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WRAP FEE BROCHURE
Partnership Wealth Management (CRD 285718), brochure dated August 27, 2026. Text extracted from the firm's SEC Form ADV Part 2 brochure.
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Item 1 Cover Page
PARTNERSHIP WEALTH MANAGEMENT, CRD #285718
606 E. Joppa Road
Towson, MD 21286
Phone: (410) 732-2633
(410) 732-2634
Fax:
August 27, 2026
Wrap Fee Program Brochure
For
Partnership Wealth Management
(Part 2A Appendix 1 of Form ADV)
This wrap fee program brochure provides information about the qualifications and business
practices of Partnership Wealth Management. If you have any questions about the contents
of this brochure, please contact us at (410) 732-2633. 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.
Partnership Wealth Management is a registered investment advisor. Registration of an
investment adviser does not imply a certain level of skill or training.
Additional information about Partnership Wealth Management also is available on the
SEC’s website at www.adviserinfo.sec.gov.
Item 2 Material Changes
From time to time, we may amend this Wrap Fee Brochure to reflect changes in our business
practices, changes in regulations and routine annual updates as required by the securities
regulators. This complete Wrap Fee Brochure or a Summary of Material Changes shall be provided
to each Client annually and if a material change occurs in the business practices of Partnership
Wealth Management.
The following material changes have occurred since Partnership Wealth Management’s Annual
Update filing on March 11, 2025.
• None
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Item 3 Table of Contents
Item 1 Cover Page ......................................................................................................................... 1
Item 2 Material Changes .............................................................................................................. 2
Item 3 Table of Contents .............................................................................................................. 3
Item 4 Services, Fees and Compensation .................................................................................... 4
Item 5 Account Requirements and Types of Clients ................................................................. 6
Item 6 Portfolio Manager Selection and Evaluation ................................................................. 6
Item 7 Client Information Provided to Portfolio Managers ..................................................... 8
Item 8 Client Contact with Portfolio Managers ......................................................................... 8
Item 9 Additional Information..................................................................................................... 8
Item 10 Requirements for State-Registered Advisers ............................................................. 10
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Item 4 Services, Fees and Compensation
Services
Partnership Wealth Management, Inc. (“PWM” or “Advisor”) was formed as a Limited
Liability Company as of September 2, 2005. From that date until November 28, 2016, PWM
provided advisory services through an unaffiliated broker dealer and registered investment advisor
firm, with the compliance oversight of both entities. As of the date of this Brochure, PWM is
registered as an independent registered investment advisor firm. The principal owner and President
of the firm is Ellwood J. Derricks. The Advisor offers investment supervisory services to its clients.
Advisory Services
PWM’s principal service is providing fee-based investment advisory services. The Advisor
practices custom management of portfolios, on a discretionary basis, according to the client’s
objectives. The Advisor’s primary approach is to use a tactical allocation strategy aimed at
reducing risk and increasing performance. The Advisor may use any of the following: exchange
listed securities, over-the- counter securities, foreign securities, warrants, corporate debt securities,
commercial paper, CDs, variable life insurance, variable annuities, municipal securities, mutual
funds, United States government securities, options in securities and interests in partnership
investing in real estate, oil and gas interests and business development companies to accomplish
this objective. The Advisor measures and selects mutual funds by using various criteria, such as
the fund manager’s tenure, and/or overall career performance. The Advisor may recommend, on
occasion, redistributing investment allocations to diversify the portfolio in an effort to reduce risk
and increase performance. The Advisor may recommend specific stocks to increase sector
weighting and/or dividend potential. The Advisor may recommend employing cash positions as a
possible hedge against market movement which may adversely affect the portfolio. The Advisor
may recommend selling positions for reasons that include, but are not limited to, harvesting capital
gains or losses, business or sector risk exposure to a specific security or class of securities,
overvaluation or overweighting of the position(s) in the portfolio, change in risk tolerance of client,
or any risk deemed unacceptable for the client’s risk tolerance.
PWM will provide investment advisory services and portfolio management services and
will not provide securities custodial or other administrative services. At no time will PWM accept
or maintain custody of a client’s funds or securities, except for authorize fee deduction from the
client’s account.
PWM does provide non-wrap fee portfolio management services. For more information on
this service, clients may request a copy of PWM’s Disclosure Brochure.
Fees and Charges
PWM charges a management fee for the client account that covers the provision of initial
and ongoing investment services and the execution of securities transactions. This method of
treating transaction fees is typically characterized as a “wrap fee”, where the management fee
includes the investment advisory services as well as all the securities transactions costs and the
client pays only that Management Fee and no other costs concerning the trading. Clients in wrap
fee accounts, with the security transaction costs included, will pay a higher management fee than
those clients of PWM that are not managed with a wrap fee (see PWM Form ADV Part 2A
Brochure). The management fee does not cover custodial fees for the account that will be
established with a custodian to hold the assets in your account, nor does the fee cover mark-ups
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or markdowns charged on transactions in over-the-counter securities effected for your account.
The management fee also does not cover costs for any securities transactions you request involving
assets or securities not in a program account. Information about custodial fees and charges for
over-the-counter transactions will be discussed and pre-approved by the client.
PWM’s management fee, is payable quarterly in advance, based on the value of the
portfolio as of the opening of business on the first business day of each quarter. The management
fee schedule is as follows:
Assets Under Management
$0-$500,000
$500,001-$1,000,000
$1,000,001-$2,000,000
$2,000,001-$3,000,000
$3,000,001-$5,000,000
$5,000,001-$10,000,000
$10,000,000 and Above
Annual Fee
1.25%
1.15%
1.00%
0.90%
0.80%
0.60%
0.50%
This fee may be negotiated at PWM’s sole discretion. Discounts and fee waivers, not
generally available to our advisory clients, may be offered to family members and associated
persons of our firm. The fees stated above are for PWM only. As the Portfolio Manager of the
client’s account, PWM retains the entire management fee. PWM does not use any outside
investment managers to provide services to its wrap fee clients.
The management fee may be more or less costly to you than paying for the services
separately, depending upon the investment advisory fees charged, the type of account, the amount
of assets in the account, time and services provided, the number of transactions for the account,
the level of brokerage and other fees that would be payable if you obtained the services available
under the program individually.
Asset management fees may be automatically deducted from the client account on a
quarterly basis by the qualified custodian. The client will give written authorization permitting the
firm to be paid directly from their account held by the custodian. The client may also opt to have
the fees directly billed. The custodian will send a quarterly statement to the client and PWM will
also send a quarterly invoice to the client, as well as the custodian, outlining the fee calculation
and the amount withdrawn from the client account. The fee calculation will include the amount of
the fee, the value of the client’s assets upon which the fee was based, and the specific manner in
which the fee was calculated. Clients need to be aware that it is their responsibility to verify the
accuracy of the fee calculation and that the custodian will not determine whether the fee is properly
calculated.
The program bundles together several service providers – PWM as the investment adviser,
a broker/ dealer, a clearing firm and a custodian - and offers most of these services for a single
advisory fee. Some clients like having the various services “packaged” together; others prefer to
select their own providers for the various services needed to manage their investment portfolios.
Similarly, some clients like a fee structure that converts trading costs into an asset- based fee
calculated on the same basis as advisory fees; others prefer trading costs to be assessed on a per
trade basis. Depending on a number of factors, such as the number, size and nature of the
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securities transaction in an advisory account, the overall fees and charges borne by the client over
time could be more or less than what these fees and charges would be if the same services were
provided on a separate basis.
Other Charges
Your investments in a program account may also be subject to other fees and charges
imposed by other third parties, such as: in the case of mutual fund investments, mutual fund
investment management fees, 12b-l fees, administrative servicing fees, short term redemption fees,
and contingent deferred sales charges upon redemption of previously purchased mutual funds; in
the case of purchases made in connection with an individual retirement account or other qualified
plan, various IRA and qualified retirement plan fees including annual custodial fees; and, in the
case of all investments, clearing, custody and other transaction charges and service fees. Other
parties may receive a portion of these third-party fees.
A client could invest in these products directly, without the services of PWM. Therefore,
clients could generally avoid the second layer of fees by not using the advisory services of PWM
and by making their own decisions regarding the investment. In that case, the client would not
receive the services provided by PWM which are designed, among other things, to assist the client
in determining which products or services are most appropriate to each client’s financial condition
and objectives. Accordingly, the client should review both the fees charged by the product sponsor
and the fees charged by PWM to fully understand the total fees to be paid.
Investment advisor representative(s) of PWM are not compensated differently for clients
that choose the inclusive fee arrangement versus the non-inclusive fee and therefore they do not
have a financial incentive to recommend one method over the other.
Item 5 Account Requirements and Types of Clients
PWM offers services to individuals, trusts, and estates or charitable organizations, corporations or
business entities. Clients are selected based on their fit, risk-tolerance strategies, and their
alignment with the PWM investment philosophy.
The firm does not have any minimum requirements for opening or maintaining an account.
Item 6 Portfolio Manager Selection and Evaluation
PWM offers the wrap fee alternative to clients as a pricing option and does not utilize unaffiliated
money managers to serve the needs of wrap fee clients.
Ellwood J. Derricks an Investment Advisor Representative with PWM is the Portfolio Manager
for each client account. Mr. Derricks is responsible for managing the investments in the client
account and will monitor the client account on an ongoing basis to ensure that the client needs,
goals and objective are being met. Outside Portfolio Managers are not utilized to manage client
accounts. Mr. Derricks is not subject to a more stringent investment manager selection process.
However, he must meet certain criteria to manage client portfolios. The criteria are that he has
(1) a minimum level of securities industry experience; (2) successful completion of the Series 65
examination; and, (3) no significant disciplinary matters.
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The client grants PWM the authority to invest account assets on a discretionary basis, without
obtaining client consent prior to entering a trade for the client account. The portfolio management
services include evaluation of investor suitability and adhering to the investor risk profile when
making investment decisions, client communications and account reviews that are the same for all
clients, and availability by the firm and supervised persons to meet with clients as necessary. In
addition, the firm maintains trading policies and a Code of Ethics that are intended to deliver
consistency, that no one client is favored over another.
PWM manages both the wrap fee accounts and other accounts with the same investment strategy.
A conflict of interest exists for PWM to recommend a wrap fee account because the fee paid to
PWM may be higher than other investment advisory services offered outside of the wrap fee
account. PWM addresses this conflict by fully disclosing the fee schedule for its wrap fee accounts
and all other advisory services offered, to the client in advance.
PWM manages each client’s portfolio individually and individual clients may impose restrictions
as deemed necessary. Ellwood J. Derricks communicates on a regular basis with the client as
needed to manage the investment portfolio. Typically, these interactions occur annually but may
be more frequent depending on the circumstances.
Performance-Based and Side-by-Side Management
PWM does not charge Performance-Based Fees.
Methods of Analysis, Investment Strategies and Risk of Loss
PWM may utilize fundamental, technical or cyclical analysis techniques in formulating
investment advice or managing assets for clients.
Fundamental analysis of businesses involves analyzing its financial statements and health,
its management and competitive advantages and its competitors and markets. Fundamental
analysis is performed on historical and present data but with the goal of making financial forecasts.
There are several possible objectives; to conduct a company stock valuation and predict its
probable price evolution; to make a projection on its business performance; to evaluate its
management and make internal business decisions and to calculate its credit risk. The risk assumed
is that the market will fail to reach expectations of perceived value.
Technical analysis is a method of evaluating securities by relying on the assumption that
market data, such as charts of price, volume and open interest can help predict future (usually
short-term) market trends. Technical analysis assumes that market psychology influences trading
in a way that enables predicting when a stock will rise or fall. The risk is that markets do not always
follow patterns and relying solely on this method may not work long term.
Cyclical analysis of economic cycles is used to determine how these cycles affect the
returns of an investment, an asset class or an individual company’s profits. Cyclical risks exist
because the broad economy has been shown to move in cycles, from periods of peak performance
followed by a downturn, then a trough of low activity. Between the peak and trough of a business
or other economic cycle, investments may fall in value to reflect the
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uncertainty surrounding future returns as compared with the recent past. The risks with this
strategy are two-fold 1) the markets do not always repeat cyclical patterns and 2) if too many
investors begin to implement this strategy, it changes the very cycles they are trying to take
advantage of.
The investment strategies the Advisor will implement may include long term purchases of
securities held at least for one year; short term purchases for securities sold within a year; margin
transactions, option writing, including covered options, uncovered options or spreading strategies.
Voting Client Securities
PWM does not vote proxy statements on behalf of advisory clients.
Item 7 Client Information Provided to Portfolio Managers
Ellwood J. Derricks, owner of PWM, is also the Portfolio Manager for all client wrap fee accounts.
In that capacity, Mr. Derricks retains client information that is collected through the account
application and investment advisory agreement that is signed by the client. This information may
include the client’s investment strategy, client account holdings, certain client information such as
name, address and tax identification number. Mr. Derricks will update this information on an as-
needed basis. Mr. Derricks and PWM have safeguards in place to maintain the privacy and
confidentiality of client information.
Item 8 Client Contact with Portfolio Managers
Clients are permitted to contact Ellwood J. Derricks, at any time with questions about their
account. The contact information for Mr. Derricks can be found on the cover of this Wrap Fee
Brochure.
Item 9 Additional Information
Disciplinary Information
Clients should be aware that neither PWM nor Mr. Derricks have had any legal or
disciplinary events required to be disclosed in response to this item.
Other Financial Industry Activities and Affiliations
PWM does not currently have any relationships or arrangements that are material to its
advisory business or clients with either a broker-dealer, municipal securities dealer, or government
securities dealer or broker, investment company or other pooled investment vehicle (including a
mutual fund, closed-end investment company, unit investment trust, private investment company
or “hedge fund” and offshore fund, other investment advisor or financial planner, futures
commission merchant, commodity pool operator, or commodity trading advisor, banking or thrift
institution, accountant or accounting firm, lawyer or law firm, pension consultant, real estate
broker or dealer or sponsor of syndicator of limited partnerships.
IARs of PWM may also be licensed and registered insurance agents to sell life, accident
and other lines of insurance for various insurance companies. Therefore, they will be able to
purchase insurance products for any client in need of such services and will receive separate, yet
typical compensation in the form of commissions for the purchase of insurance products. This
creates a conflict of interest. A conflict of interest exists because of the receipt of additional
compensation by the IAR. Clients are not obligated to use PWM or its representatives for
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insurance products services. However, in such instances, there is no advisory fee associated with
these insurance products.
Code of Ethics, Participation or Interest in Client
PWM is registered as a state registered investment advisor with the Securities and
Exchange Commission (“SEC”) and has adopted as an industry best practice a Code of Ethics.
PWM has adopted a Code of Ethics that sets forth the basic policies of ethical conduct for all
managers, officers, and employees of the adviser. In addition, the Code of Ethics governs personal
trading by each employee of PWM deemed to be an Access Person and is intended to ensure that
securities transactions effected by Access Persons of PWM are conducted in a manner that avoids
any conflict of interest between such persons and clients of the adviser or its affiliates. PWM
collects and maintains records of securities holdings and securities transactions effected by Access
Persons. These records are reviewed to identify and resolve conflicts of interest. PWM maintains a
code of ethics and they will provide a copy to any client or prospective client upon request.
PWM and/or its investment advisory representatives may from time to time purchase or
sell products that they may recommend to clients. This practice could present a conflict where,
because of the information the Adviser has, the Adviser or its related person are in a position to
trade in a manner that could adversely affect clients (e.g. place their own trades before or after
client trades are executed in order to benefit from any price movements due to the clients’ trades).
In addition to affecting the Adviser’s or its related person’s objectivity, these practices by the
Adviser or its related person may also harm clients by adversely affecting the price at which the
clients’ trades are executed. To mitigate this conflict, PWM and/or its investment advisory
representatives have a fiduciary duty to put the interests of their clients ahead of their own. The
Adviser has adopted the following procedures in an effort to minimize such conflicts: The Adviser
requires its related persons/access persons to preclear all transactions in their personal accounts
with the Chief Compliance Officer, Ellwood J. Derricks, who may deny permission to execute the
transaction if such transaction will have any adverse economic impact on one of its clients. All of
the Adviser’s related persons are required to disclose their securities transactions on a quarterly
basis and holdings on an annual basis. All of the Adviser’s related persons are also required to
provide broker confirmations of each transaction in which they engage and a monthly certification
of such transactions. Trading in employee accounts will be reviewed by the Chief Compliance
Officer and compared with transactions for the client accounts. Also, the investment advisory
representative is required to adhere to PWM’s Code of Ethics.
Review of Accounts
Investment advisory client accounts are monitored on an ongoing basis. Client accounts
are reviewed by Ellwood J. Derricks, President. The nature of the review is to determine if the
client account is still in line with the client’s stated objectives.
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The client is encouraged to notify PWM and Investment Advisor Representative if changes
occur in his/her personal financial situation that might materially affect his/her investment plan.
Client Referrals and Other Compensation
PWM does not currently have any such arrangements.
Financial Information
Registered investment advisers are required in this Item to provide you with certain
financial information or disclosures about PWM’s financial condition. PWM has no financial
commitment that impairs its ability to meet contractual and fiduciary commitments to clients and
has not been the subject of a bankruptcy proceeding at any time during the past ten (10) years.
PWM does not require or solicit prepayment of more than $1200 in fees per client six (6)
months or more in advance.
Item 10 Requirements for State-Registered Advisers
As an SEC registered firm, this is not applicable to PWM.
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