Overview
- Headquarters
- Frederick, MD
- Total Firm Assets
- $157 million
- Average High-Net-Worth Client Portfolio Size
- $2.1 million
- Minimum Account Size
- $500,000
Fee Structure
Primary Fee Schedule (FORM ADV 2A JULY 2026)
| Min | Max | Marginal Fee Rate |
|---|---|---|
| $0 | $500,000 | 1.75% |
| $500,001 | $1,000,000 | 1.25% |
| $1,000,001 | $5,000,000 | 1.00% |
| $5,000,001 | $10,000,000 | 0.75% |
| $10,000,001 | and above | 0.50% |
Illustrative Fee Rates
| Total Assets | Annual Fees | Average Fee Rate |
|---|---|---|
| $1 million | $15,000 | 1.50% |
| $5 million | $55,000 | 1.10% |
| $10 million | $92,500 | 0.92% |
| $50 million | $292,500 | 0.58% |
| $100 million | $542,500 | 0.54% |
Clients
- High-Net-Worth Share of Firm Assets
- 59.49%
- Number of High-Net-Worth Clients
- 45
- Total Client Accounts
- 563
- Discretionary Accounts
- 563
Services Offered
Services: Financial Planning, Portfolio Management for Individuals, Educational Seminars
Regulatory Filings
- SEC CRD Number
- 323374
Primary Brochure: FORM ADV 2A JULY 2026 (2026-07-07)
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Form ADV Part 2A
Item 1 – Cover Page
Moore Wealth, LLC
50 Carroll Creek Way, Suite 335
Frederick, MD 21701
301.631.1207
www.moorewealthinc.com
7/7/2026
This brochure provides information about the qualifications and business practices of Moore Wealth,
LLC. If you have any questions about the contents of this brochure, please contact us at 301.631.1207 or
infomation@moorewealthinc.com . The information in this brochure has not been approved or verified
by the United States Securities and Exchange Commission or by any state securities authority.
Additional information about Moore Wealth, LLC also is available on the SEC’s website at
www.adviserinfo.sec.gov.
Moore Wealth, LLC is a registered investment adviser. Registration as an investment adviser does not
imply a certain level of skill or training.
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Item 2 – Material Changes
Moore Wealth, LLC have made the following changes to this brochure since the firm’s most recent
brochure on 1/29/2026:
• We have updated item 5 to reflect changes in our financial planning fees
You may request a copy of our current Brochure at any time, without charge, by calling us at 301.631.1207
or e-mailing us at infomation@moorewealthinc.com.
Additional information about Moore Wealth, LLC is available via the SEC’s Investment Adviser Public
Disclosure website at www.adviserinfo.sec.gov. The SEC’s website also provides information about any
persons affiliated with Moore Wealth, LLC who are registered, or are required to be registered, as
Investment Adviser Representatives of Moore Wealth, LLC.
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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 – Advisory Business .......................................................................................................................... 4
Item 5 – Fees and Compensation ................................................................................................................ 10
Item 6 – Performance-Based Fees and Side-By-Side Management ........................................................... 18
Item 7 – Types of Clients ............................................................................................................................ 18
Item 8 – Methods of Analysis, Investment Strategies and Risk of Loss ..................................................... 18
Item 9 – Disciplinary Information .............................................................................................................. 25
Item 10 – Other Financial Industry Activities and Affiliations .................................................................. 26
Item 11 – Code of Ethics, Participation or Interest in Client Transactions and Personal Trading .............. 26
Item 12 – Brokerage Practices .................................................................................................................... 27
Item 13 – Review of Accounts .................................................................................................................... 31
Item 14 – Client Referrals and Other Compensation .................................................................................. 31
Item 15 – Custody ....................................................................................................................................... 32
Item 16 – Investment Discretion ................................................................................................................. 33
Item 17 – Voting Client Securities .............................................................................................................. 34
Item 18 – Financial Information ................................................................................................................. 34
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Item 4 – Advisory Business
About Us
Moore Wealth, LLC (“Moore Wealth”) is a registered investment adviser, offering financial planning and
asset management services to clients. Moore Wealth has been in business since 2003, and its principal
owners are Shabri Moore, Erik Moore and Sean Moore. Moore Wealth is committed to delivering
exceptional service through one-on-one advising, collaboration with clients’ professional and personal
consultants, and the design and implementation of strategies tailored to meet unique goals and
aspirations.
This Brochure is designed to provide detailed and clear information relating to each item noted in the
table of contents. Certain disclosures are repeated in one or more items, and/or other items are referred
to in an effort to be as comprehensive as possible on the broad subject matters discussed. Within this
Brochure, certain terms in either upper- or lowercase are used as follows:
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“We,” “us,” and “our” refer to Moore Wealth.
“Advisor” refers to persons who provide investment recommendations or advice on behalf of
Moore Wealth.
“You,” “yours,” and “client” refer to clients of Moore Wealth and its advisors.
Description of Services Available
Moore Wealth offers a suite of investment advisory services and programs to its advisors for use with
their clients. Our investment advisory services and programs are designed to accommodate a wide range
of client investment philosophies, goals, needs, and investment objectives. Through these various
advisory programs and services, clients have access to a wide range of securities products, including, but
not limited to, common and preferred stocks; municipal, corporate, and government fixed income
securities; mutual funds; exchange-traded products (“ETPs”); options and derivatives; unit investment
trusts (“UITs”); and variable and fixed-indexed insurance products, as well as other products and services,
including a variety of asset allocation services, financial planning, and consulting services. Our advisors
may also offer advice related to direct participation programs, private placements, and other alternative
investments.
Commonwealth Programs
Moore Wealth has entered into an agreement to offer clients access to certain investment advisory
programs sponsored by with Commonwealth Financial Network (“Commonwealth”) an SEC-registered
investment adviser. When we offer these services to you, Moore Wealth remains fully responsible for
ensuring all investment advice and services are appropriate and suitable for you. This arrangement does
not create an advisory relationship between Commonwealth and Moore Wealth or Commonwealth and
you. It is our responsibility to comply with all laws, rules, and regulations governing the provision of
investment advice to you, including, but not limited to, the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 (“Advisers
Act”), as amended, the rules promulgated thereunder, and applicable state laws. Moore Wealth is
responsible for the accuracy of all records that reflect your financial condition, risk tolerance, and
investment objectives of your account(s); that the orders that we place with or through Commonwealth
on your behalf are suitable for you and consistent with our fiduciary duty to you; and that the investment
advice and advisory services provided to you in general are and remain appropriate for you.
Commonwealth will provide, or cause to be provided, to clients’ trade confirmations and custodial
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account statements. Commonwealth will provide or will otherwise make available to the advisor duplicate
trade confirmations and Client custodial account statements.
Through our agreement with Commonwealth, Commonwealth’s Wealth Management Consulting,
Retirement Plan Consulting, PPS Custom Account Program and PPS Select Account Program are offered.
Wealth Management Consulting: A fee-for-service consulting program where we provide advisory
consulting services on a wide range of topics, including, but not limited to, comprehensive financial
planning, budgeting and cash flow analysis, major purchases, education planning, retirement
income/longevity planning, portfolio analysis, estate planning analysis, investment analysis, business
succession planning, and fringe benefit analysis. Clients may engage our advisors for consulting services
on a fixed-fee basis. Fees may be paid at the time of service or in advance of the service being rendered.
Clients may also elect to enter into consulting or financial planning engagements with advisors separately
from, in addition to, or as part of their managed account program, as may be agreed between the client
and advisor.
To facilitate your estate planning, our firm may utilize certain tools, such as Wealth.com, which analyzes
documents by utilizing Artificial Intelligence. Wealth.com also creates legal documents with standard
terms, which may not be appropriate for your situation. You should consult a legal or tax professional
regarding your individual situation. Moore Wealth does not provide legal or tax advice. Wealth.com is not
affiliated with Moore Wealth and our advisors purchase a license to use Wealth.com software.
Retirement Plan Consulting: We provide a fee-for-service consulting program whereby our advisors offer
onetime or ongoing advisory services to qualified retirement plans. Qualified plan clients may engage our
advisors for Retirement Plan Consulting services on an asset-based fee basis. The maximum annual
consulting fee, when stated as a percentage of assets, is 0.50% and is negotiable. Hourly fees may not
exceed $500 per hour. It is the responsibility of the plan sponsor to ensure these fees are reasonable. Fees
may be paid at the time of service, in advance of service, or after service has been rendered. Through the
Retirement Plan Consulting Program, advisors assist plan sponsors with their fiduciary duties and provide
individualized advice based upon the needs of the plan and/or plan participants regarding investment
management matters, such as:
Investment policy statement support
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• Plan menu design and monitoring
• Service provider support
• Participant advice programs
Asset Management Services
PPS Custom: The PPS Custom Program enables an advisor to assist the client in developing a personalized
investment portfolio using one or more investment types, including, but not limited to, stocks, bonds,
mutual funds, exchange-traded funds (“ETFs”), UITs, variable and fixed-indexed annuities, and alternative
investments. The advisor typically acts as portfolio manager, with full investment discretion, although
clients may elect to have the advisor manage the account on a nondiscretionary basis.
The PPS Custom Program assesses transaction charges for the purchase and sale of certain securities in
the account. In almost all cases, Moore Wealth has elected to pay the transaction charges on a client’s
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behalf.1 If the firm elects to pay transaction charges, clients should understand that the annual
management fee they pay may be higher than what they would otherwise pay if the firm did not elect to
pay transaction charges for their account. Depending on the frequency of trading activity, the types of
securities products bought and sold, and whether the advisor uses no-transaction-fee mutual funds that
do not assess transaction charges, the firms’ election to pay transaction charges may cost a client more
or cost the firm less, which is a conflict of interest. Further, the firm’s ability to choose whether to pay the
transaction charges for one client but not another presents a conflict of interest because the firm has a
financial incentive to trade less for the accounts of clients for whom the firm pays transaction charges
than for those clients who are responsible for paying their own transaction charges. Regardless of whether
the firm or client pays the transaction charges, clients should understand that the mere existence of
transaction charges could cause a firm to reduce, delay, or avoid executing certain transactions in an effort
to reduce, delay, or avoid trading costs.
Clients who choose to open a PPS Custom Program account should carefully consider these factors and
discuss the costs and benefits of whether they or their advisor should pay transaction charges, as well as
the extent to which the existence of transaction charges (regardless of who pays) impacts their advisor’s
investment decisions. PPS Custom Program clients should consider the annual fees, administrative and
other charges, revenue-sharing arrangements, and other compensation that Commonwealth and the
advisor receive in making a fair and reasonable assessment of the total costs associated with their decision
to open and maintain a PPS Custom Program (Transactions) account.
PPS Select: The PPS Select Program offers a variety of model portfolios from which investors may choose.
The PPS Select model portfolios are created and managed on a discretionary basis by Commonwealth’s
Investment Management and Research team and in the case of Personalized Indexing, Orion Portfolio
Solutions, LLC. The client’s advisor will help the client determine which PPS Select models are best suited
for the client based on his or her risk profile, investment objectives, and preferences, leaving the actual
trading decisions to Commonwealth’s Investment Management and Research team. PPS Select offers a
variety of model portfolios with varying investment product types, including mutual fund and ETF
portfolios, equity portfolios, fixed income portfolios, and variable annuity subaccount portfolios.
Wrap Fee Programs
The PPS Select program sponsored by Commonwealth and offered by Moore Wealth is considered a “wrap
fee” program in which the client pays a specified fee (known as a “wrap fee”) for portfolio management
services and trade execution. Wrap fee programs differ from other programs in that the asset-based fee
structure for wrap programs is intended to be largely all inclusive, whereas non-wrap fee programs
typically assess trade-by-trade execution costs that are in addition to the asset-based fees.
The PPS Select Program is managed in accordance with the investment methodology and philosophy of
Commonwealth’s own Investment Management and Research team and in the case of Personalized
Indexing, Orion Portfolio Solutions, LLC.
For the
investment advisory services provided to you by Commonwealth and your advisor,
Commonwealth and your advisor receive a portion of the wrap fees you pay when you participate in any
1 Moore Wealth manages some accounts in which clients are responsible for their own transaction charges. These clients either
joined Moore Wealth through a previous financial advisory practice purchase/merger or may also have a separate financial
consulting agreement with our firm. As appropriate, we will engage in a review of the management fees being assessed to
these acquired clients to ensure fees being charged are reasonable in light of all circumstances.
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wrap fee program through Commonwealth. Commonwealth receives a higher portion of the wrap fees
you pay when you participate in Commonwealth’s PPS Select programs to compensate for investment
management and research services provided by the Commonwealth Investment Management and
Research team.
For more information relating to wrap fee programs, please refer to Appendix 1 of Commonwealth’s Form
ADV Part 2A brochure, titled “The Wrap Fee Program Brochure.”
Clients who participate in one or more of Commonwealth’s programs will receive Commonwealth’s Form
ADV Part 2 and/or Wrap Fee Brochure, in addition to Moore Wealth’s Form ADV Part 2. Clients should
refer to Commonwealth’s Form ADV Part 2 and/or Wrap Fee Brochure for detailed information about
Commonwealth and Commonwealth’s programs.
The specific advisory program you select may cost you more or less than purchasing program services
separately. Factors that bear upon the cost of a particular advisory program in relation to the cost of the
same services purchased separately include, but may not be limited to, the type and size of the account;
the historical or expected size or number of trades for the account; the types of securities and strategies
involved; the amount of fees, commissions, and other charges that apply at the account or transaction
level; and the number and range of supplementary advisory and client-related services provided to the
account. Lower fees for comparable services may be available from other sources. You are under no
obligation to engage us for services and are free to use the firm of your choice.
No Legal or Tax Advice
Investment recommendations and advice offered by Moore Wealth and its advisors do not constitute
legal, tax, or accounting advice. Clients should coordinate and discuss the impact of the financial advice
they receive from their advisor with their attorney and accountant. Clients should also inform their advisor
promptly of any changes in their financial situation, investment goals, needs, or objectives. Failure to
notify the advisor of any material changes could result in investment advice not meeting the changing
needs of the client.
IRA Rollover Considerations
As part of our financial planning and advisory services, we may provide you with recommendations and
advice concerning your employer retirement plan or other qualified retirement account. When
appropriate, we may recommend that you withdraw the assets from your employer’s retirement plan or
other qualified retirement account and roll the assets over to an individual retirement account (“IRA”) to
be managed by our firm. If you elect to roll the assets to an IRA under our management, we will charge
you an asset-based fee as described in Item 5. This practice presents a conflict of interest because our
Advisory Representative has an incentive to recommend a rollover to you for the purpose of generating
fee-based compensation rather than solely based on your needs. You are under no obligation,
contractually or otherwise, to complete the rollover. Furthermore, if you do complete the rollover, you
are under no obligation to have your IRA assets managed under our program or a Third-Party Managed
Program. You have the right to decide whether to complete the rollover and the right to consult with
other financial professionals.
Some employers permit former employees to keep their retirement assets in their company plan. Also,
current employees can sometimes move assets out of their company plan before they retire or change
jobs. In determining whether to complete the rollover to an IRA, and to the extent the following options
are available, you should consider the costs and benefits of each.
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An employee will typically have four options:
1. Leave the funds in your employer’s (former employer’s) plan.
2. Roll over the funds to a new employer’s retirement plan.
3. Cash out and take a taxable distribution from the plan.
4. Roll the funds into an IRA rollover account.
Each of these options has advantages and disadvantages. Before making a change, we encourage you to
speak with your financial advisor, CPA and/or tax attorney.
Before rolling over your retirement funds to an IRA for us to manage or to a Third-Party Managed Program,
carefully consider the following. NOTE: This list is not exhaustive.
1. Determine whether the investment options in your employer’s retirement plan address your
needs or whether other types of investments are needed.
a. Employer retirement plans generally have a more limited investment menu than IRAs.
b. Employer retirement plans may have unique investment options not available to the
public, such as employer securities or previously closed funds.
2. Your current plan may have lower fees than our fee and/or the Third-Party Manager’s fee
combined.
a. If you are interested in investing only in mutual funds, you should understand the cost
structure of the share classes available in your employer’s retirement plan and how the costs
of those share classes compare with those available in an IRA.
3. You should understand the various products and services available through an IRA provider and
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their costs.
It is likely you will not be charged a management fee and will not receive ongoing asset
management services unless you elect to have such services. If your plan offers management
services, the fee associated with the service may be more or less than our fee and/or the Third-
Party Manager’s fee combined.
5. The Third-Party Manager’s or our management strategy may have higher risk than the options
provided to you in your plan.
6. Your current plan may offer financial advice, guidance, management and/or portfolio options at
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no additional cost.
If you keep your assets titled in a 401(k) or retirement account, you could potentially delay your
required minimum distribution beyond age 73.
8. Your 401(k) may offer more liability protection than a rollover IRA; each state varies. Generally,
Federal law protects assets in qualified plans from creditors. Since 2005, IRA assets have been
generally protected from creditors in bankruptcies; however, there can be exceptions. Consult an
attorney if you are concerned about protecting your retirement plan assets from creditors.
9. You may be able to take out a loan on your 401(k), but not from an IRA.
10. IRA assets can be accessed any time; however, distributions are subject to ordinary income tax
and may also be subject to a 10% early distribution penalty unless they qualify for an exception
such as disability, higher education expenses or a home purchase.
11. If you own company stock in your plan, you may be able to liquidate those shares at a lower
capital gains tax rate.
12. Your plan may allow you to hire us or another firm as the manager and keep the assets titled in
the plan name.
It is important that you understand your options, their features, and their differences, and decide whether
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a rollover is best for you. If you have questions, contact us at our main number listed on the cover page
of this brochure.
In addition to complying with applicable SEC rules, Moore Wealth is subject to certain rules and
regulations adopted by the U.S. Department of Labor when we provide nondiscretionary investment
advice to retirement plan participants and IRA owners. When these DOL rules apply, our advisors and
Moore Wealth are “fiduciaries,” for purposes of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974
(“ERISA”), as amended, and the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (“the Code”), as amended. Therefore,
Moore Wealth and our advisors may not receive payments that create conflicts of interest when providing
fiduciary investment advice to plan sponsors, plan participants, and IRA owners, unless we comply with a
prohibited transaction exemption (“PTE”). As fiduciaries under ERISA and the Code, we render advice that
is in plan participants’ and IRA customers’ best interest. Moore Wealth and our advisors’ status as an
ERISA/Code fiduciary is limited to ERISA/Code covered nondiscretionary advice and recommendations
regarding rolling over a retirement account and does not extend to all situations.
Individualized Services and Client-Imposed Restrictions
The investment advisory services provided by our advisors depend largely on the personal information
the client provides to the advisor. In order for our advisors to provide appropriate investment advice to,
or, in the case of discretionary accounts, make tailored investment decisions for, the client, it is very
important that clients provide accurate and complete responses to their advisor’s questions about their
financial condition, needs, goals, and objectives and notify the advisor of any reasonable restrictions they
wish to apply to the securities or types of securities to be bought, sold, or held in their managed account.
It is also important that clients promptly inform their advisor of any changes in their financial condition,
investment objectives, personal circumstances, or reasonable investment restrictions pertaining to the
management of their account, if any, that may affect their overall investment goals and strategies or the
investment advice provided or investment decisions made by their advisor.
In general, the client’s advisor is responsible for delivering investment advisory services to clients, and
clients generally deal with matters relating to their accounts by contacting their advisor directly. Of course,
clients may contact Moore Wealth directly with questions about the advisory services offered by our firm.
Assets Under Management
Moore Wealth currently manages $156,908,298.14 in assets, all on a discretionary basis.
Program Choice Conflicts of Interest
Clients should be aware that the compensation to Moore Wealth and your advisor will differ according to
the specific advisory programs or services provided. This compensation to Moore Wealth and your advisor
may be more than the amounts we would otherwise receive if you participated in another program or
paid for investment advice, brokerage, or other relevant services separately. Lower fees for comparable
services may be available through our firm or from other sources. Moore Wealth and your advisor have a
financial incentive to recommend advisory programs or services that provide us higher compensation over
other comparable programs or services available from our firm or elsewhere that may cost you less. For
example, the costs you will incur to have your account managed by our firm may be more than what other
similar firms may charge. It’s important to understand all the associated costs and benefits the program
and services you select so you can decide which programs and services are best suited for your unique
financial goals, investment objective, and time horizon. We encourage you to review our Form CRS and
to discuss your options with your advisor.
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We offer advisors a choice of advisory programs to recommend to clients, including, for example, PPS
Custom and PPS Select. In PPS Custom we provide the investment management services directly and
receive a greater percentage of the total client fee when compared to PPS Select and other third-party
managed advisory programs. This creates an incentive for the firm to recommend to clients that we
manage accounts directly, while acknowledging that a third-party investment manager may also be an
appropriate option for a client.
Item 5 – Fees and Compensation
Asset Management Programs
Clients who elect to receive asset management services through one or more of Moore Wealth’s asset
management programs will generally pay Moore Wealth and their advisor for those services with an
annual asset management fee based on a percentage of assets under management, including cash and
money market positions. The maximum account management fee that can be charged in any of our firm’s
managed account program is listed in the fee schedule below. Certain managed account programs have
lower maximum annual fee amounts, and fee schedules will vary among programs. Clients are urged to
carefully review and discuss the contents of this Brochure with their advisor, including descriptions of the
various programs and services offered, the fees and charges clients will pay, the means by which Moore
Wealth and your advisor are compensated, and the conflicts of interest that exist between the client and
Moore Wealth and your advisor in respect to each program or service offered, to determine the most
appropriate programs or services for your specific needs.
PPS Program Fee Schedules
Moore Wealth advisory Fee Schedule is as follows*:
Account Value
First $500,000
$500,001-$1,000,000
$1,000,001-$5,000,000
$5,000,001-$10,000,000
Over $10,000,000
Management Fee
1.75%
1.25%
1.00%
0.75%
0.50%
*Moore Wealth manages some accounts in which the asset management fees are other than the percentages noted above.
These clients joined Moore Wealth through previous financial advisory practice purchase/merger. As appropriate, we will
engage in a review of the management fees being assessed to these acquired clients to ensure fees being charged are
reasonable in light of all circumstances.
Moore Wealth uses a blended management fee schedule. A blended schedule looks at the account value
and compares it to a set fee schedule. Based upon the value of the account at the end of the billing period,
the fee schedule identifies specific portions of the account value to be charged at different fee rates. The
total value of the account is compared against this schedule. Based on the account size, the different fee
rates are blended to determine the total account fee for that period. For example, consider the above
blended fee schedule and assume that the account value at the end of the billing period is $3,000,000. In
this hypothetical example, and assuming an advanced quarterly billing cycle is applied, the management
fee for the upcoming quarter would be assessed as follows:
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First $500,000 of the account value would be billed at a rate of 1.75% ($500,000 x 1.75% = $8,750;
$8,750 ÷ 4 = $2187.50); the next $500,000 would be billed at a rate of % ($500,000 x 1.25% = $6,250;
$6250 ÷ 4 = $1562.50); the next $2,000,000 would be billed at a rate of 1.00% ($2,000,000 x 1.00% =
$20,000; $20,000 ÷ 4 = $5,000).
Each of the different fee rate amounts is added together to determine the total quarterly management
fee for that period, as follows:
$2187.50 + $1562.50 + $5,000.00 = $8,750 quarterly management fee
In addition to the annual management fee, and unless otherwise agreed between the client and the
advisor, clients participating in the PPS Custom Program (Transactions) will pay transaction charges as
described in the “Other Fees and/or Costs” section below.
Clients participating in the PPS Custom Program (Transactions) may pay more or less than clients might
otherwise pay if purchasing the services separately. There are several factors that determine whether
such costs would be more or less, including, but not limited to, the following:
• Size of the account
• Types of securities and strategies involved
• Amount of trading effected by the advisor
• Actual costs of such services if purchased separately
The advisory fees charged for the services provided by us, including research, supplemental advisory,
and client-related services offered through the PPS Custom Program may exceed those of other similar
programs.
PPS Select Program
Clients participating in the PPS Select Program will pay a total account fee that consists of a combination
of an advisor fee and a program fee.
The maximum allowable advisor fee in the PPS Select Program is as follows:
In addition to the annual advisor fee, all clients participating in PPS Select will pay an annual program fee.
There are several different PPS Select model portfolios with program fees that vary; however, the
maximum fee within the PPS Select program is as follows:
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1 The maximum annual advisor fee for certain account sizes and types may be negotiated.
2 Commonwealth will charge a minimum annual program fee of $600 ($150 quarterly) for certain accounts, which
may exceed the maximum annual program fee percentage based on account size.
Commonwealth performs fee billing on our firm’s behalf. In most cases, the annual account management
fees are payable quarterly in advance and are computed as one-quarter of the annual fee based on the
account’s AUM on the last business day of the previous calendar quarter.
To the extent that you hold positions in your account for which pricing data is not readily available,
Commonwealth receives quarter-end values from alternative investment issuers or other service
providers which are used when calculating billable AUM for our clients. Neither Moore Wealth nor
Commonwealth engages in an independent valuation of your account assets and relies on valuations
provided by the investment issuers or other service providers. Moore Wealth (via Commonwealth and
further via the account custodian) will provide periodic account statements which include the market
value of the alternative investment based on information received from the investment issuer or other
service provider. In providing these account statements, or any other valuation information to you, (i)
Moore Wealth relies on the valuation information provided by the manager of the alternative investment
or other service provider, (ii) the valuation information used to determine the billing fee is based on
estimates that may be outdated as of the dates of the account statements, (iii) the products final
valuations may be higher or lower than the values reflected in the periodic account statements and (iv)
while Commonwealth will adjust material estimated fee billings on a best efforts basis on Moore Wealth’s
behalf, neither Moore Wealth nor Commonwealth is under no obligation to provide notice or
compensation to you for differences in estimated alternative investment valuations.
*Account values in the Commonwealth reporting system will be used for our firm’s quarterly fee
calculations for advisory accounts custodied at National Financial Services (NFS). Although account
holdings and asset valuations should generally match, month-end market values reflected
in
Commonwealth's Practice 360 reporting system sometimes differ from those provided by NFS on their
month-end statements. The three most common reasons why these values may differ are (i) differences
in the manner in which accrued interest is calculated, (ii) differences in the date upon which "as of"
dividends and capital gains are reported, and (iii) differences in whether settlement date valuations or
trade date valuations are used. If you have any questions or believe there are material discrepancies
between your NFS custodial statement and Commonwealth's reporting system, please contact us. The
Commonwealth report valuations are available online via your Investor360 account or you may request a
copy from your advisory representative.
Clients who elect to open a margin account acknowledge and agree that margin may be exercised against
their account for purposes including, but not limited to, covering debits, management fees, and/or other
billing and administrative costs. Management fees on margin accounts will be assessed on the equity (e.g.,
ownership) portion of the account and not on the account’s total market value.
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All Moore Wealth advisory program fees are negotiable. Program fees (if applicable), transaction charges
and other account-related fees assessed by the account custodian or Commonwealth are not negotiable.
Moore Wealth may waive all or a portion of the advisory program fee, whether on an ongoing or a one-
time basis, in its sole discretion. In the event a client terminates an advisory agreement with Moore
Wealth, any unearned fees resulting from payments made by clients in advance will be refunded to the
client.
Financial Planning Programs
Wealth Management Consulting: The Commonwealth Wealth Management Consulting Program provides
clients with the option of paying an annual fee for ongoing services, a flat fee, or an hourly rate not to
exceed $500. The fee amount a client will pay is negotiable between the client and his or her advisor and
is determined based on the complexity of the services provided and the specific circumstances of each
client engagement (including, but not limited to, scope of services requested, number and type of
accounts and assets involved, and resources required to deliver services). Moore Wealth clients will be
assessed a flat fee, payable annually, quarterly or monthly, at the time of service or in advance, as agreed
between the client and the advisor.
Retirement Plan Consulting: The Commonwealth Retirement Plan Consulting Program provides clients
with the option of paying an annual fee for ongoing services based on a percentage of assets under
advisement, a flat fee, or an hourly rate not to exceed $500. The fee amount a client will pay is negotiable
between the client and the advisor and will be associated with all services provided by the advisor under
the Retirement Plan Consulting Agreement. Fees may be paid directly from qualified plan assets or may
be direct billed, as agreed between the client and the advisor qualified plan assets or may be direct billed,
as agreed between the client and the advisor. Where discretionary investment management services are
selected to be provided by the Commonwealth home office, clients will pay an additional annual flat
percentage fee according to the following fee schedule:
Total Plan Assets
Less than $250,000
$250,000–$2,999,999
$3,000,000–$9,999,999
$10,000,000–$49,999,999
Fee
$300
0.12%
0.09%
0.05%
$50,000,000–$99,999,999
0.03%
$100,000,000 or more
0.02%
Managed Account Fee Collection Process
Managed account fees are typically automatically charged to the client’s account pursuant to instructions
provided to the account custodian by Moore Wealth. Rather than automatic fee debiting from a client’s
account, clients may also have the ability to instruct Moore Wealth to charge the fee to one of the client’s
other Moore Wealth accounts.
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Managed account clients will generally pay fees quarterly, in advance, based on the specific program
selected. The initial quarterly fee will be prorated based on the number of billing days in the initial
quarter. Fees are based on account value and account type and are negotiable. Additional deposits of
funds and/or securities during a particular calendar quarter are subject to billing on a pro rata basis.
Clients who withdraw funds from a managed account during a billing period are not generally entitled to
a pro rata refund unless they are terminating their managed account program client agreement.
Moore Wealth allows for the aggregation of assets among a client’s “related” managed accounts for
purposes of determining the value of AUM and the applicable advisory fee to be paid by a client. Moore
Wealth reserves the right to determine whether client accounts are “related” for purposes of aggregating
a client’s accounts together for a reduction in the percentage fee amount. Unless a billing group is created,
the blended or breakpoint schedule is applied at the account level. Billing groups are maintained by the
advisor.
Other Fees and Costs
Apart from wrap fee programs, when Commonwealth effects securities transactions for a client’s account,
Commonwealth passes on to clients the securities clearance and settlement fees charged by its clearing
broker/dealer with a substantial markup that is retained by Commonwealth. Commonwealth adds a
markup to the transaction fees assessed by its clearing firm and paid by clients or clients’ advisors to
compensate Commonwealth for the cost of its resources utilized in processing the transaction(s) and to
generate additional revenue for Commonwealth. Moore Wealth typically covers the cost on the securities
clearance and settlement fees charged by Commonwealth and its clearing broker/dealer. The maximum
charges are as follows:
1Plus service fee of $4 for accounts not enrolled in all available e-notification (e-delivery) options (excluding tax documents).
2Account must be enrolled in all available e-delivery options (excluding tax documents).
3Represents more than 500 supporting fund families from which Commonwealth receives revenue-sharing payments from NFS.
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4Commonwealth does not receive revenue-sharing payments derived from investments in nonsupporting funds. NFS assesses
Commonwealth a transaction surcharge for buys, sells, and exchanges of nonsupporting funds. Commonwealth’s transaction
charges are substantially higher for nonsupporting funds to compensate Commonwealth for the absence of revenue sharing
and the assessment of a transaction surcharge by NFS. These nonsupporting fund families are CGM, Dodge & Cox, and
Vanguard.
5While Commonwealth does receive revenue-sharing payments from NFS that are derived from Dimensional Fund Advisors
(DFA) fund assets, these payments are substantially less as a percentage of fund assets than amounts paid by supporting fund
families. Commonwealth therefore classifies DFA funds as nonsupporting funds. Unlike other nonsupporting funds, NFS does
not assess Commonwealth a transaction surcharge for transactions in DFA funds. Nevertheless, Commonwealth assesses the
same surcharges for buy transactions in DFA funds that are noted in footnote 4 for nonsupporting funds. DFA sell transaction
surcharges are identified in footnote 3 which are lower than sell transactions for other nonsupporting funds identified in
footnote 4. DFA sell transactions processed through the Commonwealth’s trade desk shall be $20. Commonwealth’s receipt of
revenue-sharing payments from DFA fund assets (albeit substantially less than from supporting funds), combined with the
higher transaction charges for buys generates greater revenue for Commonwealth relative to DFA fund assets than the other
nonsupporting funds identified in footnote 4.
6If processed by Commonwealth’s Trade Desk.
7Funds purchased prior to their NTF effective date will still incur a transaction charge.
8Periodic investment plans (PIPs) and systematic withdrawal plans (SWPs) carry a $100 minimum
Commonwealth assesses confirmation fees to clients to offset the asset-based fees it pays to its clearing
broker/dealer and to generate additional revenue for Commonwealth.
In addition to the charges noted above, clients incur certain charges in connection with certain
investments, transactions, and services in your account. In many cases, Commonwealth will receive a
portion of these fees and charges or add a markup to the charges clients would otherwise pay to generate
additional revenue for Commonwealth. The actual fees and charges that clients will incur are dependent
upon the type of account and the nature and quantity of the transactions that occur, the services that are
provided, or the positions that are held in the account. Additional fees and charges that clients will
typically pay include, but are not limited to:
• Mutual fund or money market 12b-1 fees, subtransfer agent fees, and distributor fees
• Mutual fund and money market management fees and administrative expenses
• Mutual fund transaction and redemption fees
• Certain deferred sales charges on mutual funds purchased or transferred into the account
• Other transaction charges and service fees
•
IRA and qualified retirement plan fees
• Other charges that may be required by law
• Brokerage account fees and charges
Information describing the brokerage fees and charges that are applicable to a Commonwealth brokerage
or Moore Wealth managed account is provided on Commonwealth’s Schedule of Miscellaneous Account
and Service Fees, which is available on Commonwealth’s website at www.commonwealth.com/for-clients
in the For Clients section on the right side of the page.
Moore Wealth advisors may select share classes of mutual funds that pay advisors 12b-1 fees when lower-
cost institutional or advisory share classes of the same mutual fund exist that do not pay Moore Wealth
or your advisor additional fees. As a matter of policy, Commonwealth (on Moore Wealth’s behalf) credits
the mutual fund 12b-1 fees it receives from mutual funds purchased or held in Moore Wealth managed
accounts back to the client accounts paying such 12b-1 fees.
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In most cases, mutual fund companies offer multiple share classes of the same mutual fund. Some share
classes of a fund charge higher internal expenses, whereas other share classes of a fund charge lower
internal expenses. Institutional and advisory share classes typically have lower expense ratios and are less
costly for a client to hold than Class A shares or other share classes that are eligible for purchase in an
advisory account. Mutual funds that offer institutional share classes, advisory share classes, and other
share classes with lower expense ratios are available to investors who meet specific eligibility
requirements that are described in the mutual fund’s prospectus or its statement of additional
information. These eligibility requirements include, but may not be limited to, investments meeting
certain minimum dollar amounts and accounts that the fund considers qualified fee-based programs. The
lowest-cost mutual fund share class for a fund may not be offered through our clearing firm or made
available by Moore Wealth for purchase within our managed accounts. Clients should never assume that
they will be invested in the share class with the lowest possible expense ratio or cost.
Moore Wealth urges clients to discuss with their advisor whether lower-cost share classes are available in
their program account. Clients should also ask their advisor why the funds or other investments that will
be purchased or held in their managed account are appropriate for them in consideration of their
expected holding period, investment objective, risk tolerance, time horizon, financial condition, amount
invested, trading frequency, the amount of the advisory fee charged, whether the client will pay
transaction charges for fund purchases and sales, whether clients will pay higher internal fund expenses
in lieu of transaction charges that could adversely affect long-term performance, and relevant tax
considerations. Your advisor may recommend, select, or continue to hold a fund share class that charges
you higher internal expenses than other available share classes for the same fund.
The purchase or sale of transaction-fee (“TF”) funds available for investment through Moore Wealth will
result in the assessment of transaction charges to you, your advisor, Moore Wealth or Commonwealth.
Although no-transaction-fee (“NTF”) funds do not assess transaction charges, most NTF funds have higher
internal expenses than funds that do not participate in an NTF program. These higher internal fund
expenses are assessed to investors who purchase or hold NTF funds. Depending upon the frequency of
trading and hold periods, NTF funds may cost you more, or may cost Moore Wealth, Commonwealth or
your advisor less, than mutual funds that assess transaction charges but have lower internal expenses. In
addition, the higher internal expenses charged to clients who hold NTF funds will adversely affect the
long-term performance of their accounts when compared to share classes of the same fund that assess
lower internal expenses.
The existence of various fund share classes with lower internal expenses that Moore Wealth may not
make available for purchase in its managed account programs present a conflict of interest between
clients and Moore Wealth or its advisors. A conflict of interest exists because Moore Wealth and your
advisor have a greater incentive to make available, recommend, or make investment decisions regarding
investments that provide additional compensation to Moore Wealth that cost clients more than other
available share classes in the same fund that cost you less. For those advisory programs that assess
transaction charges to clients or to Moore Wealth or the advisor, a conflict of interest exists because
Moore Wealth and your advisor have a financial incentive to recommend or select NTF funds that do not
assess transaction charges but cost you more in internal expenses than funds that do assess transaction
charges but cost you less in internal expenses.
Prorated Rebate of Fees Paid in Advance
In the event a client terminates an advisory agreement with Moore Wealth and his or her advisor, any
unearned fees resulting from advanced payments will be refunded to the client. Likewise, in the event
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Moore Wealth bills clients in arrears for services that have already been rendered, Moore Wealth will
prorate such fees up to the termination date of the advisory agreement.
Other Forms of Compensation
When Moore Wealth provides financial planning services for a client, the client typically pays for services
rendered on a one-time basis, but compensation will be ongoing if a client elects to receive ongoing
financial planning services. For Retirement Plan Consulting, the fee may be an hourly, flat, fixed, or asset-
based fee for providing one-time, or ongoing, advisory services to a plan. For both types of services,
payment may be made either at the time of the service, in advance, or in arrears. Clients should make
checks payable to Moore Wealth only in relation to financial planning services. Checks for Wealth
Management Consulting and Retirement Plan Consulting Services should be made payable to
Commonwealth.
Checks for asset management services should never be made payable to the advisor or any other entity
under the control of the advisor in relation to any programs or services offered through Moore Wealth.
Clients who are asked or instructed by their advisor to make checks payable to the advisor or any entity
under control of the advisor should contact Sean Moore directly for verification.
Clients should be aware that, when assets are invested in shares of mutual funds, variable insurance
products, and certain alternative investments within a managed account program, clients will pay
investment advisory fees to Moore Wealth and to the advisor for their advisory services in connection
with the investments. In addition to the payments received by Moore Wealth and the advisor, clients will
also pay management fees, mutual fund and money market 12b-1 fees, subtransfer agent fees, mutual
fund and money market administrative expenses, mutual fund transaction fees, certain deferred sales
charges and redemption fees on previously purchased mutual funds, annuity internal expenses and fees,
and other fees charged by the investment company, insurance product, or alternative investment
sponsor, which are typically charged to clients as an internal expense of the product. These internal
expenses are described in the prospectus or offering document for the specific product. Clients may be
able to invest directly in the investment company, insurance product, or alternative investment without
incurring the investment advisory fees, platform fees, or transaction charges assessed by Moore Wealth
or their advisor. If a client’s assets are invested in a fee-based annuity, the client will pay both the direct
management fee to Moore Wealth and their advisor for the advisory services provided by Moore Wealth
and the advisor in connection with that investment and, indirectly, the management and other fees
charged by the underlying annuity investment options, as well as the charges assessed by the insurance
company for the product. Of course, clients should also be aware of the tax implications of investing, as
well as of the existence of deferred sales charges or redemption fees charged by some product sponsors
for positions the client subsequently sells in Moore Wealth managed accounts.
For California Residents: Subsection (j) of Rule 260.238 of the California Code of Regulations requires that
all investment advisers disclose to their advisory clients that lower fees for comparable services may be
available from other sources.
For District of Columbia Residents: Section 1811.1 Subsection (j) of the DC Rules requires Moore Wealth
to disclose that lower fees for comparable services may be available from other sources. Subsection (k)
requires Moore Wealth to indicate that all material conflicts of interest that relate to the advisor or to any
of its employees, and that would cause Moore Wealth not to render unbiased and objective advice, have
been disclosed to the client in writing via the disclosure provided in this Form ADV Part 2.
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Special Disclosures for ERISA Plans:
In this Brochure, Moore Wealth has disclosed conflicts of interest, such as receiving additional
compensation from third parties for providing marketing, recordkeeping, or other services in connection
with certain investments. The firm has taken steps to identify and address the conflict of interest
associated with our or our advisors’ receipt of compensation for services provided to ERISA plans.
Item 6 – Performance-Based Fees and Side-By-Side Management
Moore Wealth does not charge any performance-based fees (fees based on a share of capital gains on or
capital appreciation of the assets of a client).
Item 7 – Types of Clients
Moore Wealth generally provides advisory services to the following types of clients:
Individuals (other than high net worth individuals)
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• High net worth individuals
• Pension and profit-sharing plans
• Charitable organizations
• Other investment advisers
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Insurance companies
• Corporations or other businesses not listed above
Moore Wealth managed account programs generally have a $500,000 minimum investment requirement.
In some cases, account balances may be combined at the household level to satisfy the account minimum.
Item 8 – Methods of Analysis, Investment Strategies and Risk of Loss
Investing in securities involves risk of loss that investors should be sure they understand and should be
prepared to bear.
Moore Wealth primarily serves retail investors. Each advisor associated with Moore Wealth has the
independence to take the approach he or she believes is most appropriate when analyzing investment
products and strategies for clients. There are several sources of information that Moore Wealth and the
advisor may use as part of the investment analysis process. These sources include, but are not limited to:
• Prospectuses and offering materials
• Product and sponsor sales materials
• Sponsor due diligence meetings and product presentations
• Financial publications
• Research, software, and materials prepared by third parties
• Corporate rating services
• SEC filings (annual reports, prospectus, 10-K, etc.)
• Company press releases
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As a firm, Moore Wealth does not favor any specific method of analysis over another and, therefore,
would not be considered to have one approach deemed to be a “significant strategy.” There are, however,
a few common approaches that may be used by Moore Wealth or your advisor, individually or collectively,
in the course of providing advice to clients. It is important to note that there is no investment strategy
that will guarantee a profit or prevent loss. Following are some common strategies employed by advisors
in the management of client accounts:
• Dollar Cost Averaging (“DCA”): The technique of buying a fixed dollar amount of a particular
investment on a regular schedule, regardless of the share price. More shares are purchased when
prices are low, and fewer shares are bought when prices are high. DCA is believed to lessen the
risk of investing a large amount in a single investment at higher price. DCA strategies are not
effective and do not prevent against loss in declining markets.
• Asset Allocation: An investment strategy that aims to balance risk and reward by allocating assets
among a variety of asset classes. At a high level, there are three main asset classes—equities
(stocks), fixed income (bonds), and cash/cash equivalents—each of which has different risk and
reward profiles/behaviors. Asset classes are often further divided into domestic and foreign
investments, and equities are often divided into small, intermediate, and large capitalization. The
general theory behind asset allocation is that each asset class will perform differently from the
others in different market conditions. By diversifying a portfolio of investments among a wide
range of asset classes, advisors seek to reduce the overall volatility and risk of a portfolio through
avoiding overexposure to any one asset class during various market cycles. Asset allocation does
not guarantee a profit or protect against loss.
• Technical Analysis (aka “Charting”): A method of evaluating securities by analyzing statistics
generated by market activity, such as past prices and volume. Technical analysts do not attempt
to measure a security’s intrinsic value. Instead, they use charts and other tools to identify patterns
that can suggest future activity. When looking at individual equities, a person using technical
analysis generally believes that performance of the stock, rather than performance of the
company itself, has more to do with the company’s future stock price. It is important to
understand that past performance does not guarantee future results.
• Fundamental Analysis: A method of evaluating a security that entails attempting to measure its
intrinsic value by examining related economic, financial, and other qualitative and quantitative
factors. Fundamental analysts attempt to study everything that can affect the security’s value,
including macroeconomic factors (e.g., the overall economy and industry conditions) and
company-specific factors (e.g., financial condition and management). The end goal of performing
fundamental analysis is to produce a value that an investor can compare with the security’s
current price, with the aim of figuring out what sort of position to take with that security
(underpriced = buy, overpriced = sell or short). This method of security analysis is considered to
be the opposite of technical analysis.
• Quantitative Analysis: An analysis technique that seeks to understand behavior by using complex
mathematical and statistical modeling, measurement, and research. By assigning a numerical
value to variables, quantitative analysts try to replicate reality mathematically. Some believe that
it can also be used to predict real-world events, such as changes in a share price.
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• Qualitative Analysis: Securities analysis that uses subjective judgment based on non-quantifiable
information, such as management expertise, industry cycles, strength of research and
development, and labor relations. This type of analysis technique is different from quantitative
analysis, which focuses on numbers. The two techniques, however, are often used together.
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Tax harvesting: Commonwealth, on behalf of our firm, accommodates requests in certain PPS
Select and PPS Direct strategies to perform tax harvesting, with the intention to offset gains or
losses in the client’s account to reduce tax liabilities. All PPS Select Personalized Indexing accounts
utilize tax harvesting.
PPS Select Methods of Analysis and Investment Strategies
Commonwealth’s PPS Select Program is based on asset allocation concepts and modern portfolio theory.
The PPS Select portfolios are designed to provide long-term, risk-adjusted returns for investors across the
risk/return spectrum. Depending on the program and model selected by a client, the program may invest
in open-end mutual funds, closed-end funds, ETFs, individual municipal fixed income securities, and
individual equity securities managed by Commonwealth’s own Investment Management and Research
team and in the case of Personalized Indexing, Orion Portfolio Solutions, LLC. When selecting investments
for inclusion or removal from the PPS Select portfolios, the Commonwealth Investment Management and
Research team conducts extensive due diligence.
Commonwealth’s investment philosophy process has five steps: (1) screening, (2) evaluation, (3) analysis,
(4) portfolio construction, and (5) ongoing monitoring:
• Step 1—Screening: An initial screening process based on quantitative criteria is used as a starting
point for further research. Its purpose is to narrow down the universe of investments that meet
Commonwealth’s objective criteria.
• Step 2—Evaluation: After screening, the
investment (or group of
investments) under
consideration is evaluated by applying a scoring system based on returns that are adjusted to take
into account quantifiable risk. The investment is also evaluated based on its peer group ranking,
benchmark relative performance, and consistency of investment management style.
• Step 3—Analysis: The objective of this step is to build a solid understanding of how the
investment operates. During this stage, the Investment Management team spends a great deal of
time evaluating the investment’s philosophy and process to ensure that they are consistent. After
the in-depth quantitative and qualitative analysis is complete, the team meets with the potential
investment’s key decision makers—either on-site or over the phone—to gain a greater
understanding of their process for managing the portfolio.
• Step 4—Portfolio Construction: After Commonwealth’s portfolio managers have determined that
the investment is attractive on a stand-alone basis, they assess how well the investment
complements and fits with other PPS Select portfolio holdings. A review of certain metrics, such
as excess-return correlation, is performed to reasonably ensure that holdings will perform as
expected in different market environments.
• Step 5—Ongoing Monitoring: The PPS Select portfolios are monitored on an ongoing basis. The
Investment Management team continually conducts performance reviews, holdings-based
attribution analysis, firm commentary reviews, and conference calls and meetings to determine
whether a portfolio is meeting the team’s risk-adjusted return expectations and an investment’s
stated objective.
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Risks of Loss
Regardless of what investment strategy or analysis is undertaken, investing in securities involves risk of
loss that clients must be prepared to bear; in fact, some investment strategies could result in total loss of
your investment. Some risks may be avoided or mitigated, while others are completely unavoidable. Some
of the common risks you should consider prior to investing include, but are not limited to:
Market risks: The prices of, and the income generated by, the common stocks, bonds, and other securities
you own may decline in response to certain events taking place around the world, including those directly
involving the issuers; conditions affecting the general economy; overall market changes; local, regional,
or global political, social, or economic instability; governmental or governmental agency responses to
economic conditions; and currency, interest rate, and commodity price fluctuations.
Interest rate risks: The prices of, and the income generated by, most debt and equity securities will most
likely be affected by changing interest rates and by changes in the effective maturities and credit ratings
of these securities. For example, the prices of debt securities generally decline when interest rates rise
and increase when interest rates fall. In addition, falling interest rates may cause an issuer to redeem,
“call,” or refinance a security before its stated maturity date, which would typically result in having to
reinvest the proceeds in lower-yielding securities.
Credit risks: Debt securities are also subject to credit risk, which is the possibility that the credit strength
of an issuer will weaken and/or an issuer of a debt security will fail to make timely payments of principal
or interest and the security will go into default.
Risks of investing outside the U.S.: Investments in securities issued by entities based outside the United
States are often subject to the risks described above to a greater extent.
Margin transactions: Securities transactions in which an investor borrows money to purchase a security,
in which case the security serves as collateral on the loan, inherently have more risk than cash purchases.
If the value of the shares drops sufficiently, the investor will be required to either deposit more cash into
the account or sell a portion of the stock in order to maintain the margin requirements of the account.
This is known as a “margin call.” An investor’s overall risk in accounts utilizing margin includes the amount
of money invested plus the amount that was loaned to them.
Pledging Assets: Pledging assets in an account to secure a loan involves additional risks. The bank holding
the loan has the authority to liquidate all or part of the securities at any time without prior notice in order
to maintain required maintenance levels, or to call the loan at any time, and this may cause you to sell
assets and realize losses in a declining market. In addition, because of collateral requirements imposed by
the bank, investment decisions for the account may be restricted. These restrictions, or a forced
liquidation, may interfere with your long-term investment goals and/or result in adverse tax
consequences.
Tax considerations: Our strategies and investments may have unique and significant tax implications.
Unless specifically agreed otherwise, and in writing, however, tax efficiency is not our primary
consideration in the management of your assets. Regardless of your account size or any other factors, it
is strongly recommended that you consult with a tax professional regarding the investing of your assets.
Custodians and broker/dealers must report the cost basis of equities acquired in client accounts. Your
custodian will default to the first in, first out (“FIFO”) accounting method for calculating the cost basis of
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your equity investments and average-cost for mutual fund positions. You are responsible for contacting
your tax advisor to determine if this accounting method is the right choice for you. If your tax advisor
believes another accounting method is more advantageous, provide written notice to our firm
immediately, and Commonwealth will alert your account custodian of your individually selected
accounting method. Decisions about cost basis accounting methods will need to be made before trades
settle, as the cost basis method cannot be changed after settlement.
Risk of loss: Investing in securities involves risk of loss that you should be prepared to bear.
Commonwealth and your advisor do not represent or guarantee that our services or methods of analysis
can or will predict future results, successfully identify market tops or bottoms, or insulate clients from
losses due to market corrections or declines. We cannot offer any guarantees or promises that your
financial goals and objectives will be met.
Liquidity risk: The risk of being unable to sell your investment at a fair price at a given time due to high
volatility or lack of active liquid markets. You may receive a lower price, or it may not be possible to sell
the investment at all. Certain structured products, interval funds, and alternative investments are less
liquid than securities traded on an exchange, and you should be aware of the fact that you may not be
able sell these products outside of prescribed time periods. You should consult your advisor prior to
purchasing products considered illiquid and in instances where changes in your financial situation and
objectives may increase your need for liquidity.
Inflation risk: Security prices and portfolio returns will likely vary in response to changes in inflation and
interest rates. Inflation causes the value of future dollars to be worth less and may reduce the purchasing
power of a client’s future interest payments and principal. Inflation also generally leads to higher interest
rates which may cause the value of many types of fixed income investments to decline.
Time horizon and longevity risk: Time horizon risk is the risk that your investment horizon is shortened
because of an unforeseen event (e.g., the loss of your job). This may force you to sell investments that
you were expecting to hold for the long term. If you must sell at a time that the markets are down, you
may lose money. Longevity risk is the risk of outliving your savings. This risk is particularly relevant for
people who are retired or nearing retirement.
Recommendation of particular types of securities: We will recommend various types of securities and do
not primarily recommend one particular type of security over another since each client has different needs
and different tolerance for risk. Each type of security has its own unique set of risks associated with it, and
it would not be possible to list here all of the specific risks of every type of investment. Even within the
same type of investment, risks can vary widely. In very general terms, however, the higher the anticipated
return of an investment, the higher the risk of loss associated with the investment. Descriptions of the
types of securities we may recommend to you and some of their inherent risks are provided below:
• Money market funds: A money market fund is technically a security, and, as such, there is a risk
of loss of principal, although it is generally rare. In return for this risk, you should earn a greater
return on your cash than you would expect from a Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
(“FDIC”) insured savings account (money market funds are not FDIC insured). Next, money
market fund rates are variable. In other words, you do not know how much you will earn on your
investment next month. The rate could go up or down. If it goes up, that may result in a positive
outcome. If it goes down, however, and you earn less than you expected to, you may end up
needing more cash. A final risk you are taking with money market funds has to do with inflation.
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Because money market funds are considered to be safer than other investments like stocks, long-
term average returns on money market funds tend to be less than long-term average returns on
riskier investments. Over long periods of time, inflation can eat away at your returns.
• Municipal securities: Municipal securities, while generally thought of as safe, can have significant
risks associated with them, including, but not limited to, the creditworthiness of the
governmental entity that issues the bond, the stability of the revenue stream that is used to pay
the interest to the bondholders, when the bond is due to mature, and whether the bond can be
“called” prior to maturity. When a bond is called, it may not be possible to replace it with a bond
of equal character paying the same amount of interest or yield to maturity.
• Bonds: Also known as corporate debt securities, bonds are typically safer investments than
equity securities, but their risk can also vary widely based on the financial health of the issuer,
the risk that the issuer might default, when the bond is set to mature, and whether the bond can
be “called” prior to maturity. When a bond is called, it may not be possible to replace it with a
bond of equal character paying the same rate of return.
• Stocks: There are numerous ways of measuring the risk of equity securities (also known simply
as “equities” or “stocks”). In very broad terms, the value of a stock depends on the financial
health of the company issuing it. Stock prices, however, can be affected by many other factors,
including, but not limited to, the class of stock (e.g., preferred or common), the health of the
market sector of the issuing company, and the overall health of the economy. In general, larger,
more well-established companies (i.e., large-caps) tend to be safer than smaller start-up
companies (i.e., small-caps), but the mere size of an issuer is not, by itself, an indicator of the
safety of the investment.
• Mutual funds and ETFs: Mutual funds and ETFs are professionally managed collective investment
systems that pool money from many investors and invest in stocks, bonds, short term money
market instruments, other mutual funds, other securities, or any combination thereof. The fund
will have a manager that trades the fund’s investments in accordance with the fund’s investment
objective. While mutual funds and ETFs generally provide diversification, risks can be significantly
increased if the fund is concentrated in a particular sector of the market, primarily invests in
small-cap or speculative companies, uses leverage (i.e., borrows money) to a significant degree,
or concentrates in a particular type of security (i.e., equities) 29 rather than balancing the fund
with different types of securities. ETFs differ from mutual funds in that they can be bought and
sold throughout the day like stock and their price can fluctuate throughout the day. The returns
on mutual funds and ETFs can be reduced by the costs to manage the funds. Also, while some
mutual funds are “no load,” meaning there’s no fee to buy into or sell out of the fund, other
types of mutual funds do charge such fees, which can also reduce returns. Mutual funds can also
be “closed-end” or “open-end.” Open-end mutual funds continue to allow new investors
indefinitely, whereas closed-end funds have a fixed number of shares to sell, which can limit their
availability to new investors.
• Variable annuities: A variable annuity is a form of insurance where the seller or issuer (typically
an insurance company) makes a series of future payments to a buyer (annuitant) in exchange for
the immediate payment of a lump sum (single-payment annuity) or a series of regular payments
(regular-payment annuity). The payment stream from the issuer to the annuitant has an
unknown duration based principally upon the date of death of the annuitant. At this point, the
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contract will terminate, and the remainder of the funds accumulated will be forfeited unless
there are other annuitants or beneficiaries in the contract. Annuities can be purchased to provide
an income during retirement. Unlike fixed annuities that make payments in fixed amounts or in
amounts that increase by a fixed percentage, variable annuities pay amounts that vary according
to the performance of a specified set of investments, typically bond and equity mutual funds.
Many variable annuities typically impose asset-based sales charges or surrender charges for
withdrawals within a specified period. Variable annuities may impose a variety of fees and
expenses, in addition to sales and surrender charges, such as mortality and expense risk charges,
administrative fees, underlying fund expenses, and charges for special features, all of which can
reduce the return.
• Real estate: Real estate is increasingly being used as part of a long-term core strategy due to
increased market efficiency and increasing concerns about the future long-term variability of
stock and bond returns. In fact, real estate is known for its ability to serve as a portfolio diversifier
and inflation hedge. The asset class still bears a considerable amount of market risk, however.
Real estate has shown itself to be very cyclical, somewhat mirroring the ups and downs of the
overall economy. In addition to employment and demographic changes, real estate is also
influenced by changes in interest rates and the credit markets, which affect the demand and
supply of capital and, thus, real estate values. Along with changes in market fundamentals,
investors wishing to add real estate as part of their core investment portfolios need to look for
property concentrations by area or by property type. Because property returns are directly
affected by local market basics, real estate portfolios that are too heavily concentrated in one
area or property type can lose their risk mitigation attributes and bear additional risk by being
too influenced by local or sector market changes.
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Limited partnerships: A limited partnership is a financial affiliation that includes at least one
general partner and a number of limited partners. The partnership invests in a venture, such as
real estate development or oil exploration, for financial gain. The general partner has
management authority and unlimited liability. The general partner runs the business and, in the
event of bankruptcy, is responsible for all debts not paid or discharged. The limited partners have
no management authority, and their liability is limited to the amount of their capital
commitment. Profits are divided between general and limited partners according to an
arrangement formed at the creation of the partnership. The range of risks is dependent on the
nature of the partnership and disclosed in the offering documents if privately placed. Publicly
traded limited partnerships have similar risk attributes to equities; however, like privately placed
limited partnerships, their tax treatment is under a different tax regime from equities. You should
speak to your tax adviser in regard to their tax treatment.
• Options contracts: Options are complex securities that involve risks and are not suitable for
everyone. Option trading can be speculative in nature and carry substantial risk of loss. It is
generally recommended that you only invest in options with risk capital. An option is a contract
that gives the buyer the right, but not the obligation, to buy or sell an underlying asset at a
specific price on or before a certain date (i.e., the expiration date). The two types of options are
calls and puts. A call gives the holder the right to buy an asset at a certain price within a specific
period of time. Calls are similar to having a long position on a stock. Buyers of calls hope that the
stock will increase substantially before the option expires. A put gives the holder 30 the right to
sell an asset at a certain price within a specific period of time. Puts are very similar to having a
short position on a stock. Buyers of puts hope that the price of the stock will fall before the option
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expires. Selling options is more complicated and can be even riskier. Option trading risks are
closely related to stock risks, as stock options are a derivative of stocks.
• Structured products: A structured product is generally a prepackaged investment strategy based
on derivatives, such as a single security, a basket of securities, options, indices, commodities,
debt issuances, and/or foreign currencies, and, to a lesser extent, swaps. Structured products
are usually issued by investment banks or affiliates thereof. In addition to a fixed maturity, they
have two components: a note and a derivative. The derivative component is often an option. The
note provides for periodic interest payments to the investor at a predetermined rate, and the
derivative component provides for the payment at maturity. Some products use the derivative
component as a put option written by the investor that gives the buyer of the put option the
right to sell to the investor the security or securities at a predetermined price. Other products
use the derivative component to provide for a call option written by the investor that gives the
buyer of the call option the right to buy the security or securities from the investor at a
predetermined price. A feature of some structured products is a “principal guarantee” function,
which offers protection of principal if held to maturity. These products are not always FDIC
insured, however; they may only be insured by the issuer and, thus, have the potential for loss
of principal in the case of a liquidity crisis or other solvency problems with the issuing company.
Investing in structured products involves a number of risks, including, but not limited to,
fluctuations in the price, level, or yield of underlying instruments; interest rates; currency values;
and credit quality. They also involve the risk of substantial loss of principal, limits on participation
in any appreciation of the underlying instrument, limited liquidity, credit risk of the issuer,
conflicts of interest, and other events that are difficult to predict.
Investments may also be affected by currency controls; different accounting, auditing, financial reporting,
disclosure, and regulatory and legal standards and practices; expropriation (occurs when governments
take away a private business from its owners); changes in tax policy; greater market volatility; different
securities market structures; higher transaction costs; and various administrative difficulties, such as
delays in clearing and settling portfolio transactions or in receiving payment of dividends. These risks may
be heightened in connection with investments in developing countries. Investments in securities issued
by entities domiciled in the United States may also be subject to many of these risks.
Any of the common risks described above could adversely affect the value of your portfolio and account
performance, and you can lose money. Even though these risks exist, Moore Wealth your advisor will still
earn the fees and other compensation described in this Brochure. Clients should carefully consider the
risks of investing and the potential that they may lose principal while Moore Wealth and your advisor
continue to earn fees and other forms of compensation.
Your investments are not bank deposits and are not insured or guaranteed by the FDIC or any other
governmental agency, entity, or person, unless otherwise noted and explicitly disclosed as such, and as
such may lose value.
Item 9 – Disciplinary Information
In April 2023, during her time as investment adviser with Commonwealth Financial Network, Shabri
Moore was named as a Respondent in a FINRA arbitration. The clients’ complaint alleged that the sale
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of two variable life insurance products was unsuitable. The parties ultimately agreed to settle the matter
on 3/14/2024 for $216,500.
Item 10 – Other Financial Industry Activities and Affiliations
Moore Wealth does not have a related person, nor does the firm or its management personnel have a
relationship with any individual or entity who is a broker dealer, investment company or pooled
investment vehicle, other investment adviser or financial planner, futures commission merchant or
commodity pool operator, banking or thrift institution, accountant or accounting firm, lawyer or law firm,
insurance company or agency, pension consultant, real estate broker, or sponsor or syndicator of a limited
partnership.
Advisors associated with Moore Wealth are licensed insurance agents. In this role, our advisors offer
insurance products to clients when appropriate. Our firm’s insurance business is an insignificant portion
of our overall business; however, our advisors will earn commission compensation if you purchase
insurance from them. Clients are under no obligation to purchase insurance products from our advisors
and may use the insurance agent or agency of their choice to do so.
Moore Wealth has chosen to partner with Commonwealth to provide certain services, including but not
limited to fee billing and account performance reporting, to our firm and our clients. For the services it
provides, Commonwealth charges our advisors an administrative fee at the same time clients are charged
asset-based management fees. The administrative fee is charged to and paid by the advisor rather than
the advisor’s clients. and is calculated as a percentage of the total account assets, including cash and
money market positions, held by the advisor’s clients.
In the same manner as we offer asset management fee discounts as your account value grows,
Commonwealth offers our advisors discounts on administrative fees based on their total assets under
management within Commonwealth’s PPS programs. As our advisors grow their assets in these programs,
Commonwealth’s economies of scale are shared with the advisors by reducing the administrative fees
that would otherwise be charged to the advisors.
These discounts in administrative fees present a conflict of interest because they provide a financial
incentive for advisors who receive the discounts to recommend Commonwealth’s PPS programs over
other available managed programs that do not offer such discounts or higher payouts to advisors. On the
other hand, because Commonwealth does not assess administrative fees to advisors when they use
advisory programs outside of PPS, depending upon the costs and fees of a particular outside program,
advisors may have a financial incentive to use one or more outside programs rather than PPS, which also
creates a conflict of interest.
Item 11 – Code of Ethics, Participation or Interest in Client
Transactions and Personal Trading
Pursuant to Rule 204A-1 under the Investment Advisers Act of 1940, as amended, Moore Wealth has
adopted a Code of Ethics that governs a number of conflicts of interest we have when providing our
advisory services to you. Our Code of Ethics is designed to ensure that we meet our fiduciary obligations
to you and to foster a culture of compliance throughout our firm.
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Our Code of Ethics is comprehensive and is designed to help us detect and prevent violations of securities
laws and to help ensure that we keep your interests first at all times. We distribute our Code of Ethics to
each supervised person at the time of his or her initial affiliation with our firm; we make sure it remains
available to each supervised person for as long as he or she remains associated with our firm; and we
ensure that updates to our Code of Ethics are communicated to each supervised person as changes are
made.
Our Code of Ethics sets forth certain standards of conduct and addresses conflicts of interest between our
firm, our employees, our agents, our advisors, and our advisory clients. Clients and prospective clients of
Moore Wealth may request a copy of our Code of Ethics at any time.
Moore Wealth and its advisors often invest in the same securities that we recommend to clients. Moore
Wealth and its advisors also recommend securities to, and buy and sell securities for, client accounts at
or about the same time that we buy or sell the same securities for our own accounts. These activities
create a conflict of interest between us and our clients. Our firm policy prohibits “trading ahead” of clients’
transactions to the detriment of clients. When Moore Wealth and its advisors are purchasing or selling
securities for their own accounts, priority will be given to client transactions, or trades will be aggregated
together to obtain an average execution price for the benefit of all parties.
Item 12 – Brokerage Practices
The Custodians and Brokers We Use
Moore Wealth does not maintain physical custody of your assets; although we will be deemed to have
custody of your assets under SEC rules if you give us authority to withdraw advisory fees from your
account or if you provide us with authorization for money movement to third parties (see Item 15 -
Custody below). Your assets must be maintained in an account at a “qualified custodian”, generally a
broker dealer or other financial institution. We primarily recommend that our clients use National
Financial Services, a registered broker-dealer, member SIPC, as a qualified custodian. At times, we may
utilize other qualified custodians to hold your assets. We are independently owned and operated and are
not affiliated with National Financial Services or any other qualified custodian. The qualified custodian will
hold your assets in a brokerage account and buy and sell securities with our instruction. While we will
recommend a qualified custodian to hold your assets, you will decide whether to do so and will open the
account directly at the qualified custodian with our assistance. Not all advisers require their client to use
a particular broker-dealer or other custodian selected by the Advisor. However, if you choose not to open
an account with one of the qualified custodians we recommend, we will not be able to provide asset
management services to you. Consulting services not including asset management will be available in such
cases if you desire.
How We Select Brokers/Custodians
We seek to use a custodian/broker who will hold your assets and execute transactions on terms that are,
overall, most advantageous when compared to other available providers and their services. We consider
a wide range of factors, including, among others:
• Combination of transaction execution services and asset custody services
• Capability to execute, clear and settle trades (buy and sell securities for your account)
• Capability to facilitate transfers and payments to and from accounts (wire transfers, check
requests, etc.)
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• Breadth of available investment products (stocks, bonds, mutual funds, exchange-traded funds
[ETFs], limited partnerships)
• Availability of investment research and tools that assist us in making investment decisions.
• Quality of services
• Competitiveness of the price of those services and willingness to negotiate the prices
• Reputation, financial strength, and stability
• Prior service to us and our other clients
• Availability of other products and services that benefit us
Your Brokerage and Custody Costs
For our clients’ accounts that Moore Wealth maintains via NFS, Moore Wealth and NFS generally do not
charge you separately for custody services but are compensated by charging you commissions or other
fees on trades that are executed or settled into your account. Commonwealth’s commission rates
applicable to our client accounts were negotiated based on the condition that our clients collectively
maintain a total of at least $50,000,000 of their assets in accounts at NFS. For client accounts at
Commonwealth, this commitment benefits you because the overall commission rates you pay are lower
than they would be otherwise. Because of these factors, in order to minimize your trading costs, we have
Commonwealth (via NFS) execute most trades for your account(s). We have determined that having
Commonwealth/NFS execute most trades is consistent with our duty to seek “best execution” of your
trades. Best execution means the most favorable terms for a transaction based on all relevant factors,
including those listed above (see “How We Select Brokers/Custodians”).
Periodically, we will review alternative broker-dealers and custodians in the marketplace to ensure that
the custodians we use are meeting our duty to provide best execution for our clients. Best execution does
not simply mean the lowest transaction cost. When examining firms, we will compare overall expertise,
cost competitiveness and financial condition. The quality of execution by the custodians we use will be
reviewed using publicly available trade execution data and other sources as needed. No single criteria will
validate nor invalidate a custodian, but rather, all criteria taken together will be used in evaluating the
currently utilized custodian.
Products and Services Available to Us from Commonwealth and Our Custodians
Commonwealth Financial Network provides Moore Wealth with various products and services that enable
us to both serve our clients and grow our business. Commonwealth (through their disclosed clearing
relationships with NFS and Pershing) provide us and our clients with access to its brokerage services—
trading, custody, reporting, and related services. Commonwealth also makes available various support
services. Some of those services help us manage or administer our client accounts, while others help us
manage and grow our business. Following is a more detailed description of Commonwealth’s support
services:
Services That Benefit You
Commonwealth’s brokerage services include access to a broad range of investment products, execution
of securities transactions by Commonwealth’s clearing firms, and custody of client assets via their clearing
firms. The investment products available through Commonwealth include some to which we might not
otherwise have access or that would require a significantly higher minimum initial investment by our
clients.
Services That Do Not Directly Benefit You
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Commonwealth also makes available to us other products and services that benefit our firm and our
advisors but do not directly benefit you or your account. These products and services assist us in managing
and administering our clients’ accounts. They include investment research, both Commonwealth’s and
that of third parties. We use this research to service substantially all our client accounts, including
accounts not maintained at Commonwealth. In addition to investment research, Commonwealth also
makes available software and other technology that:
• Provide access to client account data (such as duplicate trade confirmations and account
statements)
• Facilitate trade execution
• Provide pricing and other market data
• Facilitate payment of our fees from our client accounts
• Assist with back-office functions, recordkeeping and client reporting
Services That Generally Benefit Only Us
Commonwealth also offers other services intended to help us manage and further develop our business
enterprise. These services include:
• Complementary or discounted attendance at conferences and events
• Consulting on technology, compliance, legal and business needs
• Publications and conferences on practice management and business succession
Our Interest in Commonwealth’s Services
Our relationship with Commonwealth requires that we maintain a certain level of assets within
Commonwealth’s PPS program and/or our own asset management program. This creates an incentive to
recommend that you establish and maintain your account with Commonwealth, based on our interest in
receiving Commonwealth’s services that benefit our business rather than based on your interest in
receiving the best value in custody services and the most favorable execution of your transactions. This is
a conflict of interest. To mitigate the conflict, this disclosure is provided to you. As a fiduciary, we must
act in your best interests. We believe that our selection of NFS or Pershing (via Commonwealth) as
custodian and broker is in the best interests of our clients and conduct regular reviews of our relationship
with Commonwealth to ensure this remains the case. Our choice to maintain a relationship with
Commonwealth is primarily supported by the scope, quality, and price of Commonwealth’s services (see
“How We Select Brokers/Custodians”) and not Commonwealth’s services that benefit only us.
Block Trading Policy
Moore Wealth may aggregate (“bunch”) transactions in the same security on behalf of more than one
client in an effort to strive for best execution and to possibly reduce the price per share. However,
aggregated or bunched orders will not reduce the transaction costs to participating clients. Typically, the
process of aggregating client orders is done in order to achieve better execution, to negotiate more
favorable commission rates or to allocate orders among clients on a more equitable basis in order to avoid
differences in prices and transaction fees or other transaction costs that might be obtained when orders
are placed independently. Moore Wealth conducts aggregated transactions in a manner designed to
ensure that no participating client is favored over another client.
Participating clients will obtain the average share price per share for the security executed that day. To
the extent the aggregated order is not filled in its entirety and when possible, securities purchased or sold
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in an aggregated transaction will be allocated pro-rata to the participating client accounts in proportion
to the size of the orders placed for each account. The amount of securities maybe increased or decreased
to avoid holding odd-lot or a small number of shares for particular clients. It should be noted, Moore
Wealth does not receive any additional compensation or remuneration as a result of aggregation.
Soft Dollars
Moore Wealth does not use commissions to pay for research and brokerage services (i.e., soft dollar
transactions). Research, along with other products and services other than trade execution, are available
to Moore Wealth on a cash basis from various vendors.
Core Account Sweep Programs (“CASPs”)
Through our relationship with Commonwealth, our firm has access to a core account sweep program
(“CASP”). CASP is the core account investment vehicle for eligible accounts used to hold cash balances
while awaiting reinvestment. The cash balance in your eligible accounts will be deposited automatically
or “swept” into interest-bearing FDIC-insurance eligible deposit accounts at one or more FDIC-insured
financial institutions The interest rates for your eligible accounts may be obtained from at
www.commonwealth.com/clients/deposit-sweep-program.aspx. Specific features and account eligibility
of CASP are further explained in the Disclosure Document provided to clients that participate in CASP. A
current version of the CASP Disclosure Document is available at https://www.commonwealth.com/for-
clients/disclosure/core-account-sweep-programs.
Clients should note that, though the default options for cash held in accounts are the core account
investment vehicles, clients may at any time seek higher yields in other available investment options.
Commonwealth keeps a portion of the interest paid by the bank(s) participating in CASP as a fee for
providing bank sweep services. This fee reduces the rate of interest you receive on your cash in the bank
sweep program. Moore Wealth receives no financial benefits from the CASP program. We encourage our
clients to review CASP program details to understand how Commonwealth and the program banks get
paid for the sweep program and to discuss other available investment options should you wish to do so.
NTF Program
Additionally, NFS offers an NTF program composed of no-load mutual funds. Participating mutual fund
sponsors pay a fee to NFS to participate in this program, and a portion of this fee is shared with
Commonwealth. None of these additional payments is paid to Moore Wealth or any advisors who sell
these funds. NTF mutual funds may be purchased within an investment advisory account at no charge to
the client. Clients, however, should be aware that funds available through the NTF program often contain
higher internal expenses than mutual funds that do not participate in the NTF program. Commonwealth’s
receipt of a portion of the fees associated with the NTF program creates a conflict of interest because
Commonwealth has an incentive to make available those products that provide such compensation to
NFS and Commonwealth over those mutual fund sponsors that do not make such payments to NFS and
Commonwealth. While Moore Wealth does not receive additional compensation from NFS or
Commonwealth based on the particular investment (potentially including one or more NTF funds), Moore
Wealth menu of investment options is limited to investments made available by Commonwealth. Thus,
clients may be impacted by the conflict of interest previously described in this paragraph. As stated
previously, Moore Wealth regularly evaluates our relationship with Commonwealth to ensure it remains
appropriate for the firm and our clients.
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The investment advisory services provided by Moore Wealth may cost the client more or less than
purchasing similar services separately. Clients should consider whether the appointment of
Commonwealth as the sole broker/dealer may result in certain costs or disadvantages to the client as a
result of possibly less favorable executions. Factors to consider include the type and size of the account
and the client’s historical and expected account size or number of trades.
Item 13 – Review of Accounts
All asset management client accounts are reviewed by an Investment Advisor Representative (IAR) of the
firm on an annual basis, or when changes in client circumstances or market conditions warrant. Securities
held in managed accounts are regularly reviewed by the firm’s investment committee.
Clients will be provided statements at least quarterly directly from account custodian where your assets
are maintained. Additionally, you will receive confirmations of all transactions directly from account
custodian. All non-retirement accounts and retirement accounts for those clients taking distributions will
receive an annual tax reporting statement. In addition, at least once a year, all managed account clients
will receive a performance report. You should compare the report with statements received directly from
the account custodian(s). Should there be any discrepancy; the account custodian’s report will prevail.
Item 14 – Client Referrals and Other Compensation
Moore Wealth receives an economic benefit from Commonwealth in the form of the support, products
and services Commonwealth makes available to Moore Wealth and other investment advisors whose
clients maintain their accounts on Commonwealth’s platform. These products and services, how they
benefit us, and the related conflicts of interest are described in Item 12 of this brochure.
Our access to Commonwealth’s products and services is not conditioned on our firm or our advisors giving
particular investment advice, such as buying particular securities for our clients. Product vendors
recommended by Moore Wealth may provide monetary and non-monetary assistance for the purposes
of funding marketing, distribution, business and client development, educational enhancement and/or
due diligence reviews incurred by Moore Wealth or our advisors relating to the promotion or sale of the
product vendor’s products or services. We do not select products as a result of the receipt or potential
receipt of any monetary or non-monetary assistance. Moore Wealth due diligence of a product does not
take into consideration any assistance it may receive. While the receipt of products or services is a benefit
for you and us, it also presents a conflict of interest. We attempt to mitigate this conflict of interest by:
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Informing you of conflicts of interest in our disclosure document and agreement;
Maintaining and abiding by our Code of Ethics which requires us to place your interests first
and foremost;
Advising you of the right to decline to implement our recommendations and the right to
choose other financial professionals for implementation.
Commonwealth offers our firm and our firm’s advisory representatives one or more forms of financial
benefits based on our advisory representatives’ total AUM held at Commonwealth or financial assistance
for advisory representatives transitioning from another firm to Commonwealth. The types of financial
benefits that our advisory representatives may receive from Commonwealth include, but are not limited
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to, forgivable or unforgivable loans provided at below-market rates, equity ownership investments into
our firm’s business, discounts or waivers on transaction, platform, and account fees; technology fees;
research package fees; financial planning software fees; administrative fees; brokerage account fees;
account transfer fees; licensing and insurance costs; and the cost of attending conferences and events.
The financial benefits that our firm or advisory representatives may receive from Commonwealth are a
conflict of interest and provide a financial incentive for advisory representatives to select Commonwealth
as broker/dealer for your accounts over other broker/dealers from which they may not receive similar
financial benefits. We attempt to mitigate this conflict of interest by disclosing the conflict in this brochure
and engaging in a regular review of our relationship with Commonwealth to ensure the relationship
continues to be appropriate in all respects for our firm’s clients.
Commonwealth has provided to Moore Wealth LLC principals Shabri G. Moore, Erik A. Moore, and Sean
A. Moore two non-forgivable loans: a $300,000 loan scheduled to be paid off on February 15, 2028, and
a $734,664.06 loan, scheduled to be paid off on February 28, 2031, so long as Moore Wealth’s relationship
with Commonwealth continues. These loans present a conflict of interest in that Moore Wealth has a
financial incentive to maintain a relationship with Commonwealth given that the balance of the notes
becomes due immediately should the firm terminate its relationship with Commonwealth. In the normal
course of our business, we direct clients to Commonwealth for execution of trades, custody of assets, and
reporting or research services. However, to the extent an IAR directs clients to Commonwealth for such
services, it is because the IAR believes that it is in that client’s best interest to do so.
In connection with the acquisition of Commonwealth by LPL Financial Holdings, Inc. (“LPLH”), on August
1, 2025, Moore Wealth advisors received loans that are forgiven over a multi-year term subject to
continued affiliation with Commonwealth, LPL Financial, LLC (“LPL”), a subsidiary of LPLH, or LPLH’s
affiliates after the acquisition. The existence of the loans presents a conflict of interest in that our firm
and/or our advisors have a financial incentive to maintain our relationship with LPL and/or
Commonwealth. However, to the extent we direct clients to LPL and/or Commonwealth for services, it is
because we believe that it is in that client’s best interest to do so given our regular review of the firm’s
relationship with Commonwealth and/or LPL.
Item 15 – Custody
Moore Wealth does not maintain physical custody of your assets. Under SEC rules, we are deemed to have
custody of your assets if you authorize us to instruct your account custodian to deduct our advisory fees
directly from your account, or if you provide us with authorization to transfer funds from your account to
a third party. We maintain a relationship with Commonwealth who, as described previously in this
brochure, maintains a primary clearing relationship for the execution of client transactions with NFS as
the account custodian. Substantially all of our advisory clients must select Commonwealth as the
broker/dealer of record and NFS as the clearing firm for their managed accounts. In all cases, the name
and address of the account custodian will be identified in the respective managed account client
agreement.
Clients who establish a managed account with Moore Wealth utilizing Commonwealth as the
broker/dealer of record will receive custodial account statements directly from the respective custodian
that holds those assets, such as NFS, Pershing, or a direct product sponsor. Clients should carefully review
the statements they receive from their account custodians and should promptly report material
discrepancies to Moore Wealth at (301) 631-1207.
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Moore Wealth clients may also receive portfolio summary or performance reporting for their managed
accounts from Moore Wealth or their advisor that are in addition to the account statements clients
receive directly from the respective account custodian. Moore Wealth urges you to compare the account
statements you receive from your account custodian with any account summary statements or reports
you receive from us or your advisor. Although account holdings and asset valuations should generally
match, for purposes of calculating performance and account valuations on your account, our summary or
performance reporting month-end market values sometimes differ from custodial account statement
month-end market values. The three most common reasons why these values may differ are differences
in the manner in which accrued interest is calculated, the date upon which “as of” dividends and capital
gains are reported, and settlement date versus trade date valuations.
If you believe there are material discrepancies between your custodial statement and the summary
statements or reports you receive from Moore Wealth or your advisor, please contact Moore Wealth
directly at (301) 631-1207.
Item 16 – Investment Discretion
Moore Wealth renders investment advice to substantially all of its managed account clients on a
discretionary basis, pursuant to written authorization granted by the client to the firm. This authorization
grants to Moore Wealth and your advisor the discretion to buy, sell, exchange, convert, or otherwise trade
in securities and/or insurance products, and to execute orders for such securities and/or insurance
products with or through any distributor, issuer, or broker/dealer as Moore Wealth or your advisor may
select. Your advisor may, without obtaining your consent, determine which products to purchase or sell
for your managed account, as well as when to purchase or sell such products, and the prices to be paid.
Neither Moore Wealth nor your advisor, however, is granted authority to take possession of your assets.
Clients may impose reasonable restrictions on their managed account, including, but not limited to, the
type, nature, or specific names of securities to be bought, sold, or held in their managed account, as well
as the type, nature, or specific names of securities that may not be bought, sold, or held in their managed
account. Clients substantially always grant Moore Wealth and their advisor discretionary trading authority
over their managed accounts.
As a matter of firm policy, neither Moore Wealth nor its advisors have or will accept the authority to file
class action claims on behalf of clients. This policy reflects Moore Wealth recognition that it does not have
the requisite expertise to advise clients with regard to participating in class actions. Moore Wealth and its
advisors have no obligation to determine if securities held by the client are subject to a pending or
resolved class action settlement or verdict. Moore Wealth and its advisors also have no duty to evaluate
a client’s eligibility or to submit a claim to participate in the proceeds of a securities class action settlement
or verdict. Furthermore, Moore Wealth and its advisors have no obligation or responsibility to initiate
litigation to recover damages on behalf of clients who may have been injured because of actions,
misconduct, or negligence by corporate management of issuers whose securities are held by clients. The
decision to participate in a class action or to sign a release of claims when submitting a proof of claim may
involve the exercise of legal judgment, which is beyond the scope of services provided to clients by Moore
Wealth or your advisor. In all cases, clients retain the responsibility for evaluating whether it is prudent to
join a class action or to opt out.
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Item 17 – Voting Client Securities
As a matter of firm policy, and in accordance with this Brochure and our advisory client agreements,
neither Moore Wealth nor our advisors have or will accept the authority to vote proxies on behalf of
advisory clients in any situation where Moore Wealth or the adviser acts as investment adviser to the
client. Moore Wealth or our advisors may, but are not obligated to, provide advice to clients regarding
the clients’ voting of proxies. In all cases, clients must either retain the responsibility for receiving and
voting proxies for any and all securities maintained in their managed accounts, or they must appoint a
third-party investment adviser or other person who is not associated with Moore Wealth to vote proxies
for their managed accounts.
In the event the advisor chooses to provide advice to clients designed to assist the client in making a
decision as to how to vote their proxies, the advisor has a fiduciary duty to disclose to the client any
material conflicts of interest the advisor may have with respect to such advice. In all cases, Moore Wealth
or the advisor will send, or will cause to be sent, all such proxy and legal proceedings information and
documents it receives to the client, so that the client may take whatever action the client deems advisable
under the circumstances.
Item 18 – Financial Information
Moore Wealth does not require prepayment of more than $1,200 in fees six (6) months or more in
advance. Our firm also maintains custody of certain client assets and in certain instances, as defined in
SEC Rule 206(4)-2. Additionally, pursuant to the trading authorization granted by Moore Wealth’s
managed account clients to the firm and their advisor, Moore Wealth has discretionary trading authority
over the funds and securities of clients.
Moore Wealth neither has a financial commitment that would impair its ability to meet its contractual
and fiduciary commitments to clients, nor has Moore Wealth been the subject of a bankruptcy
proceeding.
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