Overview
Assets Under Management: $130 million
Headquarters: COLORADO SPRINGS, CO
High-Net-Worth Clients: 16
Average Client Assets: $8 million
Services Offered
Services: Portfolio Management for Individuals
Fee Structure
Primary Fee Schedule (PEAK INVESTMENT ADVISORS, INC. ADV PART 2A AND PART 2B BROCHURE)
| Min | Max | Marginal Fee Rate |
|---|---|---|
| $0 | and above | 1.00% |
Illustrative Fee Rates
| Total Assets | Annual Fees | Average Fee Rate |
|---|---|---|
| $1 million | $10,000 | 1.00% |
| $5 million | $50,000 | 1.00% |
| $10 million | $100,000 | 1.00% |
| $50 million | $500,000 | 1.00% |
| $100 million | $1,000,000 | 1.00% |
Clients
Number of High-Net-Worth Clients: 16
Percentage of Firm Assets Belonging to High-Net-Worth Clients: 90.40
Average High-Net-Worth Client Assets: $8 million
Total Client Accounts: 173
Discretionary Accounts: 168
Non-Discretionary Accounts: 5
Regulatory Filings
CRD Number: 113967
Last Filing Date: 2024-08-14 00:00:00
Website: https://cs.com
Form ADV Documents
Primary Brochure: PEAK INVESTMENT ADVISORS, INC. ADV PART 2A AND PART 2B BROCHURE (2025-03-20)
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Item 1: Cover Page
Part 2A and Part 2B of Form ADV: Firm Brochure
PEAK INVESTMENT ADVISORS, INC.
Registered Investment Advisor
5825 Delmonico Drive, Suite 310
Colorado Springs, CO 80919
(719) 260-6475 (direct office)
(719) 260-0660 (fax)
O t h e r O f f i c e L o c a t i o n
P r i v a t e R e s i d e n c e
V e n i c e , F L 3 4 2 9 3
Website: PeakInvestmentAdvisors.com
Email: PeakInvestments@cs.com
Dated May March, 2025August 2024
This brochure provides information about the qualifications and business practices of
Peak Investment Advisors, Inc. If you have any questions about the contents of this
brochure, please contact us at (719) 260-6475 and/or peakinvestments@cs.com. The
information is this brochure has not been approved or verified by the United States
Securities and Exchange Commission or by any state securities authority, including but
not limited to the State of Colorado’s Department of Regulatory Agencies (DORA) and
its Division of Securities. Registration with the State of Colorado does not imply a
certain level of skill or training. Peak Investment Advisors, Inc.’s CRD number is
113967 and additional information about the firm is also available on the SEC’s website
at www.adviserinfo.sec.gov.
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MATERIAL CHANGES
Peak Investment Advisors has made the following material changes to its Firm Brochure
since filing its annual amendment dated March 2024:
Item 1 – We added the other office location of the firm
Item 4 – Peak Investment Advisors filed its initial application to become registered
as in investment adviser with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in May
2024, which was accepted on July 1, 2024.
Item 4 – If Client is currently receiving asset management services from Peak for an
asset management fee, Peak provides consulting services for no additional charge.
Item 5 – The fee for financial consulting as a separate service is $300 per hour.
Item 18 - Peak does not require or solicit the prepayment of more than $1,200 in
client fees, six months or more in advance. Previously, this amount was $500.
We will ensure that you receive a summary of any material changes to this and subsequent
disclosure brochures within 120 days after our firm’s fiscal year ends. Our firm’s fiscal year
ends on December 31, so you will receive the summary of material changes no later than
April 30 each year. At that time we will also offer or provide a copy of the most current
disclosure brochure. We may also provide other ongoing disclosure information about
material changes as necessary.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Item 1: Cover Page
i.
Item 2: Material Changes
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Item 3:
Table of Contents
1.
Item 4:
Advisory Business
Item 5: Fees and Compensation
4.
Item 6: Performance-Based Fees and Side-By-Side Management
5.
Item 7: Types of Clients
6.
Item 8: Methods of Analysis, Investment Strategies and Risk of Loss
7.
Item 9: Disciplinary Information
8.
Item 10: Other Financial Industry Activities and Affiliations
9.
Item 11: Code of Ethics, Participation or Interest in Client
Transactions and Personal Trading
10.
Item 12: Brokerage Practices
12.
Item 13: Review of Accounts
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Item 14: Client Referrals and Other Compensation
17.
Item 15: Custody
18.
Item 16: Investment Discretion
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
(continued)
Item 17: Voting Client Securities
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Item 18: Financial Information
21.
Privacy Policy
22.
Part 2B of Form ADV: Brochure Supplement
Item 1: Cover Page
24.
Item 2: Educational Background and Business Experience
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Item 4: Advisory Business
Peak Investment Advisors, Inc. (Peak) has been in operation in Colorado since 1993.
Peak and its predecessor firm have been in the investment management business since
1988. The firm is primarily owned by Richard A. Mueller, while Lisa A. Mueller owns a
minority stake.
Peak Investment Advisors, Inc. filed its initial application to become registered as in
investment adviser with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in May 2024,
which was accepted on July 1, 2024.
Peak provides investment advisory and financial consulting services primarily to
individuals, families and businesses. Peak may also serve pension funds, banks, trusts,
endowments and estates. Tax planning services are also provided to both individuals and
small businesses. Investment and tax advisory services are tailored to meet the needs of
individual clients, as each client situation is unique with regard to risk tolerances and
return objectives. Investment strategies and policies are arrived at after meeting with
clients and determining their goals, objectives and risk tolerances. Clients may limit or
restrict investing in certain securities or types of securities.
If Client is currently receiving asset management services from Peak for an asset
management fee, Peak provides consulting services for no additional charge. It will be
incumbent upon Client to identify the issues for which you are seeking our advice or
consultation on.
Retirement Plan Rollover Recommendations
When Peak provides investment advice about your retirement plan account or individual
retirement account (“IRA”) including whether to maintain investments and/or proceeds in
the retirement plan account, roll over such investment/proceeds from the retirement plan
account to a IRA or make a distribution from the retirement plan account, we acknowledge
that {Investment Adviser Firm} is a “fiduciary” within the meaning of Title I of the
Employee Retirement Income Security Act (“ERISA”) and/or the Internal Revenue Code
(“IRC”) as applicable, which are laws governing retirement accounts. The way Peak makes
money creates conflicts with your interests so Peak operates under a special rule that
requires Peak to act in your best interest and not put our interest ahead of you.
Under this special rule’s provisions, Peak must as a fiduciary to a retirement plan account
or IRA under ERISA/IRC:
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Meet a professional standard of care when making investment
recommendations (e.g., give prudent advice);
Never put the financial interests of Peak ahead of you when making
recommendations (e.g., give loyal advice);
Avoid misleading statements about conflicts of interest, fees, and
investments;
Follow policies and procedures designed to ensure that Peak gives advice that
is in your best interest;
Charge no more than is reasonable for the services of Peak; and
Give Client basic information about conflicts of interest.
To the extent we recommend you roll over your account from a current retirement plan
account to an individual retirement account managed by Peak, please know that Peak and
our investment adviser representatives have a conflict of interest.
We can earn increased investment advisory fees by recommending that you roll over your
account at the retirement plan to an IRA managed by Peak. We will earn fewer investment
advisory fees if you do not roll over the funds in the retirement plan to an IRA managed by
Peak.
Thus, our investment adviser representatives have an economic incentive to recommend a
rollover of funds from a retirement plan to an IRA which is a conflict of interest because
our recommendation that you open an IRA account to be managed by our firm can be
based on our economic incentive and not based exclusively on whether or not moving the
IRA to our management program is in your overall best interest.
We have taken steps to manage this conflict of interest. We have adopted an impartial
conduct standard whereby our investment adviser representatives will (i) provide
investment advice to a retirement plan participant regarding a rollover of funds from the
retirement plan in accordance with the fiduciary status described below, (ii) not
recommend investments which result in Peak receiving unreasonable compensation related
to the rollover of funds from the retirement plan to an IRA, and (iii) fully disclose
compensation received by Peak and our supervised persons and any material conflicts of
interest related to recommending the rollover of funds from the retirement plan to an IRA
and refrain from making any materially misleading statements regarding such rollover.
When providing advice to your regarding a retirement plan account or IRA, our investment
advisor representatives will act with the care, skill, prudence, and diligence under the
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circumstances then prevailing that a prudent person acting in a like capacity and familiar
with such matters would use in the conduct of an enterprise of a like character and with
like aims, based on the investment objectives, risk, tolerance, financial circumstances, and
a client’s needs, without regard to the financial or other interests of Peak or our affiliated
personnel.
Client assets under management as of December 31, 2025March 31, 2024, were
$139,558,385.0,474,788 Of these assets under management, $103,374,70196,165,831 were
managed on a discretionary basis and $36,18,68434,308,957 were managed on a non-
discretionary basis.
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Item 5: Fees and Compensation
Management fees are based on a percentage of assets under management. Annual
management fees are typically 1.0% of assets, but may be more or less, depending upon
the level of service provided, account size and type of investments. Client accounts are
usually managed on a fully discretionary basis. Financial consultation is also available
on an hourly basis of $300 or as negotiated. Investment management fees are
negotiable.
Management fees are calculated quarterly and are due at the end of each calendar quarter.
Fees are usually deducted directly from client accounts, although some clients are
invoiced and pay from outside their investment accounts. Clients may choose which
method they prefer and this option is disclosed in the client contract letter. Regardless of
which method is used, clients receive a bill/invoice quarterly that shows how the fee is
calculated and whether it will be deducted from their account or is due and payable
directly from the client.
Clients incur fees other than investment management fees, such as brokerage fees (see
Item/Section 12) and fees imbedded in mutual funds or Exchange Traded Funds (ETF’s).
Peak attempts to minimize both brokerage fees (by using only discount brokers; such as
Charles Schwab & Co.) and mutual fund/ETF fees by choosing no load funds and ETF’s
with low internal management fees.
Clients are never required to pay any investment management fees in advance. Nor does
anyone at Peak accept compensation for the sale of securities or other investment
products. This policy is in contrast to many individuals that work for large brokerage
firms and insurance companies who are often compensated based on the sale of securities
or investment products such as mutual funds, annuities and life insurance policies.
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Item 6: Performance-Based Fees and Side-by-Side Management
Performance-based fees are defined as fees based on a share of capital gains on or capital
appreciation of the assets held in a client’s account. Item 6 is not applicable to this
Disclosure Brochure because Peak does not charge or accept performance-based fees.
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Item 7: Types of Clients
Peak provides investment advisory, financial consulting and tax planning services
primarily to individuals, families and businesses. Peak may also serve pension funds,
banks, trust, endowments and estates. Minimum client group size is typically $500,000
although smaller accounts may be considered if the client relationship is likely to lead to
larger account balances in the future.
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Item 8: Methods of Analysis, Investment Strategies and Risk of Loss
Peak gives investment advice on many types of securities, ranging from government and
corporate bonds, common and preferred stocks to commodities. Peak relies on both
internal and external investment research from sources such as financial publications,
SEC filings, corporate interviews/inspections, company publications and corporate rating
services, as well as online services such as Yahoo Finance, etc. Peak’s overall
investment strategy is designed to maximize long-term returns with the least amount of
risk. However, investment strategies are varied, depending upon client suitability and the
risk/reward desires of individual clients. Investing in securities involves risk of loss that
all clients need to be aware of and be willing to bear such risk.
Investing in individual company securities, whether stocks or bonds, is limited within
individual portfolios to minimize the risk of permanent loss. Diversification is used as an
important risk reduction tool. Peak utilizes highly diversified mutual funds and
Exchange Traded Funds (ETF’s) to further mitigate portfolio risk.
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Item 9: Disciplinary Information
In 2019 Peak underwent a periodic examination by the Colorado Division of Securities
(the “Division”). No investor complaints or concerns triggered this exam; it was a result
of the Division’s ongoing mandate to periodically exam all registered investment
advisors that do business in the state of Colorado.
As a result of this exam, a Deficiency Letter was generated that outlined issues and
concerns that the Division identified with regard to Peak’s operations and compliance
with state and federal regulatory requirements. Deficiency Letters are normally
generated as a result of these exams by the Division. The Deficiency Letter outlined
matters that Peak needs to address to bring it back into compliance with related
regulatory requirements.
In addition to the Deficiency Letter, Peak entered into a Stipulation For Consent Order.
This Order outlined specific steps and requirements that the Firm must take in order to
restore full compliance with regulatory requirements as outlined in the Deficiency Letter.
Peak actively worked to comply with this Order and addressed the issues highlighted in
the Deficiency Letter.
In 2022, the Colorado Division of Securities conducted a follow up examination of Peak.
After supplying the Division with the requested information, the Division stated that Peak
had fully complied with the requirements of the Consent Order.
Consequently, the State of Colorado Licensing Order (referred to above as Consent
Order) entered into during November, 2019 has expired effective November, 2021. No
further action is required related to this Order, other than complying with related state
and federal regulatory requirements.
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Item 10: Other Financial Industry Activities and Affiliations
Peak is not and does not have a related person that is a broker/dealer, municipal securities
dealer, government securities dealer or broker, an investment company or other pooled
investment vehicle (including a mutual fund, closed-end investment company, unit
investment trust, private investment company or “hedge fund,” and offshore fund), another
investment adviser or financial planner, a futures commission merchant, commodity pool
operator, or commodity trading advisor, a banking or thrift institution, a lawyer or law
firm, an insurance company or agency, a pension consultant, a real estate broker or dealer,
and a sponsor or syndicator of limited partnerships.
Peak is an independent registered investment adviser and only provides investment
advisory services. We are not engaged in any other business activities and offer no other
services except those described in this Disclosure Brochure.
Accounting Services
Richard A. Mueller, an owner and Chief Compliance Officer of Peak Investment Advisors,
is a licensed CPA. Clients needing assistance with tax preparation and/or account services
may be referred to him but are not obligated to use his services.
When advisory clients are referred to Richard A. Mueller, our investment adviser he will
receive customary compensation for the tax services provided as a CPA. This creates a
conflict of interest which is mitigated by our investment adviser representative always
acting in the clients’ best interest. This conflict is disclosed to advisory clients and clients
are never obligated to use the tax services of Richard A. Mueller.
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Item 11: Code of Ethics, Participation or Interest in Client Transactions and Personal
Trading
Code of Ethics Summary
An investment adviser is considered a fiduciary and has a fiduciary duty to all clients.
Peak has established a Code of Ethics to comply with the requirements of the securities
laws and regulations that reflects its fiduciary obligations and those of its supervised
persons. The Code of Ethics also requires compliance with federal securities laws. Peak’s
Code of Ethics covers all individuals that are classified as “supervised persons”. All
employees, officers, directors and investment adviser representatives are classified as
supervised persons. Peak requires its supervised persons to consistently act in your best
interest in all advisory activities. Peak imposes certain requirements on its affiliates and
supervised persons to ensure that they meet the firm’s fiduciary responsibilities to you.
The standard of conduct required is higher than ordinarily required and encountered in
commercial business.
This section is intended to provide a summary description of the Code of Ethics of Peak.
If you wish to review the Code of Ethics in its entirety, you should send us a written
request and upon receipt of your request, we will promptly provide a copy of the Code of
Ethics to you.
Affiliate and Employee Personal Securities Transactions Disclosure
Peak or supervised persons of the firm buy and sell for their personal accounts, investment
products identical to those recommended to clients. This creates a conflict of interest. It is
the express policy of Peak that all persons associated in any manner with our firm must
place clients’ interests ahead of their own when implementing personal investments. As is
required by our internal procedures, Peak and its supervised persons will not buy or sell
securities for their personal account(s) where their decision is derived, in whole or in part,
by information obtained as a result of employment or association with our firm unless the
information is also available to the investing public upon reasonable inquiry.
We are now and will continue to be in compliance with applicable state and federal
rules and regulations. To mitigate conflicts of interest that can occur when access
persons manage their personal accounts at the same time Peak manages client
accounts, we have developed written supervisory procedures that include personal
investment and trading policies for our representatives, employees and their
immediate family members (collectively, supervised persons):
Supervised persons cannot prefer their own interests to that of the client.
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Supervised persons cannot purchase or sell any security for their personal
accounts prior to implementing transactions for client accounts.
Supervised persons cannot buy or sell securities for their personal accounts when
those decisions are based on information obtained as a result of their
employment, unless that information is also available to the investing public
upon reasonable inquiry.
Supervised persons are prohibited from purchasing or selling securities of
companies in which any client is deemed an “insider”.
Supervised persons are discouraged from conducting frequent personal trading.
Supervised persons are generally prohibited from serving as board members of
publicly traded companies unless an exception has been granted to the Chief
Compliance Officer of Peak.
Any Supervised person not observing our policies is subject to sanctions up to and
including termination.
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Item 12: Brokerage Practices
We exercise reasonable due diligence to make certain that best execution is obtained for all
clients when implementing any transaction by considering the back-office services,
technology and pricing of services offered.
If Peak assists in the implementation of any recommendations, we are responsible to
ensure that the client receives the best execution possible. Best execution does not
necessarily mean that clients receive the lowest possible commission costs but that the
qualitative execution is best. In other words, all conditions considered, the transaction
execution is in your best interest. When considering best execution, we look at a number
of factors besides prices and rates including, but not limited to:
Execution capabilities (e.g., market expertise, ease/reliability/timeliness of execution,
responsiveness, integration with our existing systems, ease of monitoring
investments)
Products and services offered (e.g., investment programs, back-office services,
technology, regulatory compliance assistance, research and analytic services)
Financial strength, stability and responsibility
Reputation and integrity
Ability to maintain confidentiality
Brokerage Recommendations
Peak recommends that clients establish brokerage accounts with the Schwab Institutional
division of Charles Schwab & Co., Inc (“Schwab”), a FINRA-registered broker-dealer,
Member SIPC, to maintain custody of clients’ assets and to effect trades for their
accounts. Although Peak recommends clients establish accounts at Schwab, it is the
client’s decision to custody assets with Schwab. Peak is independently owned and
operated and not affiliated with Schwab.
Schwab provides Peak with access to its institutional trading and custody services, which
are typically not available to Schwab retail investors. These services generally are
available to independent investment advisors on an unsolicited basis, at no charge to
them so long as clients’ assets are maintained at Schwab Institutional. These services are
not contingent upon Peak committing to Schwab any specific amount of business (assets
in custody or trading commissions). Schwab’s brokerage services include the execution
of securities transactions, custody, research, and access to mutual funds and other
investments that are otherwise generally available only to institutional investors or would
require significantly higher minimum initial investment.
Schwab Institutional also makes available to Peak other products are services that benefit
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Peak but may not directly benefit clients’ accounts. Many of these products and services
may be used to service all or some substantial number of Peak’ accounts, including
accounts not maintained Schwab.
Schwab’s products and services that assist Peak in managing and administering clients’
accounts include software and other technology that
(i)
(ii)
(iii)
(iv)
(v)
provides access to client account data (such as trade confirmations and
account statements);
(ii) facilitate trade execution and allocate aggregated trade orders for multiple
client accounts;
(iii) provide research, pricing and other market data;
(iv) facilitate payment of Peak’s fees from some of its accounts; and
(v) assist with back-office functions, recordkeeping and client reporting.
Schwab Institutional also offers other services intended to help Peak manage and further
develop its business enterprise. These services may include:
(i)
(ii)
(iii)
compliance, legal and business consulting;
(ii) publications and conferences on practice management and business
succession; and
(iii) access to employee benefits providers, human capital consultants and
insurance providers.
Schwab Institutional may discount or waive fees it would otherwise charge for some of
these services or pay all or part of the fees of a third-party providing these services to
Peak. Schwab Institutional may also provide other benefits such as educational events or
occasional business entertainment of Peak personnel. While as a fiduciary, Peak
endeavors to act in its clients’ best interests, Peak’s recommendation that clients
maintain their assets in accounts at Schwab may take into account availability of some of
the foregoing products and services and other arrangements not solely on the nature of
cost or quality of custody and brokerage services provided by Schwab, which may create
a conflict of interest.
Directed Brokerage
Clients are allowed to select the broker-dealer that will be used for their accounts.
Clients directing the use of a particular broker/dealer or other custodian must understand
that Peak may not be able to obtain the best prices and execution for the transaction.
Under a client-directed brokerage arrangement, clients may receive less favorable prices
than would otherwise be the case if the client had not designated a particular
broker/dealer or custodian. Directed brokerage account trades are generally placed by
Peak after effecting trades for other clients of Peak. In the event that a client directs
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Peak to use a particular broker or dealer, Peak may not be authorized to negotiate
commissions and may be unable to obtain volume discounts or best execution. In
addition, under these circumstances a disparity in commission charges may exist
between the commissions charged to clients who direct Peak to use a particular broker or
dealer versus clients who do not direct the use of a particular broker or dealer.
Soft Dollar Benefits
An investment adviser receives soft dollar benefits from a broker-dealer when the
investment adviser receives research or other products and services in exchange for
client securities transactions or maintaining an account balance with the broker-dealer.
Peak utilizes the services of Charles Schwab & Co., Inc. While there is no direct linkage
between the investment advice given to clients and Peak’s participation in the Charles
Schwab & Co., Inc. program, economic benefits are received by Peak which would not
be received if we did not give investment advice to clients.
These benefits may be used for both research and non-research purposes and allows us to
supplement, at no cost, our own research and analysis activities. These benefits include:
a dedicated trade desk that services the program participants exclusively, a dedicated
service group and an account services manager dedicated to Peak’s accounts, access to a
real-time order matching system, the ability to “block” clients’ trades, electronic
download of trades, balances and position information, duplicate and batched client
statements, confirmations, year-end summaries, the ability to have advisory fees directly
debited from client accounts (in accordance with federal and state requirements),
availability of third-party research and technology, a quarterly newsletter, access to
mutual funds, and .
The benefits received through participation in the Charles Schwab & Co., Inc. program
do not depend upon the amount of transactions directed to or amount of assets managed
through Charles Schwab & Co., Inc.
Research obtained with soft dollars is not necessarily utilized for the specific account
that generated the soft dollars. We do not attempt to allocate the relative costs or
benefits of research among clients because we believe that, in the aggregate, the research
we receive benefits all clients and assists us in fulfilling our overall duty to you.
These arrangements are deemed to create a conflict of interest to the extent that we
would have to pay for some or all of the research and/or services with “hard dollars” if
we were unable to obtain the research and services in exchange for commissions in
connection with client transactions. Client trades are always implemented based on the
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goals and objectives of the client and not on any research, products or other incentives
available.
Block Trading Policy
Investment advisors may elect to purchase or sell the same securities for several clients
at approximately the same time when they believe such action may prove advantageous
to clients. This process is referred to as aggregating orders, batch trading or block
trading. Peak does not engage in block trading.
It should be noted that implementing trades on a block or aggregate basis may be less
expensive for client accounts; however, it is our trading policy to implement all client
orders on an individual basis. Therefore, we do not aggregate or “block” client
transactions.
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Item 13: Review of Accounts
All client accounts are periodically review by Mr. Mueller, at least on a quarterly basis.
Such review involves comparing the portfolio to those goals and objectives established
by both Peak and the client. Any changes, if needed, are made as a result of these
reviews.
Peak provides a written Portfolio Statement to each and every client at the end of each
calendar quarter. In addition, written investment performance reports are provided to
clients on a quarterly basis, showing the portfolio’s investment performance as compared
to relevant and predetermined benchmarks.
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Item 14: Client Referrals and Other Compensation
Peak does not receive any compensation for providing investment advice, other than that
received directly from clients. In addition, neither Peak nor any related persons provide
compensation to any person or entity for client investment advisory referrals.
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Item 15: Custody
Since Peak deducts client investment management fees directly from client accounts, the
firm is deemed to have constructive custody of those assets. In order to address this
custody issue the firm does the following:
1. Peak secures written authorization from the client prior to deducting fees from
their account.
2. The custodian sends portfolio statements directly to the client, showing the fee
deduction from their account.
3. Peak sends a written invoice to the client showing how the fee was calculated
and that it was going to be deducted from the client’s account.
Clients are urged to carefully review statements they receive, both from the
broker/custodian and from Peak. In addition, clients should compare these statements to
insure that appropriate fee amounts are being deducted from their accounts and that
information on the statements are consistent and proper.
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Item 16: Investment Discretion
Peak accepts discretionary authority to manage securities accounts on behalf of most
clients. Some clients, while granting discretion, request that some investments not be
purchased for their account. For example, some clients prohibit the purchase of
investments involved with the tobacco industry. Investment contract letters typically
outline the level of discretion Peak will have over that client’s investment accounts.
Limitations on investments are usually documented from client interviews and noted in
the client’s file at Peak.
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Item 17: Voting Client Securities
Peak does not accept authority to vote client securities on behalf of the client.
Clients are responsible for voting on all securities held in their account. The custodian
forwards proxies and other solicitations directly to the client, as required by law. Clients
can contact Peak with any questions about a particular solicitation, either by phone, letter
or email.
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Item 18: Financial Information
Peak does not require or solicit the prepayment of more than $1,200 in client fees, six
months or more in advance.
Peak does not have any financial condition that is reasonably likely to impair the firm’s
ability to meet the contractual commitments to clients.
Peak has not been the subject of a bankruptcy petition at any time, including the last 10
years.
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Item 19: Requirements for State-Registered Advisers
Richard A. Mueller is the only individual authorized to provide investment advisory
services on behalf of Peak. Mr. Mueller was born in 1961 and has a BA in Accountancy
from the University of Illinois and an MBA from the University of Chicago. He has been
employed in the investment research and management business since 1986 and is both a
CPA (1983) and CFA (1989). As required by many state securities regulations, he has
passed the NASD Series 65 exam (1994).
PRIVACY POLICY
Commitment to Your Private Information: Peak has a policy of protecting the
confidentiality and security information we collect about our clients. We do not, and will
not, share nonpublic personal information about you (“Information”) with outside third
parties without your consent, except for the specific purposes described below. This notice
has been provided to you to describe the Information we may gather and the situations under
which we may need to share it.
Why We Collect and How We Use Information. We limit the collection and use of
Information within our firm to only those individuals associated or employed with us that
must have Information to provide financial services to you. Such services include
maintaining your accounts, processing transaction requests, providing financial
consultations, and other services described in our Form ADV.
How We Gather Information. We get most Information directly from you when you
provide us with information from any of the following sources:
Applications or forms (for example: name, address, social security number, birth
date, assets, income, financial history)
Transactional activity in your account (for example: trading history and account
balances)
Information services and consumer reporting sources (for example: to verify your
identity or to assess your credit history)
Other sources with your consent (for example: your insurance professional, attorney,
or accountant)
How We Protect Information. Our employees and affiliated persons are required to
protect the confidentiality of Information and to comply with our stated policies. They may
access Information only when there is an acceptable reason to do so, such as to service your
account or provide you with financial services. Employees who violate our Privacy Policy
are subject to disciplinary action, up to and including termination from employment with us.
We also maintain physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards to protect information,
which comply with applicable SEC, state, and federal laws.
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Sharing Information with Other Companies Permitted Under Law. We do not disclose
Information obtained in the course of our practice except as required or permitted under law.
Permitted disclosures include, for instance, providing information to unrelated third parties
who need to know such Information in order to assist us with providing services to you.
Unrelated third parties may include broker/dealers, mutual fund companies, insurance
companies, and the custodian with which your assets are held. In such situations, we stress
the confidential nature of information being shared.
Former Customers. Even if we cease to provide you with financial products or services,
our Privacy Policy will continue to apply to you and we will continue to treat your nonpublic
information with strict confidentiality.
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Item 1: Cover Page
Part 2B of Form ADV: Brochure Supplement
Richard A. Mueller
5825 Delmonico Drive, Suite 310
Colorado Springs, CO 80919
(719) 260-6475
Peak Investment Advisors, Inc.
5825 Delmonico Drive, Suite 310
Colorado Springs, CO 80919
(719) 260-6475
Other office Location
Private Residence
Venice, FL 34293
May July March 2025August 2024
This brochure supplement provides information about Richard A. Mueller that
supplements the Peak Investment Advisors, Inc. brochure. You should have received a
copy of that brochure. Please contact Mr. Mueller if you did not receive Peak Investment
Advisors’ brochure or if you have any questions about the contents of this supplement.
Additional information about Richard A. Mueller is available on the SEC’s website at
www.adviserinfo.sec.gov.
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Item 2: Educational Background and Business Experience
Since Richard A. Mueller is the only individual currently authorized to provide
investment advisory services on behalf of Peak Investment Advisors, Inc., all the
information required to be included in this Brochure Supplement is provided in Part 2A
above and such information is hereby incorporated by reference. This Brochure is a
combined filing of Part 2A and 2B of Form ADV.
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