
|---|---|---|
| $1 million | $20,000 | 2.00% |
| $5 million | $100,000 | 2.00% |
| $10 million | $200,000 | 2.00% |
| $50 million | $1,000,000 | 2.00% |
| $100 million | $2,000,000 | 2.00% |
Actual fees may vary; other investment costs may apply.
Clients
- High-Net-Worth Share of Firm Assets
- 57.26%
- Number of High-Net-Worth Clients
- 2,596
- Total Client Accounts
- 10,479
- Discretionary Accounts
- 9,918
- Non-Discretionary Accounts
- 561
Services Offered
Services: Financial Planning, Portfolio Management for Individuals, Portfolio Management for Companies, Portfolio Management for Pooled Investment Vehicles, Portfolio Management for Institutional Clients, Pension Consulting, Investment Advisor Selection
Regulatory Filings
- SEC CRD Number
- 294197
Additional Brochure: ROCKEFELLER GLOBAL FAMILY OFFICE PART 2A BROCHURE MARCH 31, 2026 (2026-03-31)
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FORM ADV PART 2A:
BROCHURE
R O C K E F E L L E R G L O B A L F A M I L Y O F F I C E
( A D I V I S I O N O F R O C K E F E L L E R & C O . L L C )
45 Rockefeller Plaza, Fifth Floor
New York, NY 10111
212-549-5100
http://www.rockco.com
As of March 2026
This brochure provides information about the qualifications and business
practices of the Rockefeller Global Family Office (the “Global Family Office”), a
division of Rockefeller & Co. LLC (“Rockefeller & Co.”), which is an investment
adviser registered with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission
(the “SEC”). If you have any questions about the contents of this brochure, please
contact us at RCM.FormADV@rockco.com. The information in this brochure has
not been approved or verified by the SEC or by any state securities authority.
Registration with the SEC does not imply a certain level of skill or training.
Additional information about Rockefeller & Co. is available at the SEC’s website at
www.adviserinfo.sec.gov.
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ITEM 2: MATERIAL CHANGES
ITEM 3: TABLE OF CONTENTS
Item 1: Cover Page ..............................................................1
Item 2: Material Changes ....................................................2
Item 3: Table of Contents ....................................................2
Item 4: Advisory Business ...................................................2
Item 5: Fees and Compensation ........................................13
The following is a summary of material changes to the
advisory business of the Rockefeller Global Family Office
(the “Global Family Office”), a division of Rockefeller &
Co. LLC (“Rockefeller & Co.”), since the firm filed its most
recent update to Form ADV Part 2A (the “Brochure”) with
the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”)
on December 23, 2025. We encourage all clients to review
this Brochure and to contact your Private Advisor if you have
any questions.
Item 6: Performance-Based Fees and Side-by-Side
Management ......................................................................20
Item 7: Types of Clients ....................................................22
Item 8: Methods of Analysis, Investment Strategies and
Risk of Loss .......................................................................22
Item 9: Disciplinary Information .......................................31
Item 4: On December 2, 2025, Rockefeller Capital
Management, L.P. (“RCM”), the ultimate parent company of
Rockefeller Financial LLC, completed a recapitalization.
The description of RCM’s ownership structure was updated
to reflect changes resulting from the closing of this
transaction.
Item 10: Other Financial Industry Activities and Affiliation
...........................................................................................31
Item 11: Code of Ethics; Personal Trading; Conflicts of
Interest ...............................................................................33
Item 12: Brokerage Practices.............................................43
the
firm’s
Item 13: Review of Accounts ............................................45
Item 14: Client Referrals and Other Compensation ..........45
Item 15: Custody ...............................................................46
Item 16: Investment Discretion .........................................46
Item 17: Voting Client Securities; Class Actions ...............47
Item 18: Financial Information ..........................................48
ITEM 4: ADVISORY BUSINESS
A. Introduction
Effective March 31, 2026, Rockefeller & Co. integrated
certain investment management capabilities into a new
division, Rockefeller Global Investment Management
(“RGIM”). RGIM serves as
investment
management platform, providing discretionary, non-
discretionary and model-delivery investment management
services across equity, alternative and fixed income asset
classes to institutional investors and intermediaries globally,
including the Rockefeller Global Family Office wealth
management business. In addition, RGIM consolidates the
firm’s macroeconomic and market insights and certain
related non-investment services, which are made available
in support of Rockefeller Capital Management LP and its
affiliated businesses, including the Rockefeller Global
Family Office. As a result, Rockefeller & Co.’s asset
management division is no longer referred to as Rockefeller
Asset Management (“RAM”), and is now, along with other
operating divisions, referred to as RGIM.
Item 10: Disclosures related to private funds and other
investment vehicles sponsored by certain investment firms
that are equity owners of RCM or which have strategic
partnerships with RCM that may be recommended or made
available to clients have been updated in connection with the
closing of the recapitalization described in Item 4.
This Brochure describes the investment advisory, financial
planning and family office services offered by Rockefeller
& Co LLC’s (Rockefeller & Co.” or the “Firm”) wealth
management division referred to as the Global Family Office
(the “Global Family Office” or “RGFO”), which serves the
needs of ultra-high net worth and high net worth individuals,
their families, family offices and related entities like trusts,
estates, endowments and foundations, as well as pension and
profit sharing plans, charitable organizations, corporations
and other business entities, sovereign nations and certain
non-U.S. individuals and entities.
Moreover, the Global Family Office routinely makes updates
throughout the Brochure to improve and clarify the
description of our business practices as well as to respond to
evolving industry best practices.
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B. Firm Overview
The Global Family Office is a division of Rockefeller & Co.,
which is a Delaware limited liability company that is
the U.S. Securities and Exchange
registered with
Commission (the “SEC”) as an investment adviser under the
Investment Advisers Act of 1940, as amended (the “Advisers
Act”).
The Firm also does business under the name Rockefeller
Capital Management. Rockefeller Capital Management is a
trade name utilized to describe the entirety of the business
engaged in by the Rockefeller Capital Management, L.P.
subsidiaries, which includes Rockefeller Financial LLC.
Rockefeller Global Family Office is a trade name used to
describe the wealth management business of Rockefeller &
Co. and its affiliate, Rockefeller Financial.
Rockefeller & Co.’s history, through its predecessors, dates
to 1882 when John D. Rockefeller established a New York
office to manage the Rockefeller family’s investment,
personal, and philanthropic interests. Rockefeller & Co.’s
immediate predecessor, Rockefeller & Co., Inc. was
incorporated in 1979 and in 1980 registered with the SEC as
an investment adviser under the Advisers Act.
Rockefeller Financial is an investment adviser registered
with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the
“SEC”) and a registered broker-dealer with the SEC and a
member of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc.
(“FINRA”). Rockefeller & Co. also acts as subadviser to
U.S. and non-U.S. investment advisers, including firms that
manage investments on behalf of variable life insurance
policies, variable annuity policies and other variable
contracts. Clients receive personalized investment advice
and guidance from their Global Family Office private
advisor (“Private Advisor” or “PA”), who is supported by
other professionals within the Global Family Office and its
affiliates.
services
through a
by
contacting
us
by
email
Rockefeller & Co. and its affiliates offer additional
investment advisory services which are not described in this
Brochure. Specifically, Rockefeller & Co. offers investment
management
separate division,
Rockefeller Global Investment Management (“RGIM”).
RGIM consolidates the firm’s macroeconomic and market
insights and certain related non-investment services, which
are made available in support of Rockefeller Capital
Management L.P. and its affiliated businesses, including the
Rockefeller Global Family Office. Additionally, Rockefeller
& Co.’s affiliate, Rockefeller Financial, LLC (“Rockefeller
Financial”), offers investment advisory services to its clients
and sponsors a wrap fee program in its capacity as a dually
registered investment adviser and broker-dealer. Separate
brochures describing the asset management services offered
by RGIM and the investment advisory services and wrap fee
program offered by Rockefeller Financial are available on
the SEC’s website at www.adviserinfo.sec.gov/ or may be
obtained
at
RCM.FormADV@rockco.com. Rockefeller Financial also
offers brokerage and other services to its clients.
Rockefeller & Co. is now an indirect, wholly owned
subsidiary of Rockefeller Capital Management L.P.
(“RCM”). RCM was established on March 1, 2018, when
Gregory J. Fleming, together with investment funds
affiliated with Viking Global Investors, L.P. (“Viking”),
acquired the investment advisory and trust company
businesses established by the Rockefeller family. Today,
Viking, primarily through investments made by the Viking
funds, is the largest equity owner in RCM. Other significant
minority equity stakes in RCM are held by: a U.S. affiliate
of IGM Financial Inc. (“IGM”); a trust representing the
Rockefeller family; Mousse Partners, a division of Mousse
Investments Limited; Progeny 3, Inc., a single family office
based in Kirkland, Washington; and Abrams Capital, L.L.C.
(“Abrams Capital”), an investment firm based in Boston,
Massachusetts. Current and former members of RCM’s
management, individual members of the Rockefeller family,
and certain other institutional investors also hold equity
stakes in RCM. Neither Viking nor any other equity owner
in RCM (other than current RCM management) are involved
in the day-to-day management of RCM or its subsidiaries.
No employee, officer, director, or other representative of
Viking or any other equity owner (other than current RCM
management), or any of their respective controlled affiliates,
is a member of any committee of RCM or its subsidiaries
that determines which products or services are offered or
sold to clients. Please refer to Schedule A of Rockefeller &
Co.’s Form ADV Part 1A for additional information about
the ownership of the firm.
RCM’s operating subsidiaries include: Rockefeller & Co. an
investment adviser registered with the SEC providing
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client consent, the securities to be bought or sold and/or
managed strategies to be invested in/divested of, and the
amount of the securities to be bought or sold and/or managed
strategies to be invested in/divested of.
2. Non-Discretionary Advisory Services
Clients engage the Global Family Office to advise on their
investments, but the Global Family Office must obtain client
consent prior to funding, liquidating and effecting securities
transactions in their managed non-discretionary accounts.
Please refer to Item 4 for further information about the
different types of advisory services available to clients.
investment advisory and family office services through its
Global Family Office division and investment management
services through its RGIM division; Rockefeller Asset
Management International Ltd. (“RAM International”), a
UK limited company performing non-US distribution and
investor servicing activities
for RGIM; Rockefeller
Financial, a broker-dealer and investment adviser registered
with the SEC providing private wealth management
services, securities services and strategic advice; Rockefeller
Trust Company, N.A., a national trust bank regulated by the
Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (“RTC NA”) and
The Rockefeller Trust Company (Delaware), a limited
purpose trust company regulated by the State Bank
Commissioner of the State of Delaware (“RTC Delaware”),
both of which provide fiduciary services acting either as a
trustee, co-trustee, executor, co-executor, or as a fiduciary or
agent for other fiduciary relationships; and Rockefeller
Capital Management Insurance Services, LLC (“RCM
Insurance Services”), an insurance company licensed in all
50 states that provides access to a broad range of personal
insurance expertise and services through multiple national
providers to enable effective estate planning, asset protection
or other key wealth management planning strategies and
priorities.
Our investment advisory process generally begins with
Private Advisors helping clients define
their goals,
objectives, and risk tolerances. Once these investment
parameters are agreed upon, your Private Advisor will
develop or refine, in consultation with you, an asset
allocation framework, provide strategic and tactical asset
allocation advice based upon this framework, subject to any
reasonable guidelines and restrictions agreed upon in writing
with you, and provide you with recommendations on a
variety of products, which may include, equity securities and
fixed income products, investment managers, mutual funds,
exchange traded funds and alternative investments including
but not limited to structured products and variable annuities.
You will receive account statements from your Custodian to
help inform and ensure that the products and services are in
line with your investment parameters.
Unless otherwise specified, references herein to “clients” or
“you” refer to advisory clients of the Global Family Office
and the descriptions of investment advisory and family
office services and business practices in this Brochure refer
to those of the Global Family Office and not to the advisory
services and business practices of RGIM or of other
affiliates, including Rockefeller Financial, RTC NA, RTC
Delaware, and RCM Insurance Services.
C. Investment Advisory Services
The Global Family Office makes available discretionary and
nondiscretionary investment advisory services to advisory
clients of the firm across a broad range of asset classes and
investments as described below. The scope of services can
vary depending on the needs of the client.
1. Discretionary Advisory Services
While we offer an extensive list of investment options and
strategies, the offerings are limited to those approved for sale
or recommendations at the firm. We do not offer or
recommend every investment manager, investment or
strategy available in the industry. Investment managers that
Private Advisors may recommend include both firms
unaffiliated with the Global Family Office and affiliated
firms such as RGIM, a division of Rockefeller & Co. RGIM
maintains a sales team that operates as an Office of
Supervisory Jurisdiction of Rockefeller Financial. Please see
Item 11 – Conflicts of Interest below for a more
comprehensive discussion of the conflicts associated with
Affiliated Investment Products (as defined below).
You are encouraged to, and are responsible for, promptly
notifying your Private Advisor in writing of any material
changes in your objectives or financial situations.
The Global Family Office has full discretionary authority to
make investments in a client’s account in a manner
consistent with agreed upon investment objectives and
reasonable restrictions for the particular client account. We
have the authority to determine, without obtaining specific
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provided by us and our affiliates or those for which we
receive a portion of product-level fees that you pay).
You may obtain information about your Private Advisor,
their licenses, educational background, employment history,
and disciplinary actions with regulators in their Form ADV
Part 2B and through FINRA BrokerCheck, available at
https://brokercheck.finra.org or from the Securities and
Exchange Commission at www.adviserinfo.sec.gov.
in
Certain Private Advisors are also investment adviser
representatives of our broker-dealer affiliate, Rockefeller
Financial, and
that capacity can make available
investment advisory programs and services offered by
Rockefeller Financial, including, its wrap-free program.
Financial
(each,
a
Some of our Private Advisors hold professional educational
credentials, such as the Certified Financial Planner (CFP)
and Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designations.
Holding a professional designation typically indicates that a
Private Advisor has completed certain courses or continuing
education. However, a Private Advisor’s professional
designation does not change the obligations of the Global
Family Office in providing investment advisory services to
you.
It is important to understand that the investment advisory
services, family office services and executive benefits
services the Global Family Office makes available to clients
are separate and distinct from services and products offered
by our affiliates (including RGIM, unless pursuant to legacy
arrangements whereby a client receives RGIM’s investment
management services under their client agreement with the
Global Family Office as described below), and that our
affiliated services and products which you may use may be
governed by different
laws and separate contractual
arrangements between you and Rockefeller & Co. or its
affiliates. The specific services or investment strategies that
the Global Family Office provides to you, our relationship
with you and our legal duties to you are described in detail
in our contracts with you.
When we act as your investment adviser, we typically
receive fees calculated on a percentage of assets in your
account (as discussed in more detail below). Accordingly, we
and our Private Advisors typically earn more when you
invest more in your advisory account, and we earn the same
advisory fee rate regardless of how frequently you trade. We
and/or our affiliates also receive payments and other benefits
from third parties, including from the sponsors of investment
products in which you invest and from certain custodians
with whom we have a business relationship. This creates an
incentive for us to recommend that you increase the assets in
your advisory accounts to increase our fees, invest in
investment products or use services that result in greater
compensation to us or our affiliates or provide other benefits
to us and/or our affiliates (including products and services
Certain Private Advisors are also registered representatives
of Rockefeller
“Registered
Representative”). If you enter into a brokerage arrangement
with Rockefeller Financial, our affiliate is compensated by
the commissions and fees you pay to it as well as through the
revenue it may receive from third parties that include the
sponsors of investment products held in your brokerage
account. Registered Representatives are eligible to receive
commissions from Rockefeller Financial in connection with
client brokerage transactions. This compensation structure
creates an incentive for Registered Representatives to
recommend investments in brokerage accounts that may
result in greater compensation than would be the case if such
investments were held in an advisory account or to
recommend that you trade frequently in a brokerage account.
In addition, this compensation structure creates an incentive
for Rockefeller Financial to offer products and services that
we or our affiliates create, offer products and services from
companies that offer revenue to our affiliates, and route
trades to Rockefeller Financial for execution. Brokerage
account services may be more appropriate than investment
advisory services if you do not want ongoing investment
advice or management of your account but instead desire
only periodic or on-demand recommendations and/or wish
to pay transaction-based compensation for those trades that
you authorize Rockefeller Financial to make on your behalf.
By utilizing brokerage account services of Rockefeller
Financial, you will be electing to have a relationship with
Rockefeller Financial under which, on a transaction-by-
transaction basis, your Registered Representative will assist
you and give you recommendations which are suitable for
your account and in your best interest based on information
you provide to us. This is in contrast to an advisory
relationship in which we manage your account assets on a
discretionary or non-discretionary basis and monitor your
account in our capacity as an investment adviser. For more
information about Rockefeller Financial’s brokerage
services, benefits, risks, conflicts and costs, please see the
Rockefeller Financial LLC Client Relationship Brochure
which is available on our website at Client Relationship
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Brochure.pdf or upon request from your Registered
Representative.
Private Advisors who are also Registered Representatives of
Rockefeller Financial may place transactions for their
discretionary accounts prior to soliciting the same securities
in their non-discretionary advisory and brokerage client
accounts.
Investment management
fees payable
Please see Item 5 – Fees and Compensation and Item 11 –
Code of Ethics, Personal Trading; Conflicts of Interest for
additional information regarding associated conflicts of
interest.
D. Types of Investment Advisory Programs
sponsored by and offered through our affiliate Rockefeller
Financial, LLC. Under this arrangement, our advisory
clients pay either a fixed fee or a fee calculated on a
percentage of assets to the Global Family Office to cover the
investment advice we provide as well as the trade execution
services, administrative expenses, and other fees and
expenses typically charged by Rockefeller Financial under
the RPWA Program. A portion of this fee is then paid to
Rockefeller Financial as compensation for providing these
to
services.
investment managers (including RGIM) utilized in the
client’s portfolio are additional charges to the client. Certain
investment managers may elect to “trade away” from the
RPWA Program for best execution reasons, in which case
clients utilizing such investment managers will bear
brokerage commissions in addition to the wrap program fee.
Clients accessing investment managers through mutual
funds and other investment vehicles will bear the fees and
expenses charged by such funds and vehicles. Clients
utilizing the RPWA Program also bear an asset-based
Relationship Fee and a Platform Fee for all eligible accounts
excluding Title 1 ERISA account types.
Investment advisory services delivered by the Global Family
Office will generally be provided using the Rockefeller
Private Wealth Advisory Program (“RPWA Program”), a
wrap fee program sponsored by Rockefeller Financial.
Clients will receive tailored investment advisory services
from their Private Advisor utilizing the RPWA Program
which offers a wide variety of investment options and robust
reporting and technology capabilities. Please see Rockefeller
Financial LLC’s ADV Part 2A Wrap Fee Brochure for more
details.
to execute securities
Additional information about the RPWA Program, such as
the fees and expenses that clients bear, is provided in the
Rockefeller Private Wealth Advisor Program Wrap Fee
Brochure (the “Wrap Brochure”). A copy of the Wrap
Brochure is available on the SEC’s Investment Adviser
Public Disclosure website
(https://adviserinfo.sec.gov/) and will be delivered by the
Global Family Office to clients who receive advisory
services from us under this program.
2. Legacy Platform and Permitted Arrangements
Historically the Global Family Office has offered its
advisory services through an unbundled arrangement where
clients pay an advisory fee to the Global Family Office,
custody fees to their custodian, brokerage fees to brokers
utilized
transactions and other
investment related expenses (the “Legacy Platform”). The
Global Family Office continues to have clients who receive
investment advisory services under the Legacy Platform.
In some cases, Private Advisors who join the Global Family
Office from other firms are permitted to utilize custody or
brokerage platforms for certain of their clients who wish to
retain service arrangements that existed before they became
clients of
(“Permitted
the Global Family Office
Arrangements”).
1. Rockefeller Private Wealth Advisory Program (RPWA
to
Program)
We provide access to personalized investment advice and
guidance to clients utilizing the investment options and
capabilities of the RPWA Program, a wrap fee program
Clients receiving personalized investment advice and
guidance under an unbundled arrangement through the
Legacy Platform or Permitted Arrangements pay an
investment advisory fee and a Relationship Fee, as described
below, to the Global Family Office and are separately
charged custody fees by their custodian and brokerage
services fees for transactions executed by broker-dealers for
their account and other investment related expenses.
Investment management fees payable
investment
managers, including RGIM, utilized in the client’s portfolio
are additional charges to the client (except in the case of
clients subject to historic fee schedules where the fee
charged covers both the investment advisory services
provided by the Global Family Office and investment
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short-term investment horizon, have a desire to maintain
consistently high levels of cash or money market funds in
their accounts, prefer to maintain highly concentrated
positions or other holdings that will not be sold regardless of
market conditions, and/or anticipate continuous withdrawals
from their accounts.
management services provided by RGIM as described in
Item 5 below.) Clients accessing investment managers
through mutual funds and other investment vehicles will
bear the fees and expenses charged by such funds and
vehicles in addition to the advisory fees they pay to the
Global Family Office. Please refer to Item 5 for additional
information about the fees and expenses Clients bear under
the Legacy Platform and Permitted Arrangements.
The Global Family Office and its Private Advisors have a
financial incentive to recommend the RPWA Program to
clients. In addition to operational and administrative
benefits, use of the RPWA Program will increase revenue to
its affiliate, Rockefeller Financial, and potentially to
themselves under their compensation arrangements with the
Global Family Office and Rockefeller Financial. Please see
Item 11 – Conflicts of Interest below for a more
comprehensive discussion of the conflicts associated with
use of the RPWA Program and other services offered by the
its affiliates. Additional
Global Family Office and
information about the services available through the RPWA
Program is provided in its Wrap Brochure.
3. Investment Consulting Services
Clients who receive advisory services from the Global
Family Office under the Legacy Program and Permitted
Arrangements engage a third-party broker-dealer or bank
custodian acceptable to the Global Family Office, such as
FNZ Trust Company LLC (“FNZ”), JP Morgan Private Bank
(“JP Morgan”), Northern Trust, Charles Schwab & Co., Inc.
(“Schwab”), and TD Ameritrade. The Global Family Office
has business arrangements in place with certain of these
third-party banks and broker-dealers. The Global Family
Office may utilize certain technology services offered to it
by Envestnet in order to aid in investment model creation,
delivery and maintenance, implementing trading algorithms,
impacts on
analyzing contribution and disbursement
portfolios and performing portfolio management functions
such as tax loss harvesting and rebalancing. In this context
Envestnet serves solely as a service provider and not an
investment adviser. Additional information about the Global
Family Office’s business arrangements with these qualified
custodians is provided below.
specific
investment
buy
There are differences between the products and services
available to clients on the RPWA Program as compared to
Legacy Platform and Permitted Arrangements. For example,
the RPWA Program offers investment options, services, and
online access capabilities which are not available under other
platforms. Private Advisors can assist clients
in
understanding these differences and in determining which
arrangement is better suited to their needs.
The Global Family Office offers non-discretionary
investment consulting services to clients. Under this type of
arrangement, your Private Advisor provides investment
including asset
advice on a non-discretionary basis,
allocation,
sell
and
recommendations, financial planning and other investment
advice and analyses. The Global Family Office will collect
certain information from you to assist in recommending and
providing the non-discretionary advisory services at the
initiation of services and periodically thereafter. You should
provide prompt notice to the Global Family Office of any
change in your investment objectives, risk tolerance, time
horizon, financial horizon, financial information, liquidity
needs, and other suitability factors, which could materially
change the information previously provided by you and
which you expect should be used by us to provide ongoing
advice.
advice
or
or
any
strategy
to purchase or sell an
Generally, the RPWA Program is designed for clients
seeking one or more of the following: to implement a
medium- to long-term investment plan; seeking and using
the advice and guidance of an investment professional either
in their self-directed accounts or by delegating management
of their assets to the firm or an investment manager;
preferring the consistency of asset-based fee pricing; and/or
who are looking for investment advice, custody, trading
and/or execution services in an all-inclusive account instead
of accessing those services separately. However, the RWPA
Program may not be appropriate for clients that prefer a
The Global Family Office does not have discretionary
authority over client assets in investment consulting
accounts. Clients have sole discretion to accept or reject any
specific
investment
recommendation
individual
investment. Clients are also responsible for implementing,
or arranging for the implementation, any advice given by the
to pay any applicable
Global Family Office, and
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commissions, charges, trails, and other account, brokerage,
or custody fees directly to their chosen custodian and other
providers. You may make investment-related decisions
contrary to the advice provided or make your own decisions
without the benefit of our advice. However, if you decide to
repeatedly disregard our investment advice, your account
may be better suited to a brokerage relationship in which you
pay brokerage commissions or other transaction-based
compensation instead of ongoing investment advisory fees.
We will collect certain information from you to assist in
recommending and providing the services selected at the
initiation of services and periodically thereafter. You should
provide prompt written notice to the Global Family Office
of any change in Plan Sponsor information and any change
in the Plan’s investment objectives, guidelines, or similar
information, which could materially change the information
previously provided by you and which you expect should be
used by us to provide any advice.
a. Non-Discretionary Investment Advisory Services
4. Executive Benefit Services
Under these types of investment consulting arrangements,
the Global Family Office may contract with an employer
who, as part of that employer’s employee benefits package,
engages the Global Family Office to provide certain
financial planning services to the employer’s executives.
The fees for such services are either paid by the employer,
by the employee or in part by the employer and in part by
the employee.
5. Rockefeller Retirement Plan Investment and
Consulting Services
The Global Family Office provides non-discretionary
investment advisory services to Plan Sponsor clients with
respect to investments or other assets held at one or more
third party custodians. These services are designed to allow
the Plan Sponsor to retain full discretionary authority or
control over assets of the Plan. We will solely be making
recommendations to the Plan Sponsor. We will perform these
non-discretionary investment advisory services through our
Private Advisors and charge fees as described in this Form
ADV and our Retirement Plan Agreement with you. If the
Plan is covered by ERISA, we will perform these investment
advisory services to the Plan as a “fiduciary” defined under
ERISA Section 3(21).
following non-discretionary
The Plan Sponsor may engage us to perform one or more of
the
investment advisory
services to the Plan:
• Advice regarding establishing an investment
policy statement (“IPS”)
• Advice regarding selection of designated
investment alternatives (“DIAs”)
• Advice regarding selection of third-party advisors
and/or managers
• Advice regarding selection of qualified default
investment alternative (“QDIA(s)”)
• Advice regarding investment of trust funds
The Global Family Office offers services to plan sponsors
and other named fiduciaries (“Plan Sponsors”) of trustee
directed and participant directed retirement plans some of
which are subject to the Employee Retirement Income
Security Act ("ERISA") (each, a “Plan”). We also provide
nondiscretionary investment advisory services to sponsor
clients, which services encompass (1) Non-Discretionary
Investment Advisory Services and/or (2) Retirement Plan
Consulting Services to employer-sponsored retirement plans
and their participants. Depending on the type of Plan and the
specific arrangement with the Plan Sponsor, we may provide
one or more of the below described services. Prior to being
engaged by the Plan Sponsor, we will provide our
Retirement Plan Investment Consulting Services Client
Agreement (“Retirement Plan Agreement”) that contains the
information required under Sec. 408(b)(2) of ERISA as
applicable.
b. Discretionary Investment Advisory Services
The Global Family Office provides discretionary investment
advisory services to plan sponsor clients with respect to
investments or other assets held at one or more third‐party
custodians.
The Global Family Office does not have discretion nor any
authority over the Plan’s documents or in implementing any
aspect of the Plan’s investment program. It is the Sponsor’s
responsibility to adhere to the IPS in managing its
Retirement Plan and the menu of investment options made
available to Plan participants.
These services are designed to allow the plan fiduciary to
for
delegate
responsibility
to Rockefeller Financial
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6. Rockefeller Personalized Plan Portfolios
In plans for which we provide Retirement Plan Investment
and Consulting Services we may also provide a web-based,
managed account services to plan participants (“Rockefeller
Personalized Portfolios”). This program is not available to
all plans and depends upon the Plan Sponsor’s selection of
recordkeeper or custodian and authorization from the plan
sponsor.
maintaining the plan’s designated investment alternatives
and qualified default investment alternatives in compliance
with the requirements of the Employee Retirement Income
Security Act of 1974 ("ERISA"). We will perform these
investment management services, and charge fees as
described in this Form ADV and the Agreement executed
with plan sponsor clients. We will perform these services as
an “investment manager” as defined under ERISA section
3(38) and as a “fiduciary” to the plan as defined under
ERISA section 3(21), where applicable.
As part of the discretionary investment advisory services, we
may provide, based on the plan fiduciary’s instructions, the
following services:
reflects
that
investment options and
• Creation and Management of Plan‐Level
Investment Policy Statement (“IPS”)
• Selection, Monitoring and Replacement of
designated investment alternatives ("DIAs")
• Creation and Maintenance of Model Asset
Allocation Portfolios ("models")
• Selection and Replacement of third‐party advisors
and/or managers
• Selection, Monitoring & Replacement of qualified
default investment alternatives ("QDIA(s)").
stocks,
c. Retirement Plan Investment Consulting Services
Rockefeller Personalized Portfolios is a managed account
service for participants who wish to have an investment
manager select their investments from among the Plan’s
available investment options and manage their accounts for
them. Participants receive a personalized
investment
the Rockefeller Personalized
portfolio
Portfolios
the Participant’s
retirement timeframe, life stages, risk tolerance and overall
financial picture, including assets held outside the Plan (if
the participant elects to provide this information), which
may be taken into consideration when determining the
allocation of assets in the participant’s account Rockefeller
Personalized Portfolios does not provide advice for,
recommend allocations of, or manage a participant’s outside
or non-Plan assets. Moreover, Rockefeller Personalized
Portfolios will not include management services for
individual
self-directed brokerage accounts,
guaranteed certificate funds, employer-directed monies or
in-plan annuities.
The Global Family Office’s Retirement Plan Consulting
Services are designed to allow our Private Advisors to assist
the Plan Sponsor in meeting its fiduciary duties to administer
the Plan in the best interests of the Plan participants and their
beneficiaries. Retirement Plan Consulting Services are
performed so that they would not be considered “investment
advice” under ERISA.
Under Rockefeller Personalized Portfolios, the Plan Sponsor
will enter into a written agreement with Rockefeller
Financial and any plan participant enrolling in the service
will have to opt-in to the program. Rockefeller Financial will
have discretionary authority over allocating the participant’s
account, without participant approval of each transaction. If
the plan is subject to ERISA, we agree to be held to a
“fiduciary” standard of care with respect to our management
of the participant’s account.
rebalanced
assisting
plan
fiduciaries with
The Plan Sponsor may elect for our Private Advisors to assist
with a number of Retirement Plan Consulting Services
related to administrative support, service provider support,
investment monitoring support and participant services.
Depending on the specific client needs, services can range
committee
from
policies/procedures, fiduciary education, and assistance with
covered services providers. Additionally, services may
include assisting the plan committee with monitoring
investment performance and assistance with participant
enrollment meetings and participant investment education.
Rockefeller Personalized Portfolios assets will be
monitored,
reallocated periodically
and
(typically quarterly) by Rockefeller to respond to deviations
resulting from market performance. Participants will receive
an account update statement periodically and can review and
update personal information at any time by calling the Plan’s
toll-free customer service number or by visiting the Plan’s
web site.
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through the Plan, and there can be other fees, including IRA
termination fees.
Enrolled participants must allocate all of their plan account
balance to the Rockefeller Personalized Portfolio assets.
Participants are under no obligation to use these services and
are freely able to use similar services offered by other firms.
Participants may cancel their participation in Rockefeller
Personalized Portfolios at any time.
7. Potential Additional Retirement Services Provided
Outside of the Retirement Plan Agreement
If
the Global Family Office or a Private Advisor
recommends moving retirement assets to the Global Family
Office, he or she is required to consider, based on the
information you provide, whether you will be giving up
certain investment-related benefits at the Plan or other
financial institution, such as the effects of breakpoints, rights
of accumulation, and index annuity caps, and has determined
that the recommendation is in your best interest for these
reasons:
In providing services for retirement plans, including Plans,
the Global Family Office may establish a separate client
relationship with one or more Plan participants or
beneficiaries. Such separate client relationships develop in
various ways, including, without limitation:
• Greater services and/or other benefits (including
holistic advice and planning) can be achieved with
the IRA;
•
• Consolidation of assets and availability of
consolidated statements and performance reports
would be beneficial to you; and
•
• The costs associated with the IRA are justified by
these services and benefits.
allocation
of
assets
or
•
as a result of a decision by the Plan participant or
beneficiary to purchase services from us not
involving the use of Plan assets;
as part of an individual or family financial plan for
which any specific recommendations concerning
investment
the
recommendations relating to assets held outside of
the Plan; or
through a rollover of an Individual Retirement
Account ("IRA Rollover").
The Private Advisor will disclose information about the
applicable fees charged by the Global Family Office in
connection with such IRA Rollover prior to opening an IRA
account. Any decision to effect a rollover or about what to
do with the rollover assets remain that of the Plan participant
or beneficiary alone.
these optional services, we may offer
In providing
participants and beneficiaries information on other financial
and retirement products or services offered by the Global
Family Office and our affiliates.
E. Family Office Services
Clients may also engage the Global Family Office for
holistic financial planning and some or all of the family
office services described below. The Global Family Office
may provide additional services as determined between it
and its clients to assist them with their financial matters.
Certain of these services are also made available to clients of
Rockefeller Financial.
If we are providing services to Plan participants or
beneficiaries separate from our providing services for their
Plans as part of our Retirement Plan Services, we will do so
through a separate agreement. If a Plan participant or
beneficiary desires to affect an IRA Rollover from the Plan
to an account advised or managed by the Global Family
Office, the Private Advisor will have a conflict of interest if
his/her fees in connection with providing services to such
participant or beneficiary are reasonably expected to be
higher than those we would otherwise receive in connection
with the Retirement Plan Services. If a Plan participant or
beneficiary desires to affect an IRA Rollover from the Plan
to an account advised or managed by the Global Family
Office, we and your Private Advisor will earn compensation
on those assets, for example, through Client Fees based on
the assets in your account, and third-party payments
disclosed in this Brochure. This creates an incentive for us
to recommend and encourage the rollover of assets from the
Plan to us. We mitigate these conflicts by disclosing them
and by establishing policies and procedures, and risk-based
supervision to review these securities recommendations. The
fees charged for an IRA likely will be higher than those paid
• Holistic Financial Planning: Comprehensive
financial planning and advisory services including
to a dedicated financial planner for
access
personalized financial planning services, quarterly
or annual net worth and cash flow reporting,
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• Estate Settlement Advisory: Advise and assist
clients through the complexities of the estate
settlement process.
•
implementation.
• Foundation Administration: Assist foundations with
processing, tracking and reporting on charitable
pledges, grants and distributions.
quarterly income tax advice and forecasting, trust
and estate planning advice and recommendations,
insurance advisory services, employee benefits and
retirement planning and lifestyle advisory services.
Investment Planning: Asset allocation design and
recommended
Investment
administration. Performance reporting. Alternative
investment planning (private equity, real estate, and
hedge funds). Coordination of multiple investment
relationships and advisors.
advice
estate
• Financial Education: Comprehensive financial
education curriculum created for all skill levels and
through both customized and
ages delivered
standardized in-person or virtual sessions. Topics
include Personal Finance; Planning for the Future;
Wills, Trusts and Estates, US Tax Basics; Investing;
Impact; Philanthropy; and
Sustainability and
Entrepreneurship.
• Trustee Services and Estate Planning: Sophisticated
wealth transfer planning. Summary and analysis of
estate plan. Testamentary document reviews and
planning
regarding
tailored
documents. GRATs, LLCs and other estate freeze
techniques. Family education on basic and
advanced concepts.
governance
readiness; and advisory on
•
• Philanthropy Advisory: Foundation formation and
administration. Donor advised fund planning. Use
of appreciated securities for charitable purposes.
Pledge design and maintenance.
Insurance Advisory: Ongoing planning and analysis
of life, health, disability and property and casualty
insurance. Evaluation of overall risk issues.
• Family Values & Dynamics: Holistic guidance and
support designed to help families articulate shared
values, strengthen communication, and navigate
include
multigenerational dynamics. Services
facilitated family meetings; development of family
frameworks;
mission
and
succession and
rising-generation preparation;
roles,
transition
relationships, and decision-making within
the
family.
foundation,
• Multi-Generational Financial Planning: Unified
financial snapshot, education planning, family
educational meetings, and many other topics.
• Bill Payment and Activity Reporting: Bill payment
and related bookkeeping and activity reporting
services for client and related entities (e.g.,
individuals,
corporations, LLCs,
partnerships, trusts).
Certain Family Office Services are provided by RGFO while
others are provided by subcontractors, independent service
providers, or other third-parties (Third-Party Vendors”)
Unless the Firm otherwise agrees in writing, the Firm does
not act in an investment advisory capacity and has no
fiduciary duty when providing Family Office Services (or
referring a client to a Third-Party Vendor). The scope,
duration, deliverables, assigned personnel, referrals to
Third-Party Vendors, and delivery channels through which
Family Office Services are provided vary among clients
based upon requested services, circumstances, personal
financial goals, net worth, complexity, and/or needs of each
client. Services provided by Third-Party Vendors are
separate from those provided by RGFO and additional terms
of service may apply.
• Financial Reporting Services: Preparation of
individual balance sheets and profit/loss statements;
reconciliation of checking, investment, and credit
card accounts; analysis of capital gains and losses
and unrealized gains and losses; consolidated net
information
worth statements; and pertinent
regarding outside investments (e.g.: capital calls,
distributions, and return of capital); and a spending
analysis.
F. Account Opening Process
• Tax Planning: Income tax planning based on multi-
year projections with the goal of minimizing tax
liabilities. Charitable, tax loss, investment interest
expense and multi-state tax planning.
• Human Capital Services: Outsourced payroll and
benefits administration for a client or
their
household employees and staff.
In order for the Global Family Office to be your investment
adviser, clients must execute an investment advisory
agreement or
investment consulting agreement with
Rockefeller & Co. and, if receiving family office services, a
separate family office services agreement (each, a “Client
Agreement”). Each Client Agreement sets forth the terms
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2. Affiliated Investment Products and Affiliated
Services Providers
upon which investment advisory services, investment
consulting services and/or family office services will be
provided to the Client.
Rockefeller & Co. does not custody client funds and/or
securities on behalf of Global Family Office clients. Client
assets will be maintained with banks or broker-dealers that
serve as custodians of the funds and/or securities of the
firm’s clients (the “Custodian”).
G. Available Service Features
1. Customized Advisory Services and Client
Restrictions
As discussed above, the Global Family Office will tailor its
advisory services to the individual needs of clients in
accordance with the investment mandate for the account and
the investment options available through the RPWA Program
or the Legacy Platform and under Permitted Arrangements.
Clients should communicate to their respective Private
Advisor in writing any changes in the client’s financial
situation or investment objectives.
The Global Family Office makes available to clients equity,
fixed income, and alternative investment strategies managed
by RGIM, a division of Rockefeller & Co. Clients may
participate in these strategies through separately managed
separately managed account
account arrangements,
platforms, registered
investment companies, exchange
traded funds, interval funds, private funds and offshore
vehicles advised or sub-advised by RGIM. Please refer to
RGIM’s Form ADV Part 2A for additional information about
the investment strategies it makes available to clients and its
business practices. From time to time the Global Family
Office expects to make available and/or recommend to
eligible clients certain private funds and other investment
vehicles sponsored by Viking and IGM, which as described
above have ownership interests in Rockefeller Capital
Management LP (“RCM”). The Global Family Office may
also recommend the investment products sponsored by
investment managers in which Rockefeller & Co. or its
affiliates is a minority owner or has a profits interest in, such
as Breakout Capital (as described in Item 11).
including both
investment
restrictions will not apply
In order to provide access to third party investment
traditional and alternative
managers,
investments such as hedge funds, private equity funds,
venture capital funds, etc. as well as direct private equity
investments, Rockefeller & Co. establishes funds of funds
and feeder vehicles to facilitate client investments in such
opportunities. Information about the investment objective,
investment program, fees, risk considerations and conflicts
of interest, will be disclosed to clients in each fund’s
confidential private offering memorandum or prospectus.
Clients may impose reasonable investment restrictions on
the management of their accounts which, if accepted by the
Global Family Office in writing, will apply until changed or
withdrawn by the client or until the Global Family Office
determines that the restriction is no longer reasonable or
prevents the efficient management of the account. Client
imposed
to
investments held through investments in mutual funds,
exchange traded funds and other comingled investment
vehicles, which have their own stated investment objectives
and policies.
Clients of the Global Family Office may be referred to
affiliated companies for services, including but not limited
to brokerage services from Rockefeller Financial, fiduciary
services from RTC NA or RTC Delaware, strategic advisory
services from Rockefeller Financial, and insurance products
from RCM Insurance Services.
We reserve the right to deem any proposed investment
restriction to be unreasonable and to not accept the proposed
investment restriction. If one or more investment restrictions
is determined to be unreasonable, we may not be able to
accept management of the account. If you elect to restrict
investments, you accept any effect such restrictions may
have on the investment performance and diversification of
your portfolio. The performance of accounts with investment
restrictions or screens will differ from, and may be lower
than, the performance of accounts without such restrictions
or screens.
Use of investment strategies, investment funds and other
investment products managed by Rockefeller & Co.,
including
its RGIM division (“Affiliated Investment
Products”), Viking, IGM and Breakout Capital, as well as
services offered by affiliates of the Global Family Office
(collectively, “Affiliated Service Providers”) raises conflicts
of interest between the Global Family Office and its clients.
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H. Regulatory Assets Under Management
Please see Item 11 – Conflicts of Interest below for a more
comprehensive discussion of the conflicts associated with
Affiliated Investment Products.
As of December 31, 2025, Rockefeller & Co.’s regulatory
assets under management (“RAUM”) were:
3. Financial Planning Reports and Analysis
• RAUM: $36,764,098,196
o Discretionary RAUM: $31,800,176,504
o Non-Discretionary RAUM: $4,963,921,692
The Global Family Office will provide clients who receive
Holistic Financial Planning services and other clients who
engage the firm for financial planning services, reports
and/or analysis on one or more financial planning topics,
including cash flows, income needs, asset allocation,
retirement and life insurance assessments, charitable giving,
estate and wealth transfer, and business succession.
Rockefeller & Co.’s RAUM reported above reflects assets
managed by the firm’s RGIM and Global Family Office
divisions. Where RGIM and RGFO provide advisory
services with respect to the same assets, such assets are
reported only once for RAUM purposes.
ITEM 5: FEES AND COMPENSATION
A. Investment Advisory Fees
The Global Family Office’s investment advisory fees are
generally based on a percentage of the client’s assets under
management.
1. Open Architecture Advisory Fee Schedule
The Global Family Office may provide financial planning
reports or analyses to clients, including: (1) on a one-time or
annual fee basis, either at a fixed dollar amount, hourly rate,
or on a percentage of assets covered in the reports, or a
combination of those methods, or (2) without a separate
charge as part of the overall services provided to a client. In
addition, the Global Family Office also offers financial
planning as a component of the Global Family Office
Counseling program for which clients pay a bundled fee.
Please refer to Item 5 for additional information about the
fees charged for financial planning as well as the Global
Family Office Counseling service.
The reports and analysis are for informational purposes only
and are based upon information provided by participating
clients and provide broad, general guidelines on the
advantages of certain financial planning concepts. The
reports and analysis do not constitute a recommendation of
any particular technique or of any particular investment.
These reports do not and will not replace any account
statements issued by a Custodian and should not be
construed as consolidated reports of any kind.
The Global Family Office’s standard investment advisory
fee schedule is for open architecture services, which means
that clients pay an investment advisory fee to the Global
Family Office for investment advice and also bear the
investment
investment management fees charged by
managers, including RGIM, utilized in the client’s portfolio.
Clients accessing investment managers (including RGIM)
through mutual funds, exchange-traded funds, interval
funds, private funds and other investment vehicles bear the
fees and expenses charged by such funds and vehicles. Any
such investment management fees charged by investment
managers, including affiliated investment managers, will not
reduce the investment advisory fee payable by the client to
the Global Family Office.
The reports and analysis do not provide on-going investment
advice and are current only as of the date of each respective
report. It is each client’s responsibility to determine what
action, if any, you wish to take based on the information
provided, and you are not required to transact business with
us if you choose to implement any aspects of a report. If
requested, the Global Family Office will only act upon your
specific instructions.
The Global Family Office’s investment advisory fee is
generally charged as a percentage of a client’s assets under
management (including cash held for investment and
receivable balances). The maximum investment advisory fee
payable to the Global Family Office for open architecture
services is 2.00% annually.
Certain reports and analyses may provide projections based
on various assumptions and are therefore hypothetical in
nature and not a guarantee of investment returns.
Fees charged by investment managers typically range from
0.10% to 2.5% of assets under management. The fees
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establish with the Global Family Office. In addition, the
Global Family Office may offer this fee schedule to new
clients on a case-by-case basis.
charged on alternative asset classes and complex investment
strategies tend to be higher than fees charged on traditional
asset classes and investment approaches. In certain cases,
investment managers may also receive a performance-based
fee or carried interest, in addition to an investment
management fee.
Certain legacy fee schedules that remain in effect with
advisory clients have breakpoints (asset level tiers and their
respective fee rates), and the advisory fees charged to clients
subject to such legacy fee schedules may be higher or lower
than would be the case had the above fee schedule been
applied to their managed accounts.
Clients may be able to obtain some or all of the services
offered by the Global Family Office and its affiliates
separately from the Global Family Office or from other
firms, and the cost of obtaining services separately may be
more or less than the combined fees payable to the Global
Family Office and investment managers, including RGIM.
Clients should review the fee terms specified in their
investment advisory agreements with the Global Family
Officer for information about the specific fee arrangement
applicable to their accounts.
3. Negotiability
The Global Family Office’s fees can be negotiated and as a
result may differ among clients based on a number of
variables, including the type and size of the account or client
relationship, the client’s needs, complexity of the services
required, and types of assets. You should expect that the fees
you pay will differ from those paid by other clients of the
Global Family Office and your Private Advisor.
Clients utilizing the RPWA Program through Rockefeller
Financial pay a “wrap fee” which covers the investment
advice provided as well as the trade execution services
through NFS, administrative expenses, and certain other fees
and expenses charged by Rockefeller Financial under the
RPWA Program. Clients also bear the fees and expenses of
investment products utilized in their portfolios. Certain
investment managers may elect to “trade away” from the
RPWA Program for best execution reasons, in which case
clients utilizing such investment managers will bear
brokerage commissions in addition to the wrap fee. Please
refer to the Wrap Brochure for a more complete description
of the fees charged to clients under the RPWA Program.
B. Rockefeller Relationship Fee
2. Legacy Platform - Combined Investment Advisory
and Investment Management Services Fee Schedule
to as
Effective October 1, 2025, Eligible Accounts (as defined
below) will be subject to a 3.5 bps annual asset-based fee on
all client assets under management within the Legacy
Platform and Permitted Arrangements (and together with
any RPWA Program Accounts, “Eligible Accounts”)
described herein, for the continued support of our wealth
management capabilities, which we refer
the
Rockefeller Relationship Fee (“Relationship Fee”). The
Relationship Fee will be charged in addition to the
investment advisory fee with respect to your Permitted
Arrangement or participation in the Legacy Platform.
The Global Family Office has employed different fee
schedules with clients historically and, in some cases, these
historical fee schedules remain in effect with respect to such
clients. Historic fee schedules typically charge an investment
advisory fee calculated as a percentage of assets under
management which covers the investment advisory services
provided by the Global Family Office and in some cases, the
investment management services provided by RGIM
(“Combined Fee Schedule”). In some cases, clients under
historic fee schedules who invest in mutual funds, exchange
traded funds, closed end funds, interval funds and private
funds advised by RGIM or sponsored by Rockefeller & Co.
( “Affiliated Funds”), bear the investment advisory fees
charged by the Affiliated Funds instead of the fees
determined under the client fee schedule (subject to
exceptions for certain investment products). Clients subject
to Combined Fee Schedules may continue to have this fee
arrangement applied to new advisory accounts that they
The Relationship Fee will be charged quarterly in arrears
based on the closing market value of the assets in each
advisory account on the last business day of the billing
quarter adjusted for weighted net inflows and outflows
during the quarter. The Relationship Fee will not be charged
on assets greater than $75 million across Eligible Accounts
within a client’s household. The Relationship Fee does not
reduce or offset, the Global Family Office’s advisory fees or
any other fees and expenses borne by clients. Your Private
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D. Retirement Plan Services Fees
Advisor does not share in the Relationship Fee. The Global
Family Office may modify or discontinue to Relationship
Fee at any time.
C. Affiliated Funds Fees
Investment
The Retirement Plan Non-Discretionary
Advisory and Retirement Consulting Services
fees
(“Retirement Plan Fees”) are negotiable and vary based upon
the nature, scope, and frequency of our services as well as
the size and complexity of the plan. A general description of
the different types of fees for Retirement Plan Services
appears in the fee schedule below:
typically charged fees based upon
The Retirement Plan Fee that clients pay can be either an
asset-based fee or a flat dollar fee. The maximum asset-
based fee is 1.25% of assets under management or
advisement. Retirement Plan Services described are subject
to a minimum annual fee amount of $5,000.
Clients invested in Affiliated Funds bear their proportionate
share of the investment management fee paid to Rockefeller
& Co. by such Affiliated Funds. Affiliated Funds that hold
private equity, venture capital or other illiquid investments
are
the capital
commitments made by investors rather than the market value
of the Affiliated Fund, and in certain cases may pay a
“carried interest” to Rockefeller & Co. or an affiliate
Investors in Affiliated Funds also indirectly bear their pro
rata share of the fees and expenses of the Affiliated Funds,
which include but are not limited to the fees charged by third
party managers to the extent utilized, as well as custody fees,
brokerage fees, audit fees, legal fees, administration
expenses, operational expenses including third party service
provider fees and, in some cases, organizational expenses.
Depending upon the capabilities and requirements of the
Plan’s recordkeeper or custodian, we may collect our fee in
arrears or in advance. Typically, Plan Sponsors instruct the
Plan’s recordkeeper or custodian to automatically deduct our
fee from the Plan’s account; however, in some cases a Plan
Sponsor may request that we send invoices directly to the
Plan Sponsor or the Plan’s recordkeeper/custodian.
The investment advisory fees charged by Affiliated Funds
vary depending on the nature of their investment strategy
and normally range between 0.35% and 2.0% annually,
based on the market value of the assets invested in the
particular Affiliated Fund or capital commitments in the
context of Affiliated Funds that invest in private equity,
venture capital or other illiquid investments.
Plan Sponsors receiving Retirement Plan Services may pay
more than or less than a client might otherwise pay if
purchasing the Retirement Plan Services separately or
through another service provider. There are several factors
that determine whether the costs would be more or less,
including, but not limited to, the size of the Plan, the specific
investments made by the Plan, the number of or locations of
Plan participants, services offered by another service
provider, and the actual costs of Retirement Plan Services
purchased elsewhere. In light of the specific Retirement Plan
Services offered by us, the fee charged may be more or less
than those of other similar service providers.
Detailed information about each Affiliated Fund’s fees and
expenses is available in the fund’s prospectus or offering
documents. Rockefeller & Co. may, in its sole discretion,
waive all or any portion of its investment advisory fees
and/or administration fees due with respect to any investor’s
investment in an Affiliated Fund, by rebate or otherwise, for
any reason, without notice to or the consent of any other
investor in the Affiliated Fund. Rockefeller & Co. has
entered into such agreements with investors in certain of its
Affiliated Funds.
In determining the value of the Plan’s account for purposes
of calculating any asset-based fees, the Global Family Office
will rely upon the valuation of assets provided by Plan
Sponsor or the Plan’s custodian or recordkeeper without
independent verification.
Rockefeller & Co. may agree (and in certain cases has
agreed) with a Global Family Office client to credit fees paid
by the client to an Affiliated Fund against an overall advisory
fee determined pursuant to the agreed upon fee schedule.
The fee paid to us for Retirement Plan Services is separate
and distinct from the fees and expenses charged by mutual
funds, variable annuities, exchange-traded funds, or other
product sponsors to their shareholders. These fees and
expenses are described in each investment’s prospectus.
These fees will generally include a management fee, other
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expenses, and possible distribution fees. If the investment
also imposes sales charges, a client may pay an initial or
deferred sales charge. The Retirement Plan Services we
provide may, among other things, assist the client in
determining which investments are most appropriate to each
client’s financial condition and objectives and to provide
other administrative assistance as selected by the client.
Accordingly, the client should review both the fees charged
by the funds, the fund manager, the Plan’s other service
providers and the fees charged by us to fully understand the
total amount of fees to be paid by the client and to evaluate
the Retirement Plan Services being provided.
In addition, the Global Family Office offers the Family
Office Counseling program whereby it provides certain of
the family office services discussed above to clients
depending on the type and level of services that the client
desires. Fees typically range from $35,000 to $75,000
annually. To enroll in the Family Office Counseling
program, clients execute a separate agreement and
addendum detailing the services selected as well as the
applicable annual fee that they will pay, a portion of which
is shared with the client’s Rockefeller representative.
Financial planning reports and analyses are among the
services provided and are included in the fixed annual fee
that the client pays.
In the event we receive any third-party payments or
subsidies in connection with our Retirement Plan Services,
we will disclose such fees to Plan Sponsors in accordance
with ERISA and Department of Labor regulations.
E. Rockefeller Personalized Portfolios
Customized financial education is delivered by Rockefeller
Faculty Subject Matter Experts for a daily fee which is
agreed upon in advance with the client taking into
consideration factors such as the requested curriculum, level
of customization, whether sessions are held in-person or
virtually, and seniority and expertise of the professionals
leading the educational sessions.
In certain cases, fees for Family Office Services may be
charged as a percentage of a client’s assets under
management.
Participants who elect to enroll in Rockefeller Personalized
Portfolios will pay a program fee based on the participant's
average daily account balance, collected quarterly in arrears.
The program fees applicable to each account will not exceed
0.60% per annum and will be indicated on the executed
service agreement.
G. Executive Benefits Services Fees
F. Family Office Services Fees
Fees for executive benefits services may be based on either
an annual fixed fee arrangement or as a percentage of assets
under advisement, as agreed with each client receiving such
services.
The Global Family Office charges clients receiving Holistic
Financial Planning services an annual retainer fee generally
ranging from $75,000 to $500,000, depending on scope and
complexity of the services required.
H. Reporting Fees
For Wealth Strategy Planning Report and Analysis, clients
may be charged a fee ranging from $15,000 to $25,000 per
plan for engagements typically lasting 6 months. For clients
receiving ongoing Holistic Financial Planning services, this
cost of this service is typically covered in the agreed upon
annual retainer fee.
The Global Family Office provides reporting services to its
advisory and to non-advisory clients who engage the firm for
such services. Reporting fees are either charged pursuant to
a fixed fee arrangement or as a percentage of the market
value of the reporting assets.
I. Trust and Fiduciary Services Fees
The Global Family Office also offers certain family office
services (such as, for example, Bill Pay, Financial Reporting
and Tax Planning) on an unbundled basis for clients seeking
particular service offerings. Fees for individual service
offerings are typically established as either an annual fixed
fee or an hourly rate fee arrangement. The type of fee
arrangement and level of fees would depend on the nature
and scope of the Global Family Office’s responsibilities.
Rockefeller Trust Company, N.A. (“RTC NA”) and The
Rockefeller Trust Company (Delaware) (“RTC Delaware”),
affiliates of the Global Family Office, provide fiduciary
services acting either as a trustee, co-trustee, executor, co-
executor, or as a fiduciary or agent for other fiduciary
relationships. As part of these services, RTC NA and RTC
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insufficient cash to pay the fees owed to the Global Family
Office, we can instruct the custodian to debit a client’s
account or use the client’s margin account, if available, to
pay our fees.
Delaware typically delegate to the Global Family Office or
Rockefeller Financial, on a discretionary basis, their power
and authority to provide investment management services
including investment advice to, and effecting investment
transactions on behalf of, the fiduciary accounts, when
investment management of the fiduciary account is required
as part of the fiduciary relationship.
Affiliated Funds generally pay investment advisory fees to
Rockefeller & Co. either quarterly or monthly in advance
based on the net asset value of the Affiliated Fund as of the
close of business on the first business day of each calendar
quarter or month or in such other manner as specified in the
Affiliated Fund’s offering and organizational documents.
For its services as a trustee, executor or other fiduciary, or as
an agent, RTC NA or RTC Delaware, as the case may be,
receives the fees set forth in its respective fee schedule in
effect from time to time, unless a separate fee is otherwise
negotiated with the client.
Annual retainer fees charged to clients receiving Holistic
Financial Planning services are generally payable quarterly
or monthly in arrears.
Where RTC NA or RTC Delaware have delegated
investment management responsibilities to Rockefeller &
Co. or Rockefeller Financial, they generally pay a fee to the
Global Family Office or Rockefeller Financial that is based
upon the market value of the assets held in the fiduciary
account managed by
the Global Family Office or
Rockefeller Financial.
J. Payment of Fees
In the case of clients that receive a single or limited number
of Global Family Office Services, the Global Family Office
generally issues to the client either a letter setting forth the
annual service fee and/or an invoice for purposes of
payment. Depending on the scope of services, such fees may
be charged monthly, quarterly or at such other times as
agreed with the client, and payments may be due before the
start of such services, following the completion of such
services or in periodic installments. Fees may be debited
directly from client accounts or invoiced to clients for
payment.
K. Other Fees and Expenses
Generally, investment advisory fees for the Global Family
Office accounts are paid quarterly or monthly in advance and
are based on the market value of the assets under
management as of the beginning of the billing period. In
certain cases, our fees are paid quarterly or monthly in
arrears. RTC NA and RTC Delaware may determine their
fees monthly or quarterly in advance or in arrears.
Other fees and expenses that clients will be responsible for
(if applicable) in addition to the Global Family Office’s
investment advisory fees and Relationship Fee include, but
are not limited to, any one or a combination of the following:
An initial asset contribution after the first business day of
any quarter or month may be subject to a partial fee based on
the value of the assets and a proration for the number of days
applicable to the change. Fees are prorated to the date of
termination and any unearned portion of prepaid fees is
refunded to the client.
• Brokerage and trading costs and expenses and
commissions
imposed by an affiliated or
unaffiliated broker-dealer, including “step out”
trades;
• Fees and expenses of third-party custodians;
• Fees and expenses payable to investment managers,
including affiliated investment managers;
the
transmittal of
• Fees and expenses of private funds, mutual funds,
and exchange-traded funds, as applicable, including
Affiliated Funds;
and
commissions
related
to
• Fees
certain
investments, including investments in precious
metals and certain options;
The advisory fee is generally charged directly to the client’s
custody account, but in some cases may be invoiced to a
client for payment as agreed with the client. Depending on
the client’s custodian, an invoice may be sent to the client
simultaneously with
the payment
instructions to the custodian or the custodian remits the
Global Family Office’s fee from the client’s custody or
brokerage account and reflects the payment of the fee on the
client’s statement. Some clients prefer to make direct
payment after being issued an invoice. If a client account has
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• Fees and expenses of money market funds that hold
•
clients enrolled in the RPWA Program, certain of the fees
listed above are included in the overall wrap free charged to
such clients. Please refer to the Wrap Brochure for
additional information about the RPWA Program’s fees and
expenses.
cash balances;
“Mark-ups,” “mark-downs,” and dealer spreads that
broker-dealers (including Rockefeller Financial)
receive when acting as principal or as agent (which
is typically the case for dealer market transactions
in fixed income and over-the-counter equity) in
certain transactions where permitted by law;
• Transaction and deal fees, including costs of certain
co-investments made with third-party managers;
• Processing fees;
• Waivable placement fees on private placement
offerings;
• Broker share class trail fees in the case of
investments in private placements made through
brokerage accounts;
• Fees,
including commissions, associated with
insurance
income and variable
certain fixed
products;
If a client’s assets are invested in any mutual funds,
exchange traded funds, private funds, interval funds or
pooled investment vehicles, in addition to the advisory fee
charged by the Global Family Office, the client will incur the
internal management and operating fees and expenses,
which in the case of mutual funds may include 12b-1 fees,
investment management and/or performance-based fees,
redemption/early termination fees (which include fees on
whole or partial liquidations of the client’s assets in the
investment vehicles) and other fees and expenses that may
be assessed by the investment vehicle’s sponsor, custodian,
transfer agent, adviser, shareholder service provider or other
service providers. These expenses from time to time include
administration, distribution, transfer agent, custodial, legal,
audit and other fees and expenses.
Further information regarding charges and fees assessed
may be found in the appropriate prospectus, offering
memorandum, annual report and/or custodial agreement
applicable to the corresponding investment vehicle.
• For clients with investments in structured products
that were transferred to their account at Rockefeller
Financial, clients may pay an
investment
management fee in addition to the placement fee;
• Transactions in American Depository Receipts
(“ADRs”) generally include certain embedded
execution costs, including conversion or creation
fees, foreign exchange costs and foreign tax
charges.
The Custodian selected by the client may charge certain fees
and expenses in addition to the fees and charges shown
above. Please consult the account documentation for
information about the fees your custodian charges for the
services it provides.
L. Compensation of Private Advisors
• Certain other costs or charges that may be imposed
by third parties (including, among other things, odd-
lot differentials, transfer taxes, foreign custody fees,
exchange fees, supplemental
transaction fees,
regulatory fees and other fees or taxes that may be
imposed pursuant to law); and
• Costs, fees, and expenses incurred in connection
with conversion from one currency into another and
any hedging or currency transactions
• Other transaction fees and charges such as any fees
imposed by the SEC, wire transfer fees, fees
resulting from any special requests client may have,
the costs of margin or other borrowing
arrangements. In addition, the client’s custodian
may charge additional miscellaneous fees (e.g.,
account transfer or ACAT fees, IRA maintenance
fees).
Advisory fees payable by any client will not be reduced to
account for the above additional fees and expenses. For
Private Advisors are typically compensated, on an ongoing
basis, based on a portion of the fees paid by their clients to
the Global Family Office and its affiliates. If the fee rate
charged to a client is below certain thresholds, your Private
Advisor will be compensated at a lower rate or not at all with
respect to the client’s account. Therefore, Private Advisors
have a financial incentive not to negotiate or reduce the fees
clients pay to the Global Family Office below those
thresholds. In addition, Private Advisors that manage client
assets directly receive a greater percentage of the total client
fee than Private Advisors that engage third-party managers
for such clients, which creates an incentive for Private
Advisors to recommend or elect to manage client assets
directly, even in a situation in which a client may benefit
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from the engagement of a third-party. Private Advisors are
also less likely to negotiate (or provide smaller discounts)
for arrangements using third-party managers than where the
Private Advisor manages the assets directly.
that
achieve the goals necessary to receive the revenue-based
and/or asset-based cash bonuses and, as such, create
conflicts of interest for Private Advisors. The firm mitigates
this conflict of interest by imposing suitability requirements
includes
and maintaining a supervisory system
surveillance reviews, conducting periodic supervisory visits
and compliance inspections and audits. This conflict of
interest is further mitigated by fiduciary obligations and
regulatory and compliance rules and procedures to which the
Global Family Office and the Private Advisors are subject.
Certain Private Advisors are compensated differently and
instead receive an annual salary and a discretionary bonus
that considers their clients’ overall revenue generation to the
Global Family Office and its affiliates as a significant factor.
In addition, certain Private Advisors participate in deferred
compensation plans which can have payments that are tied
to RCM’s overall enterprise value.
The firm’s Private Advisor compensation arrangements
create a financial incentive for Private Advisors to seek to
increase the overall revenue the Global Family Office and its
affiliates receive from their clients.
Private Advisors have a financial incentive to recommend
that Client’s utilize the RPWA Program over the Legacy
Platform and other Permitted Arrangements because it
contains features (e.g., margin and lending services) that can
increase compensation payable to Private Advisors. To the
extent clients utilize margin in their brokerage accounts at
National Financial Services under the RPWA Program (the
“NFS Margin Program”), their Private Advisors also are
compensated through a portion of the revenue generated
from such arrangements. The receipt of such compensation
creates an incentive for the Global Family Office and its
Private Advisors to recommend that clients utilize the RPWA
Program and the NFS Margin Program. Clients should refer
to the “Margin and Lending Services” section in the
Rockefeller Financial Wrap Fee Brochure for further details
on the NFS Margin Program and how the firm mitigates such
conflict of interest.
For clients that participate in the RPWA Program, the
amount of the compensation received by a Private Advisor
may be more or less than what the Private Advisor would
receive if such clients participated in other investment
programs or paid separately for
investment advice,
brokerage and other services through the Global Family
Office or another firm. Similarly, the compensation received
by a Private Advisor for clients participating in other
investment programs or paying separately for investment
advice, brokerage and other services may be more or less
than what the Private Advisor would have received if the
same client participated in the RPWA Program. Private
Advisors do not receive a portion of the Platform Fee or
Relationship Fee charged to accounts utilizing the RPWA
Program or the Relationship Fee for accounts advised under
the Legacy Platform or Permitted Arrangements.
Private Advisors who are Registered Representatives of
Rockefeller Financial are able to offer clients a broad range
of brokerage securities products and services. Registered
Representative also receive commissions in connection with
client brokerage transactions or are eligible to receive an
annual discretionary bonus which considers revenues
generated by their clients. This compensation structure
creates an incentive for Private Advisors who are registered
representatives of Rockefeller Financial to recommend
investments in a brokerage account that may result in greater
compensation than would be the case if such investments
were held in an advisory account or to recommend that you
trade frequently in a brokerage account. It also creates an
incentive for the Private Advisor to recommend products and
services for which more compensation would be received,
rather than based on a client’s investment profile or best
interests.
incentives for Private Advisors
to
Private Advisors moving their practices to the Global Family
Office or Rockefeller Financial often receive a cash loan
shortly after they begin employment with the firm; and, if
eligible, continuing cash bonuses or other financial
incentives based on attaining certain revenue or asset goals
relative to the target revenue or assets that the particular
Private Advisor indicated he or she could establish as a
Private Advisor at the firm. If a Private Advisor achieves a
particular revenue goal, the Private Advisor receives not
only the related cash bonuses, but also a cash loan in the
amount of the related cash bonuses. The revenue-based and
asset-based cash bonuses described in this paragraph create
financial
increase
revenues and/or asset levels, as applicable, in order to
Private Advisors who are registered insurance agents with
RCM Insurance Services receive commissions in connection
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with the sale of insurance products and services to clients.
The receipt of this additional compensation creates an
incentive for the Private Advisor to recommend insurance
products and services for which more compensation would
be received, rather than based on a client’s needs.
M. Other Firm Compensation
From time to time, the Global Family Office and its Private
Advisors also will receive other compensation from mutual
fund companies and other sponsors whose products are made
available to clients. Such companies may sponsor their own
conferences for training and educational purposes, which
certain of the Private Advisors are invited to attend. In
addition to the Private Advisors attending these conferences
without charge, these companies may also reimburse or pay
for the travel and other related expenses incurred by the
Private Advisors. In some instances, the companies also
reimburse the firm for expenses related to dinners or events
for clients and other miscellaneous business-related
expenses incurred by Private Advisors.
The Global Family Office has financial and other incentives
to recommend that clients utilize the RPWA Program over
the Legacy Platform and other Permitted Arrangements
because it contains features (e.g., the Platform Fee, margin
and lending services, cash sweeps and investment solutions)
that increase revenues to the Global Family Office and its
affiliates and permit the firm to better scale its advisory
services platform.
Further, the Global Family Office makes available to its
clients Affiliated Investment Products which results in
additional revenue, in the aggregate, to Rockefeller & Co.
and its affiliates.
Item 11
for
See
further details about additional
compensation received by the Global Family Office and its
affiliates and the associated conflicts of interest.
In addition to the fees and commissions the Rockefeller
Global Family Office and Rockefeller Financial receive
their
through
investment advisory and broker-dealer
services,
the Rockefeller Global Family Office and
Rockefeller Financial receive compensation from other
sources, which creates a conflict of interest, as the increased
income available from these sources incentivizes us to direct
investments and services to mutual fund companies,
investment managers, third-party managers, providers of
model portfolios, and/or other companies that pay us these
fees including third party custodians.
If the Global Family Office and its affiliates did not receive
the different types of additional compensation described in
Item 5 and Item 11, the Global Family Office and its
affiliates would likely charge higher fees or other charges to
clients for the services it provides. When evaluating the
reasonability of the Global Family Office’s fees, you should
consider not just the account fees that the Global Family
Office charges, but also the different types of additional
compensation that the Global Family Office and its affiliates
receive.
ITEM 6: PERFORMANCE-BASED FEES AND SIDE-
BY-SIDE MANAGEMENT
Rockefeller Financial has entered into revenue sharing
arrangements with providers of certain alternative
investment providers, and also receives trailing and other
fees pursuant to certain arrangements. As described further
below in Item 11 – Conflicts of Interest, this additional
revenue creates an incentive for Rockefeller Financial to
recommend and provide access to alternative investment
vehicles.
A. Performance Based-Fees
Rockefeller Financial will earn revenue from NFS on client
assets invested in the FDIC-insured bank deposit sweep
arrangement under the RPWA Program, creating another
incentive for the Global Family Office to recommend this
program to clients. As noted in the “Cash Sweep Services”
section below, the revenue received by Rockefeller Financial
will vary based on the cash sweep vehicle offered.
Rockefeller Financial seeks to address the foregoing
conflicts by disclosing them to clients, such as in this
Brochure.
The Global Family Office does not typically charge
performance-based fees to advisory clients. The Global
Family Office and its affiliates, however, may manage
certain Affiliated Funds such as hedge funds, private
equity/venture capital funds, that pay performance-based
fees. These fees are based on the performance of each
investor’s investment in the Affiliated Fund, as described in
the Affiliated Fund’s governing documents. From time to
time, the Global Family Office may enter into similar
arrangements with particular clients.
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other incentives to place the interests of their GA Family
Office Accounts ahead of the interests of Global Family
Office clients including the GA Funds.
The receipt of a performance-based fee (or a carried interest)
creates an incentive to make investments that are riskier or
more speculative than would be the case in the absence of
the performance-based fee (or the carried interest) due to the
opportunity to participate in a portion of the gains realized
with respect to such investment.
The Global Family Office has implemented supervisory and
compliance procedures to mitigate this conflict of interest,
including the following:
B. Side-By-Side Management
• The Global Family Office has established an
investment committee comprised of
senior
representatives of the Global Family Office and
Greer and Anderson (the “GA Committee”) to
determine the investment advice given to the GA
Funds, including decisions to invest in, and
withdraw capital from, hedge funds. Investments
for the GA Funds are selected from Rockefeller &
Co.’s approved hedge fund manager platform (the
“Approved Hedge Fund Platform”).
In limited cases involving certain asset classes (e.g., hedge
funds and private equity/venture capital), the Global Family
Office and/or its affiliates manage accounts that pay both
performance-based fees and asset-based fees and accounts
that pay only asset-based fees. Further, the Global Family
Office also manages assets for its own account and for its
officers, employees and other affiliated persons or entities
(collectively, “Affiliated Accounts”) from time to time. In
these cases, the Global Family Office has an incentive to
favor
the
the performance-fee eligible accounts and
Affiliated Accounts over other client accounts when, for
example, placing trades, aggregating orders, or allocating
limited investment opportunities. To address these potential
conflicts, the Global Family Office has policies and
procedures in place requiring that investment decisions be
made in accordance with the fiduciary duties owed to
advisory clients and without consideration of the Global
Family Office’s or the Affiliated Account’s pecuniary,
investment or other financial interests. The Global Family
Office has also implemented procedures that seek to allocate
transactions in a manner that is fair and equitable, over time,
both in the priority of execution of orders for client accounts,
and in the allocation of the price (and commission or other
costs and expenses, if applicable) obtained in execution of
aggregated orders for similarly managed accounts.
• Prior to investing GA Family Office Accounts in
any hedge fund that is not on Rockefeller’s
Approved Hedge Fund Platform, Greer or Anderson
will disclose the opportunity to the Global Family
Office and will not make the investment until the
opportunity is declined or they receive approval
from the Global Family Office. If the Global Family
Office determines that the new hedge fund is
appropriate for the Approved Hedge Fund Platform,
the GA Funds and other Global Family Office
clients will be given priority over GA Family Office
Accounts with respect to such opportunity. GA
Family Office Accounts may participate in such
investment opportunities to the extent determined to
be fair and appropriate, taking into consideration
capacity constraints and other factors.
C. Greer Anderson Family Office
to preclear personal securities
Greer and Anderson are subject to Rockefeller & Co.’s Code
of Ethics. Under the Code of Ethics, Greer and Anderson are
required to disclose to Rockefeller & Co. all their GA Family
Office Accounts. In addition, Greer and Anderson are
required
transactions
involving hedge funds and certain other types of securities
executed for the GA Family Office Accounts, and to report
such transactions on a quarterly basis. Greer and Anderson
are also required to disclose securities held in GA Family
Office Accounts annually. Activity in the GA Family Office
Accounts is reviewed by Rockefeller & Co. for potential
conflicts of interest and improper activities.
In addition to serving as Senior Advisors to the Global
Family Office and as two of four members of the investment
committee to the Greer Anderson Fund of Funds managed
by the Family Office (the “GA Funds”) as described below,
Philip Greer (“Greer”) and Gary Anderson (“Anderson”)
also own a family office (the “GA Family Office”) which
provides investment advisory and management services to
accounts that are owned by the Greer/Anderson family (the
“GA Family Office Accounts”). Greer and Anderson’s
management of the GA Family Office Accounts creates a
conflict of interest with regard to the services they provide
to the Global Family Office because they have financial and
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factors. Clients’ restrictions and guidelines may affect the
composition of client portfolios.
Please refer to Item 11 for additional information on
Rockefeller & Co.’s Code of Ethics and additional
information on the firm’s trade allocation policies and
procedures.
ITEM 7: TYPES OF CLIENTS
It is important to note that no methodology, investment style,
or investment strategy is guaranteed to be successful or
profitable or can guarantee a client against loss. While the
Global Family Office seeks to employ reasonable diligence
in evaluating and monitoring third-party managers, no
amount of diligence can eliminate the possibility that a third-
party manager may provide misleading, incomplete or false
information or representations, or engage in improper or
fraudulent conduct, including unauthorized changes in
investment strategy, insider trading, misappropriation of
assets and unsupportable valuations of portfolio securities.
B. Selection of Investment Managers and Strategies
The Global Family Office provides investment advisory
services to various types of clients including ultra-high net
worth and high net worth individuals, their families, family
offices and related entities like trusts, estates, endowments,
and foundations, as well as pension and profit-sharing plans
and their sponsors, charitable organizations, corporations
and other business entities, sovereign nations and certain
non-U.S. individuals and entities. The Global Family Office
also acts as sub-adviser to U.S. and non-U.S. investment
advisers, including firms that manage investments on behalf
of variable life insurance policies, variable annuity policies
and other variable contracts.
The Global Family Office does not have an established
minimum account size requirement and instead considers a
number of factors when determining if it will accept a new
client relationship, including but not limited to the scope and
complexity of the relationship, servicing requirements and
expected revenue generation.
Clients have access to a wide variety of investment managers
and strategies, including affiliated managers such as RGIM.
The conflicts associated with offering products of affiliated
firms is discussed below Items 11. There are investment
managers and strategies available in the marketplace that are
not available to Global Family Office clients for a variety of
reasons, including lack of accessibility on the RPWA
Program or Legacy Platform, client demand and/or due
diligence or capacity considerations.
ITEM 8: METHODS OF ANALYSIS, INVESTMENT
STRATEGIES AND RISK OF LOSS
A. Asset Allocation Approach
to meet
the client’s
As discussed above, your Private Advisor will assist you in
selecting an asset allocation and one or more investment
managers and investment portfolios. The recommended
approach depends on consideration of the size and scope of
the mandate, client preferences and requirements, fee
considerations and other factors. Client assets invested with
third-party investment managers bear the fees charged by the
third-party investment managers, as well advisory fees
payable to the Global Family Office, except as described in
the following sentence. In the case of clients who are subject
to a Combined Fee Schedule, the Global Family Office will
typically recommend the inclusion of RGIM’s investment
management strategies even though there may be third-party
solutions available
investment
objectives, because the fee schedule covers the costs of
certain of RGIM’s investment management services.
time horizon,
financial horizon,
As discussed above, your Private Advisor will assist you in
selecting an asset allocation and provide other investment
recommendations and advice to you. Each Private Advisor
has access to various market research, portfolio modelling
and other tools and information to which he or she may refer
in determining investment advice provided to clients. Private
Advisors choose their own research methods, investment
styles and strategies, and management philosophy.
Accordingly, the investment strategies and investment
advice can be expected to vary from one Private Advisor to
investment strategies and advice vary
another. The
depending upon each client’s specific financial situation. As
such, Private Advisors determine
investments and
allocations based upon clients’ predefined objectives, risk
financial
tolerance,
information, liquidity needs, and various other suitability
Envestnet, an unaffiliated investment adviser that provides
services
to Rockefeller Financial, generally conducts
onboarding due diligence for each investment manager and
strategy made available to clients. Envestnet also provides a
service to select, evaluate and monitor a number of the
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performance of investment managers is not calculated on a
uniform and consistent basis.
investment managers and strategies. This service includes a
process of collecting and reporting quantitative and
qualitative data on investment style and philosophy, past
performance and personnel, and designates certain of them
as approved, both on an initial and ongoing basis. Envestnet
periodically reviews the investment managers, and may
replace an investment manager if Envestnet determines that
it fails to meet one or more of the above-mentioned criteria.
Envestnet’s process is more fully described in Envestnet’s
Form ADV Part 2A. Envestnet follows consistent procedures
for selecting and reviewing investment managers that are
affiliates of Rockefeller Financial.
in
investment
strategy,
insider
It is important to note that no methodology, investment style,
or investment strategy is guaranteed to be successful or
profitable or can guarantee a client against loss. While the
Global Family Office
to employ reasonable
intends
diligence in evaluating and monitoring third party managers,
no amount of diligence can eliminate the possibility that a
third-party investment manager may provide misleading,
incomplete or false information or representations, or engage
in improper or fraudulent conduct, including unauthorized
changes
trading,
misappropriation of assets and unsupportable valuations of
portfolio securities.
For a discussion of the conflicts that arise from this service,
and additional detail regarding additional compensation
received by Rockefeller Financial and its affiliates and the
associated conflicts. please see Items 10 and 11 below.
C. Risk Factors
In addition, employees of the Global Family Office and
Rockefeller Financial perform due diligence for select
investment managers and strategies. Investment Managers
and Strategies may include mutual funds, ETFs, SMAs, fund
strategist portfolios, interval funds, hedge funds, tender offer
funds, other semi-liquid private funds and illiquid private
funds. When conducting due diligence, the Global Family
Office or Rockefeller Financial reviews qualitative and
quantitative factors, including the investment manager’s
style and philosophy, personnel, past performance, risk, style
drift, and other factors.
The investment risks described below represent some but not
all of the risks associated with various types of investments
and investment strategies. Clients should carefully evaluate
all applicable risks with any investment or investment
strategy, and realize that investing in securities involves risk
of loss that clients should be prepared to bear.
1. Investment Strategies and Risk of Loss
investment strategies
Moreover, with respect to certain traditional or alternative
investment strategies with higher operational risks, the
Global Family Office or Rockefeller Financial will engage
an unaffiliated third-party provider to perform operational
due diligence. These providers review a number of factors
with respect to both the investment manager and the fund or
other investment vehicle and, upon completion of their
review, make reports of their analyses available to the Global
Family Office or Rockefeller Financial. The Global Family
Office or Rockefeller Financial evaluates these reports for
purposes of including or excluding an investment manager
or strategy on the platform.
Certain
that Private Advisors,
investment managers and investment vehicles may use in
managing your account have specific risks, including those
associated with investments in common stock, fixed income
securities, American Depositary Receipts, investment funds,
and alternative investments.
investment managers calculate and
Not all
report
performance on a uniform and consistent basis. Neither the
Global Family Office nor Rockefeller Financial
independently audits the historical performance published
by investment managers. The firm does not have a uniform
process for reviewing manager performance and any
performance information. When a Private Advisor makes a
recommendation to add or change an investment manager or
strategy, the Private Advisor may review the investment
the
manager’s performance. You should expect
that
For example, investing in securities and other assets involves
a potential risk of loss due to various market, economic,
political, regulatory, business, currency, and other risks. The
Global Family Office does not guarantee the future
performance of any client account, investment decision or
strategy. Future results may vary substantially from past
performance and no investment strategy can guarantee profit
or protection from loss. Returns on investments can be
volatile and an investor may lose all or a portion of their
investment.
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Clients that utilize margin are subject to additional risks,
including greater risk of loss and incurrence of margin
interest debt. Margin and securities-based lending is not
suitable for all investors. If the market value of the securities
in your margin account declines, you may be required to
deposit more money or securities in order to maintain your
line of credit. If you are unable to do so, the Custodian may
sell all or a portion of your pledged assets without prior
notice to you.
2. Risk Relating to Equity Securities
interest rate risk. A low interest rate environment increases
the risk associated with rising interest rates (i.e. declination
in bond value). Credit risk is the risk that an issuer may not
make timely payments of principal and interest. There is a
risk that an issuer may “call”, or repay, its high yielding
bonds before their maturity dates. Fixed income securities
subject to prepayment can offer less potential for gains
during a declining interest rate environment and similar or
greater potential for loss in a rising interest rate environment.
Limited trading opportunities for certain fixed income
securities may make it more difficult to sell or buy a security
at a favorable price or time. The municipal market is volatile
and can be significantly affected by adverse tax, legislative
or political changes and the financial condition of the issuers
of municipal securities. The value of fixed income securities
may fluctuate based on other factors affecting the securities
markets generally. Recent market events risk relates to
volatility that arises due to economic, political, and global
macro factors.
Investments in high yield debt securities (“junk bonds”) and
other lower-rated securities may subject the strategy to
substantial risk of loss. These securities are considered to be
speculative with respect to the issuer’s ability to pay interest
and principal when due, are more susceptible to default or
decline in market value and volatile prices and are less liquid
than investment grade debt securities.
4. Risk Relating to Exchange Traded Funds
Equity and equity-related investments are volatile and will
increase or decrease in value based upon issuer, economic,
market and other factors. Other risks may include but are not
limited to company specific risks, liquidity risk, leverage
risk, inflation and interest rate risk, and/or tax and regulatory
risk. Small capitalization stocks generally involve higher
risks in some respects than do investments in stocks of larger
companies and may be more volatile and subject to liquidity
risk. The securities of non-U.S. issuers also involve a high
degree of risk because of, among other factors, the lack of
public information with respect to such issuers, less
governmental regulation of stock exchanges and issuers of
securities traded on such exchanges and the absence of
uniform accounting, auditing, and financial reporting
standards. The non-U.S. domicile of such issuers and
currency fluctuations may also be factors in the assessment
of financial risk to the investor. Foreign securities markets
are often less liquid than U.S. securities markets, which may
make the disposition of non-U.S. securities more difficult.
Emerging markets can be subject to greater social,
economic, regulatory, and political uncertainties and can be
extremely volatile.
3. Risk Relating to Fixed Income Securities
limited
to,
Risks related to ETFs include but are not limited to market,
liquidity,
tax, sector/single-stock concentration, exotic
exposure/complexity, frequent trading and counterparty risk.
ETFs can invest in a variety of strategies such as indexing or
active management seeking exposure to unique asset classes.
For actively managed ETFs, in particular, there is a risk the
managers will not be able to achieve their stated objectives
or their strategy may underperform other market indicators
or benchmarks. There may be a lack of liquidity in certain
exchange traded funds (“ETFs”) which can lead to a large
difference between the bid-ask prices (increasing the cost to
you when you buy or sell the ETF). A lack of liquidity also
may cause an ETF to trade at a large premium or discount to
its net asset value. Additionally, an ETF may suspend issuing
new shares and this may result in an adverse difference
between the ETF’s publicly available share price and the
actual value of its underlying investment holdings. At times
when underlying holdings are traded less frequently, or not
Investments in fixed income securities are subject to risks
including, but not
interest rate, credit,
reinvestment, inflation, liquidity, call/prepayment, spread,
downgrade, exchange rate, volatility, and extension risks,
any of which may adversely impact the price of the security
and result in a loss. Interest rates may go up resulting in a
decrease in the market value of fixed income securities.
Duration is the time that it takes for an investor to be repaid
the price for a bond by the bond’s total cash flows. The
longer the repayment period, or duration, the greater the
chance that the bond will be exposed to interest rate risk.
Generally, securities with longer maturities carry greater
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5. Risk Relating to Interval Funds
at all, an ETF’s returns also may diverge from the benchmark
it is designed to track.
through
the
respect
to, among other
Interval Funds are generally non-diversified closed-end
investments that are not listed for trading on any national
securities exchange and have no trading market. There is
limited liquidity provided to shareholders, which is available
only
interval funds’ quarterly offers to
repurchase a certain percentage of its outstanding shares at
net asset value, which is subject to the fund’s fundamental
policy on redemptions. There is no guarantee that an investor
will be able to tender all or any of their shares in a periodic
repurchase offer. Investors should carefully consider the
fund’s fundamental policy prior to investing.
Most ETFs, like all mutual funds, are registered investment
companies under the Investment Company Act. However,
ETFs that invest exclusively in physical assets, such as gold,
are not registered investment companies. These ETFs will
not have the protections associated with ownership of shares
in a registered investment company. For example, these
ETFs are not subject to the prohibition on registered
investment companies dealing with affiliates, do not have an
independent board of trustees, and are not subject to
requirements with
things,
diversification and the prohibition on the suspension of
redemptions.
6. Risk Relating to Alternative Investments
the
fund’s performance
A leveraged ETF is a marketable security that uses financial
derivatives and debt to amplify the returns of an underlying
index. While a traditional exchange-traded fund typically
tracks the securities in its underlying index on a one-to-one
basis, a leveraged ETF may aim for a 2:1 or 3:1 ratio. The
use of leverage can lead to significant gains but can also lead
to significant losses. Additional risks associated with
leveraged ETFs exist depending on their reset frequency.
Certain leveraged ETFs have daily reset frequencies
meaning they are structured to achieve their investment
objectives on a day-to-day basis as opposed to over a long
period of time. Accordingly, there is additional risk in
holding these types of securities for periods significantly
greater than a trading day because the costs associated with
maintaining the fund assets (typically futures contracts) can
expose
to contango and
backwardation risks. In fact, any ETF holding futures or
forwards contracts, typically commodity or currency-based
ETFs), will be exposed to these risks.
Alternative investments, include, but are not limited to hedge
funds, private equity funds, venture capital and buyout
funds, private credit and direct lending funds, and private
real estate and other real asset funds.
Alternative
investments are generally speculative and involve a high
degree of risk. There is no secondary market for alternative
investments and there may be significant restrictions or
limitations on withdrawing from or transferring these types
of investments. Many alternative investments, including
private equity/venture capital/buyout funds generally require
an investor to make and fund a commitment over several
years. Alternative investments generally have high fees
(including both management and performance-based fees)
and expenses that offset returns. Alternative investments are
generally subject to less regulation than publicly traded
investments. The Global Family Office will not be able to
independently value
investments held by alternative
investment fund managers. As a result, the Global Family
Office will generally rely on the values reported to it by
alternative investment fund managers, or their service
providers.
investments may
include specific
Inverse ETFs seek investment results that are the inverse of
their benchmarks’ performances, typically for one day only.
As such, most Inverse ETFs are designed for speculative
traders and investors seeking tactical day trades against their
respective underlying indexes. To achieve their investment
results, inverse ETFs generally use derivative securities,
such as swap agreements, forwards, futures contracts, and
options. Because of how they are constructed, inverse ETFs
carry unique risks that investors should be aware of before
participating in them. The principal risks associated with
investing in inverse ETFs include compounding risk,
derivative securities risk, correlation risk and short sale
exposure risk.
Alternative
risks
associated with limited liquidity, the use of leverage,
arbitrage, short sales, options, futures, and derivative
instruments. There can be no assurances that a manager’s
strategy (hedged or otherwise) will be successful or that a
manager will employ such strategies with respect to all or
any portion of a portfolio. Clients should recognize that they
may bear asset-based fees and expenses at the manager-
level, and indirectly, fees, expenses, and performance-based
compensation. Performance-based compensation may create
an incentive for the managers that may receive performance-
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7. Derivatives Risk
instruments can result from
the counterparty
to fulfill
based compensation to make investments that are riskier and
more speculative than would be the case if this special
allocation were not made. Fee structures may include hurdle
rates, high-water marks, and/or claw back provisions, which
affect how and when performance fees are calculated.
Furthermore, founder share classes, lockup periods and
tiered fee discounts for larger or early investors can result in
different net returns across participants in the same fund.
Because the individual managers make trading decisions
independently of each other, it is possible that they may, on
occasion, hold substantial positions in the same security or
group of securities at the same time. This possible lack of
diversification may subject the client’s investments to more
volatility than would be the case if the client’s assets were
more widely diversified.
Investments in options, futures, options on futures, forwards,
participatory notes, swaps, structured securities, and other
types of derivatives can be used to hedge a portfolio's
investments or to seek to enhance returns. These types of
investments entail specific risks relating to liquidity,
leverage and credit that can reduce returns and/or increase
volatility. Losses in a portfolio from investments in
the potential
derivative
illiquidity of the markets for derivative instruments, the
failure of
its contractual
obligations, the portfolio receiving cash collateral under the
transactions and some or all of that collateral being invested
in the market, or the risks arising from margin posting
requirements and related leverage factors associated with
such transactions. In addition, many jurisdictions continue to
review practices and regulations relating to the use of
derivatives, or similar instrument. Such reviews could make
such instruments more costly, limiting the availability of, or
otherwise adversely affecting the value or performance of
such instrument.
8. Risk Relating to Options Trading
Investments in alternatives funds should be viewed as
illiquid. It is uncertain as to when a return of capital or
profits, if any, will be realized and losses on unsuccessful
investments may be realized before gains on successful
investments are realized. The return of capital and the
realization of gains, if any, generally will occur only upon
the partial or complete disposition of an investment. While a
fund’s investment may be sold at any time, it is generally
expected that this will not occur for a number of years after
the initial investment. Before such time, there may be no
current return on the investment. Furthermore, the expenses
of operating alternatives funds (including any management
fees imposed by the investment manager) may exceed its
income, thereby requiring that the difference be paid from
the funds’ capital, including without limitation, unfunded
commitments. Further, any profits or gains may be
reinvested in the fund and may not be distributed to investors
until the end of the fund’s life, if at all.
There are various risks associated with transactions in
exchange-traded and over the counter (“OTC”) options. The
market price of an option is affected by many factors,
including: changes in the market prices or dividend rates of
underlying securities (or in the case of indices, the securities
in such indices); the time remaining before expiration;
changes in interest rates or exchange rates; and changes in
the actual or perceived volatility of the relevant stock market
and underlying securities. Although an option buyer’s risk is
limited to the amount of the original investment for the
purchase of the option, an investment in an option may be
subject to greater fluctuation than an investment in the
underlying securities. The market price of an option also
may be adversely affected if the market for the option
becomes less liquid, including where trading in the securities
underlying the option becomes restricted.
9. Risk Relating to Structured Products
An alternatives fund’s ability to dispose of investments may
be limited for several reasons (some or all of which may be
outside of a fund’s control), including the absence of an
established market for such investments, as well as
contractual and other limitations on transfer or other
restrictions that would interfere with subsequent sales of
such investments or adversely affect the terms upon which a
disposition could be made. Any possibility of a disposition
in the public markets will depend upon favorable market
conditions, including receptiveness to initial or secondary
public offerings for the companies in which the funds invest
and an active mergers and acquisitions (or recapitalizations
and reorganizations) market, among other factors.
Investments
in structured products (generally Senior
Unsecured Debt Obligations linked to the performance of an
underlying market measure) (all such products, “Structured
Products”) are subject to a number of risks, including credit
risk, market risk, and liquidity risk.
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products, including market risk, and the total loss of
principal is possible.
11. Market Disruption, Health Crises, Terrorism and
Geopolitical Risk
Investors are subject to the risk that war, terrorism, global
health crises or similar pandemics, and other related
geopolitical events may lead to increased short-term market
volatility and have adverse long-term effects on world
economies and markets generally, as well as adverse effects
on issuers of securities and the value of a Fund’s
investments. War, terrorism, and related geopolitical events,
as well as global health crises and similar pandemics have
led, and in the future may lead, to increased short-term
market volatility and may have adverse long-term effects on
world economies and markets generally. Those events as
well as other changes in world economic, political and health
conditions also could adversely affect individual issuers or
related groups of issuers, securities markets, interest rates,
credit ratings, inflation, investor sentiment and other factors
affecting the value of a Fund’s investments. At such times,
investors’ exposure to a number of other risks described
elsewhere in this section can increase.
Structured Products typically have a specified maturity date
and payout profile determined by the performance of an
underlying, or basket of underlying, market measures.
Structured Products are generally designed to provide some
level or combination of principal protection, downside
market risk mitigation, enhanced income, or enhanced
returns relative to the performance of the underlying market
measure. As a Senior Unsecured Debt Obligation, the payout
at maturity is dependent on the issuer’s ability to pay off its
debts as they mature. While there is generally liquidity
provided by the issuer of a Structured Product prior to
maturity, there is no guarantee of a secondary market, or the
price or bid/ask spread at which the security will trade. In the
case that there is a secondary market provided, the sale price
may be significantly less than what would be the maturity
value due to factors such as volatility, interest rates, credit
quality and risk appetite. The value of an investment in a
Structured Product will reflect the then-current market value
of the Structured Product as calculated by the issuer and will
be subject to all of the risks associated with an investment in
the underlying market measure along with the risks and
factors described above. Investors in structured products will
not own or have any claim to the underlying market measure
directly and will therefore not benefit from general rights
applicable to the holders of those assets, such as dividends
and voting rights.
12. Risk Relating to Use of Third Party Investment
Managers
10. Risk Relating in Variable Annuities and Registered
Index Linked Annuities (RILA)
the
Investments in variable annuities are long-term investments
and provide long-term income. However, such investments
are subject to high fees due to insurance related costs, such
as mortality and expense risk charges. Variable annuities
investments also involve investment risk related to the
products and investments that the collective periodic
payments are invested in, which may include derivatives
products. Further, in order to receive certain tax benefits
associated with variable annuities,
investments
underlying such contracts must meet certain diversification
and other requirements. Thus, investments in variable
annuities that do not have sufficient diversification can lead
to adverse tax consequences.
The use of third-party investment managers in investment
programs involves additional risks. The success of the third-
party investment manager depends on the capabilities of its
investment management personnel and infrastructure, all of
which may be adversely impacted by the departure of key
employees and other events. The future results of the third-
party investment manager may differ significantly from their
past performance. While the Global Family Office intends to
perform diligence in evaluating and monitoring third party
investment managers as described herein, no amount of
diligence can eliminate the possibility that a third party
investment manager may provide misleading, incomplete, or
false information or representations, or engage in improper
or fraudulent conduct, including unauthorized changes in
investment strategy, insider trading, misappropriation of
assets and unsupportable valuations of portfolio securities.
Registered Index Linked Annuities (RILAs) are insurance
products tied to the performance of a market index, typically
offering the positive returns of the index up to a cap and/or
providing a buffer for a certain level of negative returns.
RILAs are subject to risks associated with other investment
Certain third-party investment managers may hold a
relatively concentrated portfolio of securities in comparison
to their respective benchmarks and broader market indices.
In addition, these strategies may from time to time be
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industries and/or geographies, and can
market funds may fluctuate and when you sell shares they
may be worth more or less than originally paid.
overweight, underweight or have no exposure to specific
sectors,
take
concentrated positions which could lead to increased
volatility. Certain of these strategies may focus on particular
sectors, industries, and geographies. As a result, an adverse
development impacting any one position, sector, industry, or
geography may have a material adverse effect on investment
returns as well as performance relative to the strategy’s
benchmark.
Diversification across asset classes, investment styles,
sectors and industries does not eliminate the risk of
experiencing investment losses. There is also a risk that too
much diversification across third party managers can lead to
the indexing of investment returns while paying higher
manager fees.
13. Risk Relating to REITs
Recent changes to regulations impacting money funds have
created both a potential discretionary and separate
mandatory liquidity fee which could impact a selling
shareholder in non-government money market funds. The
discretionary fee is optional and subject to the discretion of
the board of directors/trustees of each prime and tax-exempt
money market fund. On July 12, 2023, the Securities and
Exchange Commission (SEC) adopted amendments to Rule
2a-7 and other rules that govern money market funds under
the Investment Company Act of 1940. The new money
market fund rules had a staged implementation schedule
with discretionary liquidity fees becoming applicable to all
non-government money market funds on April 2, 2024.
Beginning April 2, 2024, all money market funds were
required to comply with the increased portfolio liquidity
requirements of the new rules. Beginning October 2, 2024,
all non-government institutional money market funds may
have had mandatory liquidity fees imposed on them. In
general, the mandatory liquidity fees will be imposed by the
money market fund when the fund experiences daily net
redemptions that exceed 5% of the fund’s net asset, which
can occur even
in non-stress market environments.
Additional information relating to these changes is available
on the SEC’s website at: 33-11211-fact-sheet.pdf (sec.gov).
the UBTI was recognized. Therefore,
Additionally, in some circumstances, money market funds
may be forced to cease operations when the value of a fund
drops below $1.00 per share. In that event, the fund’s
holdings are liquidated and distributed to the fund’s
shareholders. This liquidation process could take up to one
month or longer. During that time, these funds would not be
available to you to support purchases, withdrawals and, if
applicable, check writing or ATM debits from your account.
Certain strategies offer real estate-related
investment
disciplines, which typically invest in common stocks of U.S.
corporations. Almost all such investments will be treated for
tax purposes as investments in real estate investment trusts
(“REITs”). Such investments can cause a tax-exempt
investor to recognize “unrelated business taxable income”
(“UBTI”). If any investment causes a tax-exempt investor to
recognize UBTI, and that tax-exempt investor is a charitable
remainder trust, all of the income of the charitable remainder
trust would be subject to federal income tax for the tax year
tax
in which
advantaged accounts, such as charitable remainder trusts and
IRAs, should consult with a tax adviser before investing in
real estate investment disciplines. Other risks include but are
not limited to interest rate sensitivity, liquidity risk (e.g.,
non-traded/private REITS can lock up capital for years),
market risk and leverage risk as REITs use borrowed capital
to finance acquisitions, which can amplify losses during
downturns.
15. Risk Relating to Differing Classes of Securities
14. Risk Relating to Money Market Funds
Different classes of securities have different rights as
creditor if the issuer files for bankruptcy or reorganization.
For example, bondholders’ rights generally are more
favorable than shareholders’ rights in a bankruptcy or
reorganization.
16. Tax and Legal Considerations
You could lose money in money market funds. Although
money market funds classified as government funds (i.e.,
money market funds that invest 99.5% of total assets in cash
and/or securities backed by the U.S government) and retail
funds (i.e., money market funds open to natural person
investors only) seek to preserve value at $1.00 per share,
they cannot guarantee they will do so. The price of money
Clients are responsible for all tax liabilities and tax return
filing obligations arising from the transactions in your
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may fail to operate properly or become disabled as a result
of events or circumstances wholly or partly beyond the
firm’s or its service providers’ control. Technology failures,
whether deliberate or not, including those arising from use
of third-party service providers or client usage of systems to
access accounts, could have a material adverse effect on our
business or our clients and could result in, among other
things, financial loss, reputational damage, regulatory
penalties, or the inability to conduct business.
Investment
19. Client Directed ESG/Sustainable
account or any other investment advice offered by us.
Changing your investment strategy or engaging in portfolio
rebalancing transactions may result in sales of securities
which may subject you to additional income tax obligations.
The Global Family Office does not provide legal advice.
Unless you have entered into a written family office services
agreement pursuant to which the Global Family Office has
specifically agreed to provide tax, accounting, or estate
planning services, consult your independent tax or legal
advisor with respect all such matters. This Brochure or any
other document received from the Global Family Office
should not be construed as providing such advice.
Guidelines
17. Cybersecurity Risk
The Global Family Office may agree, from time to time, to
implement environmental, social, and governance (“ESG”)
guidelines directed by a Client. The implementation of ESG
guidelines could cause an account to perform differently
compared to accounts that do not use such (“ESG
Guidelines”) guidelines and can result in lower financial
returns. The criteria related to certain ESG strategies can
result in an account foregoing opportunities to buy certain
securities when it might otherwise be advantageous to do so,
or selling securities for to comply with the ESG guidelines
when it might be otherwise disadvantageous for it to do so.
In addition, an increased focus on ESG or sustainability
investing in recent years may have led to increased
valuations of certain issuers with higher ESG profiles. A
reversal of that trend could result in losses with respect to
investments in such issuers.
The Global Family Office must rely in part on digital and
network technologies (collectively, “networks”) to conduct
its investment advisory business. Such networks, including
those of service providers, are susceptible to cyber-attacks
that could potentially seek unauthorized access to digital
systems for purposes such as misappropriating sensitive
information, corrupting data or causing operational
disruption. Cyber-attacks might potentially be carried out by
persons using techniques that could range from efforts to
electronically circumvent network security or overwhelm
websites to intelligence gathering and social engineering
functions aimed at obtaining information necessary to gain
access. Cyber-attacks against, or security breakdowns, of us
or our service providers, if applicable, may adversely impact
us and our clients, potentially resulting in, among other
things, financial losses; our inability to transact business on
behalf of our clients; reputational damage; and/or additional
costs. The firm may incur additional costs related to
cybersecurity risk management and remediation. In addition,
cybersecurity risks may also impact issuers of securities in
which we invest on behalf of our clients, which may cause
our clients’ investment in such issuers to lose value.
In seeking to comply with ESG guidelines, the firm relies on
internal and external research and data. There can be no
assurance that this data directly correlates with a Client’s
ESG goals, and this data is not available with respect to all
issuers, sectors or industry and is often based upon estimates,
comparisons or projections that may prove to be incorrect.
As a result, a Client account with ESG guidelines could
nonetheless be invested in issuers that are not consistent with
the Client’s ESG goals.
18. Technology Risk
20. Sanctions
The Global Family Office must rely in part on digital and
network technologies to conduct its business and to maintain
substantial computerized data relating to client account
activities. These technologies include those owned or
managed by Rockefeller & Co. and its affiliates as well as
those owned or managed by others, such as financial
intermediaries, pricing vendors, transfer agents, and other
parties used by Rockefeller & Co. to provide services and
maintain its business operations. These technology systems
The Global Family Office and its affiliates operate a program
designed to ensure compliance with economic and trade
sanctions-related obligations applicable directly to its
activities. These sanctions prohibit, among other things,
transactions with and the provision of services to, directly or
indirectly, certain countries,
territories, entities and
individuals. It should be expected that any economic and
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Sanctions-related requirements imposed by governmental or
regulatory authorities can be complex, changing, conflicting,
unclear or subject to opaque, changing or conflicting
guidance. Accordingly, the Global Family Office may take
or refrain from taking action it determines appropriate to
comply with applicable law and its related policies and
procedures even though it turns out that doing so was not
required or appropriate.
21. Coronavirus and Pandemic Outbreak Risks
trade sanctions, and the application by the firm of its
compliance program, will restrict or limit a Client’s
investment activities, can require the firm to cause a Client
to sell its position in an investment at an inopportune time or
when the firm would otherwise not have done so, and
preclude the firm from selling a Client’s position in
investment when the firm would otherwise wish to do so.
The application of sanctions may also have significant
adverse impacts on the valuation and liquidity of a Client’s
investments to the extent such investments are related to the
sanctioned entities or individuals, potentially rendering
specific investment illiquid or worthless.
laws
in
the U.S. and other
Additionally, sanction
jurisdictions or other governmental action may significantly
restrict the firm and its Clients from investing or continuing
to hold an investment in, or transacting with or in certain
countries, individuals, and companies, including, among
other things, transactions with, and the provision of services
to certain foreign countries, territories, in entities and
individuals. The U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (the
“FCPA”) and other anti-corruption laws and regulations, as
well as anti-boycott regulations, may also apply to, and
restrict the activities of the firm and its Clients.
the extent such
impacted personnel
The global outbreak of the 2019 novel coronavirus
(“COVID-19”), together with resulting voluntary and U.S.
federal and state and non-U.S. governmental actions,
including, without limitation, mandatory business closures,
public gathering limitations, restrictions on travel and
quarantines, has meaningfully disrupted the global economy
and markets. COVID-19 has and is expected to continue to
have ongoing material adverse effects across many, if not all,
aspects of the regional, national, and global economy. In
particular, the COVID-19 outbreak has already, and will
continue to, adversely affect companies and markets
globally. Furthermore, the Global Family Office’s ability to
operate effectively, including the ability of its personnel or
its service providers and other contractors to function,
communicate and travel to the extent necessary to carry out
clients’ investment strategies and objectives and the Global
Family Office’s business and to satisfy its obligations to
clients and pursuant to applicable law, has been, and will
continue to be, impaired. The spread of COVID-19 among
the Global Family Office’s personnel and its service
providers would also significantly affect RGIM’s ability to
properly furnish advisory services to its clients (particularly
include key
to
investment professionals or other members of senior
management), which could result in a temporary or
permanent suspension of a client’s investment activities or
operations. The full effects, duration and costs of the
COVID-19 pandemic are impossible to predict, and the
circumstances surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic will
continue to evolve.
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If the Global Family Office determines that a Client is
subject to trade, economic or other sanctions imposed by a
governmental or regulatory authority, the firm will take such
actions as it determines appropriate to comply with
applicable law and its related policies and procedures. These
actions may include, without limitation, (i) blocking or
freezing Client accounts or Client investments, (ii) where
permitted or required by the applicable sanctions law,
requiring a Client to redeem or withdraw from the vehicle,
and delaying the payment of any redemption or withdrawal
proceeds, without interest, until such time as such payment
is permitted under applicable law, (iii) excluding an Client
in a pooled investment vehicle from allocations of net capital
appreciation and net capital depreciation and distributions
made to other Clients, (iv) ceasing further dealings with such
Client’s interest until such sanctions are lifted or a license is
obtained under applicable law to continue dealings, and (v)
excluding a Client in a pooled investment vehicle from
voting on matters on which investors are entitled to vote, and
excluding the net asset value of such investor’s interest in
the pooled investment vehicle for purposes of determining
the investors entitled to vote on or required to take any action
in respect of the pooled investment vehicle.
This list of risk factors does not purport to be a complete
enumeration or explanation of the risks involved in
connection with the firm’s investment offerings or the
management of client accounts. In addition, prospective
clients should be aware that, as a client’s investment
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C. Material Relationships or Arrangements with
portfolio develops and changes over time, the account may
be subject to additional and different risks.
Industry Participants
ITEM 9: DISCIPLINARY INFORMATION
Rockefeller & Co. is an indirect, wholly owned subsidiary
of Rockefeller Capital Management LP (“RCM”), a leading
independent financial services firm offering family office,
wealth management, asset management and strategic
advisory services
to ultra-high and high-net worth
individuals, families, institutions, and corporations.
Within the last ten years, there have not been any material
legal or disciplinary events involving the advisory business
of Rockefeller & Co. or its management persons. Additional
information about Rockefeller & Co. and its advisory
affiliates is contained in Part 1 of Rockefeller & Co.’s Form
ADV.
ITEM 10: OTHER FINANCIAL INDUSTRY
ACTIVITIES AND AFFILIATION
A. Broker-Dealer Registration Status
RCM’s operating subsidiaries include: Rockefeller & Co., an
investment adviser registered with the SEC providing
investment advisory and family office services through its
Global Family Office division and asset management
services through its RGIM division; RAM International, a
UK limited company performing non-US distribution and
investor servicing activities
for RGIM; Rockefeller
Financial LLC, a broker-dealer and investment adviser
registered with
the SEC providing private wealth
management services, securities services and strategic
advice; RTC NA, a national trust bank and RTC Delaware, a
Delaware limited purpose trust company, both of which
provide fiduciary services acting either as a trustee, co-
trustee, executor, co-executor, or as a fiduciary or agent for
other fiduciary relationships; and RCM Insurance Services,
an insurance agency licensed in the state of Delaware that
provides access to a broad range of personal insurance
expertise and services through numerous national providers
to enable effective estate planning, asset protection or other
key wealth management planning strategies and priorities.
The Global Family Office is a division of Rockefeller & Co.,
an investment adviser registered with the SEC. Rockefeller
& Co. is not a registered broker dealer, and a trade name used
to describe the wealth management offering at our affiliate,
Rockefeller Financial, LLC, a broker-dealer and registered
investment adviser. Certain Private Advisors of the Global
Family Office are Registered Representatives of its affiliate
Rockefeller Financial, a broker-dealer registered with the
SEC and a member of FINRA. In its capacity as a broker-
dealer, Rockefeller Financial engages in the sale of
securities, including, but not limited to: stocks, bonds,
government and municipal securities, options, mutual funds,
alternative investment vehicles, variable insurance products
and other types of securities for its clients. Rockefeller
Financial effects these securities transactions for customers,
a portion of which is typically used to compensate the
Registered Representative involved in the transaction.
Certain directors, officers and employees of Rockefeller &
Co. are associated with affiliates of the firm, including
Rockefeller Financial, RAM International, RTC NA, RTC
Delaware, and RCM Insurance Services.
B. Futures Commission Merchant, Commodity Pool
Operator, or Commodity Trading Advisor
Registration Status
for-profit businesses,
including
Directors, officers and employees of Rockefeller & Co. and
its affiliates may serve as non-executive directors or advisors
of
financial service
companies that provide services to Rockefeller & Co. and its
affiliates and/or to clients of Rockefeller & Co. Rockefeller
& Co. has adopted procedures and practices in seeking to
mitigate conflicts of interest that may result from such
outside business affiliations
Neither Rockefeller & Co. nor any of its management
persons are registered or have an application pending to
register as a futures commission merchant, commodity pool
operator, commodity trading adviser, or as a registered
representative or an associated person of any of the
foregoing entities at this time.
The President and Chief Executive Officer of Rockefeller &.
Co.’s parent company, Rockefeller Capital Management
(“RCM”), Gregory J. Fleming (the “RCM CEO”), serves as
a member of the Board of Directors (“Board”) of BlackRock,
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Inc. (“BlackRock”). BlackRock is a leading global provider
of investment, advisory, and risk management solutions
whose investment products and services are offered and sold
by RCM to, and on behalf of, RCM clients.
The RCM CEO’s service on the BlackRock Board gives rise
to a conflict of interest with respect to the Firm’s decision to
select or recommend BlackRock products to clients. To
manage and mitigate this conflict, we maintain a product
selection, due diligence, and manager approval process that
does not include the RCM CEO; we do not offer preferential
treatment to BlackRock products in our investment selection
process; and we disclose this relationship to clients in our
Form ADV and relevant marketing materials.
with Breakout Capital, an investment management firm
established by Mr. Sharma. Under this arrangement,
Rockefeller Financial acts as a placement agent to Breakout
Capital investment vehicles and is compensated for such
capital raising activities. In addition, Rockefeller & Co.
provides certain human resources support services to
Breakout Capital for which it is also compensated. Neither
Rockefeller & Co. nor its affiliates (including Rockefeller
Financial) have any investment, trading authority or risk
management responsibility for Breakout Capital or its
investment vehicles. In connection with its strategic
partnership, Rockefeller & Co. or an affiliate receives a share
of management fees and incentive allocations earned by
Breakout Capital from its investment vehicles, based on
Breakout Capital achieving certain milestones.
(“IGM
The Global Family Office may from time to time
recommend to eligible clients private funds and other
investment vehicles sponsored by certain investment firms
that are equity owners of RCM, including Viking (“Viking
Investment Vehicles”), Breakout Capital
(“Breakout
Investment Vehicles”), IGM and its affiliates including
Northleaf Capital Partners Ltd.
Investment
Vehicles”), and Abrams Capital (collectively “Related Party
Investment Vehicles”). As Viking, IGM and Abrams Capital
hold interests in RCM and Rockefeller & Co. has a strategic
partnership with Breakout Capital (see Item 4 and Item 10),
a conflict of interest exists when clients of the Global Family
Office invest in Related Party Investment Vehicles because
such investments provide a financial benefit to Viking, IGM,
Breakout Capital, Abrams Capital and their respective
affiliates. RCM may also benefit from Global Family Office
clients’ investments in Related Party Investment Vehicles to
the extent that any such vehicles provide financial support to
RCM or pay compensation to the Global Family Office or
Rockefeller Financial.
Rockefeller & Co. is indirectly controlled by Viking Global
Investors LP (“Viking”) through its indirect ownership of the
voting securities of Rockefeller Capital Management
General Partner, L.L.C. (“Rockefeller Capital Management
GP”), the general partner of RCM, of which Rockefeller &
Co. is an indirect wholly owned subsidiary. Viking is
registered with the SEC as an investment adviser under the
Advisers Act. No employee, officer, director, investment
committee member or other representative of Viking or any
of its controlled affiliates will be a member of any
investment committees of Rockefeller & Co. or of
Rockefeller Capital Management GP. Additionally,
directors, officers, employees, or other representatives of
Rockefeller Capital Management GP or any of its controlled
affiliates are generally prohibited from discussing any
information regarding Rockefeller & Co.’s portfolio
investment activities in the presence of any employee,
officer, director, investment committee member or other
representative of Viking or any of its controlled affiliates
(other than Rockefeller Capital Management GP or any of its
controlled affiliates). Rockefeller & Co. does not anticipate
any material conflicts with any clients in light of Viking’s
indirect control of Rockefeller & Co. In the event that any
conflicts actually arise, Rockefeller & Co. will resolve such
conflicts in a fair and equitable manner.
Offerings of Affiliated Investment Products and Related
Party Investment Vehicles may be limited in size and, to the
extent they cannot be offered to all clients, the Global Family
Office and its affiliates have policies in place to determine
the allocation of investment opportunities, and will generally
allocate such investments among interested clients pro rata
based on the size of each clients’ requested participation.
Ruchir Sharma joined Rockefeller & Co. in February 2022
as Managing Director and Chairman of Rockefeller
International, a role in which he will serve as a global brand
ambassador for, and advisor to, the firm and a resource to the
firm’s Global Family Office advisors and clients. Mr.
Sharma will not act as a Private Advisor or Portfolio
Manager to clients of the Global Family Office or RGIM.
Rockefeller & Co. has entered into a strategic partnership
Rockefeller Financial will act as placement agent to Related
Party Investment Vehicles, and will be compensated for such
capital raising activities. This compensation creates an
incentive for the Global Family Office to recommend these
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investments to clients. Clients are under no obligation to
subscribe to Related Party Investment Vehicles.
vehicles for which the Rockefeller Financial acts as
placement agent, the Global Family Office and its affiliates
typically receives both the placement fee and an advisory fee
on the client assets invested in such vehicle.
Additional rules and restrictions may apply when Related
Party Investment Vehicles and certain third-party investment
vehicles to which Rockefeller Financial serves as a
placement agent are offered to Retirement Plans.
Viking, IGM, Abrams Capital and Breakout Capital do not
have any obligation to make available to Rockefeller & Co.
any information regarding their respective investment
activities, strategies, or views. As a result, Rockefeller & Co.
may make investment decisions for clients that differ from
those made by Viking, IGW, Abrams Capital and Breakout
Capital.
ITEM 11: CODE OF ETHICS; PERSONAL
TRADING; CONFLICTS OF INTEREST
A. Code of Ethics
Rockefeller & Co.’s Code of Ethics (the “Code”) is intended
to fulfill the firm's obligations under Rule 204A-1 of the
Advisers Act and, with respect to RGIM, its obligations
under Rule 17j-1 under the Investment Company Act of
1940, as amended, (“Investment Company Act”)
in
connection with
investment advisory services RGIM
provides to registered investment companies, and to set forth
standards of conduct and to require compliance with the
federal securities laws.
Rockefeller Financial and its affiliates have entered into
marketing support or distribution services fee arrangements
with a number of third-party managers and funds, including
but not limited to mutual funds, ETFs, and alternative
investment funds. Under these arrangements, Rockefeller
Financial or its affiliates will receive compensation from the
third-party managers or funds. In the case of alternative
investments, you should expect that this compensation
includes an upfront placement fee based on the assets raised
and/or a percentage of asset under management; the source
of those fees will typically be from the third-party manager’s
own resources and/or a share in the investment management
and/or performance fees paid to the third-party managers by
investors in a fund. This creates a conflict of interest for the
Global Family Office, as it will have an incentive to
recommend investments for which it or an affiliate receives
compensation even when another investment better fits a
client’s portfolio and investment objectives.
The purpose of the Code is to prohibit the firm’s employees,
supervisors, and officers (collectively, the “Employees”)
from engaging in securities transactions or activities that
involve a material conflict of interest, possible diversion of
a corporate opportunity, or the appearance of impropriety.
Rockefeller & Co. personnel and their families and
households may purchase investments for their own
accounts, including the same investments as may be
purchased or sold for clients, subject to the terms of the
Code. Rockefeller & Co. is required to use reasonable
supervision to detect and prevent violations of the Code by
Employees.
The Code generally operates to protect against conflicts of
interest either by subjecting Employee activities to specified
limitations (including pre-approval requirements) or by
prohibiting certain activities. Key provisions of the Code
include:
Rockefeller Financial, in its capacity as a registered broker-
dealer, will typically act as a placement agent for Related
Party Investment Vehicles and certain third-party investment
vehicles. Acting as placement agent, Rockefeller Financial
performs investment due diligence on Related Party
Investment Vehicles and those third-party investment
vehicles and seeks to identify investors, including clients of
Rockefeller Financial and its affiliates, for whom the
vehicles are suitable
investments. In certain cases,
opportunities to act as placement agent can be expected to
be identified by persons affiliated with Rockefeller Financial
and its affiliates who are also affiliated with the sponsor of
third-party
the Related Party Investment Vehicle or
investment vehicle. Rockefeller Financial typically receives
transaction-based compensation (e.g., a placement fee) from
the sponsor of these investments in connection with acting
as placement agent. With respect to advisory clients of the
Global Family Office who invest in a Related Party
investment
Investment Vehicle or certain
third-party
• The requirement for certain Employees, because of
their potential access to non-public information, to
obtain prior written approval or provide pre-trade
notification before executing certain securities
transactions for their personal securities accounts;
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restrictions on personal securities
certain
applicable
activities
to
• Additional
transaction
Employees;
line-ups;
services,
• Requirements for certain Employees to provide
initial and annual reports of holdings in their
personal Employee securities accounts, along with
transaction information in those accounts; and
• Additional requirements for pre-clearance of other
activities including, but not limited to, outside
business activities, gifts and entertainment, and
marketing and promotional activities.
Rockefeller & Co. will provide a copy of the Code to any
client or prospective client upon request.
B. Insider Trading Policy
Rockefeller & Co., its staff or its affiliates. As further
described in the section above, and in the Rockefeller
Financial LLC Wrap Brochure for clients utilizing the
RPWA Program, conflicts may result when Rockefeller &
Co. or an affiliate: (1) invests in an investment product, such
as a mutual fund, exchange traded fund, alternative
investment fund, or other investment product for which it or
its affiliate provides investment management services; (2)
has discretion in the selection of investment programs, asset
mixes, active/passive investment blends, and/or investment
manager
including
(3) obtains
administration, custody, transfer agency, placement agent,
trade execution, trust services and trade clearing, from an
affiliate; (4) receives payment as a result of purchasing an
investment product or using an investment product for client
accounts; or (5) receives payment from third parties for
providing services with respect to investment products
purchased for client accounts or when referring clients to
third party service providers who pay referral fees to
Rockefeller & Co. or its affiliates. Other conflicts of interest
may also result from, but are not limited to, relationships that
Rockefeller & Co. has with other clients or when Rockefeller
& Co. acts for its own account.
The following is a non-exhaustive discussion of specific
conflicts that we have identified.
1. Affiliated Investment Products
Rockefeller & Co.’s Insider Trading Policy includes
procedures
to prevent misuse of material nonpublic
information. Rockefeller & Co. and its related persons may,
from time to time, come into possession of material
nonpublic and other confidential information which, if
disclosed, might affect an investor’s decision to buy, sell, or
hold a security. Under applicable law, Rockefeller & Co. and
such persons may be prohibited from improperly disclosing
or using such information for their benefit or for the benefit
of any other person, regardless of whether such person is an
advisory client. Accordingly, should Rockefeller & Co.
come into possession of material non-public or other
confidential information with respect to any issuer, it may be
prohibited from communicating such information to, or
using such information for the benefit of, its clients, and will
have no obligation to do so when following policies and
procedures designed to comply with applicable law,
including Section 204A of the Advisers Act.
C. Conflicts of Interest
fee
and
the
Conflicts of interest are inherent in large diversified financial
services companies such as RCM and may exist when there
is an incentive to serve one’s own interest at the expense of
another’s interest. This section, along with the above
disclosure, summarizes conflicts of interest the Global
Family Office has identified in connection with its
management of client accounts.
The Global Family Office makes available to clients certain
Affiliated Investment Products. Use of Affiliated Investment
Products by clients raises a conflict of interest because it
results in increased revenue, in the aggregate, to Rockefeller
& Co. and its affiliates who provide the Affiliated
Investment Products, and results in additional fees for
Rockefeller & Co. For example, RGIM’s multi-asset class
strategies include allocations to Affiliated Investment
Products. In some cases, Affiliated Investment Products held
in multi-asset class portfolios are subject to RGIM’s
investment management
investment
management fees charged by the Affiliated Investment
Products. The inclusion of RGIM investment strategies in
client portfolios provides other benefits to RGIM such as
increasing
the firm’s assets under management and
increasing the amount of client brokerage commissions
RGIM can use to acquire research under soft dollar
arrangements.
At a high level, conflicts of interest may arise whenever
Rockefeller & Co. has an economic or other incentive in its
management of a client account to act in a way that benefits
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Depending on the strategy, fund or other investment
vehicles, similar offerings managed by or offered through
unaffiliated third-parties are often available and, if so, can
charge different fees, and the Global Family Office has a
conflict of interest to recommend, or encourage you to invest
in Affiliated Investment Products because the Global Family
Office (and its affiliates) can retain more total revenue than
when you invest in an unaffiliated third-party offering
through the platform.
share fairly in available investment opportunities. However,
because certain types of investments may not be appropriate
for all clients, not all clients will be offered the opportunity
to invest and not all of those who are offered the opportunity
to invest will choose to do so. Rockefeller & Co. receives
advisory fees from these Affiliated Funds and in the case of
certain Affiliated Funds that are hedge funds and private
equity/venture capital fund, may also receive performance-
based compensation from such Affiliated Funds. Clients are
under no obligation to invest in Affiliated Funds.
2. Affiliated Service Providers
A conflict of interest exists in retaining affiliated service
providers because, in light of our interest in these affiliated
service providers, we have an incentive to favor the retention
of affiliates even if a better price and/or quality of service
could be obtained from another person. One such affiliate is
Rockefeller Financial, which provides strategic advisory
services with respect to business transactions. Private
Advisors are financially incentivized to introduce clients to
deal opportunities made available through Rockefeller
Financial. RTC NA and RTC Delaware, affiliated trust
companies, also provide services to our clients, including
after we recommend those services. Clients are under no
obligation to use affiliated service providers.
3. Rockefeller Retirement Plan Investment Services
This is true even where RGIM waives its management fees,
as in the case of certain RGIM fixed income strategies which
are made available to Global Family Office clients,
including on a non-discretionary basis to clients investing
IRA and other retirement account assets (collectively,
“retirement account assets”), through the RPWA Program.
Unlike third-party managers available on the RPWA
Program, which typically charge management fees for fixed
income strategies that range from approximately 2 to 50
basis points on client assets, under this program RGIM does
not charge separate management fees for client assets
invested through this program. However, while a client’s
overall fees can be lower when selecting a RGIM fixed
income strategy due to the lack of the RGIM management
fee, the Global Family Office’s revenue from the client’s
investment in the RGIM fixed income strategy can be greater
than if the client had invested in a third-party fixed income
strategy on the RPWA Program, as the Global Family Office
typically charges a higher advisory fee with respect to those
RGIM fixed income strategies, which it shares with Private
Advisors covering the client’s account. Therefore, the
Global Family Office, its affiliates and/or representatives are
incentivized to offer or promote RGIM fixed come strategies
to clients investing retirement account assets, which is a
conflict of interest.
incentive
to
is not compensated
for
the
RGIM investment management strategies are often made
available through multiple investment vehicles such as
separately managed accounts, private funds, registered
investment companies, non-U.S. investment funds and
model delivery programs. The fees payable to RGIM will
often vary depending on the choice of vehicle utilized to
access a strategy. As a consequence, the Global Family
Office has an incentive to recommend investment vehicles
that pay higher fees to RGIM.
(“Empower”) provides
Empower Retirement LLC
technology, administrative and recordkeeping services in
connection with Rockefeller’s Discretionary Investment
Advisory Services program, RCM Retirement Plan
Fiduciary Manager, offered to retirement plan sponsor
clients, which are described in Item 4, above. Empower is a
wholly-owned subsidiary of Great-West Lifeco Inc., which,
along with IGM, is a member of the Power Corporation of
Canada group of companies. Accordingly, our affiliate
Rockefeller Financial has an
introduce
retirement plan sponsors seeking Discretionary Investment
Advisory Services to Empower. To mitigate this conflict,
Empower
technology,
recordkeeping services Empower
administrative and
provides in connection with the Discretionary Investment
Advisory Services.
Rockefeller & Co. makes use of Affiliated Funds as a
convenient means to diversify its clients’ assets and to
manage them such that eligible and participating clients
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a. Cash Sweeps
4. Rockefeller Private Wealth Advisory Program
leverages
The Global Family Office generally recommends that new
client relationships obtain its investment advice through use
of the RPWA Program sponsored by its affiliate Rockefeller
Financial. Rockefeller Financial has invested, and continues
to invest, significant resources to expand and enhance the
capabilities and features of the RPWA Program, including
the investment options and services available to clients.
When clients use the RPWA Program, the Global Family
Office benefits because
the platform’s
it
capabilities, infrastructure and technology when providing
services to its clients.
Rockefeller Financial will receive revenue from NFS on
Global Family Office client assets invested in deposits
through the Sweep Program. Most US-domiciled accounts
will sweep into an FDIC-insured bank deposit sweep (the
“Bank Deposit Sweep Program” or “BDSP”). Certain other
types of accounts (e.g., Keogh (HR-10) plans, ERISA Plans)
where Rockefeller & Co. acts as fiduciary and non-U.S.
domiciled accounts will sweep into money market mutual
funds. Rockefeller Financial, in its capacity as broker-dealer,
determines which cash sweep options will be made available
to clients under the RPWA Program, and will choose from a
menu of cash sweep programs made available to it by NFS,
and may (a) make changes to the terms and conditions of the
Sweep Program or the product(s) available thereunder; (b)
change, add or delete products available through the Sweep
Program; or (c) change the client's investment through the
Sweep Program from one product to another upon thirty (30)
calendar days’ written notice prior to such changes.
Over any given period, the interest rate on the BDSP may
not be the highest rates available and will likely be lower
than the rates of return on non-FDIC insured money market
sweep vehicles or on bank account deposits offered by other
financial services firms. Sweep Program services should not
be viewed as a long-term investment option. If you desire, as
part of an investment strategy or otherwise, to maintain a
cash position in your account for other than a short period of
time and/or are seeking the highest yields currently available
in the market for your cash balances, contact your Private
Advisor to discuss investment options that may be better
suited to your objectives.
receives
a
Rockefeller Financial benefits financially through the
receipt of greater revenues when clients of the Global Family
Office use the RPWA Program. Rockefeller Financial
receives a Relationship Fee and a Platform Fee from
advisory accounts that utilize the RPWA Program, excluding
Title 1 ERISA type accounts. It has revenue sharing
arrangements in place with certain investment managers that
are available on the RPWA Program (see “Third Party
Investment Manager and Revenue Sharing” below) and
receives a share of the revenue generated when clients use
certain platform services such as the margin and cash sweep
programs. Further, the fees Rockefeller Financial pays to its
clearing firm, National Financial Services, LLC (“NFS”),
have been negotiated such that the fee rates charged decrease
as the amount of business Rockefeller Financial refers to
NFS increases, including business from the client accounts
the Global Family Office manages in the program. Should
Rockefeller Financial not hit certain pre-agreed thresholds,
the fees charged by NFS to Rockefeller Financial may
increase. Rockefeller Financial also receives rebates or
service credits on certain charges from NFS based on the
number of client accounts and/or mutual fund positions and
the amount and/or type of assets in accounts including
program accounts, and additional financial benefits.
Rockefeller Financial
conference
also
sponsorship credit from NFS paid once every two years.
Such rebates or service credits will not be shared with or
otherwise benefit clients. As a result, the firm has an
incentive for clients to maintain accounts at NFS. This
conflict of interest, however, is mitigated by the fact that fee
rebates are paid directly to the firm by NFS and are not
shared with Private Advisors.
Currently, Rockefeller Financial determines the yields
clients receive on deposits held in the BDSP. Therefore, it is
important for you to understand that the yield you receive on
the assets in the BDSP on accounts through Rockefeller
Financial will differ from, and may be lower than, the yield
you receive on deposits in bank deposit programs offered by
other firms. Given that Rockefeller Financial determines the
BDSP revenue percentage it will receive and the amount
enrolled clients receive via interest payments on their
deposits, each client should consider this revenue to
Rockefeller Financial when evaluating the total fees and
compensation received by the Global Family Office and its
affiliates. Depending on the interest rate environment and
the level of enrolled client deposits, Rockefeller Financial’s
BDSP revenue can increase or decrease. Those revenues can
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lead to net profits for Rockefeller Financial that can exceed
the aggregate amounts paid to clients on their BDSP deposits
and which Rockefeller Financial will retain, thereby
providing a benefit to Rockefeller Financial and a financial
incentive to offer the BDSP and to allocate a greater portion
of account assets to cash. The applicable interest rates paid
on deposits in the BDSP are determined based on prevailing
economic and business conditions, evaluated periodically
and subject to change at any time.
borrow those funds), and Private Advisors generally share in
a portion of this compensation attributable to their clients’
margin accounts. The receipt of such compensation creates
an incentive for the Global Family Office and its Private
Advisors to recommend use of the NFS Margin Program to
clients. Clients should refer to the “Margin and Lending
Services” section in the Rockefeller Financial Wrap Fee
Brochure further details on the NFS Margin Program,
including the current standard margin rates, risks related to
the use of margin and conflicts of interest related to this
service.
Rockefeller Financial can change or discontinue the BDSP
at any time in our sole discretion. We will notify you of
material changes to the BDSP in advance in writing.
d. Wrap Fees
Clients should refer to the “Cash Sweep Services” section in
the Rockefeller Financial Wrap Fee Brochure, which
provides further details on the Cash Sweep Program,
including enhanced disclosure in respect of available sweep
offerings, features and conflicts of interest related to this
service.
b. Payments for Order Flow
Rockefeller Financial routes equity securities and equity
options orders to its clearing firm, NFS, pursuant to a fully
disclosed clearing arrangement. NFS selects the exchanges
or broker-dealers for execution on behalf of Rockefeller
Financial. Some of the exchanges or broker-dealers may
provide payments to NFS depending upon the characteristics
of the order and any subsequent execution. However, other
than the clearing arrangement with NFS, Rockefeller
Financial does not have any arrangement with the execution
venues and Rockefeller Financial does not receive any
payment for order flow from NFS or the execution venues.
NFS is responsible for disclosing any payment for order flow
arrangements separately to customers, including those that
Rockefeller Financial introduces to NFS.
Clients should be aware, however, that by participating in a
wrap fee program, such as the RPWA Program, clients may
ultimately pay more or less than they would have otherwise
through a non-wrap fee program that may charge lower
advisory fees but passes on custody, trade execution and
other costs directly to the client, or than if they had
purchased services similar to those offered through the
RPWA Program separately. Clients are also able to invest
directly in many of the same investments, or in investments
similar to those made available through the RPWA Program
without the investment advisory services provided by the
Global Family Office. Clients should carefully review all
fees that may be charged through the RPWA Program and
assess the benefits of enrolling in a wrap fee program before
making the decision to make an investment through the
RPWA Program. Private Advisors have a financial incentive
to recommend that Client’s utilize the RPWA Program over
the Legacy Platform and other Permitted Arrangements
because it may increase the revenue to the Global Family
Office and its affiliates generated from their clients, which
can increase the compensation received by Private Advisors
as described in Item 5 above.
c. Margin
Clients should refer to the Wrap Brochure for more
comprehensive disclosures on conflicts of interest with
respect to use of RPWA Program.
5. Legacy Platform and Permitted Arrangements
To the extent Global Family Office clients utilize margin in
their brokerage accounts at National Financial Services (the
“NFS Margin Program”), Rockefeller Financial and the
client’s Private Advisor also are compensated through a
portion of the revenue generated from such arrangements.
Rockefeller Financial receives from NFS a percentage of the
margin rate charged to clients on borrowed funds (generally
the difference between the cost of funds that NFS charges to
Rockefeller and the applicable rates charged to clients who
Clients and who receive advisory services from Global
Family Office under the Legacy Platform and Permitted
Arrangements engage a third-party broker-dealer or bank
custodian acceptable to the Global Family Office, such as
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third-party managers
to
including providing
whereby such managers pay the firm additional fees
(including part of their revenues) and marketing support
compensation in connection with client investments in the
products managed by
.
these
Depending on the agreement with the manager, Rockefeller
Financial’s compensation from the manager is based on: (1)
a percentage of the fund’s management fees or sales
calculated using the average of the firm’s client assets
invested with the manager during the relevant period and/or
(2) a flat fee (representing a portion of the manager’s fee)
paid to the firm. In some arrangements, additional or
increased flat fee payments may be made based on assets or
new business in the third-party manager’s investment
products reaching certain levels. As part of its obligations
under these revenue sharing arrangements, Rockefeller
Financial provides services and support relating to the
offering, marketing or distribution of each applicable
manager’s products that is not made available to other
managers,
the manager with
information and reports relating to Rockefeller Financial and
the manager’s products available to Rockefeller Financial
clients, as well as strategic engagement and access to our
Private Advisors, field leadership and other personnel,
including meetings and other communications.
to
independent
exclusively
in
for providing
FNZ Trust Company LLC (“FNZ”), JP Morgan Private Bank
(“JP Morgan”), Northern Trust, and Charles Schwab & Co.,
Inc. (“Schwab”). Rockefeller & Co. has certain business
arrangements in place with these custodians to enable the
firm to provide advisory services to clients in a more
efficient and cost-effective manner. For example,
Rockefeller & Co. has established data feeds and/or
electronic access arrangements
facilitate account
transactions and the administration and servicing of client
accounts. The firm also has in place with FNZ and JP
Morgan omnibus trading arrangements which enable it to
trade across client accounts more efficiently in U.S. and non-
U.S. markets. Schwab is used primarily by legacy clients of
Private Advisors that joined the Global Family Office from
other firms. Schwab provides Rockefeller & Co. with access
to their respective online institutional platforms including
investment research and market data and make available
various support services which benefit the Global Family
Office. The firm and its clients who utilize Schwab and
certain other firms receive certain fee waivers and discounts
which are tied to client asset levels and other factors. We do
not consider these services to be soft dollar arrangements as
the services provided to Rockefeller & Co. are generally
investment advisers on an
available
unsolicited basis at no charge to them. These arrangements
create conflicts between the Global Family Office and its
clients because the firm benefits when clients use one of
these custodians instead other unaffiliated custodians. We
believe this conflict is mitigated because the fees charged by
these custodians are competitive in the marketplace.
Information about
the fees charged by unaffiliated
custodians is available in their custody agreements with
clients.
6. Third Party Investment Managers, Annuity Providers
and Revenue Sharing
Rockefeller Financial also has data program arrangements
with certain third-party managers and annuity providers
whereby such managers/providers pay the firm additional
fees
the
exchange
manager/provider with information and reports relating to
Rockefeller Financial and the manager’s products available
to Rockefeller Financial clients. Rockefeller Financial’s
compensation from the manager/provider is either based on
a percentage of the fund’s management fees calculated using
the average of Rockefeller Financial’s client assets invested
with the manager during the relevant period, a flat fee, or a
combination of the two paid to Rockefeller Financial. The
Global Family Office does not share personally identifiable
or client specific information in connection with this
program.
When recommending third-party investment managers and
funds, or investing funds in discretionary client accounts into
third party managed accounts and funds, the Global Family
Office will generally choose an investment manager or fund
that has been approved for client use by either the Global
Family Office or Rockefeller Financial.
In addition, certain mutual fund companies and other
product sponsors pay the Firm fees in order to participate in
Firm sponsored conferences and events whereby they are
able to provide educational and training content and market
new products and/or services to the Firm and PAs.
Under these arrangements, Rockefeller Financial or its
affiliates will receive compensation from the third-party
Rockefeller Financial has arrangements with certain third-
party managers, including managers of separately managed
accounts, fund strategist portfolios, mutual funds, and ETFs,
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to
the
third-party
by disclosing them to you and by establishing policies and
procedures, and risk-based supervision to review these
securities recommendations. You should be aware that the
fees and commissions you pay for an IRA likely will be
higher than those you pay through your plan, and there can
be other fees, including IRA termination fees.
investment managers and funds. In the case of alternative
investments, you should expect that this compensation
includes an upfront placement fee based on the assets raised
and/or a share in the investment management and/or
investment
performance fees paid
managers by clients. This additional compensation creates
an incentive for the Global Family Office to make available
and recommend to clients third-party investment managers
and investment products that pay marketing support
compensation to, or that share a larger portion of their
management fees with, or enter into revenue sharing
arrangements with Rockefeller Financial, and to invest client
funds in discretionary accounts into investment products
managed by these managers.
If
the Global Family Office or a Private Advisor
recommends that you move assets from an IRA at another
financial institution to Rockefeller Financial’s custodian or
another custodian, he or she is required to consider, based on
the information you provide, whether you will be giving up
certain investment-related benefits at the other financial
institution, such as the effects of breakpoints, rights of
accumulation, and index annuity caps, and has determined
that the recommendation is in your best interest, including,
as applicable, for one or more of these reasons:
• Greater services and/or other benefits (including
holistic advice and planning) can be achieved with
the Rockefeller IRA;
Some third-party investment managers and funds may
decline to pay revenue sharing at the levels requested by
Rockefeller Financial or at all, which presents a financial
disincentive for us to promote the sale of those investment
products that do not pay us at the requested levels. You
should not expect that revenue sharing compensation will be
rebated or credited to our clients. Private Advisors of the
Global Family Office do not receive any portion of this
revenue.
• Consolidation of assets and availability of
consolidated statements and performance reports
would be beneficial to you; and
• The costs associated with Rockefeller IRA are
7. Third Party Service Providers
justified by these services and benefits.
9. Private Advisor Compensation
The Global Family Office has a conflict of interest
associated with utilizing third party providers who pay it
commissions and fees (as discussed above) because it has a
financial incentive to select third party providers based on
these payments. The Global Family Office seeks to mitigate
these conflicts of interests by not providing Private Advisors
a direct share of any such referral payments; however,
Private Advisors benefit financially from referral fees
received by the firm to the extent client revenue generation
is a factor considered in their compensation arrangements
including discretionary bonus awards.
The Global Family Office’s compensation arrangements
with Private Advisors create a financial incentive for them to
seek to increase the overall revenue the Global Family Office
and its affiliates receive from their clients. Please refer to
Item 5 - Compensation of Private Advisors, for a description
of these compensation arrangements and conflicts of interest
that arise from them. Private Advisors do not receive
compensation on any portion of the Platform Fee or
Relationship Fee.
8. IRA Rollovers
10. Brokerage Practices
If you roll over assets from an employer-sponsored
retirement plan, such as a 401(k) plan, into an IRA managed
by the Global Family Office, we and your Private Advisor
will earn compensation on those assets, for example, through
client fees based on the assets in your account and third-party
payments disclosed in this Brochure. This creates an
incentive for us to recommend and encourage you to roll
over assets from your plan to us. We mitigate these conflicts
Private Advisors who are registered representatives of
Rockefeller Financial from time to time will recommend that
clients buy or sell securities or investment products in which
Rockefeller Financial, its affiliates and their respective
officers, directors, employees, or registered representatives,
have a financial interest or may themselves purchase or sell.
Clients should be aware that compensation earned by
Rockefeller Financial and its registered representatives
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Rockefeller Financial is acting as placement agent and we
evaluate the suitability of prospective investors for such
third-party investment vehicles. The firm further maintains a
supervisory system that includes surveillance reviews,
conducting periodic supervisory visits and compliance
inspections and audits. This conflict of interest is further
mitigated by fiduciary obligations and regulatory and
compliance rules and procedures to which Rockefeller
Financial and the Private Advisors are subject. Please refer
to Item 10 – Other Financial Industry Activities and
Affiliations above.
12. Intercompany Arrangements
varies by product and by issuer. Therefore, Rockefeller
Financial and its registered representatives have a conflict of
interest as they may receive more compensation for selling
certain products issued by an affiliated company than for
selling certain products issued by companies that are not
affiliated with the firm. These Private Advisors also receive
commissions
in connection with client brokerage
transactions or are eligible to receive an annual discretionary
bonus which considers revenues generated by their clients.
This compensation structure creates an incentive for Private
Advisors who are registered representatives of Rockefeller
Financial to recommend investments in brokerage accounts
that may result in greater compensation than would be the
case if held in an advisory account or to recommend that you
trade frequently in a brokerage account. It also creates an
incentive for the Private Advisor to recommend products and
services for which more compensation would be received,
rather than based on a client’s investment profile or best
interests.
11. Alternative Investments – Placement Fees,
Distribution and Servicing Fees, and Performance
Fees
recommend such
From time to time, Rockefeller & Co. or an affiliate will act
as the General Partner or fund manager of an Affiliated
Fund, interests of which will be offered to clients of the
Global Family Office and Rockefeller Financial. Rockefeller
& Co. or such affiliate will sometimes share a portion of the
fees received they receive with Rockefeller Financial. A
portion of the fee be further shared with Private Advisors
employed by Rockefeller & Co. or Rockefeller Financial.
When this occurs, it creates an incentive for Private Advisors
to
funds over other comparable
opportunities. In such cases, this intercompany arrangement
is explained and disclosed in the offering materials or in a
supplement to such offering materials.
13. Access Fund Fees
In certain circumstances, Rockefeller & Co. or Rockefeller
Financial may commission or use an “access fund” for the
purpose of facilitating individual investor access to an
underlying fund or other investment opportunity. Both the
access fund and the underlying fund impose administrative
or management fees, custodial accounting and other service
fees, other expenses and, in certain cases, performance-
based allocations, all of which will reduce an investor’s
returns.
As a distributor of alternative investments, Rockefeller
Financial can receive an ongoing distribution and/or
servicing fee paid from a fund manager in the form of a fund
manager paid placement fee based on commitments raised.
The placement fee paid to Rockefeller Financial will
generally range from 1.00% to 3.00% but could be up to
4.5% of the total commitments raised. The ongoing annual
investor distribution and/or servicing fee typically ranges
from 0.25% to 1.00% and may or may not be netted out of
the fund’s net asset value. This may vary by fund. In such
cases, Rockefeller Financial enters into a selling agreement
with the fund manager, and the terms of the arrangement
with Rockefeller Financial will be disclosed in the fund
offering materials. Additionally, although Rockefeller
Financial does not directly charge performance-based fees,
as a distributor of alternative investments, Rockefeller
Financial from time to time can receive a portion of the
performance fees charged by the investment advisers to
those funds.
Fees that access fund investors pay to Rockefeller & Co. or
Rockefeller Financial are disclosed in the access fund’s
offering materials and may include the following: annual
access and administration fees, which typically range up to
1.0%, and in certain cases may include a performance-based
allocation, for sourcing and structuring the underlying
investment and managing the access fund; annual trailer
fees, which typically range up to 1.00%, in connection with
Rockefeller Financial’s provision of supplemental services
The payment of placement fees to Rockefeller Financial
creates an incentive for the Global Family Office to
recommend the sponsor’s third-party investment vehicle to
its clients instead of other investment opportunities. To
to clients when
mitigate
this conflict, we disclose
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15. Insurance Products
recordkeeping,
reporting,
and
Insurance products sold by affiliates of the Global Family
Office will result in commissions or other remuneration
being paid to these affiliates, which do not reduce any
compensation otherwise payable to us. In addition, certain
Private Advisors and representatives of our affiliates
(including employees of the Global Family Office and its
other affiliates) who are licensed insurance agents are
compensated for the sale of insurance-related products. This
compensation typically includes a one-time commission for
placing the policy and an annual commission for acting as
agent of record on the policy.
to facilitate and administer its clients’ investments in the
access fund; these services can include oversight of, and
coordination with, the manager of the access fund on
operational,
other
administrative matters in respect of the Rockefeller investors
in the access fund; and one-time upfront investor paid
placement fees, which typically range up to 1.50% of the
subscription amount. In certain access funds, the access and
administration fee and trailer fee may be bundled into a
single fee. These fees may be added to capital commitment
amount or, in other circumstances, deducted from the
commitment amount, and typically mirror the Underlying
Fund’s method of charging fees. Fee rates can vary and in
some cases may be lowered based on meeting particular
breakpoints. The percentage and method of calculating the
above fees is disclosed in the applicable access fund offering
materials. Access fund offerings can be expected to also have
additional expenses, such as legal and accounting fees for
the vehicle, that are passed along to investors.
The firm acts as sub-advisor to certain variable life insurance
and variable annuity products that it recommends to clients
and receives a sub-advisory fee for providing such services.
Under this arrangement, the firm delegates to a Private
Advisor
investment management responsibility for a
particular variable insurance or annuity product and shares a
significant portion of the sub-advisory fee from the product
with such Private Advisor.
Rockefeller Financial shares a portion of the trailer fee and
investor paid placement fee with Private Advisors. In certain
legacy access funds, Private Advisors received a share in
other types of access fund fees. As a result of these
arrangements, Private Advisors have an incentive to
recommend such access funds over other comparable
opportunities.
These arrangements give rise to a conflict of interest in
determining which alternative funds to make available to
clients, and in recommending investments in certain
alternative investments over others.
14. Referral Fees
The above compensation arrangements create an incentive
for the firm and our Private Advisors to recommend
insurance products sold through the firm and its affiliates.
We and our Private Advisors have an incentive to
recommend variable insurance and annuity products that we
sub-advise over third-party products for which we do not
receive a sub-advisory fee. As the compensation payable to
us under sub-advised variable insurance and annuity
products can be more than would be the case had the assets
been managed outside of an insurance or annuity structure
(due to factors such as the commissions we receive on the
product, the sub-advisory fee rate paid by the product
provider and the length of time the assets will remain under
our management in the product), the firm and our Private
Advisors have a further incentive to recommend that clients
utilize sub-advised variable insurance and annuity products
over other types of investment accounts and products for
which we receive less compensation.
16. Cross Trades
In addition, Private Advisors are provided a financial
incentive to introduce private investment opportunities to
Rockefeller Financial and its affiliates. For investment
opportunities that Rockefeller Financial decides to offer for
purchase to its clients, Rockefeller Advisors will typically
receive a finder’s fee of up to 10-15% of the total fees earned
by Rockefeller Financial or
its affiliate. Rockefeller
Financial mitigates these conflicts by disclosing them to you
and by establishing policies, procedures and risk-based
supervision to review product recommendations.
In certain cases, the Global Family Office may cause a client
of the Global Family Office to purchase or sell investments
from another client of the Global Family Office. Such
transactions create conflicts of interest because, by not
exposing such buy and sell transactions to market forces, a
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19. Other Non-Cash Compensation
law. Additionally,
client may not receive the best price otherwise possible, or
we may have an incentive to improve the performance of one
client by selling underperforming assets to another client in
order, for example, to earn fees. We will not effectuate a
cross trade unless the firm believes it is in the best interest
of all clients involved, if permitted to do so contractually and
permissible under applicable
in
connection with such transactions, we, our affiliates, and our
personnel receive fees in connection with management of the
relevant clients involved in such a transaction and may also
be entitled to share in the investment profits of the relevant
clients.
17. Personal Trading
When we, our employees or an affiliate currently hold for
our own benefit the same securities as a client, we could be
viewed as having a potential conflict of interest. In general,
we will not, as principal, buy securities for ourselves from or
sell securities we own to any client.
18. Educational Programs
The Global Family Office, our Private Advisors and our
affiliates receive non-cash compensation from broker-
dealers used to execute securities transactions for clients and
from mutual fund companies, investment managers, unit
investment trust sponsors, annuity providers, insurance
vendors and sponsors of products that we or our affiliates
distribute. This compensation includes the following:
tickets or other
occasional gifts, occasional meals,
entertainment of
reasonable and customary value;
sponsorship support of educational or training events (which
include educational events Private Advisors arrange for
clients and prospects) and seminars and/or payment of
expenses related to training and education of employees,
which can (and often do) include a non-training element of
the event; and/or various forms of marketing support and, in
certain limited circumstances, the development of tools used
by the Global Family Office and its affiliates for training or
record-keeping purposes. Non-cash compensation can vary
by vendor and event. The receipt of cash and non-cash
compensation from sources other than clients, creates an
incentive for the firm to potentially favor and recommend
certain products over others. We address these conflicts of
interest by maintaining policies and procedures on the
suitability and supervision of the advisory programs and
services we offer to you, and by disclosing our practices to
ensure you make an informed decision.
20. Other Transactions and Relationships
instances,
Affiliates of Rockefeller & Co. receive trading commissions
and other compensation from mutual funds and insurance
companies whose products we recommend to clients. Our
affiliates engage in a variety of transactions with (or provide
other services to) the investment managers, mutual funds,
ETFs and their affiliates, or service providers with which
you are doing business. Our affiliates, in turn, receive
compensation from these entities. Those transactions and
services that our affiliates provide include, but are not
limited to, executing transactions in securities or other
instruments, broker-dealer services for the account of our
affiliate, research services, consulting services, investment
banking services, trust company services, and insurance
services.
Investment managers, mutual fund vendors, unit investment
trust sponsors, annuity, life insurance companies or their
affiliates and sponsors of ETFs, alternative investment funds
and other firms whose products are available to clients may
contribute funds to support our Private Advisor education
programs. The contributions are used to subsidize the cost of
training seminars we offer to Private Advisors, which may
include travel and travel-related expenses, meals, and
entertainment. These training events and seminars can (and
often) include a non-training element to the event. Not all
to our education efforts. Neither
vendors contribute
contribution towards these training and education expenses
nor lack thereof, is considered as a factor in analyzing or
determining whether a vendor should be included or should
remain in our programs or our platform. Contributions can
vary by vendor and event. In some
the
contributions per vendor (as well as the aggregate received
from all vendors) are significant, and may include travel,
meals and entertainment provided to Private Advisors by the
event host. While your Private Advisor does not receive a
portion of these payments, their attendance and participation
in these events, as well as the increased exposure to vendors
who sponsor the events, may lead Private Advisors to
recommend the products and services of those vendors as
compared to those who do not.
We and/or our affiliates provide investment banking,
research, brokerage, investment advisory, insurance, and
other services for different types of clients. In providing
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Funds. The services provided by Rockefeller & Co. and
related persons to any Affiliated Fund recommended by
Rockefeller & Co. to clients are disclosed to prospective
investors in the Affiliated Fund’s prospectus, offering
documents and/or governing documents.
ITEM 12: BROKERAGE PRACTICES
Rockefeller & Co. does not execute trades in client accounts
as a broker-dealer or agent for compensation for any client.
Client assets are held with various registered broker-dealers,
banks, or other qualified custodians, which will act as third-
party custodians and may effect transactions. Each third-
party custodian is responsible for handling the delivery and
receipt of securities purchased or sold in clients' brokerage
accounts, receive and distribute dividends and other
distributions, and process exchange offers, rights offerings,
warrants, tender offers and redemptions. Each third-party
custodian is also responsible for sending out client
statements of all activity in client's brokerage account on no
less than a quarterly basis, written confirmations of trades
executed through clients’ brokerage accounts, and associated
tax documents related to each account. Clients should review
all statements and related documents carefully.
A. Aggregation of Client Orders
those services, we and our affiliates should be expected to
give advice to, or take actions for, those clients or for our
own accounts or accounts of our affiliates that differs from
advice given to, or the timing and nature of actions taken for
you, or buy and sell securities for our own or other accounts.
Advice given to clients or investment decisions made for
these clients should be expected to differ from, or may
conflict with, advice given or investment decisions made for
an advisory affiliate or another client. Action taken with
respect to advisory affiliates should be expected to adversely
affect client accounts, and actions taken by client accounts
should be expected to benefit advisory affiliates. Conflicts
arise when a client makes investments in conjunction with
an investment being made by other clients or clients of our
affiliates, or for our proprietary account, or in a transaction
where such other parties have already made an investment.
For example, investment opportunities are from time to time
appropriate for clients, clients of our affiliates, or our and our
affiliates’ proprietary accounts at the same, different or
overlapping
levels of a company’s capital structure.
Conflicts of interest arise in such cases, particularly in the
event the company is in financial distress. You should expect
that Rockefeller & Co. and our affiliates occasionally will
not be free to divulge or act upon certain information in our
or their possession on behalf of investment advisory or other
clients, particularly in circumstances where confidentiality
obligations apply to such information or where necessary or
appropriate to comply with applicable law or our policies
and procedures designed to comply with applicable law. We
are not obligated to execute any transaction for your account
that we believe to be improper under applicable law or rules
or contrary to our own policies. We have adopted policies
and procedures that limit transactions for our proprietary
accounts and the accounts of our employees. These policies
and procedures are designed to prevent, among other things,
improper or abusive conduct when there is a conflict with
the interest of a client.
Transactions for each client account generally will be
effected independently unless the Private Advisor or an
investment manager with trading discretion decides to
purchase or sell the same securities for several clients. While
not our common practice for Global Family Office accounts,
we may, where practicable, combine or “batch” such orders
in seeking to obtain best execution or negotiate more
favorable commission rates. If it does so, the Global Family
Office generally would allocate the proceeds of those
transactions (and the related transaction expenses) among
the participants on an average price basis (although it may
allocate partially filled orders differently). The Global
Family Office believes combining orders in this way can be,
over time, advantageous to all participants. However, the
average price could be less advantageous to a single client
than if the client account had been the only transacting
account or had traded ahead of the other participants.
B. RPWA Program Brokerage Practices
As mentioned above, Rockefeller & Co. provides investment
advice to clients regarding investment in various types of
Affiliated Funds where Rockefeller & Co. and its related
persons have an interest as a general partner, managing
member, manager and/or investment adviser. Eligible
officers and employees of Rockefeller & Co. are provided
the opportunity to align their financial interests with those of
Rockefeller & Co.'s clients by investing their personal funds
in Affiliated Funds. In addition, Rockefeller & Co. and its
affiliates may also invest their proprietary capital in separate
accounts managed by Rockefeller & Co. and in Affiliated
For clients utilizing the RPWA Program to receive our
advisory services, Rockefeller Financial will act as the
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through the broker selected by the client or NFS in order to
avoid trade away fees and/or operational considerations
which result when trades are executed by other brokers and
settled at the client’s chosen broker/bank custodian. We
believe this practice is consistent with our duty to seek best
execution of client trades.
In limited circumstances and with supervisory approval,
transactions for Global Family Office clients may be routed
to the RGIM trading desk for execution by third party broker
dealers. Information about RGIM’s trading practices is
located in its Form ADV Part 2A brochure.
introducing broker to effect equity security transactions for
such clients through NFS. NFS will execute equity trades in
client accounts and maintain custody of client assets.
Accordingly, it is expected that equity trading activity for
clients will generally be effected through this arrangement
and not with other brokers. Clients may be able to obtain
better executions of securities transactions if a broker other
than Rockefeller Financial is used to effect the transactions.
For fixed income or other securities for which a markup or
markdown is charged by the executing broker-dealer, most
or up to all trades will be executed through firms other than
NFS. Whether executed by NFS or another firm, you will
bear the cost of this dealer markup/markdown amount and
the client wrap fee does not cover this expense or cost.
D. Cross Trades
Clients of Rockefeller & Co. utilizing the RPWA Program
will not pay
trading commissions when Rockefeller
Financial executes trades for their account because the
investment advisory fees they pay to the Global Family
Office will cover these execution costs as part of the wrap
fee arrangements. Certain investment managers utilized in
client accounts may elect to “trade away” from the RPWA
Program for best execution reasons. To the extent equity
securities transactions are executed away from Rockefeller
Financial, clients will be subject to transaction costs and fees
that are in addition to the wrap fee paid to the Global Family
Office.
In certain cases, we may cause a client to purchase
investments from another client or to sell investments to
another client. Such transactions create conflicts of interest
to the extent that, by not exposing such buy and sell
transactions to market forces, a client does not receive the
best price otherwise possible, or we have an incentive to
benefit one client with which we have a more significant
relationship by selling underperforming assets to another
client in order, for example, to maintain or grow that
relationship and earn higher fees. Additionally, in connection
with such transactions, we, our affiliates, and our personnel
receive fees in connection with management of the relevant
clients involved in such a transaction and may also be
entitled to share in the investment profits of the relevant
clients.
Please refer to the Rockefeller Financial Wrap Brochure for
additional information about brokerage practices under that
program.
E. Trade Correction Policy and Procedures
C. Brokerage Practices for Legacy Platform and
Permitted Arrangements
Clients who receive advisory services from Global Family
Office under
the Legacy Platform and Permitted
Arrangements will typically have transactions for the
purchase and/or sale of securities executed by the broker
with whom they have engaged for brokerage and custody
services (e.g., Schwab, TD Ameritrade). For clients who
utilize the services of a bank custodian (e.g., FNZ Trust
Company, JP Morgan), their brokerage transactions will be
placed with NFS for execution and then settled in the client’s
account at their selected bank custodian.
We have trade error policies and procedures, pursuant to
which we resolve trading errors that occur from time to time.
The Global Family Office exercises due care when handling
client orders in seeking to avoid trade errors. However, when
a trade error occurs, we work with all relevant parties in the
trading process to promptly correct the error consistent with
our policies and procedures to help ensure that there is no
adverse impact to you as a result of the error. Depending on
the particular circumstances of the error, you should expect
the Global Family Office will retain profits, if any, resulting
from a trade error or may net profits and losses from related
trade errors when determining how to correct trade errors.
While in some cases the Global Family Office could
potentially trade away from a client’s selected broker or NFS
in the case of a bank custodian, we typically execute trades
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F. Investment Consulting Arrangements
directly from the custodians to the reports provided by the
firm.
ITEM 14: CLIENT REFERRALS AND OTHER
COMPENSATION
Under Investment Consulting Arrangements, advisory
clients are responsible for instructing their broker-dealer or
bank custodian to execute securities transactions for their
account. The Global Family Office may assist clients in
formulating these instructions, but clients are responsible to
ensure the accuracy of the instruction, communicating the
instruction to their broker-dealer or bank custodian, and
confirming the execution of the instructions. The Global
Family Office does not guarantee that any broker-dealer or
bank custodian, even if recommended by the Global Family
Office, will provide the best price on a particular transaction.
When recommending a broker-dealer or bank custodian to a
client, the Global Family Office considers a number of
factors (as described above) including benefits received by
the Global Family Office. We address these conflicts of
interest by disclosing them to clients. Please refer to Item 11
information about these conflicts of interest. These services
are subject to the terms and conditions of an Investment
Consulting Agreement.
The Global Family Office compensates affiliated and
unrelated third parties (“Solicitor(s)”) for client referrals in
accordance with applicable legal requirements. If a referred
client enrolls in an investment advisory program, the
compensation paid to the Solicitor will typically consist of a
cash payment stated as a percentage of the Global Family
Office’s advisory fee over a period of time, a one-time flat
fee or another form of payment, as agreed upon with the
Solicitor. The Global Family Office’s payment of
compensation to a Solicitor creates a conflict of interest for
the Solicitor as the Solicitor will only be paid if a referred
client enrolls in an investment advisory program. The
payment of compensation to a Solicitor also creates a
financial incentive for Private Advisors not to negotiate or
reduce the fees that a referred client will pay to the Global
Family Office. A referred client is not obligated to enroll in
any particular investment advisory program.
ITEM 13: REVIEW OF ACCOUNTS
A. Frequency and Nature of Review of Client Accounts
their
Client advisory accounts are reviewed periodically for
consistency with
investment objectives. Private
Advisors will also communicate periodically with clients
and respond to client requests for information.
B. Content and Frequency of Account Reports to
Private Advisors from time to time refer clients to RCM’s
affiliates for services and products, such as investment
management services offered by RGIM, fiduciary services
offered by RTC NA or RTC Delaware, and insurance and
annuity offerings by RCM Insurance Services. Similarly,
employees of these affiliates from time to time recommend
their clients to the Global Family Office for investment
advisory and family office services. See Item 11 for a
discussion of the conflicts of interest raised by such referrals.
Clients
Clients will receive account statements and reports,
generally quarterly, from the Global Family Office in
addition to statements from their custodian as described
below. In most cases these account statements and reports
will contain information on account values, holdings, and
transactions. Account performance may in also be included
if requested by Clients. Clients utilizing the RPWA Program
will receive the account statements and reports described in
the Wrap Brochure for that platform.
Private Advisors may also refer clients to unaffiliated third-
party firms for certain services, such as lines of credits,
mortgages, trust services and other investment-related
services. In making such referrals, the Global Family Office
will seek to identify reputable unaffiliated third parties who
offer commercially reasonable terms, but does not undertake
to perform any level of due diligence on or ongoing
monitoring of such third parties or to search for the providers
who offer the most favorable terms to clients. Clients should
carefully independently evaluate these unaffiliated third
parties and their terms of service relative to other providers
in the marketplace before entering into a service relationship
with them.
The clients’ custodian provides quarterly reports to clients
showing the assets and transactions in each client account
for the quarter. Reports will generally be provided in
electronic format, when agreed upon by the client. Clients
are urged to compare the account statements received
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statements from the fund’s custodian as described above,
should promptly report this to their Private Advisor.
In certain cases, these referral arrangements will involve the
payment of referral fees to, or participation in revenue
sharing arrangements with, the Global Family Office. See
Item 11 above for a discussion of the conflicts raised by such
arrangements.
The fees charged by affiliated and unaffiliated firms for
services provided to clients resulting from referrals are
additional charges to the client and not included in (and will
not reduce) the Global Family Office’s fee.
As Rockefeller & Co. is not a custodian, it may not take
physical custody of client funds, including checks made
payable to the client, and/or client securities. In accordance
with regulatory requirements, client funds and/or securities
received by Rockefeller & Co. will be returned to the third
party who sent or delivered them within 3 business days of
receipt, unless an exception to this regulatory requirement
applies.
ITEM 15: CUSTODY
Rockefeller & Co. has engaged its affiliate, RTC NA, to
serve as custodian for the limited purpose of receiving and
depositing into client accounts at third party custodians,
checks made payable to clients in connection with family
office services and class action processing services offered
to clients. Rockefeller Financial, as a registered broker-
dealer, may receive checks from clients of Rockefeller & Co.
who have brokerage accounts with Rockefeller Financial
and arrange for them to be deposited at NFS.
ITEM 16: INVESTMENT DISCRETION
Rockefeller & Co. does not take custody of client funds
and/or securities. Clients are required to select one or more
banks or broker-dealers as their custodian to hold the client
funds and/or securities for which the Global Family Office
investment advisory services. However,
will provide
Rockefeller & Co. may be deemed to have custody of a
client’s funds and/or securities to the extent the client
authorizes the firm to instruct the client’s custodian to deduct
the firm’s fees directly from the client account or to instruct
the client’s custodian to disburse or transfer funds or
securities form the client’s account. As described below,
Rockefeller & Co. may also be deemed to have custody over
client funds and/or securities which RTC and Rockefeller
Financial receive on behalf of a Global Family Office client
for purposes of having such funds and/or securities deposited
into the client’s account at their designated custodian.
The Global Family Office will generally have investment
discretion over advisory accounts. Clients grant the Global
Family Office investment discretion through authorities
granted under the Investment Advisory Agreement. In all
cases, however, such discretion is to be exercised in a
manner consistent with the stated investment objectives and
reasonable restrictions for the particular client account. The
Global Family Office has the authority to determine, without
obtaining specific client consent, the securities to be bought
or sold, and the amount of the securities to be bought or sold.
Clients will receive custody account statements on at least a
quarterly basis from their chosen custodian. As also
discussed in Item 13, we send periodic reports to clients as
well. Clients are urged to carefully review and compare the
statements sent by the custodians with those sent by us.
Rockefeller & Co. is also deemed to have custody of client
funds and/or securities where it or a related person serves as
the general partner or managing member (or in a comparable
position) of an Affiliated Fund (an “Affiliated Private
Fund”). Investors in Affiliated Private Funds will typically
receive the applicable fund’s audited financial statement
annually. If an Affiliated Private Fund is unaudited, investors
will receive the unaudited Affiliated Private Fund’s custody
account statement from its custodian on at least a quarterly
basis. Investors in Affiliated Private Funds who do not
receive audited financial statements or, in the case of
unaudited Affiliated Private Funds, quarterly account
In certain instances, the Global Family Office and a client
may designate certain assets (such as legacy, concentrated,
or low-cost basis holdings) as non-discretionary or enter into
a non-discretionary advisory agreement pursuant to which
client consent must be obtained prior to the Global Family
Office executing a securities transaction in the non-
discretionary assets or account. Clients entering into non-
discretionary relationships with the Global Family Office
should understand that the requirement to obtain client
consent prior to executing a securities transaction may result
in the non-discretionary account trading in a security after
the security is purchased or sold in discretionary client
accounts. Any such delay may have a negative or positive
impact on the performance of the non-discretionary account
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to
the Global Family Office’s discretionary
B. Global Family Office Proxy Voting Policy and
relative
accounts.
Procedures
Investor Communications Services,
to purchase or sell an
The Global Family Office also offers non-discretionary
investment consulting services to clients. Under this type of
arrangement, your Private Advisor provides investment
advice on the assets on a non-discretionary basis, including
asset allocation, specific
investment buy and sell
recommendations, financial planning and other investment
advice and analyses. The Global Family Office does not
have discretionary authority over client assets in investment
consulting accounts. Clients have sole discretion to accept or
reject any investment advice or strategy or any specific
individual
recommendation
investment. Clients are also responsible for implementing,
or arranging for the implementation, any advice given by the
Global Family Office, and
to pay any applicable
commissions, charges, trails, and other account, brokerage,
or custody fees directly to their chosen custodian and other
providers. Clients may make investment-related decisions
contrary to the advice provided or make your own decisions
without the benefit of our advice.
refer
ITEM 17: VOTING CLIENT SECURITIES; CLASS
ACTIONS
Clients using the RPWA Program will have their proxies
voted in accordance with Rockefeller Global Family Office
Proxy Voting Policy and Procedures. Rockefeller Financial,
on behalf of the Global Family Office, has engaged
Broadridge
Inc.
(“Broadridge”) to assist with proxy voting. Votes are cast
through Broadridge’s ProxyEdge electronic voting platform
based upon Broadridge’s Shareholder Value guidelines. In
limited situations, Broadridge does not provide proxy voting
services under its guidelines for a particular security or a
particular proxy proposal. In such situations, the firm will
vote the proxies in accordance with the recommendation of
company management; if company management does not
make a recommendation, the firm will abstain from voting.
We will not vote on a particular security or a particular proxy
proposal if the client has retained proxy voting authority or
if the security is not integrated with Broadridge. The Firm
generally does not vote proxy and limited partner proposals
for alternative investment funds, except in situations where
the fund is integrated with Broadridge for proxy voting
purposes. Such clients should
to Rockefeller
Financial’s Wrap Fee Brochure for information about how
their proxies will be voted.
A. Proxy Voting
C. RGIM Proxy Voting Policy and Procedures
With respect to securities held at other custodians which
transmit client account holdings data to the proxy voting
firm retained by Rockefeller & Co. on behalf of RGIM, the
Global Family Office generally delegates proxy voting to
RGIM, who votes such proxies in accordance with RGIM’s
Proxy Voting Policies and Procedures.
RGIM’s Proxy Voting Policies and Procedures seek to
ensure that proxies are voted in the best interest of its clients
in fulfillment of RGIM’s fiduciary duties and in accordance
with Rule 206(4)-6 under the Advisers Act.
Where the Global Family Office has proxy voting authority
over client securities, the Global Family Office seeks to vote
proxies in the best interest of its clients. The Global Family
Office generally does not vote proxies for securities held in
client directed accounts, SMA Programs and accounts
managed with discretion by third parties. In cases where
proxies are not voted by the Global Family Office or third
parties, clients vote proxies themselves and will need to
make arrangements with their custodian to receive their
proxy voting materials. The Global Family Office generally
will not vote proxies held at client custodians who do not
transmit account holdings data to the proxy advisory firms
engaged to assist us with proxy voting. Clients who have
given proxy voting authority to the Global Family Office
will have their proxies voted pursuant to either the Global
Family Office Proxy Voting Policy and Procedures or the
RGIM Proxy Voting Policy and Procedures, as described
below.
RGIM has engaged Institutional Shareholder Services Inc.
(“ISS”), an organization unaffiliated with RGIM, to assist
with proxy voting. In addition to the execution of proxy
votes in accordance with RGIM’s guidelines and record-
keeping services, ISS also provides RGIM with corporate
governance information, due diligence related to making
informed proxy voting decisions and vote recommendations.
Research and shareholder engagement underpin our
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class actions or for client accounts maintained at custodians
which do not transmit client account data to the third-party
vendor.
decision-making process. RGIM retains final authority and
responsibility for proxy voting. In the event that RGIM is not
able to submit a vote decision in time, RGIM’s proxy voting
policy is automatically applied by ISS.
Please refer to Item 15 for a description of the manner in
which the Rockefeller & Co. arranges for certain class action
settlement checks to be deposited into Global Family Office
client accounts at third party qualified custodians.
ITEM 18: FINANCIAL INFORMATION
Rockefeller & Co. does not require or solicit prepayment of
more than $1,200 in investment advisory fees per client, six
months or more in advance.
In connection with certain legacy arrangements, RGIM will
vote proxies on behalf of some clients of the Rockefeller
Global Family Office. In certain circumstances, a client may
request that the Global Family Office vote proxies or take
action relating to securities held in the client's account(s)
which differ from RGIM’s Proxy Voting Guidelines. The
Global Family Office and RGIM will make reasonable
efforts (depending on the timing of the client’s request) to
adhere to any specific client policies provided with respect
to proxy voting, even if such directions or guidelines conflict
with RGIM’s Proxy Voting Guidelines.
Rockefeller & Co. is not aware of any financial condition
that is reasonably likely to impair its ability to meet
contractual commitments to its clients.
Rockefeller & Co. has not been the subject of a bankruptcy
petition at any time during the past ten years.
While RGIM employs reasonable efforts to vote the Global
Family Office client proxies, it is often difficult for RGIM to
fully reconcile the Global Family Office client holdings as
reflected on the firm’s internal systems with the share count
totals communicated by custodians utilized by the Global
Family Office clients. RGIM will seek to fully reconcile the
proxies of Global Family Office clients; however, its
procedures permit it to stop reconciling when the Global
Family Office clients’ share totals are within 10% of the
share totals reported by client custodians. As a consequence
of this policy, the proxies of some the Global Family Office
clients may not be voted.
Upon request, the Global Family Office will promptly
provide clients with a copy of the Global Family Office
Proxy Voting Policy or the RGIM Proxy Voting Policy, as
applicable, and information on how proxies of securities
held in their accounts were voted. Please refer to the
Rockefeller Financial Wrap Fee Brochure and the RGIM
Form ADV Part 2A Brochure for additional information
about the firm’s proxy voting practices.
D. Class Action Processing
The Global Family Office will seek to process claim forms
for U.S. class action settlements involving securities held in
managed client accounts, unless another arrangement with
respect to the handling of class action claims is agreed to
with the client or the client has subsequently terminated its
investment management relationship with the Global Family
Office. Class action filings are processed by a third-party
vendor. The Global Family Office does file for non-U.S.
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FORM ADV PART 2A:
BROCHURE
R O C K E F E L L E R G L O B A L I N V E S T M E N T M A N A G E M E N T
( A D I V I S I O N O F R O C K E F E L L E R & C O . L L C )
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http://www.rockco.com
As of March 2026
This brochure provides information about the qualifications and business practices
of Rockefeller Global Investment Management (“RGIM”), a division of Rockefeller &
Co. LLC (“Rockefeller & Co.”), which is an investment adviser registered with the
United States Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”). If you have any
questions about the contents of this brochure, please contact RGIM at
RCM.FormADV@rockco.com. The information in this brochure has not been
approved or verified by the SEC or by any state securities authority. Registration
with the SEC does not imply a certain level of skill or training.
Additional information about Rockefeller & Co. is available at the SEC’s website at
www.adviserinfo.sec.gov.
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ITEM 2: MATERIAL CHANGES
•
rotation process
for
Item 12: RGIM updated certain brokerage
practices applicable
to separately managed
account programs (“SMA Programs”) and clients
with directed brokerage arrangements. These
include providing SMA Program
updates
portfolio
sponsors with model
change
notifications at or around
the time similar
implemented, or may be
transactions are
implemented, for directly managed accounts
within the same strategy, pursuant to a fixed,
alphabetic rotation process, and adopting a similar
assigning
alphabetic
execution priority among directed brokerage
clients.
The following is a summary of material changes to the
advisory business of Rockefeller Global Investment
Management (“RGIM”), a division of Rockefeller & Co.
LLC (“Rockefeller & Co.”), since the firm filed its prior
annual update to Form ADV Part 2A (the “Brochure”) with
the US Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”)
on March 31, 2025. As disclosed below, this Brochure
updates the brochure filed previously for Rockefeller Asset
Management, as Rockefeller & Co.’s asset management
activities are now conducted through RGIM. We
encourage all clients to review this Brochure and to contact
your Client Service representative if you have any
questions.
In addition, disclosures regarding fees and compensation
received by RGIM and its professionals (Item 5), methods
of analysis, investment strategies and risk considerations
(Item 8) and RGIM’s relationships with third party
custodians (Item 11) have been amended.
the closing of
• Item 4: On December 2, 2025, Rockefeller
Capital Management, L.P. (“RCM”), the ultimate
parent company of Rockefeller & Co., completed
a recapitalization. The description of RCM’s
to reflect
ownership structure was updated
changes resulting from
this
transaction.
Moreover, RGIM routinely makes updates throughout the
Brochure to improve and clarify the description of our
business practices as well as to respond to evolving
industry best practices.
certain
ITEM 3: TABLE OF CONTENTS
Investment Management
firm’s
serves
as
its affiliated businesses,
including
Effective March 31, 2026, Rockefeller & Co.
integrated
investment management
capabilities into a new division, Rockefeller
(“RGIM”).
Global
investment
the
RGIM
management platform, providing discretionary,
non-discretionary and model-delivery investment
management services across equity, alternative
and fixed income asset classes to institutional
investors and intermediaries globally, including
the Rockefeller Global Family Office wealth
management business.
In addition, RGIM
the firm’s macroeconomic and
consolidates
market
insights and certain non-investment
management services, which are made available in
support of Rockefeller Capital Management LP
the
and
Rockefeller Global Family Office. As a result,
Rockefeller & Co.’s asset management division is
no longer referred to as Rockefeller Asset
Management (“RAM”), and is now, along with
other operating divisions, referred to as RGIM.
Item 10: Disclosures related to private funds and
other investment vehicles sponsored by certain
investment firms that are equity owners of RCM
or which have strategic partnerships with RCM
that may be recommended or made available to
clients have been updated in connection with the
closing of the recapitalization described in Item 4.
Item 1: COVER PAGE................................................... 1
ITEM 2: MATERIAL CHANGES ................................... 2
ITEM 3: TABLE OF CONTENTS .................................. 2
ITEM 4: ADVISORY BUSINESS ................................... 3
ITEM 5: FEES AND COMPENSATION ........................ 6
ITEM 6: PERFORMANCE-BASED FEES AND SIDE
BY-SIDE MANAGEMENT .......................................... 10
ITEM 7: TYPES OF CLIENTS ...................................... 10
ITEM 8: METHODS OF ANALYSIS, INVESTMENT
STRATEGIES AND RISK OF LOSS ........................... 11
ITEM 9: DISCIPLINARY INFORMATION ................ 22
ITEM 10: OTHER FINANCIAL INDUSTRY
ACTIVITES AND AFFILIATIONS ............................. 22
ITEM 11: CODE OF ETHICS, PARTICIPATION OR
INTEREST IN CLIENT TRANSACTIONS AND
PERSONAL TRADING ................................................ 24
ITEM 12: BROKERAGE PRACTICES ......................... 29
ITEM 13: REVIEW OF ACCOUNTS ........................... 34
ITEM 14: CLIENT REFERRALS AND OTHER
COMPENSATION ......................................................... 34
ITEM 15: CUSTODY .................................................... 35
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ITEM 16: INVESTMENT DISCRETION ..................... 35
ITEM 17: VOTING CLIENT SECURITIES; CLASS
ACTIONS ....................................................................... 36
ITEM 18: FINANCIAL INFORMATION ..................... 39
ITEM 4: ADVISORY BUSINESS
a dually registered investment adviser and broker-dealer.
Separate brochures describing the advisory services offered
by the Global Family Office and the advisory and wrap fee
programs offered by Rockefeller Financial are available on
the SEC’s website at www.adviserinfo.sec.gov and may
also be obtained by contacting us by email at
RCM.FormADV@rockco.com. Rockefeller Financial also
offers brokerage and other services to its clients.
A. Introduction
B. Firm Overview
RGIM is a division of Rockefeller & Co., which is a
Delaware limited liability company that is registered with
the SEC as an investment adviser under the Investment
Advisers Act of 1940, as amended (the “Advisers Act”).
RGIM’s principal place of business operations is 45
Rockefeller Plaza, New York, New York 10111.
including
to manage
the Rockefeller
and philanthropic
Rockefeller & Co.’s history, through its predecessors,
dates to 1882 when John D. Rockefeller established a New
family’s
York office
investment, personal,
interests.
Rockefeller & Co.’s immediate predecessor, Rockefeller &
Co., Inc. was incorporated in 1979 and in 1980 registered
with the SEC as an investment adviser under the Advisers
Act.
This Brochure describes the investment advisory services
offered by Rockefeller Global Investment Management
(“RGIM”), a division of Rockefeller & Co. LLC
(“Rockefeller & Co.”). RGIM serves as the firm’s
investment management platform (“RGIM Investments”),
providing discretionary, non-discretionary and model-
delivery investment management services across equity,
alternative and fixed income asset classes to institutional
investors and
the
intermediaries globally,
Rockefeller Global Family Office wealth management
business. In addition, RGIM consolidates the firm’s
macroeconomic and market insights and certain non-
investment management services, which are made
available in support of Rockefeller Capital Management LP
and its affiliated businesses, including the Rockefeller
Global Family Office. As a result, Rockefeller & Co.’s
asset management division is no longer referred to as
Rockefeller Asset Management (“RAM”), and is now,
along with other operating divisions, referred to as RGIM.
RGIM also does business under the name Rockefeller
Capital Management. Rockefeller Capital Management is a
trade name utilized to describe the entirety of the business
engaged in by the Rockefeller Capital Management, L.P.
subsidiaries, which includes both Rockefeller & Co. and
Rockefeller Financial, LLC (“Rockefeller Financial”).
Rockefeller Global Family Office is a trade name used to
describe the wealth management business of Rockefeller &
Co. and its affiliate, Rockefeller Financial.
individual members of
Rockefeller Financial is an investment adviser registered
with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (the
“SEC”) and a registered broker-dealer with the SEC and a
member of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority,
Inc. (“FINRA”).
Rockefeller & Co. and its affiliates offer additional
investment advisory services which are not described in this
Brochure. Specifically, Rockefeller & Co. offers
investment advisory and family office services through a
separate division, the Rockefeller Global Family Office
(the “Global Family Office”). Additionally, Rockefeller &
Co.’s affiliate, Rockefeller Financial, offers investment
advisory and wrap programs to its clients in its capacity as
Rockefeller & Co. is now an indirect, wholly-owned
subsidiary of Rockefeller Capital Management L.P.
(“RCM”). RCM was established on March 1, 2018, when
Gregory J. Fleming, together with investment funds
affiliated with Viking Global Investors, L.P. (“Viking”),
acquired the investment advisory and trust company
businesses established by the Rockefeller Family. Today,
Viking, primarily through investments made by the Viking
funds, is the largest equity owner in RCM. Other significant
minority equity stakes in RCM are held by: a US affiliate
of IGM Financial Inc. (“IGM”); a trust representing the
Rockefeller family; Mousse Partners, a division of Mousse
Investments Limited; Progeny 3, Inc., a single family
office based in Kirkland, Washington; and Abrams Capital,
L.L.C. (“Abrams Capital”), an investment firm based in
Boston, Massachusetts. Current and former members of
the
RCM’s management,
Rockefeller family, and certain other institutional investors
also hold equity stakes in RCM. Neither Viking nor any
other equity owner in RCM (other than current RCM
management) are involved in the day-to-day management
of RCM or its subsidiaries. No employee, officer, director,
or other representative of Viking or any other equity owner
(other than current RCM Management) , or any of their
respective controlled affiliates, is a member of any
committee of RCM or its subsidiaries that determines which
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the Rockefeller Global Family Office.
RGIM’s investment strategies include, but are not limited
to:
products or services are offered or sold to clients. Please
refer to Schedule A of Rockefeller & Co.’s Form ADV Part
1A for additional information about the ownership of the
firm.
• Equities: Global large cap, small cap, and
customized
• Alternatives: Long-short equity and private
investments
• Fixed Income: Cash management, investment
and
grade and municipal high yield
investment
Clients may access RGIM’s investment strategies through
various investment vehicles and arrangements, including
separately managed accounts, open-end mutual funds,
exchange traded funds, interval funds, tender offer funds,
funds, and non-US
privately offered
investment vehicles. In certain cases, RGIM sponsors these
investment vehicles, while in other cases it provides
investment advisory or sub-advisory services to investment
vehicles sponsored by third parties.
engages RGIM
to provide
relationships;
RCM’s operating subsidiaries include: Rockefeller & Co.,
an investment adviser registered with the SEC providing
investment advisory and family office services through its
Global Family Office division
investment
management services
its RGIM division;
through
Rockefeller Asset Management International Ltd. (“RAM
International”), a UK limited company performing non-US
distribution and investor servicing activities for RGIM;
Rockefeller Financial, a broker-dealer and investment
adviser registered with the SEC providing private wealth
management services, securities services and strategic
advice; Rockefeller Trust Company, N.A., a national trust
bank regulated by the Office of the Comptroller of the
Currency (“RTC NA”) and The Rockefeller Trust
Company (Delaware), a limited purpose trust company
regulated by the State Bank Commissioner of the State of
Delaware (“RTC Delaware”), both of which provide
fiduciary services acting either as a trustee, co-trustee,
executor, co-executor, or as a fiduciary or agent for other
and Rockefeller Capital
fiduciary
Management Insurance Services, LLC (“RCM Insurance
Services”), an insurance company licensed in all 50 states
that provides access to a broad range of personal insurance
expertise and services through multiple national providers
to enable effective estate planning, asset protection or other
key wealth management planning strategies and priorities.
investment restrictions on
RGIM also serves as portfolio manager to sponsors of
certain SMA Programs, including its affiliate Rockefeller
Financial. Under these arrangements, the program sponsor
investment
typically
management services to the program sponsor. The program
sponsor then makes these investment strategies available to
its program participants through the program sponsor’s
SMA Program. The program sponsor is responsible for the
design of its own SMA Program, and for determining
suitability of the SMA Program for each of its program
to
participants. Program participants are permitted
the
establish reasonable
management of their program accounts.
Unless otherwise specified, references herein to “clients”
or “you” refer to advisory clients of RGIM and the
descriptions of investment advisory services refer to those
of RGIM and not to the advisory services and business
practices of the Global Family Office or of other affiliates,
including Rockefeller Financial, RTC NA, RTC Delaware,
and RCM Insurance Services.
RGIM maintains a sales team that operates as an Office of
Supervisory Jurisdiction of Rockefeller Financial LLC, to
support the wholesale activities of RGIM in promoting and
marketing RGIM-managed investment products registered
under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended,
and the distribution of RGIM-managed private funds in the
US.
For equity strategies made available on SMA Programs, we
typically provide portfolio recommendations (i.e., a model
portfolio) to a program sponsor who is responsible for
implementing the portfolio on behalf of its program
participants. For example, the SMA Program sponsor is
responsible for, among other things, executing portfolio
transactions for program participants and ensuring
compliance with investment restrictions established by
program participants. For fixed income strategies, RGIM
is generally responsible for executing transactions on
behalf of participant accounts. Fixed income trading is
typically done away from the program sponsor. Please refer
to Item 12 for information about RGIM’s brokerage
practices.
C. RGIM Investment Management Services
RGIM provides a range of equity, alternative and fixed
income investment strategies on a discretionary, non-
discretionary and model delivery basis to institutional
investors and intermediaries on a global basis, including
In providing a model, RGIM generally uses the same
sources of information and investment/research personnel
as it uses to manage its other client accounts that have
similar investment objectives. Models provided to SMA
Program sponsors often may differ from portfolios that
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institutional
investors
or
In order for RGIM to be your investment adviser or to
provide other services, clients must execute an investment
advisory agreement, investment management agreement or
other agreement for services with Rockefeller & Co. (each,
a “Client Agreement”). Each Client Agreement sets forth
the terms upon which investment advisory services,
investment management services or other services will be
provided to the Client. As noted above, The Office of the
CIO and RGIM Client Solutions are designed to support
RGIM’s investment activities and the Rockefeller Global
Family Office. These services are not currently offered to
unaffiliated
financial
intermediaries.
RGIM manages directly for other clients that have similar
investment objectives. For example, RGIM may manage
an SMA Program model to hold fewer positions than a
directly managed account following the same investment
strategy, or the SMA program model may be subject to
restrictions and limitations that do not apply to directly
managed accounts following the same strategy, such as
number of positions held, position weightings, rebalancing
frequency and dispersion tolerances. Accounts within the
same model, or a similar model, can hold different
securities and/or trade at different times. Program account
performance may be adversely affected depending on
when the specific model account was funded, or the
implementation and portfolio trading taken by the program
sponsor on its program accounts.
Rockefeller & Co. does not custody client funds and/or
securities on behalf of RGIM clients. Client assets will be
maintained with banks or broker-dealers that serve as
custodians of the funds and/or securities of the firm’s
clients. Please refer to Item 15 – Custody for additional
information.
Clients accessing an RGIM investment strategy through an
SMA Program should consult the program sponsor’s Form
ADV Part 2A and, if applicable, the sponsor’s wrap fee
brochure for additional information regarding the SMA
Program.
D. Additional RGIM Services
the CIO provides
RGIM will typically recommend that clients access its
services through its affiliated broker-dealer, Rockefeller
Financial. Additional information about RGIM’s business
arrangements with Rockefeller Financial is provided below
in Items 11, 12, 14 and 17.
F. Other Services Available to RGIM Investment
Accounts
independent
The Office of
macroeconomic and market insights, asset allocation
frameworks, and portfolio guidance. The Office of the
CIO’s views are informed by ongoing analysis of global
economic conditions, financial markets, and investment
risks, and are intended to provide context for strategic
decision‑making across market cycles.
1. Customized Advisory Services and Client
Restrictions
RGIM Client Solutions provides access to a sophisticated
suite of both investment and non-investment products and
services.
The suite of solutions includes:
• Traditional and alternative external managers
• Structured solutions to customize risk-return
RGIM will tailor its advisory services to the individual
needs of its clients in accordance with the investment
mandate for the account and the investment options
available within the firm. Any such arrangements must be
agreed upon in advance and typically will be documented
through written investment guidelines or in an investment
policy statement.
profiles
• Curated insurance and annuities
• Retirement solutions
• Banking and lending advisory services
to
investment
strategies accessed
Clients may impose reasonable investment restrictions on
the management of their accounts which, if accepted by
RGIM in writing, will apply until changed or withdrawn
by the client. If RGIM determines that a client imposed
restriction prevents the efficient management of the
account, it will seek to have it modified or removed by the
client. Client imposed investment restrictions will not
apply
through
investments in open-end mutual funds, exchange traded
funds, interval funds, tender offer funds, privately offered
investment funds and non-US investment vehicles, which
have their own stated investment objectives and policies.
The Office of the CIO and RGIM Client Solutions are
designed to support RGIM’s investment activities and the
Rockefeller Global Family Office. Certain RGIM Client
Solutions services are delivered to clients through the
Rockefeller Global Family Office. Clients receiving such
services should consult the Rockefeller Global Family
Office Brochure and/or wrap fee supplement issued by
Rockefeller & Co. or Rockefeller Financial, as applicable,
for additional information.
RGIM reserves the right to deem any proposed investment
E. RGIM Investment Account Opening Process
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see Item 11 – Conflicts of Interest below for a more
comprehensive discussion of the conflicts associated with
Affiliated Investment Products and Affiliated Service
Providers.
G. Regulatory Assets Under Management
As of December 31, 2025 Rockefeller & Co.’s regulatory
assets under management (“RAUM”) were:
restriction as unreasonable and to not accept the proposed
investment restriction. If one or more
investment
restrictions is determined to be unreasonable, we may not
be able to accept management of the account or may elect
to terminate
to restrict
the account. If you elect
investments, you accept any effect such restrictions may
have on the investment performance and diversification of
your portfolio. The performance of accounts with client
imposed investment restrictions will differ from, and may
be lower than, the performance of accounts without such
restrictions.
• RAUM: $36,764,098,196
2. Affiliated Investment Products and Affiliated
o Discretionary RAUM: $31,800,176,504
o Non-Discretionary RAUM: $4,963,921,692
Services Providers
Rockefeller & Co.’s RAUM reported above reflects assets
managed by the firm’s RGIM and Global Family Office
divisions. Where RGIM and RGFO provide advisory
services with respect to the same assets, such assets are
reported only once for RAUM purposes.
ITEM 5: FEES AND COMPENSATION
A. Investment Advisory Fees
the
RGIM makes available to clients equity, alternative, and
fixed income investment strategies managed by RGIM
(“Affiliated Investment Products”). Clients may access
RGIM’s investment strategies through various investment
vehicles, including vehicles sponsored by RGIM or third
parties as described Item 4.C. above. From time to time,
RGIM expects to make available, utilize in managed
strategies and/or recommend to eligible clients private
funds and other investment vehicles sponsored certain
investment firms that are equity owners of RCM, including
Viking, IGM and its affiliates including Northleaf Capital
Partners Ltd., and Abrams Capital. RGIM may also
recommend
investment products sponsored by
investment managers in which Rockefeller & Co. or its
affiliates is a minority owner or has a profits interest in,
such as Breakout Capital (as described in Item 11).
RGIM’s investment advisory fees are generally based on a
percentage of the client’s assets under management.
RGIM may, subject to compliance with applicable
regulatory requirements, enter into performance-based
fee arrangements with respect to particular clients,
investment strategies and investment vehicles. Please refer
to Item 8 for additional information on performance-based
fee arrangements.
to
facilitate client
investments
for
RGIM has complete discretion to determine the fees it will
charge to its clients, subject to applicable law. Fee rates and
structures charged for an investment strategy may differ
across geographies and investment products and from
client to client. Please refer to Item 5 - Variability of Fee
Schedules; Negotiability; Side Letters
further
information.
In order to provide access to third party investment
managers, including both traditional and alternative
investments such as hedge funds, private equity funds,
venture capital funds, etc. as well as direct private equity
investments, RGIM establishes funds of funds and feeder
vehicles
in such
opportunities. Information about the investment objective,
investment program, fees, risk considerations and conflicts
of interest, will be disclosed to clients in each fund’s
confidential private offering memorandum or prospectus.
1. Long-Only Managed Account Fees
Clients of RGIM may be referred to affiliated companies
for services, including but not limited to the Rockefeller
Global Family Office for wealth management services,
Rockefeller Financial for brokerage or strategic advisory
services, RTC NA or RTC Delaware for fiduciary services,
and RCM Insurance Services for insurance products.
to
Services offered by affiliates of RGIM, including but not
limited
the Rockefeller Global Family Office,
Rockefeller Financial, and RCM Insurance Services
raises
(collectively, “Affiliated Service Providers”)
conflicts of interest between RGIM and its clients. Please
RGIM’s fees for long-only managed accounts typically range
from 0.50% to 1.5% annually for equity strategies and from
0.10% to 0.75% annually for fixed income strategies,
depending on the particular investment strategy, mandate
size and other factors. RGIM makes certain fixed income
strategies available to Rockefeller Global Family Office
clients without charging a separate asset‑based investment
management fee where such strategies are accessed
through the wrap fee program sponsored by Rockefeller
Financial; however, RGIM receives a portion of the wrap
fee paid by private wealth clients to their Private Advisor
as compensation for providing investment management
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third party
organizational expenses and, to the extent utilized, the fees
charged by
investment managers and
investment vehicles.
services. Clients utilizing separately managed account
strategies also bear investment related expenses payable to
third parties in addition to RGIM’s account fees as
described below.
2. Long/Short Equity Strategy Fees
Rockefeller & Co. has engaged third party administrators
to provide administration, accounting and tax services to
Affiliated Funds. In the case of Sub-Advised Fund, these
service providers are engaged by the third party fund
sponsor.
Investors in Affiliated Funds and Sub-Advised Funds
should review the relevant fund prospectus, offering
for a
memorandum and/or governing documents
description of the fees and expenses applicable to their
investment.
RGIM’s standard fee for the Long/Short Equity Strategy is
a 1.5% annual investment advisory fee and a 20%
performance fee, subject to a traditional high water mark.
The Long/Short Equity Strategy offers multiple classes of
interests with different terms and eligibility requirements.
Some of these classes of interests have fee terms that are
higher or lower than the standard fee class and have different
withdrawal terms.
C. Clients of the Rockefeller Global Family Office
3. Private Equity Strategy Fees
RGIM’s standard fee for its private equity strategies is an
annual investment advisory fee of up to 2.0% of committed
capital and up to a 20% carried interest. In certain private
equity strategies, carried interest can increase to 25% if a
performance target is achieved. In certain cases, payment
of carried interest is subject to preferred return. Private
equity strategies often have multiple classes of interests
with different terms and requirements. Some classes of
interests have fee terms that are higher or lower than other
available classes of interests in the same private equity
strategy.
Legacy arrangements exist where some clients of the
Rockefeller Global Family Office have entered into a
single fee schedule which covers both the services provided
by the Rockefeller Global Family Office along with the
investment management services offered by RGIM.
R G I M receives a share of the overall fee collected from
clients under these legacy arrangements. Clients of the
Rockefeller Global Family Office should refer to the
Rockefeller Global Family Office client agreement and
disclosure documents for information about the fees
applicable to their accounts.
B. Fees of Affiliated Funds and Sub-Advised Funds
D. SMA Program Fees
Under SMA Programs, program participants will pay a
single fee directly to the program sponsor. The program
sponsor pays a fee to RGIM as compensation for providing
the model portfolio to the program sponsor. Our fees are
separately negotiated with each program sponsor and tend
to vary depending on the strategy, asset levels and other
criteria, but typically range between 0.30% and 0.65%
annually based on the market value of the assets managed
by the program sponsor in accordance with the model
portfolio.
E. Variability of Fee Schedules; Negotiability; Side
Letters
RGIM makes certain of its investment strategies available
through open-end mutual funds, exchange-traded funds,
interval funds, tender offer funds, privately offered
investment funds, and offshore investment vehicles that are
advised or sub-advised by RGIM (collectively, the
“Affiliated Funds”). In addition, RGIM also advises or
sub-advises investment funds sponsored by unaffiliated
third parties (“Sub-Advised Funds”). The investment
advisory fees charged by RGIM for advisory services to
Affiliated Funds and Sub-Advised Fund vary depending on
the nature of their investment strategy, and normally range
between 0.16% and 2.0% annually, based on the fund’s
investment strategy and the market value of the assets
invested in the particular fund. In the case of Sub-Advised
Funds, RGIM receives a portion of the advisory paid to the
investment adviser of the vehicle.
RGIM has employed different fee schedules with clients
historically and, in certain cases, these historical fee
schedules remain in effect with respect to such clients.
Investors in Affiliated Funds and Sub-Advised Funds also
indirectly bear their pro rata share of the fees and expenses
of such fund, which include but are not limited to custody
fees, brokerage fees, audit fees, legal fees, operational
expenses (including administration fees payable to third
parties or Rockefeller & Co. as described below),
RGIM’s investment advisory fees can be negotiated and as
a result may differ among clients receiving the same or
similar services based on a number of variables, including
but not limited to, size of the investment mandate, potential
for additional assets under management, type of client,
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affiliates.
client servicing requirements and other considerations
deemed relevant by RGIM.
F. Payment of Fees
With respect to certain client relationships, RGIM and its
affiliates may agree to aggregate the assets of accounts that
have a family or business relationship to each other for
purposes of determining an overall fee for the relationship.
In such cases, the aggregated accounts typically receive the
benefit of a lower effective fee due to the combined level
of assets.
Generally, RGIM’s investment advisory fees are charged
quarterly in advance and are based on the market value of
the assets under management in the account (including
cash held for investment and receivable balances in the
managed account) at the beginning of the quarter. In
certain circumstances, arrangements are in place for fees to
be calculated and/or paid on different terms, including
billed monthly instead of quarterly, payable in arrears
instead of in advance, and calculated on average value for
the period instead of the period’s beginning or ending
value.
these
An initial asset contribution involving the account after the
first business day of any quarter or month may be subject
to a partial fee based on the value of the assets and a
proration for the number of days applicable to the change.
Fees are prorated to the date of termination, and any
unearned portion of prepaid fees is refunded to the client.
While not typical, RGIM has entered into most favored
nations fee agreements with respect to certain clients that
engage it for investment management services, both
directly and in connection with investments in certain
Affiliated Funds. In this type of arrangement, the advisory
fee that would be charged to the client will be no less
favorable than the fees charged to another similar client for
investment vehicle,
substantially the same services,
investment style. Factors
geographic
location, and
types of fee
into
considered when entering
arrangements include but are not limited to, size of the
investment mandate, potential for additional assets under
management, type of client, client servicing requirements
and other considerations deemed relevant by RGIM.
The advisory fee is generally charged directly to the client’s
custody account when permissible, but in some cases may
be invoiced to a client for payment as agreed with the
client.
Affiliated Funds generally pay investment advisory fees to
RGIM either monthly or quarterly in advance based on the
net asset value of the Affiliated Fund as of the close of
business on the first business day of each calendar month
or quarter or in such other manner as specified in the
Affiliated Fund’s offering and organizational documents.
Affiliated Funds that hold private equity, venture capital or
other illiquid investments are typically charged fees based
upon the capital commitments made by investors rather
than the market value of the Affiliated Fund, and in certain
cases may pay a carried interest to Rockefeller & Co.
G. Other Investment-Related Fees and Expenses
With respect to certain Affiliated Funds, RGIM has entered
into side letter agreements with certain institutional and
other investors that provide for terms of investment that are
more favorable than the terms in the offering document for
the applicable Affiliated Fund. Such terms may include, in
respect of the relevant investor: the waiver, reduction or
rebate of fees; additional information or transparency
rights; more favorable withdrawal terms, key person or
transfer rights; notice rights pertaining to certain material
actions; capacity rights; co-investment rights; voting
rights; most favored nations; limitations on obligation to
return distributions; certain representations and warranties;
and certain other rights that are in addition to, and more
favorable than, the rights of other investors in the funds.
Side letter agreements entered into with a particular
investor do not entitle other investors to the same terms.
Investors and prospective investors in an Affiliated Fund
should consult
the fund’s offering documents for
information about side letter arrangements, if any, relevant
to such fund.
Other fees and expenses that clients will be responsible for
(if applicable) in addition to RGIM’s investment advisory
fees include, but are not limited to, any one or a combination
of the following:
• Brokerage and trading costs and expenses and
commissions
imposed by an affiliated or
unaffiliated broker-dealer, including “step out”
trades
• Fees and expenses of third-party custodians
• Fees and expenses payable
including
to
affiliated
investment
investment
managers,
managers
RGIM may, in its sole discretion, waive all or any portion
of its investment advisory fees and/or administration fees
due with respect to any investor’s investment in an
Affiliated Fund, by rebate or otherwise, for any reason,
without notice to or the consent of any other investor in the
Affiliated Fund. RGIM has entered into such agreements
with investors in certain of its Affiliated Funds, including
directors, officers and employees of RGIM and its
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• Fees and expenses of private funds, mutual funds,
funds, as applicable,
and exchange-traded
including Affiliated Funds
• Fees and commissions
related
to certain
investments, including investments in precious
metals and certain options
• Fees and expenses of money market funds that
•
broker-dealers
accounts. In the case of wrap fee programs, certain of the
fees listed above are included in the overall wrap free
charged to such clients. Where RGIM retains trading
discretion over an investment strategy under a wrap fee
program, RGIM has the ability but not obligation to trade
away from the program sponsor consistent with its duty to
seek best execution for client transactions. If RGIM trades
away from the program sponsor, clients will bear trade
away costs (including brokerage commissions charged by
an executing broker other than the program sponsor and
settlement charges related thereto) which would not have
been incurred had RGIM executed the trade through the
program sponsor.
hold cash balances
“Mark-ups,” “mark-downs,” and dealer spreads
that
(including Rockefeller
Financial) receive when acting as principal or as
agent (which is typically the case for dealer market
transactions in fixed income and over-the-counter
equity) in certain transactions where permitted by
law
and operating
fees
and
• Transaction and deal fees, including costs of
certain co-investments made with third-party
managers
• Processing fees
• Fees, including commissions, associated with
certain fixed income and variable insurance
products
If a client’s assets are invested in any mutual funds, ETFs,
or pooled investment vehicles as part of a RGIM
investment strategy, in addition to the advisory fee charged
by RGIM, the client will incur the internal investment
management
expenses,
performance-based fees, redemption/early termination fees
(which include fees on whole or partial liquidations of the
client’s assets in the investment vehicles) and other fees
and expenses that may be assessed by the investment
vehicle’s sponsor, custodian, transfer agent, adviser,
shareholder service provider or other service providers.
These expenses from time to time include administration,
distribution, transfer agent, custodial, legal, audit and other
fees and expenses.
•
• Transactions in American Depository Receipts
(“ADRs”) generally include certain embedded
execution costs, including conversion or creation
fees, foreign exchange costs and foreign tax
charges
Insurance premium fees, including costs of
ERISA fidelity bonds
transfer
taxes,
Further information regarding charges and fees assessed
may be found in the appropriate prospectus, offering
document, annual report and/or custodial agreement
applicable to the corresponding investment vehicle.
fees, exchange
consult your Custodian
The Custodian selected by the client may charge certain fees
and expenses in addition to the fees and charges shown
account
above. Please
documentation for information about the fees your
custodian charges for the services it provides.
H. Other Firm Compensation
in additional revenue,
in
the aggregate,
Client investments in Affiliated Investment Products
results
to
Rockefeller & Co. and its affiliates.
• Certain other costs or charges that may be imposed
by third parties (including, among other things,
odd-lot differentials,
foreign
fees, supplemental
custody
transaction fees, regulatory fees and other fees or
taxes that may be imposed pursuant to law)
• Costs, fees, and expenses incurred in connection
with conversion from one currency into another
and any hedging or currency transactions
• Credit facility fees, including interest charges
• Other transaction fees and charges such as any fees
imposed by the SEC, wire transfer fees, fees
resulting from any special requests client may
have, the costs of margin or other borrowing
arrangements. In addition, the client’s custodian
may charge additional miscellaneous fees (e.g.,
account transfer or ACAT fees, IRA maintenance
fees)
Rockefeller Financial has entered into revenue sharing
arrangements with providers of certain alternative
investment providers, and also receives trailing and other
fees pursuant to certain arrangements. This additional
revenue creates an incentive for RGIM to recommend and
provide access to alternative investment vehicles.
Investment advisory fees payable to RGIM by any client
will not be reduced to account for the above additional fees
and expenses. Clients accessing RGIM’s investment
strategies through SMA Programs should review the
terms and conditions of such programs for information
about the fees and expenses that will be charged to their
See Item 11 for further details about additional
compensation received by RGIM and its affiliates and the
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associated conflicts of interest.
I. Compensation of RGIM Professionals
clients subject to compliance with requirements under the
Advisers Act applicable to these types of compensation
structures. In these arrangements, clients may pay a
performance-based fee in addition to, or in lieu of, an asset-
based fee.
The receipt of a performance-based fee creates an incentive
for RGIM to make or recommend investments that are riskier
or more speculative than would be the case in the absence
of the performance-based fee due to the opportunity to
participate in a portion of the gains realized with respect to
such investment.
B. Side-By-Side Management
in
In general, RGIM professionals receive a combination of a
base salary and a discretionary annual bonus. The
determination of bonus compensation
is based on
individual, team, and the performance of our clients’
portfolios, as well as the performance of RGIM and the
overall company. The bonus is typically discretionary
rather than formulaic, although for certain investment
professionals, quantitative metrics (e.g., individual alpha
creation and amount of assets under management) are
factors
the decision-making process. Business
development activity, including the attraction and retention
of client assets, factors into compensation for certain
professionals. In addition, certain RGIM professionals
participate in a supplemental incentive plan, which
provides such individuals with restricted incentives that are
intended to align the interests of such individuals with
those of RGIM and the overall company.
With respect to RGIM investment strategies that include
performance fees or carried interest, a portion of the
performance fee or carried interest earned, if any, will
typically be shared by RGIM with strategy’s portfolio
managers. RGIM may also share a portion of the
performance fee or carried interest with other affiliated and
unaffiliated persons and entities. See Item 6 for additional
disclosure about performance-based fees.
RGIM from time to time will manage accounts that pay
both performance-based fees and asset-based fees and
accounts that pay only asset-based fees. Further, RGIM
also manages assets for its own account, including assets
used to seed new investment strategies and support existing
strategies, and for its officers, employees and other
affiliated persons or entities (collectively, “Affiliated
Accounts”) from time to time. In these cases, RGIM and
its supervised persons may have an incentive to favor the
the Affiliated
performance-fee eligible accounts or
Accounts over the others when, for example, placing
trades, aggregating orders, or allocating limited investment
opportunities. To address these potential conflicts, RGIM
has policies and procedures in place requiring that
investment decisions be made in accordance with the
fiduciary duties owed to advisory clients and without
consideration of RGIM or the Affiliated Accounts’
pecuniary, investment or other financial interests. In
addition, RGIM has also implemented procedures that seek
to allocate transactions in a manner that is fair and equitable,
over time, both in the priority of execution and allocation
of orders for client accounts obtained in execution of
aggregated orders for similarly managed accounts.
In connection with private equity strategies, RGIM may
receive from third parties monitoring fees, directors’ fees
or other compensation
in connection with RGIM
professionals serving as a director of a portfolio company
that is an underlying investment on behalf of RGIM-
managed strategy. Clients invested in RGIM private equity
strategies should review each strategy’s prospectus,
offering memorandum and/or governing document for
information about whether this type of compensation will
be retained by RGIM and if it will offset investment
management fees payable to RGIM.
Please refer to Item 11 for additional information on
Rockefeller & Co.’s Code of Ethics and Item 12 for
additional information on the firm’s trade allocation
policies and procedures.
ITEM 7: TYPES OF CLIENTS
ITEM 6: PERFORMANCE-BASED FEES AND SIDE
BY-SIDE MANAGEMENT
A. Performance-Based Fees
RGIM offers its investment advisory services to various
types of clients, including:
• Charitable and religious organizations
• Client accounts regulated under the US Employee
Retirement Income Security Act of 1976, as
amended (“ERISA”), including but not limited to
Defined contribution and defined benefit plans
• Foundations, endowments, and other nonprofit
In addition to an annual asset-based investment advisory
fee, RGIM charges an incentive allocation on assets
invested in the Long/Short Equity Strategy and a carried
interest on portfolio realizations in many of its private equity
strategies (such fees are referred to herein collectively as
“performance-based fees”). RGIM may from time to time
enter into performance-based fee arrangements with other
institutions
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Certain US Small Cap strategies are managed in a tax
aware manner.
• Funds organized as domestic or offshore (non-US)
companies, limited partnerships, limited liability
companies or other types of legal entities
Environmental, Social and Governance
• Global Intermediaries, including the Rockefeller
3.
Equities
Global Family Office
strategies
social
by RGIM
governance
take a
fundamental, bottom-up
• High-net worth and ultra-high net worth
individuals, their families, family offices and
related entities
• Religious institutions
• Sovereign nations and sovereign wealth funds
• State and local government plans
• Taxable and
tax-exempt accounts, including
individual retirement accounts
• Trusts and other fiduciary accounts
• Undertakings for the Collective Investment in
Transferable Securities (“UCITS”) funds
integrate
offered
Certain
(“ESG”)
and
environmental,
considerations as part of a fundamental, bottom‑up
research process (the “ESG Strategies”). In general, these
strategies
research
approach conducted by a team of equity and environmental,
social and governance engagement analysts and seeks to
outperform the stated benchmark over a full market cycle.
Some strategies employ RGIM’s ESG
Improvers’
methodology which attempts to capture alpha from
companies with an improving ESG footprint.
4.
Climate Solutions
• US registered investment companies, including
open-end mutual funds, exchange traded funds
and interval funds
RGIM has established minimum account requirements for
separately managed accounts which vary depending on the
strategy, reporting and service level requirements and other
considerations. Account minimums are typically lower for
accounts managed on behalf of clients who receive services
from the Global Family Office, RTC NA, RTC Delaware
and Rockefeller Financial. Minimums are subject to waiver
and are waived from time to time.
This strategy seeks to map and identify investment
opportunities across eight Environmental Sectors,
diversifying the portfolio overall across business models,
end markets, and growth trajectories, with the goal of
creating an all-weather portfolio that takes advantage of
secular dynamics. We look to find outperforming stocks by
identifying companies with underappreciated ties to
climate adaptation and mitigation that also compare
favorably across our Six Key Characteristics Framework.
5.
Ocean Engagement:
Account minimums and other requirements for accessing
RGIM’s investment strategies through other types of
investment vehicles and accounts are specified in the
investment vehicles’ offering documents and in client
agreements and account forms.
ITEM 8: METHODS OF ANALYSIS, INVESTMENT
STRATEGIES AND RISK OF LOSS
A. Methods of Analysis
This strategy provides exposure to the rise of the "blue
economy" by allocating to public companies whose
business activities materially impact oceans and ocean
resources. The blue economy is defined as economic
activities that are based in and actively beneficial for the
ocean. RGIM will proactively engage with companies held
within the strategy on ocean related matters in pursuit of
healthier oceans.
1.
Global Equities
6.
Long/Short Equity
RGIM takes a fundamental, bottom-up approach with a
high active share and seeks to outperform the stated
benchmark over a full market cycle. The strategy’s
research analysts cover global sectors and companies.
This strategy takes a fundamental-based, valuation-
aware research approach in its stock selection and seeks to
integrate independent thinking and low net experience into
its overall investment portfolio.
2.
US Small Cap Equities
7.
Private Equity:
implemented
RGIM offers private equity strategies that seek long‑term
capital appreciation primarily through investments in
privately held companies and other illiquid assets,
generally
through privately offered
investment funds available only to eligible investors. These
strategies typically employ a fundamental, research‑driven
RGIM pursues capital appreciation from investing in what
we believe are high-quality, small market capitalization
companies whose potential earnings and cash flow streams
are underappreciated by the market and will migrate to
mid/large market capitalizations. These strategies seek to
outperform the stated benchmark over a full market cycle.
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capitalizing on shifting liquidity dynamics and volatility to
deliver principal protection and greater yield.
12.
Opportunistic Municipal Bonds
investment process and a long‑term investment horizon,
and may include control or minority equity positions held
for extended periods, with realizations occurring through
sales, recapitalizations, public offerings, or other liquidity
events.
8.
Venture Capital
through
relative
value
employ
a
fundamental,
The Rockefeller Opportunistic Municipal Bond strategy is
an actively managed municipal bond strategy leveraging a
value-orientated credit intensive process that seeks to
produce high levels of tax-free income over the long-term,
resulting in yield driven total return across various cycles.
The strategy seeks to capitalize on municipal market
bottom-up
inefficiencies
fundamental credit analysis.
13.
Multi-Asset Class Strategies
RGIM offers venture capital strategies that seek long-term
capital appreciation primarily through investments in
early-stage and growth-stage companies, generally
implemented through privately offered investment funds
available only to eligible investors. These strategies
research-driven
typically
investment process and a long-term investment horizon,
and may involve minority equity positions in companies
with
limited operating histories, emerging business
technologies. Investments are
models, or unproven
generally illiquid and are expected to be held for extended
periods, with realizations occurring through acquisitions,
public offerings, or other liquidity events.
9.
Taxable Fixed Income
When selecting third party managers and investment
vehicles for inclusion in multi-asset class strategies that
make such allocations, RGIM will generally choose a
manager or investment vehicle that has been approved for
client use by Rockefeller & Co. and/or Rockefeller
Financial.
Taxable Fixed Income seeks total return consistent with
preservation of capital. The strategies can hold US
Treasury, Agency, Corporate, Municipal, Mortgage-
Backed, Asset-Backed and Preferred securities. Using
long-term trends to set broad portfolio parameters, shorter-
term active management of the portfolio's construction
seeks to optimize the portfolio's relative positioning versus
benchmarks to capture excess returns and limit volatility.
Our bottom-up credit research supports initial purchases
and ongoing surveillance of individual bond issuers in
order to protect principal and maximize relative value in
the portfolio of securities.
10.
Tax-Exempt Fixed Income
Envestnet, an unaffiliated investment adviser that provides
services to Rockefeller Financial, generally conducts
onboarding due diligence for each investment manager and
strategy made available to clients. Envestnet also provides
a service to select, evaluate and monitor a number of the
investment managers and strategies. This service includes
a process of collecting and reporting quantitative and
qualitative data on investment style and philosophy, past
performance and personnel, and designates certain of them
as approved, both on an initial and ongoing basis. Envestnet
periodically reviews the investment managers and may
replace an investment manager if Envestnet determines
that it fails to meet one or more of the above referenced
criteria. Envestnet’s process is more fully described in
Envestnet’s Form ADV Part 2A.
tax-efficient
In addition, employees of Rockefeller & Co. and
Rockefeller Financial perform due diligence for select
investment managers and strategies as a supplement to
Envestnet’s due diligence. When conducting due
diligence, Rockefeller & Co. or Rockefeller Financial
reviews qualitative and quantitative factors, including the
investment manager’s style and philosophy, personnel,
past performance, risk, style drift, and other factors.
The Tax-Exempt Fixed Income seeks total return derived
primarily from consistent
income and,
secondarily, capital appreciation by investing primarily in
investment grade tax-exempt municipal bonds. Using
long-term trends to set broad portfolio parameters, shorter-
term active management of the portfolio's construction
seeks to optimize portfolio relative positioning versus
benchmarks to capture excess returns and limit volatility.
Our bottom-up credit research supports initial purchases
and ongoing surveillance of individual bond issuers in
order to protect principal and maximize relative value in
the portfolio of securities.
11.
Custom Cash/Liquidity Tiering
The Rockefeller Custom Cash strategy utilizes a nimble
and opportunistic active approach with the goal of
Moreover, with respect to certain traditional or alternative
investment strategies with higher operational risks,
Rockefeller & Co. or Rockefeller Financial will sometimes
engage an unaffiliated third-party provider to perform
operational due diligence. These providers review a
number of factors with respect to both the investment
manager and the fund or other investment vehicle and,
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investor may lose all or a portion of their investment.
2. Risk Relating to Equity Securities
upon completion of their review, make reports of their
analyses available to Rockefeller & Co. or Rockefeller
Financial. Rockefeller & Co. or Rockefeller Financial
evaluates these reports for purposes of including or
excluding an investment manager or strategy on the
platform.
investment managers calculate and report
Not all
performance on a uniform and consistent basis. Neither
Rockefeller & Co.
nor Rockefeller Financial
independently audits the historical performance published
by investment managers. The firm does not have a uniform
process for reviewing manager performance and any
performance information. You should expect that
performance of investment managers is not calculated on
a uniform and consistent basis.
Equity and equity-related investments are volatile and will
increase or decrease in value based upon issuer, economic,
market and other factors. Small capitalization stocks
generally involve higher risks in some respects than do
investments in stocks of larger companies and may be more
volatile. The securities of non-US issuers also involve a
high degree of risk because of, among other factors, the
lack of public information with respect to such
issuers, less governmental regulation of stock exchanges
and issuers of securities traded on such exchanges and the
absence of uniform accounting, auditing, and financial
reporting standards. The non-US domicile of such issuers
and currency fluctuations may also be factors in the
assessment of financial risk to the investor. Foreign
securities markets are often less liquid than US securities
markets, which may make the disposition of non-US
securities more difficult. Emerging markets can be subject
to greater social, economic, regulatory, and political
uncertainties and can be extremely volatile.
3. Risk Related to Fixed Income Securities
It is important to note that no methodology, investment
style, or investment strategy is guaranteed to be successful
or profitable or can guarantee a client against loss. While
Rockefeller & Co. and Rockefeller Financial intend to
employ reasonable diligence in evaluating and monitoring
third party managers, no amount of diligence can eliminate
the possibility that a third party investment manager may
provide misleading, incomplete or false information or
representations, or engage in improper or fraudulent
conduct, including unauthorized changes in investment
strategy, insider trading, misappropriation of assets and
unsupportable valuations of portfolio securities.
For a discussion of the conflicts that arise from this service,
and additional detail regarding additional compensation
received by Rockefeller Financial and its affiliates and the
associated conflicts. please see Items 10 and 11 below.
B. Risk Factors
The investment risks described below represent some, but
not all of the risks associated with various types of
investments and investment strategies. Clients should
carefully evaluate all applicable risks with any investment
or investment strategy and realize that investing in
securities involves significant risk of loss that clients should
be prepared to bear.
1. Investment Strategies and Risk of Loss
Investing in securities and other assets involves a potential
risk of significant loss due to various market, economic,
political, regulatory, business, currency, and other risks.
RGIM does not guarantee the future performance of any
client account, investment decision or strategy. Future
results may vary substantially from past performance, and
no investment strategy can guarantee profit or protection
from loss. Returns on investments can be volatile and an
Investments in fixed income securities are subject to
interest rate, credit, liquidity, prepayment, and extension
risks, any of which may adversely impact the price of the
security and result in a loss. Interest rates may go up
resulting in a decrease in the market value of fixed income
securities. Duration is the measure of sensitivity of a bond
or fixed income portfolio’s price to changes in interest
rates. The longer the repayment period, or duration, the
greater the chance that the bond will be exposed to interest
rate risk. Credit risk is the risk that an issuer may not make
timely payments of principal and interest. There is a risk
that an issuer may “call”, or repay, its high yielding bonds
before their maturity dates. Fixed income securities subject
to prepayment can offer less potential for gains during a
declining interest rate environment and similar or greater
potential for loss in a rising interest rate environment.
Limited trading opportunities for certain fixed income
securities may make it more difficult to sell or buy a security
at a favorable price or time. The municipal market is volatile
and can be significantly affected by adverse tax, legislative
or political changes and the financial condition of the
issuers of municipal securities. Market liquidity risk is the
inability to easily exit a position during periods of more
limited market liquidity where there may be no willing
buyer of the fixed income securities, and the securities may
need to be sold at a lower price or may not be able to be sold
at all, each of which would negatively impact returns.
Fixed income investments can be affected by adverse tax,
legislative or political changes and the financial condition
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identified and to reflect developments in best corporate
governance and business practices.
of the issuers. The value of fixed income securities may
fluctuate based on other factors affecting the securities
markets generally. Recent market events risk relates to
volatility that arises due to economic, political, and global
macro factors, such as the impact of the global pandemic.
Investments in high yield debt securities (“junk bonds”)
and other lower-rated securities may subject the strategy to
substantial risk of loss. These securities are considered to be
speculative with respect to the issuer’s ability to pay interest
and principal when due, are more susceptible to default or
decline in market value and volatile prices and are less liquid
than investment grade debt securities.
4. Growth Investing Risk
Environmental, social and governance market data is
limited and much of the data is unstructured and reported in
varying increments and timetables. Data, ratings and
analysis obtained by RGIM may be incomplete, inaccurate or
inconsistent across issuers and industries. While RGIM
endeavors to obtain and analyze relevant environmental,
social and governance market data, there is no guarantee
that it will be successful in these efforts. Supply chain
information, in particular, is highly complex, multi-tiered
and often involving suppliers in multiple countries. To the
extent feasible and commercially prudent, RGIM seeks to
avoid in environmental, social and governance strategies
investing in companies that derive material revenue from
activities that violate its environmental, social and
governance criteria; however, there can be no assurance
that direct or indirect exposures will be identified and/or
avoided. Companies may not be required to meet all
aspects of RGIM’s environmental, social and governance
criteria to be included in the portfolio of an environmental,
social and governance strategy.
Growth investing attempts to identify companies that
RGIM believes will experience rapid earnings growth
relative to value or other types of stocks. The value of these
stocks generally is much more sensitive to current or
expected earnings than stocks of other types of companies.
Short-term events, such as a failure to meet industry
earnings expectations, can cause dramatic decreases in the
growth stock price compared to other types of stock.
Growth stocks may trade at higher multiples of current
earnings compared to value or other stocks, leading to
inflated prices and thus potentially greater declines in
value.
5. Value Investing Risk
Where a strategy incorporates environmental, social and
governance criteria into the investment process, this could
cause the strategy to avoid or sell stocks of companies that
otherwise meet the financial criteria for inclusion in the
strategy and could result in the strategy underperforming
similar investment strategies that do not incorporate
RGIM’s environmental, social and governance criteria into
their investment process. RGIM manages other strategies
which do not employ its environmental, social and
governance criteria; as a consequence, RGIM’s other
strategies may own shares in companies that do not take a
responsible environmental, social and governance stance
and which may be deemed controversial by certain
investors in an environmental, social and governance
strategy.
Value investing attempts to identify companies that are
undervalued according to RGIM’s estimate of their true
worth. RGIM selects stocks at prices that it believes are
temporarily low relative to factors such as the company’s
earnings, cash flow or dividends. A value stock may
decrease in price or may not increase in price as anticipated
by RGIM if other investors fail to recognize the company’s
value or the factors that RGIM believes will cause the stock
price to increase do not occur.
6. Risk Related to Environmental, Social and
Governance Investments
In addition, where applicable RGIM may vote proxies in a
manner which is consistent with its environmental, social
and governance criteria, which may not always be
consistent with maximizing the short-term performance of
an environmental, social and governance strategy. Due to
varying investment objectives and client preferences and
restrictions, RGIM’s proxy voting position by company
may not be consistent across all strategies and accounts that
it manages. Moreover, RGIM may vote proxies on behalf
of other strategies and accounts in a manner which
conflicts with proxies voted on behalf of an environmental,
social and governance strategy.
7. Risk Relating to Fossil Fuel Free Investment
Environmental, Social and Governance refers to an
investment approach that incorporates environmental,
social and governance criteria into the investment process.
There are a wide variety of environmental, social and
governance strategies available to investors, and clients
invested in RGIM’s environmental, social and governance
investment strategies should carefully evaluate the firm’s
environmental, social and governance approach for
consistency with their individual objectives and values.
RGIM’s environmental, social and governance approach is
expected to evolve over time as new issues and concerns are
Strategies
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assumptions regarding asset classes and investment
strategies may be incorrect in light of actual market
conditions and may result in investment losses.
Fossil fuel free investment strategies will typically be
underweight in the energy sector under normal market
conditions. As a result, the returns of fossil fuel free
investment strategies are likely to underperform the market
in periods where the energy sector outperforms other sectors.
8. Thematic Strategy Risks
Diversification across asset classes, investment styles,
sectors and industries does not eliminate the risk of
experiencing investment losses. There is also a risk that too
much diversification can lead to the indexing of investment
returns.
10. Risk Related to Exchange Traded Funds
that RGIM will be successful
investment
themes. A strategy’s
There may be a lack of liquidity in certain exchange traded
funds (“ETFs”) which can lead to a large difference
between the bid-ask prices (increasing the cost to you when
you buy or sell the ETF). A lack of liquidity also may cause
an ETF to trade at a large premium or discount to its net
asset value. Additionally, an ETF may suspend issuing new
shares and this may result in an adverse difference between
the ETF’s publicly available share price and the actual
value of its underlying investment holdings. At times when
underlying holdings are traded less frequently, or not at all,
an ETF’s returns also may diverge from the benchmark it
is designed to track.
In the case of thematic investment strategies (e.g., Climate
Solutions, Ocean Engagement, etc.), there is no guarantee
that these themes will generate profitable investment
in
opportunities or
identifying profitable investment opportunities within
these
focus on
environmental criteria will limit the number of investment
opportunities available as compared to other investment
strategies which have broader investment objectives, and as
a result, thematic strategies may underperform other
investment strategies that are not subject to similar
investment considerations. Portfolio companies
in
investment strategies may be significantly
thematic
affected by environmental considerations,
taxation,
government regulation (including the increased cost of
compliance), inflation, increases in interest rates, price and
supply fluctuations, increases in the cost of raw materials
and other operating costs, technological advances, and
competition from new market entrants.
In addition,
companies may share common characteristics and be
subject to similar business risks and regulatory burdens. A
downturn in the demand for thematic products and services
is likely to have a significant negative impact on the value
of the strategy’s investments. As a result of these and other
factors, a thematic strategy’s portfolio investments are
expected to be volatile, which may result in significant
investment losses.
to, among other
9. Concentration Risk
Most ETFs, like all mutual funds, are registered investment
companies under the Investment Company Act. However,
ETFs that invest exclusively in physical assets, such as
gold, are not registered investment companies. These ETFs
will not have the protections associated with ownership of
shares in a registered investment company. For example,
these ETFs are not subject to the prohibition on registered
investment companies dealing with affiliates, do not have
an independent board of trustees, and are not subject to
requirements with respect
things,
diversification, and the prohibition on the suspension of
redemptions.
11. Interval Fund and Tender Offer Fund Risks
time
to
Certain of RGIM’s investment strategies and some third
party manager strategies will hold a relatively concentrated
portfolio of securities in comparison to their respective
benchmarks and broader market indices. In addition, these
strategies may from
time be overweight,
underweight or have no exposure to specific sectors,
industries and/or geographies, and can take concentrated
positions which could lead to increased volatility. Certain
of these strategies may focus on particular sectors,
industries, and geographies. As a result, an adverse
development impacting any one position, sector, industry,
or geography may have a material adverse effect on
investment returns as well as performance relative to the
strategy’s benchmark.
the amount
With respect to multi-asset class strategies, there is a risk
and
that RGIM’s
asset
allocation methodology
Certain investment strategies may be implemented through
interval funds and tender offer funds, which are registered
closed‑end investment companies that provide investors
with limited liquidity through periodic repurchase offers
rather than daily redemptions. Interval funds conduct
repurchase offers at specified intervals pursuant to a
fundamental policy, while tender offer funds conduct
repurchase offers at the discretion of the fund’s board. In
either case, there can be no assurance that investors will be
able to sell all or any portion of their interests in a
repurchase offer. Repurchase offers may be subject to
limits on
repurchased and may be
oversubscribed, resulting in pro rata reductions or no
repurchase of tendered shares. Investments in interval
funds and tender offer funds are generally illiquid, may
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liquidity requirements of
involve valuation uncertainty, leverage, concentration, and
exposure to less liquid or privately negotiated investments,
and may require investors to hold their investment for an
extended period. As a result, investors may not be able to
access capital when desired, and these investments are not
suitable for all investors.
12. Risk Relating to Real Estate Investment Trusts
funds on April 2, 2024. Beginning April 2, 2024, all money
market funds were required to comply with the increased
portfolio
the new rules.
Beginning October 2, 2024, all non-government
institutional money market funds may have had mandatory
liquidity fees imposed on them. In general, the mandatory
liquidity fees will be imposed by the money market fund
when the fund experiences daily net redemptions that
exceed 5% of the fund’s net assets, which can occur even
in non-stress market environments. Additional information
relating to these changes is available on the SEC’s website
at: 33-11211-fact-sheet.pdf (sec.gov).
taxable
income”
Additionally, in some circumstances, money market funds
may be forced to cease operations when the value of a fund
drops below $1.00 per share. In that event, the fund’s
holdings are liquidated and distributed to the fund’s
shareholders. This liquidation process could take up to one
month or longer. During that time, these funds would not
be available to you to support purchases, withdrawals and,
if applicable, check writing or ATM debits from your
account.
14. Risk Relating to Preferred Stock, Convertible
Certain strategies offer real estate-related investment
disciplines, which typically invest in common stocks of US
corporations. Almost all such investments will be treated
for tax purposes as investments in real estate investment
trusts (“REITs”). Although it is unlikely that such
investments will cause a tax-exempt investor to recognize
“unrelated business
(“UBTI”), no
assurances can be made that no UBTI will be recognized.
If any investment causes a tax-exempt investor to recognize
UBTI, and that tax-exempt investor is a charitable
remainder trust, all of the income of the charitable
remainder trust would be subject to federal income tax for
the tax year in which the UBTI was recognized. Therefore,
tax advantaged accounts, such as charitable remainder
trusts and IRAs, should consult with a tax adviser before
investing in real estate investment disciplines.
Securities and Warrants
13. Risk Relating to Money Market Funds
The value of preferred stock, convertible securities and
warrants will vary with the movements in the equity market
and the performance of the underlying common stock, in
particular. Their value is also affected by adverse issuer or
market
information. Preferred stocks are generally
subordinated in right of payments to all debt obligations and
creditors of the issuer.
15. Risk Relating to Differing Classes of Securities
You could lose money in money market funds. Although
money market funds classified as government funds (i.e.,
money market funds that invest 99.5% of total assets in cash
and/or securities backed by the U.S government) and retail
funds (i.e., money market funds open to natural person
investors only) seek to preserve value at $1.00 per share,
they cannot guarantee they will do so. The price of money
market funds will fluctuate and when you sell shares they
may be worth more or less than originally paid. Money
market funds may impose a fee upon sale or temporarily
suspend sales if liquidity falls below required minimums.
During suspensions, shares would not be available for
purchases, withdrawals, check writing or ATM debits.
Different classes of securities have different rights as
creditor if the issuer files for bankruptcy or reorganization.
For example, bondholders’ rights generally are more
favorable than shareholders’ rights in a bankruptcy or
reorganization.
16. Risk Relating to Use of Third Party Managers
intends
to employ reasonable diligence
Multi-asset class strategies that utilize third party managers
in investment programs are subject to additional risks. The
success of the third party manager depends on the
capabilities of its investment management personnel and
infrastructure, all of which may be adversely impacted by
the departure of key employees and other events. The future
results of the third party manager may differ significantly
from the third party manager’s past performance. While
RGIM
in
evaluating and monitoring third party managers, no amount
of diligence can eliminate the possibility that a third party
Recent changes to regulations impacting money funds have
created both a potential discretionary and separate
mandatory liquidity fee which could impact a selling
shareholder in non-government money market funds. The
discretionary fee is optional and subject to the discretion of
the board of directors/trustees of each prime and tax-
exempt money market fund. On July 12, 2023, the
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) adopted
amendments to Rule 2a-7 and other rules that govern
money market funds under the Investment Company Act
of 1940. The new money market fund rules had a staged
implementation schedule with discretionary liquidity fees
becoming applicable to all non-government money market
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manager may provide misleading, incomplete, or false
information or representations, or engage in improper or
fraudulent conduct, including unauthorized changes in
investment strategy, insider trading, misappropriation of
assets and unsupportable valuations of portfolio securities.
17. Risk Relating to Alternative Investments:
Investments in alternatives funds should be viewed as
illiquid. It is uncertain as to when a return of capital or
profits, if any, will be realized and losses on unsuccessful
investments may be realized before gains on successful
investments are realized. The return of capital and the
realization of gains, if any, generally will occur only upon
the partial or complete disposition of an investment. While
a fund’s investment may be sold at any time, it is generally
expected that this will not occur for a number of years after
the initial investment. Before such time, there may be no
current return on the investment. Furthermore, the expenses
of operating alternatives funds (including any management
fees imposed by the investment manager) may exceed its
income, thereby requiring that the difference be paid from
the funds’ capital, including without limitation, unfunded
commitments. Further, any profits or gains may be
reinvested in the fund and may not be distributed to investors
until the end of the fund’s life, if at all.
Alternative investments include but are not limited to: hedge
funds, private equity funds, venture capital funds, buyout
funds, private credit and direct lending funds, and private
real estate and other real asset funds. Alternative
investments are generally speculative and involve a high
degree of risk. There is no secondary market for alternative
investments and there may be significant restrictions or
limitations on withdrawing from or transferring these types
of investments. Many alternative investment funds require
an investor to make and fund a commitment over several
years. Alternative investments generally have high fees
(including both management and performance-based fees)
and expenses that offset returns. Alternative investments are
generally subject to less regulation than publicly traded
investments. RGIM will not be able to independently value
investments held by alternative investment fund managers.
As a result, RGIM will generally rely on the values reported
to it by alternative investment fund managers, or their
service providers.
investments may
include specific
An alternatives fund’s ability to dispose of investments may
be limited for several reasons (some or all of which may be
outside of a fund’s control), including the absence of an
established market for such investments, as well as
contractual and other limitations on transfer or other
restrictions that would interfere with subsequent sales of
such investments or adversely affect the terms upon which a
disposition could be made. Any possibility of a disposition
in the public markets will depend upon favorable market
conditions, including receptiveness to initial or secondary
public offerings for the companies in which the funds invest
and an active mergers and acquisitions (or recapitalizations
and reorganizations) market, among other factors.
18. Risk Relating to Venture Capital Investments
investment
in
and
risks
Alternative
associated with limited liquidity, the use of leverage,
arbitrage, short sales, options, futures, and derivative
instruments. There can be no assurances that a manager’s
strategy (hedged or otherwise) will be successful or that a
manager will employ such strategies with respect to all or
any portion of a portfolio. Clients should recognize that they
may bear asset-based fees and expenses at the manager
level, and indirectly, fees, expenses, and performance-based
compensation. Performance-based compensation may
create an incentive for the managers that may receive
performance based compensation to make investments that
are riskier and more speculative than would be the case if
this special allocation were not made. Fee structures may
include hurdle rates, high-water marks, and/or claw back
provisions, which affect how and when performance fees are
calculated. Furthermore, founder share classes, lockup
periods and tiered fee discounts for larger or early investors
can result in different net returns across participants in the
same fund. Because the individual managers make trading
decisions independently of each other, it is possible that they
may, on occasion, hold substantial positions in the same
security or group of securities at the same time. This possible
lack of diversification may subject the client’s investments
to more volatility than would be the case if the client’s assets
were more widely diversified.
Venture capital investments involve a high degree of risk. In
general, financial and operating risks confronting early-
stage companies can be significant. A loss of an investor’s
entire
timing of profit
is possible. The
realization, if any, is highly uncertain, and successful
investments often require a long maturation. Early-stage and
development-stage companies often experience unexpected
the areas of product development,
problems
manufacturing, marketing,
general
financing
management, which, in some cases, cannot be adequately
solved. Such companies may face intense competition,
including from companies with greater financial resources,
more extensive development, manufacturing, marketing and
service capabilities and a larger number of qualified
managerial and technical personnel. In addition, such
companies may require substantial amounts of financing
that may not be available through institutional private
placements or the public markets. Many emerging growth
companies go out of business every year. It is difficult to
know how companies will grow, if at all, or what changes
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20. Valuation Risk
rise
to significant problems
may occur in the market. Investments in more mature
companies in the expansion or profitable stage also involve
substantial risks. Such companies typically have obtained
capital in the form of debt and/or equity to expand rapidly,
reorganize operations, acquire other businesses or develop
new products and markets. These activities by definition
involve a significant amount of change in a company and
in sales,
could give
manufacturing, and general management of these activities.
19.
Risk Relating to Growth Equity Investments
Private equity, venture capital, and other illiquid investments
generally do not have readily ascertainable market values. As
a result, such investments are valued in good faith based on
judgment, valuation methodologies, and
information
obtained from portfolio companies and third‑party sources,
in accordance with applicable valuation policies and
procedures. These valuations are inherently subjective and
may differ materially from values determined by other
managers or third parties. Changes in market conditions,
accounting standards, regulatory developments, or the
performance of portfolio investments may affect valuations.
There can be no assurance that estimated values will reflect
the price ultimately
realized upon disposition, and
differences between estimated and realized values may be
material.
21. Derivatives Risk
in growth companies,
Investments in options, futures, options on futures, forwards,
participatory notes, swaps, structured securities, and other
types of derivatives can be used to hedge a portfolio's
investments or to seek to enhance returns. These types of
investments entail specific risks relating to liquidity, leverage
and credit that can reduce returns and/or increase volatility.
Losses in a portfolio from investments in derivative
instruments can result from the potential illiquidity of the
markets for derivative instruments, the failure of the
counterparty to fulfill its contractual obligations, the portfolio
receiving cash collateral under the transactions and some or
all of that collateral being invested in the market, or the risks
arising from margin posting requirements and related
leverage factors associated with such transactions. In
addition, many jurisdictions continue to review practices and
regulations relating to the use of derivatives, or similar
instruments. Such reviews could make such instruments more
costly, limiting the availability of, or otherwise adversely
affecting the value or performance of such instrument.
22. Risk Relating to Options Trading
Growth equity is usually (but not always) classified by
investments in private companies that have achieved product-
market fit but may still need capital to achieve the desired
level of scale before having access to the public markets for
financing. Investments in companies that are in conceptual or
early stages of development involve additional risks that are
generally greater than the risks of investing in public
companies that may be at a later stage of development. While
like early-stage
investments
companies, offer the opportunity for significant capital gains,
such investments involve a high degree of business and
financial risk that can result in substantial or total loss.
Growth investments typically are more volatile than other
investments due to their relatively high valuations and
sensitivity to investor perceptions of the issuer’s growth
potential. Because the value of growth companies is a
function of their expected earnings growth, there is a risk that
such earnings growth may not occur or cannot be sustained.
Growth equity companies are often characterized by new
technologies and products, limited products lines and
markets, quickly evolving markets and management teams
that sometimes have limited experience working together.
The management of such companies will need to implement
and maintain successful sales and marketing, finance
capabilities and personnel and other operational strategies in
order to become and remain successful. Other substantial
operational risks to which such companies are subject include
uncertain market acceptance of the company’s products or
services, a high degree of regulatory risk for new or untried
and/or untested business models, products and services, high
levels of competition among similarly situated companies (or
companies with greater financial resources, more extensive
marketing and service capabilities and a larger number of
lower capitalizations and fewer
qualified personnel),
financial resources, the potential for rapid organizational or
strategic change, and susceptibility to personal misconduct by
or departure of key executives or founders, and therefore, are
often more vulnerable to financial failure. Certain of these
companies will need substantial additional capital to support
expansion or to achieve or maintain a competitive position.
Such companies also often have shorter operating histories on
which to judge future performance and in many cases, if
operating, will have negative cash flow.
There are various risks associated with transactions in
exchange-traded and over the counter (“OTC”) options. The
market price of an option is affected by many factors,
including: changes in the market prices or dividend rates of
underlying securities (or in the case of indices, the securities
in such indices); the time remaining before expiration;
changes in interest rates or exchange rates; and changes in
the actual or perceived volatility of the relevant stock market
and underlying securities. Although an option buyer’s risk is
limited to the amount of the original investment for the
purchase of the option, an investment in an option may be
subject to greater fluctuation than an investment in the
underlying securities. The market price of an option also
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26. Quantitative Strategies Risk
may be adversely affected if the market for the option
becomes less liquid, including where trading in the securities
underlying the option becomes restricted.
23. Risk Relating to Structured Products
Quantitative investing refers to strategies that analyze
historical data and use quantitative models to select
securities and construct portfolios. Strategies that are
created with quantitative models typically intend to
generate alpha. They utilize mathematical and statistical
modelling to combine sources of return into a portfolio
with an attractive risk-return profile. These strategies
utilize outside data and modeling are at risk if such data is
inaccurate or not applied effectively.
27. Short Sales Risk
Short selling runs the risk of loss if the price of the securities
sold short does not decline below the price at which they
were originally sold. This risk of loss is theoretically
unlimited, as there is no cap on the amount that the price of
a security may appreciate. In addition, a lender may request,
or market conditions may dictate, that securities sold short
be returned to the lender on short notice, which may result
having to buy the securities sold short at an unfavorable
price.
28. Market Disruption, Health Crises, Terrorism
and Geopolitical Risk
Investments in structured products (generally Senior
Unsecured Debt Obligations linked to the performance of
an underlying market measure) (all such products,
“Structured Products”) are subject to a number of risks,
including credit risk, market risk, and liquidity risk.
Structured Products typically have a specified maturity
date and payout profile determined by the performance of
an underlying, or basket of underlying, market measures.
Structured Products are generally designed to provide
some level or combination of principal protection,
downside market risk mitigation, enhanced income, or
enhanced returns relative to the performance of the
underlying market measure. As a Senior Unsecured Debt
Obligation, the payout at maturity is dependent on the
issuer’s ability to pay off its debts as they mature. While
there is generally liquidity provided by the issuer of a
Structured Product prior to maturity, there is no guarantee
of a secondary market. In the case that there is a secondary
market provided, the sale price may be significantly less
than what would be the maturity value due to factors such
as volatility, interest rates, credit quality and risk appetite.
The value of an investment in a Structured Product will
reflect the then-current market value of the Structured
Product as calculated by the issuer and will be subject to all
of the risks associated with an investment in the underlying
market measure along with the risks and factors described
above. Investors in structured products will not own or
have any claim to the underlying market measure directly
and will therefore not benefit from general rights
applicable to the holders of those assets, such as dividends
and voting rights.
24. Risk Relating to Differing Classes of Securities
Different classes of securities have different rights as
creditor if the issuer files for bankruptcy or reorganization.
For example, bondholders’ rights generally are more
favorable than shareholders’ rights in a bankruptcy or
reorganization.
25. Leverage and Margin Risk
Investors are subject to the risk that war, terrorism, global
health crises or similar pandemics, and other related
geopolitical events may lead to increased short-term
market volatility and have adverse long-term effects on
world economies and markets generally, as well as adverse
effects on issuers of securities and the value of a Fund’s
investments. War, terrorism, and related geopolitical
events, as well as global health crises and similar
pandemics have led, and in the future may lead, to
increased short-term market volatility and may have
adverse long-term effects on world economies and markets
generally. Those events as well as other changes in world
economic, political and health conditions also could
adversely affect individual issuers or related groups of
issuers, securities markets, interest rates, credit ratings,
inflation, investor sentiment and other factors affecting the
value of a Fund’s investments. At such times, investors’
exposure to a number of other risks described elsewhere in
this section can increase.
29. Frequent Trading and Portfolio Turnover Risk
Strategies which employ leverage may amplify the impact
of any decrease in the value of underlying securities held in
the portfolio, thereby increasing the risk of loss. The use of
leverage may also increase the volatility of a portfolio.
Strategies involving margin can cause a client to lose more
money than deposited in the client’s margin account.
The Long/Short Equity Strategy and certain other RGIM
strategies involve frequent or active trading which can
result in high portfolio turnover. Strategies that involve
frequent or active trading increase the management and
securities selection risks because the persons managing the
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those of service providers, are susceptible to cyber-attacks
that could potentially seek unauthorized access to digital
systems for purposes such as misappropriating sensitive
information, corrupting data or causing operational
disruption. Cyber-attacks might potentially be carried out
by persons using techniques that could range from efforts
to electronically
accounts are making more trading decisions, which may
prove to be incorrect. A portfolio with a high turnover rate
will also incur more transaction costs than one with a lower
rate. Higher transaction costs may negatively impact the
return of the portfolio. High portfolio turnover may also
cause a client to experience adverse tax consequences due
to the fact that the client may have increased instances of
realized gains and losses and such gains and losses may
commonly be characterized as short term gains and losses
under applicable tax law.
30. Liquidity Risk
circumvent network security or overwhelm websites to
intelligence gathering and social engineering functions
aimed at obtaining information necessary to gain access.
Cyber-attacks against, or security breakdowns, of us or our
service providers, if applicable, may adversely impact us
and our clients, potentially resulting in, among other
things, financial losses; our inability to transact business on
behalf of our clients; reputational damage; and/or
additional costs. The firm may incur additional costs
related to cybersecurity risk management and remediation.
In addition, cybersecurity risks may also impact issuers of
securities in which we invest on behalf of our clients, which
may cause our clients’ investment in such issuers to lose
value.
Investments in some equity, fixed income and privately
placed securities and other instruments may be difficult to
purchase or sell, possibly preventing the sale of those
illiquid securities at an advantageous price or when
desired. A lack of liquidity may also cause the value of
investments to decline, and the illiquid investments may
also be difficult to value. The liquidity of a security or
instrument could decrease significantly and rapidly for any
number of reasons.
34. Technology Risk
31. Dependence on Key Personnel
The success of RGIM’s investment strategies depends in
substantial part on the skill and expertise of RGIM’s
portfolio managers, analysts and other personnel. There
can be no assurance that such personnel will continue to be
employed by RGIM throughout the life of a client’s
relationship with RGIM. The loss of key personnel could
have a material adverse effect on RGIM’s investment
performance.
32. Counterparty Risk
afforded
to
in part on digital and network
RGIM must rely
technologies to conduct its business and to maintain
substantial computerized data relating to client account
activities. These technologies include those owned or
managed by Rockefeller & Co. and its affiliates as well as
those owned or managed by others, such as financial
intermediaries, pricing vendors, transfer agents, and other
parties used by Rockefeller & Co., its affiliates and their
respective third party vendors to provide services and
maintain
technology
its business operations. These
systems may fail to operate properly or become disabled as
a result of events or circumstances wholly or partly beyond
the firm’s or its service providers’ control. Technology
failures, whether deliberate or not, including those arising
from use of third-party service providers or client usage of
systems to access accounts, could have a material adverse
effect on our business or our clients and could result in,
among other things, financial loss, reputational damage,
regulatory penalties, or the inability to conduct business.
35. Sanctions Risk
An account may have exposure to the credit risk of
counterparties with which it deals in connection with the
investment of its assets, whether engaged in exchange
traded or off-exchange transactions, or through brokers,
dealers, custodians, and exchanges which it engages. In
addition, many protections
cleared
transactions, such as the security afforded by transactions
through a clearing house, might not be available with over-
the-counter (“OTC”) transactions. Therefore, in those
into OTC
in which an account enters
instances
transactions, the account will be subject to the risk that its
direct counterparty will not perform its obligations under
the transactions and will sustain losses.
33. Cybersecurity Risk
RGIM and its affiliates operate a program designed to
ensure compliance with economic and trade sanctions-
related obligations applicable directly to its activities.
These sanctions prohibit, among other things, transactions
with and the provision of services to, directly or indirectly,
certain countries, territories, entities and individuals. It
should be expected that any economic and trade sanctions,
and the application by the firm of its compliance program,
RGIM must rely
in part on digital and network
technologies (collectively, “networks”) to conduct its
investment advisory business. Such networks, including
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comply with applicable law and its related policies and
procedures even though it turns out that doing so was not
required or appropriate.
36. Quantitative Model Risk
will restrict or limit a Client’s investment activities, can
require the firm to cause a Client to sell its position in an
investment at an inopportune time or when the firm would
otherwise not have done so, and preclude the firm from
selling a Client’s position in investment when the firm
would otherwise wish to do so. The application of
sanctions may also have significant adverse impacts on the
valuation and liquidity of a Client’s investments to the
extent such investments are related to the sanctioned
entities or individuals, potentially rendering specific
investment illiquid or worthless.
laws
in
or
involves
the US and other
Additionally, sanction
jurisdictions or other governmental
action may
significantly restrict the firm and its Clients from investing
or continuing to hold an investment in, or transacting with
or in certain countries, individuals, and companies,
including, among other things, transactions with, and the
provision of services
to certain foreign countries,
territories, in entities and individuals. The US Foreign
Corrupt Practices Act (the “FCPA”) and other anti-
corruption laws and regulations, as well as anti-boycott
regulations, may also apply to, and restrict the activities of
the firm and its Clients.
If RGIM determines that a Client is subject to trade,
economic or other sanctions imposed by a governmental or
regulatory authority, the firm will take such actions as it
determines appropriate to comply with applicable law and
its related policies and procedures. These actions may
include, without limitation, (i) blocking or freezing Client
accounts or Client investments, (ii) where permitted or
required by the applicable sanctions law, requiring a Client
to redeem or withdraw from the vehicle, and delaying the
payment of any redemption or withdrawal proceeds,
without interest, until such time as such payment is
permitted under applicable law, (iii) excluding an Client in
a pooled investment vehicle from allocations of net capital
appreciation and net capital depreciation and distributions
made to other Clients, (iv) ceasing further dealings with
such Client’s interest until such sanctions are lifted or a
license is obtained under applicable law to continue
dealings, and (v) excluding a Client in a pooled investment
vehicle from voting on matters on which investors are
entitled to vote, and excluding the net asset value of such
investor’s interest in the pooled investment vehicle for
purposes of determining the investors entitled to vote on or
required to take any action in respect of the pooled
investment vehicle.
Sanctions-related requirements imposed by governmental
or regulatory authorities can be complex, changing,
conflicting, unclear or subject to opaque, changing or
conflicting guidance. Accordingly, RGIM may take or
refrain from taking action it determines appropriate to
Certain investment strategies RGIM employs utilize, in
whole or in part, quantitatively based financial analytical
models to aid in the selection of investments, to allocate
investments across various strategies and subsectors and to
determine the risk profile of a portfolio. In some cases, the
successful deployment of a particular investment strategy
requires
sophisticated mathematical
calculations and complex computer programs. Although
RGIM intends to use good faith efforts to carry out such
calculations and programs correctly and to use them
effectively, there can be no assurance that it will
successfully do so. Errors may occur in designing, writing,
testing, monitoring, and/or implementing such calculations
and programs, including errors in the manner in which such
calculations and programs function together. Whether or
not such calculations or programs relate to a substantial
portion of the client’s investments, any errors in this regard
may be difficult to detect, may not be detected for a
significant period of time, and could have a material
adverse effect on the client. In addition, while RGIM
may seek to apply existing calculations and programs to
different components of the investment strategies deployed
on behalf of the client (including markets, strategies, or
investments), such application may prove ineffective in
such different contexts. For example, it may be difficult or
impossible to distinguish unexpected trading outcomes
resulting from market activity from unexpected trading
outcomes resulting from an error in the applicable
calculation or programs. The mathematical calculations
and computer programs utilized by RGIM are subject to
inherent limitations and, like all approaches to investing,
are almost always susceptible to being improved upon as
experience is gained, strategies are refined, and markets
change. Also, there can be no assurance that the investment
professionals utilizing the models will be able to (i)
determine that any model is or will become not viable or
not completely viable or (ii) notice, predict or adequately
react to any change in the viability of a model. The use of
a model that is not viable or not completely viable could,
at any time, have a material adverse effect on the
performance of a client’s account. Accordingly, RGIM
does not expect to disclose discovered software errors to
clients. RGIM seeks, on an ongoing basis, to create
adequate backups of software and hardware where possible
but there is no guarantee that such efforts will be
successful. Further, to the extent that an unforeseeable
software or hardware malfunction or problem is caused by
a defect, virus or other outside force, clients may be
materially adversely affected.
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37. Data Feed Failure
Rockefeller Financial, a broker-dealer registered with the
SEC and a member of FINRA. RGIM professionals who
are registered representatives of Rockefeller Financial may
engage in placement activities and receive compensation
in connection therewith.
B. Futures Commission Merchant, Commodity Pool
Operator, or Commodity Trading Advisor
Registration Status
Neither Rockefeller & Co. nor any of its management
persons are registered or have an application pending to
register as a futures commission merchant, commodity
pool operator, commodity trading adviser.
C. Material Relationships or Arrangements with
Industry Participants
RGIM’s models utilize data feeds from a number of
sources. If these data feeds were to be corrupted,
compromised, or discontinued in any manner, or not
delivered or accessible in a timely manner, the models may
not be properly formulated. This failure to receive the data
feeds or receive the data feeds in a timely manner may
leave RGIM unable to trade on behalf of a client or may
result in trades that are not aligned with an algorithm’s
goal, and this may expose the client to risk of loss or loss
of opportunities, in particular if the loss of the data feed
coincides with turbulent market conditions. If the data
feeds are compromised or discontinued in any material
manner or if the data feeds are not delivered or accessible
in a timely manner, it may result in a loss to the client,
which could be material.
38. Legal and Tax Considerations
Clients are responsible for all tax liabilities and tax return
filing obligations arising from the transactions in your
account or any other investment advice offered by us.
RGIM does not provide legal or tax advice to clients. This
Brochure or any other document received from RGIM
should not be construed as providing such advice.
Rockefeller & Co. is an indirect, wholly-owned subsidiary
of Rockefeller Capital Management L.P. (“RCM”), a
leading independent financial services firm offering
family office, wealth management, asset management and
strategic advisory services to ultra-high and high-net worth
individuals, families, institutions, and corporations. RGIM
is a division of Rockefeller & Co. that provides a broad
range of investment strategies in varying investment
vehicles to institutional clients and intermediaries globally.
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and
This list of risk factors does not purport to be a complete
enumeration or explanation of the risks involved in
connection with the firm’s investment offerings or the
management of client accounts. In addition, prospective
clients should be aware that, as a client’s investment
portfolio develops and changes over time, the account may
be subject to additional and different risks.
ITEM 9: DISCIPLINARY INFORMATION
fiduciary
relationships; and RCM
Within the last ten years, there have not been any material
legal or disciplinary events involving the advisory business
of Rockefeller & Co. or its management persons.
Additional information about Rockefeller & Co. and its
advisory affiliates is contained in Part 1 of Rockefeller &
Co.’s Form ADV.
INDUSTRY
ITEM 10: OTHER FINANCIAL
ACTIVITES AND AFFILIATIONS
RCM’s operating subsidiaries include: Rockefeller & Co.,
an investment adviser registered with the SEC providing
investment advisory and family office services through its
Global Family Office division
investment
management services through its RGIM division; RGIM
International, a UK limited company performing non-US
distribution and investor servicing activities for RGIM;
Rockefeller Financial, a broker-dealer and investment
adviser registered with the SEC providing private wealth
management services, securities services and strategic
advice; RTC NA, a national trust bank and RTC Delaware,
a Delaware limited purpose trust company, both of which
provide fiduciary services acting either as a trustee, co-
trustee, executor, co-executor, or as a fiduciary or agent for
other
Insurance
Services, an insurance company licensed in the state of
Delaware that provides access to a broad range of personal
through numerous
insurance expertise and services
national providers to enable effective estate planning, asset
protection or other key wealth management planning
strategies and priorities.
A. Broker-Dealer Registration Status
Certain directors, officers and employees of Rockefeller &
Co. are associated with affiliates of the firm, including
Rockefeller Financial, RTC NA, RTC Delaware, and RCM
Insurance Services. RGIM maintains a sales team that
operates as an Office of Supervisory Jurisdiction of
RGIM is a division of Rockefeller & Co., an investment
adviser registered with the SEC. Rockefeller & Co. is not
a registered broker dealer. However, certain RGIM
professionals are registered representatives of its affiliate
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Rockefeller Financial, to support the wholesale activities
of RGIM in promoting and marketing RGIM-managed
investment products registered under the Investment
Company Act of 1940, as amended, and the distribution of
RGIM-managed private funds in the US.
or other representative of Viking or any of its controlled
affiliates (other than Rockefeller Capital Management GP
or any of its controlled affiliates). Rockefeller & Co. does
not anticipate any material conflicts with any clients in
light of Viking’s indirect control of Rockefeller & Co. In
the event that any conflicts actually arise, Rockefeller &
Co. will resolve such conflicts in a fair and equitable
manner.
Directors, officers and employees of Rockefeller & Co. and
its affiliates may serve as non-executive directors or
advisors of for-profit businesses, including financial
service companies that provide services to Rockefeller &
Co. and its affiliates and/or to clients of Rockefeller & Co.
and its affiliates. Rockefeller & Co. has adopted
procedures and practices in seeking to mitigate conflicts of
interest that may result from such outside business
affiliations.
parent
The President and Chief Executive Officer of Rockefeller
&. Co.’s
company, Rockefeller Capital
Management, L.P. (“RCM”), Gregory J. Fleming (the
“RCM CEO”), has been nominated to, and upon election
will, serve as a member of the Board of Directors
(“Board”) of BlackRock, Inc. (“BlackRock”). BlackRock
is a leading global provider of investment, advisory, and
risk management solutions whose investment products and
services are offered and sold by RCM to, and on behalf of,
RCM clients.
Ruchir Sharma joined Rockefeller & Co. in February 2022
as Managing Director and Chairman of Rockefeller
International, a role in which he will serve as a global brand
ambassador for, and advisor to, the firm and a resource to the
firm’s Global Family Office advisors and clients. Mr.
Sharma will not act as a Client Advisor or Portfolio Manager
to clients of the Global Family Office or RGIM.
Rockefeller & Co. has entered a strategic partnership with
Breakout Capital, an
investment management firm
established by Mr. Sharma. Under this arrangement,
Rockefeller Financial acts as a placement agent to Breakout
Capital investment vehicles and is compensated for such
capital raising activities. In addition, Rockefeller & Co.
provides certain human resources support services to
Breakout Capital for which it is also compensated. Neither
Rockefeller & Co. nor its affiliates (including Rockefeller
Financial) have any investment, trading authority or risk
management responsibility for Breakout Capital or its
investment vehicles. In connection with its strategic
partnership, Rockefeller & Co. or an affiliate receives a
share of management fees and incentive allocations earned
by Breakout Capital from its investment vehicles, based on
Breakout Capital achieving certain milestones.
The RCM CEO’s service on the BlackRock Board gives rise
to a conflict of interest with respect to the Firm’s decision
to select or recommend BlackRock products to clients. To
manage and mitigate this conflict, we maintain a product
selection, due diligence, and manager approval process that
does not include the RCM CEO; we do not offer preferential
treatment to BlackRock products in our investment
selection process; and we disclose this relationship to
clients in our Form ADV and relevant marketing materials.
Partner,
L.L.C.
RGIM may from time to time recommend or invest in
private funds and other investment vehicles sponsored by
certain investment firms that are equity owners of RCM,
IGM and its affiliates including
including Viking,
Northleaf Capital Partners Ltd., and Abrams Capital, or
which have strategic partnerships with RCM such as
Breakout Capital (“Related Party Investment Vehicles”).
As Viking, IGM and Abrams Capital hold interests in
RCM and Rockefeller & Co. has a strategic partnership
with Breakout Capital (see Item 4 – Firm Overview and
Item 10: Other Financial
Industry Activities and
Affiliations), a conflict of interest exists when RGIM
clients invest in Related Party Investment Vehicles because
such investments provide a financial benefit to Viking,
IGM, Abrams Capital and Breakout Capital and their
respective affiliates. RCM may also benefit from RGIM
clients’ investments in Related Party Investment Vehicles
to the extent that any such vehicles provide financial
support to RCM or pay compensation to the RGIM, the
Global Family Office or Rockefeller Financial.
Rockefeller & Co. is indirectly controlled by Viking Global
Investors LP (“Viking”) through its indirect ownership of
the voting securities of Rockefeller Capital Management
General
(“Rockefeller Capital
Management GP”), the general partner of RCM, of which
Rockefeller & Co. is an indirect wholly-owned subsidiary.
Viking is registered with the SEC as an investment adviser
under the Advisers Act. No employee, officer, director,
investment committee member or other representative of
Viking or any of its controlled affiliates will be a member
of any investment committees of Rockefeller & Co. or of
Rockefeller Capital Management GP. Additionally,
directors, officers, employees or other representatives of
Rockefeller Capital Management GP or any of its
controlled affiliates are generally prohibited
from
discussing any information regarding Rockefeller & Co.’s
portfolio investment activities in the presence of any
employee, officer, director, investment committee member
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strategies
for which
its affiliate
Offerings of Affiliated Investment Products and Related
Party Investment Vehicles may be limited in size and, to the
extent they cannot be offered to all clients, RGIM and its
affiliates have policies in place to determine the allocation
of investment opportunities, and will generally allocate
such investments among interested clients pro rata based
on the size of each clients’ requested participation.
The above create a conflict of interest for RGIM, as it will
have an incentive to recommend investments in multi-asset
receives
class
compensation or has a business relationship even when
another investment better fits a client’s portfolio and
investment objectives.
ITEM 11: CODE OF ETHICS, PARTICIPATION OR
INTEREST IN CLIENT TRANSACTIONS AND
PERSONAL TRADING
incentive
for RGIM
A. Code of Ethics
Rockefeller Financial will act as placement agent to
Related Party
Investment Vehicles, and will be
compensated for such capital raising activities. This
compensation creates an
to
recommend Related Party Investment Vehicles to clients.
Clients are under no obligation to subscribe to Related
Party Investment Vehicles.
information
regarding
Viking, IGM, Abrams Capital and Breakout Capital do not
have any obligation to make available to Rockefeller & Co.,
including RGIM, any
their
respective investment activities, strategies, or views. As a
result, Rockefeller & Co., including RGIM, may make
investment decisions for clients that differ from those made
by Viking, IGM, Abrams Capital and Breakout Capital.
Rockefeller Capital Management’s Code of Ethics (the
“Code”) is intended to fulfill the firm's obligations under
Rule 204A-1 of the Advisers Act and, with respect to
RGIM, its obligations under Rule 17j-1 under the
Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended,
(“Investment Company Act”)
in connection with
investment advisory services RGIM provides to registered
investment companies, and to set forth standards of
conduct and to require compliance with the federal
securities laws.
support
or
distribution
services
The purpose of the Code is to prohibit the firm’s
employees, supervisors, and officers (collectively, the
“Employees”) from engaging in securities transactions or
activities that involve a material conflict of interest,
possible diversion of a corporate opportunity, or the
appearance of impropriety. RGIM personnel and their
families and households may purchase investments for
their own accounts, including the same investments as may
be purchased or sold for clients, subject to the terms of the
Code. RGIM employs reasonable supervision to detect and
prevent violations of the Code by Employees.
Rockefeller Financial and its affiliates have entered into
marketing
fee
arrangements with a number of third - party managers and
funds, including but not limited to mutual funds, ETFs, and
alternative investment funds. Under these arrangements,
Rockefeller Financial or
its affiliates will receive
compensation from the third-party managers or funds. In
the case of alternative investments, you should expect that
this compensation includes an upfront placement fee based
on the assets raised and/or percentage of asset under
management; the source of those fees will typically be
from the third-party manager’s own resources and/or a
share in the investment management and/or performance
fees paid to the third -party managers by investors in a fund.
The Code generally operates to protect against conflicts of
interest either by subjecting RGIM Employee activities to
specified limitations (including pre-approval requirements
and holding periods) or by prohibiting certain activities.
Key provisions of the Code include:
• The requirement for RGIM Employees, because
of their potential access to non-public information
and firm investment recommendations, to obtain
prior written approval or provide pre-trade
notification before executing certain securities
transactions for their personal securities accounts;
• Additional restrictions on personal securities
transaction activities applicable to certain RGIM
Employees;
typically
• Requirements for RGIM Employees to provide
initial and annual reports of holdings in their
personal Employee securities accounts, along with
transaction information in those accounts; and
Rockefeller Financial, in its capacity as a registered broker-
dealer, will typically act as a placement agent for certain
third-party investment vehicles. Acting as placement
agent, Rockefeller Financial performs investment due
diligence on third-party investment vehicles (including
Related Party Investment Vehicles) and seeks to identify
investors, including clients of Rockefeller Financial and its
affiliates, for whom the vehicles are suitable investments.
In certain cases, opportunities to act as placement agent can
be expected to be identified by persons affiliated with
Rockefeller Financial and its affiliates who are also
affiliated with the sponsor of the third-party investment
vehicle. Rockefeller Financial
receives
transaction-based compensation (e.g., a placement fee)
from the sponsor of the third-party investment vehicle in
connection with acting as placement agent.
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line-ups;
(3) obtains services,
• Additional requirements for pre-clearance of other
activities including, but not limited to, outside
business activities, gifts and entertainment, and
marketing and promotional activities.
RGIM will provide a copy of the Code to any client or
prospective client upon request.
B. Insider Trading Policy
manager
including
administration, custody, transfer agency, placement agent,
trade execution, trust services and trade clearing, from an
affiliate; (4) receives payment as a result of purchasing an
investment product or using an investment product for
client accounts; or (5) receives payment from third parties
for providing services with respect to investment products
purchased for client accounts or when referring clients to
third party service providers who pay referral fees to
Rockefeller & Co. or its affiliates. Other conflicts of interest
may also result from, but are not limited to, relationships
that Rockefeller & Co. has with other clients or when
Rockefeller & Co. acts for its own account.
The following is a non-exhaustive discussion of specific
conflicts that we have identified.
1. Affiliated Investment Products
RGIM’s Insider Trading Policy includes procedures to
prevent misuse of material nonpublic information. RGIM
personnel may, from time to time, come into possession of
material nonpublic and other confidential information
which, if disclosed, might affect an investor’s decision to
buy, sell, or hold a security. Under applicable law, RGIM
and such persons may be prohibited from improperly
disclosing or using such information for their benefit or for
the benefit of any other person, regardless of whether such
person is an advisory client. Accordingly, should RGIM
come into possession of material non-public or other
confidential information with respect to any issuer, it may
be prohibited from communicating such information to, or
using such information for the benefit of, its clients, and
will have no obligation to do so when following policies
and procedures designed to comply with applicable law,
including Section 204A of the Advisers Act.
C. Participation or Interest in Client Transactions
and Other Conflicts of Interest
RGIM makes available to clients certain Affiliated
Investment Products. Use of Affiliated Investment
Products by clients raises a conflict of interest because it
potentially results in increased revenue, in the aggregate, to
Rockefeller & Co. and its affiliates who provide the
Affiliated Investment Products, and results in additional
fees for Rockefeller & Co. For example, RGIM’s multi-
asset class strategies include allocations to Affiliated
Investment Products. In some cases, Affiliated Investment
Products held in multi-asset class portfolios are subject to
RGIM’s investment advisory fee and the investment
advisory fees charged by the Affiliated Investment
Products.
Conflicts of interest are inherent in large diversified financial
services companies such as RCM, and may exist when there
is an incentive to serve one’s own interest at the expense of
another’s interest. This section, along with the above
disclosure, summarizes conflicts of interest RGIM has
identified in connection with its management of client
accounts and its relationships with affiliates and third
parties. Depending on the nature of the services RGIM
provides, not all conflicts of interest listed below will be
relevant to you.
RGIM investment management strategies are often made
available through multiple investment vehicles such as
separately managed accounts, Affiliated Funds, Sub-
Advised Funds, and wrap fee and model delivery programs.
The fees payable to RGIM will often vary depending on
the type of vehicle utilized to access a strategy. As a
consequence, RGIM has an incentive to recommend
investment vehicles that pay higher fees to RGIM than
lower fee paying vehicles in the same strategy. RGIM
typically receives greater revenue when it acts as adviser as
compared to when it acts as sub-adviser.
The inclusion of RGIM investment management strategies
in client portfolios provides other benefits to RGIM such
as increasing the firm’s assets under management
and increasing the amount of client brokerage commissions
RGIM can use to acquire research under soft dollar
arrangements.
At a high level, conflicts of interest may arise whenever
RGIM has an economic or other incentive in its
management of a client account to act in a way that benefits
Rockefeller & Co., it’s staff or affiliates. As further
described in the section above, conflicts may result when
Rockefeller & Co. or an affiliate: (1) invests in an
investment product, such as a mutual fund, exchange
traded fund, alternative
investment fund or other
investment product for which it or its affiliate provides
investment management services; (2) has discretion in the
asset mixes,
investment programs,
selection of
investment
investment blends, and/or
active/passive
RGIM makes use of Affiliated Funds as a convenient
means to diversify its clients’ assets and to manage them
such that eligible and participating clients share fairly in
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5. Seed Capital Arrangements
capital
funds, may
also
available investment opportunities. However, because
certain types of investments may not be appropriate for all
clients, not all clients will be offered the opportunity to
invest and not all of those who are offered the opportunity
to invest will choose to do so. RGIM receives advisory fees
from these Affiliated Funds and in the case of certain
Affiliated Funds that are hedge funds and private
receive
equity/venture
performance-based compensation or benefit from an
owned interest in such Affiliated Funds. Clients are under
no obligation to invest in Affiliated Funds.
2. Custodian Relationships
RGIM may from time to time invest proprietary capital for
the purposes of developing new investment strategies and
supporting existing investment strategies. Seed capital can
be invested through separately managed accounts or in
investment vehicles, including investment vehicles in
which other clients have invested. A conflict of interest
may exist to the extent the seed capital is invested in
investment vehicles alongside client investments and when
invested in the same securities as other client accounts.
RGIM seeks to mitigate this conflict by limiting the
amount of funds available to make seed capital investments
and by treating seed capital accounts in the same manner
as other client accounts under RGIM’s trade aggregation
and allocation policies. Please refer to Item 12 for
additional information on the firm’s brokerage practices,
including its trade aggregation and allocation practices.
6. Third Party Managers, Annuity Providers and
Revenue Sharing
When recommending third party managers and funds, or
investing funds in discretionary client accounts into third
party managed accounts and funds, RGIM will generally
choose a manager or investment vehicle that has been
approved for client use by Rockefeller & Co. and/or
Rockefeller Financial.
Rockefeller & Co. has certain business arrangements in
place with affiliated and unaffiliated third-party banks and
broker-dealers to serve as the qualified custodian for client
accounts, including Rockefeller Financial (affiliated).
RGIM may suggest
that clients consider utilizing
Rockefeller Financial for custody services. This business
arrangement enables the firm to provide advisory services
to clients on a more efficient and cost-effective manner.
For example, Rockefeller & Co. has established data feeds
and/or electronic access arrangements to facilitate account
transactions and the administration and servicing of client
accounts. These arrangements create conflicts between
RGIM and its clients because the firm benefits when clients
use Rockefeller Financial instead of other unaffiliated
custodians. We believe this conflict is mitigated because
the fees charged by Rockefeller Financial are competitive
in the marketplace. Information about the fees charged by
Rockefeller Financial is available in its client agreements.
3. Cross Trades
In certain cases, we may cause a client to purchase
investments from another client. Such transactions create
conflicts of interest because, by not exposing such buy and
sell transactions to market forces, a client may not receive
the best price otherwise possible, or we may have an
incentive to improve the performance of one client by selling
underperforming assets to another client in order, for
example, to earn fees. We will only effectuate cross trades
when the firm believes it is in the best interest of all clients
involved, if permitted contractually and permissible under
applicable law.
4. Personal Trading
Rockefeller Financial has Partner Program arrangements
with certain third-party managers, including managers of
separately managed accounts, fund strategist portfolios,
mutual funds, and ETFs, whereby such managers pay the
firm additional fees (including part of their revenues) and
marketing support compensation in connection with
clients’ investments in the products managed by these
third-party managers. Depending on the agreement with
the manager, Rockefeller Financial’s compensation from
the manager is based on: (1) a percentage of the fund’s
management fees or sales calculated using the average of
the firm’s client assets invested with the manager during
the relevant period and/or
(2) a flat fee (representing a portion of the manager’s fee)
paid to the firm. As part of its obligations under these
revenue sharing arrangements, Rockefeller provides
services and support relating to the offering, marketing or
distribution of each applicable manager’s products that is
not made available to other managers, including providing
the manager with information and reports relating to
Rockefeller and the manager’s products available to
Rockefeller clients, as well as strategic engagement and
access to our Private Advisors, field leadership and other
personnel, including meetings and other communications.
When we or an affiliate currently holds for our own benefit
the same securities as a client, we could be viewed as having
a potential conflict of interest. In general, we will not, as
principal, buy securities for ourselves from or sell securities
we own to any client.
Rockefeller Financial also has Data Program arrangements
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with Rockefeller Financial will be disclosed in the fund
offering materials. Additionally, although Rockefeller
Financial does not directly charge performance-based fees,
as a distributor of alternative investments, Rockefeller
Financial from time to time can receive a portion of the
performance fees charged by the investment advisers to
those funds.
with certain third-party managers whereby such managers
pay the firm additional fees exclusively in exchange for
providing the manager with information and reports
relating to Rockefeller and the manager’s products
available to Rockefeller clients. Rockefeller Financial’s
compensation from the manager is either based on a
percentage of the fund’s management fees calculated using
the average of Rockefeller Financial's client assets invested
with the manager during the relevant period, a flat fee, or a
combination of the two paid to Rockefeller Financial.
The payment of placement fees to Rockefeller Financial
creates an incentive for RGIM to recommend the third
party investment vehicle to its clients instead of other
investment opportunities.
In certain circumstances, Rockefeller Financial or an
affiliate may commission or use an “access fund” for the
purpose of facilitating individual investor access to an
underlying fund or other investment opportunity. Both the
access fund and the underlying fund impose administrative
or management fees, custodial accounting and other
service fees, other expenses and performance-based
allocation that will reduce an investor’s returns.
Under these arrangements, Rockefeller Financial or its
affiliates will receive compensation from the third party
investment managers and funds. In the case of alternative
investments, you should expect that this compensation
includes an upfront placement fee based on the assets raised
and/or a share in the investment management and/or
performance fees paid to the third party investment
managers by clients. This additional compensation creates
an incentive for the Global Family Office to make available
and recommend to clients third-party investment managers
and investment products that pay marketing support
compensation to, or that share a larger portion of their
management fees with, or enter into revenue sharing
arrangements with Rockefeller Financial, and to invest
client funds in discretionary accounts into investment
products managed by these managers.
Some third party investment managers and funds may
decline to pay revenue sharing at the levels requested by
Rockefeller Financial or at all, which presents a financial
disincentive for us to promote the sale of those investment
products that do not pay us at the requested levels. You
should not expect that revenue sharing compensation will
be rebated or credited to our clients. Private Advisors of
the Global Family Office do not receive any portion of this
revenue.
Revenue sharing compensation will generally not be
rebated or credited to our clients, unless required by
applicable law. RGIM does not receive any portion of this
revenue.
Fees that access fund investors pay to Rockefeller & Co. or
Rockefeller Financial are disclosed in the access fund’s
offering materials and may include the following: annual
access and administration fees, which typically range up to
1.0%, and in certain cases may include a performance-
based allocation, for sourcing and structuring
the
underlying investment and managing the access fund;
annual trailer fees, which typically range up to 1.0%, in
connection with Rockefeller Financial’s provision of
supplemental services to facilitate and administer its
clients’ investments in the access fund; these services can
include oversight of, and coordination with, the manager
of
the access fund on operational, recordkeeping,
reporting, and other administrative matters in respect of the
Rockefeller investors in the access fund; and one-time
upfront investor paid placement fees, which typically range
up to 1.50% of the subscription amount. In certain access
funds, the access and administration fee and trailer fee may
be bundled into a single fee. These fees may be added to
capital commitment amount or, in other circumstances,
deducted from the commitment amount, and typically
mirror the Underlying Fund’s method of charging fees.
Fee rates can vary and, in some cases, may be lowered
based on meeting particular breakpoints. The percentage
and method of calculating the above fees is disclosed in the
applicable access fund offering materials. Access fund
offerings can be expected to also have additional expenses,
such as legal and accounting fees for the vehicle, that are
passed along to investors.
the
conflicts
resulting
from
To mitigate
these
arrangements, we disclose to clients that our affiliate
Rockefeller Financial may receive revenue from third party
As a distributor of alternative investments, Rockefeller
Financial can receive an ongoing distribution and/or
servicing fee paid by a fund manager in the form of a fund
manager paid placement fee based on commitments raised.
The placement fee paid to Rockefeller Financial will
generally range from 2.00% to 3.00% but could be up to
4.5% of the total commitments raised. The ongoing annual
investor distribution and/or servicing fee typically ranges
from 0.25% to 1.00% and may or may not be netted out of
the fund’s net asset value. This may vary by fund. In such
cases, Rockefeller Financial enters into a selling agreement
with the fund manager, and the terms of the arrangement
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managers and funds held in client accounts and we evaluate
the suitability of including such third party managers and
funds in our investment strategies that make these types of
investments. This conflict of interest is further mitigated by
fiduciary obligations and regulatory and compliance rules
and procedures to which RGIM is subject Please refer to
Item 10 – Other Financial Industry Activities and
Affiliations above.
7. Other Non-Cash Compensation
We and/or its affiliates provide investment banking,
research, brokerage, investment advisory, insurance, and
other services for different types of clients. In providing
those services, we and our affiliates may give advice to, or
take actions for, those clients or for our own accounts or
accounts of our affiliates that differs from advice given to,
or the timing and nature of actions taken for you, or buy and
sell securities for our own or other accounts. Advice given
to clients or investment decisions made for these clients
may differ from, or may conflict with, advice given or
investment decisions made for an advisory affiliate or
another client. Action taken with respect to advisory
affiliates may adversely affect client accounts, and actions
taken by client accounts may benefit advisory affiliates.
Conflicts may arise when a client makes investments in
conjunction with an investment being made by other
clients or clients of our affiliates, or for our proprietary
account, or in a transaction where such other parties have
already made an investment. For example, investment
opportunities are from time to time appropriate for clients,
clients of our affiliates, or our and our affiliates’ proprietary
accounts at the same, different or overlapping levels of a
company’s capital structure. Conflicts of interest arise in
such cases, particularly in the event the company is in
financial distress. Rockefeller & Co. and our affiliates
occasionally may not be free to divulge or act upon certain
information in their possession on behalf of investment
advisory or other clients. We are not obligated to execute
any transaction for your account that we believe to be
improper under applicable law or rules or contrary to our
own policies. We have adopted policies and procedures
that limit transactions for our proprietary accounts and the
accounts of our employees. These policies and procedures
are designed to prevent, among other things, improper or
abusive conduct when there may be a potential conflict with
the interest of a client.
Rockefeller & Co., employees of RGIM and our affiliates,
may receive non-cash compensation from broker-dealers
used to execute securities transactions for clients and from
mutual fund companies,
investment managers, unit
investment trust sponsors, annuity providers, insurance
vendors and sponsors of products that we distribute. This
compensation includes the following: occasional gifts,
occasional meals, tickets or other entertainment of
reasonable and customary value; sponsorship support of
educational or training events (which include educational
events arranged for clients and prospects) and seminars
and/or payment of expenses related to training and
education of employees, which can (and often do) include
a non-training element of the event; and/or various forms
of marketing support and, in certain limited circumstances,
the development of tools used by Rockefeller & Co. and its
affiliates for training or record-keeping purposes. Non-
cash compensation can vary by vendor and event. The
receipt of cash and non-cash compensation from sources
other than clients creates an incentive for the firm to
potentially favor and recommend certain products over
others. We address these conflicts of interest by
maintaining policies and procedures on the suitability and
supervision of the advisory programs and services we offer
to you, and by disclosing our practices to ensure you make
an informed decision.
8. Other Transactions and Relationships
receive
As mentioned above, Rockefeller & Co. provides
investment advice to clients regarding investment in
various types of Affiliated Funds where Rockefeller & Co.
and its related persons have an interest as a general partner,
managing member, manager and/or investment adviser.
Eligible officers and employees of Rockefeller & Co. are
provided with the opportunity to align their financial
interests with those of Rockefeller & Co.'s clients by
investing their personal funds in Affiliated Funds. In
addition, Rockefeller & Co. and its affiliates may also
invest their proprietary capital in separate accounts
managed by Rockefeller & Co. and in Affiliated Funds.
The services provided by Rockefeller & Co. and related
persons
to any Affiliated Fund recommended by
Rockefeller & Co. to clients are disclosed to prospective
investors in the Affiliated Fund’s offering documents
and/or governing documents.
trading
Affiliates of Rockefeller & Co.
commissions and other compensation from mutual funds
and insurance companies whose products we recommend
to clients. Our affiliates engage in a variety of transactions
with (or provide other services to) the investment
their affiliates, or service
managers, mutual funds,
providers with which you are doing business. Our affiliates,
in turn, receive compensation from these entities. Those
transactions and services that our affiliates provide include,
but are not limited to, executing transactions in securities
or other instruments, broker-dealer services for the account
of our affiliate, research services, consulting services,
investment banking services, trust company services, and
insurance services.
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ITEM 12: BROKERAGE PRACTICES
Rockefeller & Co. does not execute trades in client
accounts as a broker-dealer or agent for compensation for
any client.
block orders, large program trades or small trades.
• Willingness to Commit Capital: If an account
holds a thinly traded issue and there is limited
interest in the security, a broker may be selected
based on its willingness to purchase some or all of
the securities for its own inventory.
A. RGIM Brokerage Practices
Specific Broker Characteristics
• Market Familiarity: The broker's knowledge of the
market for the particular security.
•
• Reliability: Whether the broker has been able in
the past to provide support when placing a
difficult trade in this security or a similar security.
Integrity (ability to maintain confidentiality):
When executing orders, RGIM may not want to
divulge its interest to the market.
• Research Capability: RGIM will consider a
broker’s research capability when allocating
brokerage, when consistent with the duty to seek
best execution and RGIM soft dollar policies, as
described below.
• Technology
Infrastructure
This section describes RGIM’s practices when executing
transactions through its trading desk, including its practices
for seeking
to obtain best execution, soft dollar
arrangements, trade aggregation, client directed trading,
cross trading, and trade error correction. Sponsors of SMA
Program will have their own brokerage practices which will
be described in their Forms ADV Part 2A and wrap fee
brochure,
if applicable. Clients accessing RGIM’s
investment strategies through SMA Programs should
consult these documents for additional information. Where
RGIM retains trading discretion over an account in an
SMA program, it may have the ability to trade away from
the program sponsor consistent with its duty to seek best
execution for client transactions, and when trading away
will typically follow the practices described below.
Trading away from SMA Program sponsors can increase
the expenses borne by participants in wrap fee programs,
reducing their investment returns.
and Operational
Capabilities: RGIM will select a broker only if it
has a reasonable belief that a broker has the
to
infrastructure and operational capabilities
effectively execute and settle the trade.
• Financial Condition: RGIM will consider the
financial condition of a broker and may choose not
to utilize a particular broker due to uncertainty
regarding a broker’s financial status.
RGIM’s primary objective in placing orders is to seek
prompt execution at the most favorable price and execution
quality readily available to it from broker-dealers at
competitive commission rates/spreads.
• Disciplinary History: RGIM will consider risks
associated with using brokers that have a history
of regulatory violations, reported client disputes,
or reputational concerns, with a focus on issues
involving institutional services provided to clients
such as RGIM.
In making client brokerage decisions, RGIM considers the
following factors categorized below, keeping in mind that
each order is unique. As a result, different factors will
generally have varying levels of importance depending on
the nature of the transaction and surrounding circumstances.
Other Factors
Transaction Specific Factors
• All other relevant factors being equal, soft dollars
and access to new offerings will typically be
considered in the making of brokerage decisions
since, in the aggregate, these are likely to confer
indirect benefits on RGIM’s clients.
• Best Price: The actual price to be paid or received
for the securities. The ability of a broker to obtain
the best overall price for a transaction and to sell
or buy a security with minimal disruption of the
market price.
• Commission Rates: A key factor, although
commission rates alone ordinarily are not the
determinative factor in selecting a broker.
• RGIM will not direct transactions to (or otherwise
directly or indirectly remunerate) a broker with the
objective of compensating such broker for the
promotion or sale of shares of any mutual funds
advised or sub-advised by RGIM, or as
compensation for referring clients to RGIM.
• Spreads: a key factor although spreads alone
ordinarily are not the determinative factor when
selecting a broker.
B. Soft Dollar or Research/Execution Policy
• Trade Settlement (settlement risk): A broker's
ability to ensure that the securities will be
delivered on settlement date.
• Transaction Size: A broker may specialize in
In a “soft dollar” arrangement an investment adviser makes
use of client brokerage commissions to acquire investment
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research and brokerage services. RGIM’s receipt of some
benefit in exchange for directing brokerage on behalf of
client accounts has the potential to create a conflict of
interest because RGIM may have an incentive to select or
recommend a broker-dealer based on its interest in
receiving the research and brokerage services, rather than
on the clients’ interest in receiving the lowest available
commission rate.
Section 28(e) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as
amended (the “Exchange Act”), provides a "safe harbor"
that allows an investment adviser to pay for research and
brokerage services with the commission dollars generated
by client transactions. Under SEC interpretations, client
commissions may be used for certain research and
brokerage products and services that assist an investment
adviser in meeting its clients' investment objectives or in
managing client accounts. The receipt of these services in
exchange for soft dollars benefits RGIM by allowing
RGIM, at no direct cost, to:
its own
research and analysis
Broker-dealers typically provide a bundle of services in
addition to execution. In allocating brokerage, RGIM
generally considers the value of research and brokerage
services provided by a broker-dealer. Such services may
include:
• Supplement
activities;
• Receive the views and information of individuals
and research staffs of other securities firms; and/or
• Gain access to persons having special expertise on
the
industries, areas of
and
certain companies,
economy and market factors.
• Direct services such as access to a firm's research
reports and research analysts, admittance to an
industry conference and meetings and discussions
with
company
personnel
research
management; or
RGIM allocates brokerage commissions to pay for
brokerage and research services, where appropriate and
permitted by law, or may elect to pay for these services
directly.
services, books
• Soft dollar payments for third party services such
as financial data and systems, consumer data,
proprietary risk modeling and risk management
services, brokers reports, compilations of
corporate earnings estimates, public filing
reporting
research
and
publications and consultant services.
RGIM's policies with respect to the use of soft dollars are
consistent with the safe harbor provided by Section 28(e)
of the Exchange Act. RGIM generally selects broker-
dealers based on its assessment of each broker-dealer's
ability to provide quality executions and its belief that the
research, information and other services provided by such
broker-dealer may benefit client accounts.
These research and brokerage services address themselves
to a variety of matters, including analyses of industries,
companies, economic
factors, consumer sentiment,
business and market trends, political developments, and
assistance in pricing securities and providing information
as to the availability of securities.
It is often not possible to place a dollar value on the quality
of executions or on the brokerage and/or research services
RGIM receives from broker-dealers effecting transactions
in portfolio securities. Accordingly, broker-dealers
selected by RGIM may be paid commissions for effecting
portfolio transactions for client accounts in excess of
amounts other broker-dealers would have charged for
effecting similar transactions if RGIM determines in good
faith that such amounts are reasonable in relation to the
value of the brokerage and/or research services provided,
viewed either in terms of a particular transaction or RGIM's
overall duty to its clients.
Research obtained with soft dollars will not always be
utilized by RGIM for the specific account that generated
the soft dollars. It should be noted that the value of research
and brokerage services cannot be measured precisely, and
commissions paid for such services generally cannot be
allocated to clients in direct proportion to the value of the
services to the client. Thus, at least in the short term,
commissions paid in one account may, in effect, subsidize
services that benefit another account. RGIM believes that
any distortions should balance out over time as various
RGIM will use soft dollars to acquire either a broker’s
proprietary research or third party research and brokerage
services, consistent with the safe harbor, described below.
RGIM's portfolio managers and analysts collectively
designate commission allocations to various brokers on the
basis of the quality or amount of services provided,
although no binding commitments are made to any broker
to pay a particular amount. Nonetheless, certain broker-
dealers may state in advance the amount of brokerage
commissions they require for certain services and the
applicable cash equivalent. RGIM maintains an internal
allocation procedure to track the broker-dealers who
provide research and the amount of research so provided,
and endeavors to direct sufficient commissions to them to
ensure the continued receipt of research RGIM believes to
be particularly useful.
A significant portion of
commissions generated from client transactions is directed
to brokers that provide proprietary research or third party
research to RGIM through soft dollar arrangements.
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separately from portfolio transactions for the firm’s long-
only investment strategies.
sources of research and brokerage services should enable
RGIM to make better investment decisions and execute
more effective trades. As such, RGIM does not usually
attempt to allocate the relative costs or benefits of research
among accounts because it believes that, in the aggregate,
the research it receives benefits clients and assists RGIM
in fulfilling its overall duty to clients.
SMA Programs and their underlying participants benefit
from research acquired through soft dollars but do not
contribute to the cost of acquiring such research because
brokerage transactions for model delivery programs are
typically executed by the plan sponsor and not by RGIM.
Subject to the above, for accounts over which RGIM has
been given full discretion to select brokers, RGIM seeks to
allocate transactions in a manner that is fair and equitable,
over time, both in the priority of execution of orders for
client accounts, and in the allocation of the price (and
commission or other costs and expenses, if applicable)
obtained in execution of aggregated orders for such
accounts. When RGIM believes that the purchase or sale
of the same security is in the best interest of two or more of
its accounts, it will generally seek to aggregate the order to
seek a more favorable execution since a large order may be
executed at a lower commission cost on a per-share and a
per-dollar basis. The following summarizes our policies
for batching transactions:
• RGIM may aggregate orders for all its clients,
including clients (e.g., Affiliated Funds) in which
firm employees invest;
• All accounts participating in the aggregated
execution will receive the same average execution
price (and commission, if any) as reported by the
broker, subject to certain exceptions as discussed
below;
•
Certain clients have placed limitations on, or are subject to
regulations which restrict, RGIM’s ability to use their
brokerage commissions to generate soft dollars to pay for
the broker’s proprietary research and/or third party
research. Clients who have these types of limitations or
restrictions will in most cases benefit from research
obtained through soft dollar credits generated by brokerage
commissions paid by other clients. Clients of model
delivery programs likewise benefit from research acquired
through soft dollars but do not contribute to the cost of
acquiring such research because all brokerage transactions
for model delivery programs are executed by the plan
sponsor and not by RGIM. RGIM uses soft dollars to pay
for specific research and brokerage services or for portions
of "mixed use" items (research and brokerage services that
provide both investment research and non-research or
administrative benefits). In the case of mixed use items,
RGIM may use soft dollars for the research portion and pay
cash for the non-research portion. Although the allocation
between soft dollars and cash is not always capable of
precise calculation, RGIM will make a good faith effort to
allocate such items reasonably. Records of any such
allocations and payments will be maintained.
C. Batched Transactions
•
• Where the full amount of the aggregated order is
not executed, the partial amount actually executed
shall be allocated among the participating client
accounts pro-rata on the basis of order size,
subject to rounding to "round lot" amounts; any
shares remaining shall be randomly allocated to
the participating client accounts;
In the case of supply-constrained securities, other
than IPOs, when RGIM’s overall allocation is too
small for practical pro rata distribution and
retention in all interested accounts, the aggregate
allocation will be placed so as to share the benefit
of favorable pricing broadly across as many
accounts as practicable, consistent with the goal of
providing fair and equitable treatment over time;
and
In the case of aggregated orders placed in markets
outside of the US, allocation methodologies will
differ to the extent required by the applicable laws
and exchange rules of those jurisdictions.
D. Limited Availability Fixed Income Securities
transactions for
Municipal bonds, new issuance securities and certain other
types of fixed income securities are often available in
quantities that are insufficient to satisfy all client needs
(“Limited Availability Fixed Income Securities”). When
RGIM is unable to purchase Limited Availability Fixed
Income Securities in an amount sufficient to satisfy all
It is RGIM’s general practice to aggregate buy or sell
orders for the same securities for all its clients, including
clients in which employees or the firm are among the
investors, to the extent practicable and consistent with
individual client mandates. Rockefeller & Co. will not
include any client’s order in an aggregated order if the
order does not have substantially the same execution terms
as other client orders (such as, for example, price tolerance
or completion time requirements) or if it requires special
processing (i.e., next-day settlement or subject to a client-
directed brokerage arrangement). For example, due to
differences in the investment and trading objectives of the
Long/Short Equity Strategy and RGIM’s
long-only
the
investment strategies, portfolio
Long/Short Equity Strategy will generally be handled
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the
Securities transactions executed in this manner typically
take place after securities transactions executed on
exchanges or in recognized markets due to the additional
in-kind
to review and structure
time needed
transactions.
F. Allocation of Investment Opportunities among
is often
impracticable or
Private Equity Strategies
client needs, RGIM typically does not employ a pro-rata
allocation methodology (as is generally the case for other
types of securities) and instead manually determine the
manner in which the security will be allocated among
eligible client accounts as described below. In these
situations, pro-rating the purchase across all eligible client
accounts
inefficient and
deleterious to clients because pro-rating the purchase
amount would result in overly diversified portfolios and
odd lot allocations that are more difficult to sell and trade
at discounts to round lot positions.
When allocating investment opportunities within private
equity strategies, factors of each investment vehicle are
taken into consideration, such as investment objective,
investment guidelines, limits (including single issuer
limits) and restrictions, risk profile, tax treatment,
portfolio composition, available committed capital and
portfolio liquidity, among other factors.
Where a private equity investment is appropriate for
multiple client accounts within the same strategy, RGIM
will generally follow the guidelines below:
allocation
decisions.
• No client should be favored over any other clients
within the same strategy over time, subject to the
considerations noted below; and
In the case of Limited Availability Fixed Income
Securities, RGIM makes allocation decisions in a manner
that it believes is reasonably designed to result in
allocations that are fair and equitable to clients over time,
into consideration the following factors and
taking
priorities (among others), to the extent relevant. This
process is not mechanical and requires RGIM to act in good
faith and in accordance with its fiduciary duty to clients
Individual
when making
circumstances can result in RGIM assigning differing
priorities to these factors and considerations. For example,
RGIM could exercise discretion to give priority to an
account which has been seeking a state specific bond for a
period of time over a new account with 100% cash.
transactions
that
Fixed Income Allocation Considerations
• Each client that participates in an aggregated order
should participate in the average prices for all
RGIM
investment, as
in
applicable and transaction costs should be shared
pro rata based on each investment advisory client’s
participation in an aggregated order.
1.
2.
3.
from
target
liquidity requirements,
An investment may be allocated on a non-pro rata basis for
various reasons, including but not limited to, consideration
legal or
of available cash,
regulatory reasons, to avoid odd lots or any investment
guideline, limitation or restriction.
4.
5.
6.
7.
Taxable or tax-exempt account
State mandate
Variation
portfolio
characteristics (e.g., maturity, credit risk,
sector risk, yield)
Highest cash as a percent of the portfolio
Swap opportunities
Optimum lot size (target generally 3-5%
portfolio weight)
The length of time the portfolio management
team has been seeking to satisfy the client’s
investment need
In the case of the Opportunistic High Yield Municipal Bond
Strategy, allocations will generally be done either on a pro-
rata or highest priority basis to the relevant vehicles, subject
to minimum lot size and other considerations, such as cash
constraints or portfolio characteristics (sector, state,
obligor, and credit exposure at the time).
E. ETF In-Kind Transactions
RGIM may be presented with investment opportunities in
its private equity strategies that may require additional
capital, thus, RGIM may create one or more co-investment
vehicles, the structures or terms of which, including
management fees and carried interest, may differ from the
existing investment vehicles of the strategy. When RGIM
determines that it would be appropriate for the co-
investment vehicles to participate in an investment
opportunity, RGIM will seek to allocate the investment
opportunity first to the RGIM managed strategy and the
excess to the co-investment vehicles. RGIM may also
create parallel investment vehicles or separately managed
accounts in the same strategy, RGIM will seek to allocate
pro-rata based on assets under management across the
strategy that is deemed to be fair and equitable under the
circumstances at such time and over time.
In the case of ETFs, securities transactions may effected
through an in-kind creation and redemption process which
allows the ETF to minimize transaction costs associated
with buying and selling securities for its portfolio and to
exit portfolio positions in a more tax efficient manner.
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G. Client-Directed Brokerage Transactions
relationships, RGIM participates
RGIM will direct a client's orders to a broker designated by
the client upon written request from the client. Clients may
select a broker willing to pay obligations for which the client
would otherwise be responsible (such as consulting or
custodial services). In addition, in connection with certain
in
sub-advisory
commission recapture programs established by the primary
investment adviser.
"step-out" trade mechanism to satisfy client-directed
brokerage requests. A step-out trade allows for the
execution of an aggregated order through one broker and
the clearing of a portion of the order through the client-
directed broker. The client directing the brokerage is
assessed commission by the confirming broker only, while
the executing broker receives compensation in the form of
commission from the other non-directed orders within the
block trade. In this way, all clients benefit from
the
aggregated execution while bearing transaction costs no
greater than would have been the case in the absence of a
step-out.
H. Cross-Trading
RGIM directs brokerage in this manner with the client's
understanding that the directed brokerage arrangement
means that RGIM is not expected to (and, under most
circumstances, will not be in a position to), among other
things, negotiate commission rates or spreads, obtain
volume discounts or execute over-the-counter stock
transactions directly through the relevant market maker.
In certain circumstances, one or more accounts managed or
traded by RGIM may in the normal course be selling
certain securities that may be desirable for other accounts
with available cash or liquidity, that are underweight in that
security or for other reasons.
Where permissible, RGIM may cause an account to
purchase or sell securities from or to, as the case may be,
another account in a "cross trade" consistent with RGIM's
duty to seek best execution and its applicable written
policies and procedures reasonably designed to assure that
all participating accounts are treated fairly and that an
appropriate price is assigned to the crossed security.
Additionally, client-directed brokerage arrangements
typically require the segregation of a client's orders from the
orders of other clients as that client's trades in a security will
generally not be communicated to the directed firm until
after a related batch transaction for other clients has been
communicated to the executing broker-dealer. Thus, in
most instances, trading for the directed account will not
commence until after the batch transaction has been fully
executed. Accordingly, directed transactions may be
subject to price movements, particularly in volatile
markets, that may result in the directed client receiving a
price that is less favorable than the price obtained for the
batched order and the client may also incur somewhat
higher commission costs.
Participating accounts may pay full, reduced or no
commissions in connection with a cross trade (though, in
no case, will such commissions be paid to RGIM). Such
cross trades may reduce execution related costs and/or
improve execution quality for participating accounts.
to govern
the
timing
In the event that a proprietary account, or an Affiliated Fund
in which RGIM or its personnel or affiliates have a
significant ownership interest, may participate in a cross
trade with another client account, RGIM will seek the
client's consent prior to completion of the cross trade in
accordance with Section 206(3) of the Advisers Act.
I. Trade Correction Policy and Procedures
As different clients can choose to direct transactions to
different brokers, RGIM has implemented a fixed rotation
for communicating
process
transactions on behalf of clients with directed brokerage
arrangements. Under this process, directed brokerage
clients within a strategy are rotated in alphabetical order,
with the starting letter advancing sequentially after each
day the strategy trades. Client-directed transactions are
considered placed once communicated to the designated
broker. The trade rotation process does not pause for
confirmation of delivery or confirmation of
trade
execution. Exceptions to the rotation may be permitted to
accommodate broker imposed deadline or for other
reasons, subject to internal review and approval. Client-
directed transactions required for cash flow transactions,
error correction, or client guideline requirements are
generally not included in the randomized process.
RGIM has adopted a policy and procedures for correcting
trade errors. RGIM's policy and procedures regarding trade
errors are intended to achieve fairness to clients consistent
with RGIM’s fiduciary duty and contractual obligations to
clients, and
to comply with applicable regulatory
requirements. Depending on the particular circumstances,
RGIM may retain profits, if any, resulting from a trade
error.
Clients who direct brokerage should understand that best
price and execution may not be achieved. In limited
circumstances, RGIM may, but typically does not, utilize a
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J. SMA Program Communications
B. Content and Frequency of Account Reports to
Clients
Client reports include portfolio holding and transaction
reporting as
information, along with performance
requested. The clients’ custodian provides quarterly
reports to clients showing the assets in each client account,
the market value, and each account’s performance for the
quarter. Clients are urged to compare the account
statements received directly from the custodians to the
reports provided by the firm.
In general, material portfolio changes are communicated to
SMA Program sponsors on a strategy-by-strategy basis at
or around the same time such changes are executed, or are
in the process of being executed, by RGIM for its directly
managed account clients in the same strategy. In some
cases, such as where trading occurs towards the end of the
trading day, SMA Program sponsors may be notified of
model changes after RGIM completes trading for its
directly managed accounts or on the following trading day.
C. SMA Programs
The sponsor of each SMA Program is responsible for
reviewing the accounts of participants in their own
program and for reporting on such portfolios to their clients.
ITEM 14: CLIENT REFERRALS AND OTHER
COMPENSATION
Model changes are communicated to SMA Program
sponsors through a fixed rotation process. Under this
process, SMA Program sponsors within a strategy are
rotated in alphabetical order, with the starting letter
advancing sequentially after each model change. The
rotation proceeds without pausing for confirmation of
delivery or completion of the model change by any SMA
Program sponsor. Exceptions to the rotation may be
permitted to accommodate sponsor-imposed deadlines,
subject to internal review and approval.
RGIM’s model communication practices may affect the
execution prices achieved by SMA Program sponsors that
invest in the same or similar securities as RGIM’s directly
managed account clients. Where RGIM communicates a
model change to SMA Program sponsors after it has
commenced trading in relevant securities for its directly
managed accounts, the SMA Program sponsors and their
program participants may receive less favorable execution
prices than RGIM’s directly managed accounts. as similar
changes are executed or may be in the process of being
executed.
RGIM compensates affiliated and unrelated third parties
(“Solicitor”) for client referrals in accordance applicable
legal requirements. If a referred client invests in a RGIM
investment product, the compensation paid to the Solicitor
will typically consist of a cash payment stated as a
percentage of RGIM’s investment advisory fee over a
period of time, a one-time flat fee or another form of
payment, as agreed upon with the Solicitor. RGIM’s
payment of compensation to a Solicitor creates a conflict
of interest for the Solicitor as the Solicitor will only be paid
if a referred client invests in a RGIM investment product.
The payment of compensation to a Solicitor also creates a
financial incentive RGIM not to negotiate or reduce the
fees that a referred client will pay to RGIM. A referred
client is not obligated to invest in any particular RGIM
investment product.
In addition, the position of an SMA Program sponsor
within the rotation process, as well as the timing and
manner in which individual sponsors implement and trade
their model portfolios, may further affect the execution
prices achieved for sponsor‑managed participant accounts.
ITEM 13: REVIEW OF ACCOUNTS
A. Frequency and Nature of Review of Client Accounts
Employees of RGIM may from time to time refer clients to
RCM’s affiliates for services and products, such as private
wealth investment advisory services offered by the Global
Family Office, fiduciary services offered by RTC NA or
RTC Delaware, and insurance and annuity offerings by
RCM Insurance Services. Similarly, employees of these
affiliates from time to time recommend their clients to
RGIM for investment advisory services. See Item 11 for a
discussion of the conflicts of interest raised by such referrals.
return expectations and
Employees of RGIM may also refer clients to unaffiliated
third-party firms for certain services, such as lines of
credits, mortgages, trust services and other investment
related services. In making such referrals, RGIM will seek
to identify reputable unaffiliated third parties who offer
commercially reasonable terms, but does not undertake to
perform any level of due diligence on or ongoing
Client accounts are reviewed periodically for consistency
with their investment objectives. The performance of
accounts within the same strategy are also reviewed for
consistency with
internal
dispersion guidelines. Accounts within the same strategy
may experience performance dispersion, which in some
cases can be significant, for a variety of reasons including
but not limited to cash flows, client restrictions and
requirements, tax considerations and internal rebalancing
tolerances.
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monitoring of such third parties or to search for the
providers who offer the most favorable terms to clients.
Clients should carefully independently evaluate these
unaffiliated third parties and their terms of service relative
to other providers in the marketplace before entering into a
service relationship with them.
Clients will receive custody account statements on at least
a quarterly basis from their chosen custodian. As also
discussed in Item 13, we send periodic reports to clients as
well. Clients are urged to carefully review and compare the
statements sent by the custodians with those sent by us.
In certain cases, these referral arrangements will involve
the payment of referral fees to, or participation in revenue
sharing arrangements with, RGIM or its affiliates. See
Item 11 above for a discussion of the conflicts raised by
such arrangements.
The fees charged by affiliated and unaffiliated firms for
services provided to clients resulting from referrals are
additional charges to the client and not included in (and will
not reduce) RGIM’s fee.
Rockefeller & Co. is also deemed to have custody of client
funds and/or securities where it or a related person serves
as the general partner or managing member (or in a
comparable position) of an Affiliated Fund (“Affiliated
Private Fund”). Investors in Affiliated Private Funds will
receive the applicable fund’s audited financial statement
annually. If an Affiliated Private Fund is unaudited,
investors will receive the unaudited Affiliated Private
Fund’s custody account statement from its custodian on at
least a quarterly basis. Investors in Affiliated Private Funds
who do not receive audited financial statements or, in the
case of unaudited Affiliated Private Funds, quarterly
account statements from the fund’s custodian as described
above, should promptly report this to RGIM.
RGIM maintains relationships with investment consultants
who research investment managers and solutions in
connection with advisory and consulting services they
provide to their own clients. In some cases, clients of the
investment consultants may also be mutual clients of
RGIM. In connection with these relationships. RGIM will
provide information on its investment strategies to
investment consultants for use in their services to our
mutual clients or in searches they conduct for their other
clients. RGIM also responds to requests for proposals and
operational due diligence questionnaires from investment
consultants and others.
As Rockefeller & Co. is not a custodian, it may not take
physical custody of client funds, including checks made
payable to the client, and/or client securities. In accordance
with regulatory requirements, client funds and/or securities
received by Rockefeller & Co. will be returned to the third
party who sent or delivered them within 3 business days of
receipt, unless an exception to this regulatory requirement
applies.
Prime brokers who provide services to certain Affiliate
Private Funds may introduce us to potential investors
through conferences sponsored by the prime broker or
through private meetings. RGIM does not compensate
prime brokers for making these introductions.
ITEM 15: CUSTODY
Rockefeller & Co. has engaged its affiliate, RTC NA, to
serve as custodian for the limited purpose of receiving and
depositing into client accounts at third party custodians,
checks made payable to clients in connection with family
office services and class action processing services offered
to clients. Rockefeller Financial, as a registered broker-
dealer, may receive checks from clients of Rockefeller &
Co. who have brokerage accounts with Rockefeller
Financial and arrange for them to be deposited at NFS.
ITEM 16: INVESTMENT DISCRETION
RGIM will generally have investment discretion over
client accounts. Clients grant RGIM investment discretion
through the execution of a limited power of attorney
included in the Investment Advisory Agreement. In all
cases, however, such discretion is to be exercised in a
manner consistent with the stated investment objectives
and reasonable restrictions for the particular client
account. RGIM has the authority to determine, without
obtaining specific client consent, the securities to be
bought or sold, and the amount of the securities to be
bought or sold.
Rockefeller & Co. does not custody client funds and/or
securities. Clients are required to select one or more banks
or broker-dealers as their custodian to hold the client funds
and/or securities for which RGIM will provide investment
advisory services. However, Rockefeller & Co. may be
deemed to have custody of a client’s funds and/or securities
to the extent the client authorizes the firm to instruct the
client’s custodian to deduct the firm’s fees directly from the
client account or to instruct the client’s custodian to disburse
or transfer funds or securities form the client’s account. As
described below, Rockefeller & Co. may also be deemed
to have custody over client funds and/or securities which
RTC and Rockefeller Financial receive on behalf of a
RGIM client for purposes of having such funds and/or
securities deposited into the client’s account at their
designated custodian.
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entering
into
proxies, it is often difficult for RGIM to fully reconcile the
Global Family Office client holdings as reflected on the
firm’s internal systems with the share count totals
communicated by custodians utilized by Global Family
Office clients. RGIM will seek to fully reconcile Global
Family Office client proxies; however, its procedures
permit it to stop reconciling when Global Family Office
clients’ share totals are within 10% of the share totals
reported by client Custodians. As a consequence of this
policy, the proxies of some Global Family Office clients may
not be voted.
B. RGIM Proxy Voting Policy and Procedures
account
relative
In certain instances, RGIM and a client may designate
certain assets (such as legacy, concentrated, or low-cost
basis holdings) as non-discretionary or enter into a non-
discretionary advisory agreement pursuant to which client
consent must be obtained prior to RGIM executing a
securities transaction in the non-discretionary assets or
account. Clients
non-discretionary
relationships with RGIM should understand that the
requirement to obtain client consent prior to executing a
securities transaction may result in the non-discretionary
account trading in a security after the security is purchased
or sold in discretionary client accounts. Any such delay may
have a negative or positive impact on the performance of the
non-discretionary
to RGIM’s
discretionary accounts.
ITEM 17: VOTING CLIENT SECURITIES; CLASS
ACTIONS
A. Proxy Voting
RGIM considers proxy voting a fiduciary duty to protect
and enhance the long-term interests of our clients. RGIM
seeks to assure that proxies are regarded as assets of
portfolios subject to the same fiduciary standards as other
client assets. In essence, this means that we endeavor to vote
proxies in an informed and timely fashion on behalf of their
“owners,” our clients.
Corporate governance, which includes proxy voting, is an
integral part of RGIM’s effort to manage and enhance the
long-term value of our clients’ assets. We seek to make a
positive contribution to good corporate governance and
one of the ways we seek to achieve this is through proxy
voting. We take an active interest in the companies we
invest in, consider proxy voting to be a key element of our
stewardship responsibility, and consider internationally
recognized corporate governance best practices in our
voting decisions.
Where RGIM has proxy voting authority over client
securities, RGIM seeks to vote proxies in the best interest
of its clients in accordance with its Proxy Voting Policy
and Procedures. RGIM will not have proxy voting
authority over client’s accessing the firm’s investment
strategies through SMA Programs. In the case of SMA
Programs, the program sponsor will generally vote proxies in
accordance with their own proxy voting policies and
procedures. There may be significant differences between
the proxy voting policies of RGIM and individual program
sponsors, especially on matters relating to environmental,
social and governance issues. Clients should refer to the
Form ADV Part 2A and/or wrap fee brochure provided by
their program sponsor for information about the manner in
which their proxies will be voted.
The proxy statement is a vital document from companies
because it is the only formal basis for a dialogue between the
board and shareholders. RGIM recognizes that the interests
of shareholders are not always identical to those of
management but that an effective proxy system serves as a
signal to a board and management that they have engaged
shareholders who expect accountability. RGIM believes
that constructive engagement with portfolio companies
leads to greater transparency and is an important element
of the stewardship process.
In certain circumstances, a client may request that RGIM
vote proxies or take action relating to securities held in the
client's account(s) which differ from the firm’s Proxy
Voting Guidelines. RGIM will make reasonable efforts
(depending on the timing of the client’s request) to adhere to
any specific client policies provided with respect to proxy
voting, even if such directions or guidelines conflict with
its Proxy Voting Guidelines.
General
Upon request, RGIM will provide clients with a copy of its
Proxy Voting Policies and Procedures, as well as
information on how the proxies of securities held in that
client's accounts were voted.
RGIM has implemented these policies and procedures to
ensure that proxies are voted in the best interest of its clients
in fulfillment of RGIM’s fiduciary duties and
in
accordance with Rule 206(4)-6 under the Investment
Advisers Act of 1940, as amended (the “Advisers Act”).
In connection with certain legacy arrangements, RGIM
will vote proxies on behalf of some clients of the
Rockefeller Global Family Office. While RGIM employs
reasonable efforts to vote Global Family Office client
RGIM has engaged Institutional Shareholder Services Inc.
(“ISS”), an organization unaffiliated with RGIM, to assist
with proxy voting. In addition to the execution of proxy
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proxy
voting
decisions
and
is good business and
to
improve
RGIM believes that certain non-financial issues can have a
material1 economic impact on the value of a company, and
we consider research on these factors when we believe it
impacts shareholder value. RGIM also believes that good
citizenship
that encouraging
companies
their responsiveness to key
stakeholders can lead to improved financial performance.
votes in accordance with RGIM’s guidelines and record-
keeping services, ISS also provides RGIM with corporate
governance information, due diligence related to making
vote
informed
recommendations. Research and shareholder engagement
underpin our decision-making process. RGIM retains final
authority and responsibility for proxy voting. In the event
that RGIM is not able to submit a vote decision in time,
RGIM’s proxy voting policy is automatically applied by
ISS.
RGIM does not automatically vote for or against any class
of resolutions, but rather follows a list of preferences.
RGIM recognizes that there are often circumstances that
even well thought out guidelines fail to contemplate. While
we generally follow these guidelines, we maintain
flexibility
to vote each proposal based on specific
circumstances after due research and discussion with the
company and/or covering analysts has led analysts and/or
portfolio managers to conclude that a change in voting is
warranted and in the best interest of the shareholders.
A client may, at any time, retain the right to vote proxies
or take action relating to securities held in the client’s
account, provided the client advises RGIM of such decision
in advance of any proxy vote(s). If a client retains proxy
voting authority, RGIM will instruct the appropriate
custodian banks to forward proxy material directly to the
client and RGIM shall have no further responsibility. In
certain cases, however, RGIM may provide administrative
services to clients who have retained proxy voting
authority but desire that RGIM assist with the technical
aspects of processing related paperwork and executing the
client’s voting decision.
RGIM believes that companies should understand issues
that may create opportunities or help mitigate risk,
including with respect
to material cyber, artificial
intelligence, environmental, political and social factors, to
name a few. RGIM’s voting guidelines seek to encourage
progress and leadership from companies when relevant.
Upon reasonable notice, RGIM will also adhere to any
specific client directions and/or guidelines with respect to
proxy voting, even if such directions or guidelines conflict
with RGIM’s proxy voting guidelines.
The Proxy Voting Guidelines are based on five underlying
principles, which RGIM considers to be critical for long-
term financial performance:
• The primacy of shareholders and the recognition
of the standing of other stakeholders
• A commitment
Upon request, RGIM will promptly provide clients with a
copy of these policies and procedures, as well as
information on how RGIM voted proxies of securities held
in their accounts.
Proxy Voting Committee and Personnel
to promoting a culture of
transparency and accountability throughout the
company for sound corporate decision-making
• The independence of the Board of Directors and
its duty to represent the shareholders, including
minority shareholders
• The responsibility of board committees
to
effectively oversee audit, compensation, and
governance functions
• The protection of the proxy ballot as a formal
Senior representatives from a variety of functional areas
across Rockefeller Capital Management serve as members
of
the Proxy Voting & Shareholder Engagement
Committee (the “Proxy Voting & Shareholder Engagement
Committee”). The Proxy Voting & Shareholder
Engagement Committee is charged with the responsibility
of administering these policies, practices and procedures.
communication mechanism between
shareholders, management and the board,
especially as it pertains to shareholder
proposals
The Proxy Voting & Shareholder Engagement Committee
has designated a Voting Delegate and one or more Proxy
Administrators who are responsible for the day-to-day
administration of these policies and procedures, and who
report periodically to the Proxy Voting & Shareholder
Engagement Committee on these matters.
Proxy Voting Guidelines
The guidelines address a broad range of issues reflecting
RGIM’s general views and are meant to be used in
evaluating individual proxy proposals and to serve as a
framework for exercising voting rights. They are not
intended to provide a guide as to how RGIM will vote in
every instance. Rather, these guidelines share RGIM’s
view about corporate governance issues generally and
provide insight into how RGIM typically approach issues
RGIM has developed voting principles and guidelines that
govern voting proxies in a prudent and diligent manner.
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that commonly arise on corporate ballots. They are applied
with policy discretion, taking into consideration the issues
and facts specific to the company and the individual ballot
item.
Proxy Voting Limitations
who own shares of public and private companies. RGIM
or its affiliates may also have relationships with pension
plans and other investors who sponsor proposals or
participate in engagement activities. In addition, certain
directors, officers and employees of RGIM and its affiliates
may also serve as directors and/or officers of public and
private companies or have a material relationship with or
own shares in such companies.
RGIM will not vote proxies in countries that engage in
“share blocking,” the practice of prohibiting investors who
have exercised voting rights from disposing of their shares
for a defined period of time. RGIM will also not vote in
cases where a proxy is received after the requisite voting
date or with respect to specific proposals that are
incoherent or that would entail extensive and uneconomic
investigation or research.
Securities Lending
securities
lending
arrangements.
In
Clients may in certain instances contract with their
custodial agent and notify RGIM that they have entered
such
into
arrangements, the proxy voting rights generally pass with
the securities on loan, but the lender retains the right to
terminate the loan and recall the loaned shares provided the
custodial agent is given sufficient prior notice. RGIM’s
policy is generally not to vote proxies of securities on loan
unless we determine there is a significant voting event
(e.g., merger, acquisition, etc.) that will materially affect
the value of the loaned securities. In such events, we may
seek to recall the loaned securities in order to cast a vote at
an upcoming shareholder meeting. Clients should be aware
that recall efforts may not be completed in time to vote
loaned shares.
Conflicts of Interest
that may emerge
RGIM’s policy is that proxy voting activities must seek to
further the long-term interests of our clients and not the
interests of RGIM, its affiliates or their respective
directors, officers, and employees. RGIM’s Voting
Delegate,
in consultation with RGIM’s portfolio
management team, is responsible for conducting proxy
voting activity in accordance with this Policy. The Voting
Delegate and RGIM portfolio management team members
are required to disclose to the Proxy Voting & Shareholder
Engagement Committee any potential material conflicts of
interest that may arise in connection with performing
engagement activities on behalf of clients. Material conflict
issues which are identified will be referred for resolution to
the Proxy Voting & Shareholder Engagement Committee,
which will consult with RGIM’s Conflicts Committee as
appropriate. Proxy Voting & Shareholder Engagement
Committee members are required to consider if they have
a conflict of interest in any proxy voting matter that is
referred to the Proxy Voting & Shareholder Engagement
Committee and must disclose such conflict to the Proxy
Voting & Shareholder Engagement Committee and
potentially recuse themselves from matters relating to the
conflict. In the event a material conflict of interest is
identified, the Proxy Voting & Shareholder Engagement
Committee will generally direct the Voting Delegate to
vote the proxy based upon the recommendation of ISS. If
the Proxy Voting & Shareholder Engagement Committee
determines to resolve the conflict in a different manner, the
approach will be documented.
C. Class Action Processing
RGIM actively seeks to identify, mitigate, and monitor
potential conflicts of
in
interest
relationship with our proxy voting activities, and have
adopted policies and procedures to address potential
conflicts which may
with providing investment advisory services to clients.
RGIM will seek to process claim forms for US class action
settlements involving securities held in managed client
accounts, unless another arrangement with respect to the
handling of class action claims is agreed to with the client
or the client has subsequently terminated its investment
management relationship with RGIM. Class action filings
are processed by a third party vendor. RGIM does file for
clients accessing strategies through SMA Programs or for
non-US class actions or for client accounts maintained at
custodians which do not transmit client account data to the
third party vendor. Clients utilizing these providers will
need to separately make arrangements if they wish to
participate in class action settlements.
Conflicts of interest may arise from the varying types of
financial services and products offered by Rockefeller
Capital Management and its affiliates and the types of
clients that RGIM serves. For example, Rockefeller
Financial and other RGIM affiliates may provide strategic
advisory services to both public and private companies and
other types of clients including with respect to acquisitions,
divestitures and capital raising activities. RGIM and its
affiliates may also provide investment advisory and other
services to directors, officers and other persons who have
material relationships with public and private companies or
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Please refer to Item 15 for a description of the manner in
which Rockefeller & Co. arranges for class action
settlement checks to be deposited into client accounts at
third party qualified custodians.
ITEM 18: FINANCIAL INFORMATION
Rockefeller & Co. does not require or solicit prepayment
of more than $1,200 in investment advisory fees per client,
six months or more in advance.
Rockefeller & Co. is not aware of any financial condition
that is reasonably likely to impair its ability to meet
contractual commitments to its clients.
Rockefeller & Co. has not been the subject of a bankruptcy
petition at any time during the past ten years.
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