Overview

Assets Under Management: $298 million
Headquarters: SCOTTSDALE, AZ
High-Net-Worth Clients: 79
Average Client Assets: $4 million

Services Offered

Services: Financial Planning, Portfolio Management for Individuals

Fee Structure

Primary Fee Schedule (ICW INVESTMENT ADVISORS LLC)

MinMaxMarginal Fee Rate
$0 and above 1.75%
Illustrative Fee Rates
Total AssetsAnnual FeesAverage Fee Rate
$1 million $17,500 1.75%
$5 million $87,500 1.75%
$10 million $175,000 1.75%
$50 million $875,000 1.75%
$100 million $1,750,000 1.75%

Clients

Number of High-Net-Worth Clients: 79
Percentage of Firm Assets Belonging to High-Net-Worth Clients: 93.76
Average High-Net-Worth Client Assets: $4 million
Total Client Accounts: 302
Discretionary Accounts: 302

Regulatory Filings

CRD Number: 135081
Last Filing Date: 2024-04-03 00:00:00
Website: https://icwia.com

Form ADV Documents

Primary Brochure: ICW INVESTMENT ADVISORS LLC (2025-08-12)

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Form ADV Part 2A August 12, 2025 Disclosure Brochure This Disclosure Brochure (“Brochure”) provides information about the qualifications and business practices of ICW Investment Advisors LLC (“ICW” or “Firm”). ICW does business under its trade name, as Intelligent Capitalworks. Please contact Jillian Carlson, Chief Compliance Officer at 480-951-2900 or jillian.carlson@icwia.com if you have any questions about the contents of this Brochure. ICW Investment Advisors LLC is a Registered Investment Adviser pursuant to the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 (“Advisers Act”) and is registered with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”). The Firm is notice-filed in states where it is required to do so. As a Registered Investment Adviser, the Firm completes Part 1 of Form ADV, which contains additional information about its business. This Brochure is complemented by a Client Relationship Summary [Form CRS or Form ADV Part 3] and a Brochure Supplement [Form ADV Part 2B]. This information and additional information about the supervised persons (“Supervised Persons”) listed in the Brochure Supplement is publicly available through the Firm’s filings with the SEC at www.adviserinfo.sec.gov. You may also obtain additional information about Intelligent Capitalworks at our business website www.intelligentcapitalworks.com. Registration of an investment adviser does not imply any level of skill or training. The information in this Brochure has not been approved or verified by the SEC or by any state securities authority. The information in this Brochure is current as of the date above and is subject to change when it becomes materially inaccurate. Copies of the most current Client Relationship Summary, Brochure and Brochure Supplement are also available on the Intelligent Capitalworks business website www.intelligentcapitalworks.com. The oral and written communications of an Adviser provide you with information which you would use to determine whether to hire or retain an Adviser. SEC File No. 801-64460 IARD No. 135081 16427 North Scottsdale Road, Suite 350 Scottsdale, Arizona 85254-1595 (866) 617-2900 (480) 951-2900 www.intelligentcapitalworks.com Intelligent Capitalworks 1 © 2025 ICW Investment Advisors, LLC. All rights reserved. Item 2 – Material Changes Since our last other-than-annual update, dated June 30, 2025, there are no material changes to report. Item 3 – Table of Contents Item 1 – Cover Page .................................................................................................................................... 1 Item 2 – Material Changes ........................................................................................................................... 2 Item 3 – Table of Contents ........................................................................................................................... 2 Item 4 – Advisory Business .......................................................................................................................... 3 Item 5 – Fees and Compensation ................................................................................................................ 5 Item 6 – Performance-Based Fees and Side-by-Side Management ............................................................ 7 Item 7 – Types of Clients .............................................................................................................................. 7 Item 8 – Methods of Analysis, Investment Strategies and Risk of Loss ....................................................... 7 Item 9 – Disciplinary Information ................................................................................................................ 12 Item 10 – Other Financial Industry Activities and Affiliations ..................................................................... 12 Item 11 – Code of Ethics, Client Transactions and Personal Trading ........................................................ 12 Item 12 – Brokerage Practices................................................................................................................... 13 Item 13 – Review of Accounts.................................................................................................................... 14 Item 14 – Client Referrals and Other Compensation ................................................................................. 15 Item 15 – Custody ...................................................................................................................................... 15 Item 16 – Investment Discretion................................................................................................................. 16 Item 17 – Voting Client Securities .............................................................................................................. 16 Item 18 – Financial Information .................................................................................................................. 16 Editorial Notes: References in this Brochure to “you,” “your,” “they,” “them” and “their” refer to the client. References to “ICW,” “Firm,” “its,” “we,” “us” and “our” refer to ICW Investment Advisors LLC. This document uses the terms “adviser” and “advisor.” The term “adviser” is in reference to the term “investment adviser” defined by the Investment Adviser Act of 1940. The term advisor, as used throughout this Brochure, refers to a professional who is providing investment advice. 2 SEC File No. 801-64460 IARD No. 135081 August 12, 2025 © 2025 ICW Investment Advisors, LLC. All rights reserved. ICW Investment Advisors LLC SEC FORM ADV Part 2A Item 4 – Advisory Business ICW Investment Advisors LLC is a limited liability company formed on March 21, 2005, in the state of Delaware. ICW became registered with the SEC as an investment adviser on June 23, 2005. ICW is based ® in Scottsdale, Arizona and its founder and principal owner is Vincent Rossi, CFP . We provide Professional Services comprised of discretionary Investment Management Services (see Item 16) combined with Wealth Management Services appropriate for high-net worth ($5 million), very-high net worth ($25 million) and ultra-high-net worth ($50 million) families. Since inception, we have operated on an independent, fiduciary, fee-only basis. We have no other financial industry activities or affiliations and offer no proprietary products (see Item 10). Our Professional Services help individual investors develop and implement various plans for the management of their wealth. Our work may include, but not be limited to, educating, collaborating, designing, documenting and helping clients address and manage their financial planning, retirement income planning, investment management, risk management, tax planning, estate planning, trust administration and philanthropic plans. We help clients clarify their goals and objectives, investment time horizons, and risk tolerances and risk capacities, and help them consider their need for liquidity, rising income, inflation protection, capital growth, portfolio stability and tax control. We develop and review with clients a long-term rate of return they may need from their savings and investments to meet their targeted goals and objectives. We also review the attendant risks of loss and various probabilities of negative portfolio volatility they will likely need to endure through the time range of their plans, because positive investment returns are unpredictable, unassured and materialize sporadically. After we help clients clarify their goals and objectives and review their assets, we design and implement disciplined financial planning, investment and wealth management strategies appropriate for each client’s goals, objectives, risk tolerance and risk capacity. We work with clients to tailor their plans and investments to meet their needs and manage client accounts (“Accounts”) using our discretion. We do not use model portfolios. We monitor their managed investments, track their progress toward their goals and objectives, and provide ongoing financial advice. We prepare written investment guidelines for investment of client assets in publicly-traded individual stocks and bonds, exchange-traded funds (“ETF”s) and mutual funds. We may also include additional types of publicly-traded securities, such as, but not limited to, exchange-traded real estate investment trusts (“REIT”s) and exchange-traded master limited partnerships (“MLP”s). Clients may impose restrictions on the purchase or sale of certain securities and investments in their Accounts, subject to our approval (see Items 8 and 16). ICW does not sponsor, nor participate in, any wrap-fee programs. As of August 8, 2025, ICW had approximately $355,700,000 of regulatory assets under management. All assets under management were managed on a discretionary basis. Retirement Plans Qualified Under ERISA Clients may engage us to provide Professional Services to a qualified retirement plan (“Qualified Plan” or “Plan”) under the Economic Recovery and Income Security Act of 1974 (“ERISA”), whereby we shall manage Plan assets consistent with the investment objective designated by the Plan trustees. As an investment adviser registered pursuant to the Advisers Act, we are not subject to any disqualification in Section 411 of ERISA. To the extent we perform fiduciary Services, we act as a fiduciary as defined in ERISA Section 3(21) and we act as an investment manager under ERISA Section 3(38) when we provide discretionary Services to a Qualified Plan. We Do Not Provide Legal, Accounting, Actuarial or Tax Advice and Do Not Sell Insurance Products Nothing in our work is appropriate as, nor intended as, a substitute for the necessary legal, accounting, insurance, actuarial or tax counsel or representation on such matters. ICW does not prepare legal documents, prepare tax returns, or sell insurance and annuity products. Clients should discuss any legal, accounting, insurance, actuarial or tax issues with their legal, accounting, insurance, actuarial and tax advisors. Intelligent Capitalworks 3 © 2025 ICW Investment Advisors, LLC. All rights reserved. Limitations of Unaffiliated Planning and Non-Investment Management Services ICW does not have an affiliation with any other planning or non-investment management service providers – attorneys, accountants, insurance agents, actuaries, etc. (“Unaffiliated Professionals”). To the extent requested by clients, we may recommend the services of Unaffiliated Professionals for non-investment implementation purposes. Clients are under no obligation to engage the services of any such recommended Unaffiliated Professionals. Clients retain absolute discretion over all such implementation decisions and are free to accept or reject any recommendation from us. ICW does not pay nor receive solicitation or referral fees to or from Unaffiliated Professionals (see Item 14). Please Note: If clients engage any recommended Unaffiliated Professional, and a dispute arises thereafter relative to such engagement, clients expressly agree to seek recourse exclusively from and against the engaged Unaffiliated Professional. At all times, the engaged Unaffiliated Professional, and not ICW, shall be responsible for the quality and competency of the services provided. Retirement Rollovers Potential for Conflict of Interest A client or prospective client leaving an employer typically has four options regarding an existing retirement plan (and may engage in a combination of these options): (i) leave the money in the former employer’s plan, if permitted, (ii) roll over the assets to the new employer’s plan, if one is available and rollovers are permitted, (iii) roll over to an Individual Retirement Account (“IRA”), or (iv) liquidate and cash out the Account value (which could, depending upon the client’s age and financial circumstances, result in adverse tax consequences). If ICW recommends that a client roll over their retirement plan assets into an Account to be managed by ICW, such a recommendation creates a conflict of interest if ICW will earn new (or increase its current) compensation as a result of the rollover. When acting in such capacity, ICW may serve as a fiduciary under ERISA, the Internal Revenue Code, or both (see above). No client is under any obligation to roll over retirement plan assets to an Account managed by ICW. Account Aggregation Service, Excluded Assets and Non-Discretionary Assets ICW utilizes third-party services to electronically gather, aggregate and import client Account data from third-party financial institutions (“Account Aggregation Services”) directly into different types of financial planning and investment management software utilized by ICW for the benefit of clients. In conjunction with the Account Aggregation Services provided by these third parties, ICW provides client reporting Services which may incorporate client investment assets that are not part of the assets managed by ICW (“Excluded Assets”). Unless otherwise specifically agreed to in writing, ICW’s Services relative to Excluded Assets are limited to reporting only. ICW shall not be responsible for the investment supervision, monitoring, management and performance of Excluded Assets (see Items 8,13, 15 and 16). The sole exceptions to the above shall be if ICW is specifically engaged by written agreement to view and make non-discretionary recommendations for the client’s ERISA and IRS Qualified or other retirement Accounts (i.e., 401k, 403a, 403b, 457, etc.) maintained with a custodian directed by the client’s employer or variable annuities held with an insurance company. ICW does not maintain any trading authority for Excluded Assets. The client and/or the client’s other designated investment professional(s) shall maintain the trading authority for Excluded Assets. If ICW is asked to make a non-discretionary recommendation as to any Excluded Assets, the client is under absolutely no obligation to accept the recommendation, and ICW shall not be responsible for any implementation error (timing, trading, etc.) relative to Excluded Assets (see Item 16). Client Obligations In performing our Services, ICW shall rely on the information provided by the client, the client’s other Unaffiliated Professionals and financial service providers (“Service Providers”) and shall not be required to verify any information received from the client or any other third party, and ICW is expressly authorized to rely thereon. Importantly, it remains each client’s responsibility to promptly notify ICW if there is ever any change in the client’s financial situation or investment objectives for the purpose of reviewing, evaluating or revising our previous recommendations and/or Services. We also advise clients that they are responsible for verifying the accuracy of their Accounts and our fee calculations and deductions (see Items 5, 13 and 15). 4 SEC File No. 801-64460 IARD No. 135081 August 12, 2025 © 2025 ICW Investment Advisors, LLC. All rights reserved. ICW Investment Advisors LLC SEC FORM ADV Part 2A Item 5 – Fees and Compensation ICW offers all its Services on a fee-only basis. Fee-only means that the only compensation ICW receives is the professional services fee (“Professional Services Fee” or “Fee”) that ICW receives from its clients for Professional Services. ICW does not have any proprietary investment products, nor does ICW receive compensation from any investment product. ICW has no promoter, referral or soft-dollar arrangements with any unaffiliated money manager, broker-dealer (“Broker-Dealer”) or qualified custodian (“Qualified Custodian”). This helps reduce source-of-compensation conflicts of interest in fiduciary relationships with clients (see Items 12 and 14). ICW charges clients an annual Professional Services Fee for its combined Investment Management and Wealth Management services. ICW does not offer these services independently. The Fee is based upon a percentage of the market value of the Accounts ICW is managing and/or advising upon as reported by the client’s unaffiliated custodians, including the values of cash, cash management, money market and margin balances. The Investment Management Services (“IMS”) portion of our Professional Services Fee is 0.50% annually for separately managed Accounts. The Wealth Management Services (“WMS”) portion of our Professional Services Fee generally varies between an additional 0.50% and 1.25% annually. ICW negotiates the WMS portion of its Professional Services Fee with clients based upon a variety of objective and subjective factors, including: the nature, breadth, depth and complexity of the WMS and other Services clients request from us; client requirements for our time and resources; ad hoc requests and requirements for staff members; advanced training and experience; the number and types of Accounts; the market value and type of assets; the number, experience and quality of relationships of other client family members; the existence or absence of other professional advisors involved; the number of meetings required; client responsiveness to our requests for information, calls and meetings; client organizational and recordkeeping skills and capacity; and market prices for comparable Services. The total annual Fee for our combined Professional Services generally varies between 1.00% and 1.75%. Professional Services Fee Differences Because ICW negotiates the price of Professional Services based upon the preceding various objective and subjective factors, similarly situated clients could pay a different negotiated Fee than ICW’s other clients, and the Services to be provided by ICW to any particular client could be available from other advisors at lower fees. Additionally, ICW may charge and reserve the right to charge a different Professional Services Fee, a fixed Fee, or waive our Fee entirely on an individual Account basis based upon certain criteria (i.e., anticipated future earning capacity, anticipated future additional assets, related Accounts, grandfathered fees and fee schedules, ICW employees and family members, and pro bono and professional courtesy Accounts, etc.). Written Agreement Our Professional Services Fee and the terms, conditions and arrangements of each client engagement are explained in a written professional services agreement (“Professional Services Agreement,” “Agreement” or “PSA”) signed by both of us. The Agreement includes a schedule of applicable custodial and trading costs and other fees (see below). How We Are Paid ICW requires clients to maintain and fund an Account with a custodian unaffiliated with our Firm and qualified by the SEC (registered Broker-Dealers, trust companies, banks, mutual fund companies, etc., collectively referred to as “Qualified Custodians”) and provide written authorization to ICW to permit the Qualified Custodian to deduct our Professional Services Fee payable to ICW when it becomes due, as ICW requests by direct debit from Account(s). ICW advises clients that they are responsible for verifying the accuracy of their Accounts and our Fee calculations and deductions and that Qualified Custodians will not verify that ICW’s Fee is accurately calculated or deducted (see Items 4, 13 and 15). ICW prorates its annual Fee monthly (1/12th of the annual Fee) and charges and collects it in advance at the beginning of the month, based upon Account or asset values reported by the client’s Qualified Custodians on the last trading day of the preceding month. Intelligent Capitalworks 5 © 2025 ICW Investment Advisors, LLC. All rights reserved. Calculation of an Initial Monthly Fee The Professional Services Fee for any initial partial month of Services for an Account or asset shall be based on the number of days ICW provided Services in the partial month and calculated on a pro rata basis based upon the Client’s Fee for the first full month of Services for that Account or asset, and collected with and in addition to, ICW’s Fee for the first full month of Services for that Account or asset. Fees for Account Deposits and Withdrawals After inception of Services for an Account or asset, if assets are deposited into or withdrawn from an Account after the first day of a month, the Professional Services Fee payable with respect to such assets deposited or withdrawn will not be prorated based on the number of days remaining in the month. Fees for Cash and Cash Management Holdings Cash and cash management holdings are included in Fee calculations and investment strategies (see Item 8). Account and/or Agreement Termination Agreements with ICW will continue in effect until either of us receives notice from the other to terminate our Services with respect to an Account or our Agreement, pursuant to the terms, conditions and arrangements of our Agreement. Upon notice of termination of our Services for an Account or asset, we shall promptly charge any earned but not yet billed and collected Fees plus an Account termination Fee of $200 per Account and refund any unearned pre-paid Fees on a pro rata basis, as appropriate. The Account termination Fee helps contribute toward the multi-year post-closing costs of regulatory recordkeeping requirements for closed Accounts and assets. We may waive this Fee at our discretion. Hourly Charges for Additional Work Outside the Scope of Our Agreement When clients request from us in writing additional clerical, administrative or Professional Services that are outside the scope of their written Professional Services Agreement with us, we may charge an agreed-upon additional hourly Fee for such Services. For such Services, our hourly Fee will generally range from $150 to $1,000 per hour, plus any expenses we incur on the client’s behalf, depending upon the nature, complexity, scope and urgency of the Services and the professionals rendering the Services. We will calculate, invoice and debit these charges from one or more of the client’s Accounts on a work-in-progress cost accounting basis. Clients Bear Custodial Costs, Trading Costs, and Other Fees Our annual Professional Services Fee is exclusive of, and in addition to, custodial costs, trading and related transactions costs, and other fees and expenses Clients will incur in their Accounts. Clients will incur certain charges imposed by Qualified Custodians, including but not limited to, custodial fees, brokerage commissions and transactions fees, Account maintenance fees, margin interest expenses, mark-ups or mark-downs in principal transactions, deferred sales charges, odd-lot differentials, stock exchange fees, transfer taxes, foreign taxes, processing fees, wire transfer and electronic fund fees, service fees, and other fees and taxes on brokerage Accounts and holdings and securities transactions. Applicable custodial and trading costs and other fees will be attached to the original Professional Services Agreement (see above). Clients will also incur product charges imposed directly by a mutual fund, exchange-traded fund or within a variable annuity in an Account, including but not limited to fund management fees and other expenses, all of which shall be disclosed in the prospectus of the fund or variable annuity provided by the Qualified Custodian. ICW does not participate in any client referral programs from Qualified Custodians in exchange for recommending those Qualified Custodians. ICW also does not solicit, nor receive any Soft Dollar benefits in exchange for any custodian recommendations. This helps reduce source-of-compensation conflicts of interest in our fiduciary relationship with our clients (see Items 12 and 14). 6 SEC File No. 801-64460 IARD No. 135081 August 12, 2025 © 2025 ICW Investment Advisors, LLC. All rights reserved. ICW Investment Advisors LLC SEC FORM ADV Part 2A Risks and Conflict of Interest with Margin Account Borrowing We do not recommend the use of margin to purchase securities. A margin Account is a brokerage Account that allows investors to borrow money to buy securities or for other purposes. From time to time, a client may wish to use margin to borrow money for other purposes. By using borrowed funds, the client is employing leverage that will magnify both Account gains and losses. The unaffiliated Broker/Dealer charges the client interest for the right to borrow money and uses the client’s securities in the margin Account as collateral for the loan. Should a client determine to use margin, ICW will include the entire market value of the margined assets when computing its Professional Services Fee. Accordingly, ICW’s Fee shall be based upon a higher margined Account value, resulting in ICW earning a correspondingly higher Professional Services Fee. As a result, a potential of conflict of interest arises since ICW has an economic disincentive to recommend that the client terminate the use of margin (see Item 8). Item 6 – Performance-Based Fees and Side-by-Side Management We do not charge, nor accept, investment performance fees and we do not participate in side-by-side management of our clients’ Accounts. We avoid these activities in our effort to eliminate the possible incentive and potential conflict of interest to favor Accounts with investment performance fees over Accounts without such fees. Performance-based fees are fees that are based on a share of the capital gains or capital appreciation in an investor’s Account. Side-by-side management refers to the practice of managing Accounts that are charged performance-based fees while at the same time managing Accounts that are not charged performance-based fees. Item 7 – Types of Clients We generally provide our Professional Services to high net worth and individual investors for a variety of their related Account types, including, but not limited to, their individual Accounts, joint and community property Accounts, personal trusts, family trusts, family partnerships, retirement Accounts, Qualified Plans, family foundations and donor-advised charitable trusts. We generally require $5,000,000 in investable assets across all Accounts in a household, however, we may negotiate this amount. Item 8 – Methods of Analysis, Investment Strategies and Risk of Loss Every portfolio of investments has a purpose. The bedrock purposes of our investing are designed to help our clients meet their planned cash needs, achieve asset growth, avoid unrewarded risks and control their attendant tax and investing costs. We work with clients to clarify the purposes of the Accounts they wish for us to manage as part of the planning we complete for them. We help translate those purposes into goals and measurable objectives. We develop and project a targeted average long-term rate of return a client may need from their savings and investments to meet their goals and objectives. We review with the client a range of potential shorter-term negative and positive annual returns that would be historically consistent with the client’s targeted long-term rate of return and that the client would need to be prepared to endure throughout the investment time horizon. Then we determine and recommend appropriately tailored investment strategies. We memorialize our planning work in multiple integrated client studies and tailored investment guidelines we complete for each client. We provide clients with online access to various tools to help them monitor their Accounts and progress in reaching their goals and objectives. The potential benefit of developing a tailored plan for each client is that it helps to reduce and prevent the client from making ad hoc changes to their long-term investments in response to adverse shorter-term market conditions and volatility. Clients are also somewhat freed from chasing institutional benchmark index comparisons that provide little context in helping them understand the success or failure of achieving their goals and objectives. Intelligent Capitalworks 7 © 2025 ICW Investment Advisors, LLC. All rights reserved. Analysis and Management Require Measurement Measurement is the first step toward analysis and management. We calculate, analyze and endeavor to optimize many different measured facets of companies, their related securities, and possible investment portfolios that we might help build for clients. Methods of Analysis We identify and measure investment attributes of companies, their securities, exchange-traded funds (ETFs), mutual funds, economic and financial market conditions, and factors of portfolio diversification that we believe can help deliver richer information content about an investment portfolio and its stability under different market conditions. For investors who are counting on their investments to replace their earned income and sustain them in retirement, this information content offers us opportunities to help clients build investment portfolios tailored to helping them achieve their goals and objectives while seeking to minimize various risks (see Tax, Capital Loss and Risk Disclosures below). Research We combine our own fundamental research and analysis with third-party research and several specialized security and portfolio analysis tools and applications. We may also integrate public information and original academic research of others and may incorporate information from prospectuses, annual reports, regulatory filings, and corporate and investment rating services. For stocks and bonds, we analyze a company’s revenues, earnings and dividend stability and growth, profit margins, cash flow, capital structure, competitive position and advantages, economic moat, changes in a company’s business and/or management, industry structure and changes, and market conditions; for mutual funds and ETFs, we look at investment objectives and risks, portfolio holdings and style drift, fees and expenses, fund management, investment performance and fund growth. Investment Strategy We use the information content that we glean from our research and analysis processes to develop investment strategies and portfolios that may exhibit better stability and capital conservation through inevitable negative market environments while seeking to earn a client’s targeted investment returns. As a general rule, the businesses we seek to own have longer-term histories of more stable and increasing earnings, rising dividends and capital allocation decisions by management that benefit shareholders with net stock buybacks, debt reduction and retained capital growth throughout one or more economic cycles. We construct equity portfolios for long-term dividend and capital growth to help produce the rising cash flows that clients need to help replace their earned income. We do not focus our attention and effort on beating the “market” (S&P 500) or other institutional benchmarks, or owning the “market” at the lowest possible cost. Our goals are dividend growth faster than inflation and faster and more stable than comparable low-cost index funds might provide, plus capital growth with potentially better diversification benefits than comparable low-cost index funds might provide, to smooth over the many bumps in the road ahead. We construct diversified income portfolios for clients with a goal to help provide regular current interest income. Our goal is an amount of income from bond funds, bonds and other income-oriented securities that is above inflation and the amount of income that comparable low-cost index funds might provide while attempting to protect principal value. We pursue a multi-sector approach that offers the flexibility to adapt to changing economic conditions, including the risk of rising inflation. Portfolio Construction As a general rule, we construct tailored portfolios with broadly-diversified investments in individual stocks rather than mutual funds and ETFs to retain and help improve investment control, minimize portfolio turnover, improve tax control and costs, and reduce the layering of investing fees and costs. We do not use model portfolios. 8 SEC File No. 801-64460 IARD No. 135081 August 12, 2025 © 2025 ICW Investment Advisors, LLC. All rights reserved. ICW Investment Advisors LLC SEC FORM ADV Part 2A Types of Investments We Make We invest in publicly-traded individual stocks and fixed income securities, mutual funds and exchange- traded funds (“ETF”s). Mutual funds and exchange-traded funds are professionally managed pools of money collected from many investors to invest in stocks, bonds, money market instruments and many other types of assets. Each fund will have a manager that invests the fund in accordance with the fund's investment objective. While mutual funds and ETFs generally provide diversification, risks can be significantly increased if the fund is concentrated in a particular sector of the market, primarily invests in small or speculative companies, uses leverage (i.e., borrows money) to a significant degree, or concentrates in a particular type of security rather than balancing the fund with different types of securities. The returns on mutual funds and ETFs can be reduced by the costs to manage the funds. Also, while some mutual funds are “no load” and charge no fee to buy into or sell out of the fund, other types of mutual funds do charge such fees which can also reduce returns. Mutual funds can also be “open-end” or “closed-end.” Open-end mutual funds may continue to issue new shares to investors to meet investor demand and buy back shares when investors wish to sell. Open-end funds trade at the daily market closing price. By contrast, closed-end mutual funds have a fixed number of shares that are bought and sold between investors on an exchange throughout the trading day. Exchange-traded funds share characteristics of both open-end and closed-end mutual funds. ETFs issue and redeem shares to meet investor demand, can be bought and sold throughout the day like stocks on an exchange, and share prices fluctuate throughout the trading day. Shares of ETFs have many of the same risks as direct investments in common stocks or bonds and their market value is expected to rise and fall as the value of the underlying securities or index rises and falls. We may also include additional types of public exchange-traded securities in client portfolios, such as, but not limited to, real estate investment trusts (REITs) and master limited partnerships (MLPs). Clients may impose restrictions on the purchase or sale of certain securities and investments in their Accounts, subject to our approval (see Items 4 and 16). We are Long Term Investors We believe in investing in stocks, as owners of businesses, not trading in stocks. As a general rule, we intend to hold securities we purchase for client Accounts for at least one year. Exceptions may arise from portfolio rebalancing, tax-loss harvesting, client withdrawals and actionable investment ideas resulting from our research. Our goal is to generate and compound the long-term investment returns clients seek while accounting for their tolerance and capacity for downside risk exposure and negative investment performance. Portfolio Activity We have a fiduciary duty to provide our Services consistent with the client’s best interests. As part of our Professional Services, we will review client securities and portfolios on an ongoing basis to determine if any changes are necessary based upon: the various research factors we identify above in this Item 8; account additions and withdrawals; or changes in the client’s investment objectives. Based upon these and other factors, there may be extended periods of time during our reviews when we determine that changes to client Accounts are neither necessary, nor prudent. Clients remain subject to the Professional Fees described in Item 5 above during periods of low security trading activity or Account inactivity. As indicated below, there can be no assurance that investment decisions made by us will be profitable or equal any specific market benchmarks, targeted returns or other performance levels. Actual results will vary from benchmarks and targeted results, perhaps to a significant degree. Intelligent Capitalworks 9 © 2025 ICW Investment Advisors, LLC. All rights reserved. Legacy Investments, Requested Investments and Excluded Assets We may also provide advice to clients about any other type of investment clients are holding in their portfolio at the beginning of our advisory relationship (“Legacy Investments”) or for which clients request advice (“Requested Investments”). We shall not be responsible for the investment supervision, monitoring, management and performance of Excluded Assets (see Items 4, 13, 15 and 16). Accounts with Different Goals and Objectives We manage Accounts for clients whose goals and objectives, financial circumstances, liquidity needs, tax situations or other factors may be different from their other Accounts, or the Accounts of other clients. As a result, it is possible that it would be appropriate for us to buy or sell a security for one client Account while selling, buying or holding it for another Account of the same client or in another client Account. We may also adjust client exposure to various securities differently in different Accounts to meet various client needs and objectives. Cash Management The Qualified Custodians we recommend offer Accounts that “sweep” non-invested cash balances into a taxable, interest-bearing cash management option or a FDIC-insured deposit account. As a general rule, we may invest larger, longer-term cash balances to higher-yielding money market funds. Money market funds generally fall into three categories: government money market funds, prime-rated money market funds and tax-exempt money market funds. These funds are designed to provide daily liquidity, stable values and interest income for short-term cash balances. There can be no assurances that these objectives will be achieved. Cash management holdings may at times produce an investment yield lower than our Professional Services Fee (see Item 5). Margin Account Borrowing As a general rule, we do not implement investment strategies using margin loans or other Account leverage because using borrowed funds to make investments amplifies negative client investment performance during adverse market environments. Exceptions may periodically arise from client Accounts transferred to us with pre-existing client margin loans or other Account-secured non-purpose loans. The use of margin creates a conflict of interest, as any margin balance is included in client asset values for the calculation of our Fee (see Item 5). Tax, Capital Loss and Risk Disclosures Clients are responsible for all tax liabilities arising from transactions in their Accounts. Different types of investments involve varying degrees of risk, and there can be no assurance that any specific investment or strategy will be suitable or profitable for a client’s portfolio. There can be no assurances that an investment portfolio will be profitable or match any specific market benchmarks, targeted returns or other performance levels. Investment returns come from the potential risk of capital loss. Gain is rarely accomplished without taking a chance. While we construct client investment portfolios to help clients earn the positive returns they seek by attempting to exploit risks that we believe are worth taking and trying to avoid those we believe are not, clients should be prepared to bear the risk of capital loss. There are many different types of risks that are associated with investing. While not exhaustive, clients should understand and be prepared to bear these risks: Credit Risk – the chance that a borrower’s securities prices and values will be adversely affected when it is not able to repay its debts when they come due. 10 SEC File No. 801-64460 IARD No. 135081 August 12, 2025 © 2025 ICW Investment Advisors, LLC. All rights reserved. ICW Investment Advisors LLC SEC FORM ADV Part 2A Currency Risk – the chance that changes in the value of a foreign currency adversely affects securities prices. Deflation Risk – the chance that prices throughout the economy decline over time, depressing spending and weakening the economy. Deflation worsens repayment burdens for borrowers. Event Risk – the chance that threatening world events and disruptions adversely affect securities prices and values. Industry Risk – the chance that a specific industry will perform poorly and adversely affect the securities prices and values of the businesses involved. Inflation Risk – the chance that income from investments does not keep pace with the cost of living. Inflation causes a reduction in an investor’s standard of living. Interest Rate Risk – the chance that securities prices are adversely affected when interest rates rise. Legislative Risk – the chance that legislative changes adversely affect the prices and values of securities prices. Liquidity Risk – the chance that an investment will experience a material loss in value when converted to cash. Market Risk – the chance that an entire market will decline and adversely affect the prices and values of securities in that market (i.e., the U.S. stock market). Marketability Risk – the chance that a security’s price is adversely affected when it cannot be easily bought or sold. Regulatory Risk – the chance that changes in domestic or foreign securities, securities markets, financial institutions, monetary or exchange, or financial service provider regulations adversely affect securities prices and values. Reinvestment Rate Risk – the chance that investment cash flows and returns cannot be reinvested at the original investment rate of return. Shortfall Risk – the chance that investment returns from a portfolio are too low to meet an investor’s needs. Single Security Risk – the chance that a specific company will perform poorly and adversely affect the prices and values of the company’s securities. Sovereign Risk – the chance that political events adversely affect securities prices and values. Tax Risk – the chance that changes in domestic or foreign tax laws adversely affect securities prices and values. Again, while not being exhaustive, other investing risks clients should understand and be prepared to bear include: Cybersecurity Risk, Fraud Risk, Administrative Risk, Business Continuity Risk, Operational Risk, Leverage Risk, Environmental Risk, Lack of Access to Capital Markets Risk and Counterparty Risk. While the conclusion is that investment returns are derived from risks taken and risks avoided, the simple fact is that risk can only be measured in the past, yet it exists in the future and is uncertain. Past performance is not a guarantee of future results. Special Third-Party and Fourth-Party Vendor Risks We are susceptible to potential operational risks from loss of power, internet connectivity and systems and other services and/or products provided by third-party vendors. While we make reasonable efforts to maintain system and supply-chain redundancies, there can be no assurance that we will not suffer operational losses attributable to our third-party vendors or fourth parties supporting/supplying our third- party vendors. The client agrees that ICW shall not be responsible nor held liable under any circumstances for any losses attributable to operational failures of or to third-party and related fourth-party vendors. Intelligent Capitalworks 11 © 2025 ICW Investment Advisors, LLC. All rights reserved. Special Cybersecurity-Related Risks We are susceptible to cybersecurity-related risks that include, among other risks: theft, unauthorized monitoring, release, misuse, loss, destruction or corruption of confidential and non-public personally- identifiable information; denial of service attacks; unauthorized access to relevant systems, compromises to networks or devices that we and our Service Providers use to service client Accounts; or operational disruption or failures in the physical infrastructure or operating systems that support us or our Service Providers. While we make reasonable efforts to protect and safeguard client information, there can be no assurance that we, our Service Providers, Unaffiliated Professionals, or clients will not suffer losses relating to cybersecurity attacks or other information security breaches in the future. The client agrees that ICW shall not be responsible nor held liable under any circumstances for any data leaks or breaches of the client, our Service Providers, Unaffiliated Professionals, or any other third and related fourth parties utilized by ICW. Item 9 – Disciplinary Information ICW Investment Advisors LLC and its management have no reportable disciplinary events. Item 10 – Other Financial Industry Activities and Affiliations We are not affiliated with any Qualified Custodian, bank, securities brokerage firm or securities dealer. We have no other financial industry activities or affiliations and offer no proprietary products (see Item 4). Item 11 – Code of Ethics, Client Transactions and Personal Trading Code of Ethics ICW has adopted a Code of Ethics that is applicable to all Supervised Persons (partners, officers, directors, employees and certain independent contractors under the Firm’s control and supervision). The Code of Ethics prescribes guidelines for professional standards of business conduct that require all Supervised Persons to act in our clients’ best interests at all times and report any violations. Clients or prospective clients may obtain a copy of our Code of Ethics by contacting us at the telephone number on the cover page of this Brochure. Prohibition on the Use of Insider Information While we believe we do not have any particular access to insider information, our Code of Ethics contains policies reasonably designed to prevent the unlawful use of material insider information. Participation or Interest in Client Transactions Neither our Firm nor any Supervised Person has any material financial interest in client transactions beyond the provision of the Professional Services Fee as disclosed in this Brochure (see Items 4, 5 and 12). Personal Trading Practices Our Firm or Supervised Persons may buy or sell the same securities that we recommend to clients or securities in which clients are already invested. A conflict of interest exists in such cases because we may have the ability to trade ahead of clients and potentially receive more favorable prices than clients will receive. Our Code of Ethics is designed to assure that the personal securities transactions, activities, and interests of the Firm and Supervised Persons will not interfere with making and implementing decisions in the best interest of our clients, while at the same time allowing the Firm and Supervised Persons to invest for their own Accounts. 12 SEC File No. 801-64460 IARD No. 135081 August 12, 2025 © 2025 ICW Investment Advisors, LLC. All rights reserved. ICW Investment Advisors LLC SEC FORM ADV Part 2A It is our policy that if transaction orders for a client and the Firm or Supervised Persons are executed on the same day, then transaction orders for clients will take priority. Nonetheless, there is a possibility that the Firm or Supervised Persons might benefit from market activity. The Chief Compliance Officer monitors trading activity of the Firm and Supervised Persons relative to client trades to allow management to address any conflicts that may exist and to ensure that the Firm and Supervised Persons do not engage in improper transactions or disadvantage the Firm’s clients. Item 12 – Brokerage Practices We implement our Professional Services for clients after they have selected, arranged for and furnished us with all information and required authorizations regarding their Accounts with the Qualified Custodians with whom we have an established relationship. These include, but are not limited to, Fidelity Investments and its affiliates (“Fidelity”) or Charles Schwab & Company (“Schwab”). Recommending Brokerage and Trade Clearing Services We generally recommend that clients select and utilize the custody, brokerage and trade clearing services of Fidelity. Clients are under no obligation to select Fidelity. We may alternatively recommend that clients utilize the custody, brokerage and trade clearing services of Schwab. There is no affiliation between ICW and Fidelity or Schwab. Factors which we consider in our recommendations include the respective Qualified Custodian’s breadth, depth and integration of services offered, provision of a dedicated service group for our Firm, ease-of- operation and user experiences, administrative support and technology services, responsiveness to us and our clients, reliability, financial strength, execution capabilities, lending facilities and pricing, and client costs. We negotiate custody and commissions costs on behalf of our clients when possible. Client custody fees, commissions and transaction fees charged by Fidelity or Schwab may be higher or lower than those charged by other divisions of Fidelity or Schwab, or other unaffiliated Qualified Custodians (see Items 5 and 14). ICW will provide clients with the Fidelity and Schwab custody, commission and fee schedules upon request. Research and Soft Dollars ICW does not participate in soft dollar (“Soft Dollar”) arrangements. This helps reduce source-of-compensation conflicts of interest in our fiduciary relationship with our clients (see Item 5). As a registered investment adviser, we may have access to research products and services from the clients' Qualified Custodians. These products may include financial publications, information about particular companies and industries, research software, and other products or services that provide lawful and appropriate assistance to our Firm in the performance of our investment decision-making responsibilities. Such research products and services are provided to all investment advisers that utilize the service platforms of these Qualified Custodians, and are considered a benefit to our Firm, but are not considered to have been paid with Soft Dollars. Beyond the benefits of these types of research products and services, which are provided to all investment advisers that utilize the service platforms of Qualified Custodians, our Firm does not solicit, nor receive any Soft Dollar benefits. We may have an incentive to select or recommend a Qualified Custodian based upon the investment research or other products or services offered by the Qualified Custodian. To the extent our Firm receives any investment research or other products or services from a client’s Qualified Custodians, a conflict of interest arises in that such research and/or services might not directly benefit client Accounts. In our effort to mitigate this conflict of interest, it is our Firm's policy to prohibit the Firm from entering into any formal or informal arrangements or commitments to receive research, research-related or execution services obtained from Qualified Custodians, or third parties, on a Soft Dollar commission basis. Brokerage and Client Referrals ICW does not participate in any client referral programs from Qualified Custodians in exchange for recommending those Qualified Custodians (see Items 5 and 14). Intelligent Capitalworks 13 © 2025 ICW Investment Advisors, LLC. All rights reserved. Best Execution Clients may pay a custody fee or commission that is higher than another Qualified Custodian might charge to execute the same transaction where we determine, in good faith, that the custody fee or commission is reasonable in relation to the value of the custody, brokerage and the administrative support and technology services we receive for client Accounts. In seeking best execution, the determinative factor is not the lowest possible cost, but whether the transaction represents the best qualitative execution, taking into consideration the full range of a Qualified Custodian’s services. Client-Directed Brokerage We do not accept client-directed brokerage (instructions from clients to use a particular Broker-Dealer to execute some or all securities transactions in their Accounts). Trade Allocation Practices We generally place discretionary securities brokerage transactions for client Accounts on an Account-by- Account basis, independently of securities brokerage transactions for a client’s other Accounts or the Accounts of other clients. Therefore, the securities brokerage transactions for a client’s Account may be different and receive more or less favorable price executions than for securities trades in a client’s other Accounts or the Accounts of other clients. We may combine discretionary securities brokerage transactions for a client Account with discretionary securities brokerage transactions for other Accounts of a client or Accounts of other clients (“Block Order”) in an effort to obtain best execution, or to allocate equitably among Accounts or clients, differences in prices that might not have been obtained had such orders been placed separately. Accounts of our Firm or Supervised Persons may participate in a Block Order with the Firm’s clients. We do not include reportable securities brokerage transactions for non-discretionary Accounts in Block Orders. Under this procedure, we will generally allocate an average price for purchase and sale orders on a pro rata basis among the clients of each Block Order transaction. To the extent that we determine to combine client orders for the purchase or sale of securities, we shall generally do so in accordance with applicable rules promulgated under the Advisers Act and no-action guidance provided by the staff of the SEC. Item 13 – Review of Accounts The securities and investments managed by ICW are reviewed on an ongoing basis by the Chief Investment Officer and Portfolio Manager. ICW shall not be responsible for the investment supervision, monitoring, management and performance of Excluded Assets (see Items 4, 8, 15 and 16). Client Accounts are reviewed on an ongoing basis by the Portfolio Manager, Chief of Staff, Chief Compliance Officer and Chief Client Administrative Officer for different reasons and purposes. In addition, we tailor and conduct Account reviews with clients on an annual or mutually agreed-upon schedule to discuss any changes in their financial situation and/or goals and objectives and the possible scenarios that could result from such changes, and to review our previous Services and recommendations. We also conduct Account reviews when clients notify us of changes in their goals and objectives. We encourage clients to discuss their goals, objectives, normal cash needs for the upcoming year and extraordinary cash needs with us and keep us informed of any relevant changes. Separately and independently from us, clients receive Account statements and transaction confirmation notices directly from their Qualified Custodian on at least a quarterly basis. We also provide clients with access to online content and written reports upon request that may include such relevant Account and market-related information as Account performance, an inventory of Account holdings and our monthly Professional Service Fee calculations. 14 SEC File No. 801-64460 IARD No. 135081 August 12, 2025 © 2025 ICW Investment Advisors, LLC. All rights reserved. ICW Investment Advisors LLC SEC FORM ADV Part 2A While we endeavor to maintain accurate online client content and prepare accurate reports for clients, it is the client’s responsibility to compare such online content and reports we prepare with statements the client receives from the Qualified Custodian, including verifying the accuracy of our Professional Service Fee calculations and related custodial remittances (see Items 4, 5 and 15). Item 14 – Client Referrals and Other Compensation ICW does not pay or receive fees for client solicitation or referral, nor does ICW participate in any client referral programs from Qualified Custodians or Unaffiliated Professionals in exchange for recommending those Qualified Custodians or Unaffiliated Professionals. This helps reduce source-of-compensation conflicts of interest in our fiduciary relationship with our clients (see Items 4, 5 and 12). ICW can receive from Fidelity or other Qualified Custodians, support services and/or products at a discount or without cost. ICW’s clients may pay more for investment transactions or assets maintained at Fidelity or any other Qualified Custodian as a result of ICW receiving access to these discounted or no-cost services and/or products. There is no corresponding commitment made by ICW to Fidelity or any other Qualified Custodian to custody any specific amount of the Firm’s assets with Fidelity or any other Qualified Custodian, or to invest any specific dollar amount or percentage of client assets in any specific mutual funds, securities or other investment products as a result of ICW’s relationship with a Qualified Custodian. Advisor promotional or referral rankings or ratings published by others may be based upon information prepared and/or submitted by the ranked or rated advisers and are generally limited to participating advisers according to a publisher’s participation criteria and methodology. Unless expressly indicated to the contrary, ICW does not prepare or submit information, or pay fees to be included on any such rankings. No ranking or recognition should be construed as a current or past endorsement of ICW by any of its clients. Item 15 – Custody ICW is not a custodian and does not maintain physical custody of client assets. We only use unaffiliated Qualified Custodians for custody of client Accounts. Clients maintain ownership of their Accounts and assets with a Qualified Custodian. Therefore, clients must appoint a Qualified Custodian. The Qualified Custodian holds and safeguards client assets and will send transaction confirmations and periodic statements of client Accounts directly to clients at least quarterly, independently of us. While we endeavor to monitor client Accounts held by a Qualified Custodian, it is the client’s responsibility to carefully review the statements they receive from their Qualified Custodian and verify the accuracy of the Qualified Custodian’s reports of client assets held in custody and deposits and withdrawals of funds and securities from client Accounts, including our Professional Services Fee calculations and the Qualified Custodian’s remittances to us for our Professional Services Fees. ICW shall not be responsible for the investment supervision, monitoring, management or performance of Excluded Assets (see Items 4, 8, 13 and 16). Please Note: Qualified Custodians do not verify the accuracy of ICW’s Professional Services Fee calculations or the deductions of our Professional Services Fee from client Accounts. ICW may assist clients with requests to their Qualified Custodians for funds or security movement transactions, such as distributions, journals, electronic funds transfers, and wires; however, ICW does not accept standing asset movement authorizations that may deem us with custody over client funds and securities. The authority clients grant us in their Professional Services Agreement to directly debit and deduct our Professional Services Fees from client Accounts causes our Firm to exercise limited custody over client funds and securities. Limited custody triggered only due to Professional Services Fee debiting authority is not required to be reported on Form ADV Part 1, Item 9 and is exempt from an annual surprise exam by the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (“PCAOB”). Intelligent Capitalworks 15 © 2025 ICW Investment Advisors, LLC. All rights reserved. Item 16 – Investment Discretion We generally render our Investment Management Services on a discretionary basis. Our discretionary authority authorizes us to determine the securities to be bought or sold in client Accounts, as well as the quantities of such securities and the timing of the purchase and/or sale transactions, without obtaining client consent to any specific transactions. Our discretion also authorizes us to determine the Broker-Dealer to be used for the purchase or sale of a security and the commission rates to be paid to a Broker-Dealer for a client’s securities transactions. Clients provide us with discretionary securities trading authority pursuant to a limited power of attorney in their written Professional Services Agreement with us. Clients may impose restrictions on the purchase or sale of certain securities and investments in their Accounts, subject to our approval (see Items 4 and 8). We may render discretionary or non-discretionary Investment Management Services to clients for their Accounts and investments that may include, but not be limited to, individual employer-sponsored retirement plans, brokerage Accounts, or variable annuity/life insurance products they may own. We may recommend the allocation of client assets among the various limited investment options that comprise the retirement plans or variable annuity/life insurance products. We may also provide advice and/or Account performance monitoring Services for brokerage Accounts, employer-sponsored retirement plans or variable annuity/life insurance products. Client assets shall be maintained at the custodian designated by the sponsor of the client’s retirement plan, at the client’s brokerage firm, or in the segregated Accounts of the insurance company that issued the variable annuity/life insurance product. When we render Investment Management Services to clients on a non-discretionary basis, we will obtain client approval prior to executing any client transactions, if applicable. Otherwise, it is the client’s responsibility to execute the purchase and/or sale transactions (see Item 4). ICW shall not be responsible for the investment supervision, monitoring, management or performance of Excluded Assets (see Items 4, 8, 13 and 15). Item 17 – Voting Client Securities We do not accept nor exercise any authority to vote shareholder proxies on behalf of our clients for securities in their Accounts. Clients shall retain the authority and responsibility for receiving and voting all shareholder proxies for all securities maintained in their Accounts and we are generally not available to advise clients on how to vote the proxies. Clients should make arrangements to receive proxy materials directly from their Qualified Custodian or transfer agent. We do not handle or otherwise process any potential “class action” claims or similar settlements that clients may be entitled to for securities held in their Accounts. Clients should make arrangements to receive the paperwork for such claims directly from their Qualified Custodian. Clients should verify with their Qualified Custodian or other Account administrator whether such claims are being made on their behalf by their Qualified Custodian or if clients are expected to file such claims directly. Item 18 – Financial Information ICW does not require nor solicit prepayment of more than $1,200 in fees per client, six months or more in advance. ICW has no financial commitment that impairs its ability to meet contractual obligations and fiduciary commitments to clients. The Firm, nor its owners, have ever been the subject of a bankruptcy proceeding. ICW did not need, nor receive assistance from any Federal Reserve credit programs during the 2007-2009 General Financial Crisis and did not need, apply for, nor receive assistance from the Paycheck Protection Program or any other Federal financial assistance created under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act of 2020. 16 SEC File No. 801-64460 IARD No. 135081 August 12, 2025 © 2025 ICW Investment Advisors, LLC. All rights reserved. ICW Investment Advisors LLC SEC FORM ADV Part 2A