Overview
- Headquarters
- Boston, MA
- Average Client Assets
- $3.4 million
- Minimum Account Size
- $500,000
- SEC CRD Number
- 149936
Fee Structure
Primary Fee Schedule (LMCG INVESTMENTS, LLC FORM ADV PART 2A BROCHURE)
| Min | Max | Marginal Fee Rate |
|---|---|---|
| $0 | and above | 1.00% |
Illustrative Fee Rates
| Total Assets | Annual Fees | Average Fee Rate |
|---|---|---|
| $1 million | $10,000 | 1.00% |
| $5 million | $50,000 | 1.00% |
| $10 million | $100,000 | 1.00% |
| $50 million | $500,000 | 1.00% |
| $100 million | $1,000,000 | 1.00% |
Clients
- HNW Share of Firm Assets
- 36.05%
- Total Client Accounts
- 1,965
- Discretionary Accounts
- 1,955
- Non-Discretionary Accounts
- 10
Services Offered
Services: Portfolio Management for Individuals, Portfolio Management for Companies, Portfolio Management for Pooled Investment Vehicles, Portfolio Management for Institutional Clients, Investment Advisor Selection
Regulatory Filings
Primary Brochure: LMCG INVESTMENTS, LLC FORM ADV PART 2A BROCHURE (2026-04-09)
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FORM ADV
Part 2A Brochure
LMCG Investments, LLC
One Boston Place
201 Washington Street, 29th Floor
Boston, Massachusetts 02108
Telephone number: (617) 380-5600
650 5th Avenue, 25th Floor
New York, NY 10019
Telephone number: (646) 257-2890
Website address: www.lmcg.com
E-mail: compliance@lmcg.com
April 9, 2026
This brochure provides information about the qualifications and business practices of LMCG
Investments, LLC (“LMCG”). If you have any questions about the contents of this brochure, please
contact us at (617) 380-5600. The information in this brochure has not been approved or verified by
the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) or by any state securities authority.
We are a registered investment adviser. Registration of an investment adviser does not imply any
level of skill or training. The oral and written communications of an adviser provide you with
information which you may use to determine to hire or retain an adviser.
Additional information about us also is available on the SEC’s website at www.adviserinfo.sec.gov.
Item 2 - Material Changes
In Item 10, we have noted that LMCG now claims exemption from commodity pool operator
registration with respect to Serenitas Credit Gamma Fund and Serenitas Dynamic Alpha Fund per
U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission No-Action Letter No. 25-50.
Copies of this brochure are available upon request by contacting our Chief Compliance Officer,
Brooke Regan, at (617) 380-5600, or compliance@lmcg.com.
Additional information about us is available via the SEC’s website www.adviserinfo.sec.gov. The
SEC’s website also provides information about any persons affiliated with us who are registered as
our investment adviser representatives.
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Form ADV Part 2A Brochure
Table of Contents
Item 1 – Cover Page ………………………………………………………………………………………………………….…… 1
Item 2 – Material Changes ……………………………………………………………………………………………………… 2
Item 3 – Table of Contents ……………………………………………………………………………………………………… 3
Item 4 – Advisory Business …………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 4
Item 5 – Fees and Compensation …………………………………………………………………………………………… 6
Item 6 – Performance-Based Fees and Side-By-Side Management .……………………………….……….. 9
Item 7 – Types of Clients ............................................................................................................................. 9
Item 8 – Methods of Analysis, Investment Strategies, and Risk of Loss .......................................... 10
Item 9 – Disciplinary Information ........................................................................................................... 12
Item 10 – Other Financial Industry Activities and Affiliations............................................................... 12
Item 11 – Code of Ethics ............................................................................................................................ 13
Item 12 – Brokerage Practices ................................................................................................................. 14
Item 13 – Review of Accounts …………………………………………………………………………………...…………... 17
Item 14 – Client Referrals and Other Compensation ............................................................................. 18
Item 15 – Custody ........................................................................................................................................ 18
Item 16 – Investment Discretion ............................................................................................................... 19
Item 17 – Voting Client Securities …………………………………………………………………………………………… 19
Item 18 – Financial Information ................................................................................................................ 20
Item 19 – Additional Information .............................................................................................................. 20
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Item 4 - Advisory Business
LMCG Investments, LLC (“LMCG”) is a SEC-registered investment adviser with its primary office
located in Boston, Massachusetts. LMCG also has an office in New York City.
LMCG traces its history to the founding of Lee Munder Investments, Ltd. in 2000. In 2009, Lee
Munder Investments, Ltd. and other parties formed Lee Munder Capital Group, LLC. Also in 2009
the SEC approved Lee Munder Capital Group, LLC’s registration as an investment adviser under the
Investment Advisers Act of 1940. Lee Munder Capital Group, LLC’s name changed to LMCG
Investments, LLC at the end of 2014. At times during its history LMCG was affiliated with City
National Corporation and Royal Bank of Canada. LMCG has been an independent, employee-
controlled firm since 2022.
See Item 10 for additional information about our financial industry affiliations.
Advisory Services
Our Global MultiCap, Diversified Equity, U.S. All Cap Equity and Equity Income strategies provide
clients an efficient and diversified portfolio of individual stocks and exchange traded funds (“ETFs”).
This is accomplished by employing a dynamic asset allocation process using our institutional
investment capabilities. The resulting portfolio consists of large, mid, and small cap stocks and ETFs
in the domestic and international asset classes.
Our Institutional Core strategies (including GARP Plus (growth at a reasonable price), Large Cap Core
and Diversified Equity) select companies with above-average earnings growth potential and
reasonable valuations. This is accomplished by employing classic fundamental securities analysis to
identify the highest quality companies in terms of competitive advantage, profit margin expansion,
balance sheet strength, conservative accounting, corporate governance issues, and management
integrity. Our private client investment management GARP strategy is often managed and
customized for individual taxable clients. The different tax profile and often differing investment
time horizon of each client lead to differences in the types of investment themes pursued in portfolio
strategy and in the turnover of the portfolio.
Our Fixed Income strategies (taxable and tax exempt) seek income production, preservation of
capital, and a total rate of return through investments in high quality bonds. We actively manage
portfolios using individual bonds that are commensurate with the client’s income needs, tax
situation, and risk tolerance. Mutual funds or ETFs are also used for some clients for the purpose of
improving diversification and liquidity. Our fixed income products primarily include US government,
corporate, mortgage-backed, asset-backed, and municipal securities.
Our Balanced portfolios are constructed using active strategies in both their equity and the fixed
income portions. Asset allocation weights are managed within ranges established in client
investment guidelines.
Our Relative Value Credit strategies seek to build a portfolio for which returns are not predicated on
market direction. We allocate capital dynamically across corporate and mortgage credit markets.
For certain clients we use a low net risk approach to credit spreads and interest rates. We specialize
in trading non-agency residential mortgage-backed securities, credit risk transfer securities, CLOs,
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and credit derivatives. Given the market inefficiencies in these areas, our proprietary analytics
provide a unique advantage in finding undervalued optionality.
Additional Advisory Services
Solution Products: Upon client request, we will combine two or more investment strategies tailored
to certain investment objectives or benchmark weightings. In combining these investment strategies,
we will deliver either an account that fully replicates the underlying strategies or, where requested,
an optimized approach to reduce the number of securities and portfolio turnover.
We act as a sub-adviser to a registered mutual fund. In this engagement we provide professional
investment advisory services on a discretionary basis. Investments for advised and sub-advised
mutual funds are managed in accordance with each fund’s investment objective, strategies, and
restrictions and they are not tailored to the individualized needs of any particular fund investor.
We also act as subadviser to MassMutual Trust Company providing investment management
services to its clients pursuant to their overall asset allocation.
Model Portfolio Programs: We provide model portfolios for particular strategies or combinations of
strategies to clients that are investment advisers, mutual funds, platforms and other similar
aggregation entities (“Model Clients”). These Model Clients use the recommendations comprising our
model portfolios as a basis for investment strategies that they offer to their clients or investors. We
do not create our model portfolios for the individual or particular needs of their clients or investors, or
any other individual, but rather provide what we believe is an appropriate allocation and weighting of
securities for a given asset class. Our Model Clients have discretion to determine how and when to
implement our model portfolios and our changes to these portfolios and we have limited or no
trading authority in such arrangements.
Other Strategies and Services: We are the investment manager of two private funds, each a Cayman
Islands exempted limited partnership: Serenitas Credit Gamma Master Fund, LP, and Serenitas
Dynamic Alpha Master Fund, LP.
Client Restrictions
Clients invested in our separately managed accounts may place investment restrictions (as to
individual securities/tickers, positions, industries, cash, etc.) subject to our approval. When we invest
the assets of those accounts in mutual funds, ETFs and other commingled funds, our ability to avoid
investments in a specific company or industry, in accordance with a client’s restrictions, may be fully
or partly curtailed. When investing in such funds we do not look through the underlying holdings for
client-specific restrictions. We inform these clients of the impact of investment restrictions. See Item
16 for additional information on client-imposed restrictions.
Assets Under Management
As of December 31, 2025, we had $5.6 billion in assets under management. Discretionary assets
under management totaled approximately $5.5 billion; non-discretionary assets under management
totaled approximately $141 million.
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Item 5 - Fees and Compensation
We generally set standard fee schedules for our strategies. Fees may be negotiable based upon
factors including services required, size of assets to be managed, product type (including investment
discipline and the medium for delivering our advisory services, i.e., separate account, pooled structure,
etc.), investment capacity, and size of the overall relationship.
Generally, we are compensated by our clients based on assets under management computed and
payable quarterly. Fees are calculated each quarter and one fourth of the annual amount is billed in
arrears, unless the client and we agree to another arrangement. Clients may elect to be billed directly
for fees or to authorize us to directly debit fees from client accounts.
Fees for Separately Managed Accounts
Strategy
U.S. Core Strategies
Global Equity/Global Balanced
Fixed Income Strategies
Relative Value Credit Strategies
Standard Fee Range
0.40% - 1.00%
0.45% - 1.30% (includes solicitation and custody fees where applicable)
0.20% - 0.80% (includes solicitation and custody fee where applicable)
0.50% - 0.90%, plus a 10% - 20% performance fee where applicable
Our investment management fees are exclusive of brokerage commissions, transaction fees, and other
related costs which are incurred by the client. Clients may incur and be responsible for payment of
other charges imposed by custodians, brokers, and other third parties such as fees charged by any
other client-engaged advisors, custodial fees, deferred sales charges, odd-lot differentials, transfer
taxes, wire transfer and electronic fund fees, and other fees and taxes on brokerage accounts and
securities transactions.
Fees for Mutual Funds
Our fees for services as a mutual fund sub-adviser are negotiated with, and compensated by, each
fund. Our fees are charged in a manner similar to separately managed accounts or paid directly by
financial intermediaries. Mutual funds and ETFs also charge internal management fees, which are
disclosed in a prospectus. Such charges, fees, and commissions are exclusive of and in addition to
our fees, and we do not receive any portion of these commissions, fees, and costs.
Fees for Private Funds
The investment management fees we charge to our private fund Serenitas Credit Gamma Master
Fund, LP, or to investors in its feeder funds, and other fees and expenses borne by this fund and
those investors, are disclosed in detail in the feeder funds’ offering documents and summarized as
follows:
The management fee applicable to the feeder funds’ Series A interests, Series B interests and Series
D interests is 1.5%, 1% and 1.25% per annum, respectively, based on the master fund’s net asset
value. Series C interests, held only by our employees and their family members, do not bear a
management fee.
Performance Fee: The performance fee applicable to Series A interests, Series B and Series D
interests is 20%, 10% and 20% of net new income, respectively, typically payable annually in arrears.
Series C interests do not bear a performance fee.
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The investment management fees we charge to our private fund Serenitas Dynamic Alpha Master
Fund, LP, or to investors in its feeder funds, and other fees and expenses borne by this fund and
those investors, are disclosed in detail in the feeder funds’ offering documents and summarized as
follows:
Currently the feeder funds’ Series B interests are available to prospective investors and Series C
interests are available only to our employees and their family members; the management fee
applicable to Series S interests and Series B interests is 1% and 1.5% per annum, respectively, based
on the master fund’s net asset value. Series C interests do not bear a management fee.
Performance Fee: The performance fee applicable to Series S interests and Series B interests is 10%
and 20% of net new income, respectively, typically payable annually in arrears. Series C interests do
not bear a performance fee.
In addition to the fees described above, these funds or those investors also bear the funds’
transaction, operating and extraordinary expenses, and taxes imposed on them. We have agreed to
bear ourselves the aggregate amount of certain operating expenses that exceed a capped amount
borne by these funds or those investors.
Fees for Model Portfolio Accounts
For model portfolio accounts, we are paid at negotiated rates by the Model Clients that receive our
model portfolios.
Additional Fee Details
In certain situations, we may generate more revenue from one client relationship than another
depending on size of assets or fee structure, including our opportunity to realize additional revenue
from performance fees. In order to reduce potential conflicts of interest, we do not give preferential
treatment to accounts with a performance-based fee arrangement. To ensure fairness to all clients,
we have adopted certain policies and follow certain procedures that are designed to prevent favoring
one account over another. These procedures include side-by-side management controls, trade
aggregation, and trade allocation procedures.
We may manage funds for clients in a variety of investment styles including, but not limited to,
equity, balanced, and fixed income. Clients for whom we provide services in multiple styles may pay
fees based upon an overall fee schedule for all styles/accounts or may pay fees at different levels for
each account or investment discipline.
We may charge a flat fee for accounts where the account type, services provided, size of assets, or
similar factors indicate that a flat fee is appropriate. In addition, for accounts under a certain size, a
minimum fee may be charged based on the specific type of account. See Item 7 for additional
information about minimum account sizes.
ERISA Account Fees and Compensation
U.S. Department of Labor regulations under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (“ERISA”)
require that we disclose information about direct and indirect compensation we reasonably expect to
receive in connection with the investment management services we provide to employee benefit
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plans subject to ERISA. We provide discretionary investment management services with respect to
ERISA plan participants’ self-directed brokerage accounts as described in each investment
management agreement between us and our client, the plan participant.
Direct Compensation
Generally, we are compensated by our plan-participant clients on the basis of assets under
management computed and payable quarterly. Fees are calculated each quarter and one fourth of
the annual amount is billed in arrears, unless the client and we agree to another arrangement.
Clients may elect to be billed directly for fees or to authorize us to directly debit fees from client
accounts.
Indirect Compensation
Soft Dollars - We receive proprietary and third-party research and brokerage services within the
meaning of Section 28(e) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 from certain broker-dealers that
execute our clients’ securities trades. Proprietary research generally includes access to conferences,
analysis, forecasts, and in-house research. This type of research does not have an identifiable
monetary value, and the specific eligibility conditions for our receipt of proprietary research (other
than using the broker-dealer’s services) are not shared with us. Information regarding third-party
research attributable to trading by our plan-participant clients, and the broker-dealers that provided
the research, is available to those clients upon request. Additional information about our soft dollar
practices can also be found under Item 12 - Brokerage Practices.
Gifts and Gratuities - Our gifts and entertainment policy was developed in accordance with
applicable regulatory guidelines and is intended to help employees make appropriate decisions that
are consistent with the best interests of our clients. Our employees are not permitted to solicit gifts,
and extravagant or excessive entertainment is also prohibited. There is no agreement or
arrangement between us and third parties regarding the provision of gifts, meals, or gratuities to our
employees that is based on our service agreement or arrangement with any particular client, and any
such gifts, meals, and gratuities are not received by our employees by reason of their services to any
particular client. We have determined that, under any reasonable method of allocation, any gifts and
entertainment attributable to plan-participant clients are of insubstantial value.
Investment Related Disclosure. Department of Labor regulations also require service providers
to disclose certain additional information about entities and investments that are considered to hold
“plan assets” of ERISA plans as follows:
Operating Expenses - Plan-participant clients’ accounts may be charged for brokerage
commissions and other transaction-related costs attributable to an account’s investments as
described in each client’s investment management agreement with us. Upon request, we can also
provide exact amounts applicable to each account and such amounts are generally reflected on
each client’s account statements and reports.
Compensation for Termination of Contract - We will not receive a termination fee if an
agreement is terminated. Each investment management agreement between a plan-participant
client and us sets forth the terms under which accrued fees are payable upon termination.
Questions and Additional Information - This information is being provided to comply with the
disclosure requirements of ERISA Section 408(b)(2) and Department of Labor regulations and is not
intended as an offer or solicitation with respect to the purchase or sale of any of the products or
services described or referred to herein. Any document referenced herein is also available upon
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request. Any questions about these ERISA disclosures and any requests for different or additional
information should be directed to our Legal and Compliance Office (“Compliance Office”) by e-mail
at compliance@lmcg.com or by telephone at (617) 380-5600.
Termination of Accounts
Notice provisions for termination of an advisory relationship are provided for in our investment
management agreements and can be negotiated when establishing an advisory relationship.
For those accounts that pay quarterly in arrears, any earned, unpaid fees will be due and payable at
the time an account is closed. The amount of fees will be based on the account value on the date of
termination and will be prorated for the number of days in the quarter the account was open. We
reserve the right to negotiate other methods of determining final account valuation and fees with
our clients.
Item 6 - Performance-Based Fees and Side-By-Side Management
In some cases, we have entered into performance-based fee arrangements for our services with
qualified clients, in accordance with applicable SEC regulations. Such fees are subject to
individualized negotiation with each such client and may be subject to negotiation with investors in
our private funds. Such fees are tailored to specific client circumstances, and as such, there is no
standard performance fee schedule. In measuring clients' assets for the calculation of performance-
based fees, we include income, dividends, and realized and unrealized capital gains and losses.
We recognize that such arrangements may create potential conflicts of interest. In particular,
performance-based fee arrangements may create an incentive for us to recommend investments
which may be riskier or more speculative than those which we might recommend under a standard
fee arrangement. These arrangements, or our management of any proprietary account, can also
create an incentive to favor these types of accounts over other accounts in the allocation of
investment opportunities. We have adopted procedures designed to ensure that all clients are
treated fairly and equitably, and to prevent these conflicts from influencing the allocation of
investment opportunities among clients. These procedures include side-by-side management
controls such as trade aggregation and predetermined allocation procedures.
Item 7 - Types of Clients
We provide investment advice to taxable, non-taxable, foreign and domestic clients. Such clients
generally include individuals, high net worth individuals, trusts, corporate pension and profit-sharing
plans, charitable institutions, foundations, endowments, public employee retirement systems,
registered mutual funds, private investment funds, and other U.S. and international institutions. The
vast majority of these arrangements are discretionary in which we select the investments and trade
on the client’s behalf without prior consultation with the client. We also participate in a limited
number of model portfolio programs in which we provide a model portfolio to Model Clients but do
not exercise investment discretion.
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Our minimum account sizes, subject to account characteristics and client service requirements, are:
$ 3.0 million
Equity separately managed institutional accounts
$ 1.5 million
High net worth individual accounts
Fixed income individual accounts
$ 0.5 million
Private Investment Management individual equity accounts* $ 0.5 million
Minimums may be waived depending on the proposed account size, style, other relationships, and
other factors.
* Our Global MultiCap, Global MultiCap ETF, Diversified Equity, and Core Bond ETF Strategies are
also available through the model portfolio programs described under Item 4 – Additional Advisory
Services.
Item 8 - Methods of Analysis, Investment Strategies, and Risk of Loss
At LMCG, various portfolio construction and risk assessment skills are applied in managing portfolios
across a broad risk/return spectrum. Throughout the investment process, emphasis is on
fundamental analysis and/or quantitative disciplines in an effort to produce attractive returns
relative to agreed-upon benchmarks and/or risk levels.
Information is gathered from trade associations; academic and government publications; technical
specialists, and consultants; and from commercially available news services, databases and market
quotations. Such information is assimilated by our investment staff and used in our internal
assessment of the investment environment and in our investment research.
Investment strategy risk is evaluated in the following contexts:
1) Consistency with portfolio risk: The Director of Risk and Investment Strategy and investment
teams review both ex-ante risk (primarily using a quantitative tool) and ex-post risk (primarily
using a portfolio analytics tool). The objective of ex-ante risk analysis is to determine if there are
any concentrations of factor exposures (includes industry, style, fundamental bias, country,
currency among others) that are unusually significant given the stated objectives of the strategy.
The Director of Risk and Investment Strategy will typically consult with the portfolio manager to
confirm that the unusual concentrations were intended and for investment justification. The
objective of ex-post risk analysis is primarily to evaluate team skill during varying market
environments. The Director of Risk and Investment Strategy uses these analyses as the basis for
investment team reviews and for reports to the LMCG Board.
2) Consistency with portfolio construction: Single stock concentration risk, adherence to economic
sector bands, aggregate fundamental measures relative to benchmarks and absolute levels are
reviewed.
3) Credit quality exposure and concentration: Consistency with client guidelines as well as
adequacy of information and adequacy of liquidity are reviewed by the fixed income team for all
fixed income assets.
4) Dispersion of accounts: Consistency of management is reviewed periodically for accounts that
are within major product composites. Accounts that are customized are reviewed semi-annually
for dispersion relative to individualized targets.
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Investment Review Committee
Our Investment Review Committee meets periodically, is comprised of senior managers of the firm,
and is chaired by the firm’s chief executive officer. The issues reviewed by this committee generally
include each product’s adherence to its investment strategy; quantitative reports that measure
adherence to defined investment style; evidence of adherence to buy/sell discipline, turnover, and
individual stock/portfolio summary fundamental characteristics; and performance relative to defined
benchmark and peer group performance comparisons.
Risk of Loss
All investments have some degree of risk, and it is possible that clients could lose money by
investing in an LMCG strategy. An investment in an LMCG strategy is not a deposit with a bank and is
not insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other government
agency. While we make every effort to achieve our strategies’ objectives, we cannot guarantee
success. Past performance does not guarantee future results.
Risks relating to each fund managed by us, and to the types of investments it makes, are disclosed
to prospective investors in its prospectus, private placement memorandum or other definitive
offering document.
Equity securities risk: There is the risk that the value or price of a particular stock or other equity or
equity-related security could go down and a client’s money could be lost. In addition to an individual
stock losing value, the value of the equity markets or a sector of those markets in which a strategy
invests could go down.
Fixed income risk: The market value of fixed income investments changes in response to interest
rate changes and other factors. During periods of falling interest rates, the values of fixed income
securities generally rise and during periods of rising interest rates, the values of those securities
generally fall. While securities with longer maturities tend to produce higher yields, the prices of
longer maturity securities are also subject to greater market fluctuations as a result of changes in
interest rates.
ETF risk: An ETF is a registered investment company that seeks to track the performance of a
particular market index. Investing in an ETF generally offers instant exposure to an index or a broad
range of markets, sectors, geographic regions, or industries. When investing in ETFs, shareholders
bear their proportionate share of the ETF’s expenses. An investment in an ETF exposes a client to the
risks of the underlying securities in which the ETF invests. Also, although ETFs seek to provide
investment results that correspond generally to the price and yield performance of a particular
market index, the price movement of an ETF may fail to track the underlying index.
Foreign investment risk: Investment in foreign securities generally involve more risk than investing in
securities of U.S. issuers. Changes in currency exchange rates may also affect the value of foreign
securities held; securities of issuers located in emerging markets tend to have volatile prices and
may be less liquid than investments in more established markets; foreign markets generally are
more volatile than U.S. markets, are not subject to regulatory requirements comparable to those in
the U.S., and are subject to differing custody and settlement practices; foreign financial reporting
standards usually differ from those in the U.S.; foreign exchanges are smaller and less liquid than the
U.S. market; political developments may adversely affect the value of a portfolio’s foreign securities;
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and foreign holdings may be subject to special taxation and limitations on repatriating investment
proceeds.
Market and management risk: Markets may experience volatility and go down in value, possibly
sharply and unpredictably. Our decisions require judgment and are based on imperfect information.
Additionally, the investment techniques, risk analysis, and investment strategies used by us in
making investment decisions may not produce the desired results.
Liquidity and valuation risk: From time to time, a LMCG strategy may hold one or more securities for
which there are no or few buyers and sellers or which are subject to limitations on transfer. We may
have difficulty disposing of those securities at values we consider fair, especially during periods of
reduced market liquidity or significant redemptions of funds we manage.
Short selling risk: In certain accounts, we may engage in short sales of securities by borrowing a
security and selling it. These accounts may incur losses from unsuccessful short sales, and due to
the nature of short selling, such losses may be theoretically unlimited.
Hedging risk: In certain accounts, we may trade forward contracts, options and futures on currency
and indices, financial futures contracts, and options on such futures contracts. Generally, any
financial futures or related options transactions engaged in for these accounts is incidental to our
securities investment advisory business. Depending on the particular regulatory requirements and
contractual terms applicable to our client, such transactions may be conducted for hedging
purposes, (ii) subject to a maximum level of aggregate initial margin and premiums or a maximum
aggregate net notional amount of positions, (iii) to provide exposure to the market in which the
assets would otherwise be invested, or (iv) for other conservative portfolio management reasons.
Derivatives risk. Our Relative Value Credit strategies use derivative financial instruments for both
hedging and synthetic investing. Derivative financial instruments include credit derivatives, interest
rate swaps, total return swaps, equity swaps, options, forward currency contracts and futures. In
addition, our Relative Value Credit strategies may from time to time use both exchange-traded and
over-the-counter futures and options to generate profit and for hedging purposes. Such derivative
instruments may be highly volatile, involve operational, liquidity and leverage risks, among others,
and expose accounts employing this strategy to a high risk of loss. The use of derivatives involves
investment techniques and risks different from and potentially greater than those associated with
ordinary securities transactions. Swaps, for example, are complex and may be difficult to precisely
value. Options and futures are speculative and highly leveraged. Forward contracts lack
standardized terms and involve counterparty risk not present with exchange-traded futures.
Item 9 - Disciplinary Information
Registered investment advisers are required to disclose all material facts regarding any legal or
disciplinary events that would be material to a client’s or prospective client’s evaluation of us or the
integrity of our management. We have nothing to disclose under this item.
Item 10 - Other Financial Industry Activities and Affiliations
LMCG claims exemption from commodity pool operator registration with respect to Serenitas Credit
Gamma Fund and Serenitas Dynamic Alpha Fund per U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission
No-Action Letter No. 25-50.
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We avail ourselves of the “international adviser exemption” with the Ontario Securities Commission
under Canadian registration requirements.
We engaged Agecroft Partners, LLC, Amit Snir trading as A.S. Financial Services, and Encounter
Capital Limited as third-party marketing firms to support sales of interests in one or both of the
feeder funds of Serenitas Credit Gamma Master Fund, LP. Agecroft is a registered broker-dealer and
Mr. Snir and Encounter Capital introduce prospective investors in Israel. We also have engaged Amit
Snir trading as A.S. Financial Services and Encounter Capital Limited as third-party marketing firms
to support sales of interests in one of the feeder funds of Serenitas Dynamic Alpha Master Fund, LP.
All investment management arrangements with related parties are conducted on an arms-length
basis so as to neither advantage nor disadvantage LMCG's other clients or related parties.
Subject to our Code of Ethics as described in Item 11 below, our directors, officers and employees
may buy or sell investments for their personal accounts that are also recommended to our clients or
purchased for client accounts. In addition, we may buy or sell for client accounts securities or other
investments in which we or a related person has a financial interest. We and our officers and
employees (and their families) may invest along with other investors in products, including mutual
funds, proprietary funds, or other commingled vehicles, for which we are the investment adviser or
subadviser. All client accounts will be treated in a fair and equitable manner.
Item 11 - Code of Ethics
We have a Code of Ethics describing our standards of business and personal conduct and fiduciary
duty to our clients. The Code of Ethics includes provisions relating to the confidentiality of client
information, a prohibition on insider trading, restrictions on the acceptance and giving of significant
gifts and business entertainment items, and personal securities trading procedures, among other
things. All of our employees must read, understand and acknowledge the terms of the Code of Ethics
annually, or when material amendments are made.
The goal of our Code of Ethics and its policies, procedures, and organizational structure is to
establish standards and corresponding processes that put the interests of our clients first, ensure
that no client or account is favored over another, and identify and disclose conflicts of interest as
they relate to personal interests of individuals in the firm and/or competing interests of clients that
could occur as the result of relationship size or fee structure.
In appropriate circumstances, consistent with clients’ investment objectives, we may trade or
recommend the purchase or sale of securities in which we and/or our clients, directly or indirectly,
have a position of interest.
Subject to our Code of Ethics and applicable laws, our directors, officers and employees may trade
for their personal accounts in securities which are recommended to and/or purchased for our client
accounts. The Code of Ethics also allows our personnel to invest in mutual funds and other pooled
vehicles for which we are the investment adviser or subadviser, subject to the pre-clearance
requirements of the Code. The Code of Ethics is designed to assure that the personal securities
transactions, activities, and interests of our personnel will not interfere with (i) making decisions in
the best interest of our clients and (ii) implementing such decisions while, at the same time, allowing
employees to invest for their personal accounts. Under the Code, certain classes of securities have
been designated as exempt transactions, based upon a determination that these would not
materially interfere with the best interest of our clients. In addition, the Code requires pre- clearance
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of many transactions, and restricts trading in close proximity to client trading activity. Nonetheless,
because the Code of Ethics in some circumstances would permit employees to invest in the same
securities as clients, there is a possibility that employees might benefit from market activity by a
client in a security held by an employee. Employee trading is regularly monitored, and the Code of
Ethics is designed to reasonably prevent conflicts of interest between us and our clients.
Any client or prospective client may request a copy of our Code of Ethics by contacting our
Compliance Office by telephone at (617) 380-5600 or by e-mail at compliance@lmcg.com.
Item 12 – Brokerage Practices
We seek the best combination of net price and execution under the circumstances (“best execution”)
for client accounts. We may achieve best execution through proper management of broker selection,
trade execution, and use of commissions. We seek to obtain the best overall qualitative execution
available given the particular circumstances by considering the full range and quality of a brokerage
services, including quality of execution, volume of trading done by a broker in a particular security,
willingness to commit capital, financial stability, clearance and settlement procedures, and other
factors. Our traders are generally aware of the prevailing range of commission rates for any given
type of trade, and they select brokers and negotiate commissions depending on the complexity of
the trade, the market environment, and the liquidity of a given stock.
Fixed income securities are generally purchased from a market maker acting as principal on a net
basis with no brokerage commission paid by the client. Such securities also may be purchased in
public offerings from underwriters at prices which include underwriting commissions and fees.
Trades in the secondary market are executed on a competitive basis whenever possible. We manage
numerous fixed income accounts, some with similar or identical guidelines and some with different
guidelines, which may trade in the same securities. Portfolio decisions with respect to purchases and
sales of fixed income securities may be similar or different from account to account.
We may pay a broker-dealer that furnishes brokerage and/or research services a commission that is
in excess of the commission another broker-dealer would have charged for executing the same
transaction if it is determined that such commission is reasonable in relation to the value of the
brokerage and/or research services which have been provided to us as a whole and in which clients
benefit.
Our Trading Oversight Committee consists of our Chief Operating Officer, our Chief Compliance
Officer, our Director of Trading and Operations and a representative group of portfolio managers and
research analysts. This committee conducts periodic reviews of the firm’s execution, brokerage
selection, trading activity and trends. In addition, this committee may consider the provision of
research and other services by the broker to us. Accordingly, transactions may not always be
executed at the lowest possible commission cost, but commissions will generally be within a
competitive range depending on transaction type.
We may enter into arrangements in which commissions are used to provide research or execution
related services to us. The services may include research, trading and other similar applications. We
evaluate and determine that these services qualify as research services as provided in Section 28(e)
safe harbor of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Research services furnished by direct research
providers or third-party research providers may be used by us for any or all of our clients. In addition,
research services may be used in connection with accounts other than those whose commissions
were used to pay for such research services. Research services that we purchase may benefit all
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clients including clients who specify that their brokerage be directed to a specific broker. These
clients may receive the benefits of such services without paying for them. If a portion of these
services is used for non-research or trade execution-related purposes, we will pay for those services
with our own funds.
Such research-related services include:
• fundamental company, security and industry analysis;
• quantitative research;
• economic data and forecasts;
• on-line research services;
• risk control systems;
• attendance at quantitative and fundamental research seminars;
• analysis of financial and market conditions;
• valuation tools; and
• statistical services.
We use a commission sharing arrangement (“CSA”) that allows us to separate the execution and
research components of a trade. We are able to trade through an electronic communication network
(“ECN”), algorithm, dark pool, or crossing network at a low commission rate and still generate
research credit. We use the CSA to pay broker-dealers that provide research and brokerage services
that qualify as research services as provided in Section 28(e) safe harbor of the Securities Exchange
Act of 1934. We do not use the CSA to pay for any third party-independent services, so called “soft
dollar services.”
Directed Brokerage and Trade Rotation
Our clients vary in terms of their securities trade execution (“trading”) requirements. Most of our
clients grant us trading discretion with respect to their assets under our management -- we refer to
their accounts as non-directed-brokerage (or full brokerage discretion) accounts. Some clients
require us to direct trading to client-designated brokers -- we refer to their accounts as directed-
brokerage accounts. Certain other clients do not grant us either investment discretion or trading
discretion -- we refer to their accounts as non-discretionary accounts. The model portfolio accounts
of our Model Clients are a type of non-discretionary account.
Each client with a directed brokerage account must understand that:
• We may or may not be able to negotiate commission rates on its behalf and, as a result, it
may pay higher commissions;
• It may lose the possible advantage that our clients with non-directed brokerage accounts
derive from our aggregation of orders for multiple clients as a single “batched” transaction;
• It may be deprived of the benefits of research-related products and services available from
other brokers; and
• We generally process directed brokerage trades after trades for which we have full brokerage
discretion.
We first trade for non-directed-brokerage accounts. Generally, trades for all non-directed-brokerage
accounts are aggregated and executed together. See “Trade Allocation and Aggregation” below. We
generally trade for directed-brokerage accounts after we trade for non-directed brokerage accounts.
Trade timing is rotated equitably and sequentially on a daily basis. The rotation process is a simple
chain rotation. The directed-brokerage account traded for first today is traded for last tomorrow,
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second to last the next day and so on until traded for first again and the rotation starts over. For
practically all of our strategies, each of which may entail many securities trades daily, we deliver
model account/portfolio updates to our Model Clients on the business day after the business day on
which we trade for our non-directed-brokerage accounts. The method and intraday timing of model
update delivery varies according to the requirements of each model account agreement. If no timing
is specified in an agreement, we deliver our model update at or around 2 p.m. Certain ETF-only
strategies, which have atypical portfolio and trading characteristics, allow us to deliver model
account/portfolio updates to our Model Clients on the same business day that we trade to rebalance
a series of small non-directed-brokerage balanced accounts to their target equity and bond ETF
allocations. Our Model Clients have discretion as to if, how and when to act upon model updates,
and we have no control over any trading made as a consequence of our model updates.
We use Global Trading Analytics (“GTA”), a third-party monitoring service, to assist us with evaluating
the effectiveness and efficiency of trade execution. GTA provides us with a set of standard quarterly
reports that measure the transaction costs using several metrics. The results are presented
periodically to our Trading Oversight Committee.
Trade Allocation and Aggregation
We aggregate contemporaneous equity buy or sell orders for client accounts only if we have
determined, on the basis of each account, that the aggregated trading process is: in the best interest
of each client participating in the order; consistent with our duty to seek best execution; and is
consistent with the terms of our investment management or advisory agreement with each such
client.
The fixed income trading process is less centralized, whereby a discrete number of securities are
traded bilaterally on a dealer-centric market between parties. Buy and sell orders may be executed
on a pro rata basis or individually for clients if needed based upon circumstances of account. Fixed
income orders are allocated on a pro rata basis subject to cash availability, unique strategy
limitations and specific client needs or restrictions.
We acknowledge that managing client accounts may create the potential for conflicts of interest in
the following circumstances: (1) where we may receive performance-based fees; (2) a portfolio
manager (“PM”) employed by us is invested in funds managed by us; and (3) where a relationship
may exist between a PM and a client. Our procedures are reasonably designed to address these
conflicts as well as ensure equitable treatment for all accounts as we employ aggregation in pursuit
of best overall trade execution.
A PM may buy, sell or hold a security for one client and not for another. Factors the PM may consider
in managing a client’s portfolio include client objectives and restrictions, available cash, sector
weightings, applicable regulations (such as FINRA’s initial public offering restricted persons rules),
desired position weighting and other relevant factors.
We recognize that the needs and expectations of a typical private client may be different than an
institutional client and therefore may require a different approach to account management.
Depending on the nature of the relationship and the objective of a private client account, we will,
where practical, combine trades across private client accounts in order to achieve cost or research
benefits. There may be certain situations (e.g., client directives, specific private client needs or the
necessity to discuss transactions prior to execution) where a PM may not be able to combine trades,
resulting in a higher cost of execution to the client.
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We base our allocation of trades to client accounts on the appropriateness of the investment being
allocated under the circumstances then prevailing. In particular, we do not base such allocation on a
client’s fee arrangements (e.g., performance fees) or the willingness or ability of more than one client
to participate in a given transaction.
The allocation of securities bought or sold in an aggregated order will generally be made pro rata
based upon the original orders or indications of interest submitted. Allocations of orders may be
made to a client in excess of or below the amounts which would have been determined pro rata if a
client has a unique investment objective and the security being acquired meets that investment
objective, or if the allocation would be too small to establish a meaningful position for a client. Our
trading desk seeks Compliance Office approval for revised allocations.
Limited Opportunities
From time to time, we may have the opportunity to acquire securities for our clients in an initial or
secondary public offering (each, an “offering”). PMs may submit an indication of interest in an
offering for particular client accounts after considering factors such as, but not limited to, their
investment objectives, risk tolerance, available cash, current portfolio composition, and related
matters. Indications of interest will be made by the PMs for specific investment styles or accounts,
and our trading desk personnel will aggregate those indications for submission to the offering’s
underwriter or placement agent. If we receive fewer securities than we ordered, generally we will
allocate them to each participating client account pro rata according to its indication of interest. If
such allocations are deemed insignificant, too small from which to build a further position, or not
cost beneficial for an account, the PM for such account may “opt out” of the allocation, in which case
those shares will be reallocated to the remaining participating accounts. The share amounts
allocated may also be adjusted to the nearest round lot.
We have performance-based fee arrangements with some Relative Value Credit clients and credit
funds. We believe that our policies with respect to allocation of investment opportunities are
reasonably designed to mitigate the potential conflict of interests that may arise in such allocations.
Item 13 – Review of Accounts
Internal Account Reviews
We perform internal reviews of accounts both on an ad hoc and formal basis. On an ongoing basis,
our Director of Risk and Investment Strategy and our Investment Review Committee review the
various investment teams and their related strategies to ensure adherence to guidelines,
performance dispersion and overall investment team dynamics. A more formal review of accounts is
conducted during Investment Review Committee meetings. This committee’s goal is to review each
LMCG strategy at least once annually. These meetings typically comprise a review of each of the risk
items described in Item 8 as well as commentary by investment teams about significant business
and investment items.
Ad hoc internal reviews typically are held as a result of unusual market conditions which cause
divergence of performance of either model portfolios or representative portfolios. Unusual patterns of
returns are investigated either through investment systems or through direct interaction with
investment teams.
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External Account Reviews and Client Reporting
Account reviews are normally scheduled at the request of a client or its designated representative
and generally can include the portfolio manager and/or a client service officer. In some cases, the
frequency of account review is agreed upon as part of a client’s investment guidelines. The number
of accounts assigned to a portfolio manager varies depending on the investment capacity of a given
strategy, the client base, and the relative requirements of clients.
As a general matter, we provide our clients with written quarterly reports that include market
commentary, investment holdings with cost and market value, and performance results. Reports
with information such as realized gains and losses, purchases and sales, and transaction summaries
are available upon client request.
Sometimes we are responsible for determining the value of client investments, and our values may
affect measurement of our performance or calculation of our fees. We have a written valuation
policy, a copy of which is available to our clients upon request.
Item 14 – Client Referrals and Other Compensation
In exchange for commissions generated by discretionary trading activity, we receive research
services from a variety of brokerage firms. See Item 12 for a description of the services and benefits
we receive from brokers.
We have entered into a client solicitation agreement with MML Investors Services, Inc. (the
“Solicitor”). We compensate the Solicitor for its services. Alternatively, we have entered into
investment advisory or management agreements with unaffiliated financial advisory firms
(“Financial Advisors”) and our mutual clients, which describe the roles of, and fees charged by us and
such Financial Advisors. Clients introduced to us by the Solicitor or Financial Advisors may pay
different and potentially higher fees than clients who are not introduced to us by these other parties.
Our marketing incentive policy provides, at our expense, marketing incentives for our employees. We
have engaged third-party marketing firms to support sales of interests in the feeder funds of
Serenitas Credit Gamma Master Fund, LP and Serenitas Dynamic Alpha Master Fund, LP. See Item
10 for a description of these firms.
Item 15 – Custody
Although we do not take physical possession of client funds or securities, we are deemed to have
custody of some client assets under the SEC’s Custody Rule. To comply with the requirements of the
Custody Rule, we engage an independent public accountant to conduct an annual surprise
examination of those accounts for which we are deemed to have custody of client assets.
The Custody Rule requires advisers that are deemed to have custody of client funds and securities to
maintain those funds and securities with a “qualified custodian” in an account either under the
client’s name or under the adviser’s name as agent or trustee for its client. A “qualified custodian” is
a regulated financial institution that customarily provides custodial services, including banks, savings
associations, broker-dealers, and in some cases, futures commission merchants.
We do not provide physical safekeeping of client assets. This service is provided by qualified
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custodians. We generally require our clients to use a third-party custodian and, when asked, we will
recommend custodians to clients. We avoid being deemed to have custody other than in the limited
circumstances described above. We do not share personnel or access to assets with any custodian.
Our clients should receive statements at least quarterly from the custodians. We urge our clients to
carefully review such statements and compare them to the account statements that we provide to
our clients. Our statements may vary from custodial statements based on accounting procedures,
reporting dates, or methodologies used to value securities.
Item 16 – Investment Discretion
Typically, we have discretionary authority over our client’s investments. This allows us to select the
identity and amount of securities to be bought, sold or held for a client. We exercise this discretion in
a manner consistent with the client’s investment objectives.
When selecting securities and determining amounts, we observe each client’s investment policies,
limitations and restrictions. Client-imposed restrictions may affect our ability to manage a given
investment strategy and therefore, investment performance may deviate from other accounts using
the same strategy. For registered investment companies, our authority to trade securities may also
be limited by certain federal securities and tax laws that require diversification of investments and
favor holding of investments over frequent trading.
Investment guidelines and restrictions must be provided to us in writing. Also see Item 4 for
additional discussion of client restrictions.
Item 17 – Voting Client Securities
Our authority to vote the proxies of our clients is established by our investment advisory or
management agreements or comparable documents. Pursuant to SEC Rule 206(4)-6, we have
adopted a policy and procedures governing the voting of proxies on behalf of our clients. Clients may
request us to vote proxies on their behalf or may retain voting authority. It is our general policy that
when given authority to vote proxies for a client, we must be authorized to vote all proxies for the
client’s account. We generally do not accept partial voting authority or instructions from clients on
how to vote on specific issues. Clients may obtain our proxy voting policy and procedures and
information about how we have voted proxies on their behalf by contacting our Compliance Office via
e-mail at compliance@lmcg.com.
Certain clients may direct us to vote proxies in accordance with a specific set of guidelines or
recommendations appropriate to their circumstances. In such situations, we do have voting
discretion but will vote in accordance with a client’s direction. Our clients may wish to retain proxy
voting authority and vote their own proxies if necessary in order to satisfy their individual social,
environmental, or other goals.
Clients desiring to direct us to vote proxies on their behalf must provide us with their proxy voting
guidelines at the time we establish their account. We may abstain from voting a client proxy if, in our
opinion, the value obtained by voting the proxy is outweighed by the unique cost or the operational or
trading constraints to a client account or situation. If a client engages in a securities lending
program, and a security is on loan as of a voting record date, the proxy for that security generally
cannot be voted by us. We employ a third-party vendor to assist with monitoring and completing the
proxy voting process. We recognize the potential for conflicts of interest in situations where we have
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discretion to vote client proxies and where we have material business or personal relationships or
family relationships, or in the event that a client of ours has issued a security held in any client
portfolio managed by us. To address these potential conflicts, we have established a Proxy Voting
Committee. This committee uses reasonable efforts to determine whether a potential conflict may
exist, including maintaining a list of clients or securities that may pose a potential conflict, and how
to vote the proxy of any security with respect to which it has identified a potential conflict.
Class Actions
From time to time, we receive notices with respect to securities held or previously held in client
portfolios that are subject to legal proceedings, including class actions or bankruptcies. Usually,
client custodians also receive these notices and therefore we do not act on them and generally we do
not forward these notices to our clients or their custodians. Also, we do not take legal action on
behalf of or provide legal advice to our clients.
Item 18 – Financial Information
We have no financial condition that impairs our ability to meet contractual and fiduciary
commitments to clients.
Item 19 – Additional Information
Disaster Recovery
Our disaster recovery plan addresses the critical components of communications, access to data, and
trading. We facilitate business continuity with fail-over communication services, remote access
capability, and redundant data storage. Our Chief Technology Officer is responsible for all aspects of
the disaster recovery plan, including evaluating and testing the plan. In this role, he is assisted by our
CCO and IT personnel.
Privacy
We have policies and procedures relating to the disclosure of investment portfolio information and the
collection of confidential and private client information, in accordance with federal and state regulatory
requirements. Client account information is secured and policies and procedures outlining our privacy
and security policies are provided to clients as required or when requested.
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Limitation of Liability; Indemnification
The investment advisory or management agreement between us and each of our clients typically includes
provisions and limitations relating to our liability to and indemnification by our client. The federal and
state securities laws may nonetheless impose liabilities on us under certain circumstances despite the
terms of the agreement. Nothing in the agreement constitutes a waiver or limitation of any liability that
we may have or rights that our client or any other party may have under such laws. If our client believes
that it is entitled to compensation for losses under the agreement caused by us, our client should consult
its counsel with respect to these (and any other) rights.
Confidentiality
The investment advisory or management agreement between us and each of our clients typically includes
confidentiality terms. Notwithstanding these terms, nothing in the agreement prohibits any individual
from voluntarily communicating or disclosing information regarding suspected violations of laws, rules or
regulations to a governmental, regulatory or self-regulatory authority, including disclosures that are
protected under the whistleblower provisions of any law or regulation.
Performance
We claim compliance with the Global Investment Performance Standards (GIPS®). Our performance is
examined by an independent third-party verifier.
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