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Client Relationship Summary
Paragon Financial Partners, Inc. (CRD# 158041)
Introduction
Our firm, Paragon Financial Partners, Inc., is registered as an investment adviser with the U.S. Securities and Exchange
Commission. Brokerage and investment advisory services and fees differ, and it is important for you to understand these
differences. Free and simple tools are available to research firms and financial professionals at Investor.gov/CRS, which
also provides educational materials about broker-dealers, investment advisers, and investing.
Relationships and Services
What investment services and advice can you provide me?
Services: We offer investment advisory services to retail investors. These services include wealth management which is
a combination of financial planning and investment management. We may also offer financial planning and consulting as
a standalone service.
We work closely with you to identify your investment goals and objectives, as well as risk tolerance and financial situation,
in order to develop an investment approach.
Accounts, Investments, and Monitoring: We provide services to individual, joint, retirement, trust, and estate accounts.
We primarily use stocks, exchange-traded funds, mutual funds, fixed income securities, real estate investment trusts,
CDs, margin, options contracts, variable annuities, alternative investments, and oil and gas interests in constructing
portfolios. We do not make available or offer advice with respect to only proprietary products or a limited menu of products
or types of investments. As part of our services, we monitor portfolios and securities in accounts on a regular and
continuous basis. We also meet with you at least annually or more frequently, depending on your needs.
Investment Authority: We provide our services on a perpetual and discretionary basis. We execute investment
recommendations in accordance with your investment objectives without your prior approval of each specific transaction.
Our engagement will continue until you notify us otherwise in writing. We also offer our services on a non-discretionary
basis, which means we are required to obtain your consent prior to executing any trades in your accounts. Therefore, you
will make the ultimate decision regarding the purchase or sale of investments in your accounts. However, we may not be
able to aggregate your order with other client orders under this type of authority, and therefore you may not receive the
same price as other clients.
Account Minimums & Other Requirements: We generally require a minimum relationship size of $1,000,000 in order
to effectively implement our investment process. This amount may be waived or reduced at our sole discretion.
Additional Information: For more detailed information on our relationships and services, please see Item 4 – Advisory
Services, Item 13 – Review of Accounts, and Item 7 – Types of Clients of our Form ADV Part 2A available via our firm’s
Investment Adviser Public Disclosure Page.
Conversation Starters: Given my financial situation, should I choose an investment advisory service? Why or why
not? How will you choose investments to recommend to me? What is your relevant experience, including your licenses,
education, and other qualifications? What do these qualifications mean?
Fees, Costs, Conflicts, and Standard of Conduct
What fees will I pay?
Asset-Based Fees: Our asset-based fees for investment management range from 0.65% to 1.25% annually based on
a tiered schedule. This fee is collected on a quarterly basis and calculated as a percentage of the value of the cash and
investments in your account[s] that we manage. This presents a conflict of interest as we are financially incentivized to
encourage you to place more assets in your advisory account as you will ultimately pay more in advisory fees. For
situations where the Advisor provides trustee services, Clients will incur an additional fee up to 1.00%.
Hourly Fees: Our hourly fees for standalone financial planning and consulting services are at a rate of up to $500 per
hour. We collect fees in monthly installments. Hourly fees are negotiable based on the nature and complexity of the
services to be provided and the overall relationship with us. We provide you with an estimate for total hours and overall
costs prior to engaging us for these services.
Fixed Fees: Our fixed project-based fees for standalone financial planning and consulting services range from $3,500
to $100,000. We collect fees in separate installments, either monthly or quarterly. Fixed fees are negotiable based on
the nature and complexity of the services to be provided and the overall relationship with us. We provide you with an
estimate of the total cost prior to engaging us for these services.
Other Fees & Costs: In addition to our advisory fee, you will also be responsible for custody fees, account
administrative fees, wire fees, margin interest expenses, fees and expenses related to mutual funds and exchange-
traded funds, and applicable securities transaction fees.
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Additional Information: You will pay fees and costs whether you make or lose money on your investments. Fees
and costs will reduce any amount of money you make on your investments over time. Please make sure you understand
what fees and costs you are paying. For more detailed information on our fees, please see Item 5 – Fees and
Compensation of our Form ADV Part 2A available via our firm’s Investment Adviser Public Disclosure Page.
Conversation Starters: Help me understand how these fees and costs might affect my investments. If I give you
$10,000 to invest, how much will go to fees and costs, and how much will be invested for me?
What are your legal obligations to me when acting as my investment adviser?
How else does your firm make money, and what conflicts of interest do you have?
When we act as your investment adviser, we have to act in your best interest and not put our interests ahead of yours.
At the same time, the way we make money creates some conflicts with your interests. You should understand and ask
us about these conflicts because they can affect the investment advice we provide you. Here is an example to help you
understand what this means.
Some of our financial professionals are licensed as insurance agents. In addition to our services, your financial
professional will offer you insurance products in their separate capacity as an insurance agent. The fees charged for the
implementation of insurance products are separate from our advisory fees, where your financial professional will earn
commission-based compensation for the implementation of an insurance product. Therefore, there is a financial incentive
to recommend that you implement insurance through our financial professionals.
Additional Information: For more detailed information, please see Item 10 – Financial Industry Activities and Affiliations,
Item 12 – Brokerage Practices, and Item 14 – Client Referrals and Other Compensation of our Form ADV Part 2A
available via our firm’s Investment Adviser Public Disclosure Page.
Conversation Starters: How might your conflicts of interest affect me, and how will you address them?
How do your financial professionals make money?
Our financial professionals are compensated based on an agreed-upon annual salary and are also eligible for bonuses
based on performance.
In addition, certain financial professionals, based on ownership, periodically receive distributions from the net revenue
generated from advisory services. This means our financial professionals have an incentive to increase the asset size
in the relationship or solicit new business, taking time away from the day-to-day servicing of existing clients.
Disciplinary History
Do you or your financial professionals have legal or disciplinary history?
No. You can visit Investor.gov/CRS for a free and simple search tool to research our firm and our financial professionals.
Conversation Starters: As a financial professional, do you have any disciplinary history? For what type of conduct?
Additional Information
You can find additional information about our investment advisory services by viewing our Form ADV Part 2A available
via our firm’s Investment Adviser Public Disclosure Page or by visiting www.paragonfinancialpartners.com. You
can request up-to-date information and a copy of our client relationship summary by contacting us at
info@paragonfinancialpartners.com or (310) 557-1515.
Conversation Starters: Who is my primary contact person? Is he or she a representative of an investment
advisor? Who can I talk to if I have concerns about how this person is treating me?
Exhibit
Material Changes
The following material changes have been made to our Form CRS:
• We amended “What fees will I pay?” to disclose fees for trustee services.