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Ameriprise ® Managed Accounts and
Financial Planning Service
Client Disclosure Brochure (Wrap Fee Program)
(Part 2A Appendix 1 of Form ADV)
This wrap fee program Brochure provides clients with
information about the qualifications and business practices
of Ameriprise Financial Services, LLC and Ameriprise® Managed
Accounts services. If you have any questions about the contents
of this Brochure, please contact us at 800.862.7919. The
information in this Brochure has not been approved or verified
by the United States Securities and Exchange Commission or
by any state securities authority.
Registration with the SEC or any state securities authority does
not imply a certain level of skill or training.
Additional information about Ameriprise Financial Services, LLC
is available on the SEC website at www.advisorinfo.sec.gov.
September 2025
Sponsor:
Ameriprise Financial Services, LLC
70400 Ameriprise Financial Center
Minneapolis, MN 55474
ameriprise.com
SEC Registration No. 801-28543
402422 AM (09/25)
Material Changes
This Brochure dated September 2025 is filed as an update to the Form ADV Part 2A, Appendix 1 and includes
material changes that have occurred since the last annual update of our Brochure in March 2025. Following is a
summary of the material changes:
June 2025
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The “Fee Information for Managed Account Programs” sub-section of the “Fees and Compensation”
section has been updated to include that effective August 2025, Ameriprise Financial Services began to
charging a Platform Fee on SPS Advantage, SPS Advisor and Active Portfolios® Programs.
September 2025
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The “Types of Advisory Service Providers” sub-section of the “Overview of Ameriprise Managed Accounts” section
has been updated to add the following definition:
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Investment Providers (effective December 2025). Investment Providers for the Active Portfolios® Program
construct the recommended holdings for a model investment portfolio according to their specific investment
strategy and may include their proprietary mutual funds and/or ETFs in the model investment portfolios.
Our affiliate CMIA also participates in the Active Portfolios® Program as an Investment Provider.
Each Investment Provider’s disclosure document (Part 2A of Form ADV) is available to you at
ameriprise.com/investmentproviders.
The Investment Providers provide non- discretionary investment and asset allocation recommendations to the
Investment Manager. Investment Providers do not have any investment discretion or trading authority to
purchase or sell securities in your Account. The Investment Manager exercises investment discretion for the
Active Portfolios® Accounts. Different Investment Providers may arrive at different investment and asset allocation
recommendations regarding investments in a certain sector, market capitalization, or other category of
investments, depending on the model portfolio’s investment objective. Oversight of the discretionary Investment
Manager, Investment Provider and the model portfolio’s investment strategy is provided by the Oversight
Committee, as described above.
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The “Signature Wealth” sub-section of the “Managed Account Programs and Services” section has been updated
to reflect that SMA model investment portfolios will become available in the Program effective on or around
December 1, 2025.
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The “Signature Wealth” and “Select Separate Account” sub-sections of the “Managed Account Programs and
Services” section have each been updated to reflect that concurrent with the addition of SMA model investment
portfolios to the Signature Wealth Program in late 2025, certain SMA strategies that are currently available in the
Select Separate Account Program will become available in our Signature Wealth Program as our initial step to
transition such SMA strategies from the Select Separate Account Program into the Signature Wealth Program. The full
transition process will include the following steps: Ameriprise Financial Services will (i) first close the SMA strategy in
the Select Separate Account Program to new investments prior to offering the SMA strategy in the Signature Wealth
Program; (ii) generally allow pending new accounts for the SMA strategy to continue to be processed in the Select
Separate Account Program; and (iii) subsequently migrate existing accounts investing in the SMA strategy from the
Select Separate Account Program into the Signature Wealth Program.
During this transition, if you currently hold an impacted SMA strategy in an existing Select Separate Account the Platform
Fee rate you pay is higher for your Select Separate Account than it would be if you held the same SMA strategy in the
Signature Wealth Program. If your Select Separate SMA strategy will go through this transition, Ameriprise Financial
Services will notify you.
This creates a conflict of interest as Ameriprise Financial Services receives a higher Platform Fee for Select
Separate Accounts than we receive for Signature Wealth Accounts, including the transition period when the same
SMA strategy is held in both Programs. Ameriprise Financial Services addresses this conflict through a combination
of disclosures and by closing any duplicative SMA strategies through the transition process described above.
Additionally, the transition process does not impact the Manager Fee that compensates the Advisory Service
Provider and does not affect the portion of the Asset-based Fee received by your financial advisor. However, the
transition process will result, for a limited period of time, in Sponsor receiving a higher Platform Fee from impacted
SMA strategies held within Select Separate Accounts than it would from the same SMA strategy invested in
Signature Wealth Accounts. Beginning in the second half of 2026, Ameriprise Financial Services plans to eliminate
this conflict of interest by migrating any Select Separate Account with an impacted SMA strategy from the Select
Separate Account Program to the Signature Wealth Program, in accordance with the Relationship Agreement. As
noted above, if your Select Separate Account SMA strategy is a part of this transition, Ameriprise Financial Services
will notify you so that you may work with your financial advisor to transition your Select Separate SMA Account to the
Signature Wealth Program at a date of your choosing so that you can benefit sooner from the reduced Platform Fee
rate the Signature Wealth Program provides.
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The “Active Portfolios” sub-section of the “Managed Account Programs and Services” section has been updated
to reflect that effective on or around December 1, 2025, your current Investment Manager will begin providing
investment advisory services as a non-discretionary Investment Provider and will no longer have discretionary
authority. All discretionary investment management will be provided by the Signature Wealth Investment Manager, a
non-affiliated third-party Advisory Service Provider, which will also become the Investment Manager for all Active
Portfolios® Accounts. Investment Providers will provide asset allocation and investment selection recommendations
for their specific portfolio(s) to the new Investment Manager. The new Investment Manager will have the
discretionary authority to purchase or sell securities or make other investments for your Account, however, you
directly own the underlying securities in the portfolio. The new Investment Manager will invest your Account assets
into the portfolio you select with your financial advisor and will be responsible for the ongoing investment
management and trading of your Active Portfolios® Account, subject to any Reasonable Restrictions or other
instructions provided by you. Your financial advisor will continue to provide recommendations regarding which
portfolio to hold in your Active Portfolios® Account. The new Investment Manager, not your financial advisor or the
Investment Provider, will provide you with discretionary investment management services for your Active Portfolios®
Account according to your Account’s target asset allocation and the portfolio you select.
You may request at any time a current copy of this Disclosure Brochure, and if applicable, Part 2A of your Investment
Manager’s Form ADV Brochure (as defined below in the Overview of Ameriprise Managed Accounts section of this Brochure)
from your financial advisor. The current Brochure replaces any earlier version you receive.
You may also request copies of the Brochure(s) by writing Ameriprise Financial Services, LLC at 2661 Ameriprise Financial
Center, Minneapolis, MN 55474, or by calling 800.297.6663.
Please retain a copy of this Brochure for your records.
Table of Contents
Ameriprise ® Managed Accounts and Financial Planning Service Combined Disclosure Brochure ........................................ 6
Ameriprise consolidated advisory fee service ................................................................................................................. 6
Appropriateness of a consolidated advisory fee service for you ........................................................................................ 6
Establishing and maintaining a consolidated advisory fee service .................................................................................... 7
Asset-based fee for your consolidated advisory fee service .............................................................................................. 7
Renegotiating Advisory Fees ...................................................................................................................................... 7
Terminating your consolidated advisory fee service .................................................................................................... 7
Ameriprise ® Managed Accounts services, fees and compensation ............................................................................. 8-11
Appropriateness of a Managed Account for you .................................................................................................................. 8
Overview of Ameriprise Managed Accounts ............................................................................................................... 11-22
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Advisory Service Providers ............................................................................................................................. 18
The Ameriprise Custom Advisory Relationship ............................................................................................................... 22
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Managed Account Programs and Services ............................................................................................................... 22-42
SPS Advantage ............................................................................................................................. 28-31
SPS Advisor ................................................................................................................................. 31-33
Signature Wealth .......................................................................................................................... 33-37
Active Portfolios® ......................................................................................................................... 37-39
Select Separate Account ................................................................................................................ 39-42
Managed Accounts offered with Envestnet Asset Management, Inc. ...................................................................... 42-43
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Vista Separate Account .................................................................................................................. 42-43
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Investor Unified Account ...................................................................................................................... 43
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Access Account ................................................................................................................................. 43
Supplementary Managed Accounts Information .................................................................................................. 43-50
Fees and Compensation .................................................................................................................................... 50-63
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Sweep Program and Expenses .............................................................................................................. 58
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Account requirements and types of clients ........................................................................................................... 63-64
Establishing and maintaining Accounts ................................................................................................... 63
Terminating a Relationship Agreement ................................................................................................... 63
Client Information provided to Advisory Service Providers ............................................................................................ 64
Ameriprise Financial Planning Service ..................................................................................................................... 64-70
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AFPS planning goals ........................................................................................................................... 65
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Financial fundamentals .................................................................................................................. 65-66
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Additional financial planning areas ........................................................................................................ 66
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Initial recommendations ................................................................................................................. 66-67
• Ongoing relationship ........................................................................................................................... 67
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Changing your planning goals ............................................................................................................... 67
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Implementation of your financial planning recommendations ................................................................. 67-68
• How to make the most of your financial planning relationship ................................................................ 68-69
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Other advisory services .............................................................................................................................. 69-70
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Fees and Compensation ................................................................................................................. 70-71
Performance-Based Fees and Side-by-Side Management ............................................................................................... 71
Types of Clients ......................................................................................................................................................... 71
Methods of Analysis, Investment Strategies and Risk of Loss ........................................................................................ 72
Disclosure of interest and capacity .................................................................................................................... 74-75
Privacy Notices ...................................................................................................................................................... 75
Additional Information .......................................................................................................................................... 75-78
• Disciplinary Information .................................................................................................................. 75-76
• Other financial industry activities and affiliations ................................................................................. 76-78
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How we get paid ................................................................................................................................................... 79-88
Cost Reimbursement Services and Third Party Payments ...................................................................... 79-85
Revenue Sources for Ameriprise Financial Services, LLC Financial planning and advisory service fees ............ 85-86
Economic benefits of affiliates’ products and services .......................................................................... 86-88
How our financial advisors get paid ........................................................................................................................ 88-94
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Code of Ethics, Participation or Interest in Transactions and Personal Trading ................................................ 93
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Client Referrals and Other Compensation ................................................................................................................... 94
Referral arrangements and other economic benefits ............................................................................ 94-95
Review of issuers of financial products ................................................................................................... 95
Revenue Sources for RiverSource .................................................................................................... 95-96
Revenue Sources for Columbia Management and Threadneedle .................................................................. 96
Revenue Sources for other Ameriprise Financial, Inc. companies ............................................................ 96-97
Custody ........................................................................................................................................... 97
Investment Discretion ......................................................................................................................... 97
Voting Client Securities .................................................................................................................. 97-98
Ameriprise Financial Services’ Proxy Voting Policies and Procedures ............................................................ 98
Financial Information .......................................................................................................................... 98
Glossary .................................................................................................................................................................... 99
sub- section of the “Ameriprise® Managed Accounts
services, fees and compensation” section.
If there is any conflict in the description of the
investment advisory services or the details regarding fee
information between the Ameriprise® Custom Advisory
Relationship Agreement (“Relationship Agreement”) and
the Combined Disclosure Brochure, the Combined
Disclosure Brochure will control.
Appropriateness of a consolidated
advisory fee service for you
Ameriprise ® Managed
Accounts and Financial
Planning Service
Combined Disclosure
Brochure
This Combined Disclosure Brochure covers important
information that is divided into four key components
outlining information about the:
• consolidated advisory fee service;
• Ameriprise® Managed Accounts (each an
Before selecting a consolidated advisory fee service, you
should consider, among other things, the costs and
potential benefits of a combined advisory service and
your investment objectives. The costs associated with a
consolidated advisory fee service that you should
consider include:
“Account” or “Managed Account”) offered by
Ameriprise Financial Services, LLC;
• A consolidated advisory fee service may be
• Ameriprise® Financial Planning Service; and
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appropriate for you if you wish to receive AFPS and
pay for the service through one or more eligible
Managed Accounts.
important information about Ameriprise
Financial Services, LLC.
• The cost of a consolidated advisory fee service will
be included in the Asset-based Fee for your
Managed Account(s) and a portion of the Asset-
based Fee will be allocated to cover AFPS (the
“AFPS Fee”), as further described in this Combined
Disclosure Brochure.
Each section of this Combined Disclosure Brochure
offers important information about engaging in a
consolidated advisory fee service that allows you to
have both Managed Account and financial planning
services for a single asset-based fee (“Asset-based
Fee”). The Asset-based Fee is a wrap fee.
Ameriprise consolidated advisory
fee service
• When you pay for AFPS separately, you are paying a
flat fee that you negotiate and agree upon with
your financial advisor. When you pay for AFPS as
part of a consolidated advisory fee service, you
agree to allocate a portion of the Advisory Fee to
cover your AFPS expenses. This portion will rise
and fall with your Managed Account balance, which
is impacted by the markets, deposits and
withdrawals. As such, you may pay more or less for
AFPS than you would if you did not elect to pay for
both AFPS and Managed Accounts with a single,
asset-based fee.
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In addition, you may pay more or less for AFPS in
the consolidated advisory fee service than other
AFPS clients with a comparable level of complexity.
Clients of Ameriprise Financial Services, LLC
(“Ameriprise Financial Services”, “Sponsor,” or “we”)
may elect to pay for the Ameriprise® Financial
Planning Service (“AFPS”) and Managed Account
service either separately or through a consolidated
advisory fee service. Ameriprise Financial Services,
LLC sponsors a wrap fee program offering a variety
of investment advisory accounts (collectively,
“Advisory Solutions”). Within Advisory Solutions,
Ameriprise Financial Services offers a number of
investment advisory programs (each a “Program” and
collectively the “Programs”) that have different
features and services, supporting a wide array of
investment strategies. When you decide upon a
Program, you may open a Managed Account.
Please review the information in this Brochure carefully
before you make a decision and contact your financial
advisor if you have any questions about the types of fees
and expenses that may be associated with your
consolidated advisory fee service.
A consolidated advisory fee service charges an Asset-
based Fee, which combines the fees you pay for
advisory services you receive for an AFPS and at least
one Managed Account, both of which are described
more fully in this Combined Disclosure Brochure. For
these two services you will pay a single, Asset-based
Fee as described in the “Fees and Compensation”
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Establishing and maintaining a
consolidated advisory fee service
Your signature will not be required if the new sum of your
Advisory Fee and AFPS Fee does not exceed the higher of
your Account’s current Assessed Advisory Fee or the
applicable Negotiated Advisory Fee, if the Account is part
of a Relationship.
To establish the consolidated advisory fee service,
you will be asked to:
• Review this Combined Disclosure Brochure, the
Relationship Agreement and documents that
you sign to establish your consolidated
advisory fee service; and ask your financial
advisor any questions;
Your Negotiated Advisory Fee is the highest Advisory Fee
that you agree could apply to an Account opened under
the Relationship without obtaining an additional signature.
The Assessed Advisory Fee is the sum of the Advisory Fee
and AFPS Fee that you agreed to be applied to and
charged on a specific Account. The negotiated Advisory
Fee may be different than the Assessed Advisory Fee.
• Provide accurate and complete information to
your financial advisor to complete the relevant
consolidated advisory fee service documents;
• Establish and maintain at least one Managed
Account as part of the consolidated advisory
fee service; and
• Select a sweep option as described in the and
Your financial advisor can reduce, increase, re-allocate or
remove your AFPS Fee without requiring your signature,
provided unless the total of the Advisory Fee and AFPS
Fee increases and exceeds the higher of your Account’s
current Assessed Advisory Fee or the applicable
Negotiated Advisory Fee, as described in your
Relationship Agreement.
“Sweep Option and Expenses” section.
Asset-based fee for your consolidated
advisory fee service
The Asset-based Fee change will become effective at the
start of the next billing period, following the period in
which the request is received and accepted by Sponsor.
For each instance of a fee change, we will send you a
confirmation, regardless of whether your signature was
required.
Terminating your consolidated advisory
fee service
You may terminate your entire consolidated advisory fee
service at any time either by telephone or in writing. In
addition, you may elect to terminate the AFPS component
of the consolidated advisory fee service.
The portion of the annual Asset-based fee you pay
for your consolidated advisory fee service (referred to
as the “Advisory Fee”) is negotiated with your
financial advisor and you and is deducted from the
sweep option related to the Managed Account(s) that
you select. For a consolidated advisory fee service,
your Advisory Fee includes investment advisory
services provided (i) to your Managed Account(s);
and (ii) your AFPS, each as further described in this
Combined Disclosure Brochure.
If you do so, your Managed Account will remain active.
If the Managed Account is terminated, the AFPS
component of the services will be terminated as well.
If the AFPS component is also attached to other
Managed Accounts, AFPS will continue under those
Accounts and your financial advisor may discuss Advisory
Fee changes in those Accounts with you. Termination
fees, as described elsewhere in this Combined
Disclosure Brochure, will apply.
The maximum total annual Advisory Fee you will pay
for a consolidated advisory fee relationship is 2.0%.
The Advisory Fee is based upon the level of assets in
your associated Managed Account(s) and includes
the AFPS Fee. When establishing a consolidated
advisory fee service, you and your financial advisor
will agree to the portion of the Advisory Fee that is
allocated to AFPS. This allocation will be in five basis
point increments.
You may not pay general financial planning fees from
your IRA or other qualified account; therefore, the
entire Advisory Fee for consolidated advisory fee
arrangements in IRA accounts must be paid from an
alternate non-qualified brokerage account or a non-
qualified Managed Account.
You can renegotiate your Advisory Fee applicable to
each Account and your AFPS Fee, if applicable, with
your financial advisor at any time. Your financial
advisor will complete the appropriate documents
reflecting the new Advisory Fee and/or AFPS Fee.
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rollout. If your financial advisor is not eligible for the
limited rollout you will not be able to open a Signature
Wealth Account, until the anticipated nationwide rollout
of the Program to all financial advisors in May 2025.
Ameriprise ® Managed
Accounts services,
fees and compensation
Appropriateness of a Managed Account
for you
Ameriprise Financial Services also offers Ameriprise
brokerage accounts. Selecting the account type(s) that
best meet your needs is an important decision. There are
circumstances where you may benefit from both a
Managed Account and a brokerage account for different
portions of your investment portfolio. When evaluating the
differences between an Ameriprise brokerage account
and an Advisory Solution, you should consider the
following key differences:
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Advisory Solutions allow you to receive ongoing
investment advice and feature an asset-based fee
structure. The annual Asset-based Fee you pay for
your Account is a percentage of the total value of the
assets in your Account and as a result, the total
amount you pay will increase if the asset value of
your Account increases, and vice versa. The Asset-
based Fee is assessed monthly and deducted from
your account in advance. This allows you to
implement your investment strategy, generally
without paying individual trading costs for each trade
placed within the Account. Many of our Advisory
Solutions feature professional portfolio management
including asset allocation, risk management,
investment selection, tax- harvesting and dynamic
Account rebalancing. Your financial advisor will
provide you with Account monitoring and ongoing
advice to develop and maintain your Account(s)
investment portfolio, which will be designed to help
you meet your financial goals and investment
objectives.
Ameriprise Financial Services, LLC (“Ameriprise
Financial Services”, “Sponsor,” or “we”) sponsors a
wrap fee program offering a variety of investment
advisory accounts (collectively, “Advisory Solutions”).
Within Advisory Solutions, Ameriprise Financial
Services offers a number of investment advisory
programs (each a “Program” and collectively the
“Programs”) that have different features and
services, supporting a wide array of investment
strategies. When you decide upon a Program, you may
open an advisory account, (“Account” or “Managed
Account”) which is an investment advisory account
for which you pay an ongoing asset-based fee
(“Asset-based Fee"). The Asset-based Fee is a wrap
fee. Prior to establishing an Ameriprise® Managed
Account you should carefully review this Wrap Fee
Program Brochure (“Disclosure Brochure” or
“Brochure”). If there is any conflict in the description
of the investment advisory services or the details
regarding fee information between the Ameriprise®
Custom Advisory Relationship Agreement
(“Relationship Agreement”) and this Disclosure
Brochure, the Disclosure Brochure will control.
Common terms used throughout this Brochure are
defined in the “Glossary” section.
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Ameriprise Financial Services offers the following
Programs:
– Ameriprise® Strategic Portfolio
Service (SPS) Advantage
– Ameriprise® SPS Advisor
– Ameriprise® Signature Wealth
– Ameriprise® Active Portfolios®
– Ameriprise® Select Separate Account
– Ameriprise® Investor Unified Account
Ameriprise brokerage accounts feature a
commission-based fee structure where investors
typically pay commissions, sales charges and/or
other fees on products purchased and sold in your
brokerage account. Brokerage accounts enable you
to invest in many different types of investments
including mutual funds, stocks, bonds, exchange
traded products, unit investment trusts, annuities
and alternative investments. Your financial advisor
may provide you point-in-time recommendations
related to your investment portfolio and may review
your Ameriprise brokerage account; however, your
brokerage relationship does not include account
monitoring.
– Ameriprise® Vista Separate Account
– Ameriprise® Access Account
The performance of your Account(s) will not be monitored
on a day-to-day basis. Past performance is no guarantee
of future performance. In addition, forecasts of future
performance of financial markets may prove to be
incorrect.
Currently, a select group of financial advisors offer a
new discretionary Managed Account Program -
Ameriprise® Signature Wealth through a limited
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incurred in connection with your Account based on the
nature of your investments. These costs are summarized
below and are discussed in more detail and in the “Fees
and Compensation” section.
Information to help you evaluate the benefits, risks,
and costs of the investments and services we offer
as part of a brokerage relationship, as well as
information about material conflicts of interest
associated with recommendations we or our financial
advisors make to our retail brokerage clients may be
found at https://www.ameriprise.com/bestinterest.
More detail about the differences between Advisory
Solutions and brokerage accounts may be viewed
online by visiting www.ameriprise.com/disclosures
and expanding the sub-heading “Managed Account
Client Disclosure Brochures” and then clicking on
“Evaluating differences between brokerage and
managed accounts”.
Before opening a Managed Account or investing in any
Program or investment product, it is your responsibility to
understand and consider all fees, expenses and other
charges. Specific information concerning the fees and
other charges of each investment product in which your
Account invests is available in the product’s prospectus
or other offering document. Additional fee information for
a Program and any Managed Account you open with us
can be found in the Account application and Relationship
Agreement, the Ameriprise Brokerage Client Agreement,
the Other Important Disclosures Document, Working in
Your Best Interest – Regulation Best Interest Disclosure,
and any other related disclosures and documents, all of
which are available from your financial advisor. Please
review all applicable information carefully before you
make an investment decision and contact your financial
advisor if you have any questions about the types of fees
and expenses that may be associated with your Managed
Account.
The costs associated with a Managed Account that you
should consider include:
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The Asset-based Fee that you pay for a Managed
Account may be more or less than if you were to
purchase the investment products and investment
advisory services separately or in a transaction-fee
based brokerage account paying commissions and
sales-loads. Depending on your individual situation
and the frequency and volume of trading, a Managed
Account may cost more than a brokerage account,
but the reverse could be true as well. Generally,
Ameriprise Financial Services, our affiliates, and your
financial advisor will receive more revenue from a
Managed Account that generates an ongoing revenue
stream than a transaction-fee based brokerage
account. At the time of Account opening and
throughout your relationship we seek to address this
conflict of interest through a combination of
disclosure and through our policies, procedures and
supervision related to the review and determination
that an Account is appropriate for you based on your
financial and risk profile information and investment
objectives (“Client Information”) in accordance with
all applicable regulatory requirements.
The Asset-based Fee is the ongoing wrap fee you
pay for (i) investment advisory services provided by
Ameriprise Financial Services and your financial
advisor; and (ii) investment management fees
charged by the Advisory Service Provider providing
advisory services to SMA strategies held in your
Account, if applicable. The components of the Asset-
based Fee are separately itemized as an Advisory
Fee, a Platform Fee and a Manager Fee as further
described in the “Fees and Compensation” section.
Based on the Program you select, the components
of your Asset-based Fee will vary.
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The same or similar services provided to you under
the Asset-based Fee may be available to you at a
lower fee from another service provider.
Before selecting a Managed Account, you should
consider, among other things, the costs and
expenses, your investment objectives, and the types
of investments you hold and intend to purchase.
Discuss with your financial advisor accounts you may
hold elsewhere.
Investments and Infrastructure Support Fee and
Credit for SPS Advisor Accounts. In addition to your
Asset-based Fee, for SPS Advisor Accounts,
Ameriprise Financial Services assesses a quarterly
asset-based fee of 0.03% of the total advisory assets
in your Account. Our affiliate AEIS credits to clients all
sub-transfer agency fees and networking fees AEIS
receives for SPS Advisor Accounts from mutual fund
firms, as further described in the “Fees and
Compensation” section. This Investments and
Infrastructure Support Credit may be more or less
than the Investments and Infrastructure Support Fee.
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The total cost to you of a Managed Account will
include (1) the Asset-based Fee, a portion of which
you negotiate with your financial advisor, and which
includes any investment management fees charged
by Advisory Service Providers for SMA strategies; (2)
for SPS Advisor Accounts, the Investments and
Infrastructure Support Fee; (3) Investment Costs;
and (4) Additional Fees and Expenses which are any
additional transaction related fees that may be
Investment Costs. These are the underlying fees
related to investment products you purchase within
your Managed Account. These may include
investment management fees and distribution fees
charged by mutual fund firms and other fees that are
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Payments and cost reimbursement services and
payments are further described in the “Mutual Fund
Share Classes in Managed Accounts”, “Fees and
Compensation”, and “Cost Reimbursement Services
and Third Party Payments” sections. These
payments are generally funded directly, or indirectly,
from Investment Costs.
• You should consider this total compensation received
disclosed in the fund prospectus or other offering
document. These costs are in addition to the
Asset- based Fee that you pay directly from your
Account. They are paid indirectly by you, for
example, as a shareholder in a mutual fund,
through the product. They are not a direct fee
deducted from your Account. Investment Costs
reduce the value of your investment in the
product and reduce the investment performance
of your Account.
by Ameriprise Financial Services and AEIS when
evaluating the reasonableness of our fees.
• Additional Fees and Expenses are any additional
transaction related fees that may be incurred in
connection with your Account based on the nature of
your investments; for example, for Select Separate
Account and Managed Accounts offered with
Envestnet, if the Investment Manager for the
investment strategy you select engages in “step- out
trades” you will be assessed any Third Party Execution
Fees for these trades as defined and described in the
“Brokerage Practices” section; these fees will be in
addition to the Asset-Based Fee that you pay to
Ameriprise Financial Services and are not
compensation to Ameriprise Financial Services or AEIS.
In determining whether a Managed Account is
appropriate for you at the time of Account opening and
throughout your relationship with Ameriprise Financial
Services, you should also consider:
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Impact of the total costs of a Managed Account
described above, on the overall value and net
performance of your Account;
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Investment Costs apply whether the investment
product is sponsored or managed by an unaffiliated
third party or by an affiliate of Ameriprise Financial
Services, such as Columbia Management Investment
Advisers, LLC (“CMIA”), a wholly-owned subsidiary of
Ameriprise Financial, Inc., Ameriprise Financial
Services’ parent company. When you invest in
investment products managed by CMIA, CMIA or its
affiliates will receive compensation for managing
those investments and for other services they provide
based on the amount you invest, just as they would if
you invested in CMIA investment products through
another service provider. Investment Costs received
by CMIA are not direct compensation to Ameriprise
Financial Services, however, Ameriprise Financial
Services, CMIA and their affiliates receive more
revenue, in aggregate, from the purchase of affiliated
investment products offered by CMIA than from the
purchase of investment products offered by firms that
are not affiliated with Ameriprise Financial, Inc. and
therefore it is more profitable for Ameriprise Financial
Services’ parent company when you purchase or own
a CMIA investment product in your Account.
Total cost of purchasing and holding any underlying
securities, products and services outside of a
Managed Account or at another firm, including the
anticipated amount of trading;
•
That you will typically not recover any front-end loads
previously paid on mutual funds that are transferred
into a Managed Account and you may be subject to
contingent-deferred sales charges on mutual funds
that charge such a fee if sold or exchanged after they
are transferred into a Managed Account. The cost
basis on any mutual fund with front-end loads will
carry over to any mutual fund positions converted in
a tax-free exchange and will be included in the tax
calculation of gains and losses for those converted
positions held in non-qualified Managed Accounts;
• Whether you desire a long-term buy-and-hold
investment strategy, or otherwise purchase mutual
funds and other securities infrequently. If so, a
Managed Account may not be appropriate for you;
• Your desired level of involvement in individual
investment decisions and comfort with granting
discretion over your investments to your financial
advisor or other investment managers;
• Third Party Payments. A portion of Investment
Costs that you pay indirectly to third parties are
subsequently received by our affiliated clearing
agent, American Enterprise Investment Services
Inc. (“AEIS”), from those third parties as certain
cost reimbursement payments and other servicing
and account maintenance fees (e.g., sub-transfer
agent or networking fees) related to your
Managed Account. AEIS also receives marketing
support and distribution support payments.
Effective on or around 2nd quarter of 2025, AEIS
will begin collecting Third Party Payments on
trustee-directed retirement plans in SPS
Advantage Accounts. For qualified SPS Advisor
Accounts, inherited IRAs in qualified SPS
Advantage Accounts where a trust has inherited
the IRA and Ameriprise Bank acts as trustee of
the trust and eligible trustee-directed retirement
plans in Select Separate Accounts AEIS either
does not collect Third Party Payments or credits
them back to client Accounts as described in the
“Fees and Compensation” section. Third Party
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• Custodial services provided;
• Size of your Account;
• Your ability to independently select and retain
professional asset management services;
•
Terms and conditions of the Relationship
Agreement;
•
The type of investment products (including
mutual fund share classes) that are available for
purchase in each Managed Account Program; and
• How much of your assets you expect to be
Managed Account. A money settlement option is a
feature offered by Ameriprise Financial Services that
is primarily intended to hold cash (i) pending
investment into your Managed Account; (ii) to cover
your Asset-based Fee and if applicable, SPS Advisor
Investments and Infrastructure Support Fee; (iii) to
cover systematic cash withdrawals you have
established for your Account(s); (iv) for certain pre-
existing non- qualified SPS Advantage Accounts
check writing or debit card activity and to make bill
payments (cash management activities); and (v) for
settling transactions in your Managed Account.
Available money settlement options include either a
free credit balance held in your Account covered by
SIPC, or a program that provides for the automatic
movement or “sweep” of uninvested cash balances
in your Managed Account into the money settlement
program (each, a “Sweep Program”). A Sweep
Program is not an investment strategy and is not
intended as an investment option for you to maintain
a significant cash balance for an extended period of
time. As noted above, Ameriprise Financial Services
offers investment products that offer capital
preservation that generally have a higher rate of return
for the cash component of your asset allocation than
a Sweep Program. The terms of our cash sweep
programs can be found in the "Other Important
Brokerage Disclosures" document you received when
you set up your Account or Relationship, as applicable.
For a copy of this document, visit our website at
ameriprise.com/disclosures or call our service line at
800.862.7919.
•
In addition, it is important that you review any
applicable mutual fund or ETF prospectus and/or
other product offering documents prior to investing in
order to learn about fund expenses, investment
minimums, availability of sales charge breakpoints or
rights of accumulation and other benefits and costs
when purchased outside of a Managed Account. You
should consider whether you will be eligible for the
sales charge breakpoints, rights of accumulation and
other benefits before purchasing or transferring
mutual funds into a Managed Account.
Overview of Ameriprise Managed
Accounts
allocated to cash. Because cash is included in
the Asset-based Fee for your Managed Account, it
will cost you more and Ameriprise Financial
Services and our financial advisors will receive
more revenue when you hold cash in a Managed
Account rather than an Ameriprise brokerage
account. It is not recommended to hold large
amounts of cash and/or positional money market
funds in a Managed Account for extended periods
of time. Prior to establishing a Managed Account
or as you consider remaining in a Managed
Account, and particularly for the SPS Advantage
and SPS Advisor Programs, consider whether you
have a short-term investment horizon, or whether
you are holding cash for asset safety purposes
(such as during periods of volatile or uncertain
market conditions). In those cases, you should
consider and discuss with your financial advisor
other investment products within an Ameriprise
brokerage account or other commission-based
account that may offer capital preservation with a
higher rate of return for the cash component of
your asset allocation. These investment products
include Ameriprise Certificates, brokered
certificates of deposit, treasuries and positional
money market mutual funds and are a more
appropriate choice for investing cash than
maintaining a significant cash balance in your
Managed Account for an extended period. Not all
of these investment products are available or
appropriate to hold in large amounts within
Managed Accounts. Your financial advisor can
provide you with information about the cash
management products available to you, including
whether it may be appropriate to allocate assets
between your Managed Account and an
Ameriprise brokerage account. We offer tools on
our client website that permit you to transfer
cash between your Managed Account and certain
other brokerage accounts you maintain at
Ameriprise. This may help you avoid the ongoing
Asset-based Fee.
All Programs, except SPS Advantage, are discretionary
investment advisory Programs. Advisory Service Providers
with investment selection discretion and SPS
Discretionary Advisors (“Discretionary Managers”) have
discretionary authority granted by you to (i) select
investments for your Account; and (ii) purchase or sell
securities or make other investments for your Account
without your prior authorization.
• You should also review the available money
settlement option available to you in your
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financial advisor does not vary depending upon the
investment(s) recommended to you within a
Managed Account. The sources of financial advisor
compensation are described in the “How our
financial advisors get paid” section.
Client Rights and Responsibilities
•
For the SPS Advisor Program, you authorize one or
more financial advisor(s) to exercise discretion
regarding the investment selection and asset
allocation strategy in your SPS Advisor Account as an
SPS Discretionary Advisor. For all other discretionary
Programs, specifically Signature Wealth, Active
Portfolios® investments, Select Separate Account,
Vista Separate Account, Investor Unified Account and
Access Account Programs (the “Manager Directed
Programs”) use the discretionary investment advisory
services of Advisory Service Providers, as described
below, which may or may not be affiliated with
Ameriprise Financial Services depending upon the
Program offered and selected.
•
You may impose reasonable security and mutual fund
restrictions on any discretionary Account(s) and
reasonable sector restrictions (“Reasonable
Restrictions”) on Manager Directed Account(s)
that you select by completing and signing the
appropriate documents and when accepted by
Ameriprise Financial Services, your financial advisor
or the Investment Manager as described in each
Program description within this Brochure.
•
You may not impose restrictions which apply to
underlying securities held in any mutual fund,
exchange traded fund (“ETF”), closed end fund
(“CEF”), unit investment trust (“UIT”) or other pooled
investment products.
•
You are responsible for promptly notifying Ameriprise
Financial Services in writing of any changes to these
Reasonable Restrictions.
•
Ameriprise Financial Services will determine
whether an Account is appropriate for you upon
Account opening based on information you provide
and thereafter as described in this Brochure.
Ameriprise Financial Services also reserves the
right to limit or close any Managed Account that
is used for excessive securities trading. At both
Account opening and on an ongoing basis,
Ameriprise Financial Services conducts additional
monitoring and supervision regarding the
appropriateness of a Managed Account for you,
including the internal transfer of securities from
an existing Ameriprise brokerage account into
the Account and the transfer of securities from
an external account into the Account.
You are responsible for providing Ameriprise
Financial Services with accurate Client Information
when you establish a Custom Advisory Relationship
(as described below) and open any Managed Account.
•
•
Your financial advisor will conduct an annual
review of Account appropriateness and document
at least annually whether each Managed Account
continues to be appropriate.
•
Periodically, you will be notified in writing to contact
Ameriprise Financial Services if there have been any
changes in your Client Information and/or
Reasonable Restrictions. It is your responsibility to
promptly notify Ameriprise Financial Services, in
writing or by contacting your financial advisor, of any
changes. Failure to do so could affect the services
provided to you.
If at any time we determine that your Account or a
position(s) within your Account is no longer
appropriate for you, your Account may be closed
and/or transferred into an Ameriprise brokerage
account with thirty (30) days prior notice. See the
“Terminating a Managed Account Client
Agreement” section for more detail and for
information regarding your right to terminate your
Managed Account(s).
• Review this Disclosure Brochure and if applicable,
the Advisory Service Provider’s, as defined below,
disclosure document (Part 2A of Form ADV) and the
investment strategy/portfolio fact sheets prior to
investing.
•
• Review available information about the trading
practices of the Investment Manager including the
average cost of step-out trades for the investment
strategy as defined and discussed in the “Brokerage
Practices” section.
•
In SPS Advantage Accounts, review any applicable
mutual fund or ETF prospectus, as well as any other
offering or disclosure document prior to investing.
Overview of Services and Fees
You will pay Asset-based Fees and certain other
fees, and incur expenses and costs when you
select a Service, as summarized above. These
fees, expenses and costs are further detailed
and described in the Managed Accounts charts
later in this section and in the “Fees and
Compensation” and the “Brokerage Practices”
sections. Ameriprise Financial Services
and its affiliates receive revenue as described in
the “How We Get Paid” section. Your Ameriprise
financial advisor receives compensation for
investment advisory services provided to you.
Importantly, the compensation we pay your
Ameriprise Financial Services is a registered investment
adviser under the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 (the
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For Accounts invested in Signature Wealth, providing
portfolio construction recommendations using a
portfolio proposal that is designed to assist with
aligning the recommended portfolio to your Client
Information.
•
“Advisers Act”) and a broker-dealer under the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (“Exchange Act”).
Investment advisory services are provided by
Ameriprise Financial Services as an investment
adviser and brokerage services are provided by
Ameriprise Financial Services as an introducing
broker. Ameriprise Financial Services and/or its
affiliates provide the following services:
Potentially serving as a liaison between you and any
Advisory Service Provider via Ameriprise Financial
Services;
•
•
Acting as wrap program sponsor and introducing
broker-dealer for the Programs described in this
Brochure;
•
Providing brokerage services through our affiliate,
American Enterprise Investment Services Inc.
(“AEIS”), in connection with your Account(s), as
described in the Relationship Agreement and the
Ameriprise brokerage agreement, Other
Important Brokerage and Schedule of Account &
Service Fees Documents (collectively referred to
as the “Brokerage Agreement”);
Annually, reviewing your Client Information,
investment objectives and any applicable
Reasonable Restrictions with you to determine if,
based on information you provided, they are still
accurate, reviewing with you whether your Managed
Account(s) and the investment strategy are still
suitable for you, and reviewing with you whether the
Asset-based Fee is still appropriate based on the
services provided. In the event an Account has more
than one owner, this review may occur with one or
more of the owners. If applicable your Attorney-in-
Fact may also participate in this review.
•
•
Training to and supervision of the Ameriprise
financial advisor authorized to use discretion in
SPS Advisor (“SPS Discretionary Advisor”);
Periodically reviewing and assessing your Account(s)
to answer any questions that you may have.
• Research and/or due diligence regarding the
• Where requested and as part of your services,
Advisory Service Providers (as defined below) you
select to provide discretionary investment
advisory services in Manager Directed Programs;
• Due diligence of investment products or investment
strategies available through the Programs including
initial and ongoing analysis based on a quantitative
and qualitative process through Ameriprise
Financial Services or its affiliates;
•
The execution of brokerage transactions on an
agency or, in limited circumstances, principal
basis through Ameriprise Financial Services’
clearing agent, AEIS;
• Custodial services; custody of the securities and
other assets you hold within a Managed Account
and consolidated account reporting regarding
those assets;
• Regular reports to clients; and
•
Year-end tax information reporting.
Your financial advisor performs certain services on
behalf of Ameriprise Financial Services in connection
with your Managed Account. A financial advisor will be
assigned to each Account and will provide services
including:
• Assisting you by defining the parameters that will
form the basis for the management of your
Account(s), including your Client Information;
•
providing guidance relating to both your Managed
Account and your additional retirement plan assets
not included in the Managed Account and that are
held outside of Ameriprise Financial Services in a
participant-directed defined contribution plan (e.g.,
401(k) plans) (“Outside Workplace Retirement Plan”).
Any guidance provided to you is based on information
provided by you about your Outside Workplace
Retirement Plan and is limited to investments offered
through the core line up of funds established by your
retirement plan sponsor. Your Outside Workplace
Retirement Plan may include investment options not
available in our Programs or for which your financial
advisor may not have access to detailed information.
Neither Ameriprise Financial Services nor your
financial advisor is responsible for the selection of the
available investment options in your Outside
Workplace Retirement Plan. Your financial advisor may
not make recommendations related to employer stock
that may be available within your Outside Workplace
Retirement Plan or with respect to any current
portfolio holdings or investment options available
through a self- directed brokerage account associated
with your Outside Workplace Retirement Plan. You are
responsible for placing any transactions
recommended by your financial advisor. If you desire
ongoing guidance on your Outside Workplace
Retirement Plan, it is important that you provide your
financial advisor with updated information, including
statements and a list of funds available in your
Outside Workplace Retirement Plan, on a regular
basis. Your investment objectives and risk tolerance
For Accounts invested in SPS Advantage and SPS
Advisor, providing advice in consideration of an
asset allocation strategy for the Account;
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for your Outside Workplace Retirement Plan may
differ from those of your Managed Account,
however any guidance provided for your Outside
Workplace Retirement Plan is provided in
consideration of the investment objectives and
risk tolerance of any Managed Accounts you hold.
Your financial advisor is instructed to inform
Ameriprise Financial Services if your personal and/or
financial information have changed.
class we offer for that particular fund in our Managed
Accounts Programs. All share classes of a particular
mutual fund represent the same underlying investments
and you may be eligible to purchase a less expensive
share class of that mutual fund outside of Ameriprise
Financial Services. Because Ameriprise Financial
Services chooses to offer only one share class per
mutual fund in our Managed Accounts Programs, we limit
the availability of other share classes of those mutual
funds that you may otherwise be eligible to purchase at a
lower cost.
Mutual Fund Share Classes in Managed Accounts
For SPS Advantage and SPS Advisor Accounts, you can
hold, but not purchase, share classes that are less
expensive than the Advisory or other share class we offer
for purchase in a particular mutual fund (each,
an “Eligible to Hold Share Class”). You may choose to
reinvest, or receive in cash, fund dividends and capital
gains distributions in such funds if available. An Eligible
to Hold Share Class is assessed the Asset-based Fee
while held in your Account. Upon transfer into your
Account, you can (i) transfer the Eligible to Hold Share
Class to an Ameriprise brokerage account; (ii) liquidate
the Eligible to Hold Share Class and purchase an Eligible
Investment; or (iii) continue to hold the Eligible to Hold
Share Class in your Account.
When determining which share class to offer as the only
share class available for purchases in a particular mutual
fund, if a mutual fund offers multiple share classes that
do not have a sales-load and do not charge a 12b-1 fee,
Ameriprise Financial Services will choose to utilize the
share class that permits, pursuant to the fund’s
prospectus, the payment of Third Party Payments such as
cost reimbursement and other servicing and account
maintenance fees, even though certain clients may hold
an Eligible to Hold Share Class in a Managed Account or
our clients in general are currently eligible for a less
expensive share class or may become eligible in the
future, including when a mutual fund introduces a lower-
cost share class into an existing mutual fund.
None of the mutual funds currently offered in
Ameriprise Managed Accounts Programs impose a
front-end sales charge. For most mutual funds, a
share class that does not have a sales-load and does
not assess 12b-1 fees (collectively “Advisory
Shares”) is offered in all Ameriprise Managed
Account Programs as the only mutual fund share
class available for purchase, where available to us
through a selling agreement. If not available to us
through a selling agreement or if the mutual fund
does not offer an Advisory Share class, we offer
Class A shares that may pay a 12b-1 fee or a no-load
share class that does not have a sales-load but that
may pay a 12b-1 fee. 12b-1 fees are paid by a
mutual fund out of fund assets to cover distribution
expenses and sometimes shareholder service
expenses. The share class offered for purchase by
Ameriprise Financial Services for a particular mutual
fund is the only share class we allow for additional
purchase within your Account. As discussed below,
any 12b-1 fees received by Ameriprise Financial
Services will be promptly rebated to your Managed
Account. The share class offered for purchase by
Ameriprise Financial Services for each applicable
fund is listed in our Mutual Fund Screener Tool.
Access the tool by logging into your Ameriprise
Secure Site account and selecting Trade & Research
and then Screeners and select the “Availability” tab.
Specifically, we prefer to offer a share class that makes
Third Party Payments that will (i) reimburse our affiliate
AEIS for certain services it provides for the benefit of
clients such as record keeping, administration,
shareholder servicing, and client telephonic and other
servicing; and (ii) help increase profitability for the firm.
As a result, in almost all instances our affiliate earns
higher revenues from the share class available to
purchase in Ameriprise Managed Account Programs than
from Eligible to Hold Share Class positions.
Ameriprise Financial Services seeks to make
available to client’s mutual funds, and share classes
of those mutual funds, that Ameriprise Financial
Services believes are suitable for investment. We
take mutual fund expenses into account in
determining which mutual funds to offer in our
Programs, as further discussed in the “Investment
Product Due Diligence Services” paragraphs of this
section. Advisory Shares are less expensive than
share classes that charge investors a 12b-1 fee or
assess a sales charge, but they are not always the
least expensive share class made available by the
mutual fund.
Our determination of which share class to offer as the only
share class available for purchase in a particular mutual
fund presents a conflict of interest for Ameriprise Financial
Services due to a financial incentive to place you in the
higher-cost share class that pays AEIS for cost
reimbursement services as described in the “Cost
Many mutual funds offer institutional shares or other
types of shares for a mutual fund that are less
expensive than the Advisory Share or other share
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purchase through a Managed Account. For more
information on fund families and mutual funds offered in
our Managed Account Programs including the applicable
Advisory Share class or other share class utilized, please
refer to our Mutual Fund Screener Tool available by
logging into your Ameriprise Secure Site account and
selecting Trade & Research and then Screeners and
select the “Availability” tab. Please refer to the mutual
fund’s prospectus(es) or website to determine whether
your investment would qualify for an institutional or other
share class outside a managed account service, with
corresponding lower expenses and fees.
Class A share and Class C share positions, as well as
other share classes that pay a 12b-1 fee and that do not
match the Advisory Share class or other share class
offered by Ameriprise Financial Services for a particular
mutual fund (“Non-Matching Shares”) are processed as
follows:
Reimbursement Services and Third Party Payments”
section. Ameriprise Financial Services addresses this
conflict of interest through a combination of disclosure
and policies, procedures and related controls designed
to ensure that the fees we charge to clients are fair
and reasonable. We also permit clients to hold Eligible
to Hold Share Class positions at a lower cost to you
and, in almost all instances, we do not receive Third
Party Payments for such positions. Another way we
address this conflict is by not sharing Third Party
Payments with your financial advisor in connection with
the investment products recommended for your
Account which eliminates any personal financial
incentive for your financial advisor to make
recommendations based on whether Third Party
Payments are received. Your financial advisor may
receive compensation based on the profitability of the
firm, as further described in the “Economic benefits of
affiliates’ products and services” section. Before
selecting a Managed Account Program, you should
consider, among other things, that the total
compensation received by Ameriprise Financial
Services and our affiliate in the aggregate includes
Third Party Payments received for cost reimbursement
services as discussed in the “Appropriateness of a
Managed Account for you” section.
• Where Non-Matching Share classes that pay a
12b- 1 fee are held in or transferred into your
Managed Account, we will convert such shares to an
Advisory Share class where one is available to us
through a selling agreement provided the mutual
fund company allows the conversion to be processed
on a tax-free exchange basis for non-qualified account
holdings. We will not assess transaction fees or
other charges in connection with conversions to
Advisory Shares. For Manager Directed Programs the
conversion to the Advisory Share class of the same
mutual fund may occur on a non-exchange basis.
Such transactions generally result in tax
consequences in non- qualified Accounts. You
authorize Ameriprise Financial Services to convert
applicable Non-Matching Shares to an Advisory
Share class of the same mutual fund by establishing
a new Relationship or by continuing to accept the
services in the Program after we notify you of an
upcoming conversion.
Our decision to offer a particular share class that
may not be the least expensive share class and a
financial advisor’s recommendation that you
participate in a Managed Account Program will cause
you to pay higher internal expenses for certain mutual
funds than you would otherwise pay (i) if participating
in another provider’s managed account service which
uses a lower-cost share class; (ii) if holding a lower-
cost share class as an Eligible to Hold Share Class;
or (iii) by buying the mutual funds directly from the
distributor outside of a managed account service, if
possible. This difference in internal expenses
between share classes of a particular mutual fund
will also affect the investment performance of your
Account by reducing returns over time. Your
participation in a Managed Account Program that
does not offer or allow additional purchases of the
least expensive share class may still be an
appropriate choice depending on the facts and
circumstances of your individual situation and in light
of the features and benefits of the particular
Managed Account Program. For a listing of all share
classes that may be available in the marketplace for
a given mutual fund, please refer to the mutual
fund’s prospectus or statement of additional
information.
Please review the mutual fund prospectus and
contact your financial advisor for information about
any limitations on share classes available for
• Non-Matching Share classes that pay a 12b-1 fee in
SPS Advantage Accounts and SPS Advisor Accounts
will not be converted to the corresponding Advisory
Share if Ameriprise Financial Services is not able to
complete the exchange (e.g., the mutual fund
company does not allow it or a corresponding
Advisory Share class is not offered), the exchange
cannot be processed on a tax-free basis, or if
Ameriprise Financial Services determines they are
subject to a short- term redemption fee or deferred
sales charge. Instead, to the extent identified by
Ameriprise Financial Services, those Non-Matching
Shares will generally be transferred to an Ameriprise
brokerage account in accordance with the
Relationship Agreement. Similarly, Class C share
positions that Ameriprise Financial Services is
unable to convert to Advisory Shares for any reason
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Accounts are more likely to hold Class A shares or no-
load share class mutual fund positions.
will be transferred to an Ameriprise brokerage
account. Any such positions pending transfer to
an Ameriprise brokerage account will be subject
to the Asset-based Fee.
Investment Product Due Diligence Services and
Investment Availability for Purchases.
•
Prior to initially offering any mutual fund, ETF, exchange
traded note (“ETN”), CEF or UIT in the Programs and on
at least an annual basis thereafter the Ameriprise
Investment Research Group (“IRG”) and the alternative
investments due diligence team conducts research and
quantitative analysis, and may also conduct qualitative
analysis, of investment products. For the Signature
Wealth Program, Ameriprise Financial Services further
defines the mutual funds and ETFs available for use in
the Program.
This process, depending on the type of investment, may
include evaluation of the historical performance or
tracking difference, amount of assets with Ameriprise
Financial Services, expenses, premium, offering
documents, financial statements, portfolio holdings and
other information requested from the product manufacturer.
Investments Available for Purchase.
As with full Account transfers to an Ameriprise
brokerage account, if you do not have an
Ameriprise brokerage account with the same
account registration, beneficiaries and other
account level attributes as your Managed
Account, a new brokerage account will be opened
for you with the same attributes. The Brokerage
Agreement will govern your Ameriprise brokerage
account relationship including fees charged in
connection with maintaining a brokerage account,
transaction fees and applicable terms and
conditions such as mandatory predispute
arbitration. Advisory Shares and certain other
share classes used as the only share class
available for a particular mutual fund are not
available for purchase in an Ameriprise
brokerage account. Such share classes can be
held in an Ameriprise brokerage account subject
to any restrictions or conversion requests
received from the mutual fund company.
12b-1 fee rebates
Investment products (i) that meet Ameriprise Financial
Services’ due diligence standards; and (ii) for which we
have a selling or distribution agreement in place are
offered and are available for purchase in SPS Advantage
Accounts, SPS Advisor Accounts, Signature Wealth
Accounts, Vista Separate Accounts and Investor Unified
Accounts ("Eligible Investments").
Signature Wealth Accounts may only hold Eligible
Investments. Eligible to Hold Share Classes, Eligible to
Hold Investments and Ineligible Investments are not
permitted.
Advisory Shares typically do not pay 12b-1 fees. As
described above, where Ameriprise Financial Services
does not offer an Advisory Share class for a particular
mutual fund, we offer either a Class A share or a no-
load share class that may pay a 12b-1 fee. To the
extent that Ameriprise receives 12b-1 fees for share
classes held in any Managed Accounts, they will be
rebated to clients. Rebates are generally deposited
into the applicable client Accounts within a week
after we receive the 12b-1 fees.
Investments Eligible to Hold but not Purchase.
The types of investments that can be held, but not
purchased, in SPS Advantage and SPS Advisor Accounts
are summarized in the chart below and further described
below and in the “Mutual Fund Share Classes in
Managed Accounts” paragraphs of this section.
Type of Investment
SPS Advantage and SPS
Advisor Account
Activity
While not available for
purchase, you may only
transfer in from an
external account and
hold these investments.
Positions will be billable
while held in eligible
Programs.
Eligible to Hold Share
Class Share class that is
less expensive than the
advisory or other share
class offered for purchase
in a given mutual fund in
our managed account
programs.
In circumstances where the aggregate value of these
rebates exceeds the Asset-based Fees paid from your
non-qualified account, the excess will be considered
miscellaneous income for tax reporting purposes. For
Accounts with alternative fee billing arrangements,
the entire 12b-1 fee rebate will be considered
miscellaneous income if the originating Account is a
non-qualified Account. Account holders receiving
aggregate miscellaneous income of $600 or more
annually will receive an IRS Form 1099-MISC,
Miscellaneous Information, from AEIS. Account
holders receiving miscellaneous income amounts
under $600 annually generally will not receive an IRS
Form 1099-MISC from AEIS, but will be responsible for
reporting the income to the IRS. Holders of IRAs and
qualified retirement plan Accounts will not experience
a taxable event as a result of a rebate and will instead
be taxed only on amounts when they are distributed
from the Account. SPS Advantage and SPS Advisor
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delayed for certain position(s) where Ameriprise Financial
Services requires coordination with the applicable mutual
fund firm for the orderly processing of the transfer to an
Ameriprise brokerage account.
While not available for
purchase, you may only
transfer in from an
external account and hold
these investments.
Positions will be billable
while held in eligible
Programs.
From time to time, Ineligible Investments may be
reclassified as Eligible to Hold Investments, for example
when an investment product meets our due diligence
standards but is otherwise unavailable for purchase in
Managed Account Programs. In this case, you will be
permitted to continue to hold such investments in eligible
Programs.
Eligible to Hold
Investments
Investment products for
which our due diligence
standards are met but
either: (i) we do not have a
selling or distribution
agreement in place; or
(ii) the investment is not
otherwise available for
purchase in Managed
Accounts.
While not available for
purchase, you may only
transfer in from an
external account and
hold these investments
for up to 180 days.
Positions will be billable
while held in eligible
Programs.
Ineligible Investments
Investment products
(i) that do not meet our
due diligence standards;
(ii) where due diligence
has not been completed;
or
(iii) that are not otherwise
eligible to be held more
than 180 days in
Managed Accounts.
Your financial advisor may recommend that you sell, or
may sell in an SPS Advisor Account, any Ineligible
Investments within your Managed Account to purchase
Eligible Investments. Such transactions generally result
in tax consequences in non-qualified Accounts. While
such recommendation or sale and subsequent purchase
in an SPS Advisor Account must be suitable and
appropriate for your Account, your financial advisor will
generally receive more revenue from a Managed Account
that generates ongoing revenue streams than in an
Ameriprise brokerage account. Therefore, your financial
advisor has a financial incentive to reposition any
Ineligible Investments within your Managed Account into
positions that are available for purchase. Ameriprise
Financial Services seeks to address the conflict of
interest through its policies, procedures and supervision
of the suitability of recommendations related to your
Managed Account based on your Client Information and
in accordance with all applicable regulatory requirements.
You may hold these types of investments as
described above, however your Account will be
subject to our ongoing determination that the Account
is appropriate for you, including our belief that an
SPS Advantage Account is appropriate if you primarily
seek and act on the asset allocation and investment
advice of your financial advisor.
Investments Not Eligible to Hold or Purchase
Non-advisory assets are not allowed to be purchased or
held beyond initial transitional and administrative
processing upon transfer only from an external account to
a SPS Advantage or SPS Advisor Account. These
positions are not billable during processing.
Non-advisory assets include investments such as non-
traded exchange funds, 1031 exchange offerings, Class
C, Class B or any other mutual fund share class with a
contingent deferred sales charge, leveraged and inverse
ETFs and mutual funds, and other illiquid securities. Any
non-advisory assets that are (i) transferred into your SPS
Advantage Account or SPS Advisor Account, or (ii) that
are subsequently reclassified such that they are no
longer allowed to be held in your Account will be promptly
transferred into an Ameriprise brokerage account in
accordance with the Relationship Agreement.
You may not transfer Eligible to Hold Share Classes,
Eligible to Hold Investments, or Ineligible Investments
from an Ameriprise brokerage account into your
Managed Account. In certain instances, clients of
Ameriprise Financial Institutions Group (“AFIG”)
financial advisors may transfer Eligible to Hold
Investments and Ineligible Investments from an
Ameriprise brokerage account into your Managed
Account at account opening and for initial transition
purposes only. After the initial transition is complete
such assets may no longer be transferred from an
Ameriprise brokerage account to a Managed Account.
Any Ineligible Investments that are either transferred
into your Account from non-Ameriprise accounts or
reclassified as an Ineligible Investment may be either
sold or transferred to an Ameriprise brokerage
account, however if no action is taken with respect to
Ineligible Investments held in your Accounts by 180
days after transfer, or 180 days after the position
was reclassified, as applicable, the position(s) will
be automatically transferred into an Ameriprise
brokerage account in accordance with the
Relationship Agreement. This process may be
In addition, trustee-directed retirement plans are not
allowed to hold affiliated mutual funds and investment
products advised or sub-advised by CMIA or their
affiliates in qualified SPS Advantage Accounts and
eligible qualified Select Separate Accounts. Similarly,
these affiliated mutual funds and investment products
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are not allowed to be held in qualified SPS Advisor
Accounts and Tax-Sheltered Custodial Accounts
(“TSCAs”) invested in SPS Advisor and will be promptly
transferred into an Ameriprise brokerage account in
accordance with the Relationship Agreement.
The Oversight Committee reviews and approves these
recommendations as part of its ongoing oversight. The
Oversight Committee may remove a Portfolio Strategist or
an Asset Allocation Strategist from the Select ETF
Portfolios Service and/or adjust an asset allocation or
model portfolio as appropriate.
The IRG conducts initial and ongoing research and due
diligence on Advisory Service Providers, their applicable
investment strategies and the investment advisory
services available or utilized in the Programs and provides
recommendations to the Oversight Committee on matters
including the addition or termination of an Advisory
Service Provider, benchmark allocations, and security
trading. The Oversight Committee determines which
Advisory Service Providers are available within Programs.
For all transfers of non-advisory assets or affiliated
mutual funds and investment products, as with full
Account transfers to an Ameriprise brokerage account,
if you do not have an Ameriprise brokerage account
with the same account registration, beneficiaries and
other account level attributes as your Managed
Account, a new brokerage account will be opened for
you with the same attributes. Solely the Brokerage
Agreement will govern your Ameriprise brokerage
account relationship including fees charged in
connection with maintaining a brokerage account,
transaction fees and applicable terms and conditions
such as mandatory predispute arbitration.
Advisory Service Providers
The IRG also conducts due diligence and provides ETF
recommendations to the Oversight Committee for all
Select ETF Portfolios investments where an Asset
Allocation Strategist provides solely asset allocation
services.
More detail on how Ameriprise Financial Services selects
and reviews Advisory Service Providers for each Program
are described in the “Managed Account Programs and
services” sub-sections for Signature Wealth, Active
Portfolios®, Select Separate Account and Managed
Accounts Offered with Envestnet Asset Management, Inc.
Types of Advisory Service Providers.
Ameriprise Financial Services uses the services of
affiliated and third party investment advisory firms
(collectively, “Advisory Service Providers”) to provide
discretionary and non-discretionary investment
advisory services that include investment
management, asset allocation and/or rebalancing, or
providing investment models, as applicable, for the
following Manager Directed Programs: Active
Portfolios® investments, Select Separate Account,
Vista Separate Account, Investor Unified Account and
Access Account.
The types of providers that may provide services to your
Account include:
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Managed Accounts Program Oversight Committee and
Due Diligence Services.
The Managed Accounts Program Oversight Committee
(“Oversight Committee”) of Ameriprise Financial
Services is responsible for the oversight of such
Advisory Service Providers. The Oversight Committee
provides oversight of the advisory services provided
to the applicable Program(s) such as investment
strategies, model portfolios and asset allocation
models, as applicable.
The Oversight Committee, acting on behalf of
Ameriprise Financial Services, is the Investment
Manager of Select ETF Portfolios a variety of
portfolios that invest in non-proprietary ETF
investments in partnership with Portfolio Strategists
or Asset Allocation Strategists.
Investment Managers. Investment Managers are
Discretionary Managers with discretionary authority
to purchase or sell securities or make other
investments for your Account. Such transactions
generally result in tax consequences in non- qualified
accounts. Investment Managers include (i) the
Oversight Committee acting on behalf of Ameriprise
Financial Services, (ii) CMIA and (iii) non-affiliated
third party investment advisers. Certain Active
Portfolios® and Select Separate Account
strategies, including Separate Select UMAs, are
managed by non-affiliated Investment Managers. Our
affiliate CMIA is the Investment Manager of Active
Accumulation Portfolios® (available only for non-
qualified Accounts) and Active Risk Portfolios®. The
Oversight Committee is the Investment Manager of
Select ETF Portfolios.
• Signature Wealth Investment Manager. Ameriprise
Financial Services selected a non-affiliated third-party
registered investment adviser as the discretionary
Investment Manager for the Signature Wealth
Program (“Signature Wealth Investment Manager”).
Each of the Portfolio Strategists and Asset Allocation
Strategists for Select ETF Portfolios, as applicable,
develops asset allocation models, conducts
qualitative and/or quantitative research on mutual
funds and ETFs, and constructs model portfolio or
asset allocation recommendations, as applicable.
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The Signature Wealth Investment Manager:
financial advisor will receive notice and direction on what
actions you will need to take. If no action is taken, your
Account will be closed and moved in-kind to an Ameriprise
brokerage account.
o Receives asset allocation and investment
selection recommendations from the
Signature Wealth Model Providers.
o Has discretionary authority to purchase or sell
securities or make other investments for your
Account without your prior approval, except for
mutual funds and ETFs you work with your
financial advisor to select for your client
directed model.
o For the portion of your Account that is not
• Signature Wealth Model Providers. Signature Wealth
Model Providers construct the recommended holdings
in each model investment portfolio according to their
specific investment strategy and may include their
proprietary mutual funds and/or ETFs in the model
investment portfolios. Each Signature Wealth
Model Provider’s disclosure document
(Part 2A of Form ADV) is available to you at
ameriprise.com/investmentproviders.
invested in model investment portfolios and
consists of individual mutual funds/ETFs that
are recommended by your financial advisor
(the "client directed model"), has trading
authority only and is responsible for the
ongoing trading and rebalancing of your client
directed model.
o Provides administrative and/or trading
instruction to AEIS as the clearing / custody
broker-dealer.
o Provides rebalancing services to maintain to
your Account’s asset allocation.
Our affiliate, such as Columbia Management
Investment Advisers, LLC ("CMIA"), also participates
in the Program as a Signature Wealth Model
Provider. The Signature Wealth Model Providers
provide non- discretionary investment and asset
allocation recommendations to the Signature Wealth
Investment Manager. For the client directed model,
you will select the investments according to your
personal portfolio, and the discretionary Signature
Wealth Investment Manager will invest that portion
of your overall Account according to your direction
and will be responsible for the ongoing trading and
rebalancing of your Signature Wealth Account,
subject to any Reasonable Restrictions or other
instructions provided by you.
o Selects replacement mutual funds and ETFs
for your client directed model in instances
where the investment is no longer eligible for
use in the Signature Wealth Program, as
applicable.
o Acts on any Reasonable Restrictions that you
may impose on the management of your
Account(s).
Review the Signature Wealth Investment Manager’s
Form ADV, Part 2A Appendix 1 for more information
about its investment advisory business.
Due Diligence of Signature Wealth Investment
Manager.
Signature Wealth Model Providers do not have any
investment, brokerage discretion or trading authority
to purchase or sell securities in your Account. The
Signature Wealth Investment Manager exercises
investment discretion for the Signature Wealth
Accounts. Different Model Providers may arrive at
different investment and asset allocation
recommendations regarding investments in a certain
sector, market capitalization, or other category of
investments, depending on the model portfolio’s
investment objective. Oversight of the discretionary
Investment Manager, Model Provider and the model
portfolio’s investment strategy is provided by the
Oversight Committee, as described above.
•
Investment Providers (effective December 2025).
Investment Providers for the Active Portfolios®
Program construct the recommended holdings for a
model investment portfolio according to their
specific investment strategy and may include their
proprietary mutual funds and/or ETFs in the model
investment portfolios. Our affiliate CMIA also
participates in the Active Portfolios® Program as
an Investment Provider. Each Investment
Provider’s disclosure document (Part 2A of
Form ADV) is available to you at
ameriprise.com/investmentproviders.
The IRG conducts an annual review of the Signature
Wealth Investment Manager. This review is based on
applicable information gathered from various sources,
including information from the Signature Wealth
Investment Manager, disclosure documents,
historical performance and assets under
management. As a result of these reviews,
Ameriprise Financial Services may identify actual or
potential concerns regarding the Signature Wealth
Investment Manager and may request them to take
corrective action to address such concerns. This
review may result in the removal of the Signature
Wealth Investment Manager. If the Signature Wealth
Investment Manager is removed, you and your
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investment strategy is provided by the Oversight
Committee, as described above.
• Envestnet Platform. Ameriprise Financial Services
offers certain services that are available through a
web-based platform offered by Envestnet Asset
Management, Inc. (“Envestnet”). Envestnet is a non-
affiliated registered investment adviser and seeks to
offer a wide variety of SMAs and asset allocation
strategies (each, an “Envestnet Strategy”) with a
wide range of investment objectives and risk
tolerances. Envestnet Strategies are available in the
Vista Separate Account, Investor Unified Account and
Access Account Programs. Envestnet services
include:
The Investment Providers provide non-
discretionary investment and asset allocation
recommendations to the Investment Manager.
Investment Providers do not have any investment
discretion or trading authority to purchase or sell
securities in your Account. The Investment
Manager exercises investment discretion for the
Active Portfolios® Accounts. Different Investment
Providers may arrive at different investment and
asset allocation recommendations regarding
investments in a certain sector, market
capitalization, or other category of investments,
depending on the model portfolio’s investment
objective. Oversight of the discretionary
Investment Manager, Investment Provider and
the model portfolio’s investment strategy is
provided by the Oversight Committee, as
described above.
o Providing access to a variety SMA Investment
Managers (“Envestnet Managers”). Certain
Envestnet Managers have entered into a sub-
management agreement with Envestnet to provide
discretionary Investment Manager account
management services. Envestnet is the
discretionary Investment Manager where the
Envestnet Manager has entered into a Model
Provider sub-management agreement.
• Portfolio Strategists. Portfolio Strategists
provide asset allocation and investment
recommendations to the Oversight Committee as
Investment Manager. The Portfolio Strategists do
not have discretionary authority or control to
purchase or sell securities or make other
investments for individual investors.
o Providing administrative and/or trading services
as directed by Envestnet and/or the Envestnet
Manager.
o Facilitating the asset allocation recommendations
• Asset Allocation Strategists. Asset Allocation
Strategists solely provide asset allocation
recommendations to the Oversight Committee as
Investment Manager. The Asset Allocation
Strategists do not have discretionary authority or
control to recommend, purchase or sell
securities or make other investments for
individual investors.
and helping to identify Envestnet Managers
mutual funds and/or ETFs for the Account(s),
considering factors it deems relevant, including,
but not limited to, your investment objective, risk
tolerance and investment time horizon.
o Rebalancing services to maintain to your Account’s
asset allocation.
o Acting on any Reasonable Restrictions that you
• Select Separate Account Model Providers.
Model Providers construct a model portfolio
according to their specific investment strategy
and, in that capacity, make investment selection
decisions for the model portfolio strategy, which
Ameriprise Financial Services implements,
subject to any Reasonable Restrictions or other
instructions provided by you.
may impose on the management of your
Account(s) including designation of particular
securities or types of security that you do not want
purchased for your Account(s). Envestnet and/or
the Envestnet Manager must accept any
Reasonable Restrictions before they will be binding
on the Account(s).
Review Envestnet’s Form ADV, Part 2A Appendix 1 for
more information about its investment advisory
business.
Due Diligence of Envestnet Managers.
The IRG conducts an annual review of the Envestnet
Strategies. This review is based on applicable
information gathered from various sources, including
information from Envestnet, disclosure documents,
historical performance and assets under management.
The Model Provider does not have any investment
discretion or trading authority to purchase or sell
securities in your Account. Ameriprise Financial
Services exercises investment discretion for
Managed Accounts utilizing Model Providers and
implements securities transactions in your
Account(s) in accordance with the model portfolio
provided by the Model Provider. Different Model
Providers may arrive at different investment
selection decisions regarding investments in a
certain sector, market capitalization, or other
category of investments, depending on the model
portfolio’s investment objective. Oversight of the
Model Provider and the model portfolio’s
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In limited circumstances, the IRG conducts initial
and/or ongoing reviews to supplement Envestnet’s
reviews of an Envestnet Strategy. As a result of
these reviews, Ameriprise Financial Services may
identify actual or potential concerns regarding
Envestnet and/or an Envestnet Strategy and may
request that Envestnet and/or the Envestnet
Manager take corrective action to address such
concerns. These reviews may result in the removal
of an Envestnet Strategy from the applicable
Program. If an Envestnet Strategy is removed from
one or more of the Programs, you and your financial
advisor will receive notice to change to a new
investment. If no change is made, your Account will
be closed and moved in-kind to an Ameriprise
brokerage account.
Review of Envestnet Strategies by Envestnet.
Unified Account Programs, or ii) the transition of your
related account to Ameriprise Financial Services for
Access Account Program. Once your Account is accepted
by Envestnet and/or the Envestnet Manager, you will
become an investment management client of Envestnet
and/or the Envestnet Manager. Envestnet and/or
Envestnet Manager will have full discretionary authority to
act on behalf of your Account purchases, sales and other
transactions in SMA(s), mutual funds and/or ETFs,
without seeking your prior approval, except for selecting
which mutual funds and/or ETFs are held in your Investor
Unified Account. Envestnet may delegate its discretionary
authority for your entire Account or a portion of your
Account, known as an investment sleeve, to an
Envestnet Manager. Neither Envestnet nor the Envestnet
Manager will have the ability to withdraw, disburse or
transfer funds or securities from your account without
your prior authorization.
Client Contact with Advisory Service Providers.
Ameriprise Financial Services relies in part upon
Envestnet for analysis, information and the selection
and monitoring of the various Envestnet Strategies. All
Envestnet Managers receive and are directed to return
a completed due diligence questionnaire each year.
Your financial advisor will be your primary source of
support in addressing any questions or concerns relating
to your Managed Account. Although Ameriprise Financial
Services imposes no limitations on the ability of clients
to consult with their Advisory Service Provider(s) directly,
you are encouraged to first contact your financial advisor
with any questions or concerns.
Information relating to your household
The Envestnet Strategies are considered “Approved”
or “Available,” depending on the level of due diligence
performed by Envestnet. Envestnet reviews the
Envestnet Strategies and performance of a wide range
of Envestnet Managers and in its sole discretion
determines if an Envestnet Strategy is considered
“Approved” or “Available.” Envestnet personnel rely on
investment professionals of the Envestnet Managers
and a variety of data available from one or more
independent databases when determining if an
Envestnet Strategy is “Approved” or “Available”.
We use information concerning your primary household
group’s investment, insurance, annuity and certain bank
products to provide a consolidated statement. A primary
household group may consist of an individual client, his
or her spouse or domestic partner, and their unmarried
children under age 21 who reside at the same address.
Envestnet makes available information received from
industry databases, such as Morningstar, regarding
the Envestnet Strategies to your financial advisor.
This information may help your financial advisor to
identify the strengths and weaknesses of each of the
Envestnet Strategies.
For certain products and services, the householding of
your accounts may help you qualify for advantageous
pricing or fees. See the “Householding of Account Assets
and Minimum Asset-based Fee” sub-section of the “Fees
and Compensation” section for more detail about
householding’s impact on the Asset-based Fee. Please
contact us at 800.862.7919 if you prefer to receive a
statement covering only accounts that you own and not to
participate in householding.
Your financial advisor will be responsible for
determining whether he or she has sufficient
information about the Envestnet Strategies in order to
recommend Envestnet and one or more of the
Envestnet Strategies to you.
Acceptance and authority of Envestnet.
Your Client Information along with a copy of your
Statement of Investment Selection are provided to
Envestnet as Investment Manager for review.
Householding also permits us to deliver a single copy of
certain shareholder documents – such as prospectuses,
supplements, annual reports, semiannual reports and
proxies – to clients who own the security and who reside
at the same address.
To opt out of this service, call 866.273.7429 and
reference the client ID located on your statement.
Multiple mailings will resume within 30 days of opting out.
Tax documents are not eligible for householding.
Envestnet in its sole discretion may determine based
upon the applicable information whether to accept or
reject: i) a prospective client and related Managed
Account for Vista Separate Account and Investor
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Managed Account Programs and Services
The Ameriprise Custom Advisory
Relationship
The chart below provides an overview of the following
Programs: for SPS Advantage, SPS Advisor, Signature
Wealth, Active Portfolios® investments and Select
Separate Account, including offering terms. Not all
investment options listed for SPS Advantage and SPS
Advisor in the “Investment Products” row below may be
available for new or additional purchases. Please refer to
the “Programs and Services” section for a description of
each Program and ask your financial advisor for more
information about the investment products available to
you. Fee information is included in the “Fees and
Compensation” section following the description of the
Programs. The charts also identify the primary mutual
fund share class offered in the Programs and each
Program’s corresponding minimum investment
requirements. Minimum withdrawal amounts and Account
minimums that may apply to the Program you select and
are noted in the charts.
Ameriprise Financial Services offers all new Managed
Accounts to clients through a single Custom Advisory
Relationship (“Relationship”). As used throughout
this document, the defined term Relationship refers
solely to an investment advisory relationship opened
through the Relationship Agreement. By entering into
a Relationship with us, you may establish Managed
Accounts for the Advisory Programs described in this
Brochure, in many cases, without signing additional
documentation. When you establish a Relationship,
your initial signature will serve as your agreement to
the terms and conditions of all of the Managed
Account Programs offered in this Brochure and you
may generally establish Managed Accounts and make
many types of changes to your Account by contacting
your financial advisor and providing verbal instructions.
We may ask you for written authorization to add certain
features to an Account such as establishing margin
or options trading, if available. The Access Account
Program is a hold and service Program and, unlike
the other Programs, requires you to complete
additional paperwork and authorize the establishment
of an Access Account by signature.
All Managed Accounts have a required (i) initial
investment minimum; and (ii) maintenance minimum that
varies by Program. For Signature Wealth Accounts, the
maintenance minimum varies based on the mix of model
investment portfolio(s) you select for your Account. If an
Account falls below the ongoing maintenance minimum,
we will provide notice to you to add funds to the Account
to bring it back to the initial investment minimum. If your
Account does not reach the initial investment minimum
after 45 days, we will transfer the Account to an
Ameriprise brokerage account in accordance with the
Relationship Agreement.
When establishing a Relationship, you will establish a
number of elections that will be applied to Managed
Accounts opened in the applicable Program in the
future. You can change some of these elections at
Account opening or any time for current Accounts
and/or Accounts to be opened in the future by working
with your financial advisor, although, changes to some
elections require your written authorization.
When reviewing the charts, please consider, among other
factors: 1) your ability to meet initial investment and
maintenance minimums for each Program using assets
held in custody at Ameriprise or assets held elsewhere
which might be aggregated; 2) whether the Program you
select provides your financial advisor, the Oversight
Committee or an Advisory Service Provider discretionary
authority; 3) the impact of underlying investment product
level fees on the overall performance of your portfolio; and
4) whether the rebate of any 12b-1 fees associated with
your Account may be a taxable event for you.
Ameriprise Financial Services will send a confirmation
letter to you when a Relationship is established, when a
Managed Account is opened, or when your Asset-based
Fee is changed as described in the “Fees and
Compensation” section. You may make other changes
verbally and we will send a confirmation letter reflecting
such changes to you. Each confirmation letter becomes
part of your Relationship Agreement unless you notify
us that it is incorrect so it is important that you review
and verify the information contained in it, such as your
Account elections, to ensure accuracy and notify your
financial advisor immediately if you believe any
information should be updated.
The Relationship Agreement and this Brochure, as
amended, will apply to all the Managed Account
Programs you are eligible to establish with us.
Please retain these documents for future reference
as they contain important information if you decide to
add services or open new Managed Accounts with
Ameriprise Financial Services.
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Programs
SPS Advisor
Select Separate Account
SPS Advantage
Signature Wealth Active Portfolios®
Non-discretionary
Discretionary
Discretionary
Discretionary
Discretionary
Investment
Advisory Account
Structure
Asset Allocation
Financial advisor
recommends
Financial advisor
determines
Financial advisor
Recommends
via Signature
Wealth Proposal
Investment
Provider
recommends then
the Investment
Manager
determines.
Financial advisor
recommends. For Select
Strategist UMA Portfolios
(“UMA Portfolios”), the
Asset Allocation is
determined by the
Investment Manager.
Investment
Selection
Financial advisor
recommends
Financial advisor
determines
Financial advisor
recommends
portfolios
Financial advisor
recommends portfolio/
model. For UMA Portfolios,
the investment selection of
portfolios/models is
determined by the
Investment Manager.
Financial Advisor
recommends
model investment
portfolios and
mutual funds1
and ETFs via the
Signature Wealth
Proposal
Investment
Products
Mutual funds
and/or ETFs
Includes, but not
limited to: mutual
funds1; (which could
include fund of funds);
ETFs; stocks; bonds;
publicly traded REITs;
options on indices
and equities
Equity, ETF, balanced and
fixed income separately
managed account strategies
(“SMA”). Some SMA
managers may also invest
in ETFs and certain mutual
funds. UMA Portfolios invest
in SMAs, ETFs and mutual
funds.
Mutual Fund/ETF
model investment
portfolios, SMA
model investment
portfolios (effective
December 1,
2025), mutual
funds and ETFs
held within a
single account
Includes, but not limited
to: mutual funds1; (which
could include fund of
funds); ETFs; stocks;
bonds; publicly traded
real estate investment
trusts (“REITs”); options
on indices and equities;
certain alternative
investments
(e.g., hedge funds,
managed futures funds,
non-traded REITs, non-
traded BDCs, non-traded
CEFs, real estate private
placements, private
equity offerings)
Advisory Shares
Advisory Shares
Advisory Shares
Advisory Shares SMA strategies generally do
Primary Share
Class Offered
for Purchase
not offer mutual funds.
Where mutual funds are
offered, Advisory Shares are
offered for purchase
$25,000 (for all accounts
within a Household)
Investment and
Maintenance
Minimums
$100,000 (for all
accounts within a
Household)
Initial investment
minimum $2,000,
maintenance minimum
$1,000.
Ameriprise Financial
Services Initial
investment minimum
$2,000, maintenance
minimum $1,000.
Ameriprise Financial
Services may suspend
or waive these amounts.
Initial investment minimum
$100,000 – $500,000
(depending on the SMA
investment strategy or UMA
portfolio). Ongoing
minimums vary depending
on the SMA investment
strategy or UMA portfolio.
Select ETF Portfolios have
an initial investment
minimum of $50,000.
Initial investment
minimum
$25,000,
maintenance
minimum
$15,000. For
Active Growth
Builder Portfolios,
initial investment
minimum $5,000,
maintenance
minimum $4,000.
Ameriprise Financial
Services may suspend
or waive these
amounts.
Each Signature
Wealth Account has
its own initial
investment minimum
and maintenance
minimum and is
determined by the
investments you
select within your
personalized
investment account
asset allocation
shown in the
Signature Wealth
Proposal.
Each mutual fund/ETF
portfolio investment
model has its own
initial investment
minimum ranging from
$5,000 - $50,000.
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Client must invest in
one or more model
investment portfolios.
Client may also invest
up to 25% of their
Account in a client
directed model that
holds individual
mutual funds and/or
ETFs.
Margin Trading
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Must be approved by
Ameriprise Financial
Services
Cost Basis2,3
Open end mutual funds:
HIFO5, unless you select
another option.
Equities: HIFO5, unless you
select another option.
Open end mutual funds:
Average Cost2, unless
you select another
option.
Equities: FIFO2, unless
you select another
option.
Open end mutual
funds: Average Cost4,
unless you select
another option.
Equities: FIFO4,
unless you select
another option.
Open end mutual
funds: Average
Cost2, unless you
select another
option.
ETFs: HIFO5, unless
you select another
option.
Open end mutual
funds: Non Average
Cost Basis3 unless
you elect a
different option.
Equities:
Loss/Gain
Utilization3 unless
you elect a
different option.
1 Please contact your financial advisor or refer to our Mutual Fund Screener Tool for a current list of mutual funds offered in any of
these accounts. Access the tool by logging into your Ameriprise Secure Site account and selecting Trade & Research and then
Screeners and select the “Availability” tab.
2 Below are the cost basis options available for SPS Advantage, SPS Advisor, Active Portfolios and Select Separate Account. You may
elect to sell specific shares outside of the cost basis option you have selected. If you elect to change from average cost to another
method after disposing of any mutual fund shares (i.e., sale, journal, transfer, etc.), the method change will apply only to covered
shares acquired after the date of the most recent disposition. If you transfer securities into a Managed Account the cost basis
method applied to the Managed Account receiving the securities will be applied to such securities. If you hold bonds in your account,
you have the option to make tax elections which may affect the income on your bonds and the character of your bond income. These
elections can be made by filing form 402459. Revoking certain bond elections may require IRS consent.
Cost Basis for Equities:
• First In, First Out (FIFO): The first tax lots purchased are the first tax lots sold. The tax lots remaining each maintain their
individual tax lot cost and holding period.
• Highest In, First Out (HIFO): The tax lots with the highest cost basis are the first tax lots sold. The tax lots remaining each
maintain their individual tax lot cost and holding period.
• Last In, First Out (LIFO): The last tax lots purchased are the first tax lots sold. The tax lots remaining each maintain their
individual tax lot cost and holding period.
• Loss/Gain Utilization (SPS Advisor Accounts only): Evaluates losses and gains and strategically selects shares
to deplete based on the loss/gain in conjunction with the holding period. The loss/gain utilization method depletes
shares with losses before shares with gains, consistent with the objective of minimizing taxes. For share lots that yield a
loss, short-term share lots will be redeemed ahead of long-term share lots. For gains, long-term share lots will be
redeemed ahead of short-term share lots.
For SPS Advantage: If lot-specific identification of securities sold is desired, that must be done at the time of sale.
For SPS Advisor: Note, that your financial advisor has the discretion to override these methods and use another cost
basis method or specific identification. If lot-specific identification of securities sold is desired, that must be done at the
time of sale.
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Cost Basis for Open End Mutual Funds:
• Average Cost Basis: Each mutual fund’s cost basis is the total amount invested averaged over the number of shares
purchased, giving each share the same basis. As new tax lots are purchased, or other adjustments are made, the average
cost of the shares is recalculated. For holding period purposes, the first tax lots purchased are the first tax lots sold.
Average cost is calculated separately for covered and non-covered shares.
• Use Lot Relief Method selected above (FIFO, HIFO, LIFO): The lot relief method for the mutual fund account will be
the same lot relief method elected for equities on this account, even if there are no equities in the account. For SPS
Advisor Accounts, see footnote 3 (below).
For SPS Advantage: If lot-specific identification of securities sold is desired, that must be done at the time of sale, and with a
default lot relief election other than average cost made prior to sale.
For SPS Advisor: Note, that your financial advisor has the discretion to override these methods and use another cost basis
method or specific identification. If lot-specific identification of securities sold is desired, that must be done at the time of
sale, and with a default lot relief election other than average cost made prior to sale.
Cost Basis for Equities in Dividend Reinvestment Plans (DRP), as available:
• Use Lot Relief Method selected above (FIFO, HIFO, LIFO): The lot relief method for the account will be the
same lot relief method elected for equities on this account, even if there are no equities in the account.
• Average Cost Basis: The cost basis for the shares is the total amount invested averaged over the shares purchased,
giving each share the same basis. As new tax lots are purchased, or other adjustments are made, the average cost of the
shares is recalculated. For holding period purposes, the first tax lots purchased are the first tax lots sold. Average cost is
calculated for covered shares only.
3 Below are the cost basis options available in the Signature Wealth Program. You may elect to sell specific shares outside of the cost
basis option you have selected. If you elect to change from average cost to another method after disposing of any mutual fund shares
(i.e., sale, journal, transfer, etc.), the method change will apply only to covered shares acquired after the date of the most recent
disposition. If you transfer securities into a Managed Account the cost basis method applied to the Managed Account receiving the
securities will be applied to such securities. If you hold bonds in your account, you have the option to make tax elections which may
affect the income on your bonds and the character of your bond income. These elections can be made by filing form 402459.
Revoking certain bond elections may require IRS consent.
Cost Basis for Mutual Funds
• Non Average Cost Basis: The lot relief method for the mutual fund account will be the same lot relief method elected for
equities on this account, even if there are no equities in the account. If shares have been sold using average cost,
specific identification may be prospectively accounted.
Cost Basis for Equities
• Loss/Gain Utilization: Evaluates losses and gains and strategically selects shares to deplete based on the loss/gain
in conjunction with the holding period. The loss/gain utilization method depletes shares with losses before shares with
gains, consistent with the objective of minimizing taxes. For share lots that yield a loss, short-term share lots will be
redeemed ahead of long-term share lots. For gains, long-term share lots will be redeemed ahead of short-term share lots.
For Signature Wealth Accounts, if you indicate a preference, trades generally use that cost basis method. If you don’t indicate a
preference, the cost basis selected by Ameriprise Financial Services listed above will generally be used for the Program. Further, the
Signature Wealth Investment Manager with investment discretion may elect to sell specific investment products for tax-harvesting
purposes regardless of the cost basis option you have selected.
4 For SPS Advisor accounts, open end mutual funds generally use average cost, but may use the Loss/Gain Utilization Method (defined
above). Equities will generally use the Loss/Gain Utilization Method when your advisor is using certain trading systems. The FIFO
preference may be used for the trades that do not use the Loss/Gain Utilization Method. Note, that your financial advisor has the
discretion to override these methods and use another cost basis method or specific identification.
5 For discretionary Programs (other than SPS Advisor), if you indicate a preference, trades generally use that Cost Basis method. If you
don’t indicate a preference, the cost basis selected by Sponsor and listed above will generally be used for the Program. Further, for
Select Separate Accounts, the Advisory Service Provider with investment discretion may elect to sell specific investment products for
tax-harvesting purposes regardless of the cost basis option you have selected.
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Programs offered with Envestnet Asset Management, Inc.
The chart below provides an overview of the following Programs: Vista Separate Account, Investor Unified Account and
Access Account, including offering terms. Please refer to the “Programs and Services” section for a description of
each Program and ask your financial advisor for more information about the investment products available to you. Fee
information is included in the “Fees and Compensation” section following the description of the Programs.
The charts also identify the primary mutual fund share class offered in the Programs and each Program’s
corresponding minimum investment requirements. Minimum withdrawal amounts and Account maintenance
minimums may apply to the Program you select and are available from your financial advisor. When reviewing the
charts, please consider, among other factors: 1) your ability to meet investment minimums for each Program using
assets held in custody at Ameriprise or assets held elsewhere which might be aggregated; 2) whether the Program
you select provides your financial advisor, the Oversight Committee or an Advisory Service Provider discretionary
authority; 3) the impact of underlying investment product level fees, on the overall performance of your portfolio; and 4)
whether the rebate of any 12b-1 fees associated with your Account may be a taxable event for you.
Vista Separate Account
Investor Unified Account
Access Account2
Discretionary
Discretionary
Discretionary
Investment Advisory
Account Structure
Asset Allocation
Financial advisor recommends
Financial advisor recommends
Portfolio Strategist and/or
Investment Manager
determines
Investment Selection
Financial advisor recommends portfolio/model
Financial advisor recommends
portfolio/model and mutual
funds/ETFs
Financial advisor
recommends
portfolio/model
Investment Products
SMA strategies in multiple Accounts
SMA strategies, mutual funds
and ETFs within in a single
account
Mutual funds and/or ETF
portfolios in one or more
Accounts
Advisory Shares
Advisory Shares
Advisory Shares
Program minimum –
$250,000
Primary Share Class
Offered for Purchase
Investment and
Maintenance
Minimums
Program minimum - $100,000
Each SMA strategy has its own initial minimum
and maintenance minimum. Client must invest in
at least one SMA.
Program minimum –
Generally $25,000 to
$50,000 depending on
portfolio.
Each Access portfolio has its
own initial minimum and
maintenance minimum.
Each SMA strategy has its own
initial minimum and maintenance
minimum.
Client must invest in more than
one investment product (e.g., one
or more SMA, mutual fund or ETF,
or combination thereof).
Margin
N/A
N/A
N/A
Cost Basis3
Open end mutual funds: Average Cost, unless you
select another option.
Equities: HIFO4, unless you select another
option.
Open end mutual funds:
Average Cost, unless you
select another option.
Equities: HIFO4, unless you
select another option.
Open end mutual funds: Average
Cost, unless you select another
option.
Equities: HIFO4, unless you
select another option.
1 In certain circumstances, your financial advisor may have discretion to select the asset allocation and investments for inclusion
in your Account.
2 This program is accommodation only.
3 Below are the cost basis options available. If you hold bonds in your account, you have the option to make tax elections which may
affect the income on your bonds and the character of your bond income. These elections can be made by filing form 402459.
Revoking certain bond elections may require IRS consent.
Cost Basis for Equities:
• First In, First Out (FIFO): The first tax lots purchased are the first tax lots sold. The tax lots remaining each
maintain their individual tax lot cost and holding period.
• Highest In, First Out (HIFO): The tax lots with the highest cost basis are the first tax lots sold. The tax lots
remaining each maintain their individual tax lot cost and holding period.
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• Last In, First Out (LIFO): The last tax lots purchased are the first tax lots sold. The tax lots remaining each maintain their
individual tax lot cost and holding period.
Cost Basis for Open End Mutual Funds:
• Average Cost Basis: Each mutual funds cost basis is the total amount invested averaged over the number of shares purchased,
giving each share the same basis. As new tax lots are purchased, or other adjustments are made, the average cost of the shares
is recalculated. For holding period purposes, the first tax lots purchased are the first tax lots sold. Average cost is calculated
separately for covered and non-covered shares.
• Use Lot Relief Method selected above (FIFO, HIFO, LIFO): The lot relief method for the mutual fund account will be the
same lot relief method elected for equities on this account, even if there are no equities in the account.
Cost Basis for Equities Dividend Reinvestment Plans (DRP), as available:
• Use Lot Relief Method selected above (FIFO, HIFO, LIFO): The lot relief method for the account will be the same lot
relief method elected for equities on this account, even if there are no equities in the account.
• Average Cost Basis: The cost basis for the shares is the total amount invested averaged over the shares purchased, giving
each share the same basis. As new tax lots are purchased, or other adjustments are made, the average cost of the shares is
recalculated. For holding period purposes, the first tax lots purchased are the first tax lots sold. Average cost is calculated for
covered shares only.
4 For discretionary Programs (other than SPS Advisor), if you indicate a preference, trades generally use that Cost Basis method; if you
don’t indicate a preference, the cost basis selected by Ameriprise Financial Services and listed above will generally be used for the
Program. Further, the Advisory Service Provider with investment discretion may elect to sell specific investment products for tax-
harvesting purposes regardless of the cost basis option you have selected.
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SPS Advantage
selecting Trade & Research and then Screeners and
select the “Availability” tab. See the “Revenue
Sources for Ameriprise Financial Services, LLC”
section regarding compensation for the sale of
mutual funds.
Dividends and distributions received on your
investments held in your SPS Advantage Account may
be reinvested, where allowed, if selected by you. The
reinvestment of equity, ETF, preferred security, CEF or
UIT. dividends will generally result in the purchase of a
fractional share as further described in the “Fractional
Shares and Principal Transactions” sub- section of
the “Brokerage Practices” section and in your
Relationship Agreement. Where reinvestment is not
allowed or selected, your dividends and distributions
will be deposited in your (“Sweep Program”), which is a
vehicle for uninvested cash. Investment minimums
may also apply to mutual funds you purchase through
SPS Advantage. Review each applicable mutual fund’s
prospectus for further details.
Alternative Investments in SPS Advantage Accounts
SPS Advantage is a non-discretionary Program which
enables your financial advisor to provide investment
advice relating to securities held in a single account,
with access to a wide spectrum of investment
choices. Advisory Shares are the primary share class
for mutual funds offered for purchase in SPS
Advantage Accounts. SPS Advantage may be
appropriate for clients who seek and act on the
investment advice of their financial advisor. Your
financial advisor makes regular investment
recommendations in consideration of an asset
allocation. You review and approve each
recommendation. SPS Advantage is appropriate if you
primarily choose transactions your financial advisor
recommends to you (solicited). You may also choose
transactions on your own (unsolicited). However, an
SPS Advantage Account is not appropriate as a self-
directed account or for day trading, highly active
traders, or other excessive trading activity (solicited or
unsolicited), including trading mutual funds based on
market timing or if you plan to hold only a few mutual
fund or securities holdings in your Account.
Ameriprise Financial Services will determine whether
an SPS Advantage Account is appropriate upon
account opening and thereafter. Ameriprise Financial
Services, with thirty (30) days prior notice, also
reserves the right to limit or close any Account that is
used for excessive securities trading, or if it is
determined that the Account is no longer appropriate
for you.
Ameriprise Financial Services offers certain types of
alternative investments in SPS Advantage Accounts,
including but not limited to hedge funds, managed
futures funds, non-traded REITs, non- traded BDCs,
non-traded closed end funds, real estate private
placements, and private equity offerings. In order to be
considered for inclusion in an SPS Advantage Account,
the particular alternative investment must offer an
eligible fee structure that is designed for use with
advisory accounts and periodic redemptions.
See the “Terminating a Relationship Agreement”
section for more detail and for information regarding
your right to terminate your SPS Advantage Account(s).
As a courtesy, annuities and life insurance policies
may be displayed on your Account statement. Such
annuities and life insurance policies are not held in
your Account and any values provided by third parties
are not validated by us. You will not receive
recommendations or investment advice related to
such annuities and life insurance policies as part of
the SPS Advantage Program and the dollar value of
any such annuity or life insurance policy is excluded
from any portion of the Asset-based Fee calculation.
Alternative investments that meet Ameriprise Financial
Services’ due diligence standards are available for
purchase. On an ongoing basis the product sponsor of
the alternative investment determines the timing and
amounts of funds that are available for redemption
requests by investors. As a result, your investment in
an alternative investment is less liquid than an
investment in more common types of securities such
as an equity, bond, mutual fund or ETF. Your ability to
redeem all or a portion of your position will be
impacted by these factors. In the event redemptions
for a particular alternative investment are unavailable
to you or otherwise significantly restricted for an
extended period of time, or the alternative investment
no longer meets our due diligence criteria, Ameriprise
Financial Services will reclassify the investment as a
non-advisory asset and promptly transfer the position
into an Ameriprise brokerage account in accordance
with the Relationship Agreement.
The valuation of alternative investments reflects the
values as determined by and based on the records of
the product sponsors and administrators of a given
investment. While we apply reasonably designed due
diligence procedures on an initial and ongoing basis,
Included among the available mutual funds for a SPS
Advantage Account, except for trustee-directed
retirement plans, are affiliated mutual funds and
investment products which are managed or sub-
advised by CMIA or their affiliates. For more
information on fund families and mutual funds offered
in our Managed Account services including the
applicable Advisory Share class or other share class
utilized, please contact your financial advisor or refer
to our Mutual Fund Screener Tool. Access the tool by
logging into your Ameriprise Secure Site account and
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financial analysis of your ability to reach your goals, nor
does it guarantee against losses in your portfolio.
Ameriprise Financial Services does not guarantee the
accuracy of valuation information. Valuation at time of
redemption is based on various factors and therefore
the value shown on your consolidated statement is
not necessarily the value you will receive from the
product sponsor if you choose to sell your position in
an investment.
While financial advisors do not pay transaction
charges for trades they enter online, franchisee
financial advisors are generally assessed a transaction
charge for orders entered by phone. For employee
financial advisors, this transaction charge is assessed
to the employee’s branch. Payment of phone-in
transaction charges in SPS Advantage Accounts may
be a disincentive for a financial advisor to recommend
an SPS Advantage Account or to recommend such
trades in the Account(s).
Optional automatic rebalancing feature
SPS Advantage has an optional feature that allows you
to enable automatic rebalancing (the “Feature”). You
may enroll in the Feature by completing the Ameriprise
SPS Advantage Automatic Rebalancing Agreement with
your financial advisor. Whether or not you enroll in the
Feature you can direct your financial advisor to
rebalance at any time.
For purposes of calculating the Asset-based Fee,
alternative investments will be valued as of the billing
date using the values provided to us from the product
sponsors and administrators of the investment.
Valuation for alternative investments is often delayed,
sometimes significantly, and is not guaranteed to be
provided to Ameriprise Financial Services in a timely
manner. As a result, the valuation used for purposes
of calculating the Asset-based Fee may not be current
with the actual value of your investments at the time
billing is processed and, depending on the
circumstances, can result in a higher Asset-based Fee.
You should carefully consider the impact of these
valuation delays on your Asset-based Fee when
evaluating whether to invest in an alternative
investment and when determining how much of your
portfolio is appropriate to invest in alternative
investments.
Methods of analysis
After enrolling in the Feature, you can work with your
financial advisor to establish a pre-determined
allocation and frequency for Ameriprise Financial
Services to rebalance your assets to your pre-
determined allocation in accordance with your
instructions (“Security Target”). When you have an
active Security Target, Ameriprise Financial Services
will effect the scheduled securities transactions in
accordance with your instructions until your Security
Target is inactivated, modified, or your Account is
terminated. Not all securities in your Account need to
be included in the Security Target (“Non-Target
Securities”). Non-Target Securities are not subject to
automatic rebalancing.
Your financial advisor will review your financial and
investment needs, objectives and risk tolerance. He or
she may use asset value, current yield, yield
projections as well as other assumptions you provide,
as well as historical yield analysis, to provide you with
investment recommendations. Investment
recommendations will generally be made in
consideration of an asset allocation strategy. Asset
allocation is a strategy for diversifying investment
assets among various types of investments or asset
classes with the potential to move you toward your
financial goals while mitigating portfolio risk.
Diversification helps you spread risk throughout your
investment portfolio. Different asset classes have
different risk and potential return profiles, and they
perform differently in different market conditions.
Diversification will not guarantee a profit or protect
against a loss. Any estimated returns, estimated
asset values, and historical performance should not be
used to project the performance of specific assets you
currently own or may purchase. As with all investment
strategies, past performance is no guarantee of future
results. In addition, forecasts of future performance of
financial markets may prove to be incorrect.
You will be responsible for designating the securities
in your allocation, as well as setting the Security
Target percentage for each position. As part of
activating a Security Target, you will select a
rebalancing frequency interval (a “Frequency Interval”).
The Frequency Intervals are quarterly (91 days), semi-
annually (182 days), and annually (370 days). While
these frequency intervals are generally long enough
that you will not incur a short-term redemption fee from
a mutual fund, it is possible that you will incur such a
fee. When choosing the mutual funds to put in your
Security Target, you should consider this. When you
select a rebalancing Frequency Interval, the next
rebalancing date (the “Rebalancing Date”) will be on or
about the day following the end of the Frequency
Interval you have chosen in your most recent Security
Target or the actual day that we were able to effect the
automatic rebalancing in your account, whichever is
later. The only permissible reason for a delay is an
operational delay as described below. If you want to
add to, delete, or otherwise modify your Security Target,
You should choose investments that are comprised of
an appropriate portfolio mix, based on a variety of
factors including your age, risk tolerance, objectives,
time horizon and historical performance of different
asset classes. Keep in mind, however, that asset
allocation analysis does not provide a comprehensive
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you will confirm the change with your financial advisor.
All Security Target modifications or activations will not
be implemented until a minimum of a calendar quarter
has elapsed. You will receive a confirmation letter
setting forth your newly activated, modified, or
inactivated Security Target. Notify your financial
advisor immediately if the instructions confirmed to
you are incorrect.
it will take place in the next market session, however,
we will attempt to rebalance your account on
successive days for up to five (5) business days. If we
have tried to rebalance your account five successive
times and each rebalance has failed, your Security
Target will be inactivated. Additionally, we will
automatically inactivate your Security Target if we
receive notice of death, divorce, or in the case where
we receive returned/undeliverable mail. In each case,
you will receive notice of your Security Target becoming
inactivated. We will report any trades executed in
connection with the Feature to you in your monthly
account statement for the month in which the
transaction took place.
Eligible Assets and Eligible Securities. Only certain
types of assets and securities are eligible for the
Feature. The security types eligible for the Feature
include mutual funds, ETFs, traded CEFs, and
individual equities. Assets held on margin are
ineligible for the Feature. Only securities already
owned in your Account may be a part of your
Security Target.
A rebalancing will fail if: the account has a pending or
unprocessed trade correction, the Security Target
includes a security that is not held in the account, the
account becomes restricted from trading, a position is
held on margin, the Security Target includes a mutual
fund position that is not eligible for trading, or the
account becomes ineligible to purchase additional
shares of a mutual fund included in the Security
Target. You can deposit cash, transfer in securities, or
make additional purchases at any time while enrolled
in the Feature. Additional cash deposited into your
account may be invested at any time as you instruct.
Cash in your Account that exceeds the Security Target
percentage will be automatically invested in accordance
with your Security Target the next time your account
rebalances.
Margin balances held in SPS Advantage Accounts.
The Rebalancing Process. Automatic rebalancing will
be accomplished by buying and selling eligible
securities. Overweighted securities will be sold and
underweighted securities will be purchased, provided
the transactions required to rebalance the Account
meet the minimum trade requirement of $100. When
rebalancing, the Feature will calculate whether the
eligible securities included in the Security Target are
over or underweight their target percentage relative to
each other when calculating the automatic rebalancing;
it will not take the value of Non-Target Securities into
account and Non-Target Securities will not be
rebalanced as a part of the Feature. Also, when you
choose a security to be included in your Security Target,
any purchases or transfers into your Account of that
same security will be included in and subject to your
Security Target and rebalanced on the next Rebalancing
Date, if applicable.
Both pledge loans and margin are available in non-
qualified SPS Advantage Accounts; however, you may
not utilize both margin lending features and a pledge
line of credit in the same Account. This section covers
the specific benefits, costs and risks of using margin
in a non-qualified SPS Advantage Account. For details
regarding the Ameriprise Preferred Line of Credit and
conflicts of interest associated with both types of
products, see the “Securities-Based Lending
Solutions” section.
Automatic rebalancing will generally occur on or about
the day after the last day of the Frequency Interval from
the date your last Security Target instruction was
accepted or the last automatic Rebalancing Date,
whichever was later. The only permissible reason for a
delay is an operational delay as described below.
Such transactions generally result in tax
consequences in non-qualified SPS Advantage
Accounts.
Investing on margin involves the extension of credit to
you and your financial exposure could exceed the value
of your securities. Ameriprise Financial Services, in its
sole discretion, may approve your Account for margin
trading. Margin lending has specific risks outlined in
the Margin Risk Disclosure document; review that
document before opening a margin account.
Considerations include:
• A decline in the value of securities that are
purchased on margin or are in a margin account
may require you to provide additional funds to AEIS
to maintain your position and/or to maintain
sufficient assets in the Sweep Program to meet fee
requirements. If you do not provide the required
We may only delay processing your instructions under
circumstances related to operational issues
associated with the Security Target, and the delay may
only persist to the extent that these operational issues
impede our ability to process your instructions,
including but not limited to: a Rebalancing Date falling
on a day other than a business day, the Rebalancing
Date falling on a day your Asset-based Fee is being
deducted, the account is subject to a trade correction,
technology failures, operational failures, high trading
volumes, corporate reorganizations, unusual market
conditions, or any other condition which impedes our
ability to process your instructions accurately.
If automatic rebalancing has been delayed, generally
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ownership, an SPS Advantage Account in the
same individual ownership will not be approved
for margin unless margin trading is removed from
the Ameriprise brokerage account.
additional funds or securities within the prescribed
time, we will determine which securities to liquidate
to address any margin call and can liquidate all or a
portion of your holdings. You will be liable for any
resulting deficit in your Account.
•
Without
buying on
Margin
With
buying
on
Margin
Account Value
$100,000 $100,000
If you acquire/hold securities positions on
margin, any margin account balance in SPS
Advantage will be included in the calculation of
your Asset-based Fee for that period. Therefore,
if you engage in margin activity your Asset-based
Fee will be higher and Sweep Program
maintenance requirements will be impacted
to the extent of the margin exposure.
n/a
$130,000
Fees and compensation associated with margin
activity.
Revised Account value
including assets
purchased on margin
$2,000
$2,600
Annual Asset-based Fee
received by Ameriprise
Financial Services (based
on 2.0% Asset-based Fee)
n/a
$1,800*
Margin interest received
by AEIS
$2,000
$4,400
Total Asset-based Fee
and margin interest
received by Ameriprise
Financial Services and
affiliates**
* This Assumes average daily outstanding margin loan
balance of $30,000 over one-year period and 6% interest
rate. For current interest rates consult your financial advisor.
** This example does not include any product-level fees
that may be received by Ameriprise Financial Services on
If you purchase securities in your non-qualified SPS
Advantage Account using margin you will be subject to
interest charges for the extension of credit in the
margin account in addition to your Asset-based Fee
based on total assets under management. In addition,
your Asset- based Fee will increase as the value of
your account increases and the compensation earned
by your financial advisor will similarly increase. In
situations where you engage in margin activity in your
SPS Advantage Account, the incremental fees paid to
Ameriprise Financial Services and its affiliates may be
significantly higher than in the absence of margin or
than might otherwise be paid pursuant to a standard
margin arrangement with us or another broker-dealer.
The following is a hypothetical illustration of the impact
on the compensation received by Ameriprise Financial
Services and its affiliates. It compares an SPS
Advantage Account that does not engage in margin
activity to an Account with a margin arrangement with
respect to 30% of the SPS Advantage Account assets.
the mutual fund portion of the SPS Advantage Account(s).
If these fees were included, total fees received by
Ameriprise Financial Services would be higher.
SPS Advisor
• You can lose more funds than you deposit in
the margin account. Margin trading can work
against you as well as for you, leading to, for
example, larger losses as well as the potential
for larger gains.
• Margin may be approved only for non-qualified
SPS Advantage Accounts.
• Tax-qualified SPS Advantage accounts, such as
accounts established under the Employee
Retirement Income Security Act of 1974
(“ERISA”), IRAs and Tax-Sheltered Custodial
Accounts (“TSCAs”) are not available for
margin accounts.
• Only one account per ownership registration
(e.g., individual, joint) is allowed to establish
margin at Ameriprise. For example, if you have
already established margin borrowing in an
Ameriprise brokerage account in an individual
SPS Advisor is a discretionary Service that enables
your SPS Discretionary Advisor to direct the purchase or
sale of eligible securities and/or investment products
within a single account on your behalf. Advisory Shares
are the primary share class for mutual funds offered
for purchase in SPS Advisor Accounts. The term SPS
Discretionary Advisor refers to each individual that has
discretionary authority to purchase or sell securities in
your SPS Advisor Account without seeking your prior
approval for each trade. Your financial advisor may be
a part of a team. In this scenario, there may be more
than one SPS Discretionary Advisor authorized to use
discretion on your Account. For example, in the
instance your SPS Discretionary Advisor(s) becomes
unavailable or incapacitated, your Account may
temporarily be managed, and securities purchased
and sold, by a designated back-up SPS Discretionary
Advisor for the individual or team. Your primary, or
servicing financial advisor, will recommend the
Managed Account or AFPS, negotiate the Advisory Fee
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with you, and oversee the analysis and advice
prepared for you. Your servicing financial advisor may
or may not be your SPS Discretionary Advisor. In the
instance that your servicing financial advisor is not
your SPS Discretionary Advisor, your SPS Discretionary
Advisor will oversee the analysis and investment advice
prepared for you.
reinvested, where allowed, if selected by you. The
reinvestment of equity, ETF, preferred security, CEF or
UIT dividends will generally result in the purchase of a
fractional share as further described in the “Fractional
Shares and Principal Transactions” sub-section of the
“Brokerage Practices” section and in the Relationship
Agreement. Where reinvestment is not allowed or
selected, your dividends and distributions will be
deposited in your Sweep Program.
Your SPS Discretionary Advisor will purchase and sell
securities in your Account that are suitable for you and
consistent with your investment objectives, time
horizon, financial situation, risk tolerance and in
consideration of each Account’s asset allocation. You
must promptly notify your financial advisor if these
factors change. SPS Advisor Accounts are not
appropriate for day trading, highly active traders, or
other excessive trading activity, including trading
mutual funds based on market timing. Such short-
term trading activity may result in a short-term
redemption fee from a mutual fund.
Included among the available mutual funds for a non-
qualified SPS Advisor Account are mutual funds which
are managed or sub-advised by our affiliate, CMIA. For
more information on fund families and mutual funds
offered in our Managed Account Services including the
applicable Advisory Share class or other share class
utilized, please contact your financial advisor or refer to
our Mutual Fund Screener Tool . Access the tool by
logging into your Ameriprise Secure Site account and
selecting Trade & Research and then Screeners and
select the “Availability” tab. See the “Revenue Sources
for Ameriprise Financial Services, LLC” section
regarding compensation for the sale of mutual funds.
Education and business standards
Your SPS Discretionary Advisor will not have the ability
to withdraw, disburse or transfer funds or securities
from your SPS Advisor Account without your prior
authorization. You may impose Reasonable
Restrictions on your SPS Advisor Account(s) by working
with your financial advisor to reflect your restriction
request(s). Although your SPS Discretionary Advisor
will exercise discretion in your Account, the
performance of your Account(s) will not be monitored
on a day-to-day basis.
Ameriprise Financial Services will determine whether an
SPS Advisor Account is suitable upon account opening
and thereafter. Ameriprise Financial Services, with
thirty (30) days prior notice, also reserves the right to
limit or close any Account if it is determined that the
Program is no longer suitable for you.
Financial advisors can choose whether or not to pursue
certification as an SPS Discretionary Advisor and
participate in the SPS Advisor Program. In order for a
financial advisor to become eligible to provide
discretionary investment management services to you in
the SPS Advisor Program, Ameriprise Financial Services
requires that financial advisors become certified as an
SPS Discretionary Advisor. A financial advisor can
become certified by meeting certain eligibility
requirements and completing required training. Eligibility
requirements include a minimum number of years of
relevant experience, a particular level of assets under
management, and industry certifications such as an
Accredited Portfolio Management AdvisorSM (“APMA®”)
program certificate or a Chartered Financial
Analyst®(“CFA®”) or Certified Investment Management
Analyst®(“CIMA®”) certification. Ameriprise Financial
Services reserves the right to deny and withdraw a
financial advisor's ability to offer SPS Advisor Accounts
even though the financial advisor otherwise meets our
certification requirements.
See the “Terminating a Relationship Agreement”
section for more detail and for information regarding
your right to terminate your SPS Advisor Account(s).
Ameriprise Financial Services also reserves the right,
with thirty (30) days prior notice, to transfer your SPS
Advisor Account into an SPS Advantage Account as
further described in the Relationship Agreement,
which are available from your financial advisor and
online at www.ameriprise.com/disclosures.
SPS Discretionary Advisors are also subject to ongoing
reviews to maintain their eligibility to continue offering
discretionary investment management services to you
in the SPS Advisor Program. These reviews and the
eligibility requirements we impose may be a
disincentive for a financial advisor to participate in the
SPS Advisor Program and offer SPS Advisor Accounts.
Methods of analysis
As a courtesy, annuities and life insurance policies
may be displayed on your Account statement. Such
annuities and life insurance policies are not held in
your Account and any values provided by third parties
are not validated by us. You will not receive
recommendations or investment advice related to such
annuities and life insurance policies as part of the
SPS Advisor Service and the dollar value of any such
annuity or life insurance policy is excluded from any
portion of the Asset-based Fee calculation.
Dividends and distributions received on your
investments held in your SPS Advisor Account may be
Your financial advisor will review your financial and
investment needs, objectives and risk tolerance. Your
SPS Discretionary Advisor may use asset value,
current yield, yield projections, historical yield analysis,
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target asset allocation. You can further customize and
round out the asset allocation in your Account with a
client directed model, the portion of your Account that
is not invested in model investment portfolios and
where you select from individual eligible mutual funds
and ETFs to hold in your Account in addition to the
model investment portfolio(s). A minimum of one
model investment portfolio must be selected to
participate in this Program. A client directed model is
not required to participate in this Program.
as well as other assumptions you provide, to make
investment decisions. Investment decisions will
generally be made in consideration of an asset
allocation strategy. Asset allocation is a strategy for
diversifying investment assets among various types of
investments or asset classes with the potential to
move you toward your financial goals while managing
your risk tolerance. Diversification helps you spread
risk throughout your investment portfolio. Different
asset classes have different risk and potential return
profiles, and they perform differently in different
market conditions.
Advisory Shares are the primary share class for
mutuals funds offered for purchase in a Signature
Wealth Account. TSCA accounts are not eligible to
invest in Signature Wealth.
Diversification will not guarantee a profit or protect
against a loss. Any estimated returns, estimated asset
values, and historical performance should not be used to
project the performance of specific assets you currently
own or may purchase. As with all strategies, past
performance is no guarantee of future performance. In
addition, forecasts of future performance of financial
markets may prove to be incorrect.
In addition, your SPS Discretionary Advisor will choose
investments that are comprised of an appropriate
portfolio mix, based on a variety of factors such as
your age, risk tolerance, objectives, time horizon and
historical performance of different asset classes.
Keep in mind, however, that asset allocation analysis
does not provide a comprehensive financial analysis
of your ability to reach your goals, nor does it
guarantee against losses in your portfolio.
For Accounts in the Signature Wealth Program, all
discretionary investment management is provided by
the Signature Wealth Investment Manager, a third-
party Advisory Service Provider. The Signature Wealth
Investment Manager has the discretionary authority
to purchase or sell securities or make other
investments for your Account, however, you directly
own the underlying securities in the portfolio. Your
financial advisor provides recommendations
regarding which model investment portfolios, mutual
funds and ETFs to hold in your Signature Wealth
Account. The Signature Wealth Investment Manager,
not your financial advisor, will provide you with
investment management services for your Signature
Wealth Account according to your Account’s target
asset allocation and the model investment portfolios,
mutual funds and ETFs you select. The Signature
Wealth Investment Manager will manage the assets
in your Account(s) according to your Account’s target
asset allocation, subject to any Reasonable
Restrictions or other instructions provided by you.
While financial advisors do not pay transaction charges
for trades they enter online, franchisee financial
advisors are assessed a transaction charge if entering
an order by phone. For employee financial advisors,
this transaction charge is assessed to the employee’s
branch. Payment of phone-in transaction charges in
SPS Advisor accounts may be a disincentive for a
financial advisor to recommend an SPS Advisor
Account or to place such trades in the Account(s).
Signature Wealth
If you have chosen to add a client directed model to
your portfolio, you will work with your financial
advisor to select the investments that make up your
client directed model. The Signature Wealth
Investment Manager has trading discretion over any
client directed model and will be responsible for all
trading and rebalancing of your client directed
model along with the model investment portfolios
you selected to maintain your Account’s target
asset allocation. In instances where a particular
mutual fund or ETF is no longer eligible for use in
the Signature Wealth Program, the Signature Wealth
Investment Manager has limited investment
discretion to select a replacement mutual fund or
ETF for your client directed model.
Your Signature Wealth Account will generally only
rebalance when (i) you make deposits into or
withdrawals from the Signature Wealth Account, (ii)
annually at least every 370 days, or (iii) when
requested. However, if you make a change to your
model investment portfolios or asset allocation, your
The Signature Wealth Program, a flexible Unified
Managed Account, is a discretionary investment
advisory program, which offers clients the ability to
combine multiple investment types such as mutual
fund and ETF model investment portfolios, SMA model
investment portfolios (effective December 1, 2025),
and individual mutual funds/ETFs in an asset
allocation within a single Account. With the assistance
of your financial advisor, you will determine your
investment objective, risk tolerance, and time horizon
that will form the basis of your target asset allocation.
From your Client Information, your financial advisor will
create a personalized Signature Wealth Proposal and
recommend investments from a broad range of model
investment portfolios that are constructed by
Signature Wealth Model Providers and eligible mutual
funds and ETFs to fulfill your Signature Wealth Account
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Account will be rebalanced to align with the
appropriate asset allocation in effect for your
investment objective and risk tolerance. Such
rebalancing transactions generally result in tax
consequences in non-qualified accounts. Your
annual rebalance date will reset each time your
Account rebalances. The Signature Wealth
Investment Manager will rebalance and reallocate
your Signature Wealth Account, across each model
investment portfolio and if applicable any client
directed model.
You may request Reasonable Restrictions on your
Account(s) by working with your financial advisor to
complete and sign appropriate documents to reflect
your restriction request(s). The Signature Wealth
Investment Manager must accept any Reasonable
Restrictions before they will be binding on the
Account(s). If a Reasonable Restriction is accepted
any impacted position(s) will be removed from the
applicable model investment portfolio or client
directed model and the proceeds reallocated to the
remaining positions in any impacted model investment
portfolio or client directed model on a pro rata basis.
Programs. Ameriprise Financial Services addresses
this conflict through a combination of disclosures and
by closing any duplicative SMA strategies through the
transition process described above. Additionally, the
transition process does not impact the Manager Fee
that compensates the Advisory Service Provider and
does not affect the portion of the Asset-based Fee
received by your financial advisor. However, the
transition process will result, for a limited period of
time, in Sponsor receiving a higher Platform Fee from
impacted SMA strategies held within Select Separate
Accounts than it would from the same SMA strategy
invested in Signature Wealth Accounts. Beginning in
the second half of 2026, Ameriprise Financial Services
plans to eliminate this conflict of interest by migrating
any Select Separate Account with an impacted SMA
strategy from the Select Separate Account Program to
the Signature Wealth Program, in accordance with the
Relationship Agreement. As noted above, if your Select
Separate Account SMA strategy is a part of this
transition, Ameriprise Financial Services will notify you
so that you may work with your financial advisor to
transition your Select Separate SMA Account to the
Signature Wealth Program at a date of your choosing so
that you can benefit sooner from the reduced Platform
Fee rate the Signature Wealth Program provides.
Dividends and distributions received on your
investments held in your Signature Wealth Account
may be reinvested, where allowed, if selected by you.
Inclusion and Management of Advisory Service
Providers
The following summarizes Ameriprise Financial
Services’ research, due diligence and contractual
efforts in connection with the inclusion of Advisory
Service Providers in the Signature Wealth. Program.
Review of Advisory Service Providers
Ameriprise Financial Services conducts initial and
ongoing reviews of the Signature Wealth Investment
Manager and the available Signature Wealth Model
Providers, as further described in the “Advisory Service
Providers” section.
Concurrent with the addition of SMA model investment
portfolios to the Signature Wealth Program in late
2025, certain SMA strategies that are currently
available in the Select Separate Account Program will
become available in our Signature Wealth Program as
our initial step to transition such SMA strategies from
the Select Separate Account Program into the Signature
Wealth Program. The full transition process will include
the following steps: Ameriprise Financial Services will (i)
first close the SMA strategy in the Select Separate
Account Program to new investments prior to offering
the SMA strategy in the Signature Wealth Program; (ii)
generally allow pending new accounts for the SMA
strategy to continue to be processed in the Select
Separate Account Program; and (iii) subsequently
migrate existing accounts investing in the SMA strategy
from the Select Separate Account Program into the
Signature Wealth Program.
During this transition, if you currently hold an
impacted SMA strategy in an existing Select Separate
Account the Platform Fee rate you pay is higher for
your Select Separate Account than it would be if you
held the same SMA strategy in the Signature Wealth
Program. If your Select Separate SMA strategy will go
through this transition, Ameriprise Financial Services
will notify you.
Ameriprise Financial Services seeks to identify and
make available a range of model investment portfolios
within the Signature Wealth Program to provide clients
with a choice of investment styles and corresponding
risk levels. The evaluation process consists of
gathering information on the Signature Wealth Model
Provider candidates from published materials,
questionnaires and interviews. Screening factors are
both quantitative and qualitative and include (but are
not limited to): (i) management style and total assets
under management; (ii) assets managed in a particular
investment style; (iii) number of years the firm has
managed assets; and (iv) the number and
qualifications of investment professionals employed.
Each evaluation factor may have a different weighting
in the decision- making process. Generally, no one
factor determines the outcome of any selection.
This creates a conflict of interest as Ameriprise
Financial Services receives a higher Platform Fee for
Select Separate Accounts than we receive for
Signature Wealth Accounts, including the transition
period when the same SMA strategy is held in both
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Your selection of Signature Wealth
Firms, including affiliates of Ameriprise Financial
Services, which pass the evaluation process are
subject to a structured due diligence review by IRG.
Ameriprise Financial Services may identify actual or
potential concerns regarding a particular Signature
Wealth Model Provider as a result of the review
and may request that the Signature Wealth Model
Provider take corrective action to address such
concerns. These reviews may also result in the
removal of a Signature Wealth Model Provider from
the Program.
Education and business standards
The investment advisory personnel employed by
Advisory Service Providers participating in the
Signature Wealth Program must meet certain
educational, business and personnel requirements.
The minimum educational requirement for an
individual providing investment advice is a college
degree and completion of further financial service
industry certifications such as the CFA, FINRA Series
7, 63, 65 and 66 licenses, or comparable education
or work experience. Ameriprise Financial Services’
research personnel seek to identify, and encourage
participation by, Advisory Service Providers whose
personnel have additional professional qualifications,
including graduate degrees or a CFA designation. In
addition, suitable work experience in the financial
services industry is considered as part of an
individual’s overall qualifications.
Ameriprise Financial Services’ contractual relationship
with Advisory Service Providers
The Signature Wealth Investment Manager and each
of the Signature Wealth Model Providers have entered
into a master advisory agreement with Ameriprise
Financial Services, which governs the relationship and
responsibilities of the respective parties. You will not
pay a Manager Fee for any of the Signature Wealth
Model Providers, you will pay the Signature Wealth
Investment Manager a fee for their services. See
“Fees and Compensation” section below for more
information.
Your financial advisor will discuss your financial
objectives and other factors such as your risk
tolerance, investment objectives, and important
information regarding the Signature Wealth Program,
the Signature Wealth Investment Manager and the
available Signature Wealth Model Providers. Based on
the Client Information you provided, you and your
financial advisor will work together to create a
Signature Wealth proposal which will provide you with
a target asset allocation for your Account along with
recommendations for model investment portfolios and
as applicable, a client directed model of individual
mutual funds and / or ETFs to round out your target
asset allocation. Your financial advisor will recommend
and you may select one or more Signature Wealth
Model Providers from the list of available model
investment portfolios. Included in the available model
investment portfolio list is Columbia Management
Capital Advisers, an operating division of CMIA, an
affiliate of Ameriprise Financial Services. When you
select your investments and agree to establish a
Signature Wealth Account, you will be giving discretion
of your Signature Wealth Account to the Signature
Wealth Investment Manager. To assist you in making
your decision, you will be provided with a copy of the
Signature Wealth Investment Manager’s disclosure
brochure document (Part 2A of Form ADV) and you will
be provided with access to the Signature Wealth
Model Provider’s disclosure document (Part 2A of
Form ADV), which includes important information
regarding the Advisory Service Providers. Your financial
advisor will also provide you with Signature Wealth
Model Provider Fact Sheets for the model investment
portfolios you selected for your Signature Wealth
Account. Please note that past performance is not an
indication of future results. Composite performance
information included on the Signature Wealth Fact
Sheet has been provided by the Signature Wealth
Model Provider. In general, these composites are
created quarterly on an asset and time-weighted basis
using month-end market values and returns. Your
financial advisor can provide you with the Signature
Wealth Fact Sheets for specific composite
performance information regarding each model
investment portfolio available.
Certain Signature Wealth Model Providers may employ
one or more affiliates to perform certain aspects of
their portfolio construction, administrative support,
sales and marketing for one or more model
investment portfolios. In these situations, the affiliate
is subject to the same duties and obligations as the
Signature Wealth Model Provider, including adherence
to the master advisory agreement with Ameriprise
Financial Services. In delegating responsibilities to an
affiliate, the Signature Wealth Model Provider would
not be relieved of any of its duties or obligations and
remains responsible for the acts and omissions of the
affiliate as if such acts and omissions were its own.
Ameriprise Financial Services requires each Signature
Wealth Model Provider to meet Ameriprise Financial
Services’ performance validation standards, however
Ameriprise Financial Services does not review the
appropriateness of the methodologies used by the
Signature Wealth Model Providers to calculate the
underlying historical performance information presented
in the Signature Wealth Fact Sheet, nor does Ameriprise
Financial Services audit the mathematical accuracy of
the Signature Wealth Model Provider’s performance
information. Ameriprise Financial Services does restate
the performance after deducting the highest annual
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Asset-based Fee when presenting the performance on a
net basis.
your Account’s holdings of, and transactions in,
mutual funds and ETFs will be available on the secure
site at amerprise.com and in your Ameriprise Financial
statements.
Review the Signature Wealth Investment Manager and
as applicable, the Signature Wealth Model Provider’s
disclosure document (Part 2A of Form ADV), this
Disclosure Brochure Supplement, the Disclosure
Brochure and the applicable Signature Wealth Model
Providers Fact Sheet(s) prior to selecting a Signature
Wealth Account. Each Signature Wealth Model
Provider’s disclosure document is available to you at
ameriprise.com/investmentproviders.
You retain the right to receive any prospectuses that
are delivered to the Signature Wealth Investment
Manager on request and at any time by requesting a
copy from your financial advisor or by contacting us at
800.862.7919. You may also access the prospectuses
for the mutual funds and ETFs held in your Signature
Wealth Account(s) via the fund family’s website.
Acceptance of your Signature Wealth Account
If you prefer to receive the information that is
contained in prospectuses, please contact your
financial advisor or us at the number above and we will
provide them to you. In this case, Ameriprise Financial
Services will deliver prospectuses for the investments
held in your Signature Wealth Account(s) directly to you
in accordance with your document delivery preference.
If you elect a client directed model, the prospectuses
related to the mutual funds and/or ETFs held will be
directed to you. You may not direct these prospectuses
to the Signature Wealth Investment Manager.
Methods of analysis
Ameriprise Financial Services will determine, on behalf
of the Signature Wealth Investment Manager, whether
to accept or reject a prospective client and related
Account based upon the Client Information. Once your
Account is accepted, you will become an investment
management client of the Signature Wealth Investment
Manager. The Signature Wealth Investment Manager
will have discretionary authority as described above to
act on your behalf for purchases, sales and other
transactions in your Signature Wealth Account,
including sales with respect to securities transferred
in-kind to the account, without seeking your approval.
Such transactions generally result in tax consequences
in non-qualified accounts. Your Signature Wealth
Investment Manager will not have the ability to
withdraw, disburse or transfer funds or securities from
your account without your prior authorization.
Limitations on security type
The following information applies generally to the
Investment Managers and Model Providers available in
Managed Accounts Programs. Investment Managers
and Model Providers may utilize different techniques for
buying and selling securities, which are often unique to
the investment strategies they manage. Fundamental
analysis is the most common method used and typically
involves the development of a thorough understanding
of fundamental features of a business through analysis
and interpretation of company and industry data, such
as revenue, expenses, assets, liabilities, management,
industry position and other factors, in order to evaluate
a security.
Except as may be provided in connection with the
Sweep Program, in general, the Signature Wealth
Investment Manager may not directly invest your
assets in cash equivalent securities or instruments
such as money market securities, certificates of
deposit, time deposits, banker’s acceptances or
repurchase agreements; or options, futures or other
derivative instruments; however these types of
securities may be included in the underlying holdings
of the mutual funds and ETFs recommended by the
Signature Wealth Model Providers and utilized by the
Signature Wealth Investment Manager. These types of
assets are also generally not accepted for deposit in
connection with establishing a new Account.
Certain Investment Managers and Model Providers
may also use quantitative methods of analysis, which
is computer-based and uses mathematical and
statistical modeling to value securities, markets or
investment opportunities. Technical analysis may also
be used, involving the analysis of market data.
Investment Managers and Model Providers may
employ one or more methods of analysis, with varying
degrees of focus on certain attributes and
techniques.
Prospectus Delivery to Signature Wealth Investment
Manager
Review and Update of Client Information
Your financial advisor will review your Client
Information and Signature Wealth Account’s
performance and compatibility with respect to your
Account’s target asset allocation, risk tolerance and
time horizon with you.
If there are changes to your Client Information, your
financial advisor will inform Ameriprise Financial
Prospectuses contain detailed information about the
fees and expenses charged by, and the past
performance of, the investments held in your
Account(s). With your authorization and appointment
as your agent for delivery, the Signature Wealth
Investment Manager will receive prospectuses on your
behalf for the mutual funds and ETFs purchased in
your Signature Wealth Account investments within the
model investment portfolios. Information regarding
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Services of any changes to your Client Information. Your
financial advisor may also provide research and
analysis regarding the target asset allocation and
select model investment portfolios to you and
recommend changes based on any changes to your
Client Information. If there have been changes to your
Client Information, your financial advisor may
recommend updates your Signature Wealth Account’s
target asset allocation and/or model investment
portfolios.
Your financial advisor will review the updated proposal
with you and based on your review and acceptance,
your financial advisor will then submit your updated
proposal to Ameriprise Financial Services. Ameriprise
Financial Services will inform and provide the
Signature Wealth Investment Manager with your
updated information and requested changes.
Ameriprise provide the Signature Wealth Investment
Manager with ongoing updates of Client Information
and Account information, such as updates to your
Account’s target asset allocation and changes to the
selected investments within your Account, as well as
other relevant information to help them monitor these
discretionary Account(s).
Provider and will no longer have discretionary authority.
All discretionary investment management will be
provided by the Signature Wealth Investment Manager,
a non-affiliated third-party Advisory Service Provider,
which will also become the Investment Manager for all
Active Portfolios® Accounts. Investment Providers will
provide asset allocation and investment selection
recommendations for their specific portfolio(s) to the
new Investment Manager. The new Investment Manager
will have the discretionary authority to purchase or sell
securities or make other investments for your Account,
however, you directly own the underlying securities in
the portfolio. The new Investment Manager will invest
your Account assets into the portfolio you select with
your financial advisor and will be responsible for the
ongoing investment management and trading of your
Active Portfolios® Account, subject to any Reasonable
Restrictions or other instructions provided by you. Your
financial advisor will continue to provide
recommendations regarding which portfolio to hold in
your Active Portfolios® Account. The new Investment
Manager, not your financial advisor or the Investment
Provider, will provide you with discretionary investment
management services for your Active Portfolios® Account
according to your Account’s target asset allocation and
the portfolio you select.
Transferred Accounts
Ameriprise Financial Services offers a variety of Active
Portfolios® investments that are designed to help meet
your investment growth and/or income needs. TSCA
Accounts are only eligible to invest in Active Diversified
Portfolios® investments.
You may wish to transfer a model investment portfolio
that you hold at another investment advisory firm to
Ameriprise Financial Services. If this model
investment portfolio is offered in the Ameriprise
Signature Wealth Program, you may transfer the
account to your Signature Wealth Account. Upon
receipt, the investment will be rebalanced into your
Account in accordance with your Signature Wealth
Account’s target asset allocation within your Signature
Wealth proposal, which may result in different
investment positions and/or allocation of such
positions than the model investment portfolio you held
at the prior advisory firm. If your current model
investment portfolio is not available in the Ameriprise
Signature Wealth Service, your financial advisor will
assist you with identifying other appropriate
alternatives.
CMIA, an affiliate of Ameriprise Financial Services, is
the Investment Manager of the following Active
Portfolios® investments Active Accumulation Portfolios®
(only available for non-qualified Accounts) and Active
Risk Portfolios®. Non-qualified Active Accumulation
Portfolios®, and Active Risk Portfolios® are designed to
primarily invest in, and therefore favor, Columbia mutual
funds managed by CMIA. The Columbia Management
Asset Allocation Team determines the asset allocation
at the portfolio level and selects the investments to be
included in the portfolios.
Active Portfolios®
Ameriprise Financial Services and our affiliates receive
greater revenue when you select a portfolio managed by
CMIA than if you select another Active Portfolios®
investment. All other Active Portfolios® investments are
managed by non-affiliated Investment Managers.
Active Portfolios® is a discretionary Program that
enables you to invest in actively managed portfolios
comprised of mutual funds and/or ETFs. Advisory
Shares are the primary share class for mutual funds
offered for purchase in Active Portfolios® Accounts.
These portfolios are managed by professional
Investment Managers with discretionary authority to
purchase or sell securities or make other investments
for your Account.
Investment Managers for Active Portfolios®
investments may select mutual funds and/or ETFs. In
general, the selected mutual funds are among the fund
families that fully participate in the Ameriprise
Financial Services mutual fund program. Program
participants pay cost reimbursement payments to
Effective on or around December 1, 2025, your current
Investment Manager will begin providing investment
advisory services as a non-discretionary Investment
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Review of Advisory Service Providers
AEIS, as described in the “Cost Reimbursement
Services and Third Party Payments” section.
Ameriprise Financial Services conducts initial and
ongoing reviews of the Investment Managers and their
applicable investment strategies and investment
advisory services available or utilized in Active
Portfolios® investments as further described in the
“Advisory Service Providers” section.
You may request Reasonable Restrictions on your Active
Portfolios® account(s) by completing and signing the
appropriate document reflecting your request. Ameriprise
Financial Services and the applicable Investment
Manager(s) must accept any Reasonable Restrictions
before they will be binding on the Account(s).
From time to time, the IRG personnel will conduct
searches to identify new Advisory Service Providers for
Active Portfolios®. These recommendations are
presented to the Oversight Committee for inclusion in
Active Portfolios®.
The Investment Manager will determine whether to
reinvest dividends, interest and distributions received
on the investments held in your Active Portfolios®
Account. Where reinvestment of dividends is not
allowed, dividends, interest and distributions will be
deposited into your Sweep Program.
Prospectus Delivery to Investment Managers
In addition, IRG conducts periodic reviews of the
Advisory Service Providers. These reviews are based on
applicable information gathered from various sources
including disclosure documents, questionnaires,
portfolio performance, assets under management,
personnel changes, portfolio turnover and other factors
as Ameriprise Financial Services deems appropriate.
Ameriprise Financial Services periodically provides
information from these reviews to financial advisors
servicing Active Portfolios® investments.
From time to time, these reviews may also result in
Ameriprise Financial Services removing an Advisory
Service Provider.
Prospectuses contain detailed information about the
fees and expenses charged by, and the past
performance of, the investments held in your
Account(s). With your authorization and appointment
as your agent for delivery, Investment Managers for
Active Portfolios® investments will receive
prospectuses on your behalf for the mutual funds and
ETFs purchased in your Active Portfolios® Account(s).
Information regarding your Account’s holdings of, and
transactions in, mutual funds and ETFs will be
available on the secure site at amerprise.com and in
your Ameriprise Financial statements.
Education and business standards
You retain the right to receive any prospectuses that
are delivered to the Investment Manager on request
and at any time by requesting a copy from your financial
advisor or by contacting us at 800.862.7919. You
may also access the prospectuses for the mutual
funds and ETFs held in your Active Portfolios®
Account(s) via the fund family’s website.
If you prefer to receive the information that is
contained in prospectuses, please contact your
financial advisor or us at the number above and we will
provide them to you. In this case, Ameriprise Financial
Services will deliver prospectuses for the investments
held in your Active Portfolios® Account(s) directly to you
in accordance with your document delivery preference.
The investment advisory personnel employed by the
Investment Manager must meet certain educational,
business and personnel requirements. The minimum
educational requirement for an individual providing
investment advice is a college degree and completion
of further financial service industry certification such
as CFA®, Financial Industry Regulatory Authority
(“FINRA”) Series 7, 63, 65 and 66 licenses, or
comparable education or work experience. Ameriprise
Financial Services’ due diligence personnel seek to
identify, and encourage participation by, Investment
Managers whose personnel have additional
professional qualifications, including graduate degrees
or a CFA designation. In addition, suitable work
experience in the financial services industry is
considered as part of an individual’s overall
qualifications.
In the event our master investment advisory agreement
with your Investment Manager does not provide for the
receipt of certain or all prospectuses on behalf of
clients, you will receive such prospectuses directly.
Ameriprise Financial Services’ contractual relationship
with Advisory Service Provider
Inclusion and management of Active Portfolios®
Investment Managers
Each Advisory Service Provider has entered into a
master investment advisory agreement with Ameriprise
Financial Services, which governs the relationship and
responsibilities of the respective parties.
The following summarizes Ameriprise Financial
Services’ research, due diligence and contractual
efforts in connection with the inclusion of Advisory
Service Providers in the Active Portfolios® Program.
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Select Separate Account
Your Active Portfolios® Selection
Select Separate Account is a discretionary Program in
which you may own a portfolio of individual securities,
SMAs, ETFs, and/or mutual funds managed by a
professional Advisory Service Provider in accordance
with a single investment strategy or a combination of
complementary strategies. Select Separate SMA
strategies generally do not offer mutual funds. Where
mutual funds are offered, Advisory Shares will be
offered for purchase. TSCA Accounts are not eligible to
invest in Select Separate Accounts.
Your financial advisor will assist you in selecting one
or more Active Portfolios® investments. Your financial
advisor will discuss your financial objectives and other
factors such as your risk tolerance, investment
objectives, and important information regarding the
Investment Manager. Your financial advisor will also
provide you with the applicable Active Portfolios®
investment fact sheet (“Active Portfolios® investment
Fact Sheet”). The Active Portfolios® investment Fact
Sheet includes biographical information about the
Investment Manager and investment philosophy and
style information, portfolio characteristics and
composite performance. Past performance is not an
indication of future results.
The Oversight Committee, acting on behalf of
Ameriprise Financial Services, is the Investment
Manager of the Select ETF Portfolios that invest in a
variety of non- proprietary ETF investments in
partnership with Portfolio Strategists or Asset
Allocation Strategists.
Composite performance information included in the
Active Portfolios® investment Fact Sheet is calculated
by Ameriprise Financial Services. This composite
performance information is shown both gross and net
of the highest annual Asset-based Fees. These
composites are created quarterly on an asset and
time-weighted basis using month-end net asset values
and returns.
Ameriprise Financial Services also offers a series of
portfolios consisting of SMAs, mutual funds and ETFs
in a single account called Select Strategist UMA.
These portfolios are managed by a non-affiliated
Investment Manager with discretionary authority to
purchase or sell securities or make other investments
for your account.
Acceptance of your Active Portfolios® Account
Each of the Portfolio Strategists and Asset Allocation
Strategists for Select ETF Portfolios, as applicable,
develops asset allocation models, conducts qualitative
and/or quantitative research on mutual funds and
ETFs, and constructs model portfolio
recommendations, as applicable, to the Oversight
Committee. The Oversight Committee reviews and
approves these recommendations. The Oversight
Committee may remove an Advisory Service Provider
from the Select ETF Portfolios Service and/or adjust an
asset allocation or model portfolio as appropriate.
Ameriprise Financial Services will determine, on behalf
of the Investment Manager, whether to accept or reject
a prospective client and related Account based upon
the Client Information. Once your Account is accepted,
you will become an investment management client of
the Investment Manager. Your Investment Manager
will have full discretionary authority to act on your
behalf for purchases, sales and other transactions in
your Active Portfolios® Account, including sales with
respect to securities transferred in-kind to the
account, without seeking your approval. Such
transactions generally result in tax consequences in
non-qualified accounts.
Your Investment Manager will not have the ability to
withdraw, disburse or transfer funds or securities from
your account without your prior authorization.
With the aid of your financial advisor, you select the
appropriate Advisory Service Provider(s) in accordance
with the Client Information you provide to your financial
advisor. The Advisory Service Provider, not your
financial advisor, will provide you with investment
management services according to the investment
strategy you select and the related investment
objectives. Advisory Service Providers in the service
will either serve as a discretionary Investment Manager
over the assets in your Account(s) or as a Model
Provider.
For Active Portfolios® managed by CMIA or an
unaffiliated Investment Manager, review the applicable
Advisory Brochure (Part 2A of the Form ADV) for
additional information about the Investment
Manager’s advisory services and methods of analysis.
Investment Manager review of Active Portfolios®
Model Provider will construct a model portfolio
according to a specific investment strategy. The Model
Provider will be independently responsible for the
investment decisions it makes for the model portfolio
strategy. The Oversight Committee will have
discretionary trading authority over the assets in your
Account(s) to implement the Model Provider’s trading
instructions for the model portfolio.
Ongoing updates of Active Portfolios® account
information, including holdings and transaction
information, as well as other relevant information are
made available to the Investment Manager to help
monitor the Active Portfolios® investments.
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You may request Reasonable Restrictions on your
Account(s) by working with your financial advisor to
complete and sign appropriate documents to reflect
your restriction request(s). Ameriprise Financial
Services and the applicable Investment Manager(s)
must accept any Reasonable Restrictions before they
will be binding on the Account(s).
is a part of this transition, Ameriprise Financial
Services will notify you so that you may work with your
financial advisor to transition your Select Separate SMA
Account to the Signature Wealth Program at a date of
your choosing so that you can benefit sooner from the
reduced Platform Fee rate the Signature Wealth
Program provides.
Inclusion and Management of Advisory Service
Providers
The following summarizes Ameriprise Financial
Services’ research, due diligence and contractual
efforts in connection with the inclusion of Advisory
Service Providers in the Select Separate Program.
Screening and evaluation of Advisory Service Providers
Concurrent with the addition of SMA model investment
portfolios to the Signature Wealth Program in late
2025, certain SMA strategies that are currently
available in the Select Separate Account Program will
become available in our Signature Wealth Program as
our initial step to transition such SMA strategies from
the Select Separate Account Program into the Signature
Wealth Program. The full transition process will include
the following steps: Ameriprise Financial Services will (i)
first close the SMA strategy in the Select Separate
Account Program to new investments prior to offering
the SMA strategy in the Signature Wealth Program; (ii)
generally allow pending new accounts for the SMA
strategy to continue to be processed in the Select
Separate Account Program; and (iii) subsequently
migrate existing accounts investing in the SMA strategy
from the Select Separate Account Program into the
Signature Wealth Program.
During this transition, if you currently hold an
impacted SMA strategy in an existing Select Separate
Account, the Platform Fee rate you pay is higher for
your Select Separate Account than it would be if you
held the same SMA strategy in the Signature Wealth
Program. If your Select Separate SMA strategy will go
through this transition, Ameriprise Financial Services
will notify you.
Ameriprise Financial Services seeks to identify a
range of professional Advisory Service Providers to
participate in the Select Separate Account Service in
order to provide clients with a choice of investment
styles and corresponding risk levels. The evaluation
process consists of gathering information on the
Advisory Service Provider candidates from published
materials, questionnaires and interviews. Screening
factors are both quantitative and qualitative and
include (but are not limited to): (i) management style
and total assets under management; (ii) assets
managed in a particular investment style; (iii) number
of years the firm has managed assets; and (iv) the
number and qualifications of investment professionals
employed. Each evaluation factor may have a different
weighting in the decision- making process. Generally,
no one factor determines the outcome of any
selection.
Firms, including affiliates of Ameriprise Financial
Services, which pass the evaluation process are
subject to a structured due diligence review by IRG.
Review of Advisory Service Providers
Ameriprise Financial Services conducts initial and
ongoing reviews of the Investment Managers, Portfolio
Strategists and Asset Allocation Strategists and their
applicable investment strategies and investment
advisory services available or utilized in the Select
Separate Program as further described in the “Advisory
Service Providers” section. This review is based on
applicable information gathered from various sources,
including disclosure documents, annual questionnaires
and other data and reports received from Advisory
Service Providers. The information provided to
Ameriprise Financial Services includes composite
performance, assets under management, personnel
changes, portfolio turnover, trading practices and
placement of client trade orders. Ameriprise Financial
Services may identify actual or potential concerns
regarding a particular Advisory Service Provider as a
result of the review and may request that the Advisory
Service Provider take corrective action to address such
This creates a conflict of interest as Ameriprise
Financial Services receives a higher Platform Fee for
Select Separate Accounts than we receive for
Signature Wealth Accounts, including the transition
period when the same SMA strategy is held in both
Programs. Ameriprise Financial Services addresses
this conflict through a combination of disclosures and
by closing any duplicative SMA strategies through the
transition process described above. Additionally, the
transition process does not impact the Manager Fee
that compensates the Advisory Service Provider and
does not affect the portion of the Asset-based Fee
received by your financial advisor. However, the
transition process will result, for a limited period of
time, in Sponsor receiving a higher Platform Fee from
impacted SMA strategies held within Select Separate
Accounts than it would from the same SMA strategy
invested in Signature Wealth Accounts. Beginning in
the second half of 2026, Ameriprise Financial
Services plans to eliminate this conflict of interest by
migrating any Select Separate Account with an
impacted SMA strategy from the Select Separate
Account Program to the Signature Wealth Program, in
accordance with the Relationship Agreement. As noted
above, if your Select Separate Account SMA strategy
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Your selection of an Advisory Service Provider
concerns. These reviews may also result in the removal
of an Advisory Service Provider from the Service.
Education and business standards
The investment advisory personnel employed by
Advisory Service Providers participating in the Select
Separate Account Service must meet certain
educational, business and personnel requirements.
You may select one or more Advisory Service Providers
from the list of participating professional asset
managers. Included in the participating Advisory Service
Providers is Columbia Management Capital Advisers,
an operating division of CMIA, an affiliate of Ameriprise
Financial Services. Ameriprise Financial Services may
also act as an Investment Manager within the Select
Separate Account Service. If you select CMIA as an
Investment Manager, Ameriprise Financial Services may
receive greater revenues than
if you select an unaffiliated Advisory Service Provider.
Contact your financial advisor for a current list of
Advisory Service Providers participating in the Select
Separate Account Service.
The minimum educational requirement for an
individual providing investment advice is a college
degree and completion of further financial service
industry certifications such as the CFA, FINRA Series
7, 63, 65 and 66 licenses, or comparable education
or work experience. Ameriprise Financial Services’
research personnel seek to identify, and encourage
participation by, Advisory Service Providers whose
personnel have additional professional qualifications,
including graduate degrees or a CFA designation. In
addition, suitable work experience in the financial
services industry is considered as part of an
individual’s overall qualifications.
Ameriprise Financial Services’ contractual relationship
with Advisory Service Providers
Each Advisory Service Provider has entered into a
master investment advisory agreement with Ameriprise
Financial Services through which the Advisory Service
Provider receives the Manager Fee component of the
Asset-based Fees paid by clients.
To assist you in making your decision regarding the
selection of an Advisory Service Provider, you will be
provided with a copy of the Advisory Service Provider’s
disclosure document (Part 2A of Form ADV), which
includes important information regarding the Advisory
Service Provider. Your financial advisor will also provide
you with the Strategy Fact Sheet for the Advisory Service
Provider indicating whether it serves as Investment
Manager or Model Provider, and which also includes
biographical information, investment philosophy and
style, portfolio characteristics, composite performance
and may include information, if applicable, about the
Portfolio Strategist or Asset Allocation Strategist. Please
note that past performance is not an indication of future
results. Depending on the strategy, composite
performance information included on the Strategy Fact
Sheet may be calculated by the Ameriprise Financial
Services or the Advisory Service Provider. In nearly all
cases, these composites are created quarterly on an
asset and time-weighted basis using month-end market
values and returns. Your financial advisor can provide
you with the Strategy Fact Sheet for specific composite
performance information regarding each investment
strategy available.
Certain Advisory Service Providers may employ one or
more affiliates as subadvisers for one or more
investment strategies. In these situations, the
subadviser is subject to the same duties and
obligations as the Advisory Service Provider, including
adherence to the master advisory agreement with
Ameriprise Financial Services, and any reasonable
restrictions imposed by clients. In delegating
responsibilities to a subadviser, an Advisory Service
Provider would not be relieved of any of its duties or
obligations and remains responsible for the acts and
omissions of the subadviser as if such acts and
omissions were its own.
Ameriprise Financial Services requires each Advisory
Service Provider to meet Ameriprise Financial Services’
performance validation standards, however Ameriprise
Financial Services does not review the appropriateness
of the methodologies used by Advisory Service
Providers to calculate the underlying historical
performance information presented in the Strategy Fact
Sheet, nor does Ameriprise Financial Services audit the
mathematical accuracy of the Advisory Service
Provider’s performance information. Ameriprise
Financial Services does restate the performance after
deducting the highest annual Asset-based Fee when
presenting the performance on a net basis.
Review the Advisory Service Provider’s disclosure
document (Part 2A of Form ADV), this Disclosure
Brochure and the Strategy Fact Sheet prior to selecting
an Advisory Service Provider.
From time to time, an Advisory Service Provider’s
investment strategy that is currently available through
Envestnet in the Vista Separate Account Program may
become available in our Select Separate Account
Program. In this instance, Ameriprise Financial Services
will (i) close any duplicative investment strategies in the
Vista Separate Account Program to new clients prior to
offering such investment strategies in the Select
Separate Account Program; (ii) generally allow pending
Vista Separate Account Program Accounts for existing
clients, and in certain instances new clients, to
continue to be processed for transition purposes; and
(iii) subsequently migrate such Vista Separate Account
strategies into the same investment strategy in the
Select Separate Account Program.
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Limitations on security type
Manager to you. Your financial advisor will then inform
Ameriprise Financial Services if any information
contained in the Client Information has changed or if
you wish to make any other changes with respect to the
Investment Manager(s) servicing.
Where Investment Manager has discretionary authority
over the assets in your Account, Ameriprise Financial
Services provides Investment Managers ongoing
updates of Account information, including holdings and
transaction information, as well as other relevant
information to help them monitor these discretionary
Account(s).
Transferred Accounts
Except as may be provided in connection with the
Sweep Program, in general, participating Investment
Managers may not directly invest your assets in cash
equivalent securities or instruments such as money
market securities, certificates of deposit, time
deposits, banker’s acceptances or repurchase
agreements; or options, futures or other derivative
instruments; however these types of securities may
be included in the underlying holdings of the mutual
funds and ETFs utilized by the Investment Manager.
These types of assets are also generally not accepted
for deposit in connection with establishing a new
Account.
You may wish to transfer a separately managed account
(“SMA”) that you hold at another investment advisory
firm to Ameriprise Financial Services. This SMA
strategy may not be available in the Ameriprise Select
Separate Account Service. Contact your financial
advisor to discuss other appropriate alternatives.
Managed Accounts offered with Envestnet
Asset Management, Inc.
Vista Separate Account
Some participating Investment Managers may use
ETFs and mutual funds as a part of their investment
strategy that incur a separate and additional
Investment Cost for its management fee which is
assessed by the fund or ETF directly and is in addition
to the Asset-based Fee charged by Ameriprise
Financial Services. Due to Investment Costs, the use
of ETFs and mutual funds by an Investment Manager
may result in clients paying more than clients utilizing
an Investment Manager that does not invest in ETFs or
mutual funds.
Methods of analysis
The Vista Separate Account is a discretionary
investment advisory Program offered on the Envestnet
platform that gives you access to a selection of SMAs
in a single or multi-account investment portfolio.
Contact your financial advisor for a current list of
available SMAs offered in a Vista Separate Account.
Your financial advisor will help you customize a
portfolio that includes multiple investment styles, such
as domestic and international offerings.
The following information applies generally to
Investment Managers participating in the Select
Separate Account Service. For additional information
on Investment Managers, please refer to Part 2A of the
applicable Investment Manager’s Form ADV.
Investment Managers utilize different techniques for
buying and selling securities, which are often unique to
the strategies they manage. Fundamental analysis is
the most common method used and typically involves
the development of a thorough understanding of
fundamental features of a business through analysis
and interpretation of company and industry data, such
as revenue, expenses, assets, liabilities,
management, industry position and other factors, in
order to evaluate a security. Certain Investment
Managers and third-party providers of model portfolios
may also use quantitative methods of analysis, which
is computer-based and uses mathematical and
statistical modeling to value securities, markets or
investment opportunities. Technical analysis may also
be used, involving the analysis of market data.
You will directly own individual securities when
investing in an SMA. Envestnet and/or the Envestnet
Manager will rebalance and reallocate the individual
securities within each SMA. If you invest in multiple
Vista Separate Accounts within your Vista Statement of
Investment Selection, (a “Vista multi-account portfolio”)
you will work with your financial advisor to designate a
percentage allocation for each SMA included in your
total Vista multi-account portfolio. Your Vista multi-
account portfolio will be rebalanced to these
designated allocations when you make deposits or
withdrawals. You may also request a rebalance of your
Vista multi-account portfolio at any time. Such
transactions generally result in tax consequences in
non-qualified accounts.
Investment Managers may employ one or more
methods of analysis, with varying degrees of focus on
certain attributes and techniques.
Review and Update of Client Information
From time to time, an Advisory Service Provider’s
investment strategy that is currently available through
Envestnet in the Vista Separate Account Program may
become available in our Select Separate Account
Program. In this instance, Ameriprise Financial
Services will (i) close any duplicative investment
strategies in the Vista Separate Account Program to
Your financial advisor reviews the Investment
Manager’s performance and compatibility with respect
to your Select Separate Account and may also provide
research and analysis regarding the Investment
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Part 2A, the Investor Unified Account is referred to as
the Unified Managed Account.
Access Account
new clients prior to offering such investment strategies
in the Select Separate Account Program; (ii) generally
allow pending Vista Separate Account Program
Accounts for existing clients, and in certain instances
new clients, to continue to be processed for transition
purposes; and (iii) subsequently migrate such Vista
Separate Account strategies for all clients into the
same investment strategy in the Select Separate
Account Program. If you have a Vista multi-account
portfolio, your Vista Statement of Investment
Selection will be updated to remove the migrated
strategy and reallocate its designated allocation
among the remaining strategies on a pro rata basis.
Investor Unified Account
The Access Account program is a discretionary Program
that accommodates a variety of actively managed
portfolios containing mutual funds and/or ETFs
transferred to Ameriprise from another firm. These
portfolios are managed by Envestnet and Envestnet
Managers and offered on the Envestnet platform. If
you currently hold an Access Account portfolio, you may
add new contributions to your existing account(s).
Access Account is generally a hold and service
Program. In certain limited instances you may make
both new purchases and new contributions into
Access Account portfolios that are not otherwise
available for sale.
Some or all of your portfolio may temporarily move to a
cash position in certain circumstances such as if there
is no selling agreement in place at the time of
transition to Ameriprise Financial Services. Such
transactions generally result in tax consequences in
non-qualified accounts.
Supplementary Managed Accounts
Information
Brokerage Practices
The Investor Unified Account is a discretionary
investment advisory Program that offers clients the
ability to purchase SMAs, mutual funds and ETFs in an
asset allocation within a single account managed by
Envestnet. Advisory Shares are the primary share
class for mutual funds offered for purchase in Investor
Unified Accounts. Your financial advisor will help you to
select from a broad range of SMAs, eligible mutual
funds and ETFs in order to customize a portfolio for
you. You must select at least one SMA in order to
participate in this Program. In certain limited instances
an SMA that is also available for new purchases and
new contributions in the Access Account Program may
also be available for selection in your Investor Unified
Account.
Ameriprise Financial Services will act in the best
interest of its clients, including, but not limited to,
seeking best execution on all client transactions in
Managed Accounts Programs. Both AEIS and
Ameriprise Financial Services have implemented
various policies and procedures to address any
potential conflict of interest, including but not limited
to procedures regarding the suitability, supervision and
best execution of securities recommended to, or
purchased to or from, Ameriprise Financial Services
client accounts.
Envestnet and Ameriprise Financial Services have
defined various risk-based asset allocation models
available in the Investor Unified Account service. With
the assistance of your financial advisor, you will
determine your investment objective, risk tolerance,
the appropriate asset allocation and then select the
specific underlying investment vehicles for the asset
allocation to meet your needs. You will receive an
asset allocation and a personalized proposal based
on your Client Information.
Brokerage services are made available through
Ameriprise Financial Services. Ameriprise Financial
Services and AEIS have an agreement in which
Ameriprise Financial Services introduces customer
accounts to AEIS on a fully disclosed basis. AEIS
serves as Ameriprise Financial Services’ clearing agent
in providing clearing, custody and settlement services
for transactions that are executed for customers of
Ameriprise Financial Services.
Envestnet provides overlay management services for
Investor Unified Accounts and you directly own the
underlying securities in the portfolio. Your Account will
generally only rebalance when you make deposits into
or withdrawals from the Account, on the Account’s
anniversary date, or when requested. However, if you
make a change to your investment vehicle selections or
asset allocation model, your Account will be
rebalanced to align with the appropriate asset
allocation model in effect for your investment objective
and risk tolerance.
Ameriprise Financial Services approves and opens
accounts and accepts securities order instructions
with respect to the accounts. In exchange for a fee
paid by Ameriprise Financial Services, AEIS provides
record keeping, custody, and all clearing functions for
accounts introduced by Ameriprise Financial Services.
Such rebalancing transactions generally result in tax
consequences in non-qualified accounts. Your annual
rebalance date will reset each time your Account
rebalances. Envestnet will rebalance and reallocate
your Account and each SMA that you select within the
Account. Under Envestnet’s Appendix 1 of Form ADV
Generally, Ameriprise Financial Services, your financial
advisor and AEIS act as an agent when executing
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transactions in your Account. When permissible by
applicable law, and after complying with regulatory
requirements, we will execute some transactions on
your behalf, and in your Account(s) while acting as
principal for our own account (“Principal Transactions”).
Fractional Shares and Principal Transactions
and to buy or sell the securities in one or more
aggregated trade orders. Your financial advisor will then
allocate the executed trades to each individual client
Account in a manner that is fair and equitable through a
trade rotation or random selection methodology,
including for any partially filled trade orders. When fixed
income securities are aggregated for execution in SPS
Advantage Accounts, you receive the average price for
the aggregated trade order, meaning you may receive a
higher or lower price for the applicable fixed income
securities than may otherwise have been obtained.
Client trade orders submitted for Accounts enrolled in
the optional automatic rebalancing feature do not
include fixed income securities and are not aggregated
for execution.
SPS Advisor Program
For SPS Advisor Accounts, financial advisors generally
aggregate orders of the same security for multiple
clients of that financial advisor in one aggregated trade
order to seek best execution. When securities are
aggregated for execution, each client will receive the
average share price for the aggregated trade order. As
a result, the average share price you receive may be
higher or lower than the price you would have received
had the transaction been executed independently from
the aggregated transaction.
Your financial advisor will then allocate the executed
trades to each individual client Account in a manner
that is fair and equitable through a trade rotation or
random selection methodology, including for any
partially filled trade orders. Adjustments may also be
made to avoid a nominal allocation to client accounts.
A fractional share is defined as less that one full
share of an equity, ETF, preferred security, CEF or UIT.
Fractional shares are not eligible for purchase in your
Account(s) however when you direct Ameriprise
Financial Services to reinvest dividends of securities
that transact in fractional shares into your Account(s),
where allowed, you are also directing us to purchase
additional shares on your behalf in an amount equal
to the amount of the dividend proceeds. This will
generally result in us purchasing a fractional share of
the applicable securities on your behalf. Fractional
shares may be held in your Account(s), if appropriate,
but due to their nature may not be purchased or sold
on an agency basis through AEIS. The liquidation of
fractional shares requires us to purchase a full share
and divide the share while acting as principal for our
inventory account in order to pay you the proceeds of
the value of the fractional share you own. By entering
into the Relationship Agreement, you authorize
Ameriprise Financial Services to effect fractional share
Principal Transactions. AEIS and Ameriprise Financial
mitigate any potential conflicts of interest in effecting
fractional share Principal Transactions by acting in the
best interest of our clients and neither Ameriprise
Financial nor AEIS will receive any selling concession
or other compensation or benefits. You will not be
charged a markup or markdown in connection with
fractional share Principal Transactions.
Aggregated Trade Orders
Financial advisors may choose not to aggregate
transactions in certain circumstances, for example,
client directed trading activity such as contributions,
withdrawals, asset allocation changes, or investment
strategy changes. Adjustments to trade aggregation and
allocations may also be made by your financial advisor
to take into consideration account specific investment
restrictions, undesirable position size, account
portfolio weightings, client tax status, client cash
positions and client preferences.
Manager Directed Programs
Under certain circumstances, when Ameriprise
Financial Services or your financial advisor deems a
transaction to be in the best interests of you and
other clients, and to the extent permitted by
applicable law and regulation, Ameriprise Financial
Services will instruct AEIS to aggregate multiple client
orders to obtain what Ameriprise Financial Services
believes will be the most favorable price and/or lower
execution costs at the time of execution, as further
described below.
SPS Advantage Program
Discretionary trading in Manager Directed Programs
generally requires aggregation of client trade orders for
the purchase or sale of securities within a Program
and clients receive the average share price for the
trade order, which includes transaction costs when
AEIS executes transactions in your Managed Account.
For fixed income securities in SPS Advantage Accounts,
when you provide your financial advisor with your
consent to take time and price discretion for a given
trading session, your trade order will be combined with
orders for multiple clients of that financial advisor in
order to buy and sell the same securities in an
aggregated trade order for best execution purposes.
Ameriprise Financial Services will instruct AEIS to
aggregate the trade orders for the applicable securities
In connection the Manager Directed Programs, you will
grant discretionary trading authority to place trades for
securities bought or sold for your Account, or brokerage
discretion, to an Investment Manager (including the
Signature Wealth Investment Manager or an Envestnet
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Manager, for applicable Accounts) or to Ameriprise
Financial Services under the terms of your Relationship
Agreement. In such cases, the Investment Manager or
Ameriprise Financial Services is subject to an
obligation to seek best execution, which is a duty to
place trades with the broker-dealer or stock exchange
(collectively referred to herein as the “Executing
Party”) that the manager reasonably believes is
capable of providing the best qualitative execution of
client trade orders under the circumstances considering
all relevant factors, such as execution capabilities,
efficiency and responsiveness of the Executing Party,
transaction costs for the trade, familiarity with the
type of security to be traded, the value of any research
or other services provided by the Executing Party and
other relevant factors.
The Asset-based Fee associated with each Account
covers transaction costs when trades are executed by
the Ameriprise Financial Services on an agency basis
through AEIS; therefore, it is common for participating
Investment Managers to direct transactions for your
Account to Ameriprise Financial Services for execution
in this manner.
Ameriprise Financial Services does not restrict an
Investment Manager’s ability to trade away in SMA
strategies for your Account, as the Investment Manager
has brokerage discretion over its client trade orders
and must meet its best execution obligations with
respect to transactions placed on behalf of your
Account. This may cause certain Investment Managers
to direct most, if not all, of their trades to an Executing
Party other than AEIS. Ameriprise Financial Services is
not a party to step-out trades, does not participate in
Executing Party selection for step-out trades and is not
in a position to negotiate the price or transaction
related cost(s) with the Executing Party selected by the
Investment Manager in these situations. Ameriprise
Financial Services has procedures in place to monitor
the services, including trading practices and
placement of client trade orders, provided by
Investment Managers. Ameriprise Financial Services
requires that Investment Managers place client trade
orders in accordance with the Investment Manager’s
best execution and fair trading policies and procedures
as well as any trade aggregation or trade allocation
policies and procedures utilized by the Investment
Manager with respect to your Account.
For Signature Wealth, Active Portfolios® investments,
Select Strategist UMAs and Model Providers in the
Select Separate Program and Envestnet Managers
that have entered into a Model Provider sub-
management agreement with Envestnet, Ameriprise
Financial Services will execute brokerage transactions
for your Account on an agency basis through our
clearing agent, AEIS.
In determining whether to place client trade orders with
AEIS or another Executing Party an Investment Manager
may consider not only the factors listed above but also
the fact that transaction costs related to trades
effected by Ameriprise Financial Services through AEIS
are included in the Asset-based Fee. The Investment
Manager may manage institutional or other client
accounts that are not a part of Ameriprise Financial
Services’ program. In the event the Investment
Manager purchases or sells a security for all of its
client accounts using a particular strategy offered by
the Investment Manager, the Investment Manager may
determine that it will receive more favorable execution,
including better pricing and enhanced investment
opportunities, if it aggregates all such client
transactions into a block trade that is executed
through one Executing Party.
However, for Select Separate Account, Vista Separate
Account and Investor Unified Account the Investment
Manager or Envestnet Manager, as applicable, that
you select has discretionary trading authority, or
brokerage discretion, and may allocate a purchase or
sale transaction for the Account to an Executing Party
other than AEIS, provided the allocation is consistent
with the manager’s obligation to seek best execution
on the particular transaction.
Alternatively, the Investment Manager may utilize a
trade rotation process where one group of its client
accounts may have a transaction executed before or
after another group of the Investment Manager’s client
accounts.
When an Investment Manager directs transactions for
execution with or through Executing Parties other than
AEIS, these trades are referred to as “step-out trades”
and the practice is referred to as “trading away.” Any
additional trading costs (“Third Party Execution Fees”)
incurred will be passed along to you, are included in
the purchase or sale price of the transacted security
and are in addition to the Asset-based Fee. Any Third
Party Execution Fees incurred may impact and reduce
the investment performance of your Account. However,
an Investment Manager’s election to place step-out
trades may allow the Investment Manager to execute
client trade orders at a better purchase or sale price
for the transacted security than would otherwise be
obtained through AEIS and any such price
improvement may contribute to the investment
performance of your Account.
The Investment Manager’s trade rotation practices
may result in transactions placed on behalf of your
Account receiving a more or less favorable net price for
the transaction as compared to the Investment
Manager’s other client accounts. Before selecting an
Investment Manager for your Account, you should
carefully review all material related to the Investment
Manager and the SMA strategy you select, including
information in the Investment Manager’s disclosure
document (Part 2A of Form ADV) regarding the
Investment Manager’s best execution, trade
aggregation and trade allocation practices, if any, as
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about the brokerage business of Ameriprise Financial
Services and its affiliates.
Investment and market risk
well as whether the Investment Manager may select
Executing Parties that provide the Investment Manager
credit toward the acquisition of research or other
transaction related products and services.
You should understand that:
•
All investments involve risk of loss and you should
be prepared to bear such a loss (the amount of
which may vary significantly),
•
Investment performance in any products
referenced in this Brochure can never be predicted
or guaranteed,
•
The market value of a Managed Account will
fluctuate due to market conditions and other
factors such as liquidity and volatility,
•
When an Investment Manager places a step-out trade,
the transaction is generally traded from broker to broker
and may be executed without any Third Party Execution
Fees. However, for many step-out trades, the
Executing Party will assess a commission or
transaction cost. These costs may be in excess of
what other Executing Parties may have charged,
including AEIS. Investment Managers that specialize in
certain SMA strategies, such as those investing in
fixed income, preferred, convertible or small-cap
securities, will be more likely to place step-out trades
due to factors the Investment Manager considers
relevant in meeting its best execution obligations.
There is no guarantee that a mutual fund or
Managed Account will meet its objective,
•
Past performance does not predict future
performance with respect to any Managed Account
described in this Disclosure Brochure,
•
All trading in your Account will be at your risk.
The risks of investing in the Programs include but are
not limited to the following:
• Market Risk. Market risk refers to the possibility
that the market values of securities or other
investments will fall, sometimes rapidly or
unpredictably, or fail to rise, because of a variety of
actual or perceived factors affecting issuer,
industry or sector in which it operates or the
market as a whole.
•
Interest Rate Risk. The interest rate risk is the
risk that investment value is sensitive to changes
in interest rates. In general, a rise in interest
rates may result in a price decline of fixed-income
instruments. This risk may be heightened for longer
maturity and duration instruments.
•
Investment Managers for fixed income SMA strategies
will generally step-out all of their client trades. For other
types of SMA strategies, some Investment Managers
step-out most, if not all, of their client trades.
Additionally, due to operational and other
considerations specific to the Envestnet platform,
Envestnet Managers may be more likely to place step-
out trades for Accounts than Investment Managers for
Select Separate Accounts. SMA strategies of
Investment Managers that elect to place step-out
trades may, in certain circumstances, be more costly to
clients than SMA strategies of Investment Managers
that elect to trade exclusively or primarily through AEIS.
As discussed above, the Investment Manager’s
decision to place step-out trades may reduce or may
contribute to the investment performance of your
Account. Please ask your financial advisor for more
information about the trading practices of each
Investment Manager, including the average Third Party
Execution Fees for step-out trades placed by the
Investment Manager, and consider the impact of those
costs before selecting an Investment Strategy for your
Select Separate Account or your Managed Account
offered with Envestnet.
Inflation Risk. Inflation risk is the uncertainty over
the future value of an investment due to inflation.
Investments may not keep pace with inflation,
which may result in losses.
• Credit Risk. Credit risk is the risk that the issuer,
Ameriprise Financial Services does not receive research
products or services in exchange for commissions
generated by transactions in client Accounts, also
known as “soft dollars” or client commission
practices.
guarantor or borrower becomes unable or
unwilling, or is perceived to be unable or unwilling,
to honor its financial obligations or otherwise
defaults.
• Reinvestment Risk. This is the risk of having to
reinvest future proceeds from investments,
whether scheduled or unscheduled, at potentially
lower prevailing rates.
•
Ameriprise Financial Services receives and distributes
research authored by its affiliate AEIS; however, this
research is not provided in exchange for any type of
compensation to AEIS. Nor do we or our affiliates
receive client referrals from broker- dealers or third
parties that are considered in selecting or
recommending broker- dealers.
See the “Broker-dealer” subsection in the “Other
Financial Industry Activities and Affiliations” section
of this Disclosure Brochure for more information
Liquidity Risk. Liquidity risk is the risk associated
with any event, circumstance, or characteristic of
an investment or market that negatively impacts
the ability to sell, or realize the proceeds from the
sale of, an investment at a desirable time or
price.
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undiversified or concentrated investments. When
assets are invested in a small number of issuers,
specific asset type or overly exposed to particular
sectors, industries or geographic regions that may
create more vulnerability to unfavorable
developments in these issuers, asset type,
sectors, industries or geographic regions and
greater risk of loss than those that are invested
more broadly.
Foreign Investments and Currency Risk.
Investments in or exposure to foreign investments
involve certain risks not associated with US
investments. Foreign investments are subject to
the risks including, but not limited to, political,
economic, market, regulatory and others within a
particular country or region, as well as currency
fluctuations and less stringent financial and
accounting standards. Risks are enhanced for
emerging market.
•
• Margin Risk. Margin borrowing has specific risks
outlined in the Margin Risk Disclosure document,
review that document for more information.
Tax Risk. This is the risk that the tax treatment
of certain investments and of the income and gain
therefrom is uncertain and can vary over time.
•
Legal and Regulatory Risk. This is the risk that
new or revised laws or regulations may adversely
affect investments and programs.
• Pledging Assets Risk. Pledging assets to secure
loan involves additional risks, please read more in
the Pledging Assets Section of Disclosure
Brochure.
•
• Operational Risk. Operational risks can include
risks of loss arising from operational failures
including but not limited to failures in internal
processes, people, or systems, or from external
events, including those resulting from the
mistakes of third parties.
Leverage Risk. Leverage occurs when assets
available for investment are increased by using
borrowings, short sales, derivatives, or similar
instruments or techniques. The use of leverage
allows for investment exposure in excess of net
assets, thereby magnifying volatility of returns and
risk of loss.
• Business Disruption Risk. This is the risk of
business disruption of varying severity and scope
occurring. The types of disruption may include, but
not be limited to, firm-only disruption, disruption
that affects a single building, a disruption that
affects the entire city or business district, and
disruption that affects the entire region. Please
read more in Ameriprise Financials’ Business
Continuity Plan Disclosure and Ameriprise
Financial Client Relationship Guide.
The risks described above should not be considered to
be an exhaustive list of all the risks which clients
should consider. For further information about various
risks, please refer to the applicable prospectus or
other investment product offering documents, as well
as the Advisory Service Provider’s disclosure document
(Part 2A of Form ADV) and the Strategy Fact Sheet, the
Ameriprise Financial Client Relationship Guide, and
any applicable risk acknowledgement forms.
• Cybersecurity Risk. With the use of technologies
such as internet to conduct business, businesses
are susceptible to cybersecurity breaches, please
read more at https://www.ameriprise.com/
privacy-security-fraud.
•
Some strategies may be high-risk strategies and
usually have the potential for substantial returns;
however, there are correspondingly significant risks
involved in the strategies. Such strategies are not
intended for all investors. Clients who choose to follow
high-risk strategies should know that there is the
possibility of significant losses up to and including the
possibility of the loss of all assets placed in the
strategies. Clients investing in high-risk strategies
should be prepared to bear this loss. It is strongly
recommended that you diversify your investments and
do not place all of your investments in high-risk
investment strategies.
Technology Risk. Businesses must rely in part on
digital and network technologies to conduct
business, provide services and maintain business
operations. These technology systems may fail to
operate properly or become disabled as a result of
events or circumstances wholly or partly beyond
control. Technology failures, whether deliberate or
not, could have a material adverse effect and
could result in, among other things, financial loss,
reputational damage, regulatory penalties or the
inability to conduct business.
• Business Risk. This risk is associated with a
particular industry or a particular company within
an industry.
• Management Risk. The risk refers to the risk of
the situation in which the company and
shareholders would have been better off without
the choices made by management.
Any firm, whether Ameriprise Financial Services and its
affiliates or a non-affiliated Advisory Service Provider,
that has discretionary authority over client assets may
be limited in its investment activities due to ownership
restrictions imposed by an issuer (i.e., a legal entity
that sells common stock shares to the general public)
or a regulatory agency. These ownership restrictions
are based upon the level of beneficial ownership in a
security. For purposes of determining whether a
particular ownership limit has been reached, a firm may
be required to aggregate holdings across an entire
• Concentration Risk. This risk refers to
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group of affiliated companies, meaning that all shares
held on a discretionary basis for the account of the
firm and its affiliates or for the benefit of their
respective clients are taken into account for purposes
of determining the maximum amount that may be held
under the ownership restrictions.
Signature Wealth Program. The source of the
information provided is Ameriprise Financial Services
and is specific to the administration and operational
support of the Signature Wealth Program. In addition,
Ameriprise Financial Services will make available
certain Signature Wealth Model Provider information to
all Signature Wealth Model Providers. Except for the
extent such information is ultimately provided by
Ameriprise Financial Services, the information and
data provided by the third-party organizations is
believed to be accurate, Ameriprise Financial Services
and its financial advisors do not independently verify
third party information.
In addition, for mutual funds, mutual fund analysts
may also use the following sources of information:
•
Ameriprise Financial Services and its affiliates,
including CMIA, are subject to the limitations
referenced above. As a result, you may be limited or
prevented from acquiring securities of an issuer that
Ameriprise Financial Services, CMIA or your financial
advisor may otherwise prefer to purchase in your
account if Ameriprise Financial Services or your
financial advisor has discretionary authority. These
limitations apply to certain Active Portfolios®
investments, Select ETF Portfolios and SPS Advisor
Accounts.
conferences with mutual fund advisors;
• mutual fund rating and performance services;
•
•
•
•
asset allocation tools;
training and marketing materials;
prospectuses and annual reports for the
investment;
product materials (some of which are created by
Ameriprise Financial Services or affiliates); and
• market commentary (some of which may be
provided by Ameriprise Financial Services’
affiliates).
It is possible that these ownership limitations could
cause performance dispersion among Accounts of
clients who have chosen the same investment
strategy. For example, if purchases in an issuer are
restricted due to ownership limits, Ameriprise
Financial Services or a financial advisor would not be
able to purchase that security for client accounts even
though an Advisory Service Provider may hold that
security in its investment strategy or model portfolio,
as applicable, and recommend it for purchase.
Similarly, certain Accounts may hold fewer shares of a
certain security than other Accounts following the
same investment strategy depending on when
purchases of that security were restricted.
In addition, purchases of certain securities may be
restricted from purchase by client Accounts of
Ameriprise Financial Services and its affiliates for risk
management reasons.
Your financial advisor may utilize research produced by
Ameriprise Financial Services or its affiliates, such as
material prepared by the IRG, or from third party
research providers that have been approved by
Ameriprise Financial Services when providing
investment advice within a Managed Account. Our
affiliates may have views and opinions, or may make
research available, that differs from that of the IRG or
your financial advisor.
Sources of information
Although the information and data provided by third
party organizations is believed to be accurate,
Ameriprise Financial Services and its financial advisors
do not independently verify third party information.
In general, Discretionary Managers conduct securities
analysis using the services of research analysts.
Among the various sources of information utilized by
these research analysts and other investment
management personnel may include:
•
information prepared by companies;
Neither Ameriprise Financial Services nor its financial
advisors guarantee the accuracy, completeness or
timeliness of any such information nor do they imply any
warranty of any kind regarding the information provided.
• meetings with outside analysts;
•
informational interviews at corporations;
•
corporate rating services;
Third party research provider materials not approved for
use with clients
•
•
•
financial and industry trade publications;
research materials prepared by a wide variety of
financial services sources; and
economic reports and government services.
In the Signature Wealth Program, the Signature Wealth
Model Providers will utilize Sources of Information
made available to them from Ameriprise Financial
Services to assist them in the support of the
From time to time, financial advisors may access
research, models, investment tools or other material
from third party research providers that are not
approved for use with clients rather are for the
purposes of the financial advisor’s general education,
staying current on industry trends or developing
potential investment ideas. Financial advisors may
provide clients with general market commentary or non-
security information once the individual pieces have
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been approved for use by Ameriprise Financial
Services.
Death of a Managed Account holder
For Signature Wealth Accounts, when Ameriprise
Financial Services receives notice that the owner of an
individual Account has died, Ameriprise Financial
Services will freeze the Signature Wealth Account(s),
prorate the Asset-based Fee based on the period of
time during the billing period the Account was open and
rebate any unused portion of the Asset- based Fee, and
will then close the Signature Wealth Account and
transfer the Account, and transfer the positions in-kind
to a restricted SPS Advantage Account and await
instructions from the executor or designated
administrator of the deceased’s estate. If the
beneficiary wants to establish a new Signature Wealth
Account, Ameriprise Financial Services must receive the
necessary Account opening documents, including a
newly executed Relationship Agreement and related
documentation including a new Signature Wealth
Proposal.
as you selling or redeeming securities for the purpose
of establishing a Managed Account or your Discretionary
Manager exercising investment discretion within your
discretionary Managed Account to sell all or a portion
of the securities. There may be other taxable income,
for example, dividends or interest. Mutual funds and
ETFs may make capital gain distributions of net long-
term gains in the fund. Purchasing fund shares shortly
before a dividend, also known as “buying a dividend,”
may raise tax costs as you will effectively receive part
of your dividend price back as the distribution, resulting
in inefficient tax consequences. Unless you are a tax-
exempt investor or holding fund shares through a tax-
advantaged account (such as a 401(k) plan or IRA),
you should consider avoiding buying fund shares
shortly before the Fund makes a distribution. For IRAs
and other tax-qualified retirement accounts, transactions
that occur within the account generally do not generate
taxable income although the purchase, sale or holding
of certain investments such as master limited
partnerships can. See “Your Guide to IRAs” (available
on Ameriprise.com or from your financial advisor) for
possible tax consequence of IRA distributions.
For all other Programs, when the Ameriprise Financial
Services receives notice that the account holder of an
individual Account has died, Ameriprise Financial
Services will freeze the Account(s), prorate the Asset-
based Fee based on the period of time during the
billing period the Account was open and rebate any
unused portion of the Asset- based Fee, and will await
instructions from the executor or designated
administrator of the deceased’s estate.
Ameriprise Financial Services is not responsible for
taking any action with respect to such Accounts prior to
its receipt of appropriate instructions, which means
that Ameriprise Financial Services will not take action
in response to market fluctuations or other factors that
may adversely impact the market value of any Account.
You should also be aware that you may need to make
estimated tax payments periodically during the year
due to income generated in the non-qualified account,
including: interest, dividends, and net capital gains
from securities sales. There is also the potential for
losses to be disallowed under the “wash sale” rules. A
wash sale typically occurs when you sell or trade a
stock or security at a loss, and within 30 days before
or after the sale, you: (i) buy substantially identical
stock or securities, (ii) acquire substantially identical
stock or securities in a fully taxable exchange, or (iii)
acquire a contract or option to buy substantially
identical stock or securities. The wash sale rules also
apply to sales in a non-qualified Managed Account and
the purchase is in a qualified Managed Account.
Gain/loss information may be available on your
account statements and/or by accessing your account
through ameriprise.com. Wash sales may not always
be reported as such in your Account statement, as
reporting is required only if the exchange is for the
exact same security. You should work with your tax
advisor to determine the appropriate tax treatment.
Upon receipt of appropriate instructions, an Account
will be created to hold each beneficiary’s portion. If
the beneficiary wants to maintain an active Account,
Ameriprise Financial Services must receive the
necessary Account opening documents, including a
newly executed Relationship Agreement and related
documentation.
In the event that Ameriprise Financial Services receives
notice that an account holder of an Account held in
some form of joint ownership has died, additional
conditions will apply to continue the enrollment and any
related management of the Account.
Tax consequences
For certain non-covered securities, you are encouraged
to provide your Ameriprise financial advisor with the
correct cost basis information for any assets that are
transferred into your Account. Please contact your
financial advisor to determine whether you hold any
non-covered securities. You should discuss with your
financial advisor whether you want to initiate any tax-
related transactions, such as tax loss harvesting.
There may be tax consequences associated with
transactions, including rebalancing, in your non-
qualified Managed Account, such as capital gains or
losses. These transactions are generally reflected on
your account statements and include activities such
Payment of an Asset-based Fee may produce accounting,
bookkeeping and/or income tax results that are different
from those resulting from the payment of securities
transaction-based commissions or other charges on a
transaction-by transaction basis. The tax treatment of the
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fee may differ if some, or all of the investment is in tax-
exempt municipal bonds or bond funds.
broker or dealer for the purposes of effecting Managed
Account transactions on margin. Retirement account
clients are also precluded from pledging assets held in
a Managed Account. For additional information
regarding special considerations that may apply to
retirement accounts, please refer to the Relationship
Agreement.
We will provide you with certain legally required tax
documents in connection with your Account. You may
also receive other tax related information from time to
time. You should understand that neither Ameriprise
Financial Services, your financial advisor nor any
Discretionary Manager provides tax advice. Clients
seeking tax advice are urged to seek the advice of a
professional tax advisor. You will be responsible for
any tax liabilities associated with your Account. We
may be legally required to withhold US tax from certain
payments, for example, if you fail to provide a certified
taxpayer identification number. Certain investment
income, such as dividends on foreign equities, may
incur foreign withholding taxes that may or may not be
recoverable.
Special considerations for retirement accounts
Covered family members of Ameriprise financial
advisors are able to purchase investment products in
their Ameriprise brokerage retirement accounts at a
lower commission rate and receive a rebate of the
applicable 12b-1 fees, as well as a waiver of any
transaction charges paid by your financial advisor.
Ameriprise financial advisors who provide advisory
services to covered family members will not receive
any portion of the Advisory Fees paid on these
Managed Account retirement accounts, unless the
Asset-based Fee is paid from a nonqualified account
via an alternative fee billing arrangement. Please
contact your financial advisor if you have questions as
to whether you’re a covered family member of an
Ameriprise financial advisor.
Fees and Compensation
The total cost to you of a Managed Account will include
(1) the Asset-based Fee, which includes any
investment management fees charged by Advisory
Service Providers for SMA strategies; (2) for SPS
Advisor Accounts, the Investments and Infrastructure
Support Fee; (3) Investment Costs; and (4) Additional
Fees and Expenses which are any additional
transaction related fees that may be incurred in
connection with your Account based on the nature of
your investments. Any fees you pay reduce the overall
value of and net performance of your Account.
Fee Information for Managed Account Programs
The Asset-based Fee is comprised of the total of (1) a
negotiable Advisory Fee of up to a maximum annual rate
of 2.0%; (2) a Platform Fee rate that varies by
Program; and (3) any applicable Manager Fee.
The Advisory Fee and the Platform Fee applies to each
Managed Account Program and the Manager Fee
applies to the Select Separate Account Program, Vista
Separate Account Program, Investor Unified Account
Program, and the Access Account Program. Effective
November 2025, the Manager Fee will also apply to
SMA investment portfolios within the Signature Wealth
Program.
Your financial advisor may discuss, present or offer
ideas for you to consider related to the allocation of
retirement assets among one or more Managed
Accounts. Such communications are offered as
education, marketing and examples of the potential
uses of these Managed Accounts for purposes of
discussion and for your independent consideration,
and should not be viewed, construed or relied upon, as
investment or fiduciary recommendations or advice
under ERISA or Section 4975 of the Internal Revenue
Code of 1986, as amended (the "Internal Revenue
Code"). Additionally, if in connection with discussing,
presenting or offering particular Managed Accounts to
you, we provide you with a sample or proposed asset
allocation, including one that identifies specific
securities or other investments, such asset allocation
is merely an example of, or proposal for, the fiduciary
advice and recommendations that may potentially be
made available through the Managed Account once
you decide to enroll in the Managed Account and
should not be relied upon as investment or fiduciary
advice or a recommendation under ERISA or the
Internal Revenue Code. We are not acting as a
fiduciary under ERISA or the Internal Revenue Code
when you decide to engage us for a new service,
including with respect to your decision, or the decision
of a plan participant, to roll over assets to an
Ameriprise IRA. Similarly, we are not acting as a
fiduciary under ERISA or the Internal Revenue Code
when you decide to move assets from one type of
account held at Ameriprise Financial Services to
another type of account (e.g., moving assets from an
Ameriprise brokerage account to a Managed Account).
Ameriprise Financial Services and its financial
advisors may be subject to limitations with respect to
the revenue they receive in connection with Accounts
of retirement or other tax-favored savings plans.
In addition to your Asset-based Fee, for SPS Advisor
Accounts, Ameriprise Financial Services assesses a
quarterly asset-based Investments and Infrastructure
Support Fee of 0.03% of the total advisory assets in
your Account. Our affiliate AEIS credits to clients all
sub- transfer agency fees and networking fees AEIS
receives for SPS Advisor Accounts from mutual fund
firms. This Investments and Infrastructure Support
Retirement account clients are not permitted to open
or maintain a margin account with AEIS or any other
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Credit may be more or less than the Investments and
Infrastructure Support Fee.
Signature
Wealth
Program.
Annual Fee
Rate
Fee
Component
Applicable
Program(s)
2.0%
Maximum
Advisory Fee
All Managed
Accounts
Programs
0.17%
Platform Fee
SPS Advisor
Program
Select
Separate
Account, Vista
Separate
Account,
Investor Unified
Account, and
Access Account
Programs
Investments
and
Infrastructure
Support Fee
and
Investments
and
Infrastructure
Support
Credit
0.03% AEIS
credits to
clients all sub-
transfer agency
fees and
networking fees
it receives for
SPS Advisor
fund firms. fees
and networking
fees it receives
for SPS Advisor
Accounts from
mutual fund
firms.
SPS Advisor,
Signature
Wealth and
Active
Portfolios
Programs
Ranges from
0.02% - 0.05%
based on
advisory
household
assets under
management
(“AUM”).*
* Asset tier ranges and rates are set forth
in Section 9 of the Relationship Agreement.
0.02%
SPS Advantage
Program
Based on the Program you select, the components of
your Asset-based Fee will vary. The fee components
will be displayed to you when open a new Managed
Account or make changes to an existing Managed
Account that result in a change to one or more
components of your Asset-based Fee. You may also
request current fee rates from your financial advisor.
Each possible component that may apply to you is
further described below.
Manager Fee
Generally
ranges
from
0.10% to
0.80%
• Advisory Fee. The Advisory Fee rate is an ongoing
asset-based fee negotiated between you and your
financial advisor. It is part of the overall Asset-
based Fee calculated for you on a monthly basis.
The Advisory Fee is based in part on the total
value of the assets in your Managed Account(s) at
Ameriprise Financial Services (“Advisory Tiers”).
There are minimum Advisory fee rates that vary
based on this total value. The Advisory Fee covers
services provided by your financial advisor for your
Account such as asset allocation, portfolio
construction, creation of model portfolios,
investment recommendations and selection
including applicable investment product due
diligence, execution of transactions through our
affiliated clearing agent, AEIS, custody of
securities, and tax and account reporting including
trade confirmations and client statements and
services provided by your financial advisor for your
account. The Advisory Fee is shared with your
financial advisor.
o Ameriprise Financial Planning Service Fee.
If you choose to pay for your Ameriprise Financial
Select
Separate
Account,
Vista
Separate
Account,
Investor
Unified
Account,
and Access
Account
Programs.
Effective
November
2025, the
Manager
Fee will
also apply
to SMA
investment
portfolios
within the
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and expert support, platform management (e.g.
ongoing product development and
administration) and additional operational and
support related functions.
• Manager Fee. The Manager Fee represents
Planning Service (“AFPS”) through the consolidated
advisory fee service a portion of your Asset-based
Fee is allocated to cover the financial planning
services you receive (“AFPS Fee”). The AFPS Fee
rate is negotiated with your financial advisor,
however the sum of the Advisory Fee and the AFPS
Fee cannot exceed 2%.
The level of the Advisory Fee you negotiate with your
financial advisor will depend upon a number of factors
including:
•
investment management fees charged by Advisory
Service Providers for a specific SMA investment
strategy. The Manager Fee rate is variable by
Advisory Service Provider and specific investment
strategy and is charged to you as a component of
your Asset-based Fee. Manager Fee rates are
subject to change.
•
•
total assets in your Account
the service level of your Account
type of strategy employed
Currently, the investment model portfolios available in
Signature Wealth do not have a Manager Fee. Effective
November 2025, the Manager Fee will also apply to
SMA investment portfolios within Signature Wealth.
Signature Wealth Model Providers generally earn
compensation through management fees, or
Investment Costs, associated with proprietary mutual
funds and ETFs used in the investment models
recommended.
Because the Advisory Fee component of the Asset-
based Fee is negotiable, client Asset-based Fees may
vary. Accordingly, you may pay a higher or lower Asset-
based Fee than a similarly situated client due to
factors such as account value, types of investment
products, investment strategy, trading activity and the
range of services received. For example, you may pay
more or less than another client invested in the same
particular investment strategy with a higher or lower
account value than your Account. This means you may
pay more than a similarly- situated client with a lower
account balance who is receiving the same services.
• Platform Fee. The Platform Fee rate is part of the
overall Asset-based Fee calculated for you on a
monthly basis. For Programs that charge a Platform
Fee rate within a range, the effective Platform Fee
is based on the advisory household AUM.
The Asset-based Fees for Programs that offer SMA
strategies range higher than Programs that do not offer
SMA strategies in order to cover the fees paid to
Advisory Service Provider(s) for services provided to
your Account. As of the date of this Brochure, the fee
rates for SMA strategies generally range from 0.10% to
0.80% per annum of the market value of the assets
invested in each SMA strategy. More information
regarding the investment management fees charged by
a particular Advisory Service Provider for its SMA
strategies is contained in its disclosure document (Part
2A of Form ADV).
For Select Strategist UMA Accounts and Investor
Unified Accounts, each SMA held within your Account
charges a different Manager Fee rate. The Manager
Fee rate for these Accounts is based on the allocation
to each underlying SMA (the “Blended Fee Rate”). The
Blended Fee Rate is calculated using the full billable
value of the Account, while applying a 0% Manager Fee
rate to non-separately managed account assets (e.g.
mutual funds, ETFs, uninvested cash, and securities
not yet traded to match the SMA positions) and the
applicable Manager Fee rate as allocated to the SMA
assets.
o For discretionary programs, e.g., SPS Advisor,
Signature Wealth, Active Portfolios, Select
Separate Account, Vista Separate Account,
Investor Unified Account, and Access Account
Programs, the Platform Fee covers additional
costs associated with these Programs for
services provided by Ameriprise Financial
Services such as advisory service provider due
diligence and oversight, investment selection
including initial and ongoing investment strategy
due diligence (Manager Directed Programs
only), investment product due diligence, overlay
management, additional trading costs,
enhanced proposal and trading tools (as
applicable by Program), reporting (e.g. manager
and portfolio reports), advisory training and
expert support, platform management (e.g.
ongoing product development and
administration) and additional operational and
support related functions.
o For non-discretionary programs, e.g., SPS
For Select Strategist UMA Accounts, the initial Blended
Fee Rate will be calculated based on the percentage of
the Account targeted to each SMA on the date your
Account is accepted. Thereafter, the Blended Fee Rate
will be calculated on the net asset value of the actual
allocation within each SMA on the last business day of
each month. Investor Unified Accounts calculate the
Blended Fee Rate using the net asset value of the
allocation within each SMA.
Advantage, the Platform Fee covers additional
costs associated with non-discretionary
program services provided by Ameriprise
Financial Services such as advisory training
Because each SMA may be subject to different fees,
your Blended Fee Rate will change depending on a
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variety of factors, including the value of the assets in
each sub- account, market movements, your
contributions and withdrawals, any changes to your
allocation or the selection of a new SMA strategy. As a
result, the Blended Fee Rate may be more or less than
the Blended Fee Rate originally shown in the
confirmation of your new Account.
Investments and Infrastructure Fee for SPS Advisor
Accounts.
the same rate for each SPS Advisor Account
regardless of how many mutual fund positions, if any,
are held in the Account. Ameriprise Financial Services
intends to fund, in whole or in part, the Investments
and Infrastructure Support Credit from sub-transfer
agency fees and networking fees its affiliate collects
from mutual fund companies for the mutual fund
accounting, recordkeeping, tax reporting and other
shareholder services related to the mutual funds held
in all SPS Advisor Accounts. As a result, the
Investments and Infrastructure Support Credit will
generally offset the cost of the Investments and
Infrastructure Support Fee. However, changing
circumstances, such as a shift at the Program level
away from investments in mutual funds into individual
securities, ETFs or other investment products, could
cause the credit to be less than the Investments and
Infrastructure Support Fee and may impact the costs
associated with your SPS Advisor Account. The
Investments and Infrastructure Support Credit may
also be more than the Investments and Infrastructure
Support Fee.
For SPS Advisor Accounts, Ameriprise Financial
Services assesses an annual asset-based
Investments and Infrastructure Support Fee of 0.03%
of the total advisory assets in your Account. The
Investments and Infrastructure Support Fee is
assessed quarterly and calculated based on the
closing market value of your Account as of the last
business day of the calendar quarter. If you do not
have an SPS Advisor Account balance as of the last
business day of the calendar quarter, you will not be
assessed the Investments and Infrastructure Support
Fee. You will be charged an Investments and
Infrastructure Support Fee for the entire calendar
quarter if you have an SPS Advisor Account balance on
the last business day of the calendar quarter (i.e., no
proration). The Investments and Infrastructure Support
Fee is in addition to your Asset-based Fee and helps
support the cost of maintaining and servicing the SPS
Advisor Program.
Each quarterly fee and credit is displayed on your
statement for the following month. For example,
December’s fee and credit will appear on your January
statement. In circumstances where the Investments
and Infrastructure Support Credit exceeds the
Investments and Infrastructure Support Fees paid from
your nonqualified account, the excess will be
considered miscellaneous income for tax reporting
purposes. For Accounts with alternative fee billing
arrangements, the entire Investments and Infrastructure
Support Credit will be considered miscellaneous income if
the originating Account is a non-qualified Account.
Account holders receiving aggregate miscellaneous
income of $600 or more annually will receive an IRS
Form 1099-MISC, Miscellaneous Income, from AEIS.
Account holders receiving miscellaneous income
amounts under $600 annually generally will not
receive an IRS Form 1099- MISC from AEIS, but will be
responsible for reporting the income to the IRS. Holders
of IRAs and qualified retirement plan Accounts will not
experience a taxable event as a result of a rebate and
will instead be taxed only on amounts when they are
distributed from the Account.
Householding of Account Assets and Minimum Asset-
based Fee.
For SPS Advisor Accounts, Ameriprise Financial
Services causes its affiliate, AEIS, to credit to clients
all sub- transfer agency fees and networking fees AEIS
receives from mutual funds firms. This Investments
and Infrastructure Support Credit is calculated on a
proportionate basis based on the revenues earned
over the course of the applicable calendar quarter,
divided by SPS Advisor Account assets as of the
closing market value of each client’s SPS Advisor
Account(s) as of the last business day of the calendar
quarter. Clients who do not have an Account balance
as of the last business day of the calendar quarter will
not be eligible to receive the Investments and
Infrastructure Support Credit. Clients who open an
Account during the calendar quarter will receive a full
credit (i.e., no proration) if they have an SPS Advisor
Account balance on the last business day of the
calendar quarter. The Investments and Infrastructure
Support Credit will be allocated without regard to the
value of mutual fund positions held in any particular
client’s SPS Advisor Account. Although Ameriprise
Financial Services intends to credit these sub-transfer
agency fees and networking fees back to clients, AEIS
reserves the right, in its discretion, to cease to collect
these sub-transfer agency fees and networking fees at
any time and, accordingly, cease crediting client
Accounts.
The Asset-based Fee provides householding benefits
across all Programs and Managed Accounts (“Advisory
Fee Householding”). By default, a primary household
will consist of a client, their spouse or domestic
partner, unmarried children under the age of 21, and
accounts owned by these people, which are displayed
under one Group ID on your client statement. If you
have more than one Group ID, you may be able to link
the Group ID associated with your primary household
group to the Group ID associated with an additional
The Investments and Infrastructure Support Fee and
Investments and Infrastructure Support Credit apply at
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household group with which you have an eligible
affiliation, such as the grantor of an irrevocable trust or
owner of a corporation.
Account is terminated, Ameriprise Financial Services will
prorate the Asset- based Fee based on the period of
time during the billing period the Account was open and
rebate any unused portion of the Asset-based Fee.
Household minimums are assessed across all
Managed Accounts within a household and the
minimum Asset-based Fee for a household is $100.
Households charged the minimum annual Asset-based
Fee amount may exceed the maximum Asset-based
Fee percentage otherwise applicable to your
Account(s). Households with less than a $3,333
balance will be charged an effective Asset-based Fee
in excess of 3%. If your effective Asset- based Fee
exceeds 3%, Managed Accounts may not be the most
cost-effective investment vehicle for you; similar
products and services may be available at a lower
overall fee through another investment program. A pro-
rata portion of this minimum fee is assessed each
billing period.
For SPS Advisor, Signature Wealth and Active Portfolios
Accounts, the initial Platform Fee rate applied to your
Account at new Account set up will be determined by
the anticipated advisory household AUM selected on
your Account opening paperwork. The ongoing Platform
Fee rate will then be adjusted on a monthly basis based
on your actual advisory household AUM. As a result,
your total Asset-based Fee for each SPS Advisor,
Signature Wealth and Active Portfolios Account will
increase and decrease over time within the range
specified in the chart above, based on the market value
of your advisory AUM. Deposits into and withdrawals
from your Managed Accounts will cause your advisory
AUM to increase and decrease. Any such increase or
decrease that changes your applicable advisory
household asset tier will be effective immediately and
charged as of the next applicable billing period.
Changes to Fee Components
Fee components are subject to change in the
circumstances set forth below. Any change to an
underlying fee component will change your total Asset-
based Fee. We will provide you written confirmation any
such changes, with the exceptions of (i) changes to
your Platform Fee rate for SPS Advisor, Signature
Wealth and Active Portfolios Accounts which varies
over time based on your household advisory AUM; and
(ii) changes to your Blended Fee Rate for the Manager
Fee charged to Select Strategist UMA Accounts and
Investor Unified Accounts. You authorize Ameriprise
Financial Services to apply future changes to the fee
components by continuing to accept the Service.
Where eligible, Advisory Fee Householding allows you
to combine Managed Account assets across multiple
household groups, which may help you qualify for a
lower minimum Advisory Fee rate, or, if applicable, to
qualify for the household minimum Asset-based Fee
across all Managed Accounts in the linked
households. Generally, pension and group retirement
plans are not eligible to be linked for Advisory Fee
Householding. Due to the timing of Account
processing, when a new Account is created, funded
and billed on the last business day of the billing
period, such new Account may not be included in your
household assets for that billing period. In addition to
your client statement, you can also find your Group ID
online if you’re registered on the secure site at
ameriprise.com. Contact your financial advisor to
review whether your Group IDs are eligible to be linked
for Advisory Fee Householding benefits. You may also
call 800.862.7919 to review your Group IDs and
householding eligibility.
Billing Methodology
Your Asset-based Fee is deducted directly from your
Account and paid from cash available in from your
Sweep Program unless your Asset-based Fee is paid
via an alternate fee billing arrangement.
The Advisory Fee that you negotiate with your financial
advisor for a specific Account will increase if your total
advisory assets fall below the minimum for your
Advisory Tier and remain as such through any applicable
grace period (a “Passive Advisory Fee Change”). If you
have a Passive Advisory Fee Change, we will provide you
with prior notice that your Advisory Fee rate will be
increased unless you take some action. If you do not
take any action, we will confirm the new Advisory Fee
rate once it is effective. Passive Advisory Fee Changes
do not require your signature. The maximum change is
0.25% and your Advisory Fee will not exceed 2%. If you
are in a consolidated advisory fee service, and the
Passive Advisory Fee Change causes the sum of the
new Advisory Fee rate and the AFPS Fee rate to exceed
2%, your AFPS Fee rate will be reduced until the sum of
the Advisory Fee rate and AFPS Fee rate totals 2%.
The initial Asset-based Fee is based on the market
value of the Account on the opening date, except for
the Platform Fee portion of SPS Advisor, Signature
Wealth and Active Portfolios Accounts which is based
on advisory household AUM, adjusted proportionately to
reflect the number of days remaining in the initial
monthly billing period. Thereafter, billing will be
calculated based on the market value of the assets in
the Account or advisory household AUM, as applicable,
as of the last business day of the preceding monthly
billing period and deducted on the 14th of each month,
or if the 14th is a weekend or holiday, the fee deducts
the following business day. In the event a Managed
When you establish your Relationship, you negotiate the
highest Advisory Fee that you agree could apply to an
Account opened under the Relationship without
obtaining an additional signature (the “Negotiated
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part of a Program reorganization. Any increase or
decrease in the Manager Fee is passed along to you.
For UMA accounts, the Blended Fee Rate will generally
change as the allocation between the underlying SMAs
changes.
Changes to the Manager Fee, including the Blended Fee
Rate, do not require your signature.
Advisory Fee”). If you are engaged in a consolidated
advisory fee service, the Negotiated Advisory Fee
includes your AFPS Fee. You may choose a Negotiated
Advisory Fee rate for each specific Program offered by
Ameriprise Financial Services or you may negotiate
one rate that will apply at the Relationship level and
consistently across all Programs offered. Your
Negotiated Advisory Fee rate(s) may be lower than or up
to 2% but may not exceed 2% for any individual Account
at any time. Your signature is required for any
increase to your Negotiated Advisory Fee rate(s).
Platform Fee rates are subject to change. Platform Fee
rate changes do not require your signature. Platform
Fee rates for SPS Advisor, Signature Wealth and Active
Portfolios Accounts are subject to change within the
current applicable ranges based on your advisory
household AUM, as described above, and can vary over
the course of your Relationship. The Platform Fee rate
or the overall range(s) applicable to your Account(s) may
increase or decrease with notice to you.
The Negotiated Advisory Fee you’ve agreed to may not
be the same as the (i) Advisory Fee, or (ii) sum of the
Advisory Fee and AFPS Fee, if applicable, that you
agree to be applied to and charged on a specific
Account (within the remainder of this section, the
“Assessed Advisory Fee”). When establishing an
Account, you may agree to an Assessed Advisory Fee
up to the applicable Negotiated Advisory Fee without
a signature. Your signature will be required if you
agree to an Assessed Advisory Fee that is higher than
the applicable Negotiated Advisory Fee.
Grandfathered Advisory Fee Rates. If you have received
notice that you have a Grandfathered Advisory Fee
rate, which is an Advisory Fee rate that is lower than
the minimum fee rate allowed for the applicable
Advisory Tier (the “Grandfathered Advisory Fee rate”),
you will retain that fee rate until you re-negotiate the
Advisory Fee rate with your financial advisor, move to
another Program, add the consolidated advisory fee
service to that Account, or when processing certain
ownership changes. Clients with a Grandfathered
Advisory Fee will not be subject to a Passive Advisory
Fee Change. Ask your financial advisor whether you
have a Grandfathered Advisory Fee rate and consider
this rate before re-negotiating your Advisory Fee rate or
moving to another strategy.
For an existing Account, you may renegotiate the
Assessed Advisory Fee with your financial advisor at
any time. Your financial advisor will complete the
appropriate documents reflecting the new Assessed
Advisory Fee. Your signature will be required if the
Assessed Advisory Fee, including an APFS Fee if
applicable, is higher than the applicable Negotiated
Advisory Fee. Your financial advisor or Ameriprise
Financial Services may, without obtaining your
signature:
Allocation of Asset-based Fees
(i) for Accounts that are part of a Relationship:
reduce or increase your Assessed Advisory Fee up
to the Negotiated Advisory Fee; or,
The Asset-based Fee paid in connection with each
Managed Account you establish will be allocated to
Ameriprise Financial Services, your financial advisor
and if applicable, the Advisory Service Providers as
follows.
•
The Advisory Fee compensates Ameriprise
Financial Services. A portion of the Advisory Fee
and, if applicable, the AFPS Fee, is shared with
your financial advisor.
(ii) for all Accounts where the Assessed Advisory Fee
includes an AFPS Fee: reduce, increase, reallocate
or remove the AFPS Fee associated with your
Account providing that the new sum of your
Assessed Advisory Fee does not exceed the higher
of your Account’s current Assessed Advisory Fee or
the applicable Negotiated Advisory Fee, if the
Account is part of a Relationship.
•
The Platform Fee compensates Ameriprise
Financial Services. The Platform Fee is not shared
with your financial advisor. For Signature Wealth
Accounts, a portion of the Platform Fee is shared
with the Signature Wealth Investment Manager.
•
The Assessed Advisory Fee change will become
effective at the start of the next billing period, following
the period in which the request is received and
accepted by Sponsor. For each instance of a
Negotiated Advisory Fee or Assessed Advisory Fee
change, we will send you a confirmation, regardless of
whether your signature was required.
The Manager Fee compensates the Advisory
Service Provider and is not shared with Ameriprise
Financial Services or your financial advisor. As of
the date of this Brochure, Manager Fee rates
generally range from 0.10% to 0.80% per annum
of the market value of the assets invested in each
SMA strategy. More information regarding the
investment management fees charged by a
particular Advisory Service Provider for its SMA
Manager Fee rates are subject to change. The Manager
Fee may change if (i) your Account changes Advisory
Service Providers, (ii) you make changes to your
investment strategy, (iii) one of your current Advisory
Service Providers change their fee, or (iv) your
investment strategy moves to another Program as a
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strategies is contained in its disclosure document
(Part 2A of Form ADV).
•
instances, may earn more than Ameriprise Financial
Services’ portion, however your financial advisor must
make recommendations based on your best interests
and without regard to how much compensation will be
received.
The SPS Advisor Investments and Infrastructure
Support Fee compensates Ameriprise Financial
Services and is not shared with your financial
advisor.
Advisory Service Providers. Important considerations
for the Manager Fee paid to Advisory Service
Provider(s) you select include:
• Manager Fee rates are negotiated separately with
each Advisory Service Provider.
Ameriprise Financial Services. Ameriprise Financial
Services retains the portion of the Advisory Fee not
allocated to your financial advisor. Our portion of the
Advisory Fee may be higher or lower than the portion of
the Advisory Fee allocated to your financial advisor.
•
Financial Advisors. Both franchisee financial
advisors and employee financial advisors receive a
portion of the Advisory Fee and, if applicable, a portion
of the AFPS Fee as compensation for your participation
in a Program.
Participating Advisory Service Providers may
reimburse AEIS and AEIS may subsequently
reimburse financial advisors for the costs arising
from, or make payments to AEIS for participation in,
client meetings or educational and training
meetings held with financial advisors and other
personnel.
In addition to the fees described above, Ameriprise
Financial Services and its affiliates retain the revenues
each receives related to the investment products held
in your Managed Account such as (i) Third Party
Payments; and (ii) any management fees, distribution
fees or compensation earned related to administrative
or transfer agency fees related to affiliated mutual
funds held in your Managed Account that are included
in the Investment Costs paid indirectly by you and are
received by our affiliates, such as CMIA.
Additional Costs Associated with a Managed
Account
Franchisee financial advisors, however, receive a higher
portion, or payout rate. Importantly, financial advisor
compensation does not vary depending upon the
investment(s) recommended to you within a Managed
Account. However, the amount of this compensation
may be more or less than what your financial advisor
would receive if you paid separately for investment
advice, brokerage and other transaction-based
services. Therefore, your financial advisor may have a
financial incentive to recommend a Program over a
transaction- based brokerage account. Ameriprise
Financial Services seeks to address this conflict of
interest through a combination of disclosures and
through our policies, procedures and supervision,
related to the review and determination that a
Managed Account is appropriate for you based on your
financial and risk profile information and investment
objectives (“Client Information”) in accordance with all
applicable regulatory requirements.
The portion of the Advisory Fee allocated to your
financial advisor is impacted by factors including:
•
The level of affiliation that the financial advisor has
with Ameriprise Financial Services;
The underlying fees related to investment products you
purchase within your Managed Account are referred to
as Investment Costs and are more fully described
below. These costs are in addition to the Asset-based
Fee that you pay directly from your Account and may
include Third Party Payments that are compensation to
AEIS, as discussed above. They are paid by you
indirectly as part of the cost of the investment and they
reduce the value of your investment in the product. They
are not a direct fee deducted from your Account.
• Whether the financial advisor was assisted by
another person (which may be a financial advisor or
other individual who makes a referral) in providing
services to you;
•
The total assets his or her clients (or clients within
an advisor team) have invested in Managed
Accounts, as well as the total level of Managed
Account assets within a client’s household; and
•
Investment Costs apply whether the investment product
is sponsored or managed by a third party or an affiliate of
Ameriprise Financial Services, such as Columbia
Management Investment Advisers, LLC (“CMIA”), a
wholly owned subsidiary of Ameriprise Financial, Inc.,
Ameriprise Financial Services’ parent company. When
you invest in investment products managed by CMIA,
CMIA or its affiliates will receive compensation for
managing those investments and for other services they
provide based on the amount you invest, just as they
would if you invested in CMIA investment products
through another service provider.
For employee financial advisors, which Managed
Account Program his or her clients are invested in.
Employee financial advisors receive a greater
portion of the Advisory Fee in the Select Separate
Account, Vista Separate Account, Investor Unified
Account, and Access Account programs.
Depending on these factors, your financial advisor may
retain a larger portion of the Advisory Fee and, in those
Investment Costs received by CMIA are not
compensation to Ameriprise Financial Services,
however, Ameriprise Financial Services, CMIA and their
affiliates receive more revenue, in aggregate, from the
purchase of affiliated mutual funds or investment
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products offered by CMIA or their affiliates than from
the purchase of investment products offered by firms
that are not affiliated with Ameriprise Financial, Inc.
It is your responsibility to understand all fees and
charges prior to making investment decisions. Review
each applicable mutual fund prospectus for details on
all fund fees.
Third Party Payments. A portion of Investment Costs
are paid to AEIS by third parties who manage,
Ameriprise Financial Services or distribute investment
products held in your Managed Account. This
compensation helps fund the cost of providing service,
maintaining accounts and offering an investment
platform for our clients. These payments are generally
funded directly, or indirectly, from Investment Costs, as
more fully discussed above.
In addition to your Asset-based Fee and Investment
Costs, you may pay Third Party Execution Fees
associated with “step-out trades” placed by an
Investment Manager in an investment strategy you select
in Select Separate Account or a Managed Account
offered with Envestnet, as described in the “Brokerage
Practices” section; and you may pay any additional fees
and expenses to the extent incurred in connection with
your Account. You may also pay additional fees and
expenses associated with your specific Sweep Program.
This section discusses each of these costs.
Investment Costs of Mutual Funds. There are
underlying mutual fund expenses charged to all mutual
fund shareholders. Some mutual fund companies and
their service providers pay AEIS a portion of the fees it
receives for underlying mutual fund expenses in the
form of Third Party Payments. Any mutual fund fees or
expenses you pay reduce the overall value of and net
performance of your Account. Important considerations:
•
AEIS will receive the following types of payments from
product companies with respect to the investment
model portfolios and other investment products we
recommend and you select for the investment of your
Managed Account assets. For qualified SPS Advisor
Accounts, inherited IRAs in qualified SPS Advantage
Accounts where a trust has inherited the IRA and
Ameriprise Bank acts as trustee of the trust and eligible
trustee-directed retirement plans in Select Separate
Accounts AEIS either does not collect Third Party
Payments or credits them back to client Accounts.
• Mutual funds – AEIS will receive cost- reimbursement
payments (e.g., reimbursement for marketing
support) from non-affiliated mutual fund firms for
investments you make as a result of our
recommendations.
• Certain other investment products – AEIS will
receive cost-reimbursement payments from third
party investment firms whose products Ameriprise
Financial Services recommends.
These fees and expenses include management
fees, distribution and other expenses. A mutual
fund may also charge shareholder service (“12b-
1”) fees. These fees and expenses could increase
the total cost of your investment in the fund by
1.00% to 2.00% or more. For example, if the Asset-
based Fee for your Account is 1.00%, and the
mutual funds in which you invest have average
fees of 1.50%, the total fees will be 2.50%. As
noted above, all Managed Accounts offer Advisory
Shares that typically do not assess 12b-1 fees as
the primary share class. To the extent that
Ameriprise Financial Services receives 12b-1 fees
from mutual fund companies for applicable mutual
fund classes utilized in any Managed Accounts, it
rebates these fees to clients. Rebates are
generally deposited into the applicable client
Accounts within a week after we receive the 12b-1
shareholder servicing fees.
• Charges imposed by the underlying mutual funds
held in your Managed Account may include short-
term redemption fees and small position fees.
• Ameriprise Financial Services and/or one or more
• Other servicing and account maintenance fees –
AEIS will also receive sub-transfer agency fees or
networking fees with respect to investments you
make in mutual funds except for inherited IRAs in
qualified SPS Advantage Accounts where a trust
has inherited the IRA and Ameriprise Bank acts as
trustee of the trust and eligible trustee-directed
retirement plans in Select Separate Accounts, as
noted above. As further described above, for SPS
Advisor Accounts, Ameriprise Financial Services
will rebate to clients all sub- transfer agency fees
or networking fees and other servicing and account
maintenance fees its affiliate, AEIS, receives from
mutual funds firms.
of its affiliates may serve as the fund’s
distributor, transfer agent, shareholder servicing
agent, custodian and/or investment adviser. In
these situations, Ameriprise Financial Services
and/or its affiliates will receive payments for such
services that may vary depending on the assets
invested in such mutual fund.
• AEIS also receives revenues that exceed the costs of
the cost reimbursement services provided. These
revenues include marketing support and distribution
support payments, and such payments increase the
gross revenues and net earnings of AEIS.
• AEIS is responsible for delivering to clients or their
agent all shareholder materials (e.g. annual
reports and proxies) received from the issuers of
securities. It does this through a vendor. The
• Other mutual funds, such as fund of funds, also
have additional management, advisory and other
internal fees and expenses which are assessed by
the fund directly, and are in addition to the Asset-
based Fee.
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• Other costs or charges imposed by third parties,
including American Depositary Receipts issuance
fees and annual depository fees, voluntary
reorganization fees, odd-lot differentials, transfer
fees exchange fees, and other fees or taxes
required by law.
vendor charges each issuer based on rates
determined by the New York Stock Exchange. AEIS
earns rebates from its vendor based on the
difference between the rate charged to the issuer
and the cost to the vendor to deliver the
shareholder materials. The rebates are generally
higher for customers who consent to utilizing
electronic delivery.
Cost reimbursement services and Third Party Payments
related to your Account are further described in the
“Cost Reimbursement Services and Third Party
Payments” section, including marketing and sales
support payments are received from certain mutual
fund firms that participate in the Full Participation
Program Ameriprise Financial Services offers.
Review the Relationship Agreement and Ameriprise
brokerage materials for a summary of the service fees
that may be charged in connection with your
Account(s). You should also refer to the disclosure
document(s) for a description of the fees and
expenses associated with any product or service that
is made available in connection with the Managed
Account. It is your responsibility to understand all fees,
expenses and other charges prior to investing or
participating in any product or service. All Investment
Costs and additional fees are subject to change.
Contact your financial advisor if you have any
questions about the types of additional fees and
expenses that may be associated with your Account.
Sweep Program and Expenses
Your Managed Account(s) will from time to time receive
and disburse cash. Cash received can be in the form
of deposits you make to your Account, the proceeds
from investments you sell, and the receipt of dividend
and interest payments from investments you own.
Third Party Payments do not include any management
fees, distribution fees or compensation earned related
to administrative, or transfer agency fees related to
affiliated mutual funds held in your Account and
managed by one of our affiliates, such as CMIA.
These fees are included in the Investment Costs paid
indirectly by you and are received by our affiliates but
are not compensation to Ameriprise Financial Services
or AEIS, however they are an economic benefit to
Ameriprise Financial Services and its affiliates as
further discussed in the “Economic benefits of
affiliates’ products and services” section.
Additional Fees and Sources of Compensation.
Under certain circumstances, you may be assessed
transaction related fees or charges depending on the
nature of the investment products held in your Managed
Account. You may also be charged fees for
transactions initiated by you such as costs associated
with pledge loans and interest charges when investing
on margin.
Cash is disbursed from your Account to pay for new
investment products you buy, to cover check writing,
debit card, ACH or bill pay activity, and to pay the
Asset-based Fee and other fees you may incur. Any
portion of your Account balance that is held in cash
will be included in the Asset-based Fee calculation. On
a daily basis, Ameriprise Financial Services will move
all uninvested cash into the Sweep Program applied to
your Account(s). The Sweep Programs may pay interest
or dividends. By authorizing Ameriprise Financial
Services to open a Managed Account, you expressly
authorize Ameriprise Financial Services to move such
cash balances.
Any such fees and charges incurred in connection with
your Account are in addition to the Asset-based Fee
charged to your Account(s). Any additional fees you pay
reduce the overall value of and net performance of your
Account.
Examples of the types of additional fees and charges
that you would pay, to the extent they are incurred in
connection with your Account, include:
• Brokerage commissions resulting from
transactions effected through or with a broker-
dealer other than AEIS;
•
Transaction fees relating to any foreign securities
other than American Depositary Receipts;
•
Regardless of the Sweep Program made available to
you, you can also buy and sell positional money market
mutual funds, brokered certificates of deposit, treasury
bills, and other similar cash-equivalent products to
manage cash in your non-discretionary Managed
Accounts and Ameriprise brokerage accounts, and such
investment products may be available for you to buy
and sell in certain discretionary Managed Accounts.
These options for the investment of cash balances are
generally expected to offer higher returns than the
Sweep Program we make available for your Account.
The entire public offering price, including
underwriting commissions or discounts, on
securities purchased from an underwriter or dealer
involved in a distribution of securities;
Some types of investment products may not be
available to you under the terms of your specific
Account.
•
Fees related to the sale of Initial Public Offerings;
and
More detail regarding Sweep Programs offered by
Ameriprise Financial Services is available in the Other
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earn interest or other revenue on the balance but are
not obligated to pay interest on cash held as a credit
balance in your Account(s).
AIMMA
Important Brokerage Disclosures document and the
Money Settlement Options section of the Ameriprise
Brokerage Client Agreement. For a copy of the Other
Important Brokerage Disclosures or the Ameriprise
Brokerage Client Agreement, visit our website at
ameriprise.com/disclosures or call our service line at
800.862.7919.
The Sweep Programs offered in Managed Accounts
are:
•
Ameriprise Insured Money Market Account
("AIMMA") is the Sweep Program offered for SPS
Advantage Accounts, except for trustee-directed
401(a) Accounts; and for non-qualified Accounts in
the following Advisory Programs: SPS Advisor
Accounts, Signature Wealth Accounts, Active
Portfolios® Accounts, Select Separate Accounts,
Vista Separate Accounts, Investor Unified
Accounts, and Access Accounts.
•
AIMMA is an interest-bearing multi-bank deposit
product made available by Ameriprise Financial and
held in an omnibus account(s) at one or more FDIC
member banks (collectively, the "Program Banks").
Our affiliate, Ameriprise Bank, FSB (“Ameriprise
Bank”) is a Program Bank and participates in AIMMA.
The Program Banks may serve individually as
custodians for all or a portion of the cash balance held
within your Managed Account that are swept to
AIMMA, as described in the Other Important Brokerage
Disclosures document. Multibank deposit products are
FDIC insured up to $250,000 per depositor
($500,000 for joint ownerships) per Program Bank,
including deposits held at Ameriprise Bank. AEIS will
use reasonable efforts to place deposits across
multiple Program Banks to enable clients to receive up
to $2.5 million per depositor ($5 million for joint
ownerships) across all Program Banks combined.
Ameriprise Bank Insured Sweep Account (“ABISA”)
is the Sweep Program offered for SPS Advantage
trustee-directed 401(a) Accounts and qualified
Accounts in the following Advisory Programs: SPS
Advisor Accounts, Signature Wealth, Active
Portfolios® Accounts, Select Separate Accounts,
Vista Separate Accounts, Investor Unified
Accounts, and Access Accounts.
For any amount above the applicable limit that is
deposited in a single Program Bank, including any
other FDIC insured product you may own through that
Program Bank, the amount above the limit will not be
eligible for FDIC deposit insurance. Ameriprise Bank
may restrict AIMMA deposits based on certain account
ownership types. Deposit products are not covered by
the SIPC.
• Either Dreyfus Government Cash Management –
Institutional Shares or the Dreyfus Government
Cash Management – Wealth Shares are the
Sweep Program offered for TSCA/403(b) Managed
Accounts and personal trust services Managed
Accounts opened by Ameriprise Bank as trustee
and certain other non-qualified Managed Accounts
that are ineligible for an insured deposit Sweep
Program. An investment in a money market fund is
not a bank deposit and is not insured or
guaranteed by the FDIC or any other government
agency.
Rates and yields vary across the different Sweep
Programs and maybe be higher or lower depending on
the particular money market fund or interest-bearing
bank deposit product, and on the cash balance you
maintain in your Managed Account.
If your Managed Account uses AIMMA as its Sweep
Program, you agree to accept the proprietary algorithm
applied by IntraFi LLC (“IntraFi”), which determines the
Program Banks into which your deposits are placed.
You also understand and agree that IntraFi will
periodically change the order of the Program Banks to
optimize the amount of FDIC insurance available in the
AIMMA Sweep Program. Under ordinary business
conditions, changes to the Program Bank List will be
published at least five business days prior to the
effective date, and current interest rates for each
interest rate tier will be published three to five
business days prior to their effective date. The
Program Banks are identified on the Program Bank List
and interest rate information is available at
Ameriprise.com/cashrates.
Any cash in your Managed Account(s) that is swept to
AIMMA is aggregated with cash held by other Ameriprise
clients that utilize AIMMA and is held in an omnibus
account at one or more Program Banks. Omnibus
accounts, by virtue of their ability to raise significant
balances for the Program Banks, are generally able to
earn higher interest rates than those you would be able
to earn if you deposited cash individually at a bank. The
Program Banks participating in AIMMA earn income by
lending or investing the deposits they receive and
If you decline the Sweep Program offered for your
Managed Account(s), or if you subsequently revoke
your acceptance, you may at any time direct
Ameriprise Financial Services to (i) hold your Sweep
Program balance as a free credit balance in your
Account(s); (ii) return the proceeds to your Account(s)
for investment in a cash equivalent investment
product; or (iii) have us remit the cash to you. Cash
held as a free credit balance is eligible for coverage by
SIPC, up to $250,000 per capacity as determined by
SIPC. Cash held as a free credit balance is not eligible
for FDIC coverage. For Managed Accounts, we may
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charging a higher interest rate to borrowers, or earning
a higher yield, than the Program Banks pay on the
deposits held through AIMMA. This difference is
known as the "spread." Like the unaffiliated Program
Banks participating in AIMMA, Ameriprise Bank earns
spread revenue when it participates in AIMMA as a
Program Bank.
amount held in that money market mutual fund Sweep
Program. Please refer to the applicable prospectus or
the “Cost Reimbursement Services and Third Party
Payments” sub-section for further specific details
regarding mutual fund marketing and sales support
payments received by AEIS. An investment in a money
market fund is not a bank deposit and is not insured
or guaranteed by the FDIC or any other government
agency.
Affiliate Compensation
AEIS receives and retains compensation from Program
Banks for its services related to AIMMA for the
Managed Account Programs, based on the cash
deposits held at each Program Bank. This
compensation is either negotiated between each
Program Bank and AEIS, or between the Program Bank
and our vendor, IntraFi, and is either a fixed rate or is
based on a benchmark interest rate, such as the
Federal Funds Rate, plus or minus a spread. You can
find up-to-date information on the revenue AEIS
receives from unaffiliated Program Banks participating
in AIMMA at ameriprise.com/products/cash-cards-
lending.
Sweep Programs made available in Managed Accounts
are offered by Ameriprise Financial Services in its
capacity as a broker-dealer, and services are provided
by our affiliate AEIS as part of the overall brokerage
services provided to your Account(s) pursuant to the
“Money Settlement Options” section of the Ameriprise
Brokerage Client Agreement. Your financial advisor
does not recommend the Sweep Program offered to
you for any particular Account(s) and revenues
received by our affiliates related to the Sweep
Programs are not shared with financial advisors.
Ameriprise Bank does not compensate AEIS for its
sweep services provided or for the cash deposits held
at Ameriprise Bank, but reimburses AEIS for its direct
out of pocket expenses related to AIMMA. Your
financial advisor does not receive any of (i) the
compensation paid by the Program Banks; or (ii) the
reimbursements paid by Ameriprise Bank to AEIS.
ABISA
Generally, the combined revenue earned by our
affiliates AEIS and Ameriprise Bank is expected to be
(i) the highest when your Account sweeps cash into
ABISA or AIMMA where Ameriprise Bank is utilized as a
Program Bank; (ii) the second highest when your
Account sweeps cash into AIMMA where unaffiliated
Program Banks are utilized; and (iii) the lowest when
your Account sweeps cash into an eligible money
market mutual fund.
Our affiliates AEIS and Ameriprise Bank use this
revenue to defray the cost of operating our Sweep
Programs and the expense of providing other services
to our clients, as well as for general operating
expenses and to provide net earnings to AEIS and
Ameriprise Bank. In the absence of this revenue
Ameriprise Financial Services would likely charge
higher fees or other charges to clients for the services
AEIS and Ameriprise Bank provide to clients.
Ameriprise Financial Services addresses this conflict
of interest through a combination of disclosures and
policies and procedures regarding Sweep Program
availability and the free-credit balance, as well as
supervision and surveillance of cash balances held in
Managed Accounts.
Sweep Program Balance Requirements
ABISA is an interest-bearing single bank deposit
product made available by Ameriprise Financial
Services. Deposits into ABISA are held in an omnibus
account(s) at Ameriprise Bank, Member FDIC, an
affiliate of Ameriprise Financial. Ameriprise Bank
serves as custodian for the cash balances held within
Managed Accounts that are swept to ABISA, as
described in the Other Important Brokerage
Disclosures. Single bank deposit products are FDIC
insured up to $250,000 per depositor ($500,000 for
joint accounts), per FDIC rules. For any amount above
the applicable limit, the amount above the limit will
not be eligible for FDIC deposit insurance. Deposit
products are not covered by SIPC. If your Managed
Account uses ABISA as its Sweep Program, Ameriprise
Bank earns spread revenue, the difference between
what it pays in interest and what it earns on its
investments. Ameriprise Bank does not compensate
AEIS for its sweep services provided or for the cash
deposits held at Ameriprise Bank, but reimburses
AEIS for its direct out of pocket expenses related to
ABISA. Your financial advisor does not receive any of
(i) the compensation earned by Ameriprise Bank; or (ii)
the reimbursements paid by Ameriprise Bank to AEIS.
Money Market Fund
Managed Account clients are required to maintain
sufficient cash balances in the Sweep Program or as a
free credit balance in your Account(s) to meet the
applicable Asset-based Fee and, if applicable, SPS
Advisor Investments and Infrastructure Support Fee
deductions. If there is not sufficient cash in your
Account(s) Sweep Program to cover these and other
applicable fees, Ameriprise Financial Services reserves
the right to, or may instruct the custodian to, sell
If your Account’s Sweep Program uses a money
market mutual fund, our affiliate AEIS may receive
marketing support payments of up to 0.37% of the
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You also have the option to engage in the
consolidated advisory fee service. The consolidated
advisory fee service is a combined investment advisory
service for which you will receive AFPS and at least
one Managed Account Service. The fee is based on
the assets in the Managed Account(s) with a portion of
the fee calculated for AFPS, as described in the “Fees
and Compensation” section. Any Managed Account
fees are separate from and in addition to any advisory
fees you pay for these additional services.
securities held in your Account Sweep Program to
cover these fees. Ameriprise Financial Services
reserves the right to determine which mutual funds or
other securities will be sold. Because of mutual fund
redemption minimums and other applicable
minimums, Ameriprise Financial Services may be
required to sell more shares than is necessary to
cover this amount. The proceeds of such sales will be
held in your applicable Sweep Program pending
deduction of the applicable fee(s). As noted above, our
affiliate AEIS is compensated based on the balance
held in your Sweep Program.
Brokerage accounts
A description of the advisory services listed above and
the fees, compensation and other policies associated
with each may be viewed online by visiting
www.ameriprise.com/disclosures and expanding the
sub- heading “General Disclosures” for Ameriprise
Financial Planning Service and Ameriprise Premier
Retirement Income Service and “Managed Account
Client Disclosure Brochures” for consolidated advisory
fee service.
You should consider the aggregate costs and expenses
of investment advisory services and products as a
whole. Your financial advisor may not offer all
investment advisory services or accounts.
Ameriprise Financial Services also offers Ameriprise®
Retirement Plan Consulting Services to employers and
trustees and is designed to assist in their role as a
plan fiduciary.
Retail brokerage services are also available through
Ameriprise Financial Services. If you choose to open an
Ameriprise brokerage account separate from your
Managed Account to purchase and sell securities, you
will incur a sales commission or pay a mark-up or mark-
down in connection with each transaction in that
account. These transaction charges are paid to
compensate Ameriprise Financial Services and your
financial advisor for the assistance they provide in
helping to execute those transactions. You may also
incur a variety of other fees in connection with
maintaining an Ameriprise brokerage account, including
fees and margin loan interest. Review the account
opening documents provided in connection with
establishing a brokerage account for additional
information.
Other products, services and features
Certain pre-existing non-qualified SPS Advantage
Accounts have access to check writing, bill pay and
debit card features of the Ameriprise ONE® Financial
Account. Other products, services and features may be
included or made available in connection with a
Managed Account.
Ameriprise Financial Services does not receive
research or other products or services other than
execution from any unaffiliated broker-dealer or other
third party for client securities transactions.
Ameriprise Financial Services receives and distributes
research authored by its affiliate AEIS however this
research is not provided for client securities
transactions or for any other compensation. Nor do we
or our affiliates receive client referrals from broker-
dealers or third parties that are considered in selecting
or recommending broker-dealers.
Other investment advisory services
These products, services and features may have their
own terms, conditions, disclosure documents, fees
and expenses. Review applicable materials, and
consider fees related to a particular product, service or
feature prior to deciding to participate or invest in, or
as you consider remaining in, that product, service or
feature. Talk to your financial advisor about the
applicability of any product, service or feature of a
Managed Account.
Securities-based Lending Solutions
Your financial advisor may offer ongoing financial
planning or other services that are not included in a
Managed Account for additional fees. A Managed
Account is not a financial planning service and clients
investing solely in a Managed Account will not receive
all material elements of the financial planning
process.
In addition to the Advisory Solutions Programs
described in this Brochure Ameriprise Financial
Services offers the following advisory services for
retail investors:
• Ameriprise Financial Planning Service
• Ameriprise Premier Retirement Income Service
Each of the Ameriprise Preferred Line of Credit,
Ameriprise Preferred Loan and margin loans are
securities-based lending solutions made available to
clients of Ameriprise Financial Services. While a
pledge line of credit or loan, such as the Ameriprise
Preferred Line of Credit or Ameriprise Preferred Loan,
is credit extended by a financial institution such lines
of credit or loans are principally used for liquidity
purposes only. Margin lending is credit extended
directly by AEIS and may be used for liquidity purposes
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the Lender are processed; and the Lender may
impose conditions that prevent you from maintaining
your existing Managed Account(s). You may need to
work with your financial advisor to take other steps
to maintain your Ameriprise Preferred Line of Credit.
but also provides the ability to borrow money to
purchase securities. Both pledge loans and margin
are available on non-qualified SPS Advantage Accounts
and non-qualified Ameriprise brokerage accounts;
however, you may not utilize both margin lending
features and a pledge line of credit on the same
Account.
Ameriprise Financial Services reserves the right to
decline your request to pledge your assets.
Compensation Received by Ameriprise Financial
Services and its affiliates
Margin is available in non-qualified SPS Advantage
Accounts and non-qualified Ameriprise brokerage
accounts and involves the extension of credit to you
and your financial exposure could exceed the value of
your securities. Ameriprise Financial Services, in its
sole discretion, may approve your Account for margin
trading. Margin lending has specific risks outlined in
the Margin Risk Disclosure document which you
should review before opening a margin account.
A margin loan is the only securities-based lending
solution offered by Ameriprise Financial Services that
allows you to borrow money to purchase securities.
Either of the Ameriprise Preferred Line of Credit or a
margin loan allows you to borrow money for liquidity
purposes. Non-qualified Brokerage Accounts and non-
qualified SPS Advantage Accounts offer both of these
securities-based lending solutions.
Margin
When used to purchase securities, any margin account
balance in your non-qualified SPS Advantage Account
will be included in the calculation of your Asset-based
Fee for that period and is shared with your financial
advisor. Our affiliate AEIS earns interest on your
margin balance whether you use the money to
purchase securities or for liquidity purposes.
Ameriprise Preferred Line of Credit
Ameriprise Financial Services may allow you to pledge
certain non-qualified Managed Account(s) and non-
qualified Ameriprise brokerage account assets as
collateral for an Ameriprise Preferred Line of Credit
offered jointly and separately by Ameriprise Bank and
Goldman Sachs Bank USA (collectively, “Lender”), or a
pledge line of credit program from a third-party financial
institution. To the extent that you pledge non- qualified
assets held at Ameriprise Financial Services as
collateral for a pledge loan to a third-party financial
institution, you will be required to execute, and arrange
for the completion and execution of, certain required
documentation. Among other things, this will result in
the financial institution being required to complete
Ameriprise Financial Services’ form of collateralization
agreement. The interest rate you may secure from a
third-party financial institution may be higher or lower
than the interest rate offered for an Ameriprise
Preferred Line of Credit.
When you apply for a pledge loan for your Brokerage
Account(s) or Managed Account(s) you agree that such
assets will be pledged to the lender as security for
that line of credit. Once your Account(s) are pledged,
the securities and cash will serve as collateral for the
line of credit. If the market value of the securities in
your pledged Account(s) drops below certain levels, you
may be required by the lender to pay down the loan,
sell securities in the Account(s), and/or pledge
additional securities.
Ameriprise Bank earns revenue based on the
outstanding balance amount of the Ameriprise
Preferred Line of Credit and the interest rate on the
loan. Ameriprise Financial Services receives
compensation from Ameriprise Bank, FSB of 0.25% of
the outstanding balance on the credit line on an
annualized basis. This amount is shared with your
financial advisor based on how your advisor is
affiliated with us and on the payout rate for which your
financial advisor qualifies. This compensation is
separate from the compensation your financial advisor
receives for servicing your Managed Account. These
affiliations and compensation structures are described
in the "How Our Financial Advisors Get Paid" section
below. Ameriprise Financial and your financial advisors
will continue to receive the Asset- based Fee on any
pledged assets held in your Managed Account(s).
Ameriprise Bank does not compensate AEIS, but
reimburses AEIS for its direct out of pocket expenses
related to its Ameriprise Preferred Line of Credit support.
Conflicts of interest related to securities-based
lending solutions
Conflicts of Interest Related to our Affiliated Products
and Services
When AEIS charges you interest on your margin
balance it retains the full amount of such revenue.
It is important that you understand the actions the
Lender has the right to take against any
account(s) that you pledge as security for an
Ameriprise Preferred Line of Credit, as well as
risks and restrictions associated with pledging
your accounts. If the Lender feels that the security
for its line of credit to you is at risk, it may take
actions regarding your pledged assets Account(s)
that may be disruptive to your investment objectives
for your Managed Account(s) or to the existing
target asset allocation such as restricting trading or
reinvestment in the Account while instructions from
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• Read and sign the application which includes the
Relationship Agreement;
• Read and sign the Brokerage Agreement to
establish and maintain a brokerage account as
part of a Managed Account; and
• Select a Sweep Program as described in the
Brokerage Agreement.
Coverdell Savings Accounts and 529 plan accounts are
not available in a Managed Account.
When Ameriprise Bank as co-lenders receive revenue
related to your Ameriprise Preferred Line of Credit and
Ameriprise Preferred Loan, each of Ameriprise Bank
and Goldman Sachs Bank USA receives a pro-rata
portion of the revenue generated. As a result, on a
comparable amount of credit extended, Ameriprise
Financial Services and its affiliates generally earn
higher revenues for the use of margin, and it is
therefore more profitable when clients utilize margin
than when using an Ameriprise Preferred Line of Credit
or and Ameriprise Preferred Loan. Ameriprise Financial
manages this conflict of interest by keeping the cost to
you for either a negotiated rate margin loan or an
Ameriprise Preferred Line of Credit and Ameriprise
Preferred Loan in line with each other as described
below.
Conflicts of Interest Related to Financial Advisors and
their Recommendations
Your financial advisor does not receive compensation
on your margin account balance when you borrow
money for liquidity purposes, but does receive ongoing
compensation based on the outstanding balance of
the credit line extended to you for an Ameriprise
Preferred Line of Credit or Ameriprise Preferred Loan.
This compensation creates a financial incentive for
your financial advisor to recommend the use of the
Ameriprise Preferred Line of Credit or Ameriprise
Preferred Loan over margin.
Managed Accounts are available for individual investors,
corporate entities, certain nonprofit organizations and
tax-qualified accounts. The types of tax-qualified
accounts that may be available include traditional IRAs,
Roth IRAs, Simplified Employee Pension (“SEP”) IRAs,
Savings Incentive Match Plan for Employees (“SIMPLE”)
and defined contribution plans as defined in Section
401(a) of the Internal Revenue Code (e.g., Profit
Sharing, Money Purchase). Ameriprise Financial
Services, in its own discretion, may offer certain
account types to certain clients. Tax-Sheltered Custodial
Account (“TSCA”) may be available for TSCA
participants to invest in SPS Advantage, SPS Advisor,
Active Diversified Portfolios® investments and Access
Separate Accounts, but may not invest in other
Managed Accounts. Trustee-directed retirement plans
may not invest in the Active Portfolios®, SPS Advisor,
certain Select Separate Account investment strategies,
Vista Separate Account, Investor Unified Account or
Access Account Programs. Nonprofit organizations
operating as a donor advised fund are eligible to invest
in certain investment strategies in most Manager
Directed Programs. Programs and Managed Accounts
are made available based on the ownership type
associated with your Relationship, and not all Programs
may be available to you. Nonresidents of the United
States for U.S. tax purposes are not eligible to open
Managed Accounts in all Programs.
Terminating a Relationship Agreement
Ameriprise Financial manages this conflict of interest
through a combination of disclosures, compensating
financial advisors for the Ameriprise Preferred Line of
Credit and Ameriprise Preferred Loan within a
reasonable range that is non-negotiable and capped,
keeping client costs for either negotiated rate margin
loans, an Ameriprise Preferred Line of Credit or an
Ameriprise Preferred Loan comparable and in line with
each other by monitoring interest rates, and policies,
procedures, training and additional resources designed
to delineate the features of each product to assist
financial advisors in providing recommendations that
are in a client’s best interest and consider reasonably
available alternatives.
Account requirements and types
of clients
Establishing and maintaining Accounts
To establish an Account in one or more of the services,
you will be asked to:
• Review this Disclosure Brochure; and other
applicable Advisory Service Provider Form ADV
Part 2A;
The Relationship Agreement may be terminated by you
or Ameriprise Financial Services by providing
appropriate notice. If Ameriprise Financial Services
decides to terminate your Account(s), the Ameriprise
Financial Services will provide you no less than 30 days
prior notice. This notice will advise you of options, if
any, that may be available to you. If Ameriprise Financial
Services decides to terminate your Account(s),
Ameriprise Financial Services may transfer the Account
assets to an Ameriprise brokerage account and the
Brokerage Agreement will govern your relationship with
Ameriprise Financial Services. If Ameriprise Financial
Services terminates your SPS Advisor Account,
Ameriprise Financial Services may transfer the Account
assets to an Ameriprise brokerage account as outlined
above or to an SPS Advantage Account as set forth in
the Relationship Agreement.
• Provide accurate and complete information to your
financial advisor in order to complete the Client
Information and the applicable Managed Accounts
application;
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Ameriprise Financial Planning
Service
In the event a Managed Account is terminated,
Ameriprise Financial Services will prorate the Asset-
based Fee and rebate any unused portion. You have
the right to request that your assets be distributed in
the form of cash or securities. This transaction may
have tax implications. Because you will be responsible
for any associated tax liabilities, you should discuss
the potential implications with your tax advisor.
Additional fees may apply to distributions in the form
of securities as outlined in the “Sweep Program and
Expenses” section. In these situations, the anticipated
timing of distributions would be the same as outlined
for each Managed Account Service description in the
“Services, Fees and Compensation” section.
Ameriprise® Financial Planning Service (“AFPS”) is
designed as a long-term, collaborative, ongoing
financial planning relationship to help you achieve at
least one financial goal or need. You and your financial
advisor will work together to define your goal or need,
develop a plan to help you get there and track your
progress along the way, making changes when
needed. AFPS is a six-step financial planning process.
As participants in this process, you and your financial
advisor will:
•
Termination of Advisory Service Providers
Identify/prioritize objectives. Discuss your goals
and needs to develop a clear vision of your
financial future.
• Gather information. Review important documents
such as your bank and brokerage statements,
tax returns, insurance policies and retirement
plans.
• Analyze information. Understand the big picture
of your financial situation, based on information
you provide, and analyze how the different
elements of financial planning may impact
each other.
• Propose recommendations. Develop written
Ameriprise Financial Services may, in its sole
discretion and at any time, terminate an Advisory
Service Provider’s (including an Envestnet Manager’s)
participation in a Managed Account, or discontinue the
Advisory Service Provider’s services with respect to a
particular investment strategy in accordance with the
Relationship Agreement and with thirty (30) days prior
written notice to you. As a result, Ameriprise Financial
Services may transfer the Account assets to an
Ameriprise brokerage account and the Brokerage
Agreement will govern any assets transferred including
fees charged in connection with maintaining an
Ameriprise brokerage account and transaction fees.
financial planning recommendations that align
with your goals.
•
Take action. Act on your recommendations after
developing proposed financial solutions to help
reach your goals.
•
Track your progress. Your needs and goals
evolve over time. Tracking your progress will
enable you to adjust your plan in light of
personal, legislative or regulatory and economic
changes.
If you terminate your Advisory Service Provider, or if
Ameriprise Financial Services or Advisory Service
Provider terminates or discontinues the service
provided to you, you may reinvest with another Advisory
Service Provider. Reinvesting with another Advisory
Service Provider may result in portfolio turnover and tax
implications (for non- qualified accounts) based on the
holdings of the successor Advisory Service Provider’s
portfolio. Because you will be responsible for any
associated tax liabilities, you should discuss the
potential implications for non- qualified accounts with
your tax professional.
Client Information provided to
Advisory Service Providers
If you are a client of the Ameriprise Advisor Center, you
may receive advice and support in the financial
planning process from a dedicated team of financial
advisors and professionals whose members may use
titles such as Client Support Associate, Client
Relationship Manager, or Financial Consultant.
A description of the Client Information shared with an
Advisory Service Provider for your Account is included in
the following sub-sections in this Brochure:
•
“Acceptance of your Active Portfolios®
Account” in the Active Portfolios® section
The advice you receive from your financial advisor is
intended for your use only. If you choose to share your
analysis and recommendations with a third party,
neither your financial advisor nor Ameriprise Financial
Services (nor any of its affiliates) is responsible for the
outcome.
•
“Select Separate Account” subsection in the
Overview of Ameriprise Managed Accounts
Services section
•
“Acceptance and Authority of Envestnet” in
the Advisory Service Providers section
Ameriprise Financial Services and our financial
advisors owe you a fiduciary duty, as applied under the
Investment Advisers Act of 1940, as amended, when
you enter a financial planning service with Ameriprise
Financial Services. This duty generally requires that
Ameriprise Financial Services and your financial
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advisor make investment recommendations that are in
your best interest and place your interest ahead of our
own and those of your financial advisor. This is
accomplished by:
• Explaining and providing to you written disclosures
To the extent that you receive recommendations
related to assets held in your brokerage account or
with respect to commission-based securities, such
recommendations are made as part of your brokerage
relationship and are made in your best interest but are
not fiduciary recommendations under ERISA or the
Internal Revenue Code.
that outline key, relevant factors about the
investment advice and recommendations you
receive; and
Ameriprise Financial Services provides Managed
Accounts where you can receive individual securities
level fiduciary recommendations.
• Providing you with written disclosures that describe
material conflicts of interest that your financial
advisor and/or Ameriprise Financial Services have
as part of AFPS. (You will find these written
disclosures throughout this Brochure, and in the
“Other Financial Industry Activities and Affiliations”
section.)
Also, to the extent an asset allocation service
identifies any specific investment alternative in a
retirement plan, please note that other investment
alternatives with similar risk and return characteristics
may be available to you. Such investment alternatives
may be more or less costly than those available at or
recommended by Ameriprise Financial Services. Your
Plan sponsor (for government plans or those that fall
under ERISA) or your financial advisor can assist you in
obtaining information about other potential investment
alternatives.
AFPS tailors advisory services to the individual needs
of clients as discussed in the next several sections.
AFPS planning goals
Your financial advisor will review your data and other
information to make recommendations that can help
you meet your goals.
Financial fundamentals
Your financial advisor can provide you with guidance to
help you meet a wide variety of your financial needs,
including asset allocation services. Your financial
advisor may discuss, present or offer ideas for you to
consider related to the allocation of retirement assets
among one or more Managed Accounts. Such
communications are offered solely as education,
marketing and examples of the potential uses of
these Managed Accounts for purposes of discussion
and for your independent consideration, and should
not be viewed, construed or relied upon, as
investment or fiduciary recommendations or advice
under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of
1974 ("ERISA") or Section 4975 of the Internal
Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the “Internal
Revenue Code”). Such communications should not be
(and are not intended to be) relied upon as a primary
basis for your investment decisions with respect to
your retirement assets.
Basic financial position. At a minimum, this will
include a high-level compilation of your net worth,
income (inflows) and expenses (outflows). It may also
include action step(s) and/or an acknowledgement by
your financial advisor that figures are based on
estimates if you are not able to provide precise data.
Protection needs. At a minimum, this will include an
inventory of your insurance policies, including life,
disability (if you are not retired) and long-term care (if
you have reached a certain age). You may also receive
an analysis of your needs and your family’s needs in
the event of death, disability and long-term care, as
applicable. This may include an overview of other
protection needs (e.g., property and casualty). Your
financial advisor may also provide action steps in the
form of recommendations; observations about the
adequacy of your coverage; and/or other statements
acknowledging your insurance situation, protection
planning preferences, and/or whether any of the data
or analysis is based on estimates if you are not able
to provide precise data.
Additionally, if in connection with discussing,
presenting, or offering particular Managed Accounts to
you, we provide you with a sample or proposed asset
allocation, including one that identifies specific
securities or other investments, such asset allocation
is merely an example of, or proposal for, the fiduciary
advice and recommendations that may potentially be
made available through the Managed Account once
you decide to establish a Managed Account, and
should not be relied upon as investment or fiduciary
advice or a recommendation under ERISA or the
Internal Revenue Code. We are not acting as a
fiduciary under ERISA or the Internal Revenue Code
when you decide to engage us in a new service,
including with respect to your decision, or the decision
of a plan participant, to roll over assets into an
Ameriprise IRA. Similarly, we are not acting as a
fiduciary under ERISA or the Internal Revenue Code
when you decide to move assets from one type of
account held at Ameriprise Financial Services to
another type of account (e.g., moving assets from an
Ameriprise brokerage account to a Managed Account).
Basic estate needs. This will include an inventory of
basic estate documents that are essential for the
proper disposition of your assets upon your death and
to provide for appropriate care in the event of your
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Business financial planning — addressing your
financial planning needs as a business owner, which
may include an analysis of business cash flow,
business valuation, business tax planning, business
benefits planning and business transition.
Educational seminars and workshops — providing
seminars and workshops on financial planning or
investment- related topics to businesses or
organizations. This service does not include the
financial planning process or provision of written
advice recommendations to individuals.
incapacity. It may also include a review of asset and
policy ownership and beneficiary designations, as well
as action steps or comments on how to work with
legal advisors to improve your basic estate situation.
Your financial advisor will review the financial
fundamentals in the first year of your financial
planning relationship and thereafter as needed, for
example, if your personal financial circumstances or
financial goals change. The review of fundamentals is
not provided in advisory relationships with entity
clients, such as trusts or businesses. The review of
fundamentals is not provided as part of estate
settlement or educational seminars and workshops.
Additional financial planning areas
Your analysis and written recommendations may
address one or more of the following goals:
Other types of financial planning services may be
offered such as divorce financial analysis, or limited
scope analysis. Your financial advisor may not be
certified to offer certain types of financial planning.
Talk with your financial advisor for more information
about these services.
Financial position planning — applying cash flow
management strategies to help you optimize
resources available to help you reach your goals. This
may include debt management techniques, major
purchase financing options, cash reserve strategies
and family budgeting.
Financial advisors are required to complete specialized
training to provide divorce financial analysis, as well as
some forms of income tax planning and planning for
some types of trusts. If your financial advisor has not
met these requirements, another qualified financial
advisor may provide these services.
Ameriprise Financial Services and your financial
advisor do not provide legal or tax advice.
Future purchase planning — applying strategies to
help you plan to fund a future purchase or accumulate
funds for a particular goal.
Initial recommendations
Education planning — applying strategies to help you
fund the education of children, grandchildren or
others. This may also include financial aid analysis.
Retirement planning — applying strategies to help
you fund retirement, transition to retirement or ensure
adequate retirement income.
In the first year following the effective date (described
below) of your AFPS Agreement, your financial advisor
will make best efforts to perform an analysis and
deliver within 180 days initial written
recommendation(s). This timeframe does not apply to
estate settlement planning.
Investment planning — applying strategies to help
optimize portfolio performance to reach future
financial goals. AFPS does not include current market
analysis or other ongoing investment-related advice.
The analysis and written recommendations will
address the fundamentals of your financial situation
as well as the priority goal(s) you have discussed with
your financial advisor. The remainder of the first year
may focus on tracking your progress to goals,
addressing other financial planning goals and/or
beginning to take action on written recommendations
as appropriate.
Income tax related planning — addressing general
tax considerations for financial services products,
transactions and registrations (ownerships) and
helping you understand how individual income, estate
and gift tax planning techniques apply to your
situation.
Shortly after you sign the AFPS Agreement, you will
receive a confirmation of services that reflects:
•
the total quoted AFPS fee;
•
the date your initial engagement began; and
Employee benefits planning — helping you make
decisions related to your employer-sponsored benefit
plans.
•
the latest date on which you can expect to
receive your initial written recommendations.
Estate, legacy or multigenerational planning —
helping you prepare to pass wealth to your
beneficiaries in an efficient manner.
Estate settlement — applying strategies to help an
estate or testamentary trust meet its obligations, such
as distribution of assets and payment of income and
estate taxes.
You will also receive a confirmation of services
annually, in the form of a notice on your consolidated
statement or other written notice to you, each time
your AFPS Agreement renews. Please contact
Ameriprise Financial Services at 800.862.7919 if you
do not receive a confirmation of services within 120
days of your renewal date. If your personal financial
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circumstances or need for financial planning services
change, you and your financial advisor should discuss
whether your fee needs to change.
Ongoing relationship
your financial advisor and do not include ongoing
monitoring of your investments or your accounts, nor
do they include the implementation of the
recommendations provided in the plan by your
financial advisor.
As your financial planning relationship continues, you
will work with your financial advisor following the
financial planning process described above. For
example, you and your financial advisor will:
• Confirm your working relationship and the
associated fee, annually
You may decide to implement the recommendations
you receive through Ameriprise Financial Services, its
affiliates or unaffiliated financial services providers.
Before implementing any recommendations, consider
carefully the consequences of purchasing products or
services. You may want to seek further advice from
your lawyer and/or accountant, particularly for estate
planning, taxes, or business financial planning issues.
• Track progress over time toward identified goals
• Identify key changes to your situation and revisit
your financial goals
• Propose new financial planning recommendations
as appropriate
When you choose to purchase products and services
through Ameriprise Financial Services, you have the
option of investing through a commission-based
brokerage account, a fee-based Managed Account, or
both.
Brokerage Account. You pay commissions and other
charges (such as sales loads on mutual funds) at the
time of each individual securities transaction. As a
result, this type of account may be more suitable than
a Managed Account if you do not expect to trade on a
regular basis and do not want ongoing investment
advice on assets held in your Managed Account.
Your AFPS Agreement is effective the day that
Ameriprise Financial Services processes the AFPS
Agreement (“Effective Date”), which may be different
than the date(s) signed by you and your financial
advisor. Your initial engagement begins on the
Effective Date and ends the day prior to the anniversary
date of your Effective Date. Each twelve-month period
thereafter will be a new engagement period
(“Engagement Period”).
Your AFPS Agreement will automatically renew each
year. If you do not receive your written financial
planning recommendation(s) within the Engagement
Period, you are entitled to a refund of your AFPS
fee.
Changing your planning goals
Managed Account. You pay an ongoing Asset-based
Fee (rather than a commission on each individual
transaction) for investment advisory services such as
investment selection, asset allocation, execution of
transactions, custody of securities and account
reporting services. The Asset-based Fee is assessed
monthly. As a result, a Managed Account may be more
suitable than a brokerage account if you want ongoing
investment advice and expect to trade frequently.
You may change the financial planning goals on which
you are requesting financial advice by discussing any
desired changes with your financial advisor. In
addition, after looking at all your financial data, your
financial advisor may decide to recommend further
assessment in a specific area that has not already
been identified.
Changes to your financial planning goals are
confirmed to you by the delivery of recommendations
consistent with your new goals.
Ameriprise Financial Services is the sponsor and
introducing broker for a variety of Advisory Solutions.
Within its Advisory Solutions, Ameriprise Financial
Services offers a number of Programs that have a wide
array of investment strategies. When you decide upon
a Program, you may open a Managed Account. See the
Ameriprise® Managed Accounts Client Disclosure
Brochure or, if you have elected to pay a consolidated
advisory fee, the Ameriprise® Managed Accounts and
Financial Planning Service Disclosure Brochure for
additional important information, including applicable
fees and other charges.
Read and understand those recommendations to
determine if you received advice on the goals you
specified. If you did not, please contact your financial
advisor or call 800.862.7919.
Your financial advisor may not offer all Programs or
accounts available from Ameriprise Financial Services.
You and your financial advisor should also discuss
whether your AFPS fee needs to change in light of the
changes to your planning goals.
Implementation of your financial planning
recommendations
Depending on how long you choose to be a financial
planning client and the number and types of products
you purchase from Ameriprise Financial Services, you
may pay more or less to purchase products and
services through Ameriprise Financial Services and its
affiliates than if you were to purchase products and
services from other financial services providers.
Any recommendations provided in your financial plan
are provided relative to the goals you establish with
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How to make the most of your financial planning
relationship
At Ameriprise Financial Services, we believe that
financial planning is the best way to help you achieve
your goals. The financial planning relationship begins
with you. As an AFPS client, you will need to:
Establish clear and measurable financial goals. Talk
with your financial advisor about your goals so he or
she may be part of the financial planning process. For
example, if your goal is a “comfortable” retirement,
talk with your financial advisor about what that means
to you. The more specific you are about the lifestyle
you envision, the better equipped your financial
advisor will be to make recommendations to help you
get there.
None of the mutual funds currently offered in
Ameriprise Managed Accounts Programs impose a
front-end sales charge. For most mutual funds, a share
class that does not have a sales load and does not
assess 12b-1 fees (collectively “Advisory Shares”) is
offered in all Ameriprise Managed Account Programs as
the only mutual fund share class, where available to us
through a selling agreement. If not available to us
through a selling agreement or if the mutual fund does
not offer an Advisory Share class, we offer Class A
shares that may pay a 12b-1 fee or a no-load share
class that does not have a sales-load but that may pay
a 12b-1 fee. 12b-1 fees are paid by a mutual fund out
of fund assets to cover distribution expenses and
sometimes shareholder service expenses. The share
class offered by Ameriprise Financial Services for a
particular mutual fund is the only share class we allow
for additional purchase within your Account. Any 12b-1
fees received by Ameriprise Financial Services will be
promptly rebated to your Managed Account. The share
class offered by Ameriprise Financial Services for each
applicable fund is listed in our Mutual Fund Screener
Tool. Access the tool by logging into your Ameriprise
Secure Site account and selecting Trade & Research
and then Screeners and select the “Availability” tab.
The Advisory Share or other share class we offer in
Ameriprise Managed Accounts is less expensive than
share classes made available through an Ameriprise
brokerage account that charge investors a 12b-1 fee or
assess a sales charge. This presents a conflict of
interest because Ameriprise Financial Services and its
financial advisors typically earn higher fees from share
classes that charge such fees. It is therefore generally
more profitable to Ameriprise Financial Services, its
affiliates and its financial advisors, and more costly to
clients, if clients invest in mutual fund share classes
made available through an Ameriprise brokerage
account.
Provide complete and timely information to your
financial advisor. Your financial advisor will base your
financial planning analysis and written
recommendations on the information you provide. You
must provide the requested information in a timely
manner to receive your recommendations in a timely
manner. When you become an AFPS client, you
represent that all financial and other data that you
and/or your representatives or agents furnish to your
financial advisor relating to your assets, liabilities,
policies, present and future income, and obligations
are true and correct and may be relied upon by your
financial advisor and Ameriprise Financial Services for
the purposes of providing AFPS. Your financial advisor
will be better able to make recommendations to help
you achieve your goals if you provide complete and
thoughtful information to your financial advisor about
your current financial and economic situation, the
financial goals on which you want advice, your
investment objectives, and any investment
restrictions you may have. Promptly inform your
financial advisor if you experience significant life
events, or material changes in your financial situation,
risk tolerance or financial objectives.
Review the written recommendations you receive.
Based on the information you provided, your financial
advisor will perform financial planning analysis and
give you written recommendations on the financial
goals you have identified. Your financial advisor is
obligated to provide recommendation(s) within a
particular timeframe, which is discussed in detail in
the “Ameriprise® Financial Planning Service” section of
this Brochure. If your financial advisor’s assumptions,
methods, conclusions or recommendations do not
meet your expectations, contact your financial advisor
right away to resolve your concerns.
Your financial advisor may provide asset allocation
strategies that include advice on allocations into
certain classes of investments. Except where we are
providing you guidance related to your Outside
Workplace Retirement Plan or Health Savings Account
A financial advisor’s recommendation that the client
invest in mutual fund share classes through an
Ameriprise brokerage account service will cause the
client to pay higher internal expenses for certain
mutual funds than the client might otherwise pay if
participating in an Ameriprise Managed Account
Program or by buying the mutual funds directly from
the distributor outside of a brokerage account service,
if possible. The client’s participation in a brokerage
account service that does not offer the Advisory Share
or other share class we offer in Ameriprise Managed
Accounts may still be an appropriate choice depending
on the facts and circumstances of the client’s
individual situation and in light of the features and
benefits of the particular brokerage account service.
Please refer to the mutual fund’s prospectus(es) or
website to determine whether your investment would
qualify for a less expensive share class outside a
brokerage account service, with corresponding lower
expenses and fees.
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advisor your expectations about the financial planning
process and what you want to achieve. If your
expectations are not met, let your financial advisor know
so he or she can make adjustments to meet your
needs.
(“HSA”) as described below, your financial advisor
cannot provide specific buy, sell or hold
recommendations or initiate transactions concerning
individual securities in your investment accounts held
in custody elsewhere, unless held by one of our
broker-dealer affiliates. See the “Other Financial
Industry Activities and Affiliations” section of this
brochure for more information about these affiliates.
Take action. After reviewing your financial planning
recommendations with your financial advisor, the next
step is to act on the advice you have received. You
decide whether or not to implement any of the
recommendations. You are not obligated to purchase
products or services through Ameriprise Financial
Services.
If you would like to work with a different financial
advisor, please call us at 800.862.7919 and we will
help you find another financial advisor. If for some
reason your financial advisor is unable to fulfill the
terms of the service agreement, another Ameriprise
financial advisor may be assigned to you to provide the
written financial planning recommendations and
complete the terms of your Agreement.
Understand that your financial planning service will
continue until you terminate it. You will receive written
recommendation(s) and pay an AFPS fee during each
Engagement Period. The service will automatically
renew on an annual basis until you decide to terminate
the AFPS Agreement or stop paying the fee. In addition,
Ameriprise Financial Services will notify you when there
are material changes to this Brochure and offer you the
opportunity to receive a copy of the revised Brochure.
You should carefully consider accepting this offer, as
that revised Brochure replaces any previous version you
have received.
You may request and receive copies of a current
Brochure at any time by writing to Ameriprise Financial
Services at the following address or by contacting us
at 800.862.7919 between 7 a.m. and 6 p.m. Central
time.
Ameriprise Financial Services,
LLC 476 Ameriprise Financial Center
Minneapolis, MN 55474
Where requested and as part of your AFPS, your
financial advisor may provide guidance on your
retirement plan or HSA assets that are held outside of
Ameriprise Financial Services in a participant-directed
defined contribution plan (e.g., 401(k) plan) (“Outside
Workplace Retirement Plan”) or HSA. Any guidance
provided to you is based on information provided by
you about your Outside Workplace Retirement Plan or
HSA and is limited to investments offered through the
core lineup of funds established by your plan sponsor.
Your Outside Workplace Retirement Plan or HSA may
include investment options not available at Ameriprise
Financial Services or for which your financial advisor
may not have access to detailed information. Neither
Ameriprise Financial Services nor your financial
advisor is responsible for the selection of the
available investment options in your Outside
Workplace Retirement Plan or HSA. Your financial
advisor may not make buy recommendations related
to employer stock that may be available within your
Outside Workplace Retirement Plan or HSA. Your
financial advisor cannot make recommendations with
respect to any current portfolio holdings or investment
options available through a self-directed brokerage
account associated with your Outside Workplace
Retirement Plan or HSA. You are responsible for
placing any transactions recommended by your
financial advisor. If you desire ongoing guidance on
your Outside Workplace Retirement Plan or HSA you
must provide your financial advisor with updated
information, including statements and a list of funds
available in your Outside Workplace Retirement Plan
or HSA, on a regular basis. Your investment objectives
and risk tolerance for your Outside Workplace
Retirement Plan or HSA may differ from those of your
Ameriprise account(s), if any. However, any guidance
provided for your Outside Workplace Retirement Plan
or HSA is provided in consideration of the investment
objectives and risk tolerance of any Ameriprise
account(s) you hold.
Take an active role in the process. Understand the
process, your role and your financial advisor’s role.
Provide information. Ask questions about the
recommendations you receive. If at any time there
are additional goals you would like to cover, let your
financial advisor know. Take an active role in
making decisions about your financial future, and
you will position yourself to get the most out of your
financial planning relationship.
Other advisory services
Ameriprise Financial Services offers a suite of Advisory
Solutions that features several types of Programs,
including Strategic Portfolio Service (“SPS”) Advantage,
SPS Advisor, Signature Wealth, Active Portfolios®
Form reasonable expectations. Understand the
benefits of and limits to the financial planning process
and be reasonable in your expectations of the results
you can achieve with your financial plan and
investments, given your risk tolerance and objectives.
Financial planning is an ongoing process; it will not
change your situation overnight. Furthermore, events
beyond your financial advisor’s control, such as
changes in economic conditions, will affect your
financial planning results. Share with your financial
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investments, Select Separate Account, Vista Separate
Account, Investor Unified Account, and Access
Account. Not all Managed Account Programs are
available to all clients; contact your financial advisor
for more information. Please review the Ameriprise
Managed Accounts Client Disclosure Brochure, or if
you have elected to pay a consolidated advisory fee,
the Ameriprise Managed Accounts and Financial
Planning Service Disclosure Brochure for a full
description of these Programs.
As of December 31, 2024, Ameriprise Financial
Services managed $269,707,862,644 in
nondiscretionary assets and $294,915,034,275 in
discretionary assets.
The AFPS fee that you pay in the first year of service
may differ from the AFPS fee you pay for services in
ongoing years, as described in the “Ongoing
relationship” subsection of the “Ameriprise® Financial
Planning Service” section of this Brochure. A portion of
the AFPS fee will be allocated to your financial advisor
for introducing you to the service, gathering the
information necessary to prepare your service, helping
you establish needs and goals, preparing and
presenting your service, and/or providing financial
advice on behalf of Ameriprise Financial Services. The
portion of the AFPS fee allocated to your financial
advisor is impacted by factors including the level of
affiliation that the financial advisor has with Ameriprise
Financial Services and whether the financial advisor
was assisted by another person (who may be a
financial advisor or other individual who makes a
referral) in providing services to you.
Fees and Compensation
Ameriprise financial advisors receive compensation for
financial advice in the form of commissions and fees.
Ameriprise Advisor Center financial advisors can
receive compensation for financial advice in the form
of bonuses.
AFPS fees are negotiable and there is no assurance
that similarly situated clients will be assessed
comparable fees. Your financial advisor will explain
the AFPS fee and the factors considered in calculating
the AFPS fee before asking you to sign the AFPS
Agreement.
The remaining portion of the fee goes to Ameriprise
Financial Services for the supervisory, technical,
administrative and other support provided to all
financial advisors. If you establish an Ameriprise
Managed Account, the Asset- based fee you pay for
the Managed Account is separate from your AFPS fee.
Please refer to the Ameriprise Managed Accounts
Client Disclosure Brochure, or if you have elected to
pay a consolidated advisory fee, the Ameriprise
Managed Accounts and Financial Planning Service
Disclosure Brochure for more detail about the
allocation of Asset- based Fees.
A state may impose a sales tax on your AFPS fee,
which we will collect and remit to the applicable state.
AFPS fees vary based on (1) your financial advisor’s
fee schedule, which is based on your financial
advisor’s years of financial planning experience,
professional credentials, and other factors, such as
local market considerations; and (2) the overall
complexity of your advice needs.
Some financial advisors require clients to pay AFPS
fees either at the beginning of an Engagement Period
or before providing AFPS. See the “Termination of
AFPS” and “Termination procedure” sections below for
information regarding refunds if you or Ameriprise
Financial Services terminates the AFPS Agreement
before the end of an Engagement Period.
Your financial advisor will assign an overall complexity
factor of “low,” “medium” or “high” to your advice
needs based on your personal financial
circumstances, your financial planning needs, and the
frequency with which your financial advisor meets with
you and/or other professionals or family members.
Ameriprise Financial Services is dedicated to providing
quality client service. We work hard to ensure your
satisfaction with the AFPS services that you receive
and seek to meet or exceed your expectations. We will
work with you to address any of your concerns,
including helping you work with a different financial
advisor or terminating the AFPS Agreement.
Ask questions about the AFPS fee so that you
understand the factors considered in arriving at your
AFPS fee and what you can expect for this fee.
The minimum annual AFPS fee for new AFPS
Agreements is $500. Your financial advisor’s
minimum AFPS fee may be higher. The AFPS fee to
enter a new financial planning relationship with
financial advisors from the Ameriprise Advisor Center
is $50.00/month. Depending on the overall
complexity of your advice needs, you may pay a higher
fee. If you have an existing AFPS Engagement with
financial advisors from the Ameriprise Advisor Center,
you may pay a lower fee.
Our affiliate American Enterprise Investment Services
Inc. (“AEIS”) receives revenue from several different
sources on the products and services you purchase
through Ameriprise. These sources include
arrangements we have in place with product companies,
and investment and interest income. See the “Cost
Reimbursement Services and Third-Party Payments”
subsection of the “How we get paid” section later in
this brochure for more information on conflicts of
interest regarding revenue sources for Ameriprise
Financial Services and its affiliates, as well as the
subsection “Revenue sources for RiverSource” for more
information about the fees and commissions you pay
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when you implement your financial advisor’s
recommendations through Ameriprise Financial
Services and its affiliates.
The revenue generated or received supports the
development of new products, maintenance of our
infrastructure, and retention of employees and financial
advisors.
partners, independent contractors or members. The
fees for institutional services may be based on a
workplace-specific tiered pricing schedule and vary by
agreement. These agreements may include other
services and fees that are lower than the AFPS fees
paid by other AFPS clients. These promotions and
programs are not available to financial advisors from
the Ameriprise Advisor Center.
Termination of AFPS
Your financial advisor may recommend mutual funds
and other investment products offered by firms that
make Third Party Payments to our affiliate, AEIS, as
described in the “Payments from product companies”
subsection later in this Disclosure Brochure. Within its
investment advisory business, compensation for the
sale of investment products recommended by financial
advisors is not Ameriprise Financial Services’ primary
source of revenue from its advisory clients.
AFPS will remain in effect until one of the following
occurs: termination by you; termination of an existing
AFPS Agreement by replacing it with a new one, as
described in the preceding paragraph; termination by
Ameriprise Financial Services, which would require
sending you written notice reasonably in advance of
the termination date (except as noted in this
paragraph) to your address as shown on our records;
termination by Ameriprise Financial Services, with no
advance notice, for non-delivery of services to you by
your financial advisor; or termination by you through
nonpayment of the AFPS fee.
Your AFPS fee does not include markups or brokerage
commissions by Ameriprise Financial Services or your
financial advisor. If you implement your financial plan
in whole or in part through Ameriprise Financial
Services or its affiliates, wrap fees, product fees,
markups or markdowns and brokerage commissions
will apply as applicable. Both time of sale and ongoing
fees, if applicable, will apply for products and services
purchased in a transaction- based brokerage account.
Client programs and promotions
If you choose to terminate the Agreement during the
first year before receiving your initial recommendations,
you will receive a full refund of AFPS Fees paid.
However, if you terminate at any time after Ameriprise
Financial Services has performed under this
Agreement, or if you terminate the services and have
not provided your financial advisor with complete and
accurate information concerning your financial
situation, Ameriprise Financial Services reserves the
right in its sole discretion to limit the amount of the
refund you receive, if any.
Ameriprise Financial Services may provide a fee
reduction to corporate, institutional or membership
organizations and their employees, partners,
independent contractors or members. Ameriprise
Financial Services may, from time to time, offer
reduced fees on AFPS to individuals in a particular
market segment or geographic area. Your financial
advisor can tell you whether there is a promotion
available to you.
To terminate or cancel the Agreement and request a
refund, if eligible, complete an AFPS Cancellation and
Refund Request form available from ameriprise.com.
You may also request the form from your financial
advisor or by calling Ameriprise Financial Services
directly at 800.862.7919 between the hours of 7 a.m.
and 6 p.m. Central time, Monday through Friday.
Ameriprise Financial Services, in its sole discretion,
determines when to offer, modify and/or discontinue
these promotions and programs. These promotions
and programs are not available to financial advisors
from the Ameriprise Advisor Center.
Pro bono financial planning
Performance-Based Fees and Side-by-
Side Management
Neither Ameriprise Financial Services nor any of its
supervised persons accepts performance-based fees
for its investment advisory services.
Ameriprise Financial advisors may seek approval from
Ameriprise Financial Services to offer, on a limited
basis, pro bono financial planning to persons who
otherwise cannot afford to pay for financial planning
services. These promotions and programs are not
available to financial advisors from the Ameriprise
Advisor Center.
Institutional services
Types of Clients
AFPS is generally appropriate for individuals who seek
an ongoing fee-based financial planning relationship
and who have financial goals and sufficient assets and
income to begin addressing those goals. AFPS is
intended for individuals; couples; and entities with
financial planning needs, such as trusts, estates,
nonprofit organizations and businesses.
Ameriprise Financial Services may enter into written
agreements with corporate, institutional or membership
organizations to provide AFPS to their employees,
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Methods of Analysis, Investment
Strategies and Risk of Loss
Methods of financial analysis
reduce risk by reducing the concentrated positions
within your portfolio. Special tax rules apply to net
unrealized appreciation of employer securities held in
a retirement plan. This is particularly true if the asset
in question is stock of your employer, given that both
your income and investment could be tied to the
profitability of your employer.
Before you actually sell any such assets, consult
with your legal and tax professionals regarding the
tax and other implications of any such sales.
The asset allocation analysis does not provide a
comprehensive financial analysis of your ability to
reach your other financial planning goals, and it does
not identify the impact of your investment strategy on
your tax and estate planning situations. Asset
allocation does not guarantee a profit or protect
against a loss.
Sources of information
When developing recommendations for you, your
financial advisor compares your stated financial goals
with your financial situation, investment risk tolerance,
investment horizon and the risk and potential
investment solutions. Your financial advisor may use
asset value, current and projected rates of return, and
other assumptions you provide, as well as historical
return analysis prepared by Ameriprise Financial
Services or an affiliate. Your financial plan may be
prepared through the use of one or more software
packages that take a needs-based approach to
analyze your goals using one or more methods of
analysis, including deterministic and probability
modeling. The analysis and projections generated by
the tools or other analysis described in this section of
the Brochure include information regarding the
likelihood of various potential investment outcomes.
They are hypothetical in nature, vary depending on
which tool of analysis is used and with each use and
over time, do not reflect actual investment results,
and are not guarantees of future results. Investing in
securities involves the risk of loss and you should be
prepared to bear this loss. The probability of success
also varies based on differing assumptions, on
different tools and from one Engagement Period to the
next based on changing circumstances and market
information. Results may reflect one point in time only
and are only one factor you should consider as you
determine how best to plan for your future.
Your financial plan also may include an asset
allocation analysis designed to assist you in
positioning your investment assets. If your financial
plan includes such analysis, the recommended
portfolio allocation will be determined based on a
variety of factors, including your personal financial
information and the historical and anticipated
performance of different asset classes.
The principal source of information used by your
financial advisor is the data provided by you, such as
your personal data, assets and liabilities, income
expectations, assumed overall rates of interest and
inflation, short-term and long-term financial goals, tax
information, risk tolerance associated with goals, and
other relevant information. When developing product
recommendations, your financial advisor may also use
training and marketing materials and prospectuses
and annual reports for a particular investment product.
In addition, your financial advisor may also utilize
research produced by Ameriprise Financial Services or
its affiliates, such as material prepared by the
Ameriprise Investment Research Group ("IRG") or from
third-party research providers that have been approved
by Ameriprise Financial Services when providing
investment advice. Although the information and data
are believed to be accurate, Ameriprise Financial
Services and its financial advisors do not
independently verify third-party information. Neither
Ameriprise Financial Services nor its financial advisors
guarantee the accuracy, completeness or timeliness of
any such information nor do they imply any warranty of
any kind regarding the information provided.
For your accounts held at Ameriprise Financial, if any,
market value (i.e., account value) is provided from the
source of record and is generally captured at a point in
time. If the date and market value displayed in
analysis or written recommendations you receive does
not correspond with the date and market value of your
official Ameriprise Financial consolidated statement,
the market values shown on the material you receive
will differ from your consolidated statement.
The analysis is meant only to illustrate the relative
experience among asset classes and portfolios.
Periodic rebalancing of your portfolio and reallocation
among the asset classes is recommended in most
circumstances, and rebalancing and reallocation may
not be part of AFPS. Rebalancing your non-qualified
portfolio to meet asset allocation objectives may
result in taxable gains or losses. Unless included in a
particular Ameriprise Managed Account Program,
Ameriprise Financial Services does not rebalance your
portfolio or reallocate your target asset allocations on
a continuous basis. If you have a substantial
percentage of your net worth concentrated in a given
asset or asset class, the illustrations may prompt your
financial advisor to recommend that you sell or
exchange a significant portion of such position to
The information provided to you in your analysis and
written recommendations is not intended to be a
substitute for the valuation and other information
contained in your official Ameriprise Financial
consolidated statement.
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For your accounts and assets not held at Ameriprise
Financial (“Non-Held Assets”) all asset and net worth
information used in connection with your AFPS was
provided by you or your designated agents and is
shown as of the date it was provided to Ameriprise
Financial Services. Ameriprise Financial services does
not have knowledge of changes in your Non-Held
Assets, including your accounts and portfolio holdings,
and the materials provided in connection with your
AFPS will not reflect changes to your Non-Held Assets.
This means that if you view your AFPS materials
without updating your Non-Held Assets, the
information and assumptions provided to you will be
based on data about Non-Held Assets that is not
current. Ameriprise Financial and your financial
advisor take reasonable steps to reproduce
information obtained from you or your designated
agents regarding Non-Held Assets.
We cannot guarantee future financial results or the
achievement of your financial goals through
implementation of your financial plan and any advice
or recommendations provided to you. Ameriprise
Financial Services does not monitor the day-to-day
performance of your specific investments. Before
implementing your financial plan, you should consider
carefully the ramifications of purchasing products or
services, and you may want to seek further advice
from your lawyer and/or accountant, particularly in
connection with estate planning, taxes or small
business owner planning issues. The benefits and
advantages of cash value life insurance generally
increase as the policy matures and are most fully
realized with the death of the insured. A client with
immediate liquidity needs may consider whether to sell
the policy to a third party at a discounted value
(commonly referred to as a life settlement).
Supplemental Terms and Conditions of Your
Consolidated Advisory Fee Service
By signing to establish a consolidated advisory fee
service, you agree that the following terms and
conditions supplement and apply to your service.
Neither Ameriprise Financial nor your financial
advisor has undertaken to review or verify the
accuracy of Non- Held Assets and the inclusion of
information and assumptions about Non-Held Assets
in your AFPS written recommendations, or any other
analysis, review, or guidance offered by Ameriprise
Financial Services and your financial advisor creates
no duty or other responsibility to advise you to take
any action or inaction regarding such Non-Held
Assets.
Third-party research provider materials not
approved for use with clients
About estate or trust beneficiaries as AFPS clients
— If you are an AFPS client and a beneficiary of an
estate or trust that is also an AFPS client serviced by
your financial advisor, you understand, acknowledge
and agree that (1) there may be a conflict when your
financial advisor is providing advice to you as the
beneficiary of an estate or trust, as the estate’s or
trust’s interest may not be the same as your interest
as beneficiary; and (2) when servicing the estate or
trust, your financial advisor cannot put your interest as
beneficiary ahead of his or her obligation to act in the
best interests of the estate or trust.
From time to time, financial advisors may access
research, models, investment tools or other material
from third- party research providers that are not
approved for use with clients for the purposes of the
financial advisor’s general education, staying current
on industry trends or developing potential investment
ideas. Financial advisors may provide clients with
general market commentary or non-security
information once the individual pieces have been
approved for use by Ameriprise Financial Services.
Investment strategies
About power of attorney appointments — If you are
an Attorney-in-Fact pursuant to a Power of Attorney for
the client, you understand, acknowledge and agree
that: (1) the financial planning services will be based
on the information provided to us by the client and/or
you as attorney-in-fact regarding the client’s financial
situation; (2) you will provide us with complete and
accurate information, to the best of your knowledge;
and (3) with the service the client or you as attorney-in-
fact purchases the financial advisor is not obligated to
make recommendations or give financial advice that,
in the sole judgment of the financial advisor, would be
impracticable, unsuitable, unattainable or undesirable
for the client. We strongly recommend you seek advice
from legal and tax counsel before implementing
suggested planning strategies that involve disposition
of assets. We reserve the right to decline business.
When servicing the client’s account, the financial
advisor cannot put your interests as attorney-in- fact
ahead of his or her obligations to act in the best
interest of the client.
Your financial advisor may recommend long-term
strategies for your financial plan, such as dollar-cost
averaging, reinvestment of dividends or other
proceeds on investments, and asset allocation.
Recommendations may also be made to help you
realize capital gains or losses on securities or
investment products that you own. Such transactions
may have tax consequences for non-qualified
accounts. See the “Implementation of your financial
planning recommendations” subsection of the
"Advisory Business" section and the “Broker-dealer”
subsection of the “Other Financial Industry Activities
and Affiliations” section for further information on
investment products and services offered by
Ameriprise Financial Services.
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Disclosure of interest and capacity
About advisor compensation — Your financial advisor
may recommend that you purchase or sell
investments, recommend that you enter into other
financial transactions, or provide financial advice
regarding financial decisions. You have no obligation
to follow any such recommendations or advice. If you
implement any such recommendations through
Ameriprise Financial Services, then in addition to the
AFPS fee described above, your financial advisor will
receive fees, commissions or other financial
compensation as a result of the transaction and/or
advice, as described in the “How our financial
advisors get paid” section elsewhere in this Brochure.
Such transactions may result in tax consequences for
non-qualified accounts.
About your agreement — No assignment of the
Agreement by Ameriprise Financial Services will be
effective without your consent.
Brochure and include a free credit balance (Ameriprise
Cash) held in your account or a program that provides
for the automatic deposit or “sweep” of uninvested
cash balances in your account (each, a “Sweep
Program”). You understand we offer a Sweep Program
as a short-term feature that is intended to hold cash
for the purposes described in the Disclosure Brochure.
You agree that you will not maintain a cash balance in
your Ameriprise account(s) solely for the purpose of
receiving interest or obtaining FDIC insurance or SIPC
coverage. You understand that Ameriprise Financial
offers other investments products that offer capital
preservation with a higher rate of return than a Sweep
Program and are a more appropriate place to invest
cash than maintaining a significant cash balance in
your account for an extended period. You understand
and acknowledge that if your Sweep Program consists
of money market mutual funds then your Sweep
Program will have its own expenses. You further
understand and acknowledge that the banks that
participate in the FDIC insured interest-bearing bank
deposit Sweep Programs offered by our affiliated
clearing firm, AEIS, compensate AEIS for deposits
placed at the bank(s) or reimburse AEIS for expenses
it incurs in providing the Sweep Program, and that our
affiliate, Ameriprise Bank, FSB, is a participant in
these programs. AEIS receives marketing support
payments from the underlying money market mutual
funds, if eligible, used as the Sweep Program for your
account. The availability of each Sweep Program
depends on your account type and ownership. You
acknowledge that you have received and have had the
opportunity to review the (i) Sweep Program and
Expenses section of the Disclosure Brochure; (ii)
Money Settlement Options section of the Ameriprise
Brokerage Client Agreement, and (iii) Other Important
Brokerage Disclosures document, which fully describe
our insured bank deposit programs. You can always
obtain the current version of the Disclosure Brochure,
Brokerage Client Agreement and the Other Important
Brokerage Disclosures by visiting our website at
ameriprise.com/disclosures or by calling our service
line at 800.862.7919.
About your initial proposal and ongoing service —
Your financial advisor’s initial recommendations may
address only the areas that you have identified as
your most immediate needs and priorities.
Your financial advisor is not obligated to make any
recommendations or give any financial advice to you
that, in the sole judgment of the financial advisor,
would be impracticable, unsuitable, unattainable or
undesirable. Your financial advisor provides financial
services of the type contemplated in the Agreement,
as well as other financial services for a number of
clients. Your financial advisor will review the
fundamentals of your financial situation; this may
include an analysis of your insurance protection
coverages. Ameriprise Financial Services does not
provide insurance consulting, tax advice, legal advice
or document preparation as part of AFPS. Ameriprise
Financial Services does not monitor the day-to-day
performance of your specific investments. Neither your
financial advisor nor Ameriprise Financial Services
shall have any liability for your failure to promptly
inform your financial advisor of material changes in
your financial and economic situation, your investment
objectives or results, and any restrictions you wish to
propose that may affect the development of your
financial plan.
About Sweep Programs — If you decide to implement
the recommendations you receive through Ameriprise
Financial Services, you understand and agree that
cash balances in your Managed Account(s) or
Ameriprise brokerage account(s), as applicable, will be
held in the money settlement option made available to
you by Ameriprise Financial and that you agreed to in
your Relationship Application for Managed Accounts or
the Brokerage Application for Ameriprise brokerage
accounts, as applicable. These money settlement
options are further described in the Disclosure
About insurance and annuity products — You
understand and acknowledge that with the sale of life,
disability income and long-term care insurance and
annuity products, Ameriprise Financial Services and
the financial advisor from whom you purchase the
product are the appointed agents of the insurer and
receive compensation from the insurer for the sale and
servicing of that product. This compensation is
separate from and in addition to the AFPS fee you pay
for AFPS and may vary depending on the type or size of
the insurance or annuity product that you purchase,
the insurer that issues the product, the total number
of life, disability income and long-term care insurance
and annuity products sold by Ameriprise Financial
Services and/or your financial advisor for that insurer,
and other factors. This compensation typically will
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be based on information that you provide regarding
your financial goals, needs, and priorities.
Additional Information
Disciplinary Information
Below is notice of certain regulatory and legal
settlements entered into by Ameriprise Financial
Services during the last ten years:
Regulatory proceedings
Ameriprise Financial Services entered into each of the
regulatory settlements listed below without admitting or
denying the allegations.
Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) and
FINRA Actions
increase based on the size of the product that you
purchase, or as the total payments that you make on
that product increase. Generally speaking, the
compensation that Ameriprise Financial Services and
your financial advisor will receive depends on a
relative compensation formula. That is, compensation
received from the sale of life, disability income and
long-term care insurance and annuity products is often
greater than from the sale of other financial products
such as mutual funds. As a result, Ameriprise
Financial Services and your financial advisor typically
will have a financial incentive to recommend that you
purchase a life, disability income or long-term care
insurance product or annuity product instead of
another financial product such as a mutual fund. You
are not obligated to purchase an insurance product
from Ameriprise Financial Services or your financial
advisor.
In August 2024, Ameriprise Financial Services reached
a settlement with the SEC in connection with its
industry- wide review of firms’ recordkeeping practices
regarding business-related electronic communications
sent or received by firm personnel using non-approved
channels or methods (“off-channel communications”).
The settlement resolved allegations that, from at least
June 2019, the firm did not maintain or preserve the
substantial majority of off-channel communications
that were records required to be maintained under
federal securities laws and therefore failed to
reasonably supervise its personnel. The firm agreed to
pay a civil penalty amount of $50 million. Prior to the
settlement, the firm retained a compliance consultant
to address certain undertakings outlined in the
settlement and took steps to enhance its policies and
procedures and increase training concerning the use
of approved communications methods.
About retirement accounts — You agree that your
financial advisor may discuss, present or offer ideas
for you to consider related to the allocation of your
retirement assets and that such communications are
offered solely as education, marketing and examples
for the purposes of discussion and for your
independent consideration, and should not be viewed,
construed or relied upon, as investment or fiduciary
recommendations or advice under the Employee
Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 ("ERISA") or
Section 4975 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986,
as amended (the “Internal Revenue Code”). You
understand that such communications should not be
(and are not intended to be) relied upon as a primary
basis for your investment decisions with respect to
your retirement assets. Also, if we provide you with a
sample or proposed asset allocation, including one
that identifies specific securities or other investments,
such asset allocation is merely an example of, or a
proposal for, the fiduciary advice and
recommendations that may potentially be available
and should not be relied upon as investment or
fiduciary advice or a recommendation under ERISA or
the Internal Revenue Code. Also, to the extent an
asset allocation service identifies any specific
investment alternative for your retirement assets,
please note that other investment alternatives with
similar risk and return characteristics may be available
to you.
Privacy Notices
In August 2018, Ameriprise Financial Services reached
a settlement with the SEC regarding allegations that
from 2011 through 2014 the firm failed to adopt and
implement policies and procedures reasonably
designed to safeguard retail investor assets against
misappropriation and failed to reasonably supervise
five representatives with a view to preventing and
detecting violations of certain federal securities laws
by these representatives. The firm agreed to pay a civil
penalty amount of $4.5 million. The firm further
reimbursed all impacted clients for the losses they
incurred due to the misconduct. The firm also took
steps to enhance policies, procedures and controls
related to the safeguarding of client assets against
theft or misappropriation by its associated persons
and voluntarily retained a compliance consultant to
assess and confirm the reasonableness of these
policies, procedures and controls.
Protecting your privacy is a top priority. Visit our
Privacy, Security & Fraud Center at Ameriprise.com to
understand our notices for how we collect, use, share
and protect your personal information as well as to get
answers to privacy-related questions.
In December 2017, Ameriprise Financial Services
reached a settlement with the SEC regarding
allegations that from December 2010 through October
2013, the firm negligently relied on
Married person as AFPS individual client: If you are
married and participating in an AFPS engagement as
an individual, your spouse is not a party to the
Agreement. Your analysis and recommendations will
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misrepresentations made by F- Squared Investments,
Inc. regarding certain of its ETF portfolios and, as a
result, the firm made false statements about the
portfolios in certain advertisements. The SEC also
alleged that the firm had failed to adopt and
implement written compliance policies and procedures
reasonably designed to prevent the alleged violations.
The firm agreed to pay a disgorgement amount of $6.3
million plus prejudgment interest of $700,000 and a
civil penalty amount of $1.75 million.
selling various products including but not limited to
equities and fixed income products. Offerings include
corporate bonds and municipal securities, mutual fund
shares, ETFs, 529 plans, face-amount certificates,
closed-end funds, preferred securities, UITs, non-
traded REITs, non-traded BDCs, non-traded closed- end
funds, hedge fund offerings, structured products, real
estate private placements, exchange funds, private
equity offerings, 1031 exchange offerings, fixed and
variable annuities, and fixed and variable insurance.
Ameriprise Financial Services also sells managed
futures funds that engage in trading commodity
interests, including futures.
In September 2016, Ameriprise Financial Services
reached a settlement with FINRA regarding allegations
that between October 2011 and September 2013 the
firm failed to detect and prevent the conversion, via wire
transfers, of more than $370,000 from five of its
customers by one of its registered representatives.
In addition, Ameriprise Financial Services is the
distributor of the publicly offered face-amount
certificates issued by Ameriprise Certificate
Company.
Ameriprise Financial Services also may serve as an
underwriter or member of a selling group for securities
offerings, including those issued by affiliates.
The customers were family members of the registered
representative. FINRA also alleged this went
undetected because the firm failed to establish,
maintain, and enforce a supervisory system that was
reasonably designed to review and monitor the
transmittal of funds from accounts of customers to
third parties, including those controlled by registered
representatives of the firm. The firm paid restitution a
fine of $850,000.
Other financial industry activities and affiliations
Ameriprise Financial Services is a subsidiary of
Ameriprise Financial, Inc. and conducts its activities
directly and through its affiliates. These activities may
be material to its investment advisory business or its
investment advisory clients. These affiliates include
companies under common control with Ameriprise
Financial Services by virtue of their status as direct or
indirect subsidiaries of Ameriprise Financial, Inc. The
information below provides you an overview of the
Ameriprise Financial, Inc. companies. These
companies work together to offer you financial products
and services designed to help you reach your financial
goals.
Broker-dealer
Retail brokerage services are made available through
Ameriprise Financial Services, which has an agreement
with American Enterprise Investment Services Inc.
(“AEIS”), a registered broker-dealer and an affiliate of
Ameriprise Financial Services. Ameriprise Financial
Services requires clients to agree in their Relationship
Agreement that their account(s) are introduced by
Ameriprise Financial Services to AEIS on a fully-
disclosed basis, and that securities purchase and sale
transactions in their account(s) shall be directed
through AEIS, except when an Investment Manager
places “step-out trades” as described in the
“Brokerage Practices” sub-section. You should
consider that not all investment advisory firms require
clients to direct execution of transactions through a
specific broker- dealer. Brokerage accounts are carried
by, and brokerage transactions are cleared and settled
through, AEIS, subject to AEIS policies to assure that
the resultant price to the client is as favorable as
possible under the prevailing market conditions. See
the Working in Your Best Interest – Regulation Best
Interest Disclosure for more information about
potential conflicts of interest relating to brokerage
transactions.
Ameriprise Financial Services, LLC is a registered
investment adviser and broker-dealer with the SEC and
is authorized to engage in the securities business in
all 50 states as well as the District of Columbia,
Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Ameriprise
Financial Services is also a member of FINRA and the
Securities Investor Protection Corporation (“SIPC”).
For purposes of Form ADV Part 2, certain Ameriprise
Financial Services management persons are registered
representatives of Ameriprise Financial Services in its
capacity as a broker-dealer, registered representatives
of American Enterprise Investment Services Inc., and
are associated persons of Ameriprise Financial
Services in its capacity as a commodity trading
advisor.
Ameriprise Financial Services is registered with the
Commodity Futures Trading Commission (“CFTC”) as a
commodity trading advisor (“CTA”), and has obtained
membership with the National Futures Association
(“NFA”) in connection with such CFTC registration.
In its capacity as a broker-dealer, Ameriprise Financial
Services distributes or receives compensation from
Ameriprise Financial Services approves and opens
accounts and accepts securities order instructions
with respect to the accounts. AEIS serves as
Ameriprise Financial Services’ clearing agent in
providing clearing and settlement services for
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transactions that are executed for customers of
Ameriprise Financial Services. In exchange for a fee
paid by Ameriprise Financial Services, AEIS provides
clearing, custody, record keeping and all clearing
functions for certain advice-based accounts.
Financial Services. Columbia Management and its
affiliates Threadneedle Asset Management Ltd. (U.K.
based), Threadneedle Investments Singapore (Pte.)
Limited (Singapore based), and Columbia
Threadneedle Investments (ME) Limited (Dubai based)
operate under a combined global asset management
brand, Columbia Threadneedle Investments.
In addition, AEIS may act as an agent in effecting
securities transactions for certain Ameriprise Bank
trust accounts.
AMPF Holding Corporation, an indirect wholly-owned
subsidiary of Ameriprise Financial, Inc., is a holding
company for Ameriprise Financial Services and AEIS.
Columbia Management Investment Distributors,
Inc. (“Columbia Management Investment
Distributors”), an indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of
Ameriprise Financial, Inc., is a registered broker-dealer
serving as principal underwriter and distributor of
registered mutual funds and other funds advised by
affiliated companies, Columbia Management
Investment Advisers, LLC (“CMIA”) and Columbia
Wanger Asset Management, LLC, (“Columbia Wanger
Asset Management”) (collectively, “Columbia
Management” or “Columbia”). These funds are
collectively referred to as the “Columbia Funds.”
Investment company
Ameriprise Financial Inc. also has non-US subsidiaries
that provide asset management services. These
include Columbia Threadneedle Management Limited
(“CTML”), Columbia Threadneedle Netherlands B.V.
(“CTLN”), Columbia Threadneedle Business Limited
(“CTBL”), Columbia Threadneedle AM (Asia) Limited
(“CTAMLA”), Columbia Threadneedle (EM) Investments
Limited (“CT (EM)”) and Pyrford International Ltd
(“Pyrford”). Each of CTML, CTLN, CTBL, CTAMLA, CT
(EM) and Pyrford is registered with the appropriate
respective regulators in their home jurisdictions. In
addition, Pyrford is also registered with the SEC as an
investment adviser. Columbia Management Investment
Advisers is also registered with the CFTC as a
commodity pool operator and a CTA and has obtained
membership with the NFA in connection with such CFTC
registration. Threadneedle International Limited is
registered with the CFTC as a CTA and has obtained
membership with the NFA in connection with such
CFTC registration.
Banking institution
Ameriprise Financial Services has arrangements with
Ameriprise Certificate Company to distribute and sell
its face-amount certificates and selling arrangements
with Columbia Management Investment Distributors to
distribute the Columbia Funds.
Investment advisory firm
Columbia Management Investment Advisers, LLC
(“CMIA”), is registered as an investment adviser with
the SEC. CMIA provides investment management
services to:
• Columbia Funds, as well as the Columbia ETFs,
closed-end funds and private funds
•
Ameriprise Certificate Company
• RiverSource, as well as the Columbia Funds
Ameriprise Bank, FSB, a wholly owned subsidiary of
Ameriprise Financial, Inc. and an affiliate of Ameriprise
Financial Services, is a federal savings bank. In
addition to its participation in the AIMMA and ABISA
Sweep Programs, Ameriprise Bank currently makes
available a core set of banking products, including
mortgage financing, co-branded credit cards with an
associated rewards program, savings, certificates of
deposits (“CDs”) and checking accounts and pledged
asset loans. Ameriprise Bank provides personal trust
services to clients, including trustee and investment
management services for asset trust, and investment
management and custodial agency services for
individual, individual trustee, association and non- profit
organization accounts.
underlying certain variable contracts issued by
RiverSource
•
Various wrap program sponsors including
Ameriprise Financial Services
• Other affiliated and unaffiliated clients.
Ameriprise Financial Services establishes custodial
accounts and accepts securities order instructions for
trust accounts at Ameriprise Bank. In addition,
Ameriprise Financial Services may provide investment
advice and research support to Ameriprise Bank and its
clients for these trust accounts.
Trust company
Ameriprise Financial, Inc. has other subsidiaries that
are registered as investment advisers with the SEC,
including, Threadneedle International Limited,
Columbia Wanger Asset Management, and Lionstone
Partners, LLC. These subsidiaries are registered as
investment advisers and may provide advice to
domestic and foreign institutional clients, the
Columbia Funds, Columbia ETFs, Columbia closed-end
funds, private funds and other fiduciary clients. These
entities provide services independent from Ameriprise
Ameriprise Trust Company (“ATC”), a Minnesota-
chartered trust company, provides custodial,
investment management and collective trust fund
services for employer-sponsored retirement plans,
including pension, profit sharing, 401(k) and other
qualified and nonqualified employee retirement plans.
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operations under the joint marketing agreement with
the financial institution. A portion of these fees may be
paid to financial advisors who are employees of the
financial institution, as described below.
ATC also serves as custodian for IRAs, 403(b)s and
some retirement plans qualified under section 401(a)
of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 as well as the
Ameriprise Certificate Company. ATC is not a deposit
bank or a member of FDIC.
Insurance company
All AFIG financial advisors are licensed and registered
through Ameriprise Financial Services. Ameriprise
Financial Services has exclusive control over the
activities conducted on our behalf under the agreement
with the financial institution and is responsible for the
supervision of certain activities of AFIG financial
advisors. AFIG financial advisors are affiliated with
Ameriprise Financial Services in one of three ways:
independent contractors and their personnel,
Ameriprise employee financial advisors and financial
institution employee financial advisors. Financial
advisors employed by the financial institution are
compensated by the financial institution from the
portion of fees and commissions it receives from
Ameriprise Financial Services. In such cases the
financial institution serves as paying agent on our
behalf in accordance with applicable law. The level
of compensation received by financial advisors
employed by the financial institution is based on
their employment agreement with the financial
institution.
Affiliated insurance products sold by Ameriprise
Financial Services and its financial advisors are issued
by RiverSource Life Insurance Company ("RiverSource
Life”), a stock life insurance company that is qualified
to do business as an insurance company in the District
of Columbia, American Samoa and all states except
New York; and in New York only, issued by RiverSource
Life Insurance Co. of New York (“RiverSource Life of
NY”), a stock life insurance company that is qualified to
do business as an insurance company in New York. The
products of RiverSource Life and RiverSource Life of NY
(together, “RiverSource”) include fixed and variable
annuities, structured annuities (RiverSource Life only)
and fixed and variable life insurance, disability income
insurance and life insurance with long-term care
benefits. Insurance products are also offered by other
third parties through an arrangement with Ameriprise
Financial Services and through Diversified Brokerage
Services, Inc., LTCI Partners and Disability Resource
Group, which act as co-general agents.
Ameriprise Financial Services does not pay any
compensation to any non-registered employee or agent
of the financial institution for referrals. Any referral fee
paid by the financial institution to an employee or
agent is a one- time, per-customer fee of a nominal,
fixed dollar amount and is unrelated to the products
and services you purchase.
RiverSource Distributors, Inc. (“RiverSource
Distributors”), a wholly owned subsidiary of Ameriprise
Financial, Inc., is a registered broker-dealer, serving as
principal underwriter and distributor of RiverSource
variable life insurance and annuities on behalf of
RiverSource. Ameriprise Financial Services has selling
arrangements with RiverSource and RiverSource
Distributors to distribute these products.
AFIG financial advisors who provide services at a
financial institution that does not have a Trust
Department can offer trust services through other
providers, including our affiliate, Ameriprise Bank.
Ameriprise Financial Services and the AFIG financial
advisor may serve as a finder relating to trust services
and may receive a referral fee for business referred to
unaffiliated trust providers.
Ameriprise Financial Institutions Group (“AFIG”) is a
business channel within Ameriprise Financial Services
that specializes in delivering investment products and
services to clients of financial institutions, such as
banks and credit unions. Ameriprise Financial Services
enters into a networking arrangement with each
financial institution whereby AFIG financial advisors
provide one or more of our investment advisory
services, brokerage services and insurance products to
clients of the financial institution and other persons or
entities that may be introduced or referred to us by the
financial institution.
Ameriprise Financial Services is not a bank or credit
union. Any services or products you purchase through
an AFIG financial advisor are not guaranteed or
insured by Ameriprise Financial Services or the
financial institution. The financial institution is not a
party to your Relationship Agreement with us.
Ameriprise Financial Services and each financial
institution have entered into a networking agreement
under which we have agreed to share fees and
commissions with the financial institution, including
Asset-based Fees charged for investment advisory
services. Non- registered employees of the financial
institution may also receive compensation for
referring you to Ameriprise Financial Services.
The financial institution provides AFIG financial
advisors joint marketing access to a distinct client
segment, and may provide office space in the building
where it conducts its business. As a part of the
contractual arrangement with the financial institution,
Ameriprise Financial Services shares with the financial
institution a portion of up to 94% of fees and
commissions, including Asset-based Fees charged for
investment advisory services, generated by AFIG
financial advisors that are attributable to our
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How we get paid
heading "Education, Training, Seminar Reimbursement
and noncash compensation") and such payments
increase the gross revenues and net earnings of AEIS.
This section should be read in connection with the
“Services, Fees and Compensation” and/or the
“Client Referrals and Other Compensation” sections
in this Brochure.
Ameriprise Financial Services and its affiliates receive
revenue from several different sources on the products
and services you purchase. These sources include the
fees and charges you pay, other arrangements we
have in place with product companies, and investment
and interest income. The revenue generated or
received supports, in part, the development of new
products, maintenance of our infrastructure, and
retention of employees and financial advisors. Further
on in this Brochure you will find information on how our
financial advisors are paid.
Ameriprise Financial Services has a financial incentive
for its affiliate to continue to maintain these cost
reimbursement arrangements, including arrangements
with Full Participation Firms, and for AEIS to continue
to receive revenue. Because not all investments
provide for cost reimbursement payments, Ameriprise
Financial Services has an incentive to recommend or
select investment products that make such payments
within the Managed Accounts Programs. Ameriprise
Financial Services addresses this conflict of interest
by applying objective due diligence standards and
requiring all mutual funds, ETFs, ETNs, CEFs, UITs and
alternative investments offered in the Programs to
meet these standards.
Cost Reimbursement Services and Third Party
Payments
Payments from product companies
AEIS receives a variety of payments for cost
reimbursement services from affiliated products
sponsored or managed by affiliated investment
advisers (e.g., Columbia Management) and by non-
affiliated investment product companies which
reimburse the costs of beneficial client services
provided by Ameriprise Financial Services and AEIS.
The most significant of these payments are
reimbursement for marketing support received from
the product companies. AEIS receives cost
reimbursement payments from product companies for
the following products: mutual funds, 529 plans,
actively managed ETFs, UITs, non-traded REITs, real
estate private placements, tax-deferred real estate
exchanges, non-traded BDCs, fixed annuities,
variable annuities, structured annuities, fixed
insurance, variable insurance, structured products,
managed futures funds, private equity offerings, non-
traded closed end funds and hedge fund offerings.
AEIS will receive the following types of payments with
respect to the investment products we recommend,
and you select for the investment of your applicable
Managed Account assets. This compensation is used
in part to fund the cost of providing the services,
maintaining Managed Accounts and offering an
investment platform for our clients as well as providing
revenue and net earnings to AEIS. For qualified SPS
Advisor Accounts, inherited IRAs in qualified SPS
Advantage Accounts where a trust has inherited the
IRA and Ameriprise Bank acts as trustee of the trust
and eligible trustee-directed retirement plans in Select
Separate Accounts, AEIS either does not collect Third
Party Payments or credits them back to client
Accounts as described in the “Fees and
Compensation” section.
Ameriprise Financial Services receives cost
reimbursement payments on our affiliated and
unaffiliated annuity and insurance products which are
not eligible investments for Managed Accounts. These
payments are discussed in the remaining paragraphs
of this section.
AEIS performs certain services for the benefit of
Ameriprise Financial Services, its financial advisors
and clients, including but not limited to record
keeping, administration and shareholder servicing
support, applicable platform level eligibility and
investment product due diligence, investment
research, training and education, client telephonic and
other servicing, and other support related functions
such as trading systems, technology updates, asset
allocation and performance reporting tools, websites
and mobile applications (collectively “cost
reimbursement services”). Any cost reimbursement
payments received by AEIS that are paid by product
sponsors out of assets of the investment, such as a
mutual fund or unit investment trust, reduce the
investor return on their investment.
If AEIS and its affiliates did not receive this
compensation, Ameriprise Financial Services would
likely charge higher fees or other charges to clients for
the services provided. When evaluating the
reasonableness of the fees and expenses incurred in a
Managed Account, you should consider not just the
Asset-based Fee, but also the fund-level fees and other
compensation that Ameriprise Financial Services and
its affiliates receive including payments for cost
reimbursement services described in this section and
other cost reimbursement and marketing support
payments received by us and our other affiliates, as
described in the “How we get paid” and the “Revenue
Sources for other Ameriprise Financial, Inc.
companies” sections of this Brochure as applicable.
AEIS also receives revenues that exceed the costs of
the cost reimbursement services provided. These
revenues include cost reimbursement and marketing
support payments (as described below under the
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Mutual Fund and 529 Plan Marketing and Sales
Support Payments.
relationship is established, in order to offset AEIS
expenses for providing cost reimbursement services,
in certain instances the cost reimbursement payments
will initially be structured in the form of an annual flat
fee in addition to 0.20% of assets invested, with the
total dollar amount of such payment not to exceed
$1,250,000.
Mutual fund and 529 plan marketing and sales support
payments are received from certain mutual fund firms.
These payments form a structure referred to here as
the Ameriprise Financial Mutual Fund Program (“Mutual
Fund Program”) with approximately 140 mutual fund
families offered by Ameriprise Financial Services.
The goal at Ameriprise Financial Services is to offer a
wide range of mutual funds using the following criteria:
•
Product breadth and strong-performing funds
•
Financial strength of the firm
• Marketing and sales support payments paid to
our affiliate AEIS to support cost reimbursement
services
•
Ability to provide product support and training to
our financial advisors
•
Tax benefits offered by individual states
• Overall quality of the 529 plan (specific to 529
plans)
Ameriprise financial advisors may offer, and clients
are free to choose, mutual funds from the
approximately 140 fund families available. However,
certain aspects of the Mutual Fund Program create a
conflict of interest or incentive if Ameriprise Financial
Services promotes, or Ameriprise financial advisors
recommend, the mutual funds offered by a firm
participating in the Mutual
Certain Full Participation Firms pay our affiliate AEIS
more marketing support for certain types of mutual
funds. In general, Full Participation Firms offer actively
managed mutual funds that permit for cost
reimbursement payments to be included in the
Investment Costs charged by the mutual fund. The
Investment Costs of actively managed mutual funds
are generally higher than those of (i) passively
managed ETFs which do not make cost reimbursement
payments; and (ii) actively managed ETFs which do
make such payments. Ameriprise Financia Services
has a financial incentive to offer actively managed
mutual funds and ETFs that make cost reimbursement
payments to our affiliate. As a result, Ameriprise
financial advisors may have an indirect incentive to
sell such mutual funds and ETFs. We address this
incentive by offering a full range of investment product
options, including actively managed mutual funds and
both actively and passively managed ETFs. In addition,
we do not offer actively managed ETFs that are clones
of an actively managed mutual fund from the same
firm. A similar actively managed ETF may have a lower
or comparable management fee as an actively
managed mutual fund. Ameriprise further addresses
this conflict of interest by calculating the compensation
paid to our financial advisors for all assets without
regard to the amount of cost reimbursement payments
we or our affiliates receive in connection with client
investments in mutual funds and other investment
products. Additionally, Ameriprise Financial Services
does not share with our financial advisors the cost
reimbursement payments we or our affiliates receive.
Fund Program versus mutual funds offered by
nonparticipating firms. As further described below,
these conflicts and incentives arise from the cost
reimbursement related to Education, Training, Seminar
Reimbursement and noncash compensation, provided
to our financial advisors by, as well as the payments
AEIS receives from, firms participating in the Mutual
Fund Program and with other relationships with firms,
including Columbia Management; see the section
titled “Columbia Funds” below.
If your Account’s Sweep Program uses a money market
mutual fund, AEIS receives cost reimbursement
payments of up to 0.42% of the amount held in that
money market fund Sweep Program. The amount that
AEIS receives may be reduced based on fee waivers
that are imposed by the money market fund firm.
These arrangements vary between firms and may be
subject to change or renegotiation at any time. If a firm
ceases to make cost reimbursement payments,
Ameriprise Financial Services would likely cease the
distribution relationship with the mutual fund firm).
To be included in the Mutual Fund Program, firms have
agreed to pay AEIS a portion of the revenue generated
from the sale and/or management of mutual fund
shares. Full Participation Firms make cost
reimbursement payments at a higher level than do
firms that have arrangements discussed in the “Other
financial relationships” section. For each year a client
holds shares of a particular mutual fund, the mutual
fund’s advisor or distributor may pay to AEIS an
amount based on the value of the collective mutual
fund shares held in clients’ accounts (asset- based
payment). AEIS receives an asset-based payment (up
to 0.20% per year for mutual funds and 0.18% per year
for 529 plans) on some or all of Ameriprise Financial
Services clients’ assets managed by the participating
firms. In instances where a new Full Participation Firm
Full Participation. Thirty firms fully participate in the
Mutual Fund Program. These fund firms include
Columbia Threadneedle Investments, Allspring Funds ,
American Century Investments, Amundi, BlackRock
Funds, BNY Mellon, Delaware Investments, DWS
Investments, Eaton Vance, Eventide Funds, Federated
Hermes, Fidelity, First Eagle Funds, Franklin
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Templeton, Goldman Sachs Asset Management,
Hartford Mutual Funds, Invesco, Janus Henderson
Investors, John Hancock Investments, JP Morgan
Asset Management, Lord Abbett, MainStay Funds,
MFS, Natixis Funds, Neuberger Berman, Nuveen,
Principal, PGIM Investments, Virtus and Voya Funds.
These firms are referred to as “Full Participation Firms.”
For most model investment portfolios in Signature
Wealth and certain SMA strategies in Select Separate
Account, AFS will receive payments of (i) up to $25,000
per investment product per expense; or (ii)
reimbursement of actual costs incurred to reimburse
expenses associated with the implementation of
certain technology platforms or capabilities related to
the distribution of the investment product.
Other financial relationships
We offer 529 plans from nineteen firms. Of those
firms, fifteen are Full Participation Firms. These fund
firms include American Century, BlackRock, Columbia
Threadneedle Investments, Fidelity, Franklin
Templeton, Goldman Sachs, Hartford, Invesco, John
Hancock, J.P. Morgan, MFS, Nuveen, Principal, Virtus
and Voya. Each of these firms is referred to as a “Full
Participation Firm.”
The most current Mutual Fund Program information,
as well as the previous calendar year’s totals of
cost reimbursement payments received from Full
Participation firms, in addition to distribution
support amounts, may be viewed online by visiting
www.ameriprise.com/funds and clicking on “An
Investor’s Guide to Purchasing Mutual Funds and
529 Plans at Ameriprise Financial”.
Distribution Support Relationships. AEIS also has cost
reimbursement arrangements with firms for
distribution support services. These “Available for Sale
Firms” make payments to AEIS for distribution support
but do not provide marketing and sales support, such
as those provided by Full Participation Firms, and make
payments at a lower percentage rate than Full
Participation Firms. These firms make cost
reimbursement payments to AEIS of up to 0.10% on
assets for these services, which support the
distribution of the fund’s shares and 529 plans by
making them available on one or more of Ameriprise
Financial Services platforms. In addition, certain
mutual funds’ distributors pay a fee to AEIS of up to
0.10% for cost reimbursement services provided for
the mutual fund shares purchased during a given period
(sales-based payment). These mutual fund firms do not
provide marketing and sales support such as those
provided by Full Participation Firms to Ameriprise
financial advisors, thus they do not have the same
access to financial advisors as Full Participation Firms.
Ameriprise Financial Services sells 529 plans from
seven firms that do not make cost reimbursement
payments to AEIS. Moreover, 529 plans offered by
these firms are available for sale to in-state residents
only. Those firms are: American Funds, Ascensus,
Invesco, MFS, Orion, Union Bank & Trust and Virtus.
Certain 529 plans may pay AEIS a fee of up to 1% of
assets for NAV rollovers.
Education, Training, Seminar Reimbursement and
noncash compensation. Full Participation Firms
provide to Ameriprise financial advisors and, in some
cases, to their clients, education, training, and
support services relating to the investment products
they offer. These firms may reimburse Ameriprise
Financial Services, and Ameriprise Financial Services
may subsequently reimburse Ameriprise financial
advisors, for client/prospect education events and
financial advisor sales meetings, seminars and
training events, consistent with Ameriprise Financial
Services policies. Ameriprise Financial Services and
its financial advisors may also receive nominal
noncash benefits from time to time. As a result,
Ameriprise financial advisors may have a greater
familiarity with and an incentive to sell investment
products of Full Participation Firms.
The mutual fund’s distributor or affiliate may also make
payments to AEIS for networking and/or omnibus
support and other client services and account
maintenance activities. AEIS will also receive sub-
transfer agency fees with respect to investments you
make in affiliated and non-affiliated mutual funds.
Firms sponsoring alternative investments may also
provide to Ameriprise financial advisors and, in some
cases, to their clients, education, training, and
support services relating to the investment products
they offer.
Payments for Product Implementation and Trading
Technology Expenses.
For most investment products, AEIS will receive
payments of up to $25,000 per investment product per
expense from third-party firms to reimburse expenses
associated with each of (i) conducting due diligence on
the investment product; and (ii) the implementation of
certain technology platforms or capabilities related to
the distribution of the investment product.
These fees vary depending on the mutual fund family and
on whether the mutual fund keeps a separate record for
each account (i.e., networked accounts)
or relies on AEIS’s recordkeeping (i.e., omnibus
accounts). Compensation for sub-transfer agency
services range up to $12 per position annually for
networked accounts, and up to $19 per position annually
for omnibus accounts or, if paid on an asset basis, from
0.10% to 0.15% annually of any amounts you have
invested in such mutual funds. In the case of certain no-
load fund families for which AEIS has a direct
relationship, the compensation for sub-accounting,
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administrative and distribution support services may be
bundled into one asset-based fee of up to 0.35% (which
may include a service fee up to a 0.25%) annually of the
value of such shares held in an Account.
American Funds are generally no longer available for
new purchases in Ameriprise brokerage accounts
(other than add-on purchases into existing positions,
which may continue), and thus new investments of
American Funds can generally only be executed in our
Managed Account Programs.
Ameriprise Preferred Line of Credit and Loan AEIS
receives compensation from Ameriprise Bank, FSB for
its Ameriprise Preferred Line of Credit and Loan support
services.
Payments from other non-affiliated product
companies
AEIS and its affiliates may have other relationships
with firms whose mutual funds Ameriprise Financial
Services offers. These relationships may include
affiliates of firms acting as a sub-adviser to CMIA,
CMIA acting as a sub-adviser to a third-party firm, or
affiliates of a firm managing an investment portfolio
within another Ameriprise Financial Services or
affiliated product, such as a RiverSource variable
annuity. Firms may use CMIA to manage an underlying
investment option in products offered through the
Mutual Fund Program.
AEIS has a cost reimbursement agreement with
BlackRock Advisors, LLC with respect to mutual fund
positions held by Ameriprise Financial Services
customers. BlackRock, Inc. owns more than 5% of the
outstanding shares of Ameriprise Financial, Inc. stock.
Our affiliate CMIA has a sub-transfer agent agreement
with Vanguard Group, Inc. with respect to the
distribution of its investment products. Vanguard
Group, Inc. owns more than 5% of the outstanding
shares of Ameriprise Financial, Inc. stock.
Payments from actively managed ETF sponsors. For
certain actively managed ETFs offered for purchase in
Ameriprise Managed Accounts, AEIS receives from the
ETF manager or distributor both (i) ongoing asset-
based cost reimbursement payments of up to 0.18%
of the assets invested in these products; and (ii) an
annual flat program fee of up to $400,000 per
manager or distributor. AEIS receives these payments
to help promote and support the offer, sale and
servicing of actively managed ETFs. These payments
form a structure referred to as the Ameriprise Financial
ETF Program (“ETF Program”) and compensate AEIS for
the costs of maintaining the ETF Program. Firms
participating in the ETF Program are granted full access
to Ameriprise Financial Services and our financial
advisors to provide direct financial advisor education
or sales support to promote their products. Passively
managed ETFs and actively managed ETFs that are
classified as Eligible to Hold Investments or Ineligible
Investments do not participate in the ETF Program, do
not have access to financial advisors for education or
sales support and do not make cost reimbursement
payments, as summarized below. As a result,
Columbia Funds. AEIS and other affiliates of
Ameriprise Financial Services provide certain
administrative and transfer agent services to the
Columbia Funds owned by Ameriprise Financial
Services clients. Ameriprise Financial Services and its
affiliates generally receive more revenue from sales of
affiliated mutual funds than from sales of other
mutual funds. Employee compensation and operating
goals at all levels of the company are tied to the
company’s success. Certain employees may receive
higher compensation and other benefits based, in
part, on assets invested in affiliated mutual funds.
Participate
in ETF
Program
Yes
Access to
Ameriprise
financial
advisors
Yes
Make cost
reimburse-
ment
payments
Yes
Actively
managed
ETFs offered
for purchase
No
No
No
Actively
managed
ETFs that are
classified as
Eligible to
Hold
Investments
or Ineligible
Investments
No
No
No
Passively
managed
ETFs
American Funds. For both affiliated an unaffiliated
mutual funds we offer, AEIS receives cost
reimbursement payments from mutual fund firms of up
to 0.20% of assets invested in those funds. With most
mutual fund firms, these payments are paid on an
ongoing basis and determined solely based on total
assets invested in the funds of a particular fund family
held in clients’ accounts. Rather than determining the
amount of the payment solely on an asset-based basis,
American Funds pays AEIS an annual negotiated
platform fee based on a number of factors, including
prior year assets, in accordance with their prospectus
governing each mutual fund. This platform fee will not
exceed 0.20% of assets and will also not exceed the
limits set forth in the prospectus governing each fund.
You can find the total dollar amounts we receive
annually from American Funds, as of the previous
calendar year, by visiting www.ameriprise.com/funds
and clicking on “An Investor’s Guide to Purchasing
Mutual Funds and 529 Plans at Ameriprise Financial.”
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Ameriprise financial advisors may have greater
familiarity with and an indirect incentive to sell ETFs
participating in the ETF Program. Ameriprise Financial
Services addresses this incentive as described above
in the “Mutual Fund and 529 Plan Marketing and
Sales Support Payments” sub-section.
These companies may also provide support to an
Ameriprise Financial Services internal sales desk,
which in turn provides support to financial advisors. As
a result, Ameriprise financial advisors may have a
greater familiarity with RiverSource insurance and
annuity products and the unaffiliated insurance
companies who provide added educational support.
Payments from alternative investments sponsors.
AEIS, in consideration for its cost reimbursement
services, may receive ongoing investor service and
support fee payments from product sponsors of
alternative investments available in Ameriprise
Managed Accounts. Depending on the product
sponsor, AEIS will receive payments of up to 0.25% of
the assets invested in these products.
Generally, unaffiliated insurance companies that issue
annuities and life and disability income insurance
policies do not provide direct client or financial advisor
education or sales support, other than product training
materials, product sales literature and addressing
client service issues. However, in some instances
direct financial advisor product education may occur.
As a result, Ameriprise financial advisors may have a
greater familiarity with RiverSource products.
From unaffiliated long-term care insurance product
manufacturers, AEIS receives payments up to 27.5% of
the commissionable premium. AEIS receives varying
payments from unaffiliated life, disability and other
insurance product manufacturers.
Payments from structured products sponsors. AEIS
receives cost reimbursement for the sale of structured
products. Depending on the structured product, AEIS
will receive payments between 0.25% and 0.60% of
the amount you invest, multiplied by the product’s
term up to a maximum of 1.6%. For example, a
structured note with a three-year term and a 0.40%
payout could have an upfront payment of 1.2% (three
years x 0.40%).
Payments for financial advisor support. Separately,
for alternative investment products, AEIS will receive
marketing and sales support payments in the form of
an optional subscription for financial advisor support
for a fixed annual fee of up to $250,000, which when
combined with the payments described above for
these types of investment products may exceed the
ranges noted.
Payments from UIT sponsors. Certain UIT sponsors
with which AEIS has agreements may pay AEIS cost
reimbursement payments to help promote and support
the offer, sale and servicing of UITs. These UIT
sponsors are granted full access to Ameriprise
Financial Services and our financial advisors to
provide direct financial advisor education or sales
support to promote their products. UIT sponsors
without such agreements do not provide direct
financial advisor education or sales support, thus they
do not have the same access to financial advisors as
full access firms. Such marketing and sales support
may create a conflict of interest if Ameriprise Financial
Services promotes, or Ameriprise financial advisors
recommend, the UITs from UIT sponsors that have
been granted full access versus UITs offered by
nonparticipating firms. These conflicts may arise from
the marketing and sales support provided to our
financial advisors by, as well as the payments AEIS
receives from, firms that have entered into such
agreements. AEIS will receive both a fixed dollar
amount of cost reimbursement payments, based in
part on projected UIT sales, as well as sales-based
volume concessions. The total amount of these
payments will not exceed 0.20% of total UIT sales.
Payments from insurance companies. Cost
reimbursement payments are received by Ameriprise
Financial Services and/or its affiliate, AEIS, from
affiliated and unaffiliated insurance companies.
Ameriprise Financial Services sells annuity and
insurance products to its clients manufactured by its
affiliate, RiverSource, as well as from select
unaffiliated insurance companies.
RiverSource and potentially other unaffiliated insurance
companies may be permitted to reimburse Ameriprise
Financial Services or AEIS, and these entities may
subsequently reimburse Ameriprise financial advisors,
for client/ prospect educational events and financial
advisor sales meetings, seminars, and training events
consistent with Ameriprise Financial Services and AEIS
policies, as applicable.
Mutual Funds & ETFs Available to Investment
Managers. Investment Managers that construct
investment strategies utilizing mutual funds and ETFs
may utilize any mutual fund or ETF available for sale in
our Programs provided the fund selected meets
operational and other requirements designed to
facilitate transaction execution and ensure timely order
processing. Ameriprise Financial Services does not
require Investment Managers to limit the mutual funds
and ETFs utilized to only those that a financial advisor
may recommend to a client in an SPS Advantage or
SPS Advisor account or for a nondiscretionary mutual
fund or ETF transaction in an Investor Unified Account
or Vista Separate Account. Mutual funds and ETFs
available for financial advisor recommendations are
subject to initial and ongoing due diligence by the IRG
based on a quantitative and qualitative process.
Investment Managers are responsible for conducting
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funds sponsored or managed by firms in the ETF
Program and ETFs available for sale at Ameriprise.
Approximately 2,100 mutual funds are eligible for
inclusion on the Starting Point List. The primary
universe of mutual funds includes only mutual funds
sponsored or managed by Full Participation Firms in
the Mutual Fund Program. If a suitable mutual fund
recommendation for a particular asset class cannot be
found within the Full Participation Firms’ offerings, the
IRG will proceed to look for mutual fund options
sponsored or managed by Available for Sale Firms.
their own independent due diligence and research on
the mutual funds and ETFs utilized in constructing an
SMA investment strategy or model portfolio available
through the Programs. This may result in an
Investment Manager reaching a different opinion for a
particular mutual fund or ETF than the opinion of the
IRG on that same investment. The IRG conducts initial
and ongoing due diligence on Investment Managers
available through the Programs and provides
recommendations to the Oversight Committee on
matters including due diligence findings that could
result in a recommendation for termination. Mutual
funds meeting the operational and other requirements
noted above primarily consist of mutual funds from
“Full Participation Firms.” AEIS receives cost
reimbursement payments from the fund family when
Investment Managers select mutual funds from “Full
Participation Firms” for an investment strategy. The
amount of any cost reimbursement payments AEIS
receives from mutual fund firms is not considered in
determining which funds are available to Investment
Managers. Investment Managers do not have access
to specific information on which mutual funds are
offered by “Full Participation Firms” or the rate of
reimbursement a “Full Participation Firm” pays AEIS
for cost reimbursement services.
While the Starting Point List is developed by evaluating
the performance characteristics of each fund’s Class A
shares, the analysis is ultimately intended to apply at
the mutual fund level. Mutual funds included on the
Starting Point List may or may not offer an Advisory
Share class or other share class that is available
in our Managed Accounts Programs. As a result,
Managed Account clients may be unable to purchase a
fund on the Starting Point List. Similarly, Ameriprise
brokerage account clients may be unable to purchase
a mutual fund on the Starting Point List if that fund
does not offer a share class available in Ameriprise
brokerage accounts. In addition, some mutual funds
included on the Starting Point List may offer lower-cost
share classes than the Advisory Share class or other
share class available in Managed Account Programs.
You should consider whether you may be eligible to
purchase these lower- cost share classes outside the
Programs.
These eligibility criteria are designed by Ameriprise
Financial Services to primarily include, and therefore
favor, mutual funds from Full Participation Firms. To be
included in the Mutual Fund Program and be eligible
for inclusion on the Starting Point List, each Full
Participation Firm must meet a number of criteria that
consider product breadth and strong-performing funds,
financial strength of the firm and the ability to provide
education and training to Ameriprise financial advisors,
including marketing and sales support services
relating to the funds they offer. Full Participation Firms
have also agreed to pay our affiliate, AEIS, a portion of
the revenue generated from the sale and/or
management of fund shares as further described
above.
The universe of mutual funds eligible for purchase in
Signature Wealth generally represents a sub-set of the
funds that appear on the Starting Point List or are
otherwise sponsored or managed by Full Participation
Firms that make cost reimbursement payments to
AEIS. The list of eligible funds for Signature Wealth is
therefore designed to primarily include, and therefore
favor, mutual funds from Full Participation Firms.
Mutual Fund & ETF Recommended list (“Starting
Point List") Ameriprise financial advisors may make
mutual fund recommendations based on a group of
funds that appear on the Starting Point List. Financial
advisors are not required to use the Starting Point List
as their source for mutual fund and ETF
recommendations, and mutual funds contained on the
Starting Point List may not be equally available across
both Managed Accounts and Ameriprise brokerage
accounts. All ETFs and mutual funds offered by Full
Participation Firms or Available for Sale Firms, as
further discussed below, must meet Ameriprise
Financial Services’ due diligence standards to be
eligible for inclusion on the Starting Point List. In
developing the Starting Point List, the IRG applies a
quantitative and qualitative evaluation process that
includes an analysis of a fund’s returns, risk and
expenses; the tenure and quality of the investment
team; the soundness of the process and consistent
implementation; and the overarching health of the
organization. Certain mutual funds and ETFs that
would have otherwise been included on Starting Point
were excluded due to their high investment minimums.
Client suitability must be considered when trading
mutual funds and ETFs, including breakpoint discount
eligibility and NAV transfer ability. The funds on the
Starting Point List are subject to change periodically,
however changes to the Starting Point List should not
be the sole reason to prompt trading.
The Starting Point List is developed by the IRG based
on eligibility criteria established by Ameriprise
Financial Services. The universe of ETFs includes
Available for Sale Firms make payments at a lower
percentage rate than Full Participation Firms. They do
not have the same wholesaling access to financial
advisors as Full Participation Firms. As a result,
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such as non-traded REITs, the sales charge you pay
may also include a portion of the distribution,
organization and offering fees and expenses. See the
Working in Your Best Interest – Regulation Best Interest
Disclosure for more information about costs,
compensation and potential conflicts of interest
relating to brokerage products and services.
Periodic Fees. Periodic fees include IRA custodial
fees, brokerage fees (i.e., account maintenance and
order handling fees), and a portion of the fees
associated with certain banking products and services
(i.e., personal trust services).
Periodic expenses. Periodic expenses are paid from
product assets, such as 12b-1 shareholder servicing
fees paid from mutual fund assets (including 12b-1
fees paid on certain funds that serve as underlying
investment options for 529 plan assets) and
distribution fees paid from Ameriprise Certificate
Company assets. 12b-1 shareholder servicing fees
assessed in Ameriprise brokerage accounts may be
used to pay for marketing, distribution and shareholder
service expenses. Any 12b-1 shareholder servicing
fees received for the share class utilized in Managed
Accounts will be rebated to clients.
Ameriprise financial advisors may have a greater
familiarity with and an incentive to sell funds of Full
Participation Firms. The payments made to AEIS by
Full Participation Firms and Available for Sale Firms
reimburse the costs of client beneficial services
provided by Ameriprise Financial Services and AEIS to
financial advisors and clients, including but not limited
to distribution, marketing, administration and
shareholder servicing support, due diligence, training
and education, and other support related functions
(e.g., cost reimbursement services) and increase the
revenues and profitability of AEIS. The most significant
of these payments are reimbursement for marketing
support received from Full Participation Firms and
other product companies. Full Participation Firms
make cost reimbursement payments at a higher
percentage rate than do Available for Sale Firms. This
presents a conflict of interest as Full Participation
Firms pay AEIS more revenue than Available for Sale
Firms, and thus AEIS earns more revenue from the
purchase of mutual funds offered by Full Participation
Firms than from the purchase of mutual funds offered
by Available for Sale Firms. Clients may choose to
follow the recommendations provided by their
Ameriprise financial advisor or they may select from
any of the other funds offered through Ameriprise
Financial Services regardless of whether that fund
appears on the Starting Point List. More information
on the Full Participation Firms that participate in the
Program, specific arrangements we have with them,
and conflicts of interest or incentives that exist for
Ameriprise Financial Services to promote (and for
Ameriprise financial advisors to recommend) one fund
over another fund is provided on our website at
ameriprise.com/funds and click "Purchasing Mutual
Funds Through Ameriprise."
Ameriprise Preferred Line of Credit and Ameriprise
Preferred Loan. Ameriprise Financial Services receives
compensation from Ameriprise Bank of 0.25% of the
outstanding balance on the credit line or loan on an
annualized basis. This amount is shared with your
Ameriprise financial advisor based on how your advisor
is affiliated with us and on the payout rate for which
your financial advisor qualifies. These affiliations and
compensation structures are described in the "How
Our Financial Advisors Get Paid" section of this
Brochure.
Revenue Sources for Ameriprise Financial Services,
LLC Financial planning and advisory service fees
These are fees you pay for financial planning and fee-
based investment advisory account services,
respectively.
Ameriprise Bank Savings Account and CDs.
Ameriprise Financial Services receives compensation
from Ameriprise Bank of 0.05% of the average monthly
balance, on an annualized basis. This amount is
shared with your Ameriprise financial advisor based on
how your advisor is affiliated with us and on the payout
rate for which your financial advisor qualifies. These
affiliations and compensation structures are described
in the "How Our Financial Advisors Get Paid"
section of this Brochure.
Payments for referrals to structured settlements
annuity brokers. Ameriprise Financial Services receives
a fee, shared with financial advisors, for referrals to
non- affiliated structured settlement professionals for
both client and non-client referrals. The amount and
basis for the referral fee varies by relationship
multiplied by the notional sales amount of the product.
Ameriprise brokerage account sales charges.
Sales charges, commissions and/or selling
concessions are paid when you buy or sell equities or
fixed income products including corporate bonds and
municipal securities, mutual funds, ETFs, 529 plans,
closed- end funds, preferred securities, UITs, non-
traded REITs, non-traded BDCs, non-traded closed-end
funds, hedge fund offerings, exchange funds, private
equity offerings, managed futures funds, real estate
private placement offerings and structured products. In
addition, you may pay a markup or markdown in bond
transactions executed in a principal capacity with
AEIS. These charges vary by product and product type.
Underwriters’ compensation. Ameriprise Financial
Services receives a fee comprised of a selling
concession, management fee, underwriting fee, and in
some cases, a structuring fee for the sale of initial
For example, with respect to mutual funds, the sales
charge for a stock mutual fund is typically greater than
that for a bond mutual fund. For other product types
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public offerings (“IPOs”) such as closed-end funds and
preferred securities. The specific amounts vary by
individual offering, and are disclosed in the prospectus
of each offering.
Any 12b-1 fees received by Ameriprise Financial
Services for mutual funds held in any Managed
Accounts will be rebated to clients, and financial
advisors do not receive compensation from 12b-1 fees
assessed on mutual funds held in Managed Accounts.
For brokerage accounts, both Ameriprise Financial
Services and individual financial advisors are
compensated when clients buy mutual funds through
Ameriprise Financial Services. Generally, financial
advisors receive a portion of the sales charge and
12b-1 fees paid to the firm in connection with mutual
fund purchases for as long as clients own the mutual
fund shares. Sales charges and 12b-1 fees vary from
mutual fund to mutual fund and from share class to
share class. Ameriprise Financial Services and the
financial advisor receive more compensation on fund
or share classes that pay higher fees.
Transaction charges. Ameriprise Financial Services
does not assess online transactions charges in
Managed Accounts to financial advisors. Franchisee
financial advisors are assessed a transaction charge
if entering an order by phone for SPS Advantage or
SPS Advisor accounts. For employee financial
advisors, this transaction charge is assessed to the
employee’s branch, and not paid by the advisor. Direct
payment by the financial advisor of phone-in
transaction charges may be a disincentive for a
franchisee financial advisor to recommend an SPS
Advantage or SPS Advisor account or to recommend
trades in the account(s).
Ameriprise Financial Services and the financial advisor
generally receive less compensation when the sales
charge and/or 12b-1 fee is reduced, waived completely,
or where there is no sales charge or 12b-1 fee.
Therefore, for brokerage accounts there is an incentive
for our financial advisors to sell a fund that pays a
load or a fund that pays a 12b-1 fee over funds that
do not.
For Managed Accounts, Ameriprise financial advisors
pay the same mutual fund transaction rate for orders
entered by phone for all mutual fund firms. Not all
mutual fund families are available for purchase in a
Managed Account. For more information about
payments and potential conflicts of interest, please
see the applicable prospectus, term sheet, application
or other client disclosure forms.
Distribution Access Fees
As described above, Ameriprise Financial Services
directs securities purchase and sale transactions
through our affiliate, AEIS, on a fully disclosed basis. In
exchange, Ameriprise Financial Services receives
reimbursements from AEIS for our non-distribution
related expenses.
Ameriprise Financial Services and Ameriprise financial
advisors are paid in different ways for helping you
choose mutual funds, depending on the type of fund,
amount invested, and share class purchased.
Financial advisors receive compensation only from
12b-1 fees for mutual funds held in brokerage
accounts. Ameriprise Financial Services and financial
advisors receive more compensation for sales of
certain types of products, such as insurance, rather
than others.
Financial interest in products
Economic benefits of affiliates’ products and services
Ameriprise Financial Services has a financial interest
in the sales of proprietary products that are
manufactured by its affiliates. Ameriprise Financial
Services and its affiliates receive more revenue from
the sale of some financial products and services,
particularly those products and services sold under
the Ameriprise, Columbia Threadneedle Investments
and RiverSource brands, than for the sale of other
products and services.
As with all financial services firms, a portion of our
revenue and compensation can generate a profit for the
firm. The revenue and compensation we receive helps
us cover our expenses in providing and servicing these
products and services. Employee and financial advisor
compensation and operating goals at all levels of
Ameriprise Financial, Inc. are tied to the success of its
businesses. As a result, certain incentives and conflicts
of interest may exist for Ameriprise Financial Services,
our affiliates and our financial advisors if you purchase
certain products or services recommended by your
financial advisor.
Generally, among other things, Ameriprise Financial
Services and our affiliates will receive:
Generally, Ameriprise Financial Services receives more
revenue for securities or products sold in a fee-based
account than for those sold with only a sales charge or
commission. Higher revenue generally results in greater
profitability for Ameriprise Financial Services. Employee
compensation (including management and field leader
compensation) and operating goals at all levels of the
company are tied to the company’s success.
• More revenue, in aggregate, from the purchase of
products sponsored or managed by Ameriprise,
Columbia Management and RiverSource
(“proprietary products”) than from the purchase of
products sponsored or managed by firms that
aren’t affiliated with Ameriprise Financial, Inc.
(“nonproprietary products”). Ameriprise Financial
Management, sales leaders and other employees
generally spend more of their time and resources
promoting Ameriprise, Columbia Threadneedle
Investments and RiverSource branded products and
services.
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Services actively promotes the products of our
affiliates through advertising, direct mail, and
product support and training events.
• More revenue from the purchase of products and
services than from Asset-based Fees.
• More revenue from products and services that
generate ongoing revenue streams, such as
mutual funds that pay ongoing 12b-1 fees, an
investment advisory account service, and
insurance and annuity products with mortality and
expense charges.
• More revenue as the size of any margin account or
• More from certain sales incentive programs to
increase overall assets under management.
Ameriprise Preferred Line of Credit balance
increases.
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• More revenue when you purchase certain types of
products, such as insurance and annuity products
and direct investments.
Less on individual purchases within a transaction-
based brokerage account because of the higher
transaction charges your financial advisor pays on
these accounts compared to a fee-based
investment advisory account.
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Less when a sales charge or commission is
reduced or waived completely, or where there is no
sales charge.
• More revenue from products and services that
generate ongoing revenue streams, such as
mutual funds that pay ongoing 12b-1 fees, an
investment advisory account service, and
insurance and annuity products with mortality and
expense charges.
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• More revenue when you purchase shares of
Typically, less when you exchange an existing
annuity contract, mutual fund or insurance policy for
certain like or similar products from the same
company, unless you have held the existing product
for a certain period of time.
mutual funds or 529 plans from Full Participation
Firms than from firms with other distribution
support relationships, as described in the
“Cost Reimbursement Services and
Third Party Payments” section of this Brochure.
• More revenue when you purchase investment
• More revenue if you purchase securities on margin
that you could not otherwise purchase in a cash
account.
• A higher payout rate based on the level of product
sales, on the number of financial plans sold, and
on higher face value and/or death benefit amount
for certain insurance products.
• More when you move accounts (including
products for which we receive cost reimbursement
payments or have similar financial arrangements,
as described in the “Cost Reimbursement
Services and Third Party Payments” and
“Revenue Sources for Ameriprise Financial
Services, LLC” sections of this Brochure.
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retirement plan accounts) from another institution
to Ameriprise Financial Services, CMIA or
RiverSource.
Less revenue when a sales charge or commission
is reduced or waived completely, or where there is
no sales charge.
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• More revenue when you move assets (including
If your financial advisor is a shareholder of
Ameriprise Financial through our deferred
compensation program, more compensation the
more profitable the firm is.
• Compensation for servicing trust accounts held
retirement plan accounts) from another institution
to Ameriprise Financial Services or RiverSource or
into a product managed by Columbia Management
or another affiliate.
with Ameriprise Bank.
Generally, among other things, your financial advisor
may earn:
• Compensation for performing certain activities
associated with your mortgage if that loan is
purchased and serviced by Ameriprise Bank.
• More depending on how your financial advisor is
affiliated with Ameriprise Financial Services, as
described in the “How our financial advisors get
paid” section of this Brochure.
• More on the sale of certain fixed life and disability
• Compensation for providing services related to your
Ameriprise Preferred Line of Credit based on an
annualized fixed percentage of the client’s average
daily outstanding balance.
• Compensation for your Ameriprise Bank Savings
insurance products because of special
compensation programs that provide increasing
levels of compensation the more a financial advisor
sells of these products from each individual
insurance company.
Account and CD balances based on an annualized
fixed percentage of the client’s average monthly
balance.
• More on the purchase of annuity and insurance
products and direct investments, because they are
more complex than other products and take more
time to service.
• Compensation for marketing that leads to your
opening of a co-branded credit card account
provided you activate the card and meet the initial
spend requirements.
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• Compensation for marketing that leads to your
opening of an Ameriprise Bank Checking Account
provided you meet the initial funding and other
balance duration requirements.
• Compensation for the sale or renewal of
Ameriprise Certificates.
Financial advisors are required to take training on
complex products developed by Ameriprise Financial
Services and its affiliates and non-affiliated product
manufacturers, prior to soliciting certain insurance
and annuity products and a targeted subset of
nonproprietary products.
securities suitable for or held by clients, in no case will
holdings of Ameriprise Financial, Inc., its subsidiaries or
their employees or directors be directly sold to or
purchased from Ameriprise Bank’s trust accounts. AEIS,
an affiliate of Ameriprise Financial Services, may buy or
sell for its own account securities that Ameriprise
Financial Services may recommend for Ameriprise
Bank’s trust accounts. Ameriprise Financial Services
does not anticipate that conflicts of interest will arise
because we have adopted policies and procedures
prohibiting Ameriprise Financial Services and our related
persons from engaging in trading activity that creates a
conflict of interest with our clients, as discussed in the
“Code of Ethics, Participation or Interest in
Transactions and Personal Trading” section.
How our financial advisors get paid
An Ameriprise financial advisor is assigned to every
investment advisory service. Ameriprise financial
advisors have a wide range of business and
educational backgrounds. They are required to have
appropriate licenses and registrations to transact
business, including Financial Industry Regulatory
Authority (“FINRA”) registration, required state
securities and insurance licenses and carrier
appointments, and, where required, a state investment
adviser representative registration.
Additional general product training is available and
specific product training is required for a number of
complex products, including Columbia Threadneedle
Investments and RiverSource branded products. It is
likely that a product recommendation from your
financial advisor will be drawn from the universe of
products on which they were trained. Ameriprise
Financial Services may enter into strategic alliances
with companies that offer products or services that
Ameriprise Financial Services and its financial
advisors do not sell. As part of those alliances,
Ameriprise financial advisors may receive gifts or non-
cash compensation from the other companies, which
are subject to SEC and FINRA regulations as well as
Ameriprise Financial Services’ internal compliance
policies.
Many financial advisors hold advanced academic
degrees and/or professional designations, including
Certified Financial Planner™ (CFP®) designation. In
addition, ongoing training is available to financial
advisors. For additional important information
about an advisor check FINRA BrokerCheck at
www.finra.org/brokercheck or call 800.289.9999.
Some, but not all, of the financial planning software
tools available for use by your financial advisor were
developed by Ameriprise Financial Services or by
unaffiliated third parties and may make it more
convenient for your financial advisor to select
proprietary products.
Most Ameriprise financial advisors are also appointed
agents of RiverSource Life and, in New York only,
RiverSource Life of New York, affiliates of Ameriprise
Financial Services.
Your financial advisor earns a living by providing you
with financial advice and product recommendations to
suit your goals. To understand how your financial
advisor gets paid, you should first know that there are
four ways Ameriprise financial advisors can be
affiliated with us.
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Independent contractor franchisees. These
financial advisors are not employed by Ameriprise
Financial Services and they do not receive a salary
from us.
• Employee financial advisors. These financial
advisors are employed by Ameriprise Financial
Services.
Ameriprise Financial Services grants RiverSource
access to Ameriprise financial advisors and provides
RiverSource with limited information related to
Ameriprise clients to promote sales of RiverSource
products and to assist financial advisors in
understanding the features and benefits of those
products. Ameriprise Financial Services does not grant
this access to other non- affiliated companies offering
similar products, thus they do not have the same
access to financial advisors as RiverSource.
• Associate financial advisors. These financial
advisors are employed by or contract with the
independent contractor franchisees and they do
not receive a salary or other compensation from
Ameriprise Financial Services.
• Financial institution employee financial
Additionally, it is possible that Ameriprise Bank would
send an order on behalf of a trust account to AEIS and
at the same time AEIS would execute the opposite
order for a brokerage client. Investments may be made
for Ameriprise Bank’s trust accounts in which
Ameriprise Financial Services or its related persons
have a position or interest. Although Ameriprise
Financial Services and its related persons may own
advisors. These financial advisors are employed
by the financial institution where they provide
services and are compensated by the financial
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Envestnet in the Vista Separate Account Program may
become available in our Select Separate Account
Program.
institution from the portion of fees and
commissions it receives from Ameriprise Financial
Services. The financial institution serves as paying
agent for such compensation on our behalf in
accordance with applicable law. Financial
institution employee financial advisors’
compensation is based on their employment
agreement with the financial institution.
All Ameriprise financial advisors are licensed
registered representatives. Depending on the
affiliation, our financial advisors are compensated
differently. Financial advisors may choose to change
how they are affiliated with Ameriprise Financial
Services over time.
Salary
For Select Separate Accounts and SMA investment
portfolios within Signature Wealth, each Advisory
Service Provider enters into a master investment
advisory agreement with Ameriprise Financial Services,
and we pay the Advisory Service Provider the Manager
Fee for its investment management services. For Vista
Separate Accounts that are available through
Envestnet, each Advisory Service Provider enters into a
sub-management agreement with Envestnet, and
Envestnet pays the Advisory Service Provider directly
for their investment management services. As a result,
the same Advisory Service Provider may earn more or
less in investment management fees from Envestnet
than from Ameriprise Financial Services for the same
investment strategy available in the Select Separate
Account Program.
In addition to the fees described below, employee
financial advisors may receive a salary or wage from
Ameriprise Financial Services. Associate financial
advisors may receive either a salary or a flat fee from
the independent contractor franchisee for whom they
work, at the discretion of the employing or contracting
independent contractor franchisee.
Financial advisors may also have the potential to
receive bonus compensation.
Asset-based Fees and Compensation
The components of the Asset-based Fee you pay is
shared between Ameriprise Financial Services and your
financial advisor as further described below.
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Ameriprise Financial Services has managed this
conflict by migrating all applicable existing client
assets from the Vista Separate Account Program into
the Select Separate Account Program and mitigates
this potential conflict of interest in the future by
disallowing any duplicative investment strategies in
the Vista Separate Account Program and the Select
Separate Account Program. Specifically, we will (i)
close any duplicative investment strategies in the
Vista Separate Account Program to new clients prior to
offering such investment strategies in the Select
Separate Account Program; (ii) generally allow pending
Vista Separate Account Program Accounts for existing
clients, and in certain instances new clients, to
continue to be processed for transition purposes; and
(iii) subsequently migrate such Vista Separate Account
strategies into the same investment strategy in the
Select Separate Account Program.
The actual portion of the Advisory Fee paid to your
financial advisor depends on the payout rate for which
your financial advisor qualifies and the amount of
Advisory Fees you pay. Only the Advisory Fee is shared
with your financial advisor.
A portion of the Advisory Fee, including the AFPS
Fee, if applicable, is paid to your financial advisor
for introducing you to the service, gathering the
information necessary to prepare your service,
helping you establish needs and goals, preparing
and presenting your service, and/or providing
financial advice on behalf of Ameriprise Financial
Services. The remaining portion of the Advisory
Fee goes to Ameriprise Financial Services for the
supervisory, technical, administrative, and other
support that is provided to all financial advisors,
as further discussed in the “Fees and
Compensation” section.
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The Manager Fee sub-component of the Asset-
based Fee is separately itemized, compensates
the Advisory Service Provider and is not shared
with Ameriprise Financial Services or your financial
advisor.
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Independent contractor franchisees generally
receive 72% to 91%, and employee financial
advisors generally receive 0% to 46%, of the
Advisory Fee (the “advisor payout rate”). In
addition, the financial advisor may qualify for a
bonus which could increase the effective advisor
payout rate up to 91% for independent contractor
franchisees and 57% for employee financial
advisors, respectively.
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The Platform Fee sub-component of the Asset-
based Fee compensates Ameriprise Financial
Services and is not shared with your financial
advisor. For Signature Wealth Accounts a portion
of the Platform Fee is passed through to the
Signature Wealth Investment Manager.
Financial institution employee financial advisors
generally receive 0% to 91% of the Advisory Fee
based on their employment agreement with the
financial institution.
From time to time, an Advisory Service Provider’s
investment strategy that is currently available through
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advisor sells increasing amounts of life and disability
income insurance products issued by that insurer.
If you are a client of the Ameriprise Advisor Center,
your financial advisor does not receive a portion of
the Advisory Fee but may receive compensation in
the form of a bonus based in part on revenue
generated through your Advisory Fee.
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In instances where a customer already owns a
financial product sold by Ameriprise Financial Services,
the amount of a financial advisor’s compensation may
vary in connection with the sale of an additional or
replacement product, due to formulas relating to the
cancellation of a product that is already owned.
In general, fees generated by an associate
financial advisor are paid to the employing or
contracting independent contractor franchisee.
At the discretion of the employing or contracting
independent contractor franchisee, the associate
financial advisor may receive financial advisory or
referral fees or a bonus.
As a result, the financial advisor in such a transaction
may have an incentive to recommend the purchase of
additional or replacement insurance or annuity
products or, conversely, an incentive to recommend
that you not purchase additional or replacement
insurance or annuity products, depending on the
relevant compensation formula.
The compensation programs for our financial advisors
may vary based on, among other factors, the financial
advisor’s industry experience, tenure with Ameriprise
Financial Services, the type of practice structure (solo
or team), and whether the financial advisor was
formerly associated with a firm acquired by Ameriprise
Financial, Inc.
Your financial advisor receives compensation for the
marketing that leads to your opening of a co-branded
credit card account provided you activate the card and
meet initial spend requirements.
Ameriprise financial advisors will earn compensation for
providing services related to your Ameriprise Preferred
Line of Credit based on an annualized fixed percentage
of the client’s average daily outstanding balance.
Ameriprise Financial Services offers a vast range of
investment solutions to clients. Some products and
services may be offered only by certain Ameriprise
financial advisors. Discuss with your financial advisor
the products he or she offers and the compensation
your financial advisor receives, as some investment
product companies and issuers, including RiverSource,
may pay higher compensation than others.
Your financial advisor will receive compensation for
performing certain activities associated with your
mortgage if that loan is purchased and serviced by
Ameriprise Bank.
Our financial advisors primarily offer life and disability
insurance and annuity products from RiverSource and
certain pre-approved, but unaffiliated, insurance
companies. However, in some situations where the
client’s needs may be met more effectively by another
company’s product, and RiverSource and other pre-
approved providers do not offer such a product,
Ameriprise financial advisors may offer insurance
products issued by unaffiliated insurance companies.
Your financial advisor receives referral fees when you
purchase and maintain American Family Insurance
insurance products under a long-term distribution
agreement between Ameriprise Financial Services,
American Family Insurance Group and American Family
Insurance (formerly Ameriprise Auto & Home). American
Family Insurance is not affiliated with Ameriprise
Financial Services and is owned by the American Family
Insurance Group.
If Ameriprise Bank accepts a trust based upon a
referral from your financial advisor, Ameriprise Financial
Services will receive a referral fee from Ameriprise
Bank. A portion of this referral fee is shared with your
financial advisor. The referral fee is paid by Ameriprise
Bank from the fees earned for its services and is not
an additional cost to the trust account. Your financial
advisor also receives a referral fee for referrals to non-
affiliated structured settlement professionals for both
client and non-client referrals.
Incentives, training and education
If an unaffiliated insurance product is offered, the
financial advisor is an appointed agent of the insurer
and receives, directly or indirectly, compensation from
the unaffiliated insurer for the sale and service of that
product. The compensation for these nonproprietary
products and RiverSource products is separate from,
and in addition to, any fee you pay for investment
advisory services and may vary depending on the type
and size of the life insurance or annuity product that
you purchase, the insurer that issues the product, the
total number of life insurance and annuity products sold
by the financial advisor for that insurer, and other
factors. This compensation typically will increase as the
size of the insurance policy or annuity contract
increases, or the amount of the payments that you
make on the life insurance or annuity product
increases.
Product companies with which we have agreements
work with Ameriprise Financial Services and our
financial advisors to promote their products. They may
pay for training and education events or due diligence
meetings; and may reimburse expenses for
prospecting events such as seminars for employees,
financial advisors, clients and prospective clients. For
Generally speaking, the compensation that the
financial advisor will receive is calculated by a formula.
Compensation may also increase as the financial
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Ameriprise Financial Services for a certain period of
time. It is also determined based on valuations of the
financial advisor’s practice, or book of business.
employees and financial advisors, these events may
be held at off-site locations, and the travel, meals and
accommodations may be paid for by the product
company. Additionally, product companies may
occasionally provide business or recreational
entertainment or gifts of nominal value to employees
and financial advisors.
Ameriprise Financial Services or sales leaders may,
from time to time, offer contests or incentive programs
to individual financial advisors or groups of financial
advisors in particular areas. These contests and
programs are limited to such targets as new client
acquisition, financial plan count, net flows, total assets
under management and financial advisor recruiting.
The practice valuation formula results in higher
compensation for revenues received from Managed
Accounts versus Ameriprise brokerage accounts. As a
result, your financial advisor has an incentive to
recommend the opening of new Managed Accounts or
the investment of additional assets into existing
Managed Accounts or, conversely, an incentive to
recommend that you not open an Ameriprise brokerage
account or invest additional assets into a brokerage
account. In addition, if your financial advisor is selling
all or a portion of their practice to another Ameriprise
financial advisor, this program could incentivize your
financial advisor to recommend that you remain a
client of the acquiring financial advisor and/or
Ameriprise Financial Services.
Ameriprise Financial, Inc. equity programs
Single product or product categories are not eligible for
sales contests or incentive programs with the
exception of fixed life and disability income insurance.
These programs and incentives and the receipt of
other cash/noncash compensation could affect your
financial advisor’s recommendations of products
and/or services to you. These programs and
incentives and other cash and/or noncash
compensation are subject to SEC and FINRA
regulations as well as Ameriprise Financial Services’
internal compliance policies.
We encourage our financial advisors to take an
ownership stake in our future by holding stock in our
parent company, Ameriprise Financial, Inc. (NYSE:
AMP). To make this possible for financial advisors, we
have created equity compensation programs for them.
Employee financial advisors and independent contractor
franchisees may be eligible to receive an annual stock
bonus. In addition, independent contractor franchisees
may be eligible to defer a certain percentage of their
compensation each year. They may choose to invest all
or portion of this deferral into a notional account that
tracks the performance of Ameriprise Financial, Inc.
stock.
Financial advisors who are independent contractor
franchisees may build equity in their practices and may
receive payments if they sell all or a part of their
practices to other Ameriprise financial advisors.
Loan programs
Clients may have access to information about lending
products and services through marketing and/or
lending relationships Ameriprise Bank has with third-
party financial institutions.
Ameriprise Financial Services from time-to-time recruits
financial advisors from other firms to join Ameriprise
Financial Services. In connection with these recruiting
efforts, Ameriprise Financial Services may enter into
arrangements with financial advisors for the payment of
compensation and/or loans based upon the value of
eligible assets or accumulated production of the
recruited financial advisor at a pre-determined
measurement date. The funds may be payable
immediately, over time, as a bonus, or as a loan.
These arrangements may be structured to include a
provision requiring that payment of transition
compensation and/or loans will be dependent upon
the advisor meeting certain agreed-upon production
and/or asset level benchmarks. The financial
incentives associated with these transition
arrangements could influence the type and amount of
product and/or service recommended by your financial
advisor. Ameriprise Financial Services manages this
conflict of interest by supervising the suitability of
recommendations made by its financial advisors in
accordance with all applicable regulatory
requirements. Please review your financial advisor’s
Form ADV brochure supplement or ask your advisor if
you have questions about whether these transition
arrangements apply to them.
Ameriprise Bank partners with Rocket Mortgage, LLC
(NMLS #3030) that offers mortgage lending products
and services. Ameriprise Financial Services and
Ameriprise financial advisors do not accept any
mortgage loan applications or offer or negotiate terms
of any such loans. Financial advisors do not earn
compensation related to the origination or referral of
mortgage lending products offered and originated by
such third-party providers.
From time-to-time, Ameriprise Financial Services also
provides compensation to financial advisors in
connection with the sale of all or a portion of their client
base to an Ameriprise financial advisor. Some of this
compensation may be dependent on a certain
percentage of the client base remaining as clients of
Ameriprise Bank may purchase and service some
loans originated by Rocket Mortgage, LLC. Ameriprise
Financial Services and Ameriprise financial advisors
may receive compensation for assisting clients with
mortgages serviced by Ameriprise Bank. Ameriprise
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Financial, Inc. is not affiliated with Rocket Mortgage,
LLC. Ameriprise Bank does not guarantee products or
services offered by Rocket Mortgage, LLC.
you. Only the financial advisor authorized to use
discretion will purchase and sell securities in your
Account.
Ameriprise Bank has partnered with Elan Financial
Services to make available Ameriprise co-branded
credit cards. Your financial advisor receives
compensation for marketing efforts that leads to your
opening of a co- branded credit card account provided
you activate the card and make sufficient purchases.
Ameriprise Bank has partnered with Goldman Sachs to
make available the Ameriprise Preferred Line of Credit
and Loan. Ameriprise financial advisors will earn
compensation for providing services related to your
Ameriprise Preferred Line of Credit and Loan based on
an annualized fixed percentage of the client’s average
daily outstanding balance. With the exception of margin
lending, offered by AEIS, neither your Ameriprise financial
advisor nor Ameriprise Financial Services may arrange,
promote, suggest or knowingly permit you to use line or
loan proceeds to purchase securities or other investment
products.
Advisor-to-advisor training programs
Your servicing advisor may or may not be the financial
advisor who has completed the required training for a
particular investment advisory service or product. A
financial advisor who has not completed the required
training may refer a client to a financial advisor who has
completed the required training for the service or
product. The financial advisor who has completed the
required training may pay a fee to the financial advisor
who has not completed the required training for that
referral. The financial advisor who has not completed
the required training may provide investment advisory
services for services and products that do not require
training, however, only the financial advisor who has
completed the required training required for a particular
service or product will provide the analysis and advice
prepared for you with respect to a service or product
that requires the training. The financial advisor who has
not completed the required training may receive a share
of the commission from any services or products sold
to you by your financial advisor who has completed the
required training.
Ameriprise Financial Services or its affiliates may also
pay its financial advisors for training other financial
advisors on specific products and services that we
offer. A portion of this payment may be based on
incremental sales of these products and services sold
by the financial advisor receiving the training.
Shared compensation
Your financial advisor may work with a franchise
consultant. In those situations, the franchise
consultant, who is registered with Ameriprise Financial
Services, may receive compensation based on
services and products that you purchase, and for the
training and leadership of your financial advisor. The
cost of the product or service you purchase is not
affected.
Financial advisors may also choose to work together
as a team to share fees and commissions generated
from products and services you purchase. The cost of
the product or service you purchase is not affected by
the fact that your financial advisor is a member of a
team or by the fact that the fee or commission may be
split.
Your financial advisor may employ staff or work with
other Ameriprise Financial Services staff to assist with
creating your financial planning recommendations. This
may include leveraging services in geographic locations
outside of your financial advisor’s location, including
international locations.
Services provided may include entering data into financial
planning software, providing initial calculation and
assistance in creating solutions. Your financial advisor
will provide final recommendations to you. For these
services, your financial advisor may pay a fee or salary to
employed staff.
Your financial advisor may be allowed to share a
portion of the Advisory Fee he or she receives with one
or more other Ameriprise financial advisor(s), including
financial advisors who have not completed the
Ameriprise Financial Services-required training, to sell
the investment advisory service, franchise consultants
or registered principals, as described below.
Financial advisors and field leaders may share
compensation with their registered support assistants
or recommend bonuses for their non-registered
support staff.
Employee financial advisors and selling leaders may
receive continuing commissions and fees for the sale
of certain products and services for up to five years
after leaving the securities industry.
Ameriprise offers a Business Development Account
(BDA) Program. Eligible employee financial advisors
may create a voluntary BDA in a predetermined amount
In cases where two or more financial advisors are
assisting you, both financial advisors may share in the
Advisory Fee. Your servicing financial advisor will
present the Managed Account or AFPS, set the
Advisory Fee, and oversee the analysis and advice
prepared for you. Your servicing advisor may or may not
be the financial advisor authorized to use discretion to
purchase and sell securities in your account (e.g., your
SPS Discretionary Advisor). In the instance that your
servicing advisor is not authorized to use discretion,
the financial advisor authorized to use discretion
will oversee the analysis and advice prepared for
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and use this account for business-related expenses
above and beyond what the company provides.
Columbia Threadneedle Investments, and RiverSource
branded products and services.
Managed Accounts without a financial advisor
Field leaders receive a salary and a bonus and are
responsible for an operating budget for expenses.
Bonus programs for Ameriprise Financial Services field
leaders are designed to include an amount based on
the aggregate sales of all products sold by financial
advisors, including proprietary products, in the regions
of the country those leaders are responsible for
overseeing. The bonus incentive and expense programs
present a potential conflict because they are based in
part on sales of these products.
In the event that you request Ameriprise Financial
Services to remove your current financial advisor from
your Account or your financial advisor resigns from
Ameriprise Financial Services or your account, is
terminated, or, for the SPS Advisor Program, your
financial advisor is no longer able to act as your SPS
Discretionary Advisor for any reason, the applicable
Managed Account(s) will no longer have a financial
advisor assigned to the Accounts. Generally,
investment products in Managed Accounts can only be
purchased through an Ameriprise financial advisor.
Code of Ethics, Participation or Interest in
Transactions and Personal Trading
Code of ethics
Ameriprise Financial Services may reassign your
Managed Account to another financial advisor and
notify you of the change. If your Managed Account is
reassigned to another financial advisor prior to its
termination, your Account(s) will continue to be billed
but the Asset-based Fee rate may change based on
the Advisory Fee rate you negotiate with your new
assigned financial advisor.
We will attempt to notify you if your Account is no longer
assigned to a financial advisor. If you would like to
retain your Account, contact us within the timeframe set
out in the notification to have a financial advisor
assigned. If the Account remains unassigned after the
designated period of time, it will transfer to an
Ameriprise brokerage account in accordance with the
Relationship Agreement.
As part of an overall internal compliance program,
Ameriprise Financial Services has adopted policies
and procedures imposing certain conditions and
restrictions on transactions for the account of
Ameriprise Financial Services and the accounts of our
employees. Such policies and procedures are
designed to prevent, among other things, any improper
or abusive conduct when potential conflicts of interest
may exist with respect to a customer or client. In
addition, from time to time, restrictions are imposed to
address the potential for self-dealing and conflict of
interest which may arise in connection with the
business of Ameriprise Financial Services as a broker-
dealer. Ameriprise Financial Services has adopted
various procedures to guard against insider trading.
Participation or interest in client transactions
If your Account does not have a financial advisor
assigned to it and certain client directed trades are
permitted, you may contact our Service Center at
1.800.862.7919 for assistance with a transaction.
From time-to-time Ameriprise Financial Services and/or
its affiliates and related persons may invest in the
same or related securities that Ameriprise Financial
Services and/or its affiliates recommend to clients.
Such transactions may occur at or about the same
time that such securities are bought or sold for client
accounts. Ameriprise Financial Services has adopted
policies and procedures imposing certain conditions
and restrictions on transactions in these securities,
such as trading blackout periods and preclearance
requirements.
We will continue to collect and retain the full amount
of any Asset-based Fees paid to us in connection with
your Managed Account, less any Manager Fees paid to
an applicable Advisory Service Provider, until the
Account is designated for potential transfer to an
Ameriprise brokerage account or terminated. This
includes the portion of the Advisory Fee that would have
been paid to a financial advisor if one was assigned to
your Managed Account(s). The fees retained are used
in part to pay other employees and for the technology
that supports the services Ameriprise Financial
Services provides to you.
See the “Financial interest in products” subsection in
the “Revenue Sources for Ameriprise Financial
Services, LLC” section in this Disclosure Brochure for
more information about our financial interest in the sale
of certain products and services.
Personal trading rules and procedures
Management compensation and bonus programs
Employee compensation and operating goals at all
levels of the company are tied to the company’s
success. All employees, directly or indirectly, may
receive higher compensation and other benefits when
the investment products of certain providers,
particularly affiliates, are purchased. Management,
sales leaders and other employees spend more of
their time and resources promoting Ameriprise,
Ameriprise Financial Services has adopted personal
trading rules and procedures within the Ameriprise
Financial Code of Ethics and Personal Trading Policy.
These rules are designed to list standards of business
conduct and to mitigate potential conflicts of interest
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factors. At the time your Managed Account(s) are
opened, our corporate registered principals will review
your account(s) to confirm it is appropriate based on
your stated investment goals, time horizon, risk
tolerance, and investment objectives.
for all persons of Ameriprise Financial Services when
they engage in personal securities transactions. You
may request a copy of the Ameriprise Financial Code
of Ethics and Personal Trading Policy from your
financial advisor or by contacting us at
800.290.6663.
Additionally, we periodically evaluate your Account(s) to
help ensure the investments are within applicable
Program rules. For SPS Advantage and SPS Advisor
Programs, the evaluation might include a review of
concentrated securities positions and low or excessive
trading. If any of your SPS Advantage Account(s) are
subject to a concentrated position review, we will allow
the grouping of eligible advisory assets in related
Managed Accounts that you (i) own individually and (ii)
own jointly with a member of your household for the
purpose of such evaluation, provided that the particular
SPS Advantage Account under review continues to
remain appropriate based on your stated investment
goals, time horizon, risk tolerance, and investment
objectives. You and your financial advisor may be
required to take action to satisfy Program guidelines
and requirements, or to retain your Managed Account.
The standards of business conduct include
compliance with applicable laws and regulations and
with policies and procedures such as those contained
in the Ameriprise Global Code of Conduct. Under the
personal trading rules, persons are required to report
their personal securities holdings and transactions,
including transactions in certain mutual funds; must
pre-clear certain investments; are restricted with
respect to the timing of certain investments; and are
prohibited from making certain investments. In
addition, the Personal Trading Policy requires (i)
Ameriprise employee financial advisors and their
employees, (ii) its independent contractor franchisee
financial advisors and their employees, and (iii) its
affiliated investment advisers to conduct most
personal trades through one of three designated
broker-dealers unless an exception has been granted,
and report any changes in their selected broker- dealer.
Insider trading policy
When appropriate, our corporate registered principals
may also decide to call you directly to discuss your
understanding of the Account(s), including the fees and
expenses you will be paying. Our Compliance
department also conducts routine surveillance of
financial advisor activities.
If you are in a financial planning relationship, including
the consolidated advisory fee arrangement, you will
receive written reports relating to your financial
planning goals from your financial advisor at least
annually.
An important part of an advisory relationship involves
providing you with the opportunity to engage in periodic
reviews with your financial advisor or a designated
member of the team servicing your Account. In these
reviews, you and your financial advisor should discuss
any changes to your individual circumstances, financial
situations, investment objectives and/or risk
tolerance, and whether you would like to impose any
reasonable restrictions on your Account(s).
Ameriprise Financial Services and its related persons
may, from time to time, come into possession of
material nonpublic information that, if disclosed, might
affect an investor’s decision to buy, sell or hold a
security. Under applicable law, Ameriprise Financial
Services and its related persons are prohibited from
improperly disclosing or using such information for their
personal benefit or for the benefit of any other person,
regardless of whether such other person is a client.
Accordingly, should Ameriprise Financial Services or its
related persons come into possession of material
nonpublic information with respect to any company,
they may be prohibited from communicating such
information to, or using such information for the benefit
of, their respective clients, and have no obligation or
responsibility to disclose such information to, nor
responsibility to use such information for the benefit of,
their clients when following policies and procedures
designed to comply with law. Ameriprise Financial
Services and its affiliates have adopted an “Insider
Trading Policy” in accordance with Section 204A of the
Advisers Act that establishes procedures to prevent the
misuse of material nonpublic information by Ameriprise
Financial Services and its associated persons.
Our supervision and surveillance do not substitute for
your continued review and monitoring of your Managed
Account(s). You should review your account statements,
trade confirmations, and other information we send to
you. If you have any questions, please discuss them
with your financial advisor.
Review of Accounts
Client Referrals and Other
Compensation
Referral arrangements and other economic benefits
Certain supervisory functions are performed by
Ameriprise Financial Services corporate office
personnel. Corporate registered principals review a
sampling of financial advisor’s financial planning
relationships, including written financial planning
recommendations periodically based on certain key
Ameriprise Financial Services maintains investment
advisory referral arrangements, the terms of which are
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from RCF or another non-profit organization. Any fees
charged by RCF for the administration of the donor
advised fund are not shared with Ameriprise Financial
Services or financial advisors.
Ameriprise Financial Service and your financial advisor
will receive Asset-based Fee revenue from a donor
advised fund established by RCF and invested in a
Managed Account Program and no revenue if donor
advised fund assets are invested with a third-party
investment adviser, whether through RCF or another
non- profit organization. We seek to address this
conflict of interest through a combination of disclosure
and through our policies, procedures and supervision
related to the determination that a referral to RCF is
appropriate for you based on your Client Information,
and by treating assets in Managed Accounts owned
and administered by RCF and assets in Managed
Accounts owned directly by you as separate and
distinct advisory relationships in accordance with all
applicable regulatory requirements.
disclosed to the client, with individual professionals,
professional firms, and select corporate, institutional or
membership organizations (“Promoters”). For each
such arrangement, Ameriprise Financial Services pays
the Promoter for referral of their clients or members to
Ameriprise Financial Services for its financial advisory
services. The manner and amount of compensation to
be paid in connection with these agreements is subject
to negotiation between Ameriprise Financial Services
and the applicable Promoter. Prospective clients are
provided applicable disclosures, including whether the
Promoter is a client, the material terms of
compensation (if any) and the material conflicts of
interest (if any), that results from the Promoter's
relationship with Ameriprise Financial Services. The
most common compensation arrangements include a
flat fee at the time of the referral, a recurring flat fee, or
a sharing of a portion of any total Asset-based Fees.
You will not be charged an additional fee as a result of
any referral arrangements. Compensation may include
a one-time payment or ongoing payments for the
duration of the investment advisory relationship.
Review of issuers of financial products
Ameriprise Financial Services and its affiliates have
policies and procedures in place to review the issuers
of financial products such as alternative investments,
structured notes, and annuity and insurance products
that Ameriprise Financial Services permits its financial
advisors to offer to some or all of its clients. This review
includes publicly available information and reports
issued by third parties and may in some cases include
certain nonpublic information provided by
the issuer.
Ameriprise Financial Services periodically
reassesses, but does not continuously monitor,
the creditworthiness or financial solvency of third-party
issuers. These policies and procedures are reasonably
designed to mitigate our clients’ exposure to credit
and default risks resulting from an inability of the
issuer to repay the principal on a note or fulfill an
insurance obligation. However, you should be advised
that credit markets can be volatile and the
creditworthiness of an issuer may change rapidly.
Ameriprise Financial Services may form networking
arrangements with financial institutions such as
banks, credit unions, credit union service
organizations, Farm Credit Services, and trust service
providers (“Third Party Financial Institutions”) to allow
its financial advisors to offer investment advisory
services, financial planning services and certain other
non-deposit investment and insurance products and
services (described elsewhere in this Brochure) to
retail customers or members of the Third Party
Financial Institutions. Under the terms of these
networking arrangements, financial advisors may not
be able to offer to retail customers or members of the
Third Party Financial Institutions certain products that
are otherwise available through Ameriprise Financial
Services or its affiliates. Also, as a result of these
networking arrangements, Third Party Financial
Institutions may receive, in the form of a networking
payment, a portion of Asset-based Fees and securities
and insurance commissions paid to financial advisors
for sales to retail customers or members of the Third
Party Financial Institutions.
Ameriprise Financial Services, as a seller of these
products, is prohibited by regulation from guaranteeing
or providing any assurance that an issuer of financial
products will be able to fulfill the issuer’s obligation to
any purchaser of such a product through Ameriprise
Financial Services.
Revenue Sources for RiverSource
RiverSource
Ameriprise Financial Services has entered in
partnership with Renaissance Charitable Foundation
Inc. (“RCF”) for the referral of clients or prospects that
have indicated an interest in establishing and
maintaining a donor advised fund made available
through RCF. No referral fee is paid by RCF to
Ameriprise Financial Services or financial advisors
however donor advised funds established by RCF as a
result of the referral generally invest in eligible
Managed Account Programs that are advised and
serviced by the referring financial advisor.
Sales charges. You pay sales and other charges under
RiverSource variable annuity contracts and life
insurance policies. You may incur transaction costs or
fees associated with structured annuities. You may
The administration fee that you pay RCF for a donor
advised fund solution may be more or less than if you
were to purchase the donor advised fund services
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Revenue Sources for Columbia Management and
Threadneedle
pay a contingent deferred sales charge, or surrender
charge, if you withdraw funds during the applicable
period.
Periodic fees and expenses. You pay certain fees and
expenses under RiverSource annuity contracts, life
insurance policies and disability income insurance
policies, including (depending on the type of contract
or policy) mortality and expense, administrative,
policy, contract, and cost of insurance fees or
charges, in addition to costs associated with certain
riders that may be available for both fixed and variable
products.
Periodic fees and expenses. Columbia Management
and Threadneedle International Limited may receive
management fees and certificate advisory and
services fees for services, including, with respect to
Columbia Management, investment management
services for Active Portfolios® investments. These
revenues may be received from the Columbia Funds,
Columbia ETFs, Columbia closed-end funds,
Ameriprise certificates and from other affiliated and
nonaffiliated advisory clients of Columbia Management
and Threadneedle International Limited.
Revenue Sources for other Ameriprise Financial, Inc.
companies
Periodic expenses are also paid from product assets,
such as 12b-1 fees paid on certain funds that serve
as underlying investment options for variable annuities
and variable life insurance. 12b-1 fees may be used to
pay for marketing, distribution and shareholder service
expenses.
There are a number of other Ameriprise Financial, Inc.
companies that will receive revenue from the charges
and fees you pay, including the following:
• Ameriprise Certificate Company receives
Investment and interest income. Investment and
interest income from insurance company general
account assets derived, in part, from the amounts you
pay for insurance and annuity benefits.
investment spread income earned on, and any
early withdrawal penalty related to, Ameriprise
certificates.
• Columbia Management Investment Services Corp.
receives certain fees and expenses paid from the
Columbia Funds and Ameriprise certificates in
exchange for the transfer agent services it provides.
• American Enterprise Investment Services Inc. is
Variable annuity and variable life insurance financial
arrangements. RiverSource selects the funds
available within your variable annuity contract or
variable life insurance policy. In doing so, RiverSource
may consider various objective and subjective factors.
These factors include compensation RiverSource may
receive from fund assets (for those funds with 12b-1
plans); assets of the fund’s adviser, subadviser or an
affiliate of either; and assets of the fund’s distributor
or an affiliate. This compensation benefits
RiverSource.
compensated for its services through the
brokerage commission and other fees charged for
each brokerage transaction, which may include
transactions made in an Ameriprise Bank trust
account, or through the brokerage commission
which is included in the overall asset-based fee,
depending on the account option you select.
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If the Sweep Program for your Account is AIMMA,
AEIS receives compensation from the Program
Banks based on the cash balance in the AIMMA
program. If your Account sweeps uninvested cash
to ABISA or to Ameriprise Bank as a Program Bank
in the AIMMA program, Ameriprise Bank does not
compensate AEIS, but reimburses AEIS for its
direct out of pocket expenses related to the sweep
services provided.
The amount of this revenue varies by fund, may be
significant and may create potential conflicts of
interest for RiverSource. The greatest amount and
percentage of revenue that RiverSource receives
comes from assets allocated to subaccounts investing
in funds managed by its affiliates, CMIA, and
Columbia Wanger Asset Management. In general, the
revenue directly related to assets under management
that RiverSource receives currently ranges up to
0.65% of the average daily net assets invested in the
underlying funds through the variable annuity or
variable life insurance contracts RiverSource issues.
This revenue is in addition to revenues RiverSource
receives from the charges you pay when buying,
owning or surrendering your variable annuity contract
or life insurance policy. In accordance with applicable
laws, regulations and the terms of the agreements
under which such revenue is paid, RiverSource may
receive this compensation for various purposes
including financial advisor training and compensation,
marketing and distribution, customer servicing,
transaction processing, record keeping, and other
administrative services.
• AEIS receives compensation in the form of interest
charged on your margin account balance, as well as
from order handling fees. In transaction-based
brokerage accounts, AEIS may also engage in
principal trading of certain types of fixed income
securities for brokerage accounts— that is, it may
buy and sell these securities for its own account
with the objective of making a profit in certain
circumstances, AEIS may buy these securities
from you or sell these securities to you on a
principal basis, in which case you will pay a
markup or markdown on the transaction.
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• AEIS performs, for the benefit of Ameriprise
Financial Services, its financial advisors and
clients, cost reimbursement and marketing
support services as described in the “Cost
Reimbursement and Marketing Support”
section. In recognition of the above, product
sponsors will compensate AEIS for such services
that are performed by AEIS.
• When Ameriprise Bank is a Program Bank in the
AIMMA program or ABISA is the Sweep Program,
Ameriprise Bank earns income by lending or
investing the deposits it receives and charging a
higher interest rate to borrowers, or earning a
higher yield, than it pays on the deposits held
through these sweep programs. The difference is
known as the "spread."
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Ameriprise Bank earns revenue based on the
amount of credit extended and the interest rate on
the Ameriprise Preferred Line of Credit and Loan.
Custody
The capacity in which AEIS acts in any particular
transaction is disclosed on each transaction
confirmation you receive. AEIS is also
compensated for the shareholder services it
provides for certain mutual fund companies.
These services include but are not limited to
delivering shareholder communications such as
updated prospectuses and statements of
additional information, transaction confirmations
and annual tax reporting, and monitoring
compliance with share class, discounted sales
charge, market timing and other mutual fund
company policies.
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Ameriprise Financial, Inc. receives fees paid from
Columbia and the Columbia Funds and Ameriprise
certificates in exchange for the administrative
services it provides.
In establishing an Account, you establish and maintain
a brokerage account with Ameriprise Financial
Services. Neither Ameriprise Financial Services, nor
any Advisory Service Provider will act as custodian for
the Account or take possession of any assets in the
Account. AEIS, one of our broker-dealer affiliates,
provides custody and safekeeping services for Account
assets, and will ordinarily act as the custodian for all
assets held in an Accounts. Because our affiliate
maintains custody of our clients’ assets, we are
required by SEC rules and regulations to obtain from
AEIS at least annually a written internal control report
(the “ICR”) prepared by a qualified independent public
accountant, and AEIS is required to undergo an
independent verification of the assets under its control.
The ICR that we receive from AEIS is intended to show
that our affiliate has established appropriate custodial
controls with respect to client assets under custody.
• Columbia Management Investment Distributors
receives fees paid from the Columbia Funds in
exchange for the distribution services it provides.
Ameriprise Financial Services has a financial
interest in the sale of the Columbia Funds,
Ameriprise certificates and RiverSource products
and certain other mutual funds.
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For Retirement Accounts where ATC acts as custodian
or trustee, AEIS shall act as an agent or sub custodian
of ATC with respect to custody of assets.
Investment Discretion
Your Ameriprise financial advisor does not manage
your securities or other investments on your behalf as
part of AFPS. However, your financial advisor may offer
a discretionary investment advisory service separately
as part of our SPS Advisor Program.
Voting Client Securities
Ameriprise Financial Services sells annuity and
insurance products manufactured by its
RiverSource affiliates, as well as products from
unaffiliated providers. RiverSource is permitted to
reimburse Ameriprise Financial Services for
client/prospect education events and advisor
sales meetings, seminars, and training events
pertaining to annuity and insurance products,
consistent with Ameriprise Financial Services
policies and industry regulation; Ameriprise
Financial Services may also receive nominal
noncash benefits from time to time. Unaffiliated
annuity and insurance providers may not provide
some services, or the same level of services, to
Ameriprise financial advisors. As a result,
Ameriprise financial advisors may have a greater
familiarity with RiverSource annuity and insurance
products.
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Ameriprise Bank charges fees, depending on the
terms of trust documentation and applicable state
laws governing trust administration, for its
administrative trust services that are separate
from investment management fees charged by
financial advisors and are not shared with
Ameriprise Financial Services.
Ameriprise Financial Services and your financial
advisor do not take any action or give advice regarding
the voting of proxies solicited by or with respect to the
issuers of securities in which assets of your Managed
Account(s) may be invested, except for certain Select
Separate Accounts where you delegate proxy voting
authority to Ameriprise Financial Services. For all other
Managed Account Programs, Ameriprise Financial
Services and your financial advisor does not take any
action or give any advice regarding the voting of proxies
solicited by or with respect to the issuers of securities
in which assets of your managed account(s) may be
invested. Ameriprise Financial Services will forward to
you or your designated agent, all proxy solicitations
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and materials related to other corporate actions that
are received by Ameriprise Financial Services with
respect to assets in your managed account(s). You
are responsible for voting proxies and effectuating
other corporate actions relating to the securities held
in your respective managed account(s).
consider the voting recommendations of analysts,
Investment Managers and information obtained from
outside resources. The Oversight Committee reserves
the right to consider each proxy vote, whether covered
by the guidelines or a third-party recommendation,
based on the facts and circumstances of the proposal
presented, and submit a vote that it believes is in the
best economic interest of its clients.
Ameriprise Financial Services has implemented
policies reasonably designed to identify potential
material conflicts of interest to help us vote proxies
without undue influence from individuals or groups
who may have an economic interest in the outcome of
a proxy vote. These policies include:
• Employing predetermined voting guidelines;
• Causing proxies to be voted in accordance with
recommendations of an independent third party;
For Signature Wealth, Select Separate Account,
including Select Strategist UMA, Vista Separate
Account, Investor Unified Account and Access
Account, you have the right to vote proxies on the
securities in which your account assets may be
invested from time to time, or you may delegate the
authority to vote these proxies to the applicable
Investment Manager for your Account. Effective
November 2025, for Active Portfolios® accounts, you
may delegate the right to vote proxies to the Active
Portfolios® Investment Manager. You may alternatively
delegate the authority to vote proxies on your behalf
to another person.
• Causing the proxies to be delegated to an
Independent third party, which may include
Ameriprise Financial Services’ proxy voting service
provider; or
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Neither Ameriprise Financial Services, your financial
advisor nor any Advisory Service Provider are
responsible for any other corporate actions relating to
the assets in your managed account(s), including
administrative filings such as proofs of claims related
to bankruptcy or claims in class actions.
In unusual cases, with the client’s consent and
upon ample notice, forwarding the proxies to
Ameriprise Financial Services’ clients so that they
may vote the proxies directly.
Ameriprise Financial Services’ Proxy Voting Policies
and Procedures
When Ameriprise Financial Services has proxy voting
authority for applicable Select Separate Accounts,
Ameriprise Financial Services will apply the following
general principles to meet its proxy voting
responsibilities:
• Seek to ensure that proxies are voted in the best
economic interest of clients;
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Address material conflicts of interest that may
arise; and
• Comply with disclosure and other requirements as
required by law.
Each Investment Manager to which you delegate voting
authority will vote proxies according to its own
applicable voting policies and procedures. Where you
own both a Select Separate Account and another
discretionary Managed Account and both Accounts
invest in the same SMA strategy managed by the same
Investment Manager, this may result in different voting
determinations by Ameriprise Financial Services and
the Investment Manager for the same particular
proposal. We maintain proxy voting records to meet
our obligations under applicable law. You may obtain a
copy of our proxy voting policy, and other information
regarding how your proxies were voted, upon request by
writing to us at the address set forth on the first page
of this brochure or calling the phone number that
appears on that page.
Financial Information
Ameriprise Financial Services intends to vote all
proxies of which it becomes aware prior to the vote
deadline. However, in certain limited circumstances,
Ameriprise Financial Services may determine to refrain
from voting.
We are not required to include a balance sheet in this
Brochure because we do not require or solicit
prepayment of more than $1,200 in fees per client six
months or more in advance.
We do not have any financial conditions that are
reasonably likely to impair our ability to meet our
contractual commitments to clients.
Ameriprise Financial Services has not been the
subject of a bankruptcy petition during the past 10
years.
Ameriprise Financial Services will use an independent
third-party proxy service for its fundamental research on
proxy questions and subsequent recommendations,
and has adopted the third party provider’s proxy voting
guidelines covering certain types of proposals. The
guidelines indicate whether to vote for, against or
abstain from a particular proposal. In circumstances
where proposals are not covered by the guidelines or
a voting determination must be made on a case-by-
case basis, the Oversight Committee will make the
voting determination. The Oversight Committee may
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Glossary
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“ABISA” means Ameriprise Bank Insured Sweep Account.
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“Access Account” means Ameriprise® Access Account.
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“Account” or “Managed Account” means an Ameriprise investment advisory account for which you pay an ongoing
Asset-based Fee.
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“Active Portfolios” means Ameriprise® Active Portfolios®.
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“Active Portfolios® investment Fact Sheet” means the applicable Active Portfolios® investment fact sheet that
includes biographical information about the Investment Manager and/or portfolio strategist, investment philosophy and
style information, portfolio characteristics and composite performance.
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“Additional Fees and Expenses” are any additional transaction related fees that may be incurred in connection with
your Account based on the nature of your investments.
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“Advisers Act” means the Investment Advisers Act of 1940, as amended.
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“Advisory Service Providers” refers, collectively, to affiliated and third party investment advisory firms whose services
Ameriprise Financial Services uses to provide discretionary and non-discretionary advisory services that include
investment management, asset allocation and/or rebalancing, or providing investment models, as applicable, for
certain Manager Directed Programs.
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“Advisory Shares” means advisory, institutional or other share classes that do not have a sales-load, do not have a
sales-load and do not assess 12b-1 shareholder servicing fees.
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“AEFA” means American Express Financial Advisors, Inc.
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“AEIS” means American Enterprise Investment Services Inc.
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“AFIG” means Ameriprise Financial Institutions Group.
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“AFPS” means Ameriprise Financial Planning Service.
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“AFPS Agreement” means the applicable financial planning service agreement, as it may be amended from time to
time, that includes the specific terms under which the client will receive those services.
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“AIMMA” means Ameriprise Insured Money Market Account, an FDIC insured interest-bearing multi- bank deposit
product.
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“Ameriprise” means Ameriprise Financial, Inc.
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“Ameriprise Bank” means Ameriprise Bank, FSB.
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“Ameriprise Financial Services”, “Ameriprise Financial”, “AFS”, “Sponsor” or “we”: means Ameriprise Financial
Services, LLC.
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“Asset Allocation Strategist” means strategist who solely provides asset allocation recommendations to the
Investment Manager.
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“Asset-based Fee” means our component-based pricing framework in which the sub-components of the Asset- based
Fee (referred to as “fee components”) are separately itemized.
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“ATC” means Ameriprise Trust Company.
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“Available for Sale Firms” are firms that sponsor or manage mutual fund options to whom IRG will proceed to look for
if a suitable mutual fund recommendation for a particular asset class cannot be found within the Full Participation
Firms’ offerings.
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“BDA” means Business Development Account.
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“BDC” means a business development company.
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“Brochure” or “Disclosure Brochure” means Ameriprise Managed Accounts Client Disclosure Brochure.
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“Brokerage Agreement” means, collectively, the Ameriprise Brokerage Client Agreement, as it may be amended from
time to time, along with the Other Important Brokerage Disclosures Document and Schedule of Account & Service
Fees.
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“CD” means a certificate of deposit.
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“CEF” means a close-end fund.
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“CFA” means Chartered Financial Analyst.
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“CFP®” means Certified Financial Planner™.
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“CFTC” means the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.
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“Client Information” means client’s financial and risk profile information and investment objectives.
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“CMG” means Columbia Management Group, LLC.
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“CMIA” or “Columbia Management Investment Advisers” means Columbia Management Investment Advisers, LLC.
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“Columbia” or “Columbia Management” refers, collectively, to Columbia Management Investment Advisers, LLC and
Columbia Wanger Asset Management, LLC.
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“Columbia Funds” means investment companies and other funds advised by affiliated companies, Columbia
Management Investment Advisers, LLC and Columbia Wanger Asset Management, LLC.
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“Columbia Management Investment Distributors” means Columbia Management Investment Distributors, Inc.
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“Columbia Wanger Asset Management” means Columbia Wanger Asset Management, LLC.
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“Committee” or “Oversight Committee” means Ameriprise Financial Services, LLC’s Managed Accounts Program
Oversight Committee.
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"Covered shares” or “Covered Securities” means shares or securities for which Ameriprise is required to track costs
basis, holding period, and certain other tax information, and report such information to the client and the IRS on Forms
1099-B (Proceeds from Broker and Barter Exchange Transactions).“CTA” means Commodity Trading Advisor.
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“Discretionary Managers” refers, collectively, to Advisory Service Providers with investment selection discretion and
SPS Discretionary Advisors.
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“DRP” means a dividend reinvestment plan.
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“ERISA” means the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended.
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“ETF” means an exchange-trade fund.
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“ETN” means an exchange-traded note.
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“Eligible Investments” means investment products (i) that meet Ameriprise Financial Services’ due diligence
standards; and (ii) for which we have a selling or distribution agreement in place are offered and are available for
purchase in SPS Advantage Accounts, SPS Advisor Accounts, Vista Separate Accounts and Investor Unified Accounts.
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“Eligible to Hold Investments” means investment products for which our due diligence standards are met but either:
(i) we do not have a selling or distribution agreement in place; or (ii) the investment is not otherwise available for
purchase in Managed Accounts.
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“Eligible to Hold Share Class” means a share class that is less expensive than the Advisory Share or other share
class Ameriprise Financial Services offers for purchases in a given mutual fund in our Managed Accounts Programs.
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“Envestnet” means Envestnet Asset Management, Inc.
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“Envestnet Manager” means an SMA Investment Manager who entered into a sub-management agreement with
Envestnet to provide discretionary Investment Manager or Model Provider investment management services.
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“Exchange Act” means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.
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“Executing Party” refers, collectively, to the broker-dealer or stock exchange.
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“FDIC” means the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.
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“Feature” means the SPS Advantage automatic rebalancing feature.
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“FIFO” means first in first out.
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“FINRA” means the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority.
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“Frequency Interval” means the rebalancing frequency interval.
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“Full Participation Firms” are mutual fund firms that fully participate in the Mutual Fund Program.
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“HIFO” means highest in first out.
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“Household” is generally defined as an individual, his or her spouse or domestic partner, and the unmarried children
under age 21 who reside at the same address and is applied separately by each Program.
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“ICR” means an internal control report.
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“Ineligible Investments” are investment products (i) that do not meet our due diligence standards, (ii) where due diligence
has not been completed; or (iii) that are not otherwise eligible to be held more than 180 days in Managed Accounts.
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“Internal Revenue Code” means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended.
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“IPO” means an initial public offering.
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“IRA” means an individual retirement account.
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“IRG” means Ameriprise Investment Research Group.
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“IntraFi” means IntraFi Network LLC.
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“Investments and Infrastructure Support Credit” is a credit to SPS Advisor Account clients for all sub- transfer
agency fees and networking fees that AEIS receives from mutual funds firms.
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“Investments and Infrastructure Support Fee” is a fee to support the cost of maintaining and serving the SPS
Advisor Program.
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“Investment Costs” are the underlying fees related to investment products client purchases within their Managed
Account.
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“Investment Manager” is a manager with discretionary authority to purchase or sell securities or make other
investments for client’s Account.
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“Investor Unified Account” means Ameriprise® Investor Unified Account.
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“LIFO” means last in first out.
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“Manager Directed Program” refers to the discretionary Programs, specifically Active Portfolios® investments, Select
Separate Account, Vista Separate Account, Investor Unified Account and Access Account Programs that use the
discretionary investment advisory services of Advisory Service Providers. Collectively we refer to these Programs as the
Manager Directed Programs throughout this Brochure.
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“Mutual Fund Program” means Ameriprise Financial Mutual Fund Program, the structure formed by the payment of the
mutual fund and 529 plan marketing and sales support payments that are received from certain mutual fund firms.
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“NASD” means the National Association of Securities Dealers, a predecessor of FINRA.
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“NFA” means National Futures Association.
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“Non-covered” refers to securities that are not subject to mandatory tax reporting of cost basis and holding period. For
more information on “covered” and “non-covered” securities, see the Cost Basis Reporting FAQ on Ameriprise.com.
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“Non-Matching Shares” refer to mutual fund share classes that do not match the Advisory Share class or other share
class offered by Ameriprise Financial Services as the only share class available for a particular mutual fund.
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“Non-Target Securities” means securities that are purchased or transferred into the SPS Advantage
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Account that are not a part of your Target Allocation.
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“NYSE” means the New York Stock Exchange LLC.
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“NYSE: AMP” means Ameriprise Financial, Inc. stock symbol on the NYSE.
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“Outside Workplace Retirement Plan” means additional retirement plan assets not included in the Managed
Account and that are held outside of Ameriprise Financial Services in a participant-directed defined contribution plan.
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“Portfolio Strategist” means Portfolio Strategist who provides asset allocation and investment recommendations to
the Investment Manager.
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“Program” means each investment advisory program offered by Ameriprise Financial Services.
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“Program Banks” means FDIC member banks that participate in AIMMA.
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“Program Bank List” means the list that identifies the Program Banks participating in AIMMA.
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“Promoter” means any individual professional, professional firm, or select corporate, institutional or membership
organization that provides testimonials or endorsements of Ameriprise Financial Services for its investment advisory
services.
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“Reasonable Restrictions” are client imposed reasonable stock or sector restrictions on the management of his/her
discretionary Account(s).
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“Rebalancing Date” means the next rebalancing date for rebalancing your eligible assets to the targeted allocation.
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“Relationship” means an Ameriprise® Custom Advisory Relationship.
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“Relationship Agreement” means the investment advisory agreement made between Ameriprise Financial Services
and the client, as it may be amended from time to time.
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“REIT” means a real estate investment trust.
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“RiverSource” refers, collectively, to RiverSource Life Insurance Company and RiverSource Life Insurance Co. of
New York.
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“RiverSource Distributors” means RiverSource Distributors, Inc.
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“RiverSource Life” means RiverSource Life Insurance Company.
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“RiverSource Life of NY” means RiverSource Life Insurance Co. of New York.
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“SEC” means the United States Securities and Exchange Commission.
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“Select Separate Account” means Ameriprise® Select Separate Account.
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“Select Separate Account Model Provider” is a Model Provider who constructs a model portfolio according to the
specific investment strategy.
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“SEP” means a Simplified Employee Pension.
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"Signature Wealth Investment Manager" means a nonaffiliated third-party registered investment adviser as the
discretionary Investment Manager for the Signature Wealth Program. Effective November 2025, the Signature Wealth
Investment Manager will also become the Active Portfolios® Investment Manager.
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"Signature Wealth Model Providers" means investment managers who construct and manage model portfolios within
the Signature Wealth Program.
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“SIMPLE” means a Savings Incentive Match Plan for Employees.
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“SIPC” means the Securities Investor Protection Corporation.
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“SMA” means a separately managed account that follows an investment strategy offered by an Advisory Service
Provider in Select Separate Account, Vista Separate Account, Investor Unified Account and Access Account Programs.
SMAs typically invest in individual equity and bond securities.
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“SPS Advantage” means Ameriprise® Strategic Portfolio Service Advantage.
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“SPS Advisor” means Ameriprise® SPS Advisor.
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“SPS Discretionary Advisor” means Ameriprise financial advisor authorized to use discretion in SPS Advisor.
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“Ameriprise Financial Services” refers to Ameriprise Financial Services as Ameriprise Financial Services of the wrap
fee program described in this Brochure.
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“Starting Point List” means mutual funds and ETF recommended list developed by IRG.
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“Sweep Program” means money settlement feature offered by Ameriprise Financial Services that is intended to hold
cash.
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“Target Allocation” means your predetermined allocation in accordance with your instruction for Ameriprise Financial
Services to rebalance your eligible assets.
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“Third Party Execution Fees” means additional costs incurred when an Investment Manager directs transactions for
execution with or through Executing Parties other than AEIS.
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“Third Party Financial Institutions” means third party financial institutions such as community banks, credit unions,
credit union service organizations, Farm Credit Services and trust service providers with whom Ameriprise Financial
Services may form alliances and networking arrangements with to allow its financial advisors to offer investment
advisory services, financial planning services and certain other non-deposit investment and insurance products and
services, to retail customers/members of the Third Party Financial Institutions.
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“Third Party Payments” means the portion of Investment Costs paid to AEIS by third parties who manage, sponsor or
distribute investment products held in your Managed Account.
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“TSCA” means Tax-Sheltered Custodial Account.
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“UIT” means a unit investment trust.
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“UMA” means a managed account that enables you to own SMAs, mutual funds and/or eligible ETFs in a multi-
account investment portfolio.
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“Vista Separate Accounts” means Ameriprise® Vista Separate Account.
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