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Part 2A Appendix 1 of Form ADV: Wrap Fee Program Brochure
January 2026
Marin Bay Wealth Wrap Program
Sponsored by:
Marin Bay Wealth Advisors, LLC
321 San Anselmo Ave.
San Anselmo, CA 94960
Firm Contact:
Joseph Haberman
Chief Compliance Officer
This brochure provides information about the qualifications and business practices of Marin Bay
Wealth Advisors, LLC. If clients have any questions about the contents of this brochure, please contact
us at (415) 425-6492. The information in this brochure has not been approved or verified by the
United States Securities and Exchange Commission or by any State Securities Authority. Additional
information about our firm is also available on the SEC’s website at www.adviserinfo.sec.gov by
searching CRD #289184.
Please note that the use of the term “registered investment adviser” and description of our firm
and/or our associates as “registered” does not imply a certain level of skill or training. Clients are
encouraged to review this Brochure and Brochure Supplements for our firm’s associates who advise
clients for more information on the qualifications of our firm and our employees.
Item 2: Material Changes
Marin Bay Wealth Advisors, LLC is required to make clients aware of information that has changed
since the last annual update to the Wrap Brochure (“Wrap Brochure”) and that may be important to
them. Clients can then determine whether to review the brochure in its entirety or to contact us with
questions about the changes.
Since our last Annual Amendment filing, we have changed our address to 321 San Anselmo Ave. San
Anselmo, CA 94960.
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Item 3: Table of Contents
Item 1: Cover Page .................................................................................................................................................................. 1
Item 2: Material Changes ...................................................................................................................................................... 2
Item 3: Table of Contents ..................................................................................................................................................... 3
Item 4: Services, Fees & Compensation .......................................................................................................................... 4
Item 5: Account Requirements & Types of Clients .................................................................................................... 5
Item 6: Portfolio Manager Selection & Evaluation ..................................................................................................... 6
Item 7: Client Information Provided to Portfolio Manager(s) ............................................................................ 13
Item 8: Client Contact with Portfolio Manager(s) .................................................................................................... 13
Item 9: Additional Information ........................................................................................................................................ 13
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Item 4: Services, Fees & Compensation
Our firm manages assets for many different types of clients to help meet their financial goals while
remaining sensitive to risk tolerance and time horizons. As a fiduciary it is our duty to always act in
the client’s best interest. This is accomplished in part by knowing the client. Our firm has established
a service-oriented advisory practice with open lines of communication. Working with clients to
understand their investment objectives while educating them about our process, facilitates the kind
of working relationship we value.
Our firm sponsors and offers a wrap fee program. Our wrap fee program allows clients to pay a single
fee for investment advisory services and associated custodial transaction costs. Because our firm
absorbs client transaction fees, an incentive exists to limit trading activities in client accounts.
Custodial transaction costs, however, are not included in the advisory fee charged by our firm for
non-wrap services, and are to be paid by the client to their chosen custodian. Depending on the
client’s account or portfolio trading activity, clients may pay more for using our wrap fee services
than they would for using our non-wrap services.
Our recommended custodian, Charles Schwab & Co., Inc. (“Schwab”), does not charge transaction fees
for U.S. listed equities and exchange traded funds. Since we pay the transaction fees charged by the
custodian to clients participating in our wrap fee program, our firm’s expenses have decreased. This
presents a conflict of interest because we are incentivized to recommend equities and exchange
traded funds over other types of securities in order to reduce our costs.
Our Wrap Advisory Services
Wrap Comprehensive Portfolio Management:
As part of our Wrap Comprehensive Portfolio Management service clients will be provided asset
management and financial planning or consulting services. This service is designed to assist clients
in meeting their financial goals through the use of a financial plan or consultation. Our firm conducts
client meetings to understand their current financial situation, existing resources, financial goals, and
tolerance for risk. Based on what is learned, an investment approach is presented to the client,
consisting of individual stocks, bonds, ETFs, options, mutual funds and other investments. Once the
appropriate portfolio has been determined, portfolios are continuously and regularly monitored, and
if necessary, rebalanced based upon the client’s individual needs, stated goals and objectives. Upon
client request, our firm provides a summary of observations and recommendations for the planning
or consulting aspects of this service.
Our firm occasionally utilizes the sub-advisory services of a third-party investment advisory firm or
individual advisor to aid in the implementation of an investment portfolio designed by our firm.
Before selecting a firm or individual, our firm will ensure that the chosen party is properly licensed
or registered. We will provide initial due diligence on third party money managers and ongoing
reviews of their management of client accounts. In order to assist in the selection of a third-party
money manager, our firm will gather client information pertaining to financial situation, investment
objectives, and reasonable restrictions to be imposed upon the management of the account.
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The maximum annual fee charged for this service will not exceed 1.00%. Fees charged by third-party
managers shall be in addition to our fees and will be described in separate disclosure documents. The
exact fees to be assessed will be outlined in the advisory agreement to be signed by the client.
Annualized fees are billed on a pro-rata basis quarterly in advance based on the value of the
account(s) on the time-weighted daily average of the previous quarter. Fees are negotiable and will
be deducted from client account(s). Unless otherwise agreed to in writing, our advisory fee shall be
charged on cash and cash equivalents. In rare cases, our firm will agree to directly invoice. As part of
this process, Clients understand the following:
a) The client’s independent custodian sends statements at least quarterly showing the market
values for each security included in the Assets and all account disbursements, including the
amount of the advisory fees paid to our firm;
b) Clients will provide authorization permitting our firm to be directly paid by these terms. Our
firm will send an invoice directly to the custodian; and
c) If our firm sends a copy of our invoice to the client, legend urging the comparison of
information provided in our statement with those from the qualified custodian will be
included.
Other Types of Fees & Expenses:
In addition to our advisory fees above, Clients may also pay holdings charges that are associated with
certain investments. These fees may include charges imposed directly by a mutual fund, index fund,
or exchange traded fund which shall be disclosed in the fund’s prospectus (i.e., fund management
fees, initial or deferred sales charges, mutual fund sales loads, surrender charges, variable annuity
fees, IRA and qualified retirement plan fees, and other fund expenses), mark-ups and mark-downs,
spreads paid to market makers, fees for trades executed away from custodian, wire transfer fees and
other fees and taxes on brokerage accounts and securities transactions.
Wrap Fee Program Recommendations
Our firm does not recommend or offer the wrap program services of other providers.
Item 5: Account Requirements & Types of Clients
Our firm does not impose requirements for opening and maintaining accounts or otherwise engaging
us.
Our firm has the following types of clients:
•
Individuals and High Net Worth Individuals;
• Trusts, Estates or Charitable Organizations;
• Pension and Profit Sharing Plans;
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Item 6: Portfolio Manager Selection & Evaluation
Selection of Portfolio Managers
Our firm utilizes our in-house portfolio managers as well as a selection of outside portfolio managers.
In-house accounts are managed by licensed investment adviser representatives (“IARs”) of our firm.
Prior to becoming licensed with our firm, each IARs industry experience, licensure, outside business
activities, client complaints (if any), disciplinary or regulatory history (if any) and financial well-being
will be reviewed. Each IAR will then have a Form U4 and ADV Part 2B on file with our firm. Outside
portfolio managers, either individually or firm-wide, are selected based on past performance,
investment philosophy, market outlook, experience of associated portfolio managers and executive
team, disciplinary, legal and regulatory histories of the firm and its associates, and/or whether
compliance procedures are in place to address at a minimum, insider trading, conflicts of interest, and/or
anti-money laundering.
Advisory Business:
Information about our wrap fee services can be found in Item 4 of this brochure. Our firm offers
individualized investment advice to our Wrap Comprehensive Portfolio Management clients.
Each Wrap Comprehensive Portfolio Management client has the opportunity to place reasonable
restrictions on the types of investments to be held in the portfolio. Restrictions on investments in
certain securities or types of securities may not be possible due to the level of difficulty this would
entail in managing the account.
Participation in Wrap Fee Programs:
Our firm only offers wrap fee accounts to our clients, which are managed on an individualized basis
according to the client’s investment objectives, financial goals, risk tolerance, etc.
Performance-Based Fees & Side-By-Side Management:
Our firm does not charge performance-based fees.
Methods of Analysis, Investment Strategies & Risk of Loss:
The following methods of analysis are utilized by our firm when formulating investment advice
and/or managing client assets:
• Cyclical Analysis: Statistical analysis of specific events occurring at a sufficient number of
relatively predictable intervals that they can be forecasted into the future. Cyclical analysis
asserts that cyclical forces drive price movements in the financial markets. Risks include that
cycles may invert or disappear and there is no expectation that this type of analysis will
pinpoint turning points, instead be used in conjunction with other methods of analysis.
• Fundamental Analysis: The analysis of a business's financial statements (usually to analyze
the business's assets, liabilities, and earnings), health, and its competitors and markets. When
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analyzing a stock, futures contract, or currency using fundamental analysis there are two
basic approaches one can use: bottom up analysis and top down analysis. The terms are used
to distinguish such analysis from other types of investment analysis, such as quantitative and
technical. Fundamental analysis is performed on historical and present data, but with the goal
of making financial forecasts. There are several possible objectives: (a) to conduct a company
stock valuation and predict its probable price evolution; (b) to make a projection on its
business performance; (c) to evaluate its management and make internal business decisions;
(d) and/or to calculate its credit risk.; and (e) to find out the intrinsic value of the share.
When the objective of the analysis is to determine what stock to buy and at what price, there
are two basic methodologies investors rely upon: (a) Fundamental analysis maintains that
markets may misprice a security in the short run but that the "correct" price will eventually
be reached. Profits can be made by purchasing the mispriced security and then waiting for
the market to recognize its "mistake" and reprice the security.; and (b) Technical analysis
maintains that all information is reflected already in the price of a security. Technical analysts
analyze trends and believe that sentiment changes predate and predict trend changes.
Investors' emotional responses to price movements lead to recognizable price chart patterns.
Technical analysts also analyze historical trends to predict future price movement. Investors
can use one or both of these different but complementary methods for stock picking. This
presents a potential risk, as the price of a security can move up or down along with the overall
market regardless of the economic and financial factors considered in evaluating the stock.
• Technical Analysis: A security analysis methodology for forecasting the direction of prices
through the study of past market data, primarily price and volume. A fundamental principle
of technical analysis is that a market's price reflects all relevant information, so their analysis
looks at the history of a security's trading pattern rather than external drivers such as
economic, fundamental and news events. Therefore, price action tends to repeat itself due to
investors collectively tending toward patterned behavior – hence technical analysis focuses
on identifiable trends and conditions. Technical analysts also widely use market indicators of
many sorts, some of which are mathematical transformations of price, often including up and
down volume, advance/decline data and other inputs. These indicators are used to help
assess whether an asset is trending, and if it is, the probability of its direction and of
continuation. Technicians also look for relationships between price/volume indices and
market indicators. Technical analysis employs models and trading rules based on price and
volume transformations, such as the relative strength index, moving averages, regressions,
inter-market and intra-market price correlations, business cycles, stock market cycles or,
classically, through recognition of chart patterns. Technical analysis is widely used among
traders and financial professionals and is very often used by active day traders, market
makers and pit traders. The risk associated with this type of analysis is that analysts use
subjective judgment to decide which pattern(s) a particular instrument reflects at a given
time and what the interpretation of that pattern should be.
• Third-Party Money Manager Analysis: The analysis of the experience,
investment
philosophies, and past performance of independent third-party investment managers in an
attempt to determine if that manager has demonstrated an ability to invest over a period of
time and in different economic conditions. Analysis is completed by monitoring the
manager’s underlying holdings, strategies, concentrations and leverage as part of our overall
periodic risk assessment. Additionally, as part of the due-diligence process, the manager’s
compliance and business enterprise risks are surveyed and reviewed. A risk of investing with
a third-party manager who has been successful in the past is that they may not be able to
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replicate that success in the future. In addition, as our firm does not control the underlying
investments in a third-party manager’s portfolio, there is also a risk that a manager may
deviate from the stated investment mandate or strategy of the portfolio, making it a less
suitable investment for our clients. Moreover, as our firm does not control the manager’s
daily business and compliance operations, our firm may be unaware of the lack of internal
controls necessary to prevent business, regulatory or reputational deficiencies.
• Quantitative Analysis: The use of models, or algorithms, to evaluate assets for investment. The
process usually consists of searching vast databases for patterns, such as correlations among
liquid assets or price-movement patterns (trend following or mean reversion). The resulting
strategies may involve high-frequency trading. The results of the analysis are taken into
consideration in the decision to buy or sell securities and in the management of portfolio
characteristics. A risk in using quantitative analysis is that the methods or models used may
be based on assumptions that prove to be incorrect.
• Qualitative Analysis: A securities analysis that uses subjective judgment based on
unquantifiable information, such as management expertise, industry cycles, strength of
research and development, and
labor relations. Qualitative analysis contrasts
with quantitative analysis, which focuses on numbers that can be found on reports such as
balance sheets. The two techniques, however, will often be used together in order to examine
a company's operations and evaluate its potential as an investment opportunity. Qualitative
analysis deals with intangible, inexact concerns that belong to the social and experiential
realm rather than the mathematical one. This approach depends on the kind of intelligence
that machines (currently) lack, since things like positive associations with a brand,
management trustworthiness, customer satisfaction, competitive advantage and cultural
shifts are difficult, arguably impossible, to capture with numerical inputs. A risk in using
qualitative analysis is that subjective judgment may prove incorrect.
• Sector Analysis: Sector analysis involves identification and analysis of various industries or
economic sectors that are likely to exhibit superior performance. Academic studies indicate
that the health of a stock's sector is as important as the performance of the individual stock
itself. In other words, even the best stock located in a weak sector will often perform poorly
because that sector is out of favor. Each industry has differences in terms of its customer base,
market share among firms, industry growth, competition, regulation and business cycles.
Learning how the industry operates provides a deeper understanding of a company's
financial health. One method of analyzing a company's growth potential is examining whether
the amount of customers in the overall market is expected to grow. In some markets, there is
zero or negative growth, a factor demanding careful consideration. Additionally, market
analysts recommend that investors should monitor sectors that are nearing the bottom of
performance rankings for possible signs of an impending turnaround.
• Asset Allocation: The implementation of an investment strategy that attempts to balance risk
versus reward by adjusting the percentage of each asset in an investment portfolio according
to the investor's risk tolerance, goals and investment time frame. Asset allocation is based on
the principle that different assets perform differently in different market and economic
conditions. A fundamental justification for asset allocation is the notion that different asset
classes offer returns that are not perfectly correlated, hence diversification reduces the
overall risk in terms of the variability of returns for a given level of expected return. Although
risk is reduced as long as correlations are not perfect, it is typically forecast (wholly or in
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part) based on statistical relationships (like correlation and variance) that existed over some
past period. Expectations for return are often derived in the same way.
An asset class is a group of economic resources sharing similar characteristics, such as
riskiness and return. There are many types of assets that may or may not be included in an
asset allocation strategy. The "traditional" asset classes are stocks (value, dividend, growth,
or sector-specific [or a "blend" of any two or more of the preceding]; large-cap versus mid-
cap, small-cap or micro-cap; domestic, foreign [developed], emerging or frontier markets),
bonds (fixed income securities more generally: investment-grade or junk [high-yield];
government or corporate; short-term, intermediate, long-term; domestic, foreign, emerging
markets), and cash or cash equivalents. Allocation among these three provides a starting
point. Usually included are hybrid instruments such as convertible bonds and preferred
stocks, counting as a mixture of bonds and stocks. Other alternative assets that may be
considered include: commodities: precious metals, nonferrous metals, agriculture, energy,
others.; Commercial or residential real estate (also REITs); Collectibles such as art, coins, or
stamps; insurance products (annuity, life settlements, catastrophe bonds, personal life
insurance products, etc.); derivatives such as long-short or market neutral strategies, options,
collateralized debt, and futures; foreign currency; venture capital; private equity; and/or
distressed securities.
• Long-Term Purchases: Our firm may buy securities for your account and hold them for a
relatively long time (more than a year) in anticipation that the security’s value will appreciate
over a long horizon. The risk of this strategy is that our firm could miss out on potential short-
term gains that could have been profitable to your account, or it’s possible that the security’s
value may decline sharply before our firm make a decision to sell.
• Sector Allocation: Our firm allocate client assets to various sectors of the fixed income market,
including US Treasury obligations, federal agency securities, corporate notes, mortgage-
backed securities and others, based on our quantitative and qualitative analysis in order to
manage client exposure to a given sector and to provide exposure to sectors our firm believe
have good value. The risk of sector allocation is that clients may not participate fully in an
increase in value in any specific sector.
• Short-Term Purchases: When utilizing this strategy, our firm may also purchase securities
with the idea of selling them within a relatively short time (typically a year or less). Our firm
do this in an attempt to take advantage of conditions that our firm believe will soon result in
a price swing in the securities our firm purchase. The potential risk associated with this
investment strategy is associated with the currency or exchange rate. Currency or exchange
rate risk is a form of risk that arises from the change in price of one currency against another.
The constant fluctuations in the foreign currency in which an investment is denominated vis-
à-vis one's home currency may add risk to the value of a security. Currency risk is greater for
shorter term investments, which do not have time to level off like longer term foreign
investments.
• Trading: Our firm purchase securities with the idea of selling them very quickly (typically
within 30 days or less). Our firm do this in an attempt to take advantage of our predictions of
brief price swings. Trading involves risk that may not be suitable for every investor, and may
involve a high volume of trading activity. Each trade generates a commission and the total
daily commission on such a high volume of trading can be considerable. Active trading
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accounts should be considered speculative in nature with the objective being to generate
short-term profits. This activity may result in the loss of more than 100% of an investment.
• Covered Calls: The risks associated with this type of strategy involve having the underlying
stock called away. Each contract has a strike price at which the writer of the contract agrees
to allow the purchaser call the stock away from the writer. This can create a taxable event
whereby the writer of the option is required to recognize a capital gain on the underlying
security. Furthermore, the market price could appreciate beyond the strike price, forcing the
writer to sell their holdings below current market value.
Please Note: Investing in securities involves risk of loss that clients should be prepared to bear.
While the stock market may increase and your account(s) could enjoy a gain, it is also possible that
the stock market may decrease and your account(s) could suffer a loss. It is important that you
understand the risks associated with investing in the stock market, are appropriately diversified in
your investments, and ask any questions you may have.
• Company Risk: When investing in stock positions, there is always a certain level of company
or industry specific risk that is inherent in each investment. This is also referred to as
unsystematic risk and can be reduced through appropriate diversification. There is the risk
that the company will perform poorly or have its value reduced based on factors specific to
the company or its industry. For example, if a company’s employees go on strike or the
company receives unfavorable media attention for its actions, the value of the company may
be reduced.
• Credit Risk: Credit risk can be a factor in situations where an investment’s performance relies
on a borrower’s repayment of borrowed funds. With credit risk, an investor can experience a
loss or unfavorable performance if a borrower does not repay the borrowed funds as
expected or required. Investment holdings that involve forms of indebtedness (i.e. borrowed
funds) are subject to credit risk.
• Cryptocurrency Products: We may recommend investment in digital (crypto) currency products.
These products may are generally structured as a trust or exchange traded fund which pool
capital together to purchase holdings of digital currencies or derivatives based on their value.
Such products are extremely volatile and are suitable only as a means of diversification for
investors with high risk tolerances. Furthermore, these securities carry very high internal
expense ratios, and may use derivatives to achieve leverage or exposure in lieu of direct
cryptocurrency holdings. This can result in tracking error and may sell at a premium or discount
to the market value of their underlying holdings. Security is also a concern for digital currency
investments which make them subject to the additional risk of theft, as they are typically held
with a non-traditional custodial platform.
• Defensive Strategy Risk: Defensive strategies are primarily used in periods of high volatility
or economic uncertainty and aimed at reducing exposure to the equity market. Our goal is
simply to help our clients achieve their financial goals, regardless of market conditions. If our
firm forecasts a prolonged and substantial downturn for the equity markets, it may adopt a
defensive strategy for clients’ growth allocation by investing substantially in money market
securities and/or short term fixed income securities. There can be no guarantee that our firm
will accurately forecast any prolonged and substantial downturn in the equity markets, or
that the use defensive techniques would be successful in avoiding losses. The use of defensive
strategies could result in a negative outcome for a client. A few negative consequences could
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be high turnover, re-entry in the same security at a higher price, loss of growth if the equity
markets move up, high tax liability within taxable accounts and higher trading cost.
• Economic Risk: The prevailing economic environment is important to the health of all
businesses. Some companies, however, are more sensitive to changes in the domestic or
global economy than others. These types of companies are often referred to as cyclical
businesses. Countries in which a large portion of businesses are in cyclical industries are thus
also very economically sensitive and carry a higher amount of economic risk. If an investment
is issued by a party located in a country that experiences wide swings from an economic
standpoint or in situations where certain elements of an investment instrument are hinged
on dealings in such countries, the investment instrument will generally be subject to a higher
level of economic risk.
• Equity (Stock) Market Risk: Common stocks are susceptible to general stock market
fluctuations and to volatile increases and decreases in value as market confidence in and
perceptions of their issuers change. If you held common stock, or common stock equivalents,
of any given issuer, you would generally be exposed to greater risk than if you held preferred
stocks and debt obligations of the issuer.
• ETF & Mutual Fund Risk: When investing in an ETF or mutual fund, you will bear additional
expenses based on your pro rata share of the ETF’s or mutual fund’s operating expenses,
including the potential duplication of management fees. The risk of owning an ETF or mutual
fund generally reflects the risks of owning the underlying securities the ETF or mutual fund
holds. Clients will also incur brokerage costs when purchasing ETFs.
• Financial Risk: Financial risk is represented by internal disruptions within an investment or
the issuer of an investment that can lead to unfavorable performance of the investment.
Examples of financial risk can be found in cases like Enron or many of the dot com companies
that were caught up in a period of extraordinary market valuations that were not based on
solid financial footings of the companies.
• Fixed Income Securities Risk: Typically, the values of fixed-income securities change inversely
with prevailing interest rates. Therefore, a fundamental risk of fixed-income securities is
interest rate risk, which is the risk that their value will generally decline as prevailing interest
rates rise, which may cause your account value to likewise decrease, and vice versa. How
specific fixed income securities may react to changes in interest rates will depend on the
specific characteristics of each security. Fixed-income securities are also subject to credit risk,
prepayment risk, valuation risk, and liquidity risk. Credit risk is the chance that a bond issuer
will fail to pay interest and principal in a timely manner, or that negative perceptions of the
issuer’s ability to make such payments will cause the price of a bond to decline.
• Fee-Based Variable Annuities (“VA”): A variable annuity is a type of annuity contract that
allows for the accumulation of capital on a tax-deferred basis. As opposed to a fixed annuity
that offers a guaranteed interest rate and a minimum payment at annuitization, variable
annuities offer investors the opportunity to generate higher rates of returns by investing in
equity and bond subaccounts. If a variable annuity is annuitized for income, the income
payments can vary based on the performance of the subaccounts. Risks associated with VAs
may include:
• Taxes and federal penalties for early withdrawal
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• Earnings taxed at ordinary income tax rates
• Mortality expense to compensate the insurance company for insurance risks
• Fees and expenses imposed for the subaccounts
• Other features with additional fees and charges
•
Inflation Risk: Inflation risk involves the concern that in the future, your investment or
proceeds from your investment will not be worth what they are today. Throughout time, the
prices of resources and end-user products generally increase and thus, the same general
goods and products today will likely be more expensive in the future. The longer an
investment is held, the greater the chance that the proceeds from that investment will be
worth less in the future than what they are today. Said another way, a dollar tomorrow will
likely get you less than what it can today.
•
Interest Rate Risk: Certain investments involve the payment of a fixed or variable rate of
interest to the investment holder. Once an investor has acquired or has acquired the rights to
an investment that pays a particular rate (fixed or variable) of interest, changes in overall
interest rates in the market will affect the value of the interest-paying investment(s) they
hold. In general, changes in prevailing interest rates in the market will have an inverse
relationship to the value of existing, interest paying investments. In other words, as interest
rates move up, the value of an instrument paying a particular rate (fixed or variable) of
interest will go down. The reverse is generally true as well.
• Legal/Regulatory Risk: Certain investments or the issuers of investments may be affected by
changes in state or federal laws or in the prevailing regulatory framework under which the
investment instrument or its issuer is regulated. Changes in the regulatory environment or
tax laws can affect the performance of certain investments or issuers of those investments
and thus, can have a negative impact on the overall performance of such investments.
• Liquidity Risk: Certain assets may not be readily converted into cash or may have a very
limited market in which they trade. Thus, you may experience the risk that your investment
or assets within your investment may not be able to be liquidated quickly, thus, extending the
period of time by which you may receive the proceeds from your investment. Liquidity risk
can also result in unfavorable pricing when exiting (i.e. not being able to quickly get out of an
investment before the price drops significantly) a particular investment and therefore, can
have a negative impact on investment returns.
• Market Timing Risk: Market timing can include high risk of loss since it looks at an aggregate
market versus a specific security. Timing risk explains the potential for missing out on
beneficial movements in price due to an error in timing. This could cause harm to the value
of an investor's portfolio because of purchasing too high or selling too low.
• Money Market Risk: An investment in a money market fund is not a bank deposit and is not
insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other
government agency. Although a money market fund seeks to preserve the value of your
investment at $1.00 per share, it is possible to lose money by investing in a money market
fund.
• Operational Risk: Operational risk can be experienced when an issuer of an investment
product is unable to carry out the business it has planned to execute. Operational risk can be
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experienced as a result of human failure, operational inefficiencies, system failures, or the
failure of other processes critical to the business operations of the issuer or counter party to
the investment.
• Preferred Securities Risk: Preferred Securities such as the preferred stock underlying this
strategy have similar characteristics to bonds in that preferred securities are designed to
make fixed payments based on a percentage of their par value and are senior to common
stock. Like bonds, the market value of preferred securities is sensitive to changes in interest
rates as well as changes in issuer credit quality. Preferred securities, however, are junior to
bonds with regard to the distribution of corporate earnings and liquidation in the event of
bankruptcy. Preferred securities that are in the form of preferred stock also differ from bonds
in that dividends on preferred stock must be declared by the issuer’s board of directors,
whereas interest payments on bonds generally do not require action by the issuer’s board of
directors, and bondholders generally have protections that preferred stockholders do not
have, such as indentures that are designed to guarantee payments – subject to the credit
quality of the issuer – with terms and conditions for the benefit of bondholders. In contrast
preferred stocks generally pay dividends, not interest payments, which can be deferred or
stopped in the event of credit stress without triggering bankruptcy or default. Another
difference is that preferred dividends are paid from the issue’s after-tax profits, while bond
interest is paid before taxes.
Voting Client Securities:
Our firm does not accept the proxy authority to vote client securities. Clients will receive proxies or
other solicitations directly from their custodian or a transfer agent. In the event that proxies are sent
to our firm, our firm will forward them to the appropriate client and ask the party who sent them to
mail them directly to the client in the future. Clients may call, write or email us to discuss questions
they may have about particular proxy votes or other solicitations.
Item 7: Client Information Provided to Portfolio Manager(s)
All accounts are managed by our in-house licensed IARs. The IAR selected to manage the client’s
account(s) or portfolio(s) will be privy to the client’s investment goals and objectives, risk tolerance,
restrictions placed on the management of the account(s) or portfolio(s) and relevant client notes
taken by our firm. Please see our firm’s Privacy Policy for more information on how our firm utilizes
client information.
Item 8: Client Contact with Portfolio Manager(s)
Clients are always free to directly contact their portfolio manager(s) with any questions or concerns
about their portfolios or other matters.
Item 9: Additional Information
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Disciplinary Information
There are no legal or disciplinary events that are material to the evaluation of our advisory business
or the integrity of our management.
Financial Industry Activities & Affiliations
Our firm has no other financial industry activities and affiliations to disclose.
Code of Ethics, Participation or Interest in Client Transactions & Personal Trading
As a fiduciary, it is an investment adviser’s responsibility to provide fair and full disclosure of all material
facts and to act solely in the best interest of each of our clients at all times. Our fiduciary duty is the
underlying principle for our firm’s Code of Ethics, which includes procedures for personal securities
transaction and insider trading. Our firm requires all representatives to conduct business with the
highest level of ethical standards and to comply with all federal and state securities laws at all times.
Upon employment with our firm, and at least annually thereafter, all representatives of our firm will
acknowledge receipt, understanding and compliance with our firm’s Code of Ethics. Our firm and
representatives must conduct business in an honest, ethical, and fair manner and avoid all circumstances
that might negatively affect or appear to affect our duty of complete loyalty to all clients. This disclosure
is provided to give all clients a summary of our Code of Ethics. If a client or a potential client wishes to
review our Code of Ethics in its entirety, a copy will be provided promptly upon request.
Our firm recognizes that the personal investment transactions of our representatives demands the
application of a Code of Ethics with high standards and requires that all such transactions be carried out
in a way that does not endanger the interest of any client. At the same time, our firm also believes that if
investment goals are similar for clients and for our representatives, it is logical, and even desirable, that
there be common ownership of some securities.
In order to prevent conflicts of interest, our firm has established procedures for transactions effected by
our representatives for their personal accounts1. In order to monitor compliance with our personal
trading policy, our firm has pre-clearance requirements and a quarterly securities transaction reporting
system for all of our representatives.
Neither our firm nor a related person recommends, buys or sells for client accounts, securities in
which our firm or a related person has a material financial interest without prior disclosure to the
client.
Related persons of our firm may buy or sell securities and other investments that are also
recommended to clients. In order to minimize this conflict of interest, our related persons will place
client interests ahead of their own interests and adhere to our firm’s Code of Ethics, a copy of which
is available upon request.
Likewise, related persons of our firm buy or sell securities for themselves at or about the same time they
buy or sell the same securities for client accounts. In order to minimize this conflict of interest, our
1 For purposes of the policy, our associate’s personal account generally includes any account (a) in the name of our associate, his/her spouse,
his/her minor children or other dependents residing in the same household, (b) for which our associate is a trustee or executor, or (c) which our
associate controls, including our client accounts which our associate controls and/or a member of his/her household has a direct or indirect
beneficial interest in.
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related persons will place client interests ahead of their own interests and adhere to our firm’s Code of
Ethics, a copy of which is available upon request. Further, our related persons will refrain from buying
or selling the same securities prior to buying or selling for our clients in the same day. If related persons’
accounts are included in a block trade, our related persons will always trade personal accounts last.
Review of Accounts
Our management personnel or financial advisors review accounts on at least an annual basis for our
Wrap Comprehensive Portfolio Management clients. The nature of these reviews is to learn whether
clients’ accounts are in line with their investment objectives, appropriately positioned based on
market conditions, and investment policies, if applicable.
Our firm may review client accounts more frequently than described above. Among the factors which
may trigger an off-cycle review are major market or economic events, the client’s life events, requests
by the client, etc.
Our firm does not provide written reports to clients, unless asked to do so. Verbal reports to clients
take place on at least an annual basis when our Wrap Comprehensive Portfolio Management clients
are contacted.
Other Compensation
Our firm receives economic benefit from Schwab in the form of the support products and services
made available to our firm and other independent investment advisors that have their clients
maintain accounts at Schwab. These products and services, how they benefit our firm, and the related
conflicts of interest are described in Form ADV Part 2A, Item 12 – Brokerage Practices. The availability
of Schwab’s products and services is not based on our firm giving particular investment advice, such
as buying particular securities for our clients.
Client Referrals
Our firm does not pay referral fees (non-commission based) to independent solicitors (non-
registered representatives) for the referral of their clients to our firm in accordance with Rule 206
(4)-3 of the Investment Advisers Act of 1940.
Financial Information
Our firm is not required to provide financial information in this Brochure because:
• Our firm does not require the prepayment of more than $1,200 in fees when services cannot
be rendered within 6 months.
• Our firm does not take custody of client funds or securities.
• Our firm does not have a financial condition or commitment that impairs our ability to meet
contractual and fiduciary obligations to clients.
Our firm has never been the subject of a bankruptcy proceeding.
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