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FORM ADV PART 2A
Item 1 – Cover Page
Beacon Global Advisor Network, LLC
One Glenlake Parkway, Suite 650
Atlanta, GA 30328
www.bganetwork.com
888-679-6474
December 31, 2024
This brochure provides information about the qualifications and business practices of Beacon
Global Advisor Network, LLC. If you have any questions about the contents of this Brochure,
please contact us at 888-679-6474 and/or emailcompliance@bganetwork.com. 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.
Additional information about Beacon Global Advisor Network, LLC also is available on the
SEC’s website at www.adviserinfo.sec.gov. The searchable IARD/CRD number for Beacon
Global Advisor Network, LLC is 288833.
Any references to Beacon Global Advisor Network, LLC as a registered investment adviser or
its related persons as registered advisory representatives does not imply a certain level of skill
or training.
Beacon Global Advisor Network, LLC
Item 2 - MATERIAL CHANGES
The most recent annual update to this brochure is dated March 2024.
There have been no material changes made since the last filing.
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At least annually, this section will discuss only specific material changes that are made to the Brochure
and provide you with a summary of such changes. Additionally, reference to the date of the last
annual update to this Brochure will be provided.
Pursuant to SEC Rules, we will ensure that you receive a summary of any material changes to this
and subsequent brochures within 120 days of the close of our fiscal year, which is December 31st.
We may further provide other ongoing disclosure information about material changes as necessary.
Additionally, we will further provide you with a new brochure as necessary based on change or new
information, at any time, without charge.
Our brochure may be requested free of charge by contacting the Compliance Department at 888-679-
6474 or emailcompliance@bganetwork.com. Additional information about BGAN is also available
via the SEC’s website www.adviserinfo.sec.gov. The website also provides information about any
persons affiliated with BGAN who are registered, or are required to be registered, as investment
adviser representatives of BGAN.
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Item 3 - TABLE OF CONTENTS
Item 1 – COVER PAGE Cover Page
Item 2 - MATERIAL CHANGES ........................................................................................................ 2
Item 3 - TABLE OF CONTENTS ........................................................................................................ 3
Item 4 - ADVISORY BUSINESS ........................................................................................................ 4
Asset Management Services ............................................................................................................. 5
Financial Planning and Consulting Services..................................................................................... 6
Pension Advice for United Kingdom and other Nationals Expatriates ............................................ 7
General Information.......................................................................................................................... 8
IRA Rollover Considerations................................................................................................................ 9
Item 5 - FEES AND COMPENSATION............................................................................................ 11
General Disclosure.......................................................................................................................... 11
Asset Management Services ........................................................................................................... 12
Financial Planning and Consulting Services................................................................................... 14
Pension Advice for United Kingdom and other Nationals Expatriates .......................................... 15
Item 6 - PERFORMANCE-BASED FEES AND SIDE BY SIDE MANAGEMENT....................... 19
Item 7 - TYPES OF CLIENTS ........................................................................................................... 20
Item 8 - METHODS OF ANALYSIS, INVESTMENT STRATEGIES AND RISK OF LOSS ....... 20
Item 9 - DISCIPLINARY INFORMATION ...................................................................................... 24
Item 10 - OTHER FINANCIAL INDUSTRY ACTIVITIES AND AFFILIATIONS ....................... 24
Item 11 - CODE OF ETHICS, PARTICIPATION OR INTEREST IN CLIENT TRANSACTIONS
AND PERSONAL TRADING ........................................................................................................... 26
Item 12 - BROKERAGE PRACTICES .............................................................................................. 27
Item 13 - REVIEW OF ACCOUNTS................................................................................................. 29
Item 14 - CLIENT REFERRALS AND OTHER COMPENSATION............................................... 29
Item 15 - CUSTODY .......................................................................................................................... 31
Item 16 - INVESTMENT DISCRETION........................................................................................... 32
Item 17 - VOTING CLIENT SECURITIES....................................................................................... 32
Item 18 - FINANCIAL INFORMATION .......................................................................................... 33
BEACON GLOBAL ADVISOR NETWORK, LLC’S PRIVACY NOTICE.................................... 34
Brochure Supplements
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Item 4 - ADVISORY BUSINESS
Beacon Global Advisor Network, LLC (hereinafter referred to as “BGAN”) is an investment
advisory firm offering a variety of advisory services customized to your individual needs.
A. BGAN was established in April 2017. The principal owners and members of BGAN are:
Mr. Joseph Gruber, President & Chief Compliance Officer (50%) and Mr. Randy Landsman,
Vice President (50%) ownership, respectively.
BGAN is an investment adviser that consists of many independent contractors who have
affiliated with BGAN as Advisory Representatives to offer the advisory services and programs
described within this brochure. The Advisory Representatives (“AR”) each have their own
businesses and offices through which they conduct not only advisory business but provide
other financial services. They market a variety of financial related services including
accounting and insurance services not offered by BGAN through their independent businesses.
These businesses are separate from and not affiliated with BGAN.
Advisory Representatives have a direct interest in the fee charged to you since BGAN will
pay a portion of the advisory fee charged to you to your Advisory Representative. It is
important to refer to the Item 5 – Fees and Compensation below. Our Advisory
Representatives cannot exceed the fee disclosed under Item 5 below. However, the
negotiability and the fee that you will pay for advisory services is determined between you and
your Advisory Representative. Therefore, another Advisory Representative will charge
more or less for the same services.
As an investment adviser, we are a fiduciary to our advisory clients. As fiduciaries, we are
expected act and provide advice in the best interests of clients; have a duty to be loyal to our
clients; make full and fair disclosure of all material conflicts of interest; seek best execution for
client transactions; ensure that investment advice is suitable for clients' objectives, needs and
circumstances; have a duty to have a reasonable, independent basis for investment advice; and
refrain from effecting personal securities transactions that are inconsistent with client interests.
B. BGAN offers the following advisory services. Each of the services is more fully described
below.
• Asset Management
• Financial Planning
• Retirement Consulting Services
• Analysis, Recommendation and Monitoring of Third-Party Managed Programs
• Pension Advice and Asset Management for United Kingdom and other Nationals or
Expatriates
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Asset Management Services
BGAN will provide continuous and ongoing management of your account. Unless otherwise expressly
requested by you, BGAN will manage your portfolio on a discretionary basis and will make
changes to the allocation as deemed appropriate by BGAN. BGAN will determine the securities
to be purchased and sold in the account and will alter the securities holdings from time to time, without
prior consultation with you. BGAN from time to time will actively trade securities and hold such
holdings for periods of 30 days or less or maintain positions for longer- or shorter-term periods at the
discretion of your Advisory Representative.
BGAN’s asset management program includes the use of a Unified Managed Account Program in which
BGAN uses various managers and their managed models to assist BGAN to provide asset management
of your account. Your advisory representative designs a customized management portfolio using a
combination of individual securities, mutual funds, exchange traded funds (ETFs), and third-party
managers, strategists and model portfolios managed by various third-party managers.
By execution of the BGAN Discretionary Asset Management Agreement, you will grant
discretionary authorization to BGAN and your Advisory Representative to manage your account
including selecting an overlay manager(s) and model account strategist, or third-party managers
(collectively referred to as “Third-Party Service Providers”). In addition, you will authorize the
custodian to follow our instructions as well as instructions given by Overlay Manager to effect
transactions, deliver securities, deduct fees and take other actions with respect to the client account.
For additional information about discretionary authorization, please refer to Item 16 – Investment
Discretion below.
It is important you read the Disclosure Brochure to the Third-Party Service Providers prior to
entering into any agreement to use a Third-Party Service Provider. The Disclosure Brochure
contains important information about the fees, services, and conflicts of interests associated
with the program and the Third-Party Service Provider. In platforms where multiple managers
and strategists are available, BGAN has access to Form ADVs of the individual managers
selected to manage your account. You can request a copy of any manager’s Form ADV upon
request.
If you elect to have your accounts managed on a nondiscretionary basis, no changes will be made to
the allocation of your account without prior consultation with you and your expressed agreement.
Nondiscretionary is not available when an overlay management strategist or model account
management strategy is utilized. There is risk with electing to have your account managed on a non-
discretionary basis. The risk is that your Advisory Representative will not be able to conduct
transactions in a timely manner. If you have your custom allocated accounts managed on a
nondiscretionary basis, your Advisory Representative cannot make changes to the allocations in your
account without prior consultation and your expressed agreement. With accounts managed on a
nondiscretionary basis, there is an inherent risk your Advisory Representative will not be able to contact
you in a timely manner in volatile markets. Your Advisory Representative will not be able to mitigate
the effects of sharp market declines in an efficient manner without your expressed permission.
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BGAN primarily uses managed models managed by third party managers, exchange traded funds,
open-ended mutual funds, and no-load and load waived mutual funds. Load waived mutual funds
will include institutional shares or mutual funds purchased at net asset value (NAV). Mutual funds
purchased at NAV will have higher internal expenses and will cost the client more. Additionally,
managed accounts can include: equity and fixed income securities. However, managed accounts are
not exclusively limited to the aforementioned types of securities and include other securities such as
variable products, alternative investments, options, and other securities deemed suitable for your
portfolio by the Advisory Representative.
A client can request a current copy of any manager’s or strategist’s Form ADV Part 2A upon
request. Additionally, a current version of the disclosure brochure is available on the SEC’s website
at www.adviserinfo.sec.gov.
Transactions in the account, account reallocations and rebalancing often trigger a taxable event, with
the exception of IRA accounts, 403(b) accounts and other qualified retirement accounts.
Financial Planning and Consulting Services
BGAN offers broad-based and modular financial planning services. Financial planning services will
typically involve providing a variety of services, principally advisory in nature, to clients regarding the
management of their financial resources based upon an analysis of the client’s individual needs. BGAN
uses financial planning software to assist with determining the client’s current financial position and
define and quantify long term goals and objectives. The financial planning software will run
hypothetical scenarios based on variables to assist a client to determine a course of action. In no way
can any program or software predict future results. It is a tool to enable analysis based on historical
information to review possibilities that could occur if historical events repeat.
A financial plan will analyze the following areas:
• Personal: family records, budgeting, personal liability, estate information and
financial goals
• Tax and Cash Flow: Income tax and spending analysis and planning for past,
current, and future years. BGAN will illustrate the impact of various investments on
your current income tax and future liability.
• Death and Disability: Cash needs at death, income needs of the surviving
dependents, estate planning and disability income analysis
• Retirement: Analysis of current strategies and investment plans to help you work
toward retirement goals
• Investments: Analysis of investment alternatives and their effect on a client’s
portfolio.
• Estate Planning: Advice with respect to property ownership, distribution strategies,
disposition of business interest, estate tax reduction, and tax payment techniques as well
as discussion of gifts, trusts, etc. Further, a review of death and disability issues will
be examined. Tax consequences and their implications are identified and evaluated.
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• Tax Planning: Analysis of a financial situation or plan from a tax perspective. The
purpose of tax planning is to find tax efficiencies, with the elements of the financial plan
working together in the most tax-efficient manner possible.
Plans are based on your financial situation at the time and are based on financial information
disclosed by you to BGAN. You are advised certain assumptions are made with respect to interest
and inflation rates and use of past trends and performance of the market and economy. However,
past performance is in no way an indication of future performance. BGAN cannot offer any
guarantees or promises that your financial goals and objectives will be met. Further, it is important
you continue to review the plan and update the plan based upon changes in your financial situation,
goals, or objectives or changes in the economy. Should your financial situation or investment goals
or objectives change, you must notify BGAN promptly of the changes. You are advised the advice
offered by BGAN is be limited and is not meant to be comprehensive. Therefore, you should consider
seeking the services of other professionals such as an insurance adviser, attorney and/or accountant.
You are not obligated to implement advice through BGAN or Advisory Representatives. Should
you implement the plan with BGAN’s Advisory Representatives commissions or other
compensation is received in addition to the advisory fee paid to BGAN if the products are purchased
through the Advisory Representative acting in the capacity as an insurance agent. The receipt of
commissions is a conflict of interest.
United Kingdom (UK) Pension Plan Investment Services
BGAN provides pension consulting and advice to United Kingdom (“UK”) expatriates or other
nationals generally residing in the United States who have UK based pension plans. BGAN will
gather financial information, goals, and objectives from the client and review the client’s pension
assets. You will be provided with an analysis, explanation, and recommendations about the current
pension plan and the suitability and options available. There are advantages and disadvantages to
a pension transfer. It is important the client read the analysis carefully.
It is important clients considering transferring their UK pension review consumer information
provided at https://www.fca.org.uk/consumers.
The process begins with your authorization for BGAN to request a statement of benefit from the
existing UK pension plan administrator or trustee. If suitable and in the client’s best interest, and in
conjunction with an FCA regulated advisor with the relevant permissions for the transfer of Safe
Guarded Benefits for defined benefit plans, BGAN will assist with a transfer of pension assets to a
Self-Invested Personal Pension ("SIPP"), a Qualifying Recognised Overseas Pension Scheme
("QROPS"), and/or other applicable plans.
Pension assets are held by a regulated pension trustee (authorized by the relevant financial services
regulator where the pension plan is held) and subject to the terms and conditions of a separate
agreement between the client and the pension trustee.
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Your BGAN Advisory Representative will provide ongoing management of your pension assets.
Management strategies can include the use of a third party selected investment manager (aka
discretionary fund management (DFM)) (subject to the terms and conditions of a separate management
agreement between the client's pension trustee and the investment manager). Assets are managed
within a life bond platform such as: Utmost, Quilter or RL360 or on an investment platform such as:
Novia; MorningStar (formerly Praemium,), Ardan International, or Capital International Group.
Clients are encouraged to review the agreement between the client and the pension trustee and other
disclosure materials (such as Key Features documents) provided by the pension trustee and the
investment manager for a full understanding of the services provided and any associated costs therein.
Clients will receive a written assessment and recommendations of their pension review.
Additionally, pension plan statements and other reports are generally sent directly to clients on an
annual basis (unless requested more frequently) by the selected pension trustee, the custodian of record,
and/or others similarly involved with the client pension plan. Clients are encouraged to review
such material carefully for a complete understanding of the services offered and the costs associated
with the management of such pension plans.
BGAN does not provide tax advice including, without limitation, in relation to any US tax reporting
requirements and/or other tax implications arising in relation to clients' pension transfers. BGAN
recommends the clients seek their own tax advice, including in relation to procedures under tax treaties
between the United States and the UK (or other applicable jurisdiction) for the avoidance of double
taxation on their UK/EU pension arrangements.
General Information
Investment recommendations and advice offered by BGAN are not legal advice or accounting advice.
You should coordinate and discuss the impact of financial advice with your attorney and/or accountant.
You are advised that it is necessary to inform BGAN promptly with respect to any changes in
your financial situation and investment goals and objectives. Failure to notify BGAN of any such
changes could result in investment recommendations not meeting your needs.
C. BGAN tailors the advisory services it offers to your individual needs. You may impose
restrictions and/or limitations on the investing in certain securities or types of securities.
Services will begin with an initial consultation and data gathering. Your Advisory
Representative will ask you various questions about your financial situation and request certain
documents about your financial accounts. You may be asked to complete a fact finder or data
gathering document. The information gathered by BGAN will assist BGAN to provide you
with the requested services and customize the services to your financial situation. Depending
on the services you have requested, BGAN will gather various financial information and
history from you including, but not limited to:
• Retirement and financial goals
• Investment objectives
• Investment horizon
• Financial needs
• Cash flow analysis
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• Cost of living needs
• Education needs
• Savings tendencies
• Other applicable financial information required by BGAN in order to provide the
investment advisory services requested.
IRA Rollover Considerations
When we provide investment advice to you regarding your retirement plan account or individual
retirement account, we are fiduciaries within the meaning of Title I of the Employee Retirement
Income Security Act and/or the Internal Revenue Code, as applicable, which are laws governing
retirement accounts. The way we make money creates some conflicts with your interests,
so we operate under a special rule that requires us to act in your best interest and not put our
interest ahead of yours.
As part of our consulting and advisory services, we offer you recommendations and advice concerning
your employer retirement plan or other qualified retirement account. Our recommendations can
include you consider withdrawing the assets from your employer's retirement plan or other qualified
retirement account and roll the assets over to an individual retirement account ("IRA"). Further, we
offer our management services be applied to those funds and securities rolled into an IRA or other
account for which we will receive compensation. If you elect to roll the assets to an IRA that is
subject to our management, we will charge you an asset-based fee as described above under Item
5. This practice presents a conflict of interest because persons providing investment advice on
our behalf have an incentive to recommend a rollover to you for the purpose of generating fee-based
compensation. You are under no obligation, contractually or otherwise, to complete the rollover.
Furthermore, if you do complete the rollover, you are under no obligation to have the assets in an IRA
managed by us.
It is important for you to understand many employers permit former employees to keep their
retirement assets in their company plan. Also, current employees can sometimes move assets out of
their company plan before they retire or change jobs. In determining whether to complete the rollover
to an IRA, and to the extent the following options are available, you should consider the costs and
benefits of each.
An employee will typically have four options:
1. Leave the funds in your employer's (former employer's) plan.
2. Move the funds to a new employer's retirement plan.
3. Cash out and taking a taxable distribution from the plan.
4. Roll the funds into an IRA rollover account.
Each of these options has advantages and disadvantages and before making a change we encourage
you to speak with your CPA and/or tax attorney.
If you are considering rolling over your retirement funds to an IRA for us to manage it is important
you understand the following:
1. Determine whether the investment options in your employer's retirement plan address your
needs or whether you might want to consider other types of investments.
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a. Employer retirement plans generally have a more limited investment menu than
IRAs.
b. Employer retirement plans often have unique investment options not available to
the public such as employer securities, or previously closed funds.
2. Your current plan may have lower fees than our fees.
a. If you are interested in investing only in mutual funds, you should understand the
cost structure of the share classes available in your employer's retirement plan and
how the costs of those share classes compare with those available in an IRA.
b. You should understand the various products and services you might take advantage
of at an IRA provider and the costs of those products and services.
c. It is likely you will not be charged a management fee and will not receive ongoing
asset management services unless you elect to have such services. In the event your
plan offers asset management or model management, there may be a fee associated
with the services that is more or less than our asset management fee.
3. Our strategy can have higher risk than the option(s) provided to you in your plan.
4. Your current plan may offer financial advice, guidance, and/or model management or
5.
portfolio options at no additional cost.
If you keep your assets titled in a 401k or retirement account, you could delay your
required minimum distribution beyond age 73. (You must take your first required minimum
distribution for the year in which you turn age 73 (70 ½ if you reached 70 ½ before January
1, 2020 or 72 if you reached 72 prior to January 1, 2023). If you reach
70½ in 2020 or 72 in 2022, you have to take your first RMD by April 1 of the year after
you reach the aforementioned age prior to the stated years age. For all subsequent years,
including the year in which you were paid the first RMD by April 1, you must take the
RMD by December 31 of the year. (Source IRS.gov))
6. Your 401k may offer more liability protection than a rollover IRA; each state may vary.
a. Generally, federal law protects assets in qualified plans from creditors. Since 2005,
IRA assets have been generally protected from creditors in bankruptcies. However,
there can be some exceptions to the general rules so you should consult an attorney
if you are concerned about protecting your retirement plan assets from creditors.
7. You may be able to take out a loan on your 401k, but not from an IRA.
8.
9.
IRA assets can be accessed any time; however, distributions are subject to ordinary
income tax and may also be subject to a 10% early distribution penalty unless they
qualify for an exception such as disability, higher education expenses or the purchase of a
home.
If you own company stock in your plan, you may be able to liquidate those shares at a
lower capital gains tax rate.
10. Your plan may allow you to hire us as the manager and keep the assets titled in the plan
name.
It is important that you understand the differences between these types of accounts and to decide
whether a rollover is best for you. Prior to proceeding, if you have questions contact your investment
adviser representative, or call our main number as listed on the cover page of this brochure.
D. Wrap Program. BGAN does not offer a wrap fee program. Clients will pay a fee for asset
management services, third-party manager(s) or strategist(s) if used, and transaction fees.
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E. Assets Under Management. As of December 31, 2024, BGAN has $ 396,867,180 of
regulatory assets under management. Of that number, $ 2,209,303 is managed on a non-
discretionary basis. The remainder was managed on a discretionary basis.
Some of our investment adviser representatives (IAR) are also registered with other, unrelated
and unaffiliated investment advisers. Services provided through these other investment advisers are
supervised by their own Chief Compliance Officer. Some services available to investors may not
be available at both firms. In those situations, you must either forgo the service or do business with
your IAR through the offering firm. Your IAR will provide you with disclosure and a client
agreement that indicates the firm through which they are providing the service. In situations where
the investor is conducting business with both affiliates, contracts for each will be executed.
Item 5 - FEES AND COMPENSATION
General Disclosure
As stated under Item 4, BGAN consists of a group of independent contractors who are registered or
licensed with BGAN as Advisory Representatives offering the advisory services and programs
outlined in this Form ADV Part 2A. While no Advisory Representative can exceed the fees
schedules outlined below, each Advisory Representative can negotiate and charge an advisory
fee based on the fee schedules below. The amount of the fee is not commensurate with
education or tenure in the industry. Therefore, there is another BGAN Advisory
Representative who charges more or less than the fee you are being charged for similar
services.
Your Advisory Representative has a direct interest in the fee charged to you since BGAN will
pay a portion of the advisory fee charged to you to your Advisory Representative.
The advice provided by Advisory Representatives often involves recommendations to invest assets
according to an asset allocation primarily involving mutual funds, exchange traded funds, stocks,
bonds, alternative products and other types of securities. Recommendations include investing into
various share classes. Different share classes of securities involve different fee structures and
internal costs. Institutional shares are often the least expensive from an internal cost perspective;
however, the transaction fees can be higher. It is important you understand the internal cost structure
of the various share classes. Additional information about costs and the various share classes can be
found in the prospectus.
Registered investment company securities such as mutual funds, and variable products offer the
securities in various share classes. Different share classes are priced differently and share classes other
than institutional share classes will involve higher internal costs that over time will cost you more.
Institutional share classes often have higher trading costs. A client needs to consider the amount
being invested and the length of anticipated holding to make a decision as to the share class most
suitable to the client. Representatives will select the lowest share class funds available and
appropriate to the situation. However, in selecting the lowest share class, trading costs are
sometimes higher. Selecting the lowest share class appropriate to the situation does not imply the
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lowest cost share class. Instead, your Advisory Representative will select what they deem lowest
cost for the situation. Representatives consider the anticipated holding period, cost structure, and
administrative and transaction costs associated with selecting a share class. However, there is no
way to predict the future and there could be occasions where a holding is liquidated sooner or held
longer resulting in higher costs to the client. Additional information about share classes can be
found in an Investor Alert issued by the Securities and Exchange Commission at
https://www.investor.gov/additional-resources/news-alerts/alerts-bulletins/investor-bulletin-mutual-
fund-classes and
https://www.investor.gov/additional-resources/news-alerts/alerts-bulletins/investor-bulletin-mutual-
fund-classes. Additionally, the SEC and FINRA provides investor information at www.sec.gov and
www.finra.org.
It is important to note that institutional share classes for UK pension assets are often not available
unless the client meets the minimum investment amount which is often high.
Asset Management Services
A. Fee Schedules
Fees are negotiable and are not based on a share of capital gains upon or capital appreciation of
the funds or any portion of the funds.
You may make additions to the Account or withdrawals from the Account. Additional assets
deposited into the Account after it is opened will be charged a pro-rata fee based upon the number
of days remaining in the then current calendar month. Additionally, partial withdrawals
from the account will result in a prorated portion of the fee being credited to the Account. Fee
adjustments for inflows and outflows in accounts charged based on the average daily balance will
be factored into the monthly fee using the average daily value of the account. No fee adjustments
will be made for Account appreciation or depreciation.
Advisor Directed Managed Program Fee Schedule
Fee Breakpoint Levels
Up to $5,000,000
Over $5,000,000
Advisor Directed
Maximum
Advisory Fee*
2.75%
1.00%
*Advisor Directed managed accounts do not pay a custodian asset-based fee. Instead, the client
pays custodian transaction charges in accordance with the custodian’s transaction fee schedule
for each transaction. The custodian offers some securities, a limited number of open- ended
mutual funds and exchange traded fund, at no transaction fee. However, the security positions
will be subject to a holding period or the client will incur early redemption fees which could be
substantial in comparison to a transaction fee. The maximum platform fee charged will be fifteen
(15) basis points per annum. All fees are negotiable based upon AUM tier level at our sole
discretion.
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Your Advisory Representative will have the discretion to determine:
• How the fee will be determined
Option A: A monthly fee will be calculated based on the average daily value of each
account registration under management (e.g., you have four accounts, therefore, each
account is charged a fee based on the average daily account value based on the
negotiated fee schedule).
Option B: A quarterly fee will be calculated based on the average daily value of each
account registration under management (e.g., you have four accounts, therefore, each
account is charged a fee based on the average daily account value based on the
negotiated fee schedule).
Option C: A monthly fee will be calculated based on the aggregated or household
average daily value of all managed accounts for the household
.
Option D: A quarterly fee will be calculated based on the aggregated or household
average daily value of all managed accounts for the household.
For example, if you have four managed accounts with an average daily value as of the just
completed calendar month of: $1,000,001, $2,000,000, $500,000, and $1,500,000 with a total value
of $5,000,001, you will not pay a fee on the managed accounts greater than 1.00%.
• Valuation of the account for purposes of calculating the fee and fee structure
BGAN Advisor and BGAN Program fees will be determined and calculated based on the average daily
balance of the account for the calendar month or calendar quarter.
• Fee Timing
The timing of Account fees to be billed in arrears on a monthly basis or on a quarterly basis is
dependent upon which option above (A,B, C, D) your Advisory Representative selects.
*Note:BGAN may change the above fee schedule upon 30-days prior written notice to you.
Alternative Products (real estate investment trusts, special purpose vehicles, private
placements)
Alternative products are generally illiquid and a regular valuation is typically not obtainable. Clients
with a position in alternative products will be charged an annual fee not to exceed 1% of the client’s
investment into alternative products. One-twelfth (1/12) of the annual fee will be charged each
calendar month and will be deducted from a designated managed account at an account custodian.
B. Collection of Advisory Fees. Advisory fees are collected directly from your account, provided
you have given BGAN written authorization. Written authorization is granted to BGAN by
execution of the client advisory agreement. You will be provided with an account statement
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reflecting the deduction of the advisory fee direct from the account custodian. If the Account does
not contain sufficient funds to pay advisory fees, BGAN has limited authority to sell or redeem
securities in sufficient amounts to pay advisory fees. You may reimburse the account for
advisory fees paid to BGAN, except for ERISA and IRA accounts.
C. Additional Fees and Costs. In addition to the advisory fees above,
• Transactions in the Adviser Directed program you (the client) will pay transaction fees
for securities transactions executed in your account in accordance with the custodian’s
transaction fee schedule.
•
• Additionally, you will pay fees for custodial services, account maintenance fees,
transaction fees, and other fees associated with maintaining the Account. Such fees are
not charged by BGAN and are charged by the product, broker/dealer or account custodian.
BGAN does not share in any portion of such fees. Additionally, you will pay your
proportionate share of the fund’s management and administrative fees and sales charges
as well as the mutual fund adviser’s fee of any mutual fund purchased. Such advisory fees
are not shared with BGAN and are compensation to the fund- manager.
• Custodians assess a custodial charge for alternative investments for their administration
and reporting requirements. Such custodial charges will vary among custodians and
can be as high as $350 per holding.
D. Termination Provisions.
You may terminate investment advisory services obtained from BGAN, without penalty, upon
written notice within five (5) business days after entering into the advisory agreement with BGAN.
You will be responsible for any fees and charges incurred from third parties as a result of
maintaining the Account such as transaction fees for any securities transactions executed and
Account maintenance or custodial fees. Thereafter, you can terminate investment advisory
services upon delivery to BGAN and your Advisory Representative of your written notice to
terminate.
• Fees Paid in Arrears: Should you terminate or transfer funds and securities out of the
account prior to the end of the calendar month, you will be charged a prorated advisory
fee for the month up to the date of termination. In the event you transfer the account, and
no funds or securities remain in the account for BGAN to deduct its advisory fee, you will
be sent a fee invoice. Fee invoices must be paid within 30 days of the date of the invoice
or late fees of $15 per 30 days after the date of the invoice will be charged plus interest of
18% per annum will be assessed until the invoice is paid in full.
• Fees Paid in Advance: You will receive a prorated refund of fees paid in advance thru the
end of the quarter in which you terminate or transfer funds or securities out of your
account(s).
Financial Planning and Consulting Services
Fees for planning services are strictly for planning services. Therefore, you will pay fees for
additional services obtained such as asset management. It is your Advisory Representatives
discretion whether or not to waive a portion or all of any financial planning or consulting fee if you
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implement advice through your Advisory Representative and participate in an asset management
program or service.
Your fees will be dependent on several factors including time spent with the Advisory Representative,
number of meetings, complexity of your situation, amount of research, services requested and staff
resources, and your Advisory Representative. Fees are negotiable at the sole discretion of BGAN.
Fee Type
Maximum Fee
Fixed Fee
$5,000
Payable
A fee payment schedule will be negotiated and agreed upon
between you and your Advisory Representative prior
services beginning and will be outline in the client advisory
agreement. Fees are:
1. Payable one-half (1/2) upon execution of the advisory
agreement with BGAN and the balance due at the
time of presentation of the plan or recommendations;
or
2. Due in full at the time of presentation of the plan or
recommendations.
Hourly Fee
$300 per hour
Payable as invoiced by BGAN.
Termination Provisions
You may terminate advisory services obtained from BGAN, without penalty, upon written notice
within five (5) business days after entering into the advisory agreement with BGAN. Thereafter,
you may terminate investment advisory services with 30-days written notice to BGAN. You will be
responsible for any time spent by BGAN.
United Kingdom (UK) Pension Plan Investment Services
There are multiple fees clients will pay when electing to transfer a U.K. pension to a Self-Invested
Personal Pension (“SIPP”) or Qualifying Recognised Overseas Pension Scheme (“QROPS”)
including:
• FCA required suitability report costs (required for defined benefit transfers)
• Initial planning and analysis fee
• Ongoing asset management fees
• Discretionary fund manager fees
• Investment platform, custodian, and trustee fees, and transaction and dealing fees.
Clients will pay an initial fee covering time and services for analysis and planning, advice, consultation,
and review and establishment of a SIPP, QROPS, or other applicable plan. The initial fee is deducted
directly from the value of the assets transferred, unless directly paid by the client. The fee is a
contingent fee, meaning client will only pay the fee if the client elects to transfer their pension.
This is a conflict of interest because there is an incentive to recommend a transfer in order
to receive compensation. To mitigate this conflict of interest this disclosure is provided, and clients
should discuss the transfer with another professional. The fee is a percentage fee based on the value
of the pension assets to be transferred as further described below.
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In addition to the initial fee, if the client has a defined benefit plan the client will pay a fee to a U.K.
qualified Advisor to prepare the U.K. suitability report, which can be $4,000 or more, depending on
the UK Advisor, the value of UK pension assets, and the time frame the report is needed. The fee is
paid direct to the UK Advisor for the report and is not determined or set by BGAN or shared with
BGAN or its advisory representatives. UK pension transfers with safeguarded benefits in excess of
£30,000 are subject to review and analysis by a UK regulated adviser, unaffiliated with BGAN. The
suitability report fee is charged to the client and is an added cost incurred by the client, whether or
not the client decides to move forward with the pension transfer. The cost of the suitability report
will be invoiced to the client or will be deducted directly from the pension asset once the transfer to
the SIPP has been completed. In certain circumstances your BGAN Advisory Representative can
agree to cover the cost of the report fee on your behalf and you will reimburse BGAN for the fee
contingent on your pension transferring and out of the transferred assets. This is a conflict of interest
for your Advisory Representative to encourage a pension transfer in order to be reimbursed for
the direct cost incurred. To mitigate this conflict of interest this disclosure is provided. It is
important to understand costs before beginning the process of obtaining the report. Typically,
U.K. qualified Advisors will advise against a transfer and will outline in their report their
opinions. Regardless of the outcome, you will be subject to the report fee.
After pension assets are transferred, client will pay an ongoing annual fee for monitoring, advice,
consultation, and management on the investments and allocation of assets. Fees are negotiable and
will be determined based on several factors including size of the pension assets, services being
provided to the client, complexity of the situation, and consultations.
Initial Fee:
• The initial fee is calculated based on the value of the pension assets transferred from a
defined benefit or defined contribution scheme to a SIPP. The is calculated by the
trustee or platform provider and is agreed on between you and your advisory
representative and is disclosed in the advisory agreement and in the trustee or platform
application. The fee is negotiated between you and your advisory representative.
Fee Based on Total Transfer
Value
£0-£250,000
£250,001-£750,000
Over £750,001
Maximum Initial Advisory
Fee
3.0%
2.5%
1.0%
• The initial fee will be due either:
1) in full upon the decision to transfer assets and funds to a SIPP and QROPS; or
2) paid through the purchase of an insurance bond or bond wrapper whereby
BGAN and your advisory representative will be paid compensation. The
compensation is in replace of the initial fee but will cost you more over a period
of time. By purchasing a bond or investment wrapper you will be paying an
internal cost for the wrapper which is paid over a period of years as agreed by
you, but not to exceed ten years in addition to other costs and expenses for the
bond. Therefore, there is added costs directly incurred by you for purchasing
the bond rather than paying the entire fee upon transfer of the pension assets.
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Electing to purchase the bond and incurring additional costs will enable you to
invest a larger portion of your transferred pension assets verses the initial fee
depleting the initial transferred value. However, the added cost will directly
impact the performance of investment return of your SIPP account over time. It
is important for clients to understand a bond purchase will increase the costs
over time. There is no guarantee that the purchase of a bond wrapper will result
in better or worse performance over time. Further, early termination of the
bond will result in the client incurring penalties including if death occurs
during the non-surrender period.
Clients purchasing a bond wrapper and attaining the age 55 or older when
pension distributions may be eligible (as permitted under UK regulation)
prior to the 5–10 year surrender period, will incur penalties if distributions
are taken. Bond wrappers are not appropriate for clients with a potential
need to take distributions from the account during the surrender period. A
long-term investment time horizon of longer than 10 years is needed.
• If the initial fee is paid out of transferred pension assets, client is advised the fee will
directly reduce the amount of assets available for investment.
• In the United States the Securities and Exchange Commission requires investment
advisers to disclose that when fees exceed 3% the fees are considered excessive in
comparison to fees charged by other investment advisers for similar services. UK
pension transfers involve several layers of fees as further described below under
Additional Fees and Costs. Therefore, considering total fees a client will pay
including our advisory fees, UK report writer, trustee, platform provider, etc. the
fees can exceed 5% or more. It is important for a client to refer to charging schedules
for all providers including investment fund costs.
Annual Fee:
• SIPP and QROPS accounts will be charged an annual fee not to exceed 1.50% annually.
The annual fee will begin upon completion of the transfer.
• Depending on the SIPP or QROPs provider, fees will be deducted from the account
either: 1) quarterly in arrears or 2) monthly in arrears.
• Fees are calculated by the platform provider and based on the valuation date established
by the provider.
• Platform providers will typically not prorate fees for partial billing periods.
Therefore, you will pay the full billing period (i.e., month or quarter) regardless of
when assets were deposited to your account.
Advisory fees will be collected directly from your account. As stated above, the platform
provider or custodian will calculate advisory fees to BGAN. Written authorization is
granted to BGAN to receive fees direct from the platform provider or custodian by
execution of the client advisory agreement. You will be provided with an account statement
reflecting the deduction of the advisory fee direct from the account custodian at a frequency
as agreed by the platform provider. Additionally, you can request an account valuation at
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any time. If the Account does not contain sufficient funds to pay advisory fees, BGAN has
limited authority to sell or redeem securities in sufficient amounts to pay advisory fees.
Additional Fees and Costs:
In addition to the fees outlined above, depending on the investment platform and SIPP
provider or trustee, client is subject to the following fees and costs:
• Transaction fees and/or dealing costs
• Discretionary Fund Manager or Discretionary Manager fees
• Investment platform fees
• Establishment or set-up fee and annual fees charged by the SIPP provider
• Annual trustee or administrative charges
• Income or benefit set-up and annual fees charged by the SIPP provider
• If a portfolio bond is utilized there will be set-up fees, ongoing administration fees,
and dealing fees per trade
• Exit penalty fees associated with the bond that decline over a period often over a 10-
year period
• If mutual funds, exchange traded funds or other pooled investment vehicles are used,
the client will pay a proportionate share of the fund’s management and administrative
fees and sales charges as well as the mutual fund adviser’s fee of any fund purchased.
Such advisory fees are not shared with BGAN and are compensation to the fund-
manager.
• Exit fees are charged if changing platforms or trustees
Discretionary Manager or Third-Party Asset Manager:
A discretionary manager (DM) or also referred to as third party asset manager can be engaged to
manage some or a portion of the SIPP assets. The DM will charge a fee up to 1.00% on the portion
of assets allocated to the DM. Therefore, annual asset management fees can be 2.50% (i.e., 1.50
maximum BGAN fee plus 1.00% to the DM).
Additionally, such advisory fees are not shared with BGAN and are compensation to the fund-
manager.
Additional Fees and Costs. In addition to the advisory fees above, you will pay transaction or
dealing fees for securities transactions executed in your account in accordance with the custodian’s
transaction fee schedule. Additionally, you will pay fees for custodial services, account maintenance
fees, transaction fees, and other fees associated with maintaining the Account. BGAN does not
share in any portion of the aforementioned fees. The underlying investments in the SIPP will have
internal costs that typically do not exceed 0.5%. This cost is borne by the investor and you will pay
your proportionate share of the fund’s management and administrative fees and sales charges as well
as the mutual fund adviser’s fee of any exchange traded fund, mutual fund, or Undertakings for the
Collective Investment in Transferable Securities (UCITS) purchased. Such fees are not charged by
BGAN and are charged by the product, broker/dealer, trustee, or account custodian. BGAN does not
share in any portion of such fees. Such advisory fees are not shared with BGAN and are compensation
to the underlying fund manager.
Termination Provisions
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You may terminate investment advisory services obtained from BGAN, without penalty, upon
written notice within five (5) business days after entering into the advisory agreement with BGAN.
You will be responsible for any fees and charges incurred from third parties as a result of
transferring and/or maintaining the account such as transaction fees for any securities transactions
executed and account maintenance or custodial fees. Thereafter, you may terminate investment
advisory services upon delivery to BGAN and your Advisory Representative of your written notice
to terminate.
a. If termination occurs prior to the initiation of the transfer of pension assets, clients will be
responsible for time and third-party expenses incurred, such as the FCA report prepared by
the UK qualified Advisor.
b. If review, advice, and/or analysis of Client’s United Kingdom pension have been initiated,
Client will not be entitled to a prorated refund of the initial fee. The initial fee covers
Adviser’s time, analysis, and review of the pension assets and Client’s financial situation.
c. Client will be responsible for and agrees to pay a prorated portion of the annual fee based
upon the number of days in the quarter up to Adviser’s receipt of Client’s written notice to
terminate (the “termination date”).
Item 6 - PERFORMANCE-BASED FEES AND SIDE BY SIDE MANAGEMENT
This section is not applicable to BGAN. BGAN does not charge performance-based fees.
Item 7 - TYPES OF CLIENTS
BGAN’s services are geared toward individuals both high net worth (i.e., clients with a net worth of
$2,200,000, exclusive of primary residence or has $1,100,000 under management with BGAN) and
other than high net worth. Additionally, BGAN’s services are suitable for businesses, pension and
profit-sharing plans, and trusts.
Item 8 - METHODS OF ANALYSIS, INVESTMENT STRATEGIES AND RISK OF LOSS
A. Each Advisory Representative conducts their own analysis to determine the securities and asset
allocations they will use in a client’s portfolio. They will use a variety of resources to gather
information including but not limited to newspapers, magazines, due diligence visits and
interviews with vendors, product literature and prospectuses, asset allocation programs and
software. Advisory Representatives conduct economic analysis to attempt to analyze and
determine trends as well as fundamental analysis. Fundamental analysis generally involves
looking at economic and financial factors. Additionally, they will assess a company’s or
security’s value based on factors such as sales, assets, markets, management, products and
services, earnings, and financial structure. Some Advisory representatives employ technical
market analysis and technical trend following. Technical analysis generally involves studying
trends and movements in a security’s price, trading volume, and other market-related factors in
an attempt to discern patterns.
Depending on the needs of the client and the investment philosophy of the Advisory
Representative, long term, short term and active trading strategies will be utilized. Factors that
result in a change to a client’s portfolio include but are not limited to, economic factors,
management changes with the security, tax law changes, objective change, and news or press
releases, and financial changes with the client.
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B. BGAN emphasizes that investment returns, particularly over shorter time periods, can be
highly volatile and are dependent on a wide variety of factors. Thus, our investment management
services are generally suitable only for long-term investment objectives or strategies, rather than
for short-term trading purposes. Neither diversification nor asset allocation assure a profit or
protect you against a loss, and there is no guarantee that your investment objectives will be
achieved.
You are advised investing in securities involves risk of loss, including the loss of principal.
Therefore, your participation in any of the management programs offered by BGAN will
require you to be prepared to bear the risk of loss and fluctuating performance.
BGAN does not represent, warrantee or imply that the services or methods of analysis used by
BGAN can or will predict future results, successfully identify market tops or bottoms, or insulate
you from losses due to major market corrections or crashes. Past performance is no indication of
future performance. No guarantees can be offered that your goals or objectives will be
achieved. Further, no promises or assumptions can be made that the advisory services offered
by BGAN will provide a better return than other investment strategies.
C. BGAN primarily uses mutual funds, exchange traded funds, UCITs (within a UK pension plan),
individual equities and fixed income securities, and third-party service providers. The
following are some of the primary risks associated with the securities and strategies utilized.
Please do not hesitate to contact us to discuss these risks and others in more detail.
Mutual Funds and UCITs: Mutual fund fees are described in the fund's prospectus, which the
custodian mails directly to the client following any purchase of a mutual fund that is new to the
client's account. In addition, a prospectus is available online at each mutual fund company's
Web site. At the client's request at any time, BGAN will direct the client to the appropriate
Web page to access the prospectus. The risks with mutual funds include:
- Manager Risk: This is the risk that an actively managed mutual fund’s investment adviser
will fail to execute the fund’s stated investment strategy.
- Market Risk: This is the risk that the Stock Market will decline, decreasing the value of
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the securities contained within the mutual funds we recommend to you.
Industry Risk: This is the risk that a group of stocks in a single industry will decline in
price due to adverse developments in that industry, decreasing the value of mutual funds
that are significantly invested in that industry.
- Inflation Risk: This is the risk that the rate of price increases in the economy deteriorates
the returns associated with the mutual fund.
Registered investment company securities such as mutual funds, and variable products offer
the securities in various share classes. Different share classes are priced differently and have
varying levels of internal costs and share classes other than institutional share classes will
involve higher internal costs that over time will cost you more. Institutional share classes often
have higher trading costs; however, the internal costs of the fund are lower. Over a period of
time, share classes other than institutional shares will become more expensive if held in the
account for a long period time. A client needs to consider the amount being invested and the
length of anticipated holding to determine the share class most suitable to. Advisory
Representatives will attempt to select the lowest share class funds available and appropriate to
the situation. However, in selecting the lowest share class, trading costs are sometimes higher.
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Selecting the lowest share class appropriate to the situation does not imply the lowest cost
share class. Instead, your Advisory Representative will select what they deem the lowest cost
for the situation. Further, the lowest cost share class is not available with all platforms and
custodians. Advisory Representatives consider the anticipated holding period, cost structure,
and administrative and transaction costs associated with selecting a share class. However,
there is no way to predict the future and there will be occasions where a holding is liquidated
sooner or held longer resulting in higher costs to the client. Additional information about share
classes can be found in an Investor Alert issued by the Securities and Exchange Commission at
https://www.investor.gov/additional-resources/news-alerts/alerts-bulletins/investor-bulletin-
mutual-fund-classes and https://www.investor.gov/additional-resources/news-alerts/alerts-
bulletins/investor-bulletin-mutual-fund-classes. Additionally, the SEC and FINRA provide
investor information at www.sec.gov and www.finra.org
Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs): ETFs are professionally managed pooled vehicles that invest in
stocks, bonds, short-term money market instruments, other mutual funds, other securities or any
combination thereof. ETFs trade on an auctionable market. Therefore, there is more price
fluctuation with ETFs than with mutual funds since ETFs trade throughout the day, whereas
mutual funds are priced once a day. Also, since most ETFs only mirror a market index, such as
the S&P 500, they won't outperform the index. While ETFs generally provide diversification,
risks can be significantly increased for funds concentrated in a particular sector of the market,
or that primarily invest in small cap or speculative companies, use leverage (i.e., borrow
money) to a significant degree, or concentrate in a particular type of security rather than balancing
the fund with different types of securities.
Individual Equities: The risks with stocks are prices fluctuate throughout the day. Stocks can
drop in value and become worthless. The risks with stocks are market risk and company
specific risk. The price of a stock can decline due to company-specific reasons as well as the
health of the overall stock market. Even dividends, which many beginning investors believe are
guaranteed payments by the company, can decline or be totally eliminated. Investing in micro,
small or mid-sized companies involve risks not associated with investing in more established
companies. Since equity securities of smaller companies do not always trade as often as equity
securities of larger, more established companies, it is difficult or impossible for the securities
to sell.
Bonds: Investing in bonds involves the assumption of risk including:
• Interest Rate Risk: which is the risk that the value of the bond investments we
recommend to you will fall if interest rates rise.
• Call Risk: which is the risk that your bond investment will be called or purchased back
from you when conditions are favorable to the bond issuer and unfavorable to you.
• Default Risk: which is the risk that the bond issuer is unable to pay you the contractual
interest or principal on the bond in a timely manner or at all.
• Inflation Risk: which is the risk that the rate of price increases in the economy
deteriorates the returns associated with the bond.
Alternative Products (real estate investment trusts, special purpose vehicles, private
placements:
Investing in alternative and private placement investments involves unique and serious risks an
investor must be prepared to bear. It is crucial an investor reads the offering memorandum
prior to investing for full disclosure of qualification requirements and risks including:
• Operational, economic, market cycles and trends, investment, tax
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• Risk of hedge funds, derivatives, and other investment vehicles
• Trading risks such as short selling, performance-based fees, limited operating and
investment experience, consulting fees, interest and lending fees
• Use of leverage
• Illiquidity or limited liquidity
• Non-existence of or minimal secondary market
• Valuation complexities and limitations of valuations
• High degree of risk and potential loss of principal
Third Party Managers: Please refer to the third-party service provider’s Form ADV and
associated disclosure documents for details on their investment strategies, methods of analysis
and associated risks. The risks with utilizing third party managed programs include:
• Market and economic risk.
• The risk the third-party manager is not managing to the objective or managing based on
the stated strategy.
• The risk the securities managed by the third-party manager will decline or fluctuate
impacting the overall performance of the portfolio.
• The risk that the performance of the portfolio will be diminished by the fees of the
third-party manager and expenses associated with the securities.
Risks
The business of investing in securities is highly competitive and the identification of attractive
investment opportunities is difficult and involves a high degree of uncertainly. Varied
fluctuations in the price of investments are a normal characteristic of securities markets due to
a variety of influences. Managed account programs should be considered a long-term investment
and thus long-term performance and performance consistency are the major goals.
Tax Risk
Income tax costs result from the sale of individual securities within your account, unless the
account is otherwise tax sheltered or tax deferred. Income tax costs directly reduce investment
returns. Under the current income tax system, securities held less than one year that are sold at
a gain (short term capital gains) are taxed at the client’s highest marginal tax rate, and
securities held greater than one year that are sold at a gain (long term capital gains) are taxed at
a reduced long-term capital gains rate. Furthermore, the Alternative Minimum Tax (AMT)
impact of long and short-term capital gains incurred in the tax year in question should be
considered. Client is responsible for all tax liabilities arising from the sale of securities within the
account.
International investing presents certain risks not associated with investing solely in the United
States. These include, for instance, risks relating to fluctuations in the value of the U.S. dollar
relative to the values of other currencies, custody arrangements made for foreign holdings,
political risks, differences in accounting procedures and the lesser degree of public information
required to be provided by non- U.S. companies.
Investing in emerging markets involves greater risk than investing in more established markets.
Such risks include exchange rate changes, political and economic upheaval, the relative lack of
information about these companies, relatively low market liquidity, and the lack of strict
financial and accounting controls and standards.
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Investing in fixed income securities involves special risks not typically associated with equity
securities. These risks include credit risk, which is the risk of loss due to the inability to meet
contractual debt obligations, and interest rate risk, which is the risk that an investment’s value
will change due to a change in the level of interest rates. Additionally, there is an inverse
relationship between bond prices and interest rates specific to fixed income securities. As interest
rates rise, bond prices fall and, conversely, as interest rates fall, bond prices rise.
Long-term purchases – Using a long-term purchase strategy generally assumes the Financial
Markets will go up in the long-term which is not always the case. There is also the risk that the
segment of the market that you are invested in or perhaps just your particular investment will
go down over time even if the overall Financial Markets advance. Purchasing investments
long-term creates an opportunity cost - “locking-up” assets that is be better utilized in the
short-term in other investments.
Active Trading – frequent trading of securities; explain how frequent trading can affect
investment performance, particularly through increased brokerage and other transaction costs
and taxes
Fundamental Analysis does not attempt to anticipate market movements. This represents a risk,
as the price of a security can move up or down along with the overall market, regardless of the
economic and financial factors considered in evaluating the security. The success of this
strategy depends in large part on the ability to accurately assess the fundamental value of
securities. An accurate assessment of fundamental value deepens on a complex analysis of a
number of financial and legal factors. No assurance can be given that we can assess the nature
and magnitude of all material factors having a bearing on the value of securities.
Quantitative Analysis: The risk of the analysis using mathematical and statistical modeling is
that they are not accurately predict future investment patterns. Day to day changes in the
market prices of investments follow random patterns and are not predictable with any reliable
degree of accuracy.
Qualitative Analysis: The risk of analysis using more subjective criteria is that the information
obtained to make the analysis is inaccurate and skews the analysis. In addition, measuring (or
weighting) the criteria will likely be inconsistent from one analysis to another and could
adversely affects the investment decisions.
No investment strategy can avoid loss. Investing in securities involves risk of loss that you
need to be prepared to bear.
Item 9 - DISCIPLINARY INFORMATION
Investment Advisers must disclose any legal or disciplinary events that would be material to your
evaluation of BGAN or the integrity of our services. In the most recent ten-year period, there are no
events that have occurred requiring disclosure. BGAN compliance may, if necessary, place Advisory
Representatives or Advisory Firms on internal Heightened Supervision to better monitor their
activities and conduct.
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Item 10 - OTHER FINANCIAL INDUSTRY ACTIVITIES AND AFFILIATIONS
A. For specific information regarding whether your Advisory Representative maintains multiple
registrations with different entities please refer to your Advisory Representative’s Form ADV
Part 2B Item 2 and 4 disclosures.
B.
Non-U.S. based advisors have qualifications and are associated with other licensed or regulated
firms to offer securities and insurance products to clients outside the United States in non-US
jurisdictions where regulatory permissions are granted. BGAN is not affiliated with the non-
U.S. based licensed firms and does not participate in any compensation received for business
conducted offshore and outside of BGAN. Furthermore, BGAN does not oversee or supervise
activities of non-U.S. based advisory representatives conducting business outside the U.S.
through the non-U.S. based licensed companies.
B. Certain Advisory Representatives are affiliated with other Investment Advisers for purposes of
offering other advisory program, platforms, or services not available through BGAN. Please
refer to your Advisory Representative’s Form ADV Part 2B for disclosure regarding whether
your Advisory Representative is associated with another investment adviser or has direct
ownership in another investment adviser. Advisory Representatives offer advisory services
that are similar or different from the advisory services offered through BGAN and services will
cost more or less.
Certain advisory representatives engage in activities as an accountant outside of BGAN. Tax
preparation and accounting services are not offered or sponsored by BGAN. Tax preparation
and accounting services are an outside business activity from BGAN and are conducted
through the advisory representative’s independent business, unaffiliated with BGAN. Clients
are under no obligation to participate in tax or accounting services offered by any advisory
representative.
Certain advisory representatives are licensed insurance agents. BGAN does not offer or
sponsor insurance products or services. The insurance business engaged in by advisory
representatives is an outside business activity and is unaffiliated with the services offered by
BGAN. Clients are under no obligation to participate in insurance products or services offered
by any advisory representative. Advisory Representatives, who are insurance, licensed, have a
conflict of interest to recommend and offer insurance products and services to you because
they will earn a commission. Insurance products pay high commissions to licensed insurance
agents. Therefore, the advisory representatives who are licensed insurance agents have
an incentive by the receipt of high commission to recommend insurance products such as
fixed index annuities. Fixed index annuities and other insurance products are not
securities products. To mitigate this conflict of interest this disclosure is provided to you.
Further, you are encouraged to seek a second opinion on any insurance recommendations.
Before purchasing any insurance product including a fixed index annuity, it is important to
ensure you have adequate liquidity since insurance products are not immediately liquid
and/or carry high and long-term surrender periods.
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BGAN is not and does not have a related person who is a: futures commission merchant,
commodity pool operator, commodity trading advisor, or an associated person of the foregoing
entities. Further, BGAN is not and does not have a related person who is: broker/dealer or
other similar type of broker or dealer; investment company, futures commission merchant or
commodity pool operator; banking or thrift institution; lawyer or law firm; pension consultant;
real estate broker or dealer; or sponsor or syndicator of a limited partnership.
BGAN attempts to mitigate the conflicts of interest with the receipt of commissions if
recommendations are implemented by providing you with these disclosures. Further, you are
encouraged to consult other professionals and implement recommendations through other financial
professionals.
D. As stated under Item 4, Advisory Business above, BGAN recommends other investment
advisers (i.e., discretionary managers, third-party managers, and third-party service providers).
BGAN and your advisory representative do not share in a portion of the advisory fees you pay
to the third-party service providers. Fees paid to third-party service providers are separate
from the fees paid to BGAN. BGAN’s and your advisory representative’s fee is in addition to
the third-party manager fee. Some managers will calculate and deduct BGAN’s and your
advisory representative’s fee from your account and remit the fees to BGAN.
Item 11 - CODE OF ETHICS, PARTICIPATION OR INTEREST IN CLIENT
TRANSACTIONS AND PERSONAL TRADING
Code of Ethics
A. BGAN has a fiduciary duty to you to act in your best interest and always place your interests
first and foremost. BGAN takes seriously its compliance and regulatory obligations and
requires all staff to comply with such rules and regulations as well as BGAN’s policies and
procedures. Further, BGAN strives to handle your non-public information in such a way to
protect information from falling into hands that have no business reason to know such
information and provides you with BGAN’s Privacy Policy. As such, BGAN maintains a code
of ethics for its Advisory Representatives, supervised persons and staff. The Code of Ethics
contains provisions for standards of business conduct in order to comply with federal securities
laws, personal securities reporting requirements, pre-approval procedures for certain
transactions, code violations reporting requirements, and safeguarding of material non-public
information about your transactions. Further, BGAN’s Code of Ethics establishes BGAN’s
expectation for business conduct. A copy of our Code of Ethics will be provided to you upon
request.
B. Neither BGAN nor its associated persons recommend clients buy or sell securities in which we
have a material financial interest.
C. BGAN and its associated persons buy or sell securities identical to those securities
recommended to you. Therefore, BGAN and/or its associated persons have an interest or
position in certain securities that are also recommended and bought or sold to you. BGAN and
its associated persons will not put their interests before your interest. BGAN and its associated
persons cannot trade in such a way to intentionally obtain a better price for themselves than for
you or other clients.
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C. BGAN is required to maintain a list of securities holdings for its associated persons and
develop procedures to supervise the trading activities of associated persons who have
knowledge of your transactions and their related family accounts at least quarterly. Further,
associated persons are prohibited from trading on non-public information or sharing such
information.
D.
You have the right to decline any investment recommendation. BGAN and its associated persons
are required to conduct their securities and investment advisory business in accordance with applicable
Federal and State securities regulations.
Prohibition on Use of Insider Information
BGAN has adopted policies and procedures to prevent the misuse of “insider” information (i.e.,
material non-public information). A copy of such policies and procedures is available to any person
upon request.
Item 12 - BROKERAGE PRACTICES
BGAN does not maintain custody of your assets, although we are deemed to have custody of your
assets if you give us written authority to withdraw our advisory fee directly from your managed
account. Additionally, BGAN will be deemed to have custody in certain situations involving standing
letters of authorization and if you give us authority to transfers funds or securities between your
accounts. Your assets must be maintained in an account at a qualified custodian. Generally, a
qualified custodian is a broker/dealer or bank.
BGAN participates in the institutional advisor program (the “Program”) offered by Charles Schwab
Institutional. Charles Schwab Institutional is a division of Charles Schwab & Co. (“Schwab”), member
FINRA/SIPC. Schwab is an independent and unaffiliated SEC-registered broker-dealer. Schwab is
offered as a custodian for U.S. based clients. Additionally, BGAN has a custodial arrangement with
Interactive Brokers, LLC (IB) to enable expatriates who have U.S. based assets to participate in asset
management services. Interactive Brokers and RBC has the ability to establish accounts for clients
outside the U.S. for their U.S. based assets. Interactive Brokers, LLC and RBC are independent and
unaffiliated SEC-registered broker-dealer.
Schwab, IB and RBC offer to independent investment advisors services which include custody
of securities, trade execution, clearance and settlement of transactions. Advisor receives some benefits
from Schwab, IB and RBC through its participation in the Program. BGAN receives some benefits
from Schwab, IB and RBC as further described below and under Item 14.
Schwab, IB and RBC will act solely as a broker/dealer and custodian and not as an investment adviser
to you. Neither will have discretion over your account(s) and will act solely on instructions it receives
from BGAN or you. Schwab, IB and RBC have no responsibility for our services and undertakes
no duty to you to monitor our management of your account or other services we provide to you.
Schwab and IB will hold your assets in a brokerage account and buy and sell securities and execute
other transactions when BGAN or you instruct them to. To establish an account with Schwab, IB
and/or RBC you will be required to enter into an account agreement directly with one or both entities.
We do not open an account for you.
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Not all investment advisers require you to maintain accounts at a specific broker/dealer. You can
maintain accounts at another broker/dealer. However, the services provided by BGAN could be
limited to only advice and will not include implementation. If you select another brokerage firm for
custodial and/or brokerage services, it is likely you will not be able to receive asset management
services from BGAN. The ability to select another broker/dealer and custodian will depend on the
ability for BGAN to obtain trade information and supervise the activities of its Advisory
Representatives.
How We Select Brokers/Custodians
We seek to select a custodian/broker who will hold your assets and execute transactions on terms
that are overall most advantageous when compared to other available providers and their services.
We consider a wide range of factors, including, among others, these:
• Ability to service you and us
• Combination of transaction execution services along with asset custody services
(generally without a separate fee for custody)
• Capability to execute, clear and settle trades (buy and sell securities for your account)
• Capabilities to facilitate transfers and payments to and from accounts (wire transfers,
check requests, bill payment, etc.)
• Breadth of investment products made available (stocks, bonds, mutual funds,
exchange traded funds (ETFs), etc.)
• Availability of investment research and tools that assist us in making investment
decisions
• Quality of services
• Competitiveness of the price of those services (commission rates, margin interest
rates, other fees, etc.) and willingness to negotiate them
• Industry reputation, staying power as a company, financial strength and viability
• Technology and educational resources
• Confidentiality and security of your information
Best execution does not simply mean the lowest transaction cost. Therefore, no single criteria will
validate nor invalidate a custodian, but rather, all criteria taken together will be used in evaluating
the currently utilized custodian.
There is an incentive for BGAN and the Advisory Representatives to recommend a broker/dealer
over another based on the products and services that will be received rather than your best interest.
Therefore, it is possible clients pay commissions higher than those charged by other broker/dealers
in return for the products and services received by BGAN and/or its Advisory Representatives. The
products and services BGAN and its Advisory Representatives receive from the broker/dealer or
account custodian will be used to benefit all clients including those clients who elect to maintain
their accounts elsewhere.
Aggregated Trading Procedure
When appropriate, your Advisory Representative will aggregate (“bunch”) transactions in the same
security on behalf of more than one client in an effort to strive for best execution and to possibly reduce
the price per share and/or other costs to clients. However, aggregated or bunched orders will not
reduce the transaction costs to participating clients. BGAN conducts aggregated transactions in a
manner designed to ensure that no participating client is favored over another client. Participating
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clients will obtain the average price per share for the security executed that day. To the extent the
aggregated order is not filled in its entirety and when possible, securities purchased or sold in an
aggregated transaction will be allocated on a random basis. Under certain circumstances, the amount
of securities is increased or decreased to avoid holding odd-lot or a small number of shares for
particular clients. This type of trading is not available on UK Pension assets.
Item 13 - REVIEW OF ACCOUNTS
A.
If you are participating in the Asset Management program, or ongoing retirement plan
consulting you will be invited to participate in at least an annual review or as agreed by you
and your Advisory Representative. You may request more frequent reviews and set
thresholds for triggering events that would cause a review to take place. Your Advisory
Representative will monitor for changes or shifts in the economy, changes to the management
and structure of a mutual fund or company in which your assets are invested, and market shifts
and corrections.
If you are participating in Financial Planning and Consulting Services you will not receive regular
reviews. BGAN recommends you have at least an annual review and update to any plans.
However, the time and frequency of the reviews is solely your decision. Additionally, you will
be charged review fees based on the fee schedule disclosed under the program. Other than the
initial plan or analysis, there will be no other reports issued.
Your Advisory Representative that you have selected will conduct your account review.
Please refer to your Advisory Representative’s Form ADV Part 2B for important biographical
information.
B. You must notify your Advisory Representative promptly of any changes to your financial goals,
objectives or financial situation as such changes may require him review the portfolio
allocation and make recommendations for changes.
C. You will be provided statements at least quarterly direct from US account custodians. Account
custodians and platform providers offshore have different regulatory obligation that do not
require them to provide quarterly statements. Valuations for UK pension transfer accounts are
available upon request. Additionally, you will receive confirmations of all transactions
occuring in US based accounts direct from the US account custodian.
Item 14 - CLIENT REFERRALS AND OTHER COMPENSATION
A. Product and service vendors recommended by BGAN can provide monetary and non-monetary
assistance with client events, provide educational tools and resources. BGAN does not select
products solely based on monetary or non-monetary assistance. The selection of product is
first and foremost. BGAN’s due diligence of a product does not take into consideration any
assistance it receives. To mitigate this conflict of interest this disclosure is provided.
Pension Advice for United Kingdom and other Nationals or Expatriates
As further described above under Item 5, BGAN and the advisory representative will receive
compensation directly from the insurance bond provider if client elects to purchase an
insurance bond rather than pay the initial planning and analysis fee for the pension transfer
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advice. Purchasing a bond wrapper will cost the client more over time and will directly
affect the performance of the account over time. Further, the client will be subject to a
surrender period of five to ten years.
Solicitor or Introducer Arrangements
BGAN has entered into a solicitor agreement with another investment adviser to act in the
capacity of a solicitor to refer certain clients to the investment adviser for advisory services and
programs not offered by BGAN. As a result of referring a client to the investment adviser,
BGAN will receive a portion of the advisory fee paid by the referred client. This is a conflict
of interest since BGAN has a direct interest in the client engaging the investment adviser. A
portion of the advisory fee received by BGAN will be paid to the BGAN Advisory
Representative. Clients will be provided with a Solicitor Disclosure explaining the
arrangement and the receipt of compensation and the effect on the amount of fee paid by the
client as a result of BGAN sharing in a portion of the advisory fee. To mitigate this conflict of
interest, BGAN is informing you of this relationship.
BGAN enters into solicitor/introducer agreements with non-U.S. based pension financial services
firms, with which BGAN advisory representatives are affiliated to refer United Kingdom (“UK”)
expatriates or other nationals generally residing in the United States with UK based pension
plans for advice on transferring to a SIPP. A description of this service is provided in Item 4
and Item 5 above. A portion of the advisory fee paid by clients to BGAN for transferring and
managing their SIPP or QROPs will be paid to the pension financial services firm. Clients
will be provided with a Solicitor/Introducer Disclosure which further explains the arrangement
and the payment of fees. Clients will not be charged a higher fee as a result of payment of the
introducer fee.
Additionally, BGAN enters into solicitor or introducer agreements with various non-U.S.
financial service firms to offer its management services to their U.S. connected clients with
U.S. assets including a previous employer 401k plan. BGAN shares a portion of the advisory
representative’s fee with the solicitor or introducer for a period not exceeding three (3) years.
BGAN’s fee is not increased as a result of BGAN sharing its fee with the solicitor or introducer.
Solicitor or introducer arrangements vary and the incentive to the solicitor or introducer will vary.
to agree and authorize
the payment of
the fee by execution of
The client is advised of the fees being paid to the solicitor or introducer and is given the
opportunity
the
Solicitor/Introducer’s Disclosure Statement. There is a conflict of interest for the client’s non-
U.S. advisor to refer clients to BGAN to manage their U.S. based assets because of the non- U.S.
advisor’s receipt of compensation from BGAN. Clients are under no obligation to
authorize the payment of a solicitor or introducer fee. To mitigate these conflicts of interest,
this disclosure and the Solicitor / Introducer’s Disclosure Statement is provided.
As stated under Item 4 above, many Advisory Representatives are independent
contractors. As such, the Advisory Representatives have a direct incentive in the
advisory fees being charged since a portion of the advisory fee collected by BGAN will be
paid to the Advisory Representative for compensation for advisory services. In other
words, Advisory Representatives share in the fees charged to you by BGAN. Further,
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clients are advised that the amount paid by BGAN to the Advisory Representative will be
based on the production of the Advisory Representative. Therefore, the higher the assets
under management by the Advisory Representative, the more compensation the Advisory
Representative will receive. Consequently, since an advisory representative’s assets
under management are a basis for determining the Advisory Representative’s payout,
and since a portion of the advisory fees will be retained by BGAN, there is a conflict of
interest for the Advisory Representative to charge the maximum fee as disclosed under
Item 5 above and increase assets.
Charles Schwab Important Information
As disclosed under Item 12 above, Advisor participates in Schwab’s institutional customer
program and Advisor recommends Schwab to Clients for custody and brokerage services.
There is no direct link between Advisor’s participation in the program and the investment
advice it gives to its Clients, although Advisor receives economic benefits through its
participation in the program that are typically not available to Schwab retail investors. These
benefits include the following products and services (provided without cost or at a discount):
receipt of duplicate Client statements and confirmations; research related products and tools;
consulting services; access to a trading desk serving Advisor participants; access to block trading
(which provides the ability to aggregate securities transactions for execution and then allocate
the appropriate shares to Client accounts); the ability to have advisory fees deducted directly
from Client accounts; access to an electronic communications network for Client order entry and
account information; access to mutual funds with no transaction fees and to certain institutional
money managers; and discounts on compliance, marketing, research, technology, and practice
management products or services provided to Advisor by third party vendors. Schwab offers
from time to time to pay for business consulting and professional services received by Advisor’s
related persons. Some of the products and services made available by Schwab through the
program benefits Advisor but do not benefit its Client accounts. These products or services
assist Advisor in managing and administering Client accounts, including accounts not maintained
at Schwab. Other services made available by Schwab are intended to help Advisor manage and
further develop its business enterprise. The benefits received by Advisor or its personnel
through participation in the program do not depend on the amount of brokerage transactions
directed to Schwab. As part of its fiduciary duties to clients, Advisor endeavors at all times to
put the interests of its clients first. Clients should be aware, however, that the receipt of economic
benefits by Advisor or its related persons in and of itself creates a conflict of interest and
indirectly influence the Advisor’s choice of Schwab for custody and brokerage services.
Item 15 - CUSTODY
BGAN does not take custody of your funds or securities, except:
• BGAN will be deemed to have custody in certain situations involving standing letters of
authorization and if you give us authority to transfers funds or securities between your
accounts.
• BGAN will be deemed to have custody with the deduction of BGAN’s advisory fees from
your accounts.
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Clients will receive account statements direct from the US based broker/dealer or US based account
custodian reflecting the deduction of BGAN’s advisory fee. Clients should carefully review
statements received from the broker/dealer or account custodian. Further, clients should compare
any written report received from BGAN with statements received direct from the broker/dealer or
account custodian. Should there be any discrepancy the account custodian’s report will prevail.
Under government regulations, we are deemed to have custody of your assets if, for example, you
authorize us to instruct your account custodian to deduct our advisory fees directly from your
account or if you grant us authority to move your money to another person’s account. Your account
custodian maintains actual custody of your assets. You will receive account statements directly from
your account custodian at least quarterly. They will be sent to the email or postal mailing address
you provided. You should carefully review those statements promptly when you receive them.
Item 16 - INVESTMENT DISCRETION
Unless you specifically elect to have your account managed on a non-discretionary basis, your account
will be managed on a discretionary basis. Discretionary authority authorizes BGAN and your
Advisory Representative the authority to buy, sell, exchange and convert securities in your managed
accounts and to engage, terminate, or replace Third-Party Service Providers. You will grant such
authority by execution of the client advisory agreement. You may terminate discretionary
authorization at any time upon receipt of written notice by BGAN.
Discretionary authority will be limited to BGAN and your Advisory Representative having the
authority to determine the securities to be bought or sold for a client’s account, the amount of securities
to be bought or sold for a client’s account, and the Third-Party Service Providers on your account.
Additionally, you are advised that:
1) You may set parameters with respect to when account should be rebalanced and set trading
restrictions or limitations;
2) Your written consent is required to establish any mutual fund, variable annuity, or brokerage
account;
3) With the exception of deduction of BGAN’s advisory fees from the account, if you have
authorized automatic deductions, BGAN will not have the ability to withdraw your funds or
securities from the account.
4) BGAN will not have authority to remove or transfer funds or assets out of your account
without your authorization with the exception of deduction of advisory fees from your
account
Item 17 - VOTING CLIENT SECURITIES
BGAN does not vote your securities. Unless you suppress proxies, securities proxies will be sent
directly to you by the account custodian or transfer agent. You may contact BGAN about questions
you have and opinions on how to vote the proxies. However, the voting and how you vote the
proxies is solely your decision.
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Item 18 - FINANCIAL INFORMATION
A. BGAN will not require you to prepay more than $1,200 and six or more months in advance of
receiving the advisory service.
B. As stated above, BGAN has discretionary authority over client accounts; however, that authority
does not extend to the withdrawal of any client assets, with the exception of deduction of
BGAN’s advisory fees from your accounts.
C. Neither BGAN nor any of its Advisory Representatives have been the subject of a bankruptcy
petition.
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BEACON GLOBAL ADVISOR NETWORK, LLC’S PRIVACY NOTICE
Updated as of December 31, 2024
Beacon Global Advisor Network, LLC (“BGAN”) values our customers and makes it a top priority
to safeguard the confidential information of our customers. We are committed to protecting your
privacy and maintaining your trust and confidence.
BGAN collects information about you to assist us in providing services and products to help you
meet your financial goals and objectives and provide high standards of customer service.
Additionally, information is obtained from you in order to help us fulfill our legal and regulatory
requirements. Information collected varies depending on the products and services requested and the
scope of your engagement with us.
Facts
Why?
What does Beacon Global Advisor Network, LLC Do with Your Personal Information?
Beacon Global Advisor Network, LLC collects information about you to assist us in providing
services and products to help you meet your financial goals and objectives and provide high
standards of customer service. Additionally, information is obtained from you in order to help
us fulfill our legal and regulatory requirements. Information collected will vary depending on
the products and services requested and the scope of your engagement with us. Further, in
providing financial services, the data is necessary for our legal and regulatory requirements and
responsibilities and failing to provide information will result in discontinuance of services.
What?
Financial companies choose how they share your personal information. Federal and European
Union law gives consumers the right to limit some but not all sharing. Federal and European
Union law also requires us to tell you how we collect, share and protect your personal
information. Please read this notice carefully to understand what we do.
The types of personal information we collect can include:
● Social Security number ● Account numbers and information
● Income ● Financial Information
● Assets ● Insurance, health, and medical information
● Personal information (address, date of birth, net worth, income)
We have an obligation to ensure that your personal information is accurate and up to
date. Please contact us promptly to correct or remove any information that you think is
incorrect.
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Use of our website.
Information relating to usage of our website is collected using cookies. These are text files
placed on your computer to collect standard internet log information and visitor behaviour
information. We use your information collected from the website to personalize your repeat
visits to the site. Additionally, we use cookies to track visitor use of the website and to compile
statistical reports on website activity. For further information visit
http://www.allaboutcookies.org/.
You can set your browser not to accept cookies and the above website tells you how to remove
cookies from your browser. However, in a few cases some of our website features do not
function as a result.
Information about connected individuals.
We may need to gather personal information about your close family members and dependents
in order to provide our service to you effectively. In such cases it will be your responsibility to
ensure that you have the consent of the people concerned to pass their information on to us.
We’ll provide a copy of this privacy notice for them or, where appropriate, ask you to pass the
privacy information to them.
How?
No longer our customer.
When you are no longer our customer, we will continue to hold your information and share it as
described in this notice.
All financial companies need to share customers’ personal information to run their everyday
business. In the section below, we list the reasons why financial companies can share their
customers’ personal information, the reasons Beacon Global Advisor Network, LLC chooses to
share personal information and whether you can limit this sharing.
Where third parties are involved in processing your data we’ll have a contract in place with
them to ensure that the nature and purpose of the processing is clear, that they are subject to a
duty of confidence in processing your data and that they will maintain the security and
confidentiality of your information.
When and where necessary for us to transmit or deliver your personal information to a third
party, we will use appropriate security measures to protect your personal information in transit.
Such methods can include the use of password protection, data encryption, and secured portals.
Reasons We Can Share Your Personal Information
Does
Adviser
share?
Can you
limit this
sharing?
Yes
No
Yes
No
For our everyday business purposes, such as to process your transactions, maintain
your account(s), respond to court orders and legal investigations, or report to credit
bureaus.
To fulfill our obligations to aid in the prevention of money laundering and other
financial crimes we send your personal information to third party agencies for
identity verification purposes.
For our marketing purposes to offer our products and services to you.
Yes
Yes
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For joint marketing with other financial companies. Yes Yes
Reasons We Can Share Your Personal Information
Does
Adviser
share?
Can you
limit this
sharing?
Yes
No
No
NA
Yes
No
No
NA
No
NA
Yes
Yes
For our affiliates’ everyday business purposes—information about your transactions
and experiences. We share information about our customers to process transactions,
maintain your account(s), or respond to court orders and legal investigations.
For our affiliates’ everyday business purposes—information about your
creditworthiness.
For non-affiliates’ everyday business purposes to assist us in obtaining business or
providing account maintenance or customer service to your account(s).
For our affiliates to market to you—to offer new products or services to you.
For nonaffiliates to market to you—we do not sell, share, or disclose your nonpublic
personal information to nonaffiliated third-party marketing companies.
For advisory representatives who leave Beacon Global Advisor Network, LLC
If your advisory representative leaves Beacon Global Advisor Network, LLC to join
another investment adviser or other financial institution, the advisory representative
retains copies of your personal information so that he or she can continue to serve
you at the new firm. In doing so, your advisory representative shares your
information with the new firm but is otherwise required to keep confidential the
personal information obtained from you while the advisory representative was
affiliated with Beacon Global Advisor Network, LLC, and he or she may use it only
to service your account(s).
Please note: Certain states and countries require affirmative consent to allow
sharing. See below for more on your rights under state law.
In the event that a Beacon Global Advisor Network, LLC advisory
representative terminates his or her relationship with Beacon Global Advisor
Network, LLC, and you want to follow your advisory representative to his or
her new firm, please do not request to limit our sharing.
Beacon Global Advisor Network, LLC
Who We Are
Who is providing
this notice?
What We Do
How does Beacon Beacon Global Advisor Network, LLC recognizes the need to prevent unauthorized
Global Advisor
Network, LLC
protect my
personal
information?
access to the information we collect, including information held in electronic format, and
we protect your personal information in the following ways:
• Computer safeguards and secured files and buildings.
• We only grant access to your personal information to parties with whom we have
executed confidentiality/nondisclosure agreements and who need that information
to serve you or to assist us in conducting our operations.
• We have physical and electronic safeguards in place to ensure that we comply
with our own policy, industry practices, federal and state regulations, and
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European Union law.
Our employees are trained in the proper handling of sensitive information.
•
● Open an account ● Enter into an investment advisory account
● Apply for insurance ● Tell us about your investment or retirement portfolio
● Seek advice about your investments
How does Beacon We collect your personal information, for example, when you:
Global Advisor
Network, LLC
collect my
personal
information?
We also collect your personal information from others such as credit bureaus, affiliates or
other companies.
Federal and European Union law give you the right to limit only:
Why can’t I limit
all sharing?
● Sharing for affiliates’ everyday business purposes—information about your
creditworthiness
● Affiliates from using your information to market to you
● Sharing for non-affiliates to market to you
Marketing
State laws, European Union Law, and individual companies may give you additional
rights to limit sharing. See below for more on your rights under state law.
We would like to send you information about our products and services which may be of
interest to you. If you are a European Union citizen and have agreed to receive marketing
information, you may opt out at a later date by contacting us by one of the methods
below.
You have a right at any time to stop us from contacting you for marketing purposes or
providing your information to other associated Companies. If you no longer wish to be
contacted for marketing purposes, please contact us using the contact information below.
How Long We Maintain Your Information
During the course of our relationship with you we’ll retain personal data which is necessary to provide services
to you. We will take all reasonable steps to keep your personal data up to date throughout our relationship.
Additionally, we are subject to regulatory requirements requiring us to retain your data for a specified
minimum period, which is generally five years from the date you cease being our customer: This minimum
period is the period during which we have a legal obligation to retain your records. Additionally, we reserve
the right to retain data for a longer period where we believe it is in our legitimate interests to do so. In any case,
we will not keep your personal data for longer than seven years after our relationship with you has ended.
You have the right to request deletion of your personal data. We will comply with this request, subject to the
restrictions of our regulatory obligations and legitimate interests as noted above.
How You Can Access Information We Hold About You
You have the right to request a copy of the information that we hold about you. If you would like a copy of
some or all of your personal information, please contact us using the contact details noted below. When your
personal data is processed by automated methods you have the right to ask us to move your personal data to
another organization for their use.
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To Limit Our Sharing and Your Rights
• Call Beacon Global Advisor Network, LLC at 888-679-6474
• Mail your request to: One Glenlake Parkway, Suite 650, Atlanta, GA 30328
If you are a European Union citizen, you also have a right to lodge a complaint with the supervisory authority
for data protection. However, in the first instance please contact the Beacon Global Advisor Network, LLC
Compliance Department at:
One Glenlake Parkway, Suite 650
Atlanta, GA 30328
888-679-6474
Changes to Our Privacy and Data Use Policy
Any changes we make to this policy in the future will be posted on our website and an updated version of this
Privacy Notice will be provided to you so that you are always aware of how we use your Personal Data.
Definitions
Affiliates
Non-Affiliates
Joint Marketing
Companies related by common ownership or control. They can be financial and non-
financial companies.
Companies not related by common ownership or control. They can be financial and non-
financial companies.
A formal agreement between nonaffiliated financial companies that together market
financial products or services to you. This may include banks, credit unions, or other
financial institutions with which we have a joint marketing agreement.
Other Important Information
Website. Our website contains links to other websites. This privacy policy only applies to our website.
Therefore, when you link to other websites you should read their privacy policies and our privacy policy does
not extend to any other vendor, company, or third party linked to from our website.
If you live in an “opt-in” state, where we are required to obtain your affirmative consent to share your
nonpublic personal information with nonaffiliated third parties who do not currently assist us in servicing your
account or conducting our business, your advisory representative is required to obtain your consent before your
advisory representative can take your information with him or her should your advisor leave Beacon Global
Advisor Network, LLC
Information for California, North Dakota, and Vermont Customers
In response to applicable state law, if the mailing address provided for your account is in California, North
Dakota, or Vermont, we will automatically treat your account as if you do not want us to disclose your
personal information to non-affiliated third parties for purposes of them marketing to you, except as permitted
by the applicable state law.
Information for New Jersey Clients
The New Jersey Bureau of Securities (“Bureau”), an arm of the Office of the New Jersey Attorney General, is
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charged with protecting investors from investment fraud, and regulating the securities industry in New Jersey.
In addition to bringing investigative and enforcement actions against firms or individuals who violate the New
Jersey Uniform Securities Law and regulations thereunder, the Bureau registers securities offered or sold in
New Jersey and oversees the firms and individuals selling securities or providing investment advice to or from
New Jersey.
Investors can contact the Bureau to research the professional background of current and former registered broker-
dealers, investment advisers, agents, and investment adviser representatives. To research a financial
professional, contact the Bureau via phone at 1-866-I-Invest (within New Jersey) or at 973-504-3600
(both within and outside New Jersey) or via email at njbos@lps.state.nj.us.
Investors can also file complaints with the Bureau against individuals and firms selling securities or offering
investment advice, as well as companies issuing securities investments directly.
To file a complaint or learn more about the Bureau, visit the Bureau’s website at www.NJSecurities.gov.
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