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FORM ADV PART 2A:
BROCHURE
R O C K E F E L L E R G L O B A L F A M I L Y O F F I C E
( A D I V I S I O N O F R O C K E F E L L E R & C O . L L C )
45 Rockefeller Plaza, Fifth Floor
New York, NY 10111
212-549-5100
http://www.rockco.com
As of August 2025
This brochure provides information about the qualifications and business
practices of the Rockefeller Global Family Office (the “Global Family Office”), a
division of Rockefeller & Co. LLC (“Rockefeller & Co.”), which is an investment
adviser registered with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission
(the “SEC”). If you have any questions about the contents of this brochure, please
contact us at RCM.FormADV@rockco.com. The information in this brochure has
not been approved or verified by the SEC or by any state securities authority.
Registration with the SEC does not imply a certain level of skill or training.
Additional information about Rockefeller & Co. is available at the SEC’s website at
www.adviserinfo.sec.gov.
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ITEM 2: MATERIAL CHANGES
Item 11: Code of Ethics; Personal Trading; Conflicts of
Interest ............................................................................... 32
Item 12: Brokerage Practices............................................. 42
Item 13: Review of Accounts ............................................ 44
Item 14: Client Referrals and Other Compensation .......... 44
Item 15: Custody ............................................................... 45
Item 16: Investment Discretion ......................................... 45
Item 17: Voting Client Securities; Class Actions ............... 46
The following is a summary of material changes to the
advisory business of the Rockefeller Global Family Office
(the “Global Family Office”), a division of Rockefeller &
Co. LLC (“Rockefeller & Co.”), since the firm filed its prior
annual update to Form ADV Part 2A (the “Brochure”) with
the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”)
on April 19, 2025. We encourage all clients to review this
Brochure and to contact your Private Advisor if you have any
questions.
Item 18: Financial Information .......................................... 47
ITEM 4: ADVISORY BUSINESS
Item 5: This section has been updated to disclose the
implementation of a Relationship Fee for the “Legacy
Platform” and “Permitted Arrangements” accounts effective
October 1, 2025, excluding Title 1 ERISA accounts.
A. Introduction
In addition, disclosures regarding the firm’s use of the
Rockefeller Private Wealth Advisory Program, a wrap fee
program sponsored by Rockefeller Financial, LLC; the fees
and compensation charged to clients for certain services; and
Private Advisor compensation arrangements and investment
risk considerations have been amended.
Moreover, the Global Family Office routinely makes updates
throughout the Brochure to improve and clarify the
description of our business practices as well as to respond to
evolving industry best practices.
This Brochure describes the investment advisory, financial
planning and family office services offered by Rockefeller
& Co LLC’s (Rockefeller & Co.” or the “Firm”) wealth
management division referred to as the Global Family Office
(the “Global Family Office” or “RGFO”), which serves the
needs of ultra-high net worth and high net worth individuals,
their families, family offices and related entities like trusts,
estates, endowments and foundations, as well as pension and
profit sharing plans, charitable organizations, corporations
and other business entities, sovereign nations and certain
non-U.S. individuals and entities.
ITEM 3: TABLE OF CONTENTS
Item 1: Cover Page ............................................................. 1
Item 2: Material Changes ................................................... 2
Item 3: Table of Contents ................................................... 2
Item 4: Advisory Business .................................................. 2
Item 5: Fees and Compensation........................................ 13
The Firm also does business under the name Rockefeller
Capital Management. Rockefeller Capital Management is a
trade name utilized to describe the entirety of the business
engaged in by the Rockefeller Capital Management, L.P.
subsidiaries, which includes Rockefeller Financial LLC.
Rockefeller Global Family Office is a trade name used to
describe the wealth management business of Rockefeller &
Co. and its affiliate, Rockefeller Financial.
Item 6: Performance-Based Fees and Side-by-Side
Management ..................................................................... 20
Item 7: Types of Clients .................................................... 21
Item 8: Methods of Analysis, Investment Strategies and
Risk of Loss ...................................................................... 21
Item 9: Disciplinary Information ...................................... 30
Item 10: Other Financial Industry Activities and Affiliation
.......................................................................................... 30
Rockefeller Financial is an investment adviser registered
with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the
“SEC”) and a registered broker-dealer with the SEC and a
member of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc.
(“FINRA”). Rockefeller & Co. also acts as subadviser to
U.S. and non-U.S. investment advisers, including firms that
manage investments on behalf of variable life insurance
policies, variable annuity policies and other variable
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contracts. Clients receive personalized investment advice
and guidance from their Global Family Office private
advisor (“Private Advisor” or “PA”), who is supported by
other professionals within the Global Family Office and its
affiliates.
services
through a
stakes held by a U.S. affiliate of IGM Financial Inc.
(“IGM”), a trust representing the Rockefeller family, and
current and former members of RCM’s management and
individual members of the Rockefeller family. Viking and
IGM are not involved in the day-to-day management of
RCM or its subsidiaries. No employee, officer, director, or
other representative of Viking or IGM, or any of their
respective controlled affiliates, is a member of any
committee of RCM or its subsidiaries that determines which
products or services are offered or sold to clients. Please
refer to Schedule A of Rockefeller & Co.’s Form ADV Part
1A for additional information about the ownership of the
firm.
Rockefeller & Co. and its affiliates offer additional
investment advisory services which are not described in this
Brochure. Specifically, Rockefeller & Co. offers investment
management
separate division,
Rockefeller Asset Management (“RAM”). Additionally,
Rockefeller & Co.’s affiliate, Rockefeller Financial, LLC
investment advisory
(“Rockefeller Financial”), offers
services to its clients and sponsors a wrap fee program in its
capacity as a dually registered investment adviser and
broker-dealer. Separate brochures describing the asset
management services offered by RAM and the investment
advisory services and wrap fee program offered by
Rockefeller Financial are available on the SEC’s website at
www.adviserinfo.sec.gov/ or may be obtained by contacting
us by email at RCM.FormADV@rockco.com. Rockefeller
Financial also offers brokerage and other services to its
clients.
B. Firm Overview
The Global Family Office is a division of Rockefeller & Co.,
which is a Delaware limited liability company that is
registered with
the U.S. Securities and Exchange
Commission (the “SEC”) as an investment adviser under the
Investment Advisers Act of 1940, as amended (the “Advisers
Act”).
RCM’s operating subsidiaries include: Rockefeller & Co. an
investment adviser registered with the SEC providing
investment advisory and family office services through its
Global Family Office division and investment management
services through its RAM division; Rockefeller Asset
Management International Ltd. (“RAM International”), a
UK limited company performing non-US distribution and
investor servicing activities for RAM; Rockefeller Financial,
a broker-dealer and investment adviser registered with the
SEC providing private wealth management services,
securities services and strategic advice; Rockefeller Trust
Company, N.A., a national trust bank regulated by the Office
of the Comptroller of the Currency (“RTC NA”) and The
Rockefeller Trust Company (Delaware), a limited purpose
trust company regulated by the State Bank Commissioner of
the State of Delaware (“RTC Delaware”), both of which
provide fiduciary services acting either as a trustee, co-
trustee, executor, co-executor, or as a fiduciary or agent for
other fiduciary relationships; and Rockefeller Capital
Management Insurance Services, LLC (“RCM Insurance
Services”), an insurance company licensed in all 50 states
that provides access to a broad range of personal insurance
expertise and services through multiple national providers to
enable effective estate planning, asset protection or other key
wealth management planning strategies and priorities.
Rockefeller & Co.’s history, through its predecessors, dates
to 1882 when John D. Rockefeller established a New York
office to manage the Rockefeller family’s investment,
personal, and philanthropic interests. Rockefeller & Co.’s
immediate predecessor, Rockefeller & Co., Inc. was
incorporated in 1979 and in 1980 registered with the SEC as
an investment adviser under the Advisers Act.
Unless otherwise specified, references herein to “clients” or
“you” refer to advisory clients of the Global Family Office
and the descriptions of investment advisory and family
office services and business practices in this Brochure refer
to those of the Global Family Office and not to the advisory
services and business practices of RAM or of other affiliates,
including Rockefeller Financial, RTC NA, RTC Delaware,
and RCM Insurance Services.
Rockefeller & Co. is now an indirect, wholly owned
subsidiary of Rockefeller Capital Management L.P.
(“RCM”). RCM was established on March 1, 2018, when
Gregory J. Fleming, together with investment funds
affiliated with Viking Global Investors, L.P. (“Viking”),
acquired the investment advisory and trust company
businesses established by the Rockefeller family. Today,
RCM is majority owned by the Viking funds, with minority
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C. Investment Advisory Services
The Global Family Office makes available discretionary and
nondiscretionary investment advisory services to advisory
clients of the firm across a broad range of asset classes and
investments as described below. The scope of services can
vary depending on the needs of the client.
or recommendations at the firm. We do not offer or
recommend every investment manager, investment or
strategy available in the industry. Investment managers that
Private Advisors may recommend include both firms
unaffiliated with the Global Family Office and affiliated
firms such as RAM, a division of Rockefeller & Co. Please
see Item 11 – Conflicts of Interest below for a more
comprehensive discussion of the conflicts associated with
Affiliated Investment Products (as defined below).
1. Discretionary Advisory Services
You are encouraged to, and are responsible for, promptly
notifying your Private Advisor in writing of any material
changes in your objectives or financial situations.
The Global Family Office has full discretionary authority to
make investments in a client’s account in a manner
consistent with agreed upon investment objectives and
reasonable restrictions for the particular client account. We
have the authority to determine, without obtaining specific
client consent, the securities to be bought or sold and/or
managed strategies to be invested in/divested of, and the
amount of the securities to be bought or sold and/or managed
strategies to be invested in/divested of.
You may obtain information about your Private Advisor,
their licenses, educational background, employment history,
and disciplinary actions with regulators in their Form ADV
Part 2B and through FINRA BrokerCheck, available at
https://brokercheck.finra.org or from the Securities and
Exchange Commission at www.adviserinfo.sec.gov.
2. Non-Discretionary Advisory Services
Clients engage the Global Family Office to advise on their
investments, but the Global Family Office must obtain client
consent prior to funding, liquidating and effecting securities
transactions in their managed non-discretionary accounts.
Please refer to Item 4 for further information about the
different types of advisory services available to clients.
Some of our Private Advisors hold professional educational
credentials, such as the Certified Financial Planner (CFP)
and Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designations.
Holding a professional designation typically indicates that a
Private Advisor has completed certain courses or continuing
education. However, a Private Advisor’s professional
designation does not change the obligations of the Global
Family Office in providing investment advisory services to
you.
It is important to understand that the investment advisory
services, family office services and executive benefits
services the Global Family Office makes available to clients
are separate and distinct from services and products offered
by our affiliates (including RAM, unless pursuant to legacy
arrangements whereby a client receives RAM’s investment
management services under their client agreement with the
Global Family Office as described below), and that our
affiliated services and products which you may use may be
governed by different
laws and separate contractual
arrangements between you and Rockefeller & Co. or its
affiliates. The specific services or investment strategies that
the Global Family Office provides to you, our relationship
with you and our legal duties to you are described in detail
in our contracts with you.
Our investment advisory process generally begins with
Private Advisors helping clients define
their goals,
objectives, and risk tolerances. Once these investment
parameters are agreed upon, your Private Advisor will
develop or refine, in consultation with you, an asset
allocation framework, provide strategic and tactical asset
allocation advice based upon this framework, subject to any
reasonable guidelines and restrictions agreed upon in writing
with you, and provide you with recommendations on a
variety of products, which may include, equity securities and
fixed income products, investment managers, mutual funds,
exchange traded funds and alternative investments including
but not limited to structured products and variable annuities.
You will receive account statements from your Custodian to
help inform and ensure that the products and services are in
line with your investment parameters.
When we act as your investment adviser, we typically
receive fees calculated on a percentage of assets in your
While we offer an extensive list of investment options and
strategies, the offerings are limited to those approved for sale
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Financial, you will be electing to have a relationship with
Rockefeller Financial under which, on a transaction-by-
transaction basis, your Registered Representative will assist
you and give you recommendations which are suitable for
your account and in your best interest based on information
you provide to us. This is in contrast to an advisory
relationship in which we manage your account assets on a
discretionary or non-discretionary basis and monitor your
account in our capacity as an investment adviser. For more
information about Rockefeller Financial’s brokerage
services, benefits, risks, conflicts and costs, please see the
Rockefeller Financial LLC Client Relationship Brochure
which is available on our website (https://www.rockco.com/)
or upon request from your Registered Representative.
account (as discussed in more detail below). Accordingly, we
and our Private Advisors typically earn more when you
invest more in your advisory account, and we earn the same
advisory fee rate regardless of how frequently you trade. We
and/or our affiliates also receive payments and other benefits
from third parties, including from the sponsors of investment
products in which you invest and from certain custodians
with whom we have a business relationship. This creates an
incentive for us to recommend that you increase the assets in
your advisory accounts to increase our fees, invest in
investment products or use services that result in greater
compensation to us or our affiliates or provide other benefits
to us and/or our affiliates (including products and services
provided by us and our affiliates or those for which we
receive a portion of product-level fees that you pay).
in
Private Advisors who are also Registered Representatives of
Rockefeller Financial may place transactions for their
discretionary accounts prior to soliciting the same securities
in their non-discretionary advisory and brokerage client
accounts.
Certain Private Advisors are also investment adviser
representatives of our broker-dealer affiliate, Rockefeller
Financial, and
that capacity can make available
investment advisory programs and services offered by
Rockefeller Financial, including, its wrap-free program.
Financial
(each,
a
Please see Item 5 – Fees and Compensation and Item 11 –
Code of Ethics, Personal Trading; Conflicts of Interest for
additional information regarding associated conflicts of
interest.
D. Types of Investment Advisory Programs
Investment advisory services delivered by the Global Family
Office will generally be provided using the Rockefeller
Private Wealth Advisory Program (“RPWA Program” or the
“Program”), a wrap fee program sponsored by Rockefeller
Financial. Clients will receive tailored investment advisory
services from their Private Advisor utilizing the RPWA
Program which offers a wide variety of investment options
and robust reporting and technology capabilities. Please see
Rockefeller Financial LLC’s ADV Part 2A Wrap Fee
Brochure for more details.
to execute securities
Historically the Global Family Office has offered its
advisory services through an unbundled arrangement where
clients pay an advisory fee to the Global Family Office,
custody fees to their custodian, brokerage fees to brokers
utilized
transactions and other
investment related expenses (the “Legacy Platform”). The
Global Family Office continues to have clients who receive
investment advisory services under the Legacy Platform.
Certain Private Advisors are also registered representatives
of Rockefeller
“Registered
Representative”). If you enter into a brokerage arrangement
with Rockefeller Financial, our affiliate is compensated by
the commissions and fees you pay to it as well as through the
revenue it may receive from third parties that include the
sponsors of investment products held in your brokerage
account. Registered Representatives are eligible to receive
commissions from Rockefeller Financial in connection with
client brokerage transactions. This compensation structure
creates an incentive for Registered Representatives to
recommend investments in brokerage accounts that may
result in greater compensation than would be the case if such
investments were held in an advisory account or to
recommend that you trade frequently in a brokerage account.
In addition, this compensation structure creates an incentive
for Rockefeller Financial to offer products and services that
we or our affiliates create, offer products and services from
companies that offer revenue to our affiliates, and route
trades to Rockefeller Financial for execution. Brokerage
account services may be more appropriate than investment
advisory services if you do not want ongoing investment
advice or management of your account but instead desire
only periodic or on-demand recommendations and/or wish
to pay transaction-based compensation for those trades that
you authorize Rockefeller Financial to make on your behalf.
By utilizing brokerage account services of Rockefeller
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In some cases, Private Advisors who join the Global Family
Office from other firms are permitted to utilize custody or
brokerage platforms for certain of their clients who wish to
retain service arrangements that existed before they became
(“Permitted
the Global Family Office
clients of
Arrangements”).
1. Rockefeller Private Wealth Advisory Program (RPWA
Program)
to
Clients receiving personalized investment advice and
guidance under an unbundled arrangement through the
Legacy Platform or Permitted Arrangements pay an
investment advisory fee and a Relationship Fee, as described
below, to the Global Family Office and are separately
charged custody fees by their custodian and brokerage
services fees for transactions executed by broker-dealers for
their account and other investment related expenses.
Investment management fees payable
investment
managers, including RAM, utilized in the client’s portfolio
are additional charges to the client (except in the case of
clients subject to historic fee schedules where the fee
charged covers both the investment advisory services
provided by the Global Family Office and investment
management services provided by RAM as described in Item
5 below.) Clients accessing investment managers through
mutual funds and other investment vehicles will bear the fees
and expenses charged by such funds and vehicles in addition
to the advisory fees they pay to the Global Family Office.
Please refer to Item 5 for additional information about the
fees and expenses Clients bear under the Legacy Platform
and Permitted Arrangements.
Investment management
fees payable
We provide access to personalized investment advice and
guidance to clients utilizing the investment options and
capabilities of the RPWA Program, a wrap fee program
sponsored by and offered through our affiliate Rockefeller
Financial, LLC. Under this arrangement, our advisory
clients pay either a fixed fee or a fee calculated on a
percentage of assets to the Global Family Office to cover the
investment advice we provide as well as the trade execution
services, administrative expenses, and other fees and
expenses typically charged by Rockefeller Financial under
the RPWA Program. A portion of this fee is then paid to
Rockefeller Financial as compensation for providing these
services.
to
investment managers (including RAM) utilized in the
client’s portfolio are additional charges to the client. Certain
investment managers may elect to “trade away” from the
RPWA Program for best execution reasons, in which case
clients utilizing such investment managers will bear
brokerage commissions in addition to the wrap program fee.
Clients accessing investment managers through mutual
funds and other investment vehicles will bear the fees and
expenses charged by such funds and vehicles. Clients
utilizing the RPWA Program also bear an asset-based
Relationship Fee and a Platform Fee for all eligible accounts
excluding Title 1 ERISA account types.
Clients who receive advisory services from the Global
Family Office under the Legacy Program and Permitted
Arrangements engage a third-party broker-dealer or bank
custodian acceptable to the Global Family Office, such as
FNZ Trust Company LLC (“FNZ”), JP Morgan Private Bank
(“JP Morgan”), Northern Trust, Charles Schwab & Co., Inc.
(“Schwab”), and TD Ameritrade. The Global Family Office
has business arrangements in place with certain of these
third-party banks and broker-dealers. The Global Family
Office may utilize certain technology services offered to it
by Envestnet in order to aid in investment model creation,
delivery and maintenance, implementing trading algorithms,
analyzing contribution and disbursement
impacts on
portfolios and performing portfolio management functions
such as tax loss harvesting and rebalancing. In this context
Envestnet serves solely as a service provider and not an
investment adviser. Additional information about the Global
Family Office’s business arrangements with these qualified
custodians is provided below.
Additional information about the RPWA Program (a.k.a. the
“Program”), such as the fees and expenses that clients bear,
is provided in the Rockefeller Private Wealth Advisor
Program Wrap Fee Brochure (the “Wrap Brochure”). A copy
of the Wrap Brochure is available on the SEC’s Investment
Adviser Public Disclosure website
(https://adviserinfo.sec.gov/) and will be delivered by the
Global Family Office to clients who receive advisory
services from us under this program.
2. Legacy Platform and Permitted Arrangements
There are differences between the products and services
available to clients on the RPWA Program as compared to
Legacy Platform and Permitted Arrangements. For example,
the RPWA Program offers investment options, services, and
online access capabilities which are not available under other
in
platforms. Private Advisors can assist clients
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understanding these differences and in determining which
arrangement is better suited to their needs.
horizon, financial horizon, financial information, liquidity
needs, and other suitability factors, which could materially
change the information previously provided by you and
which you expect should be used by us to provide ongoing
advice.
advice
or
or
any
strategy
to purchase or sell an
Generally, the RPWA Program is designed for clients
seeking one or more of the following: to implement a
medium- to long-term investment plan; seeking and using
the advice and guidance of an investment professional either
in their self-directed accounts or by delegating management
of their assets to the firm or an investment manager;
preferring the consistency of asset-based fee pricing; and/or
who are looking for investment advice, custody, trading
and/or execution services in an all-inclusive account instead
of accessing those services separately. However, the RWPA
Program may not be appropriate for clients that prefer a
short-term investment horizon, have a desire to maintain
consistently high levels of cash or money market funds in
their accounts, prefer to maintain highly concentrated
positions or other holdings that will not be sold regardless of
market conditions, and/or anticipate continuous withdrawals
from their accounts.
The Global Family Office does not have discretionary
authority over client assets in investment consulting
accounts. Clients have sole discretion to accept or reject any
specific
investment
recommendation
individual
investment. Clients are also responsible for implementing,
or arranging for the implementation, any advice given by the
to pay any applicable
Global Family Office, and
commissions, charges, trails, and other account, brokerage,
or custody fees directly to their chosen custodian and other
providers. You may make investment-related decisions
contrary to the advice provided or make your own decisions
without the benefit of our advice. However, if you decide to
repeatedly disregard our investment advice, your account
may be better suited to a brokerage relationship in which you
pay brokerage commissions or other transaction-based
compensation instead of ongoing investment advisory fees.
4. Executive Benefit Services
The Global Family Office and its Private Advisors have a
financial incentive to recommend the RPWA Program to
clients. In addition to operational and administrative
benefits, use of the RPWA Program will increase revenue to
its affiliate, Rockefeller Financial, and potentially to
themselves under their compensation arrangements with the
Global Family Office and Rockefeller Financial. Please see
Item 11 – Conflicts of Interest below for a more
comprehensive discussion of the conflicts associated with
use of the RPWA Program and other services offered by the
Global Family Office and
its affiliates. Additional
information about the services available through the RPWA
Program is provided in its Wrap Brochure.
Under these types of investment consulting arrangements,
the Global Family Office may contract with an employer
who, as part of that employer’s employee benefits package,
engages the Global Family Office to provide certain
financial planning services to the employer’s executives.
The fees for such services are either paid by the employer,
by the employee or in part by the employer and in part by
the employee.
3. Investment Consulting Services
5. Rockefeller Retirement Plan Investment and
Consulting Services
specific
investment
buy
The Global Family Office offers non-discretionary
investment consulting services to clients. Under this type of
arrangement, your Private Advisor provides investment
including asset
advice on a non-discretionary basis,
allocation,
sell
and
recommendations, financial planning and other investment
advice and analyses. The Global Family Office will collect
certain information from you to assist in recommending and
providing the non-discretionary advisory services at the
initiation of services and periodically thereafter. You should
provide prompt notice to the Global Family Office of any
change in your investment objectives, risk tolerance, time
The Global Family Office offers services to plan sponsors
and other named fiduciaries (“Plan Sponsors”) of trustee
directed and participant directed retirement plans some of
which are subject to the Employee Retirement Income
Security Act ("ERISA") (each, a “Plan”). We also provide
nondiscretionary investment advisory services to sponsor
clients, which services encompass (1) Non-Discretionary
Investment Advisory Services and/or (2) Retirement Plan
Consulting Services to employer-sponsored retirement plans
and their participants. Depending on the type of Plan and the
specific arrangement with the Plan Sponsor, we may provide
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• Advice regarding selection of third-party advisors
and/or managers
• Advice regarding selection of qualified default
investment alternative (“QDIA(s)”)
• Advice regarding investment of trust funds
one or more of the below described services. Prior to being
engaged by the Plan Sponsor, we will provide our
Retirement Plan Investment Consulting Services Client
Agreement (“Retirement Plan Agreement”) that contains the
information required under Sec. 408(b)(2) of ERISA as
applicable.
b. Discretionary Investment Advisory Services
The Global Family Office does not have discretion nor any
authority over the Plan’s documents or in implementing any
aspect of the Plan’s investment program. It is the Sponsor’s
responsibility to adhere to the IPS in managing its
Retirement Plan and the menu of investment options made
available to Plan participants.
responsibility
to Rockefeller Financial
We will collect certain information from you to assist in
recommending and providing the services selected at the
initiation of services and periodically thereafter. You should
provide prompt written notice to the Global Family Office
of any change in Plan Sponsor information and any change
in the Plan’s investment objectives, guidelines, or similar
information, which could materially change the information
previously provided by you and which you expect should be
used by us to provide any advice.
The Global Family Office provides discretionary investment
advisory services to plan sponsor clients with respect to
investments or other assets held at one or more third‐party
custodians.
These services are designed to allow the plan fiduciary to
delegate
for
maintaining the plan’s designated investment alternatives
and qualified default investment alternatives in compliance
with the requirements of the Employee Retirement Income
Security Act of 1974 ("ERISA"). We will perform these
investment management services, and charge fees as
described in this Form ADV and the Agreement executed
with plan sponsor clients. We will perform these services as
an “investment manager” as defined under ERISA section
3(38) and as a “fiduciary” to the plan as defined under
ERISA section 3(21), where applicable.
a. Non-Discretionary Investment Advisory Services
As part of the discretionary investment advisory services, we
may provide, based on the plan fiduciary’s instructions, the
following services:
• Creation and Management of Plan‐Level
Investment Policy Statement (“IPS”)
• Selection, Monitoring and Replacement of
designated investment alternatives ("DIAs")
• Creation and Maintenance of Model Asset
Allocation Portfolios ("models")
• Selection and Replacement of third‐party advisors
and/or managers
The Global Family Office provides non-discretionary
investment advisory services to Plan Sponsor clients with
respect to investments or other assets held at one or more
third party custodians. These services are designed to allow
the Plan Sponsor to retain full discretionary authority or
control over assets of the Plan. We will solely be making
recommendations to the Plan Sponsor. We will perform these
non-discretionary investment advisory services through our
Private Advisors and charge fees as described in this Form
ADV and our Retirement Plan Agreement with you. If the
Plan is covered by ERISA, we will perform these investment
advisory services to the Plan as a “fiduciary” defined under
ERISA Section 3(21).
• Selection, Monitoring & Replacement of qualified
default investment alternatives ("QDIA(s)").
c. Retirement Plan Investment Consulting Services
following non-discretionary
The Plan Sponsor may engage us to perform one or more of
the
investment advisory
services to the Plan:
• Advice regarding establishing an investment
policy statement (“IPS”)
• Advice regarding selection of designated
investment alternatives (“DIAs”)
The Global Family Office’s Retirement Plan Consulting
Services are designed to allow our Private Advisors to assist
the Plan Sponsor in meeting its fiduciary duties to administer
the Plan in the best interests of the Plan participants and their
beneficiaries. Retirement Plan Consulting Services are
performed so that they would not be considered “investment
advice” under ERISA.
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the plan is subject to ERISA, we agree to be held to a
“fiduciary” standard of care with respect to our management
of the participant’s account.
rebalanced
assisting
plan
fiduciaries with
The Plan Sponsor may elect for our Private Advisors to assist
with a number of Retirement Plan Consulting Services
related to administrative support, service provider support,
investment monitoring support and participant services.
Depending on the specific client needs, services can range
from
committee
policies/procedures, fiduciary education, and assistance with
covered services providers. Additionally, services may
include assisting the plan committee with monitoring
investment performance and assistance with participant
enrollment meetings and participant investment education.
6. Rockefeller Personalized Plan Portfolios
Rockefeller Personalized Portfolios assets will be
monitored,
reallocated periodically
and
(typically quarterly) by Rockefeller to respond to deviations
resulting from market performance. Participants will receive
an account update statement periodically and can review and
update personal information at any time by calling the Plan’s
toll-free customer service number or by visiting the Plan’s
web site.
Enrolled participants must allocate all of their plan account
balance to the Rockefeller Personalized Portfolio assets.
Participants are under no obligation to use these services and
are freely able to use similar services offered by other firms.
Participants may cancel their participation in Rockefeller
Personalized Portfolios at any time.
7. Potential Additional Retirement Services Provided
Outside of the Retirement Plan Agreement
In plans for which we provide Retirement Plan Investment
and Consulting Services we may also provide a web-based,
managed account services to plan participants (“Rockefeller
Personalized Portfolios”). This program is not available to
all plans and depends upon the Plan Sponsor’s selection of
recordkeeper or custodian and authorization from the plan
sponsor.
In providing services for retirement plans, including Plans,
the Global Family Office may establish a separate client
relationship with one or more Plan participants or
beneficiaries. Such separate client relationships develop in
various ways, including, without limitation:
reflects
•
that
investment options and
•
allocation
of
assets
or
•
as a result of a decision by the Plan participant or
beneficiary to purchase services from us not
involving the use of Plan assets;
as part of an individual or family financial plan for
which any specific recommendations concerning
investment
the
recommendations relating to assets held outside of
the Plan; or
through a rollover of an Individual Retirement
Account ("IRA Rollover").
stocks,
Rockefeller Personalized Portfolios is a managed account
service for participants who wish to have an investment
manager select their investments from among the Plan’s
available investment options and manage their accounts for
them. Participants receive a personalized
investment
the Rockefeller Personalized
portfolio
the Participant’s
Portfolios
retirement timeframe, life stages, risk tolerance and overall
financial picture, including assets held outside the Plan (if
the participant elects to provide this information), which
may be taken into consideration when determining the
allocation of assets in the participant’s account Rockefeller
Personalized Portfolios does not provide advice for,
recommend allocations of, or manage a participant’s outside
or non-Plan assets. Moreover, Rockefeller Personalized
Portfolios will not include management services for
individual
self-directed brokerage accounts,
guaranteed certificate funds, employer-directed monies or
in-plan annuities.
Under Rockefeller Personalized Portfolios, the Plan Sponsor
will enter into a written agreement with Rockefeller
Financial and any plan participant enrolling in the service
will have to opt-in to the program. Rockefeller Financial will
have discretionary authority over allocating the participant’s
account, without participant approval of each transaction. If
If we are providing services to Plan participants or
beneficiaries separate from our providing services for their
Plans as part of our Retirement Plan Services, we will do so
through a separate agreement. If a Plan participant or
beneficiary desires to affect an IRA Rollover from the Plan
to an account advised or managed by the Global Family
Office, the Private Advisor will have a conflict of interest if
his/her fees in connection with providing services to such
participant or beneficiary are reasonably expected to be
higher than those we would otherwise receive in connection
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Clients may also engage the Global Family Office for
holistic financial planning and some or all of the family
office services described below. Certain of these services are
also made available to clients of Rockefeller Financial.
with the Retirement Plan Services. If a Plan participant or
beneficiary desires to affect an IRA Rollover from the Plan
to an account advised or managed by the Global Family
Office, we and your Private Advisor will earn compensation
on those assets, for example, through Client Fees based on
the assets in your account, and third-party payments
disclosed in this Brochure. This creates an incentive for us
to recommend and encourage the rollover of assets from the
Plan to us. We mitigate these conflicts by disclosing them
and by establishing policies and procedures, and risk-based
supervision to review these securities recommendations. The
fees charged for an IRA likely will be higher than those paid
through the Plan, and there can be other fees, including IRA
termination fees.
•
implementation.
• Holistic Financial Planning: Comprehensive
financial planning and advisory services including
access to a dedicated financial counselor for
personalized financial planning services, quarterly
net worth and cash flow reporting, quarterly income
tax advice and forecasting, trust and estate planning
advice and recommendations, insurance advisory
services, employee benefits and retirement planning
and lifestyle advisory services.
Investment Planning: Asset allocation design and
recommended
Investment
administration. Performance reporting. Alternative
investment planning (private equity, real estate, and
hedge funds). Coordination of multiple investment
relationships and advisors.
If
the Global Family Office or a Private Advisor
recommends moving retirement assets to the Global Family
Office, he or she is required to consider, based on the
information you provide, whether you will be giving up
certain investment-related benefits at the Plan or other
financial institution, such as the effects of breakpoints, rights
of accumulation, and index annuity caps, and has determined
that the recommendation is in your best interest for these
reasons:
advice
estate
• Trustee Services and Estate Planning: Sophisticated
wealth transfer planning. Summary and analysis of
estate plan. Testamentary document reviews and
tailored
planning
regarding
documents. GRATs, LLCs and other estate freeze
techniques. Family education on basic and
advanced concepts.
• Greater services and/or other benefits (including
holistic advice and planning) can be achieved with
the IRA;
• Consolidation of assets and availability of
consolidated statements and performance reports
would be beneficial to you; and
• The costs associated with the IRA are justified by
•
these services and benefits.
• Philanthropy Advisory: Foundation formation and
administration. Donor advised fund planning. Use
of appreciated securities for charitable purposes.
Pledge design and maintenance.
Insurance Advisory: Ongoing planning and analysis
of life, health, disability and property and casualty
insurance. Evaluation of overall risk issues.
The Private Advisor will disclose information about the
applicable fees charged by the Global Family Office in
connection with such IRA Rollover prior to opening an IRA
account. Any decision to effect a rollover or about what to
do with the rollover assets remain that of the Plan participant
or beneficiary alone.
foundation,
• Multi-Generational Financial Planning: Unified
financial snapshot, education planning, family
educational meetings, and many other topics.
• Bill Payment and Activity Reporting: Bill payment
and related bookkeeping and activity reporting
services for client and related entities (e.g.,
individuals,
corporations, LLCs,
partnerships, trusts).
these optional services, we may offer
In providing
participants and beneficiaries information on other financial
and retirement products or services offered by the Global
Family Office and our affiliates.
E. Family Office Services
• Financial Reporting Services: Preparation of
individual balance sheets and profit/loss statements;
reconciliation of checking, investment, and credit
card accounts; analysis of capital gains and losses
and unrealized gains and losses; consolidated net
worth statements; and pertinent
information
regarding outside investments (e.g.: capital calls,
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distributions, and return of capital); and a spending
analysis.
accordance with the investment mandate for the account and
the investment options available through the RPWA Program
or the Legacy Platform and under Permitted Arrangements.
Clients should communicate to their respective Private
Advisor in writing any changes in the client’s financial
situation or investment objectives.
• Tax Planning: Income tax planning based on multi-
year projections with the goal of minimizing tax
liabilities. Charitable, tax loss, investment interest
expense and multi-state tax planning.
• Human Capital Services: Outsourced payroll and
benefits administration for a client or
their
household employees and staff.
• Estate Settlement Advisory: Advise and assist
clients through the complexities of the estate
settlement process.
investment
restrictions will not apply
• Foundation Administration: Assist foundations with
processing, tracking and reporting on charitable
pledges, grants and distributions.
Clients may impose reasonable investment restrictions on
the management of their accounts which, if accepted by the
Global Family Office in writing, will apply until changed or
withdrawn by the client or until the Global Family Office
determines that the restriction is no longer reasonable or
prevents the efficient management of the account. Client
to
imposed
investments held through investments in mutual funds,
exchange traded funds and other comingled investment
vehicles, which have their own stated investment objectives
and policies.
• Financial Education: Comprehensive financial
education curriculum created for all skill levels and
ages delivered
through both customized and
standardized in-person or virtual sessions. Topics
include Personal Finance; Planning for the Future;
Wills, Trusts and Estates, US Tax Basics; Investing;
Impact; Philanthropy; and
Sustainability and
Entrepreneurship.
F. Account Opening Process
We reserve the right to deem any proposed investment
restriction to be unreasonable and to not accept the proposed
investment restriction. If one or more investment restrictions
is determined to be unreasonable, we may not be able to
accept management of the account. If you elect to restrict
investments, you accept any effect such restrictions may
have on the investment performance and diversification of
your portfolio. The performance of accounts with investment
restrictions or screens will differ from, and may be lower
than, the performance of accounts without such restrictions
or screens.
2. Affiliated Investment Products and Affiliated
Services Providers
In order for the Global Family Office to be your investment
adviser, clients must execute an investment advisory
agreement or
investment consulting agreement with
Rockefeller & Co. and, if receiving family office services, a
separate family office services agreement (each, a “Client
Agreement”). Each Client Agreement sets forth the terms
upon which investment advisory services, investment
consulting services and/or family office services will be
provided to the Client.
Rockefeller & Co. does not custody client funds and/or
securities on behalf of Global Family Office clients. Client
assets will be maintained with banks or broker-dealers that
serve as custodians of the funds and/or securities of the
firm’s clients (the “Custodian”).
G. Available Service Features
1. Customized Advisory Services and Client
Restrictions
The Global Family Office makes available to clients equity,
fixed income, and alternative investment strategies managed
by RAM, a division of Rockefeller & Co. Clients may
participate in these strategies through separately managed
separately managed account
account arrangements,
platforms, registered
investment companies, exchange
traded funds, interval funds, private funds and offshore
vehicles advised or sub-advised by RAM. Please refer to
RAM’s Form ADV Part 2A for additional information about
the investment strategies it makes available to clients and its
business practices. From time to time the Global Family
Office expects to make available and/or recommend to
eligible clients certain private funds and other investment
vehicles sponsored by Viking and IGM, which as described
above have ownership interests in Rockefeller Capital
As discussed above, the Global Family Office will tailor its
advisory services to the individual needs of clients in
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Management LP (“RCM”). The Global Family Office may
also recommend the investment products sponsored by
investment managers in which Rockefeller & Co. or its
affiliates is a minority owner or has a profits interest in, such
as Breakout Capital (as described in Item 11).
including both
combination of those methods, or (2) without a separate
charge as part of the overall services provided to a client. In
addition, the Global Family Office also offers financial
planning as a component of the Global Family Office
Counseling program for which clients pay a bundled fee.
Please refer to Item 5 for additional information about the
fees charged for financial planning as well as the Global
Family Office Counseling service.
In order to provide access to third party investment
managers,
traditional and alternative
investments such as hedge funds, private equity funds,
venture capital funds, etc. as well as direct private equity
investments, Rockefeller & Co. establishes funds of funds
and feeder vehicles to facilitate client investments in such
opportunities. Information about the investment objective,
investment program, fees, risk considerations and conflicts
of interest, will be disclosed to clients in each fund’s
confidential private offering memorandum or prospectus.
The reports and analysis are for informational purposes only
and are based upon information provided by participating
clients and provide broad, general guidelines on the
advantages of certain financial planning concepts. The
reports and analysis do not constitute a recommendation of
any particular technique or of any particular investment.
These reports do not and will not replace any account
statements issued by a Custodian and should not be
construed as consolidated reports of any kind.
Clients of the Global Family Office may be referred to
affiliated companies for services, including but not limited
to brokerage services from Rockefeller Financial, fiduciary
services from RTC NA or RTC Delaware, strategic advisory
services from Rockefeller Financial, and insurance products
from RCM Insurance Services.
its RAM division
(“Affiliated
The reports and analysis do not provide on-going investment
advice and are current only as of the date of each respective
report. It is each client’s responsibility to determine what
action, if any, you wish to take based on the information
provided, and you are not required to transact business with
us if you choose to implement any aspects of a report. If
requested, the Global Family Office will only act upon your
specific instructions.
Certain reports and analyses may provide projections based
on various assumptions and are therefore hypothetical in
nature and not a guarantee of investment returns.
H. Regulatory Assets Under Management
Use of investment strategies, investment funds and other
investment products managed by Rockefeller & Co.,
including
Investment
Products”), Viking, IGM and Breakout Capital, as well as
services offered by affiliates of the Global Family Office
(collectively, “Affiliated Service Providers”) raises conflicts
of interest between the Global Family Office and its clients.
Please see Item 11 – Conflicts of Interest below for a more
comprehensive discussion of the conflicts associated with
Affiliated Investment Products.
As of December 31, 2024, Rockefeller & Co.’s regulatory
assets under management (“RAUM”) were:
3. Financial Planning Reports and Analysis
• RAUM: $32,587,849,166
o Discretionary RAUM: $29,601,183,621
o Non-Discretionary RAUM:
$2,986,665,545
The Global Family Office will provide clients who receive
Holistic Financial Planning services and other clients who
engage the firm for financial planning services, reports
and/or analysis on one or more financial planning topics,
including cash flows, income needs, asset allocation,
retirement and life insurance assessments, charitable giving,
estate and wealth transfer, and business succession.
The Global Family Office may provide financial planning
reports or analyses to clients, including: (1) on a one-time or
annual fee basis, either at a fixed dollar amount, hourly rate,
or on a percentage of assets covered in the reports, or a
Rockefeller & Co.’s RAUM reported above reflects the
aggregate assets managed by each of the firm’s RAM and
Global Family Office divisions. To the extent client assets
managed by the Global Family Office are invested in
Rockefeller Asset Management Strategies and Affiliated
Funds, the value of such assets are attributed to each of the
Global Family Office and Rockefeller Asset Management.
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separately from the Global Family Office or from other
firms, and the cost of obtaining services separately may be
more or less than the combined fees payable to the Global
Family Office and investment managers, including RAM.
While this has the effect of “double-counting” such assets in
RAUM, Rockefeller & Co. provides both private wealth
advisory services to the client and asset management
services to the separately managed account or managed
fund.
ITEM 5: FEES AND COMPENSATION
A. Investment Advisory Fees
The Global Family Office’s investment advisory fees are
generally based on a percentage of the client’s assets under
management.
1. Open Architecture Advisory Fee Schedule
Clients utilizing the RPWA Program through Rockefeller
Financial pay a “wrap fee” which covers the investment
advice provided as well as the trade execution services
through NFS, administrative expenses, and certain other fees
and expenses charged by Rockefeller Financial under the
RPWA Program. Clients also bear the fees and expenses of
investment products utilized in their portfolios. Certain
investment managers may elect to “trade away” from the
RPWA Program for best execution reasons, in which case
clients utilizing such investment managers will bear
brokerage commissions in addition to the wrap fee. Please
refer to the Wrap Brochure for a more complete description
of the fees charged to clients under the RPWA Program.
2. Legacy Platform - Combined Investment Advisory
and Investment Management Services Fee Schedule
The Global Family Office’s standard investment advisory
fee schedule is for open architecture services, which means
that clients pay an investment advisory fee to the Global
Family Office for investment advice and also bear the
investment management fees charged by
investment
managers, including RAM, utilized in the client’s portfolio.
Clients accessing investment managers (including RAM)
through mutual funds, exchange-traded funds, interval
funds, private funds and other investment vehicles bear the
fees and expenses charged by such funds and vehicles. Any
such investment management fees charged by investment
managers, including affiliated investment managers, will not
reduce the investment advisory fee payable by the client to
the Global Family Office.
The Global Family Office’s investment advisory fee is
generally charged as a percentage of a client’s assets under
management (including cash held for investment and
receivable balances). The maximum investment advisory fee
payable to the Global Family Office for open architecture
services is 2.00% annually.
The Global Family Office has employed different fee
schedules with clients historically and, in some cases, these
historical fee schedules remain in effect with respect to such
clients. Historic fee schedules typically charge an investment
advisory fee calculated as a percentage of assets under
management which covers the investment advisory services
provided by the Global Family Office and in some cases, the
investment management services provided by RAM
(“Combined Fee Schedule”). In some cases, clients under
historic fee schedules who invest in mutual funds, exchange
traded funds, closed end funds, interval funds and private
funds advised by RAM or sponsored by Rockefeller & Co. (
“Affiliated Funds”), bear the investment advisory fees
charged by the Affiliated Funds instead of the fees
determined under the client fee schedule (subject to
exceptions for certain investment products). Clients subject
to Combined Fee Schedules may continue to have this fee
arrangement applied to new advisory accounts that they
establish with the Global Family Office. In addition, the
Global Family Office may offer this fee schedule to new
clients on a case-by-case basis.
Fees charged by investment managers typically range from
0.10% to 2.5% of assets under management. The fees
charged on alternative asset classes and complex investment
strategies tend to be higher than fees charged on traditional
asset classes and investment approaches. In certain cases,
investment managers may also receive a performance-based
fee or carried interest, in addition to an investment
management fee.
Certain legacy fee schedules that remain in effect with
advisory clients have breakpoints (asset level tiers and their
respective fee rates), and the advisory fees charged to clients
subject to such legacy fee schedules may be higher or lower
Clients may be able to obtain some or all of the services
offered by the Global Family Office and its affiliates
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than would be the case had the above fee schedule been
applied to their managed accounts.
typically charged fees based upon
Clients should review the fee terms specified in their
investment advisory agreements with the Global Family
Officer for information about the specific fee arrangement
applicable to their accounts.
3. Negotiability
& Co. by such Affiliated Funds. Affiliated Funds that hold
private equity, venture capital or other illiquid investments
are
the capital
commitments made by investors rather than the market value
of the Affiliated Fund, and in certain cases may pay a
“carried interest” to Rockefeller & Co. or an affiliate
Investors in Affiliated Funds also indirectly bear their pro
rata share of the fees and expenses of the Affiliated Funds,
which include but are not limited to the fees charged by third
party managers to the extent utilized, as well as custody fees,
brokerage fees, audit fees, legal fees, administration
expenses, operational expenses including third party service
provider fees and, in some cases, organizational expenses.
The Global Family Office’s fees can be negotiated and as a
result may differ among clients based on a number of
variables, including the type and size of the account or client
relationship, the client’s needs, complexity of the services
required, and types of assets. You should expect that the fees
you pay will differ from those paid by other clients of the
Global Family Office and your Private Advisor.
B. Rockefeller Relationship Fee
The investment advisory fees charged by Affiliated Funds
vary depending on the nature of their investment strategy
and normally range between 0.35% and 2.0% annually,
based on the market value of the assets invested in the
particular Affiliated Fund or capital commitments in the
context of Affiliated Funds that invest in private equity,
venture capital or other illiquid investments.
to as
Effective October 1, 2025, Eligible Accounts (as defined
below) will be subject to a 0.0035% (3.5 bps) annual asset-
based fee on all client assets under management within the
Legacy Platform and Permitted Arrangements (and together
with any RPWA Program Accounts, “Eligible Accounts”)
described herein, for the continued support of our wealth
management capabilities, which we refer
the
Rockefeller Relationship Fee (“Relationship Fee”). The
Relationship Fee will be charged in addition to the
investment advisory fee with respect to your Permitted
Arrangement or participation in the Legacy Platform.
Detailed information about each Affiliated Fund’s fees and
expenses is available in the fund’s prospectus or offering
documents. Rockefeller & Co. may, in its sole discretion,
waive all or any portion of its investment advisory fees
and/or administration fees due with respect to any investor’s
investment in an Affiliated Fund, by rebate or otherwise, for
any reason, without notice to or the consent of any other
investor in the Affiliated Fund. Rockefeller & Co. has
entered into such agreements with investors in certain of its
Affiliated Funds.
Rockefeller & Co. may agree (and in certain cases has
agreed) with a Global Family Office client to credit fees paid
by the client to an Affiliated Fund against an overall advisory
fee determined pursuant to the agreed upon fee schedule.
D. Retirement Plan Services Fees
The Relationship Fee will be charged quarterly in arrears
based on the closing market value of the assets in each
advisory account on the last business day of the billing
quarter adjusted for weighted net inflows and outflows
during the quarter. The Relationship Fee will not be charged
on assets greater than $75 million across Eligible Accounts
within a client’s household. The Relationship Fee does not
reduce or offset, the Global Family Office’s advisory fees or
any other fees and expenses borne by clients. Your Private
Advisor does not share in the Relationship Fee. The Global
Family Office may modify or discontinue to Relationship
Fee at any time.
C. Affiliated Funds Fees
Investment
The Retirement Plan Non-Discretionary
Advisory and Retirement Consulting Services
fees
(“Retirement Plan Fees”) are negotiable and vary based upon
the nature, scope, and frequency of our services as well as
the size and complexity of the plan. A general description of
the different types of fees for Retirement Plan Services
appears in the fee schedule below:
Clients invested in Affiliated Funds bear their proportionate
share of the investment management fee paid to Rockefeller
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total amount of fees to be paid by the client and to evaluate
the Retirement Plan Services being provided.
The Retirement Plan Fee that clients pay can be either an
asset-based fee or a flat dollar fee. The maximum asset-
based fee is 1.25% of assets under management or
advisement. Retirement Plan Services described are subject
to a minimum annual fee amount of $5,000.
In the event we receive any third-party payments or
subsidies in connection with our Retirement Plan Services,
we will disclose such fees to Plan Sponsors in accordance
with ERISA and Department of Labor regulations.
E. Rockefeller Personalized Portfolios
Depending upon the capabilities and requirements of the
Plan’s recordkeeper or custodian, we may collect our fee in
arrears or in advance. Typically, Plan Sponsors instruct the
Plan’s recordkeeper or custodian to automatically deduct our
fee from the Plan’s account; however, in some cases a Plan
Sponsor may request that we send invoices directly to the
Plan Sponsor or the Plan’s recordkeeper/custodian.
Participants who elect to enroll in Rockefeller Personalized
Portfolios will pay a program fee based on the participant's
average daily account balance, collected quarterly in arrears.
The program fees applicable to each account will not exceed
0.60% per annum and will be indicated on the executed
service agreement.
F. Family Office Services Fees
The Global Family Office charges clients receiving Holistic
Financial Planning services an annual retainer fee generally
ranging from $75,000 to $500,000, depending on scope and
complexity of the services required.
Plan Sponsors receiving Retirement Plan Services may pay
more than or less than a client might otherwise pay if
purchasing the Retirement Plan Services separately or
through another service provider. There are several factors
that determine whether the costs would be more or less,
including, but not limited to, the size of the Plan, the specific
investments made by the Plan, the number of or locations of
Plan participants, services offered by another service
provider, and the actual costs of Retirement Plan Services
purchased elsewhere. In light of the specific Retirement Plan
Services offered by us, the fee charged may be more or less
than those of other similar service providers.
For Wealth Strategy Planning Report and Analysis, clients
may be charged a fee ranging from $15,000 to $25,000 per
plan for engagements typically lasting 6 months. For clients
receiving ongoing Holistic Financial Planning services, this
cost of this service is typically covered in the agreed upon
annual retainer fee.
In determining the value of the Plan’s account for purposes
of calculating any asset-based fees, the Global Family Office
will rely upon the valuation of assets provided by Plan
Sponsor or the Plan’s custodian or recordkeeper without
independent verification.
The Global Family Office also offers certain family office
services (such as, for example, Bill Pay, Financial Reporting
and Tax Planning) on an unbundled basis for clients seeking
particular service offerings. Fees for individual service
offerings are typically established as either an annual fixed
fee or an hourly rate fee arrangement. The type of fee
arrangement and level of fees would depend on the nature
and scope of the Global Family Office’s responsibilities.
The fee paid to us for Retirement Plan Services is separate
and distinct from the fees and expenses charged by mutual
funds, variable annuities, exchange-traded funds, or other
product sponsors to their shareholders. These fees and
expenses are described in each investment’s prospectus.
These fees will generally include a management fee, other
expenses, and possible distribution fees. If the investment
also imposes sales charges, a client may pay an initial or
deferred sales charge. The Retirement Plan Services we
provide may, among other things, assist the client in
determining which investments are most appropriate to each
client’s financial condition and objectives and to provide
other administrative assistance as selected by the client.
Accordingly, the client should review both the fees charged
by the funds, the fund manager, the Plan’s other service
providers and the fees charged by us to fully understand the
In addition, the Global Family Office offers the Family
Office Counseling program whereby it provides certain of
the family office services discussed above to clients
depending on the type and level of services that the client
desires. Fees typically range from $35,000 to $75,000
annually. To enroll in the Family Office Counseling
program, clients execute a separate agreement and
addendum detailing the services selected as well as the
applicable annual fee that they will pay, a portion of which
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is shared with the client’s Rockefeller representative.
Financial planning reports and analyses are among the
services provided and are included in the fixed annual fee
that the client pays.
For its services as a trustee, executor or other fiduciary, or as
an agent, RTC NA or RTC Delaware, as the case may be,
receives the fees set forth in its respective fee schedule in
effect from time to time, unless a separate fee is otherwise
negotiated with the client.
Customized financial education is delivered by Rockefeller
Faculty Subject Matter Experts for a daily fee which is
agreed upon in advance with the client taking into
consideration factors such as the requested curriculum, level
of customization, whether sessions are held in-person or
virtually, and seniority and expertise of the professionals
leading the educational sessions.
Where RTC NA or RTC Delaware have delegated
investment management responsibilities to Rockefeller &
Co. or Rockefeller Financial, they generally pay a fee to the
Global Family Office or Rockefeller Financial that is based
upon the market value of the assets held in the fiduciary
account managed by
the Global Family Office or
Rockefeller Financial.
J. Payment of Fees
In certain cases, fees for Family Office Services may be
charged as a percentage of a client’s assets under
management.
G. Executive Benefits Services Fees
Fees for executive benefits services may be based on either
an annual fixed fee arrangement or as a percentage of assets
under advisement, as agreed with each client receiving such
services.
Generally, investment advisory fees for the Global Family
Office accounts are paid quarterly or monthly in advance and
are based on the market value of the assets under
management as of the beginning of the billing period. In
certain cases, our fees are paid quarterly or monthly in
arrears. RTC NA and RTC Delaware may determine their
fees monthly or quarterly in advance or in arrears.
H. Reporting Fees
An initial asset contribution after the first business day of
any quarter or month may be subject to a partial fee based on
the value of the assets and a proration for the number of days
applicable to the change. Fees are prorated to the date of
termination and any unearned portion of prepaid fees is
refunded to the client.
The Global Family Office provides reporting services to its
advisory and to non-advisory clients who engage the firm for
such services. Reporting fees are either charged pursuant to
a fixed fee arrangement or as a percentage of the market
value of the reporting assets.
I. Trust and Fiduciary Services Fees
the
transmittal of
The advisory fee is generally charged directly to the client’s
custody account, but in some cases may be invoiced to a
client for payment as agreed with the client. Depending on
the client’s custodian, an invoice may be sent to the client
simultaneously with
the payment
instructions to the custodian or the custodian remits the
Global Family Office’s fee from the client’s custody or
brokerage account and reflects the payment of the fee on the
client’s statement. Some clients prefer to make direct
payment after being issued an invoice. If a client account has
insufficient cash to pay the fees owed to the Global Family
Office, we can instruct the custodian to debit a client’s
account or use the client’s margin account, if available, to
pay our fees.
Rockefeller Trust Company, N.A. (“RTC NA”) and The
Rockefeller Trust Company (Delaware) (“RTC Delaware”),
affiliates of the Global Family Office, provide fiduciary
services acting either as a trustee, co-trustee, executor, co-
executor, or as a fiduciary or agent for other fiduciary
relationships. As part of these services, RTC NA and RTC
Delaware typically delegate to the Global Family Office or
Rockefeller Financial, on a discretionary basis, their power
and authority to provide investment management services
including investment advice to, and effecting investment
transactions on behalf of, the fiduciary accounts, when
investment management of the fiduciary account is required
as part of the fiduciary relationship.
Affiliated Funds generally pay investment advisory fees to
Rockefeller & Co. either quarterly or monthly in advance
based on the net asset value of the Affiliated Fund as of the
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• Transaction and deal fees, including costs of certain
co-investments made with third-party managers;
close of business on the first business day of each calendar
quarter or month or in such other manner as specified in the
Affiliated Fund’s offering and organizational documents.
• Processing fees;
• Waivable placement fees on private placement
offerings;
Annual retainer fees charged to clients receiving Holistic
Financial Planning services are generally payable quarterly
or monthly in arrears.
• Broker share class trail fees in the case of
investments in private placements made through
brokerage accounts;
• Fees,
including commissions, associated with
insurance
income and variable
certain fixed
products;
In the case of clients that receive a single or limited number
of Global Family Office Services, the Global Family Office
generally issues to the client either a letter setting forth the
annual service fee and/or an invoice for purposes of
payment. Depending on the scope of services, such fees may
be charged monthly, quarterly or at such other times as
agreed with the client, and payments may be due before the
start of such services, following the completion of such
services or in periodic installments. Fees may be debited
directly from client accounts or invoiced to clients for
payment.
• For clients with investments in structured products
that were transferred to their account at Rockefeller
Financial, clients may pay an
investment
management fee in addition to the placement fee;
• Transactions in American Depository Receipts
(“ADRs”) generally include certain embedded
execution costs, including conversion or creation
fees, foreign exchange costs and foreign tax
charges.
K. Other Fees and Expenses
Other fees and expenses that clients will be responsible for
(if applicable) in addition to the Global Family Office’s
investment advisory fees and Relationship Fee include, but
are not limited to, any one or a combination of the following:
• Certain other costs or charges that may be imposed
by third parties (including, among other things, odd-
lot differentials, transfer taxes, foreign custody fees,
exchange fees, supplemental
transaction fees,
regulatory fees and other fees or taxes that may be
imposed pursuant to law); and
• Costs, fees, and expenses incurred in connection
with conversion from one currency into another and
any hedging or currency transactions
• Brokerage and trading costs and expenses and
commissions
imposed by an affiliated or
unaffiliated broker-dealer, including “step out”
trades;
• Fees and expenses of third-party custodians;
• Fees and expenses payable to investment managers,
including affiliated investment managers;
• Other transaction fees and charges such as any fees
imposed by the SEC, wire transfer fees, fees
resulting from any special requests client may have,
the costs of margin or other borrowing
arrangements. In addition, the client’s custodian
may charge additional miscellaneous fees (e.g.,
account transfer or ACAT fees, IRA maintenance
fees).
• Fees and expenses of private funds, mutual funds,
and exchange-traded funds, as applicable, including
Affiliated Funds;
and
commissions
related
to
• Fees
certain
investments, including investments in precious
metals and certain options;
• Fees and expenses of money market funds that hold
•
Advisory fees payable by any client will not be reduced to
account for the above additional fees and expenses. For
clients enrolled in the RPWA Program, certain of the fees
listed above are included in the overall wrap free charged to
such clients. Please refer to the Wrap Brochure for
additional information about the RPWA Program’s fees and
expenses.
cash balances;
“Mark-ups,” “mark-downs,” and dealer spreads that
broker-dealers (including Rockefeller Financial)
receive when acting as principal or as agent (which
is typically the case for dealer market transactions
in fixed income and over-the-counter equity) in
certain transactions where permitted by law;
If a client’s assets are invested in any mutual funds,
exchange traded funds, private funds, interval funds or
pooled investment vehicles, in addition to the advisory fee
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In addition, certain Private Advisors participate in deferred
compensation plans which can have payments that are tied
to RCM’s overall enterprise value.
The firm’s Private Advisor compensation arrangements
create a financial incentive for Private Advisors to seek to
increase the overall revenue the Global Family Office and its
affiliates receive from their clients.
charged by the Global Family Office, the client will incur the
internal management and operating fees and expenses,
which in the case of mutual funds may include 12b-1 fees,
investment management and/or performance-based fees,
redemption/early termination fees (which include fees on
whole or partial liquidations of the client’s assets in the
investment vehicles) and other fees and expenses that may
be assessed by the investment vehicle’s sponsor, custodian,
transfer agent, adviser, shareholder service provider or other
service providers. These expenses from time to time include
administration, distribution, transfer agent, custodial, legal,
audit and other fees and expenses.
Further information regarding charges and fees assessed
may be found in the appropriate prospectus, offering
memorandum, annual report and/or custodial agreement
applicable to the corresponding investment vehicle.
The Custodian selected by the client may charge certain fees
and expenses in addition to the fees and charges shown
above. Please consult the account documentation for
information about the fees your custodian charges for the
services it provides.
For clients that participate in the RPWA Program, the
amount of the compensation received by a Private Advisor
may be more or less than what the Private Advisor would
receive if such clients participated in other investment
investment advice,
programs or paid separately for
brokerage and other services through the Global Family
Office or another firm. Similarly, the compensation received
by a Private Advisor for clients participating in other
investment programs or paying separately for investment
advice, brokerage and other services may be more or less
than what the Private Advisor would have received if the
same client participated in the RPWA Program. Private
Advisors do not receive a portion of the Platform Fee or
Relationship Fee charged to accounts utilizing the RPWA
Program or the Relationship Fee for accounts advised under
the Legacy Platform or Permitted Arrangements.
L. Compensation of Private Advisors
incentives for Private Advisors
to
Private Advisors are typically compensated, on an ongoing
basis, based on a portion of the fees paid by their clients to
the Global Family Office and its affiliates. If the fee rate
charged to a client is below certain thresholds, your Private
Advisor will be compensated at a lower rate or not at all with
respect to the client’s account. Therefore, Private Advisors
have a financial incentive not to negotiate or reduce the fees
clients pay to the Global Family Office below those
thresholds. In addition, Private Advisors that manage client
assets directly receive a greater percentage of the total client
fee than Private Advisors that engage third-party managers
for such clients, which creates an incentive for Private
Advisors to recommend or elect to manage client assets
directly, even in a situation in which a client may benefit
from the engagement of a third-party. Private Advisors are
also less likely to negotiate (or provide smaller discounts)
for arrangements using third-party managers than where the
Private Advisor manages the assets directly.
that
Private Advisors moving their practices to the Global Family
Office or Rockefeller Financial often receive a cash loan
shortly after they begin employment with the firm; and, if
eligible, continuing cash bonuses or other financial
incentives based on attaining certain revenue or asset goals
relative to the target revenue or assets that the particular
Private Advisor indicated he or she could establish as a
Private Advisor at the firm. If a Private Advisor achieves a
particular revenue goal, the Private Advisor receives not
only the related cash bonuses, but also a cash loan in the
amount of the related cash bonuses. The revenue-based and
asset-based cash bonuses described in this paragraph create
financial
increase
revenues and/or asset levels, as applicable, in order to
achieve the goals necessary to receive the revenue-based
and/or asset-based cash bonuses and, as such, create
conflicts of interest for Private Advisors. The firm mitigates
this conflict of interest by imposing suitability requirements
and maintaining a supervisory system
includes
surveillance reviews, conducting periodic supervisory visits
and compliance inspections and audits. This conflict of
interest is further mitigated by fiduciary obligations and
Certain Private Advisors are compensated differently and
instead receive an annual salary and a discretionary bonus
that considers their clients’ overall revenue generation to the
Global Family Office and its affiliates as a significant factor.
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regulatory and compliance rules and procedures to which the
Global Family Office and the Private Advisors are subject.
The Global Family Office has financial and other incentives
to recommend that clients utilize the RPWA Program over
the Legacy Platform and other Permitted Arrangements
because it contains features (e.g., the Platform Fee, margin
and lending services, cash sweeps and investment solutions)
that increase revenues to the Global Family Office and its
affiliates and permit the firm to better scale its advisory
services platform.
Private Advisors have a financial incentive to recommend
that Client’s utilize the RPWA Program over the Legacy
Platform and other Permitted Arrangements because it
contains features (e.g., margin and lending services) that can
increase compensation payable to Private Advisors. To the
extent clients utilize margin in their brokerage accounts at
National Financial Services under the RPWA Program (the
“NFS Margin Program”), their Private Advisors also are
compensated through a portion of the revenue generated
from such arrangements. The receipt of such compensation
creates an incentive for the Global Family Office and its
Private Advisors to recommend that clients utilize the RPWA
Program and the NFS Margin Program. Clients should refer
to the “Margin and Lending Services” section in the
Rockefeller Financial Wrap Fee Brochure for further details
on the NFS Margin Program and how the firm mitigates such
conflict of interest.
In addition to the fees and commissions the Rockefeller
Global Family Office and Rockefeller Financial receive
their
through
investment advisory and broker-dealer
services,
the Rockefeller Global Family Office and
Rockefeller Financial receive compensation from other
sources, which creates a conflict of interest, as the increased
income available from these sources incentivizes us to direct
investments and services to mutual fund companies,
investment managers, third-party managers, providers of
model portfolios, and/or other companies that pay us these
fees including third party custodians.
Rockefeller Financial has entered into revenue sharing
arrangements with providers of certain alternative
investment providers, and also receives trailing and other
fees pursuant to certain arrangements. As described further
below in Item 11 – Conflicts of Interest, this additional
revenue creates an incentive for Rockefeller Financial to
recommend and provide access to alternative investment
vehicles.
Private Advisors who are Registered Representatives of
Rockefeller Financial are able to offer clients a broad range
of brokerage securities products and services. Registered
Representative also receive commissions in connection with
client brokerage transactions or are eligible to receive an
annual discretionary bonus which considers revenues
generated by their clients. This compensation structure
creates an incentive for Private Advisors who are registered
representatives of Rockefeller Financial to recommend
investments in a brokerage account that may result in greater
compensation than would be the case if such investments
were held in an advisory account or to recommend that you
trade frequently in a brokerage account. It also creates an
incentive for the Private Advisor to recommend products and
services for which more compensation would be received,
rather than based on a client’s investment profile or best
interests.
Rockefeller Financial will earn revenue from NFS on client
assets invested in the FDIC-insured bank deposit sweep
arrangement under the RPWA Program, creating another
incentive for the Global Family Office to recommend this
program to clients. As noted in the “Cash Sweep Services”
section below, the revenue received by Rockefeller Financial
will vary based on the cash sweep vehicle offered.
Rockefeller Financial seeks to address the foregoing
conflicts by disclosing them to clients, such as in this
Brochure.
Private Advisors who are registered insurance agents with
RCM Insurance Services receive commissions in connection
with the sale of insurance products and services to clients.
The receipt of this additional compensation creates an
incentive for the Private Advisor to recommend insurance
products and services for which more compensation would
be received, rather than based on a client’s needs.
M. Other Firm Compensation
From time to time, the Global Family Office and its Private
Advisors also will receive other compensation from mutual
fund companies and other sponsors whose products are made
available to clients. Such companies may sponsor their own
conferences for training and educational purposes, which
certain of the Private Advisors are invited to attend. In
addition to the Private Advisors attending these conferences
without charge, these companies may also reimburse or pay
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B. Side-By-Side Management
for the travel and other related expenses incurred by the
Private Advisors. In some instances, the companies also
reimburse the firm for expenses related to dinners or events
for clients and other miscellaneous business-related
expenses incurred by Private Advisors.
Further, the Global Family Office makes available to its
clients Affiliated Investment Products which results in
additional revenue, in the aggregate, to Rockefeller & Co.
and its affiliates.
Item 11
for
See
further details about additional
compensation received by the Global Family Office and its
affiliates and the associated conflicts of interest.
If the Global Family Office and its affiliates did not receive
the different types of additional compensation described in
Item 5 and Item 11, the Global Family Office and its
affiliates would likely charge higher fees or other charges to
clients for the services it provides. When evaluating the
reasonability of the Global Family Office’s fees, you should
consider not just the account fees that the Global Family
Office charges, but also the different types of additional
compensation that the Global Family Office and its affiliates
receive.
In limited cases involving certain asset classes (e.g., hedge
funds and private equity/venture capital), the Global Family
Office and/or its affiliates manage accounts that pay both
performance-based fees and asset-based fees and accounts
that pay only asset-based fees. Further, the Global Family
Office also manages assets for its own account and for its
officers, employees and other affiliated persons or entities
(collectively, “Affiliated Accounts”) from time to time. In
these cases, the Global Family Office has an incentive to
favor
the
the performance-fee eligible accounts and
Affiliated Accounts over other client accounts when, for
example, placing trades, aggregating orders, or allocating
limited investment opportunities. To address these potential
conflicts, the Global Family Office has policies and
procedures in place requiring that investment decisions be
made in accordance with the fiduciary duties owed to
advisory clients and without consideration of the Global
Family Office’s or the Affiliated Account’s pecuniary,
investment or other financial interests. The Global Family
Office has also implemented procedures that seek to allocate
transactions in a manner that is fair and equitable, over time,
both in the priority of execution of orders for client accounts,
and in the allocation of the price (and commission or other
costs and expenses, if applicable) obtained in execution of
aggregated orders for similarly managed accounts.
ITEM 6: PERFORMANCE-BASED FEES AND SIDE-
BY-SIDE MANAGEMENT
C. Greer Anderson Family Office
A. Performance Based-Fees
The Global Family Office does not typically charge
performance-based fees to advisory clients. The Global
Family Office and its affiliates, however, may manage
certain Affiliated Funds such as hedge funds, private
equity/venture capital funds, that pay performance-based
fees. These fees are based on the performance of each
investor’s investment in the Affiliated Fund, as described in
the Affiliated Fund’s governing documents. From time to
time, the Global Family Office may enter into similar
arrangements with particular clients.
In addition to serving as Senior Advisors to the Global
Family Office and as two of four members of the investment
committee to the Greer Anderson Fund of Funds managed
by the Family Office (the “GA Funds”) as described below,
Philip Greer (“Greer”) and Gary Anderson (“Anderson”)
also own a family office (the “GA Family Office”) which
provides investment advisory and management services to
accounts that are owned by the Greer/Anderson family (the
“GA Family Office Accounts”). Greer and Anderson’s
management of the GA Family Office Accounts creates a
conflict of interest with regard to the services they provide
to the Global Family Office because they have financial and
other incentives to place the interests of their GA Family
Office Accounts ahead of the interests of Global Family
Office clients including the GA Funds.
The receipt of a performance-based fee (or a carried interest)
can create an incentive to make investments that are riskier
or more speculative than would be the case in the absence of
the performance-based fee (or the carried interest) due to the
opportunity to participate in a portion of the gains realized
with respect to such investment.
The Global Family Office has implemented supervisory and
compliance procedures to mitigate this conflict of interest,
including the following:
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• The Global Family Office has established an
investment committee comprised of
senior
representatives of the Global Family Office and
Greer and Anderson (the “GA Committee”) to
determine the investment advice given to the GA
Funds, including decisions to invest in, and
withdraw capital from, hedge funds. Investments
for the GA Funds are selected from Rockefeller &
Co.’s approved hedge fund manager platform (the
“Approved Hedge Fund Platform”).
The Global Family Office provides investment advisory
services to various types of clients including ultra-high net
worth and high net worth individuals, their families, family
offices and related entities like trusts, estates, endowments,
and foundations, as well as pension and profit-sharing plans
and their sponsors, charitable organizations, corporations
and other business entities, sovereign nations and certain
non-U.S. individuals and entities. The Global Family Office
also acts as sub-adviser to U.S. and non-U.S. investment
advisers, including firms that manage investments on behalf
of variable life insurance policies, variable annuity policies
and other variable contracts.
The Global Family Office does not have an established
minimum account size requirement and instead considers a
number of factors when determining if it will accept a new
client relationship, including but not limited to the scope and
complexity of the relationship, servicing requirements and
expected revenue generation.
ITEM 8: METHODS OF ANALYSIS, INVESTMENT
STRATEGIES AND RISK OF LOSS
A. Asset Allocation Approach
• Prior to investing GA Family Office Accounts in
any hedge fund that is not on Rockefeller’s
Approved Hedge Fund Platform, Greer or Anderson
will disclose the opportunity to the Global Family
Office and will not make the investment until the
opportunity is declined or they receive approval
from the Global Family Office. If the Global Family
Office determines that the new hedge fund is
appropriate for the Approved Hedge Fund Platform,
the GA Funds and other Global Family Office
clients will be given priority over GA Family Office
Accounts with respect to such opportunity. GA
Family Office Accounts may participate in such
investment opportunities to the extent determined to
be fair and appropriate, taking into consideration
capacity constraints and other factors.
to preclear personal securities
time horizon,
financial horizon,
Greer and Anderson are subject to Rockefeller & Co.’s Code
of Ethics. Under the Code of Ethics, Greer and Anderson are
required to disclose to Rockefeller & Co. all their GA Family
Office Accounts. In addition, Greer and Anderson are
required
transactions
involving hedge funds and certain other types of securities
executed for the GA Family Office Accounts, and to report
such transactions on a quarterly basis. Greer and Anderson
are also required to disclose securities held in GA Family
Office Accounts annually. Activity in the GA Family Office
Accounts is reviewed by Rockefeller & Co. for potential
conflicts of interest and improper activities.
As discussed above, your Private Advisor will assist you in
selecting an asset allocation and provide other investment
recommendations and advice to you. Each Private Advisor
has access to various market research, portfolio modelling
and other tools and information to which he or she may refer
in determining investment advice provided to clients. Private
Advisors choose their own research methods, investment
styles and strategies, and management philosophy.
Accordingly, the investment strategies and investment
advice can be expected to vary from one Private Advisor to
another. The
investment strategies and advice vary
depending upon each client’s specific financial situation. As
investments and
such, Private Advisors determine
allocations based upon clients’ predefined objectives, risk
tolerance,
financial
information, liquidity needs, and various other suitability
factors. Clients’ restrictions and guidelines may affect the
composition of client portfolios.
Please refer to Item 11 for additional information on
Rockefeller & Co.’s Code of Ethics and additional
information on the firm’s trade allocation policies and
procedures.
ITEM 7: TYPES OF CLIENTS
It is important to note that no methodology, investment style,
or investment strategy is guaranteed to be successful or
profitable or can guarantee a client against loss. While the
Global Family Office seeks to employ reasonable diligence
in evaluating and monitoring third-party managers, no
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Envestnet’s process is more fully described in Envestnet’s
Form ADV Part 2A. Envestnet follows consistent procedures
for selecting and reviewing investment managers that are
affiliates of Rockefeller Financial.
amount of diligence can eliminate the possibility that a third-
party manager may provide misleading, incomplete or false
information or representations, or engage in improper or
fraudulent conduct, including unauthorized changes in
investment strategy, insider trading, misappropriation of
assets and unsupportable valuations of portfolio securities.
B. Selection of Investment Managers and Strategies
In addition, employees of the Global Family Office and
Rockefeller Financial perform due diligence for select
investment managers and strategies. When conducting due
diligence, the Global Family Office or Rockefeller Financial
reviews qualitative and quantitative factors, including the
investment manager’s style and philosophy, personnel, past
performance, risk, style drift, and other factors.
Clients have access to a wide variety of investment managers
and strategies, including affiliated firms such as RAM. The
conflicts associated with offering products of affiliated firms
is discussed below Items 11. There are investment managers
and strategies available in the marketplace that are not
available to Global Family Office clients for a variety of
reasons, including lack of accessibility on the RPWA
Program or Legacy Platform, client demand and/or due
diligence or capacity considerations.
Moreover, with respect to certain traditional or alternative
investment strategies with higher operational risks, the
Global Family Office or Rockefeller Financial will engage
an unaffiliated third-party provider to perform operational
due diligence. These providers review a number of factors
with respect to both the investment manager and the fund or
other investment vehicle and, upon completion of their
review, make reports of their analyses available to the Global
Family Office or Rockefeller Financial. The Global Family
Office or Rockefeller Financial evaluates these reports for
purposes of including or excluding an investment manager
or strategy on the platform.
investment managers calculate and
to meet
the client’s
As discussed above, your Private Advisor will assist you in
selecting an asset allocation and one or more investment
managers and investment portfolios. The recommended
approach depends on consideration of the size and scope of
the mandate, client preferences and requirements, fee
considerations and other factors. Client assets invested with
third-party investment managers bear the fees charged by the
third-party investment managers, as well advisory fees
payable to the Global Family Office, except as described in
the following sentence. In the case of clients who are subject
to a Combined Fee Schedule, the Global Family Office will
typically recommend the inclusion of RAM’s investment
management strategies even though there may be third-party
solutions available
investment
objectives, because the fee schedule covers the costs of
certain of RAM’s investment management services.
that
Not all
report
performance on a uniform and consistent basis. Neither the
Global Family Office nor Rockefeller Financial
independently audits the historical performance published
by investment managers. The firm does not have a uniform
process for reviewing manager performance and any
performance information. When a Private Advisor makes a
recommendation to add or change an investment manager or
strategy, the Private Advisor may review the investment
manager’s performance. You should expect
the
performance of investment managers is not calculated on a
uniform and consistent basis.
Envestnet, an unaffiliated investment adviser that provides
to Rockefeller Financial, generally conducts
services
onboarding due diligence for each investment manager and
strategy made available to clients. Envestnet also provides a
service to select, evaluate and monitor a number of the
investment managers and strategies. This service includes a
process of collecting and reporting quantitative and
qualitative data on investment style and philosophy, past
performance and personnel, and designates certain of them
as approved, both on an initial and ongoing basis. Envestnet
periodically reviews the investment managers, and may
replace an investment manager if Envestnet determines that
it fails to meet one or more of the above-mentioned criteria.
It is important to note that no methodology, investment style,
or investment strategy is guaranteed to be successful or
profitable or can guarantee a client against loss. While the
to employ reasonable
intends
Global Family Office
diligence in evaluating and monitoring third party managers,
no amount of diligence can eliminate the possibility that a
third-party investment manager may provide misleading,
incomplete or false information or representations, or engage
in improper or fraudulent conduct, including unauthorized
trading,
changes
in
investment
strategy,
insider
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misappropriation of assets and unsupportable valuations of
portfolio securities.
For a discussion of the conflicts that arise from this service,
and additional detail regarding additional compensation
received by Rockefeller Financial and its affiliates and the
associated conflicts. please see Items 10 and 11 below.
C. Risk Factors
The investment risks described below represent some but not
all of the risks associated with various types of investments
and investment strategies. Clients should carefully evaluate
all applicable risks with any investment or investment
strategy, and realize that investing in securities involves risk
of loss that clients should be prepared to bear.
1. Investment Strategies and Risk of Loss
investment strategies
Equity and equity-related investments are volatile and will
increase or decrease in value based upon issuer, economic,
market and other factors. Other risks may include but are not
limited to company specific risks, liquidity risk, leverage
risk, inflation and interest rate risk, and/or tax and regulatory
risk. Small capitalization stocks generally involve higher
risks in some respects than do investments in stocks of larger
companies and may be more volatile and subject to liquidity
risk. The securities of non-U.S. issuers also involve a high
degree of risk because of, among other factors, the lack of
public information with respect to such issuers, less
governmental regulation of stock exchanges and issuers of
securities traded on such exchanges and the absence of
uniform accounting, auditing, and financial reporting
standards. The non-U.S. domicile of such issuers and
currency fluctuations may also be factors in the assessment
of financial risk to the investor. Foreign securities markets
are often less liquid than U.S. securities markets, which may
make the disposition of non-U.S. securities more difficult.
Emerging markets can be subject to greater social,
economic, regulatory, and political uncertainties and can be
extremely volatile.
3. Risk Relating to Fixed Income Securities
Certain
that Private Advisors,
investment managers and investment vehicles may use in
managing your account have specific risks, including those
associated with investments in common stock, fixed income
securities, American Depositary Receipts, investment funds,
and alternative investments.
limited
to,
For example, investing in securities and other assets involves
a potential risk of loss due to various market, economic,
political, regulatory, business, currency, and other risks. The
Global Family Office does not guarantee the future
performance of any client account, investment decision or
strategy. Future results may vary substantially from past
performance and no investment strategy can guarantee profit
or protection from loss. Returns on investments can be
volatile and an investor may lose all or a portion of their
investment.
Clients that utilize margin are subject to additional risks,
including greater risk of loss and incurrence of margin
interest debt. Margin and securities-based lending is not
suitable for all investors. If the market value of the securities
in your margin account declines, you may be required to
deposit more money or securities in order to maintain your
line of credit. If you are unable to do so, the Custodian may
sell all or a portion of your pledged assets without prior
notice to you.
2. Risk Relating to Equity Securities
Investments in fixed income securities are subject to risks
including, but not
interest rate, credit,
reinvestment, inflation, liquidity, call/prepayment, spread,
downgrade, exchange rate, volatility, and extension risks,
any of which may adversely impact the price of the security
and result in a loss. Interest rates may go up resulting in a
decrease in the market value of fixed income securities.
Duration is the time that it takes for an investor to be repaid
the price for a bond by the bond’s total cash flows. The
longer the repayment period, or duration, the greater the
chance that the bond will be exposed to interest rate risk.
Generally, securities with longer maturities carry greater
interest rate risk. A low interest rate environment increases
the risk associated with rising interest rates (i.e. declination
in bond value). Credit risk is the risk that an issuer may not
make timely payments of principal and interest. There is a
risk that an issuer may “call”, or repay, its high yielding
bonds before their maturity dates. Fixed income securities
subject to prepayment can offer less potential for gains
during a declining interest rate environment and similar or
greater potential for loss in a rising interest rate environment.
Limited trading opportunities for certain fixed income
securities may make it more difficult to sell or buy a security
at a favorable price or time. The municipal market is volatile
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diversification and the prohibition on the suspension of
redemptions.
and can be significantly affected by adverse tax, legislative
or political changes and the financial condition of the issuers
of municipal securities. The value of fixed income securities
may fluctuate based on other factors affecting the securities
markets generally. Recent market events risk relates to
volatility that arises due to economic, political, and global
macro factors.
Investments in high yield debt securities (“junk bonds”) and
other lower-rated securities may subject the strategy to
substantial risk of loss. These securities are considered to be
speculative with respect to the issuer’s ability to pay interest
and principal when due, are more susceptible to default or
decline in market value and volatile prices and are less liquid
than investment grade debt securities.
4. Risk Related to Exchange Traded Funds
the
fund’s performance
A leveraged ETF is a marketable security that uses financial
derivatives and debt to amplify the returns of an underlying
index. While a traditional exchange-traded fund typically
tracks the securities in its underlying index on a one-to-one
basis, a leveraged ETF may aim for a 2:1 or 3:1 ratio. The
use of leverage can lead to significant gains but can also lead
to significant losses. Additional risks associated with
leveraged ETFs exist depending on their reset frequency.
Certain leveraged ETFs have daily reset frequencies
meaning they are structured to achieve their investment
objectives on a day-to-day basis as opposed to over a long
period of time. Accordingly, there is additional risk in
holding these types of securities for periods significantly
greater than a trading day because the costs associated with
maintaining the fund assets (typically futures contracts) can
expose
to contango and
backwardation risks. In fact, any ETF holding futures or
forwards contracts, typically commodity or currency-based
ETFs), will be exposed to these risks.
Inverse ETFs seek investment results that are the inverse of
their benchmarks’ performances, typically for one day only.
As such, most Inverse ETFs are designed for speculative
traders and investors seeking tactical day trades against their
respective underlying indexes. To achieve their investment
results, inverse ETFs generally use derivative securities,
such as swap agreements, forwards, futures contracts, and
options. Because of how they are constructed, inverse ETFs
carry unique risks that investors should be aware of before
participating in them. The principal risks associated with
investing in inverse ETFs include compounding risk,
derivative securities risk, correlation risk and short sale
exposure risk.
Risks related to ETFs include but are not limited to market,
liquidity,
tax, sector/single-stock concentration, exotic
exposure/complexity, frequent trading and counterparty risk.
ETFs can invest in a variety of strategies such as indexing or
active management seeking exposure to unique asset classes.
For actively managed ETFs, in particular, there is a risk the
managers will not be able to achieve their stated objectives
or their strategy may underperform other market indicators
or benchmarks. There may be a lack of liquidity in certain
exchange traded funds (“ETFs”) which can lead to a large
difference between the bid-ask prices (increasing the cost to
you when you buy or sell the ETF). A lack of liquidity also
may cause an ETF to trade at a large premium or discount to
its net asset value. Additionally, an ETF may suspend issuing
new shares and this may result in an adverse difference
between the ETF’s publicly available share price and the
actual value of its underlying investment holdings. At times
when underlying holdings are traded less frequently, or not
at all, an ETF’s returns also may diverge from the benchmark
it is designed to track.
5. Risk Related to Interval Funds
through
the
interval funds’ quarterly offers
Interval Funds are generally non-diversified closed-end
investments that are not listed for trading on any national
securities exchange and have no trading market. There is
limited liquidity provided to shareholders, which is available
only
to
repurchase a certain percentage of its outstanding shares at
net asset value, which is subject to the fund’s fundamental
policy on redemptions. There is no guarantee that an investor
will be able to tender all or any of their shares in a periodic
Most ETFs, like all mutual funds, are registered investment
companies under the Investment Company Act. However,
ETFs that invest exclusively in physical assets, such as gold,
are not registered investment companies. These ETFs will
not have the protections associated with ownership of shares
in a registered investment company. For example, these
ETFs are not subject to the prohibition on registered
investment companies dealing with affiliates, do not have an
independent board of trustees, and are not subject to
things,
requirements with
respect
to, among other
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repurchase offer. Investors should carefully consider the
fund’s fundamental policy prior to investing.
6. Risk Relating to Alternative Investments
Investments in alternatives funds should be viewed as
illiquid. It is uncertain as to when a return of capital or
profits, if any, will be realized and losses on unsuccessful
investments may be realized before gains on successful
investments are realized. The return of capital and the
realization of gains, if any, generally will occur only upon
the partial or complete disposition of an investment. While a
fund’s investment may be sold at any time, it is generally
expected that this will not occur for a number of years after
the initial investment. Before such time, there may be no
current return on the investment. Furthermore, the expenses
of operating alternatives funds (including any management
fees imposed by the investment manager) may exceed its
income, thereby requiring that the difference be paid from
the funds’ capital, including without limitation, unfunded
commitments. Further, any profits or gains may be
reinvested in the fund and may not be distributed to investors
until the end of the fund’s life, if at all.
Alternative investments, including but not limited to hedge
funds and private equity/venture capital funds, are
speculative and involve a high degree of risk. There is no
secondary market for alternative investments and there may
be significant restrictions or limitations on withdrawing
from or transferring these types of investments. Private
equity/venture capital funds generally require an investor to
make and fund a commitment over several years. Alternative
investments generally have high fees (including both
management and performance-based fees) and expenses that
offset returns. Alternative investments are generally subject
to less regulation than publicly traded investments. The
Global Family Office will not be able to independently value
investments held by alternative investment fund managers.
As a result, the Global Family Office will generally rely on
the values reported to it by alternative investment fund
managers, or their service providers.
investments may
include specific
An alternatives fund’s ability to dispose of investments may
be limited for several reasons (some or all of which may be
outside of a fund’s control), including the absence of an
established market for such investments, as well as
contractual and other limitations on transfer or other
restrictions that would interfere with subsequent sales of
such investments or adversely affect the terms upon which a
disposition could be made. Any possibility of a disposition
in the public markets will depend upon favorable market
conditions, including receptiveness to initial or secondary
public offerings for the companies in which the funds invest
and an active mergers and acquisitions (or recapitalizations
and reorganizations) market, among other factors.
7. Derivatives Risk
instruments can result from
the counterparty
to fulfill
Alternative
risks
associated with limited liquidity, the use of leverage,
arbitrage, short sales, options, futures, and derivative
instruments. There can be no assurances that a manager’s
strategy (hedged or otherwise) will be successful or that a
manager will employ such strategies with respect to all or
any portion of a portfolio. Clients should recognize that they
may bear asset-based fees and expenses at the manager-
level, and indirectly, fees, expenses, and performance-based
compensation. Performance-based compensation may create
an incentive for the managers that may receive performance-
based compensation to make investments that are riskier and
more speculative than would be the case if this special
allocation were not made. Fee structures may include hurdle
rates, high-water marks, and/or claw back provisions, which
affect how and when performance fees are calculated.
Furthermore, founder share classes, lockup periods and
tiered fee discounts for larger or early investors can result in
different net returns across participants in the same fund.
Because the individual managers make trading decisions
independently of each other, it is possible that they may, on
occasion, hold substantial positions in the same security or
group of securities at the same time. This possible lack of
diversification may subject the client’s investments to more
volatility than would be the case if the client’s assets were
more widely diversified.
Investments in options, futures, options on futures, forwards,
participatory notes, swaps, structured securities, and other
types of derivatives can be used to hedge a portfolio's
investments or to seek to enhance returns. These types of
investments entail specific risks relating to liquidity,
leverage and credit that can reduce returns and/or increase
volatility. Losses in a portfolio from investments in
derivative
the potential
illiquidity of the markets for derivative instruments, the
failure of
its contractual
obligations, the portfolio receiving cash collateral under the
transactions and some or all of that collateral being invested
in the market, or the risks arising from margin posting
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requirements and related leverage factors associated with
such transactions. In addition, many jurisdictions continue to
review practices and regulations relating to the use of
derivatives, or similar instrument. Such reviews could make
such instruments more costly, limiting the availability of, or
otherwise adversely affecting the value or performance of
such instrument.
8. Risk Relating to Options Trading
may be significantly less than what would be the maturity
value due to factors such as volatility, interest rates, credit
quality and risk appetite. The value of an investment in a
Structured Product will reflect the then-current market value
of the Structured Product as calculated by the issuer and will
be subject to all of the risks associated with an investment in
the underlying market measure along with the risks and
factors described above. Investors in structured products will
not own or have any claim to the underlying market measure
directly and will therefore not benefit from general rights
applicable to the holders of those assets, such as dividends
and voting rights.
10. Risk Relating in Variable Annuities and Registered
Index Linked Annuities (RILA)
the
There are various risks associated with transactions in
exchange-traded and over the counter (“OTC”) options. The
market price of an option is affected by many factors,
including: changes in the market prices or dividend rates of
underlying securities (or in the case of indices, the securities
in such indices); the time remaining before expiration;
changes in interest rates or exchange rates; and changes in
the actual or perceived volatility of the relevant stock market
and underlying securities. Although an option buyer’s risk is
limited to the amount of the original investment for the
purchase of the option, an investment in an option may be
subject to greater fluctuation than an investment in the
underlying securities. The market price of an option also
may be adversely affected if the market for the option
becomes less liquid, including where trading in the securities
underlying the option becomes restricted.
9. Risk Relating to Structured Products
Investments in variable annuities are long-term investments
and provide long-term income. However, such investments
are subject to high fees due to insurance related costs, such
as mortality and expense risk charges. Variable annuities
investments also involve investment risk related to the
products and investments that the collective periodic
payments are invested in, which may include derivatives
products. Further, in order to receive certain tax benefits
associated with variable annuities,
investments
underlying such contracts must meet certain diversification
and other requirements. Thus, investments in variable
annuities that do not have sufficient diversification can lead
to adverse tax consequences.
in structured products (generally Senior
Investments
Unsecured Debt Obligations linked to the performance of an
underlying market measure) (all such products, “Structured
Products”) are subject to a number of risks, including credit
risk, market risk, and liquidity risk.
Registered Index Linked Annuities (RILAs) are insurance
products tied to the performance of a market index, typically
offering the positive returns of the index up to a cap and/or
providing a buffer for a certain level of negative returns.
RILAs are subject to risks associated with other investment
products, including market risk, and the total loss of
principal is possible.
11. Market Disruption, Health Crises, Terrorism and
Geopolitical Risk
Structured Products typically have a specified maturity date
and payout profile determined by the performance of an
underlying, or basket of underlying, market measures.
Structured Products are generally designed to provide some
level or combination of principal protection, downside
market risk mitigation, enhanced income, or enhanced
returns relative to the performance of the underlying market
measure. As a Senior Unsecured Debt Obligation, the payout
at maturity is dependent on the issuer’s ability to pay off its
debts as they mature. While there is generally liquidity
provided by the issuer of a Structured Product prior to
maturity, there is no guarantee of a secondary market, or the
price or bid/ask spread at which the security will trade. In the
case that there is a secondary market provided, the sale price
Investors are subject to the risk that war, terrorism, global
health crises or similar pandemics, and other related
geopolitical events may lead to increased short-term market
volatility and have adverse long-term effects on world
economies and markets generally, as well as adverse effects
on issuers of securities and the value of a Fund’s
investments. War, terrorism, and related geopolitical events,
as well as global health crises and similar pandemics have
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the indexing of investment returns while paying higher
manager fees.
13. Risk Relating to REITs
led, and in the future may lead, to increased short-term
market volatility and may have adverse long-term effects on
world economies and markets generally. Those events as
well as other changes in world economic, political and health
conditions also could adversely affect individual issuers or
related groups of issuers, securities markets, interest rates,
credit ratings, inflation, investor sentiment and other factors
affecting the value of a Fund’s investments. At such times,
investors’ exposure to a number of other risks described
elsewhere in this section can increase.
12. Risk Relating to Use of Third Party Investment
Managers
Certain strategies offer real estate-related
investment
disciplines, which typically invest in common stocks of U.S.
corporations. Almost all such investments will be treated for
tax purposes as investments in real estate investment trusts
(“REITs”). Such investments can cause a tax-exempt
investor to recognize “unrelated business taxable income”
(“UBTI”). If any investment causes a tax-exempt investor to
recognize UBTI, and that tax-exempt investor is a charitable
remainder trust, all of the income of the charitable remainder
trust would be subject to federal income tax for the tax year
in which
the UBTI was recognized. Therefore, tax
advantaged accounts, such as charitable remainder trusts and
IRAs, should consult with a tax adviser before investing in
real estate investment disciplines. Other risks include but are
not limited to interest rate sensitivity, liquidity risk (e.g.,
non-traded/private REITS can lock up capital for years),
market risk and leverage risk as REITs use borrowed capital
to finance acquisitions, which can amplify losses during
downturns.
14. Risk Relating to Money Market Funds
The use of third-party investment managers in investment
programs involves additional risks. The success of the third-
party investment manager depends on the capabilities of its
investment management personnel and infrastructure, all of
which may be adversely impacted by the departure of key
employees and other events. The future results of the third-
party investment manager may differ significantly from their
past performance. While the Global Family Office intends to
perform diligence in evaluating and monitoring third party
investment managers as described herein, no amount of
diligence can eliminate the possibility that a third party
investment manager may provide misleading, incomplete, or
false information or representations, or engage in improper
or fraudulent conduct, including unauthorized changes in
investment strategy, insider trading, misappropriation of
assets and unsupportable valuations of portfolio securities.
You could lose money in money market funds. Although
money market funds classified as government funds (i.e.,
money market funds that invest 99.5% of total assets in cash
and/or securities backed by the U.S government) and retail
funds (i.e., money market funds open to natural person
investors only) seek to preserve value at $1.00 per share,
they cannot guarantee they will do so. The price of money
market funds may fluctuate and when you sell shares they
may be worth more or less than originally paid.
industries and/or geographies, and can
Certain third-party investment managers may hold a
relatively concentrated portfolio of securities in comparison
to their respective benchmarks and broader market indices.
In addition, these strategies may from time to time be
overweight, underweight or have no exposure to specific
sectors,
take
concentrated positions which could lead to increased
volatility. Certain of these strategies may focus on particular
sectors, industries, and geographies. As a result, an adverse
development impacting any one position, sector, industry, or
geography may have a material adverse effect on investment
returns as well as performance relative to the strategy’s
benchmark.
Diversification across asset classes, investment styles,
sectors and industries does not eliminate the risk of
experiencing investment losses. There is also a risk that too
much diversification across third party managers can lead to
Recent changes to regulations impacting money funds have
created both a potential discretionary and separate
mandatory liquidity fee which could impact a selling
shareholder in non-government money market funds. The
discretionary fee is optional and subject to the discretion of
the board of directors/trustees of each prime and tax-exempt
money market fund. On July 12, 2023, the Securities and
Exchange Commission (SEC) adopted amendments to Rule
2a-7 and other rules that govern money market funds under
the Investment Company Act of 1940. The new money
market fund rules had a staged implementation schedule
with discretionary liquidity fees becoming applicable to all
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non-government money market funds on April 2, 2024.
Beginning April 2, 2024, all money market funds were
required to comply with the increased portfolio liquidity
requirements of the new rules. Beginning October 2, 2024,
all non-government institutional money market funds may
have had mandatory liquidity fees imposed on them. In
general, the mandatory liquidity fees will be imposed by the
money market fund when the fund experiences daily net
redemptions that exceed 5% of the fund’s net asset, which
in non-stress market environments.
can occur even
Additional information relating to these changes is available
on the SEC’s website at: 33-11211-fact-sheet.pdf (sec.gov).
Additionally, in some circumstances, money market funds
may be forced to cease operations when the value of a fund
drops below $1.00 per share. In that event, the fund’s
holdings are liquidated and distributed to the fund’s
shareholders. This liquidation process could take up to one
month or longer. During that time, these funds would not be
available to you to support purchases, withdrawals and, if
applicable, check writing or ATM debits from your account.
The Global Family Office must rely in part on digital and
network technologies (collectively, “networks”) to conduct
its investment advisory business. Such networks, including
those of service providers, are susceptible to cyber-attacks
that could potentially seek unauthorized access to digital
systems for purposes such as misappropriating sensitive
information, corrupting data or causing operational
disruption. Cyber-attacks might potentially be carried out by
persons using techniques that could range from efforts to
electronically circumvent network security or overwhelm
websites to intelligence gathering and social engineering
functions aimed at obtaining information necessary to gain
access. Cyber-attacks against, or security breakdowns, of us
or our service providers, if applicable, may adversely impact
us and our clients, potentially resulting in, among other
things, financial losses; our inability to transact business on
behalf of our clients; reputational damage; and/or additional
costs. The firm may incur additional costs related to
cybersecurity risk management and remediation. In addition,
cybersecurity risks may also impact issuers of securities in
which we invest on behalf of our clients, which may cause
our clients’ investment in such issuers to lose value.
15. Risk Relating to Differing Classes of Securities
18. Technology Risk
Different classes of securities have different rights as
creditor if the issuer files for bankruptcy or reorganization.
For example, bondholders’ rights generally are more
favorable than shareholders’ rights in a bankruptcy or
reorganization.
16. Tax and Legal Considerations
The Global Family Office must rely in part on digital and
network technologies to conduct its business and to maintain
substantial computerized data relating to client account
activities. These technologies include those owned or
managed by Rockefeller & Co. and its affiliates as well as
those owned or managed by others, such as financial
intermediaries, pricing vendors, transfer agents, and other
parties used by Rockefeller & Co. to provide services and
maintain its business operations. These technology systems
may fail to operate properly or become disabled as a result
of events or circumstances wholly or partly beyond the
firm’s or its service providers’ control. Technology failures,
whether deliberate or not, including those arising from use
of third-party service providers or client usage of systems to
access accounts, could have a material adverse effect on our
business or our clients and could result in, among other
things, financial loss, reputational damage, regulatory
penalties, or the inability to conduct business.
Investment
19. Client Directed ESG/Sustainable
Clients are responsible for all tax liabilities and tax return
filing obligations arising from the transactions in your
account or any other investment advice offered by us.
Changing your investment strategy or engaging in portfolio
rebalancing transactions may result in sales of securities
which may subject you to additional income tax obligations.
The Global Family Office does not provide legal advice.
Unless you have entered into a written family office services
agreement pursuant to which the Global Family Office has
specifically agreed to provide tax, accounting, or estate
planning services, consult your independent tax or legal
advisor with respect all such matters. This Brochure or any
other document received from the Global Family Office
should not be construed as providing such advice.
Guidelines
17. Cybersecurity Risk
The Global Family Office may agree, from time to time, to
implement environmental, social, and governance (“ESG”)
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restrict the firm and its Clients from investing or continuing
to hold an investment in, or transacting with or in certain
countries, individuals, and companies, including, among
other things, transactions with, and the provision of services
to certain foreign countries, territories, in entities and
individuals. The U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (the
“FCPA”) and other anti-corruption laws and regulations, as
well as anti-boycott regulations, may also apply to, and
restrict the activities of the firm and its Clients.
guidelines directed by a Client. The implementation of ESG
guidelines could cause an account to perform differently
compared to accounts that do not use such (“ESG
Guidelines”) guidelines and can result in lower financial
returns. The criteria related to certain ESG strategies can
result in an account foregoing opportunities to buy certain
securities when it might otherwise be advantageous to do so,
or selling securities for to comply with the ESG guidelines
when it might be otherwise disadvantageous for it to do so.
In addition, an increased focus on ESG or sustainability
investing in recent years may have led to increased
valuations of certain issuers with higher ESG profiles. A
reversal of that trend could result in losses with respect to
investments in such issuers.
In seeking to comply with ESG guidelines, the firm relies on
internal and external research and data. There can be no
assurance that this data directly correlates with a Client’s
ESG goals, and this data is not available with respect to all
issuers, sectors or industry and is often based upon estimates,
comparisons or projections that may prove to be incorrect.
As a result, a Client account with ESG guidelines could
nonetheless be invested in issuers that are not consistent with
the Client’s ESG goals.
20. Sanctions
If the Global Family Office determines that a Client is
subject to trade, economic or other sanctions imposed by a
governmental or regulatory authority, the firm will take such
actions as it determines appropriate to comply with
applicable law and its related policies and procedures. These
actions may include, without limitation, (i) blocking or
freezing Client accounts or Client investments, (ii) where
permitted or required by the applicable sanctions law,
requiring a Client to redeem or withdraw from the vehicle,
and delaying the payment of any redemption or withdrawal
proceeds, without interest, until such time as such payment
is permitted under applicable law, (iii) excluding an Client
in a pooled investment vehicle from allocations of net capital
appreciation and net capital depreciation and distributions
made to other Clients, (iv) ceasing further dealings with such
Client’s interest until such sanctions are lifted or a license is
obtained under applicable law to continue dealings, and (v)
excluding a Client in a pooled investment vehicle from
voting on matters on which investors are entitled to vote, and
excluding the net asset value of such investor’s interest in
the pooled investment vehicle for purposes of determining
the investors entitled to vote on or required to take any action
in respect of the pooled investment vehicle.
Sanctions-related requirements imposed by governmental or
regulatory authorities can be complex, changing, conflicting,
unclear or subject to opaque, changing or conflicting
guidance. Accordingly, the Global Family Office may take
or refrain from taking action it determines appropriate to
comply with applicable law and its related policies and
procedures even though it turns out that doing so was not
required or appropriate.
21. Coronavirus and Pandemic Outbreak Risks
The Global Family Office and its affiliates operate a program
designed to ensure compliance with economic and trade
sanctions-related obligations applicable directly to its
activities. These sanctions prohibit, among other things,
transactions with and the provision of services to, directly or
indirectly, certain countries,
territories, entities and
individuals. It should be expected that any economic and
trade sanctions, and the application by the firm of its
compliance program, will restrict or limit a Client’s
investment activities, can require the firm to cause a Client
to sell its position in an investment at an inopportune time or
when the firm would otherwise not have done so, and
preclude the firm from selling a Client’s position in
investment when the firm would otherwise wish to do so.
The application of sanctions may also have significant
adverse impacts on the valuation and liquidity of a Client’s
investments to the extent such investments are related to the
sanctioned entities or individuals, potentially rendering
specific investment illiquid or worthless.
laws
in
Additionally, sanction
the U.S. and other
jurisdictions or other governmental action may significantly
The global outbreak of the 2019 novel coronavirus
(“COVID-19”), together with resulting voluntary and U.S.
federal and state and non-U.S. governmental actions,
including, without limitation, mandatory business closures,
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A. Broker-Dealer Registration Status
the extent such
impacted personnel
The Global Family Office is a division of Rockefeller & Co.,
an investment adviser registered with the SEC. Rockefeller
& Co. is not a registered broker dealer, and a trade name used
to describe the wealth management offering at our affiliate,
Rockefeller Financial, LLC, a broker-dealer and registered
investment adviser. Certain Private Advisors of the Global
Family Office are Registered Representatives of its affiliate
Rockefeller Financial, a broker-dealer registered with the
SEC and a member of FINRA. In its capacity as a broker-
dealer, Rockefeller Financial engages in the sale of
securities, including, but not limited to: stocks, bonds,
government and municipal securities, options, mutual funds,
alternative investment vehicles, variable insurance products
and other types of securities for its clients. Rockefeller
Financial effects these securities transactions for customers,
a portion of which is typically used to compensate the
Registered Representative involved in the transaction.
B. Futures Commission Merchant, Commodity Pool
Operator, or Commodity Trading Advisor
Registration Status
public gathering limitations, restrictions on travel and
quarantines, has meaningfully disrupted the global economy
and markets. COVID-19 has and is expected to continue to
have ongoing material adverse effects across many, if not all,
aspects of the regional, national, and global economy. In
particular, the COVID-19 outbreak has already, and will
continue to, adversely affect companies and markets
globally. Furthermore, the Global Family Office’s ability to
operate effectively, including the ability of its personnel or
its service providers and other contractors to function,
communicate and travel to the extent necessary to carry out
clients’ investment strategies and objectives and the Global
Family Office’s business and to satisfy its obligations to
clients and pursuant to applicable law, has been, and will
continue to be, impaired. The spread of COVID-19 among
the Global Family Office’s personnel and its service
providers would also significantly affect RAM’s ability to
properly furnish advisory services to its clients (particularly
to
include key
investment professionals or other members of senior
management), which could result in a temporary or
permanent suspension of a client’s investment activities or
operations. The full effects, duration and costs of the
COVID-19 pandemic are impossible to predict, and the
circumstances surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic will
continue to evolve.
***
Neither Rockefeller & Co. nor any of its management
persons are registered or have an application pending to
register as a futures commission merchant, commodity pool
operator, commodity trading adviser, or as a registered
representative or an associated person of any of the
foregoing entities at this time.
C. Material Relationships or Arrangements with
Industry Participants
This list of risk factors does not purport to be a complete
enumeration or explanation of the risks involved in
connection with the firm’s investment offerings or the
management of client accounts. In addition, prospective
clients should be aware that, as a client’s investment
portfolio develops and changes over time, the account may
be subject to additional and different risks.
ITEM 9: DISCIPLINARY INFORMATION
Rockefeller & Co. is an indirect, wholly owned subsidiary
of Rockefeller Capital Management LP (“RCM”), a leading
independent financial services firm offering family office,
wealth management, asset management and strategic
advisory services
to ultra-high and high-net worth
individuals, families, institutions, and corporations.
Within the last ten years, there have not been any material
legal or disciplinary events involving the advisory business
of Rockefeller & Co. or its management persons. Additional
information about Rockefeller & Co. and its advisory
affiliates is contained in Part 1 of Rockefeller & Co.’s Form
ADV.
ITEM 10: OTHER FINANCIAL INDUSTRY
ACTIVITIES AND AFFILIATION
RCM’s operating subsidiaries include: Rockefeller & Co., an
investment adviser registered with the SEC providing
investment advisory and family office services through its
Global Family Office division and asset management
services through its RAM division; RAM International, a
UK limited company performing non-US distribution and
investor servicing activities for RAM; Rockefeller Financial
LLC, a broker-dealer and investment adviser registered with
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the SEC providing private wealth management services,
securities services and strategic advice; RTC NA, a national
trust bank and RTC Delaware, a Delaware limited purpose
trust company, both of which provide fiduciary services
acting either as a trustee, co-trustee, executor, co-executor,
or as a fiduciary or agent for other fiduciary relationships;
and RCM Insurance Services, an insurance agency licensed
in the state of Delaware that provides access to a broad range
of personal insurance expertise and services through
numerous national providers to enable effective estate
planning, asset protection or other key wealth management
planning strategies and priorities.
Certain directors, officers and employees of Rockefeller &
Co. are associated with affiliates of the firm, including
Rockefeller Financial, RAM International, RTC NA, RTC
Delaware, and RCM Insurance Services.
for-profit businesses,
including
General Partner, L.L.C. (“Rockefeller Capital Management
GP”), the general partner of RCM, of which Rockefeller &
Co. is an indirect wholly owned subsidiary. Viking is
registered with the SEC as an investment adviser under the
Advisers Act. No employee, officer, director, investment
committee member or other representative of Viking or any
of its controlled affiliates will be a member of any
investment committees of Rockefeller & Co. or of
Rockefeller Capital Management GP. Additionally,
directors, officers, employees, or other representatives of
Rockefeller Capital Management GP or any of its controlled
affiliates are generally prohibited from discussing any
information regarding Rockefeller & Co.’s portfolio
investment activities in the presence of any employee,
officer, director, investment committee member or other
representative of Viking or any of its controlled affiliates
(other than Rockefeller Capital Management GP or any of its
controlled affiliates). Rockefeller & Co. does not anticipate
any material conflicts with any clients in light of Viking’s
indirect control of Rockefeller & Co. In the event that any
conflicts actually arise, Rockefeller & Co. will resolve such
conflicts in a fair and equitable manner.
Directors, officers and employees of Rockefeller & Co. and
its affiliates may serve as non-executive directors or advisors
of
financial service
companies that provide services to Rockefeller & Co. and its
affiliates and/or to clients of Rockefeller & Co. Rockefeller
& Co. has adopted procedures and practices in seeking to
mitigate conflicts of interest that may result from such
outside business affiliations
The President and Chief Executive Officer of Rockefeller &.
Co.’s parent company, Rockefeller Capital Management
(“RCM”), Gregory J. Fleming (the “RCM CEO”), serves as
a member of the Board of Directors (“Board”) of BlackRock,
Inc. (“BlackRock”). BlackRock is a leading global provider
of investment, advisory, and risk management solutions
whose investment products and services are offered and sold
by RCM to, and on behalf of, RCM clients.
The RCM CEO’s service on the BlackRock Board gives rise
to a conflict of interest with respect to the Firm’s decision to
select or recommend BlackRock products to clients. To
manage and mitigate this conflict, we maintain a product
selection, due diligence, and manager approval process that
does not include the RCM CEO; we do not offer preferential
treatment to BlackRock products in our investment selection
process; and we disclose this relationship to clients in our
Form ADV and relevant marketing materials.
Ruchir Sharma joined Rockefeller & Co. in February 2022
as Managing Director and Chairman of Rockefeller
International, a role in which he will serve as a global brand
ambassador for, and advisor to, the firm and a resource to the
firm’s Global Family Office advisors and clients. Mr.
Sharma will not act as a Private Advisor or Portfolio
Manager to clients of the Global Family Office or RAM.
Rockefeller & Co. has entered into a strategic partnership
with Breakout Capital, an investment management firm
established by Mr. Sharma. Under this arrangement,
Rockefeller Financial acts as a placement agent to Breakout
Capital investment vehicles and is compensated for such
capital raising activities. In addition, Rockefeller & Co.
provides certain human resources support services to
Breakout Capital for which it is also compensated. Neither
Rockefeller & Co. nor its affiliates (including Rockefeller
Financial) have any investment, trading authority or risk
management responsibility for Breakout Capital or its
investment vehicles. In connection with its strategic
partnership, Rockefeller & Co. or an affiliate will, upon
achieving certain milestones, become entitled to a share in a
portion of the management fees and incentive allocation
received by Breakout Capital from its investment vehicles.
Rockefeller & Co. is indirectly controlled by Viking Global
Investors LP (“Viking”) through its indirect ownership of the
voting securities of Rockefeller Capital Management
The Global Family Office may from time to time
recommend to eligible clients certain private funds and other
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(“IGM
IGM
Under these arrangements, Rockefeller Financial or its
affiliates will receive compensation from the third-party
managers or funds. In the case of alternative investments,
you should expect that this compensation includes an upfront
placement fee based on the assets raised or a share in the
investment management and/or performance fees paid to the
third-party managers by clients. This creates a conflict of
interest for the Global Family Office, as it will have an
incentive to recommend investments for which it or an
affiliate
receives compensation even when another
investment better fits a client’s portfolio and investment
objectives.
IGM
(“Viking
investment vehicles sponsored by Viking
Investment Vehicles”), Breakout Capital
(“Breakout
Investment Vehicles”) and IGM and its affiliates including
Northleaf Capital Partners Ltd.
Investment
Vehicles”). As Viking and IGM hold interests in RCM and
Rockefeller & Co. has a strategic partnership with Breakout
Capital (see Item 4 and Item 10), a conflict of interest exists
when clients of the Global Family Office invest in Viking
Investment Vehicles,
Investment Vehicles and
Breakout Investment Vehicles because such investments
provide a financial benefit to Viking, IGM, Breakout Capital
and their respective affiliates. RCM may also benefit from
Global Family Office clients’ investments in Viking
Investment Vehicles and
Investment Vehicles,
Breakout Investment Vehicles to the extent that any such
vehicles provide financial support
to RCM or pay
compensation to the Global Family Office or Rockefeller
Financial.
IGM
Investment Products, Viking
Offerings of Affiliated
Investment Vehicles,
Investment Vehicles and
Breakout Investment Vehicles may be limited in size and, to
the extent they cannot be offered to all clients, the Global
Family Office and its affiliates have policies in place to
determine the allocation of investment opportunities, and
will generally allocate such investments among interested
clients pro rata based on the size of each clients’ requested
participation.
Rockefeller Financial, in its capacity as a registered broker-
dealer, will from time to time act as a placement agent for
certain third-party investment vehicles. Acting as placement
agent, Rockefeller Financial performs investment due
diligence on third-party investment vehicles and seeks to
identify investors, including clients of Rockefeller Financial
and its affiliates, for whom the vehicles are suitable
investments. In certain cases, opportunities to act as
placement agent can be expected to be identified by persons
affiliated with Rockefeller Financial and its affiliates who
are also affiliated with the sponsor of the third-party
investment vehicle. Rockefeller Financial typically receives
transaction-based compensation (e.g., a placement fee) from
the sponsor of the third-party investment vehicle in
connection with acting as placement agent. With respect to
advisory clients of the Global Family Office who invest in a
third-party investment vehicle for which the Rockefeller
Financial acts as placement agent, the Global Family Office
and its affiliates typically receives both the placement fee
and an advisory fee on the client assets invested in such
vehicle.
Rockefeller Financial will act as placement agent to the
Viking Investment Vehicles, IGM Investment Vehicles and
Breakout Investment Vehicles, and will be compensated for
such capital raising activities. This compensation creates an
incentive for the Global Family Office to recommend these
investments to clients. Clients are under no obligation to
subscribe to Viking Investment Vehicles, IGM Investment
Vehicles or Breakout Investment Vehicles.
Additional rules and restrictions may apply when third-party
investment vehicles to which Rockefeller Financial serves as
a placement agent are offered to Retirement Plans.
ITEM 11: CODE OF ETHICS; PERSONAL
TRADING; CONFLICTS OF INTEREST
A. Code of Ethics
Viking, IGM and Breakout Capital do not have any
obligation to make available to Rockefeller & Co. any
information regarding their respective investment activities,
strategies, or views. As a result, Rockefeller & Co. may
make investment decisions for clients that differ from those
made by Viking, IGW and Breakout Capital.
Rockefeller Financial and its affiliates have entered into
marketing support arrangements with a number of third-
party managers and funds, including but not limited to
mutual funds, ETFs, and alternative investment funds.
Rockefeller & Co.’s Code of Ethics (the “Code”) is intended
to fulfill the firm's obligations under Rule 204A-1 of the
Advisers Act and, with respect to RAM, its obligations under
Rule 17j-1 under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as
amended, (“Investment Company Act”) in connection with
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investment advisory services RAM provides to registered
investment companies, and to set forth standards of conduct
and to require compliance with the federal securities laws.
nonpublic and other confidential information which, if
disclosed, might affect an investor’s decision to buy, sell, or
hold a security. Under applicable law, Rockefeller & Co. and
such persons may be prohibited from improperly disclosing
or using such information for their benefit or for the benefit
of any other person, regardless of whether such person is an
advisory client. Accordingly, should Rockefeller & Co.
come into possession of material non-public or other
confidential information with respect to any issuer, it may be
prohibited from communicating such information to, or
using such information for the benefit of, its clients, and will
have no obligation to do so when following policies and
procedures designed to comply with applicable law,
including Section 204A of the Advisers Act.
The purpose of the Code is to prohibit the firm’s employees,
supervisors, and officers (collectively, the “Employees”)
from engaging in securities transactions or activities that
involve a material conflict of interest, possible diversion of
a corporate opportunity, or the appearance of impropriety.
Rockefeller & Co. personnel and their families and
households may purchase investments for their own
accounts, including the same investments as may be
purchased or sold for clients, subject to the terms of the
Code. Rockefeller & Co. is required to use reasonable
supervision to detect and prevent violations of the Code by
Employees.
C. Conflicts of Interest
The Code generally operates to protect against conflicts of
interest either by subjecting Employee activities to specified
limitations (including pre-approval requirements) or by
prohibiting certain activities. Key provisions of the Code
include:
Conflicts of interest are inherent in large diversified financial
services companies such as RCM and may exist when there
is an incentive to serve one’s own interest at the expense of
another’s interest. This section, along with the above
disclosure, summarizes conflicts of interest the Global
Family Office has identified in connection with its
management of client accounts.
• The requirement for certain Employees, because of
their potential access to non-public information, to
obtain prior written approval or provide pre-trade
notification before executing certain securities
transactions for their personal securities accounts;
restrictions on personal securities
certain
applicable
activities
to
• Additional
transaction
Employees;
line-ups;
services,
• Requirements for certain Employees to provide
initial and annual reports of holdings in their
personal Employee securities accounts, along with
transaction information in those accounts; and
• Additional requirements for pre-clearance of other
activities including, but not limited to, outside
business activities, gifts and entertainment, and
marketing and promotional activities.
Rockefeller & Co. will provide a copy of the Code to any
client or prospective client upon request.
B. Insider Trading Policy
At a high level, conflicts of interest may arise whenever
Rockefeller & Co. has an economic or other incentive in its
management of a client account to act in a way that benefits
Rockefeller & Co., its staff or its affiliates. As further
described in the section above, and in the Rockefeller
Financial LLC Wrap Brochure for clients utilizing the
RPWA Program, conflicts may result when Rockefeller &
Co. or an affiliate: (1) invests in an investment product, such
as a mutual fund, exchange traded fund, hedge fund, private
equity fund or other investment product for which it or its
affiliate provides investment management services; (2) has
discretion in the selection of investment programs, asset
mixes, active/passive investment blends, and/or investment
manager
including
(3) obtains
administration, custody, transfer agency, placement agent,
trade execution, trust services and trade clearing, from an
affiliate; (4) receives payment as a result of purchasing an
investment product or using an investment product for client
accounts; or (5) receives payment from third parties for
providing services with respect to investment products
purchased for client accounts or when referring clients to
third party service providers who pay referral fees to
Rockefeller & Co. or its affiliates. Other conflicts of interest
may also result from, but are not limited to, relationships that
Rockefeller & Co.’s Insider Trading Policy includes
to prevent misuse of material nonpublic
procedures
information. Rockefeller & Co. and its related persons may,
from time to time, come into possession of material
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Rockefeller & Co. has with other clients or when Rockefeller
& Co. acts for its own account.
The following is a non-exhaustive discussion of specific
conflicts that we have identified.
1. Affiliated Investment Products
overall fees can be lower when selecting a RAM fixed
income strategy due to the lack of the RAM management
fee, the Global Family Office’s revenue from the client’s
investment in the RAM fixed income strategy can be greater
than if the client had invested in a third-party fixed income
strategy on the RPWA Program, as the Global Family Office
typically charges a higher advisory fee with respect to those
RAM fixed income strategies, which it shares with Private
Advisors covering the client’s account. Therefore, the
Global Family Office, its affiliates and/or representatives are
incentivized to offer or promote RAM fixed come strategies
to clients investing retirement account assets, which is a
conflict of interest.
fee
and
the
RAM investment management strategies are often made
available through multiple investment vehicles such as
separately managed accounts, private funds, registered
investment companies, non-U.S. investment funds and
model delivery programs. The fees payable to RAM will
often vary depending on the choice of vehicle utilized to
access a strategy. As a consequence, the Global Family
Office has an incentive to recommend investment vehicles
that pay higher fees to RAM.
The Global Family Office makes available to clients certain
Affiliated Investment Products. Use of Affiliated Investment
Products by clients raises a conflict of interest because it
results in increased revenue, in the aggregate, to Rockefeller
& Co. and its affiliates who provide the Affiliated
Investment Products, and results in additional fees for
Rockefeller & Co. For example, RAM’s multi-asset class
strategies include allocations to Affiliated Investment
Products. In some cases, Affiliated Investment Products held
in multi-asset class portfolios are subject to RAM’s
investment management
investment
management fees charged by the Affiliated Investment
Products. The inclusion of RAM investment strategies in
client portfolios provides other benefits to RAM such as
increasing
the firm’s assets under management and
increasing the amount of client brokerage commissions
RAM can use to acquire research under soft dollar
arrangements.
Depending on the strategy, fund or other investment
vehicles, similar offerings managed by or offered through
unaffiliated third-parties are often available and, if so, can
charge different fees, and the Global Family Office has a
conflict of interest to recommend, or encourage you to invest
in Affiliated Investment Products because the Global Family
Office (and its affiliates) can retain more total revenue than
when you invest in an unaffiliated third-party offering
through the platform.
Rockefeller & Co. makes use of Affiliated Funds as a
convenient means to diversify its clients’ assets and to
manage them such that eligible and participating clients
share fairly in available investment opportunities. However,
because certain types of investments may not be appropriate
for all clients, not all clients will be offered the opportunity
to invest and not all of those who are offered the opportunity
to invest will choose to do so. Rockefeller & Co. receives
advisory fees from these Affiliated Funds and in the case of
certain Affiliated Funds that are hedge funds and private
equity/venture capital fund, may also receive performance-
based compensation from such Affiliated Funds. Clients are
under no obligation to invest in Affiliated Funds.
2. Affiliated Service Providers
This is true even where RAM waives its management fees,
as in the case of certain RAM fixed income strategies which
are made available to Global Family Office clients,
including on a non-discretionary basis to clients investing
IRA and other retirement account assets (collectively,
“retirement account assets”), through the RPWA Program.
Unlike third-party managers available on the RPWA
Program, which typically charge management fees for fixed
income strategies that range from approximately 2 to 50
basis points on client assets, under this program RAM does
not charge separate management fees for client assets
invested through this program. However, while a client’s
A conflict of interest exists in retaining affiliated service
providers because, in light of our interest in these affiliated
service providers, we have an incentive to favor the retention
of affiliates even if a better price and/or quality of service
could be obtained from another person. One such affiliate is
Rockefeller Financial, which provides strategic advisory
services with respect to business transactions. Private
Advisors are financially incentivized to introduce clients to
deal opportunities made available through Rockefeller
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Financial. RTC NA and RTC Delaware, affiliated trust
companies, also provide services to our clients, including
after we recommend those services. Clients are under no
obligation to use affiliated service providers.
3. Rockefeller Retirement Plan Investment Services
receives
a
incentive
to
is not compensated
for
the
programs. Further, the fees Rockefeller Financial pays to its
clearing firm, National Financial Services, LLC (“NFS”),
have been negotiated such that the fee rates charged decrease
as the amount of business Rockefeller Financial refers to
NFS increases, including business from the client accounts
the Global Family Office manages in the program. Should
Rockefeller Financial not hit certain pre-agreed thresholds,
the fees charged by NFS to Rockefeller Financial may
increase. Rockefeller Financial also receives rebates or
service credits on certain charges from NFS based on the
number of client accounts and/or mutual fund positions and
the amount and/or type of assets in accounts including
program accounts, and additional financial benefits.
conference
also
Rockefeller Financial
sponsorship credit from NFS paid once every two years.
Such rebates or service credits will not be shared with or
otherwise benefit clients. As a result, the firm has an
incentive for clients to maintain accounts at NFS. This
conflict of interest, however, is mitigated by the fact that fee
rebates are paid directly to the firm by NFS and are not
shared with Private Advisors.
Empower Retirement LLC
(“Empower”) provides
technology, administrative and recordkeeping services in
connection with Rockefeller’s Discretionary Investment
Advisory Services program, RCM Retirement Plan
Fiduciary Manager, offered to retirement plan sponsor
clients, which are described in Item 4, above. Empower is a
wholly-owned subsidiary of Great-West Lifeco Inc., which,
along with IGM, is a member of the Power Corporation of
Canada group of companies. Accordingly, our affiliate
Rockefeller Financial has an
introduce
retirement plan sponsors seeking Discretionary Investment
Advisory Services to Empower. To mitigate this conflict,
Empower
technology,
administrative and
recordkeeping services Empower
provides in connection with the Discretionary Investment
Advisory Services.
a. Cash Sweeps
4. Rockefeller Private Wealth Advisory Program
leverages
The Global Family Office generally recommends that new
client relationships obtain its investment advice through use
of the RPWA Program sponsored by its affiliate Rockefeller
Financial. Rockefeller Financial has invested, and continues
to invest, significant resources to expand and enhance the
capabilities and features of the RPWA Program, including
the investment options and services available to clients.
When clients use the RPWA Program, the Global Family
Office benefits because
the platform’s
it
capabilities, infrastructure and technology when providing
services to its clients.
Rockefeller Financial will receive revenue from NFS on
Global Family Office client assets invested in deposits
through the Sweep Program. Most US-domiciled accounts
will sweep into an FDIC-insured bank deposit sweep (the
“Bank Deposit Sweep Program” or “BDSP”). Other types of
accounts (e.g., Keogh (HR-10) plans, ERISA Plans where
Rockefeller & Co. acts as fiduciary and non- U.S. domiciled
accounts will sweep into money market mutual funds.
Rockefeller Financial, in its capacity as broker-dealer,
determines which cash sweep options will be made available
to clients under the RPWA Program, and will choose from a
menu of cash sweep programs made available to it by NFS,
and may (a) make changes to the terms and conditions of the
Sweep Program or the product(s) available thereunder; (b)
change, add or delete products available through the Sweep
Program; or (c) change the client's investment through the
Sweep Program from one product to another upon thirty (30)
calendar days' written notice prior to such changes.
Rockefeller Financial benefits financially through the
receipt of greater revenues when clients of the Global Family
Office use the RPWA Program. Rockefeller Financial
receives a Relationship Fee and a Platform Fee from
advisory accounts that utilize the RPWA Program, excluding
Title 1 ERISA type accounts. It has revenue sharing
arrangements in place with certain investment managers that
are available on the RPWA Program (see “Third Party
Investment Manager and Revenue Sharing” below) and
receives a share of the revenue generated when clients use
certain platform services such as the margin and cash sweep
Over any given period, the interest rate on the BDSP may
not be the highest rates available and will likely be lower
than the rates of return on non-FDIC insured money market
sweep vehicles or on bank account deposits offered by other
financial services firms. Sweep Program services should not
be viewed as a long-term investment option. If you desire, as
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part of an investment strategy or otherwise, to maintain a
cash position in your account for other than a short period of
time and/or are seeking the highest yields currently available
in the market for your cash balances, contact your Private
Advisor to discuss investment options that may be better
suited to your objectives.
Financial. Some of the exchanges or broker-dealers may
provide payments to NFS depending upon the characteristics
of the order and any subsequent execution. However, other
than the clearing arrangement with NFS, Rockefeller
Financial does not have any arrangement with the execution
venues and Rockefeller Financial does not receive any
payment for order flow from NFS or the execution venues.
NFS is responsible for disclosing any payment for order flow
arrangements separately to customers, including those that
Rockefeller Financial introduces to NFS.
c. Margin
Currently, Rockefeller Financial determines the yields
clients receive on deposits held in the BDSP. Therefore, it is
important for you to understand that the yield you receive on
the assets in the BDSP on accounts through Rockefeller
Financial will differ from, and may be lower than, the yield
you receive on deposits in bank deposit programs offered by
other firms. Given that Rockefeller Financial determines the
BDSP revenue percentage it will receive and the amount
enrolled clients receive via interest payments on their
deposits, each client should consider this revenue to
Rockefeller Financial when evaluating the total fees and
compensation received by the Global Family Office and its
affiliates. Depending on the interest rate environment and
the level of enrolled client deposits, Rockefeller Financial’s
BDSP revenue can increase or decrease. Those revenues can
lead to net profits for Rockefeller Financial that can exceed
the aggregate amounts paid to clients on their BDSP deposits
and which Rockefeller Financial will retain, thereby
providing a benefit to Rockefeller Financial and a financial
incentive to offer the BDSP and to allocate a greater portion
of account assets to cash. The applicable interest rates paid
on deposits in the BDSP are determined based on prevailing
economic and business conditions, evaluated periodically
and subject to change at any time.
To the extent Global Family Office clients utilize margin in
their brokerage accounts at National Financial Services (the
“NFS Margin Program”), Rockefeller Financial and the
client’s Private Advisor also are compensated through a
portion of the revenue generated from such arrangements.
Rockefeller Financial receives from NFS a percentage of the
margin rate charged to clients on borrowed funds (generally
the difference between the cost of funds that NFS charges to
Rockefeller and the applicable rates charged to clients who
borrow those funds), and Private Advisors generally share in
a portion of this compensation attributable to their clients’
margin accounts. The receipt of such compensation creates
an incentive for the Global Family Office and its Private
Advisors to recommend use of the NFS Margin Program to
clients. Clients should refer to the “Margin and Lending
Services” section in the Rockefeller Financial Wrap Fee
Brochure further details on the NFS Margin Program,
including the current standard margin rates, risks related to
the use of margin and conflicts of interest related to this
service.
Rockefeller Financial can change or discontinue the BDSP
at any time in our sole discretion. We will notify you of
material changes to the BDSP in advance in writing.
d. Wrap Fees
Clients should refer to the “Cash Sweep Services” section in
the Rockefeller Financial Wrap Fee Brochure, which
provides further details on the Cash Sweep Program,
including enhanced disclosure in respect of available sweep
offerings, features and conflicts of interest related to this
service.
b. Payments for Order Flow
Clients should be aware, however, that by participating in a
wrap fee program, such as the RPWA Program, clients may
ultimately pay more or less than they would have otherwise
through a non-wrap fee program that may charge lower
advisory fees but passes on custody, trade execution and
other costs directly to the client, or than if they had
purchased services similar to those offered through the
RPWA Program separately. Clients are also able to invest
directly in many of the same investments, or in investments
similar to those made available through the RPWA Program
without the investment advisory services provided by the
Global Family Office. Clients should carefully review all
Rockefeller Financial routes equity securities and equity
options orders to its clearing firm, NFS, pursuant to a fully
disclosed clearing arrangement. NFS selects the exchanges
or broker-dealers for execution on behalf of Rockefeller
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create conflicts between the Global Family Office and its
clients because the firm benefits when clients use one of
these custodians instead other unaffiliated custodians. We
believe this conflict is mitigated because the fees charged by
these custodians are competitive in the marketplace.
Information about
the fees charged by unaffiliated
custodians is available in their custody agreements with
clients.
6. Third Party Investment Managers, Annuity Providers
fees that may be charged through the RPWA Program and
assess the benefits of enrolling in a wrap fee program before
making the decision to make an investment through the
RPWA Program. Private Advisors have a financial incentive
to recommend that Client’s utilize the RPWA Program over
the Legacy Platform and other Permitted Arrangements
because it may increase the revenue to the Global Family
Office and its affiliates generated from their clients, which
can increase the compensation received by Private Advisors
as described in Item 5 above.
and Revenue Sharing
Clients should refer to the Wrap Brochure for more
comprehensive disclosures on conflicts of interest with
respect to use of RPWA Program.
5. Legacy Platform and Permitted Arrangements
When recommending third-party investment managers and
funds, or investing funds in discretionary client accounts into
third party managed accounts and funds, the Global Family
Office will generally choose an investment manager or fund
that has been approved for client use by either the Global
Family Office or Rockefeller Financial.
to
Rockefeller Financial has Partner Program arrangements
with certain third-party managers, including managers of
separately managed accounts, fund strategist portfolios,
mutual funds, and ETFs, whereby such managers pay the
firm additional fees (including part of their revenues) and
marketing support compensation in connection with clients
investments in the products managed by these third-party
managers. Depending on the agreement with the manager,
Rockefeller Financial’s compensation from the manager is
based on: (1) a percentage of the fund’s management fees or
sales calculated using the average of the firm’s client assets
invested with the manager during the relevant period and/or
(2) a flat fee (representing a portion of the manager’s fee)
paid to the firm. As part of its obligations under these
revenue sharing arrangements, Rockefeller Financial
provides services and support relating to the offering,
marketing or distribution of each applicable manager’s
products that is not made available to other managers,
including providing the manager with information and
reports relating to Rockefeller Financial and the manager’s
products available to Rockefeller Financial clients, as well
as strategic engagement and access to our Private Advisors,
field leadership and other personnel, including meetings and
other communications.
to
independent
exclusively
in
for providing
Clients and who receive advisory services from Global
Family Office under the Legacy Platform and Permitted
Arrangements engage a third-party broker-dealer or bank
custodian acceptable to the Global Family Office, such as
FNZ Trust Company LLC (“FNZ”), JP Morgan Private Bank
(“JP Morgan”), Northern Trust, and Charles Schwab & Co.,
Inc. (“Schwab”). Rockefeller & Co. has certain business
arrangements in place with these custodians to enable the
firm to provide advisory services to clients in a more
efficient and cost-effective manner. For example,
Rockefeller & Co. has established data feeds and/or
facilitate account
electronic access arrangements
transactions and the administration and servicing of client
accounts. The firm also has in place with FNZ and JP
Morgan omnibus trading arrangements which enable it to
trade across client accounts more efficiently in U.S. and non-
U.S. markets. Schwab is used primarily by legacy clients of
Private Advisors that joined the Global Family Office from
other firms. Schwab provides Rockefeller & Co. with access
to their respective online institutional platforms including
investment research and market data and make available
various support services which benefit the Global Family
Office. The firm and its clients who utilize Schwab and
certain other firms receive certain fee waivers and discounts
which are tied to client asset levels and other factors. We do
not consider these services to be soft dollar arrangements as
the services provided to Rockefeller & Co. are generally
available
investment advisers on an
unsolicited basis at no charge to them. These arrangements
Rockefeller Financial also has Data Program arrangements
with certain third-party managers and annuity providers
whereby such managers/providers pay the firm additional
fees
the
exchange
manager/provider with information and reports relating to
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is a factor considered in their compensation arrangements
including discretionary bonus awards.
8. IRA Rollovers
Rockefeller Financial and the manager’s products available
to Rockefeller Financial clients. Rockefeller Financial’s
compensation from the manager/provider is either based on
a percentage of the fund’s management fees calculated using
the average of Rockefeller Financial's client assets invested
with the manager during the relevant period, a flat fee, or a
combination of the two paid to Rockefeller Financial. The
Global Family Office does not share personally identifiable
or client specific information in connection with this
program.
to
the
third-party
If you roll over assets from an employer-sponsored
retirement plan, such as a 401(k) plan, into an IRA managed
by the Global Family Office, we and your Private Advisor
will earn compensation on those assets, for example, through
client fees based on the assets in your account and third-party
payments disclosed in this Brochure. This creates an
incentive for us to recommend and encourage you to roll
over assets from your plan to us. We mitigate these conflicts
by disclosing them to you and by establishing policies and
procedures, and risk-based supervision to review these
securities recommendations. You should be aware that the
fees and commissions you pay for an IRA likely will be
higher than those you pay through your plan, and there can
be other fees, including IRA termination fees.
Under these arrangements, Rockefeller Financial or its
affiliates will receive compensation from the third-party
investment managers and funds. In the case of alternative
investments, you should expect that this compensation
includes an upfront placement fee based on the assets raised
and/or a share in the investment management and/or
investment
performance fees paid
managers by clients. This additional compensation creates
an incentive for the Global Family Office to make available
and recommend to clients third-party investment managers
and investment products that pay marketing support
compensation to, or that share a larger portion of their
management fees with, or enter into revenue sharing
arrangements with Rockefeller Financial, and to invest client
funds in discretionary accounts into investment products
managed by these managers.
If
the Global Family Office or a Private Advisor
recommends that you move assets from an IRA at another
financial institution to Rockefeller Financial’s custodian or
another custodian, he or she is required to consider, based on
the information you provide, whether you will be giving up
certain investment-related benefits at the other financial
institution, such as the effects of breakpoints, rights of
accumulation, and index annuity caps, and has determined
that the recommendation is in your best interest, including,
as applicable, for one or more of these reasons:
• Greater services and/or other benefits (including
holistic advice and planning) can be achieved with
the Rockefeller IRA;
Some third-party investment managers and funds may
decline to pay revenue sharing at the levels requested by
Rockefeller Financial or at all, which presents a financial
disincentive for us to promote the sale of those investment
products that do not pay us at the requested levels. You
should not expect that revenue sharing compensation will be
rebated or credited to our clients. Private Advisors of the
Global Family Office do not receive any portion of this
revenue.
• Consolidation of assets and availability of
consolidated statements and performance reports
would be beneficial to you; and
• The costs associated with Rockefeller IRA are
7. Third Party Service Providers
justified by these services and benefits.
9. Private Advisor Compensation
The Global Family Office has a conflict of interest
associated with utilizing third party providers who pay it
commissions and fees (as discussed above) because it has a
financial incentive to select third party providers based on
these payments. The Global Family Office seeks to mitigate
these conflicts of interests by not providing Private Advisors
a direct share of any such referral payments; however,
Private Advisors benefit financially from referral fees
received by the firm to the extent client revenue generation
The Global Family Office’s compensation arrangements
with Private Advisors create a financial incentive for them to
seek to increase the overall revenue the Global Family Office
and its affiliates receive from their clients. Please refer to
Item 5 - Compensation of Private Advisors, for a description
of these compensation arrangements and conflicts of interest
that arise from them. Private Advisors do not receive
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compensation on any portion of the Platform Fee or
Relationship Fee.
10. Brokerage Practices
with Rockefeller Financial will be disclosed in the fund
offering materials. Additionally, although Rockefeller
Financial does not directly charge performance-based fees,
as a distributor of alternative investments, Rockefeller
Financial from time to time can receive a portion of the
performance fees charged by the investment advisers to
those funds.
this conflict, we disclose
The payment of placement fees to Rockefeller Financial
creates an incentive for the Global Family Office to
recommend the sponsor’s third-party investment vehicle to
its clients instead of other investment opportunities. To
mitigate
to clients when
Rockefeller Financial is acting as placement agent and we
evaluate the suitability of prospective investors for such
third-party investment vehicles. The firm further maintains a
supervisory system that includes surveillance reviews,
conducting periodic supervisory visits and compliance
inspections and audits. This conflict of interest is further
mitigated by fiduciary obligations and regulatory and
compliance rules and procedures to which Rockefeller
Financial and the Private Advisors are subject. Please refer
to Item 10 – Other Financial Industry Activities and
Affiliations above.
12. Intercompany Arrangements
Private Advisors who are registered representatives of
Rockefeller Financial from time to time will recommend that
clients buy or sell securities or investment products in which
Rockefeller Financial, its affiliates and their respective
officers, directors, employees, or registered representatives,
have a financial interest or may themselves purchase or sell.
Clients should be aware that compensation earned by
Rockefeller Financial and its registered representatives
varies by product and by issuer. Therefore, Rockefeller
Financial and its registered representatives have a conflict of
interest as they may receive more compensation for selling
certain products issued by an affiliated company than for
selling certain products issued by companies that are not
affiliated with the firm. These Private Advisors also receive
commissions
in connection with client brokerage
transactions or are eligible to receive an annual discretionary
bonus which considers revenues generated by their clients.
This compensation structure creates an incentive for Private
Advisors who are registered representatives of Rockefeller
Financial to recommend investments in brokerage accounts
that may result in greater compensation than would be the
case if held in an advisory account or to recommend that you
trade frequently in a brokerage account. It also creates an
incentive for the Private Advisor to recommend products and
services for which more compensation would be received,
rather than based on a client’s investment profile or best
interests.
11. Alternative Investments – Placement Fees,
Distribution and Servicing Fees, and Performance
Fees
recommend such
From time to time, Rockefeller & Co. or an affiliate will act
as the General Partner or fund manager of an Affiliated
Fund, interests of which will be offered to clients of the
Global Family Office and Rockefeller Financial. Rockefeller
& Co. or such affiliate will sometimes share a portion of the
fees received they receive with Rockefeller Financial. A
portion of the fee be further shared with Private Advisors
employed by Rockefeller & Co. or Rockefeller Financial.
When this occurs, it creates an incentive for Private Advisors
to
funds over other comparable
opportunities. In such cases, this intercompany arrangement
is explained and disclosed in the offering materials or in a
supplement to such offering materials.
13. Access Fund Fees
In certain circumstances, Rockefeller & Co. or Rockefeller
Financial may commission or use an “access fund” for the
purpose of facilitating individual investor access to an
underlying fund or other investment opportunity. Both the
access fund and the underlying fund impose administrative
or management fees, custodial accounting and other service
As a distributor of alternative investments, Rockefeller
Financial can receive an ongoing distribution and/or
servicing fee paid from a fund manager in the form of a fund
manager paid placement fee based on commitments raised.
The placement fee paid to Rockefeller Financial will
generally range from 2.00% to 3.00% but could be up to
4.5% of the total commitments raised. The ongoing annual
investor distribution and/or servicing fee typically ranges
from 0.25% to 1.00% and may or may not be netted out of
the fund’s net asset value. This may vary by fund. In such
cases, Rockefeller Financial enters into a selling agreement
with the fund manager, and the terms of the arrangement
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fees, other expenses and, in certain cases, performance-
based allocations, all of which will reduce an investor’s
returns.
In addition, Private Advisors are provided a financial
incentive to introduce private investment opportunities to
Rockefeller Financial and its affiliates. For investment
opportunities that Rockefeller Financial decides to offer for
purchase to its clients, Rockefeller Advisors will typically
receive a finder’s fee of up to 10-15% of the total fees earned
by Rockefeller Financial or
its affiliate. Rockefeller
Financial mitigates these conflicts by disclosing them to you
and by establishing policies, procedures and risk-based
supervision to review product recommendations.
15. Insurance Products
recordkeeping,
reporting,
and
Insurance products sold by affiliates of the Global Family
Office will result in commissions or other remuneration
being paid to these affiliates, which do not reduce any
compensation otherwise payable to us. In addition, certain
Private Advisors and representatives of our affiliates
(including employees of the Global Family Office and its
other affiliates) who are licensed insurance agents are
compensated for the sale of insurance-related products. This
compensation typically includes a one-time commission for
placing the policy and an annual commission for acting as
agent of record on the policy.
Fees that access fund investors pay to Rockefeller & Co. or
Rockefeller Financial are disclosed in the access fund’s
offering materials and may include the following: annual
access and administration fees, which typically range up to
1.0%, and in certain cases may include a performance-based
allocation, for sourcing and structuring the underlying
investment and managing the access fund; annual trailer
fees, which typically range up to 1.00%, in connection with
Rockefeller Financial’s provision of supplemental services
to facilitate and administer its clients’ investments in the
access fund; these services can include oversight of, and
coordination with, the manager of the access fund on
operational,
other
administrative matters in respect of the Rockefeller investors
in the access fund; and one-time upfront investor paid
placement fees, which typically range up to 1.50% of the
subscription amount. In certain access funds, the access and
administration fee and trailer fee may be bundled into a
single fee. These fees may be added to capital commitment
amount or, in other circumstances, deducted from the
commitment amount, and typically mirror the Underlying
Fund’s method of charging fees. Fee rates can vary and in
some cases may be lowered based on meeting particular
breakpoints. The percentage and method of calculating the
above fees is disclosed in the applicable access fund offering
materials. Access fund offerings can be expected to also have
additional expenses, such as legal and accounting fees for
the vehicle, that are passed along to investors.
The firm acts as sub-advisor to certain variable life insurance
and variable annuity products that it recommends to clients
and receives a sub-advisory fee for providing such services.
Under this arrangement, the firm delegates to a Private
investment management responsibility for a
Advisor
particular variable insurance or annuity product and shares a
significant portion of the sub-advisory fee from the product
with such Private Advisor.
Rockefeller Financial shares a portion of the trailer fee and
investor paid placement fee with Private Advisors. In certain
legacy access funds, Private Advisors received a share in
other types of access fund fees. As a result of these
arrangements, Private Advisors have an incentive to
recommend such access funds over other comparable
opportunities.
These arrangements give rise to a conflict of interest in
determining which alternative funds to make available to
clients, and in recommending investments in certain
alternative investments over others.
14. Referral Fees
The above compensation arrangements create an incentive
for the firm and our Private Advisors to recommend
insurance products sold through the firm and its affiliates.
We and our Private Advisors have an incentive to
recommend variable insurance and annuity products that we
sub-advise over third-party products for which we do not
receive a sub-advisory fee. As the compensation payable to
us under sub-advised variable insurance and annuity
products can be more than would be the case had the assets
been managed outside of an insurance or annuity structure
(due to factors such as the commissions we receive on the
product, the sub-advisory fee rate paid by the product
provider and the length of time the assets will remain under
our management in the product), the firm and our Private
Advisors have a further incentive to recommend that clients
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instances,
utilize sub-advised variable insurance and annuity products
over other types of investment accounts and products for
which we receive less compensation.
16. Cross Trades
the
vary by vendor and event. In some
contributions per vendor (as well as the aggregate received
from all vendors) are significant, and may include travel,
meals and entertainment provided to Private Advisors by the
event host. While your Private Advisor does not receive a
portion of these payments, their attendance and participation
in these events, as well as the increased exposure to vendors
who sponsor the events, may lead Private Advisors to
recommend the products and services of those vendors as
compared to those who do not.
19. Other Non-Cash Compensation
law. Additionally,
In certain cases, the Global Family Office may cause a client
of the Global Family Office to purchase or sell investments
from another client of the Global Family Office. Such
transactions create conflicts of interest because, by not
exposing such buy and sell transactions to market forces, a
client may not receive the best price otherwise possible, or
we may have an incentive to improve the performance of one
client by selling underperforming assets to another client in
order, for example, to earn fees. We will not effectuate a
cross trade unless the firm believes it is in the best interest
of all clients involved, if permitted to do so contractually and
in
permissible under applicable
connection with such transactions, we, our affiliates, and our
personnel receive fees in connection with management of the
relevant clients involved in such a transaction and may also
be entitled to share in the investment profits of the relevant
clients.
17. Personal Trading
When we, our employees or an affiliate currently hold for
our own benefit the same securities as a client, we could be
viewed as having a potential conflict of interest. In general,
we will not, as principal, buy securities for ourselves from or
sell securities we own to any client.
18. Educational Programs
The Global Family Office, our Private Advisors and our
affiliates receive non-cash compensation from broker-
dealers used to execute securities transactions for clients and
from mutual fund companies, investment managers, unit
investment trust sponsors, annuity providers, insurance
vendors and sponsors of products that we or our affiliates
distribute. This compensation includes the following:
occasional gifts, occasional meals,
tickets or other
reasonable and customary value;
entertainment of
sponsorship support of educational or training events (which
include educational events Private Advisors arrange for
clients and prospects) and seminars and/or payment of
expenses related to training and education of employees,
which can (and often do) include a non-training element of
the event; and/or various forms of marketing support and, in
certain limited circumstances, the development of tools used
by the Global Family Office and its affiliates for training or
record-keeping purposes. Non-cash compensation can vary
by vendor and event. The receipt of cash and non-cash
compensation from sources other than clients, creates an
incentive for the firm to potentially favor and recommend
certain products over others. We address these conflicts of
interest by maintaining policies and procedures on the
suitability and supervision of the advisory programs and
services we offer to you, and by disclosing our practices to
ensure you make an informed decision.
20. Other Transactions and Relationships
Investment managers, mutual fund vendors, unit investment
trust sponsors, annuity, life insurance companies or their
affiliates and sponsors of ETFs, alternative investment funds
and other firms whose products are available to clients may
contribute funds to support our Private Advisor education
programs. The contributions are used to subsidize the cost of
training seminars we offer to Private Advisors, which may
include travel and travel-related expenses, meals, and
entertainment. These training events and seminars can (and
often) include a non-training element to the event. Not all
vendors contribute
to our education efforts. Neither
contribution towards these training and education expenses
nor lack thereof, is considered as a factor in analyzing or
determining whether a vendor should be included or should
remain in our programs or our platform. Contributions can
Affiliates of Rockefeller & Co. receive trading commissions
and other compensation from mutual funds and insurance
companies whose products we recommend to clients. Our
affiliates engage in a variety of transactions with (or provide
other services to) the investment managers, mutual funds,
ETFs and their affiliates, or service providers with which
you are doing business. Our affiliates, in turn, receive
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compensation from these entities. Those transactions and
services that our affiliates provide include, but are not
limited to, executing transactions in securities or other
instruments, broker-dealer services for the account of our
affiliate, research services, consulting services, investment
banking services, trust company services, and insurance
services.
As mentioned above, Rockefeller & Co. provides investment
advice to clients regarding investment in various types of
Affiliated Funds where Rockefeller & Co. and its related
persons have an interest as a general partner, managing
member, manager and/or investment adviser. Eligible
officers and employees of Rockefeller & Co. are provided
the opportunity to align their financial interests with those of
Rockefeller & Co.'s clients by investing their personal funds
in Affiliated Funds. In addition, Rockefeller & Co. and its
affiliates may also invest their proprietary capital in separate
accounts managed by Rockefeller & Co. and in Affiliated
Funds. The services provided by Rockefeller & Co. and
related persons to any Affiliated Fund recommended by
Rockefeller & Co. to clients are disclosed to prospective
investors in the Affiliated Fund’s prospectus, offering
documents and/or governing documents.
ITEM 12: BROKERAGE PRACTICES
Rockefeller & Co. does not execute trades in client accounts
as a broker-dealer or agent for compensation for any client.
Client assets are held with various registered broker-dealers,
banks, or other qualified custodians, which will act as third-
party custodians and may effect transactions. Each third-
party custodian is responsible for handling the delivery and
receipt of securities purchased or sold in clients' brokerage
accounts, receive and distribute dividends and other
distributions, and process exchange offers, rights offerings,
warrants, tender offers and redemptions. Each third-party
custodian is also responsible for sending out client
statements of all activity in client's brokerage account on no
less than a quarterly basis, written confirmations of trades
executed through clients’ brokerage accounts, and associated
tax documents related to each account. Clients should review
all statements and related documents carefully.
A. Aggregation of Client Orders
We and/or our affiliates provide investment banking,
research, brokerage, investment advisory, insurance, and
other services for different types of clients. In providing
those services, we and our affiliates should be expected to
give advice to, or take actions for, those clients or for our
own accounts or accounts of our affiliates that differs from
advice given to, or the timing and nature of actions taken for
you, or buy and sell securities for our own or other accounts.
Advice given to clients or investment decisions made for
these clients should be expected to differ from, or may
conflict with, advice given or investment decisions made for
an advisory affiliate or another client. Action taken with
respect to advisory affiliates should be expected to adversely
affect client accounts, and actions taken by client accounts
should be expected to benefit advisory affiliates. Conflicts
arise when a client makes investments in conjunction with
an investment being made by other clients or clients of our
affiliates, or for our proprietary account, or in a transaction
where such other parties have already made an investment.
For example, investment opportunities are from time to time
appropriate for clients, clients of our affiliates, or our and our
affiliates’ proprietary accounts at the same, different or
overlapping levels of a company’s capital structure.
Conflicts of interest arise in such cases, particularly in the
event the company is in financial distress. You should expect
that Rockefeller & Co. and our affiliates occasionally will
not be free to divulge or act upon certain information in our
or their possession on behalf of investment advisory or other
clients, particularly in circumstances where confidentiality
obligations apply to such information or where necessary or
appropriate to comply with applicable law or our policies
and procedures designed to comply with applicable law. We
are not obligated to execute any transaction for your account
that we believe to be improper under applicable law or rules
or contrary to our own policies. We have adopted policies
and procedures that limit transactions for our proprietary
accounts and the accounts of our employees. These policies
and procedures are designed to prevent, among other things,
improper or abusive conduct when there is a conflict with
the interest of a client.
Transactions for each client account generally will be
effected independently unless the Private Advisor or an
investment manager with trading discretion decides to
purchase or sell the same securities for several clients. While
not our common practice for Global Family Office accounts,
we may, where practicable, combine or “batch” such orders
in seeking to obtain best execution or negotiate more
favorable commission rates. If it does so, the Global Family
Office generally would allocate the proceeds of those
transactions (and the related transaction expenses) among
the participants on an average price basis (although it may
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allocate partially filled orders differently). The Global
Family Office believes combining orders in this way can be,
over time, advantageous to all participants. However, the
average price could be less advantageous to a single client
than if the client account had been the only transacting
account or had traded ahead of the other participants.
purchase and/or sale of securities executed by the broker
with whom they have engaged for brokerage and custody
services (e.g., Schwab, TD Ameritrade). For clients who
utilize the services of a bank custodian (e.g., FNZ Trust
Company, JP Morgan), their brokerage transactions will be
placed with NFS for execution and then settled in the client’s
account at their selected bank custodian.
B. RPWA Program Brokerage Practices
While in some cases the Global Family Office could
potentially trade away from a client’s selected broker or NFS
in the case of a bank custodian, we typically execute trades
through the broker selected by the client or NFS in order to
avoid trade away fees and/or operational considerations
which result when trades are executed by other brokers and
settled at the client’s chosen broker/bank custodian. We
believe this practice is consistent with our duty to seek best
execution of client trades.
In limited circumstances and with supervisory approval,
transactions for Global Family Office clients may be routed
to the RAM trading desk for execution by third party broker
dealers. Information about RAM’s trading practices is
located in its Form ADV Part 2A brochure.
For clients utilizing the RPWA Program to receive our
advisory services, Rockefeller Financial will act as the
introducing broker to effect equity security transactions for
such clients through NFS. NFS will execute equity trades in
client accounts and maintain custody of client assets.
Accordingly, it is expected that equity trading activity for
clients will generally be effected through this arrangement
and not with other brokers. Clients may be able to obtain
better executions of securities transactions if a broker other
than Rockefeller Financial is used to effect the transactions.
For fixed income or other securities for which a markup or
markdown is charged by the executing broker-dealer, most
or up to all trades will be executed through firms other than
NFS. Whether executed by NFS or another firm, you will
bear the cost of this dealer markup/markdown amount and
the client wrap fee does not cover this expense or cost.
D. Cross Trades
Clients of Rockefeller & Co. utilizing the RPWA Program
will not pay
trading commissions when Rockefeller
Financial executes trades for their account because the
investment advisory fees they pay to the Global Family
Office will cover these execution costs as part of the wrap
fee arrangements. Certain investment managers utilized in
client accounts may elect to “trade away” from the RPWA
Program for best execution reasons. To the extent equity
securities transactions are executed away from Rockefeller
Financial, clients will be subject to transaction costs and fees
that are in addition to the wrap fee paid to the Global Family
Office.
In certain cases, we may cause a client to purchase
investments from another client or to sell investments to
another client. Such transactions create conflicts of interest
to the extent that, by not exposing such buy and sell
transactions to market forces, a client does not receive the
best price otherwise possible, or we have an incentive to
benefit one client with which we have a more significant
relationship by selling underperforming assets to another
client in order, for example, to maintain or grow that
relationship and earn higher fees. Additionally, in connection
with such transactions, we, our affiliates, and our personnel
receive fees in connection with management of the relevant
clients involved in such a transaction and may also be
entitled to share in the investment profits of the relevant
clients.
Please refer to the Rockefeller Financial Wrap Brochure for
additional information about brokerage practices under that
program.
E. Trade Correction Policy and Procedures
C. Brokerage Practices for Legacy Platform and
Permitted Arrangements
Clients who receive advisory services from Global Family
Office under
the Legacy Platform and Permitted
Arrangements will typically have transactions for the
We have trade error policies and procedures, pursuant to
which we resolve trading errors that occur from time to time.
The Global Family Office exercises due care when handling
client orders in seeking to avoid trade errors. However, when
a trade error occurs, we work with all relevant parties in the
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will receive the account statements and reports described in
the Wrap Brochure for that platform.
trading process to promptly correct the error consistent with
our policies and procedures to help ensure that there is no
adverse impact to you as a result of the error. Depending on
the particular circumstances of the error, you should expect
the Global Family Office will retain profits, if any, resulting
from a trade error or may net profits and losses from related
trade errors when determining how to correct trade errors.
F. Investment Consulting Arrangements
The clients’ custodian provides quarterly reports to clients
showing the assets and transactions in each client account
for the quarter. Reports will generally be provided in
electronic format, when agreed upon by the client. Clients
are urged to compare the account statements received
directly from the custodians to the reports provided by the
firm.
ITEM 14: CLIENT REFERRALS AND OTHER
COMPENSATION
Under Investment Consulting Arrangements, advisory
clients are responsible for instructing their broker-dealer or
bank custodian to execute securities transactions for their
account. The Global Family Office may assist clients in
formulating these instructions, but clients are responsible to
ensure the accuracy of the instruction, communicating the
instruction to their broker-dealer or bank custodian, and
confirming the execution of the instructions. The Global
Family Office does not guarantee that any broker-dealer or
bank custodian, even if recommended by the Global Family
Office, will provide the best price on a particular transaction.
When recommending a broker-dealer or bank custodian to a
client, the Global Family Office considers a number of
factors (as described above) including benefits received by
the Global Family Office. We address these conflicts of
interest by disclosing them to clients. Please refer to Item 11
information about these conflicts of interest. These services
are subject to the terms and conditions of an Investment
Consulting Agreement.
The Global Family Office compensates affiliated and
unrelated third parties (“Solicitor(s)”) for client referrals in
accordance with applicable legal requirements. If a referred
client enrolls in an investment advisory program, the
compensation paid to the Solicitor will typically consist of a
cash payment stated as a percentage of the Global Family
Office’s advisory fee over a period of time, a one-time flat
fee or another form of payment, as agreed upon with the
Solicitor. The Global Family Office’s payment of
compensation to a Solicitor creates a conflict of interest for
the Solicitor as the Solicitor will only be paid if a referred
client enrolls in an investment advisory program. The
payment of compensation to a Solicitor also creates a
financial incentive for Private Advisors not to negotiate or
reduce the fees that a referred client will pay to the Global
Family Office. A referred client is not obligated to enroll in
any particular investment advisory program.
ITEM 13: REVIEW OF ACCOUNTS
A. Frequency and Nature of Review of Client Accounts
their
Client advisory accounts are reviewed periodically for
consistency with
investment objectives. Private
Advisors will also communicate periodically with clients
and respond to client requests for information.
B. Content and Frequency of Account Reports to
Private Advisors from time to time refer clients to RCM’s
affiliates for services and products, such as investment
management services offered by RAM, fiduciary services
offered by RTC NA or RTC Delaware, and insurance and
annuity offerings by RCM Insurance Services. Similarly,
employees of these affiliates from time to time recommend
their clients to the Global Family Office for investment
advisory and family office services. See Item 11 for a
discussion of the conflicts of interest raised by such referrals.
Clients
Clients will receive account statements and reports,
generally quarterly, from the Global Family Office in
addition to statements from their custodian as described
below. In most cases these account statements and reports
will contain information on account values, holdings, and
transactions. Account performance may in also be included
if requested by Clients. Clients utilizing the RPWA Program
Private Advisors may also refer clients to unaffiliated third-
party firms for certain services, such as lines of credits,
mortgages, trust services and other investment-related
services. In making such referrals, the Global Family Office
will seek to identify reputable unaffiliated third parties who
offer commercially reasonable terms, but does not undertake
to perform any level of due diligence on or ongoing
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monitoring of such third parties or to search for the providers
who offer the most favorable terms to clients. Clients should
carefully independently evaluate these unaffiliated third
parties and their terms of service relative to other providers
in the marketplace before entering into a service relationship
with them.
annually. If an Affiliated Private Fund is unaudited, investors
will receive the unaudited Affiliated Private Fund’s custody
account statement from its custodian on at least a quarterly
basis. Investors in Affiliated Private Funds who do not
receive audited financial statements or, in the case of
unaudited Affiliated Private Funds, quarterly account
statements from the fund’s custodian as described above,
should promptly report this to their Private Advisor.
In certain cases, these referral arrangements will involve the
payment of referral fees to, or participation in revenue
sharing arrangements with, the Global Family Office. See
Item 11 above for a discussion of the conflicts raised by such
arrangements.
The fees charged by affiliated and unaffiliated firms for
services provided to clients resulting from referrals are
additional charges to the client and not included in (and will
not reduce) the Global Family Office’s fee.
As Rockefeller & Co. is not a custodian, it may not take
physical custody of client funds, including checks made
payable to the client, and/or client securities. In accordance
with regulatory requirements, client funds and/or securities
received by Rockefeller & Co. will be returned to the third
party who sent or delivered them within 3 business days of
receipt, unless an exception to this regulatory requirement
applies.
ITEM 15: CUSTODY
Rockefeller & Co. has engaged its affiliate, RTC NA, to
serve as custodian for the limited purpose of receiving and
depositing into client accounts at third party custodians,
checks made payable to clients in connection with family
office services and class action processing services offered
to clients. Rockefeller Financial, as a registered broker-
dealer, may receive checks from clients of Rockefeller & Co.
who have brokerage accounts with Rockefeller Financial
and arrange for them to be deposited at NFS.
ITEM 16: INVESTMENT DISCRETION
Rockefeller & Co. does not take custody of client funds
and/or securities. Clients are required to select one or more
banks or broker-dealers as their custodian to hold the client
funds and/or securities for which the Global Family Office
will provide
investment advisory services. However,
Rockefeller & Co. may be deemed to have custody of a
client’s funds and/or securities to the extent the client
authorizes the firm to instruct the client’s custodian to deduct
the firm’s fees directly from the client account or to instruct
the client’s custodian to disburse or transfer funds or
securities form the client’s account. As described below,
Rockefeller & Co. may also be deemed to have custody over
client funds and/or securities which RTC and Rockefeller
Financial receive on behalf of a Global Family Office client
for purposes of having such funds and/or securities deposited
into the client’s account at their designated custodian.
The Global Family Office will generally have investment
discretion over advisory accounts. Clients grant the Global
Family Office investment discretion through authorities
granted under the Investment Advisory Agreement. In all
cases, however, such discretion is to be exercised in a
manner consistent with the stated investment objectives and
reasonable restrictions for the particular client account. The
Global Family Office has the authority to determine, without
obtaining specific client consent, the securities to be bought
or sold, and the amount of the securities to be bought or sold.
Clients will receive custody account statements on at least a
quarterly basis from their chosen custodian. As also
discussed in Item 13, we send periodic reports to clients as
well. Clients are urged to carefully review and compare the
statements sent by the custodians with those sent by us.
In certain instances, the Global Family Office and a client
may designate certain assets (such as legacy, concentrated,
or low-cost basis holdings) as non-discretionary or enter into
a non-discretionary advisory agreement pursuant to which
client consent must be obtained prior to the Global Family
Office executing a securities transaction in the non-
discretionary assets or account. Clients entering into non-
discretionary relationships with the Global Family Office
Rockefeller & Co. is also deemed to have custody of client
funds and/or securities where it or a related person serves as
the general partner or managing member (or in a comparable
position) of an Affiliated Fund (an “Affiliated Private
Fund”). Investors in Affiliated Private Funds will typically
receive the applicable fund’s audited financial statement
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Family Office Proxy Voting Policy and Procedures or the
RAM Proxy Voting Policy and Procedures, as described
below.
B. Global Family Office Proxy Voting Policy and
Procedures
to
should understand that the requirement to obtain client
consent prior to executing a securities transaction may result
in the non-discretionary account trading in a security after
the security is purchased or sold in discretionary client
accounts. Any such delay may have a negative or positive
impact on the performance of the non-discretionary account
relative
the Global Family Office’s discretionary
accounts.
Investor Communications Services,
to purchase or sell an
The Global Family Office also offers non-discretionary
investment consulting services to clients. Under this type of
arrangement, your Private Advisor provides investment
advice on the assets on a non-discretionary basis, including
investment buy and sell
asset allocation, specific
recommendations, financial planning and other investment
advice and analyses. The Global Family Office does not
have discretionary authority over client assets in investment
consulting accounts. Clients have sole discretion to accept or
reject any investment advice or strategy or any specific
recommendation
individual
investment. Clients are also responsible for implementing,
or arranging for the implementation, any advice given by the
Global Family Office, and
to pay any applicable
commissions, charges, trails, and other account, brokerage,
or custody fees directly to their chosen custodian and other
providers. Clients may make investment-related decisions
contrary to the advice provided or make your own decisions
without the benefit of our advice.
refer
Clients using the RPWA Program will have their proxies
voted in accordance with Rockefeller Global Family Office
Proxy Voting Policy and Procedures. Rockefeller Financial,
on behalf of the Global Family Office, has engaged
Broadridge
Inc.
(“Broadridge”) to assist with proxy voting. Votes are cast
through Broadridge’s ProxyEdge electronic voting platform
based upon Broadridge’s Shareholder Value guidelines. In
limited situations, Broadridge does not provide proxy voting
services under its guidelines for a particular security or a
particular proxy proposal. In such situations, the firm will
vote the proxies in accordance with the recommendation of
company management; if company management does not
make a recommendation, the firm will abstain from voting.
We will not vote on a particular security or a particular proxy
proposal if the client has retained proxy voting authority or
if the security is not integrated with Broadridge. The Firm
generally does not vote proxy and limited partner proposals
for alternative investment funds, except in situations where
the fund is integrated with Broadridge for proxy voting
purposes. Such clients should
to Rockefeller
Financial’s Wrap Fee Brochure for information about how
their proxies will be voted.
ITEM 17: VOTING CLIENT SECURITIES; CLASS
ACTIONS
C. RAM Proxy Voting Policy and Procedures
A. Proxy Voting
With respect to securities held at other custodians which
transmit client account holdings data to the proxy voting
firm retained by Rockefeller & Co. on behalf of RAM, the
Global Family Office generally delegates proxy voting to
RAM, who votes such proxies in accordance with RAM’s
Proxy Voting Policies and Procedures.
RAM’s Proxy Voting Policies and Procedures seek to ensure
that proxies are voted in the best interest of its clients in
fulfillment of RAM’s fiduciary duties and in accordance
with Rule 206(4)-6 under the Advisers Act.
Where the Global Family Office has proxy voting authority
over client securities, the Global Family Office seeks to vote
proxies in the best interest of its clients. The Global Family
Office generally does not vote proxies for securities held in
client directed accounts, SMA Programs and accounts
managed with discretion by third parties. In cases where
proxies are not voted by the Global Family Office or third
parties, clients vote proxies themselves and will need to
make arrangements with their custodian to receive their
proxy voting materials. The Global Family Office generally
will not vote proxies held at client custodians who do not
transmit account holdings data to the proxy advisory firms
engaged to assist us with proxy voting. Clients who have
given proxy voting authority to the Global Family Office
will have their proxies voted pursuant to either the Global
RAM has engaged Institutional Shareholder Services Inc.
(“ISS”), an organization unaffiliated with RAM, to assist
with proxy voting. In addition to the execution of proxy
votes in accordance with RAM’s guidelines and record-
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vendor. The Global Family Office does file for non-U.S.
class actions or for client accounts maintained at custodians
which do not transmit client account data to the third-party
vendor.
keeping services, ISS also provides RAM with corporate
governance information, due diligence related to making
informed proxy voting decisions and vote recommendations.
Research and shareholder engagement underpin our
decision-making process. RAM retains final authority and
responsibility for proxy voting. In the event that RAM is not
able to submit a vote decision in time, RAM’s proxy voting
policy is automatically applied by ISS.
Please refer to Item 15 for a description of the manner in
which the Rockefeller & Co. arranges for certain class action
settlement checks to be deposited into Global Family Office
client accounts at third party qualified custodians.
ITEM 18: FINANCIAL INFORMATION
Rockefeller & Co. does not require or solicit prepayment of
more than $1,200 in investment advisory fees per client, six
months or more in advance.
Rockefeller & Co. is not aware of any financial condition
that is reasonably likely to impair its ability to meet
contractual commitments to its clients.
Rockefeller & Co. has not been the subject of a bankruptcy
petition at any time during the past ten years.
In certain circumstances, a client may request that the Global
Family Office vote proxies or take action relating to
securities held in the client's account(s) which differ from
RAM’s Proxy Voting Guidelines. The Global Family Office
and RAM will make reasonable efforts (depending on the
timing of the client’s request) to adhere to any specific client
policies provided with respect to proxy voting, even if such
directions or guidelines conflict with RAM’s Proxy Voting
Guidelines.
While RAM employs reasonable efforts to vote the Global
Family Office client proxies, it is often difficult for RAM to
fully reconcile the Global Family Office client holdings as
reflected on the firm’s internal systems with the share count
totals communicated by custodians utilized by the Global
Family Office clients. RAM will seek to fully reconcile the
proxies of Global Family Office clients; however, its
procedures permit it to stop reconciling when the Global
Family Office clients’ share totals are within 10% of the
share totals reported by client custodians. As a consequence
of this policy, the proxies of some the Global Family Office
clients may not be voted.
Upon request, the Global Family Office will promptly
provide clients with a copy of the Global Family Office
Proxy Voting Policy or the RAM Proxy Voting Policy, as
applicable, and information on how proxies of securities
held in their accounts were voted. Please refer to the
Rockefeller Financial Wrap Fee Brochure and the RAM
Form ADV Part 2A Brochure for additional information
about the firm’s proxy voting practices.
D. Class Action Processing
The Global Family Office will seek to process claim forms
for U.S. class action settlements involving securities held in
managed client accounts, unless another arrangement with
respect to the handling of class action claims is agreed to
with the client or the client has subsequently terminated its
investment management relationship with the Global Family
Office. Class action filings are processed by a third-party
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