Overview
- Headquarters
- Woodland Hills, CA
- Average Client Assets
- $2.4 million
- Minimum Account Size
- $100,000
- SEC CRD Number
- 153991
Fee Structure
Primary Fee Schedule (TAMAR SECURITIES, LLC ADV PART 2A BROCHURE)
| Min | Max | Marginal Fee Rate |
|---|---|---|
| $0 | $500,000 | 2.25% |
| $500,001 | $1,000,000 | 1.75% |
| $1,000,001 | and above | 1.25% |
Illustrative Fee Rates
| Total Assets | Annual Fees | Average Fee Rate |
|---|---|---|
| $1 million | $20,000 | 2.00% |
| $5 million | $70,000 | 1.40% |
| $10 million | $132,500 | 1.32% |
| $50 million | $632,500 | 1.26% |
| $100 million | $1,257,500 | 1.26% |
Clients
- HNW Share of Firm Assets
- 31.59%
- Total Client Accounts
- 6,772
- Discretionary Accounts
- 6,772
Services Offered
Services: Financial Planning, Portfolio Management for Individuals, Portfolio Management for Institutional Clients, Pension Consulting
Regulatory Filings
Additional Brochure: TAMAR SECURITIES, LLC ADV PART 2A BROCHURE (2026-03-31)
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Tamar Securities, LLC
Doing Business As:
911 Financial Services™
&
Firefighters United Financial Services™
22466 Ventura Boulevard
Woodland Hills, CA 91364
Telephone: (818) 914-7460
www.tamarsecurities.com
March 31, 2026
FORM ADV PART 2A
“FIRM BROCHURE”
This brochure provides information about the qualifications and business practices of Tamar Securities,
LLC. If you have any questions regarding the content of this brochure, please contact the main offices of
Tamar Securities, LLC at (818) 914-7460. The information in this brochure has neither been approved nor
verified by the United States Securities and Exchange Commission nor by any State Securities Authority.
Additional information about Tamar Securities, LLC is also available on the SEC’s website at
www.adviserinfo.sec.gov.
Please note that the use of the term “registered investment adviser” and the description of Tamar Securities,
LLC and/or our associates as “registered” does not imply a certain level of skill or training. You are
encouraged to review this brochure as well as the brochure supplements of our firm’s associates who advise
you for additional information on the qualifications of our firm and our employees.
Item 2. Material Changes to Part 2A of Form ADV: Firm Brochure
Form ADV Part 2 requires registered investment advisers to amend their brochure when information
becomes materially inaccurate. If there are any material changes to an adviser's disclosure brochure, the
adviser is required to notify you and provide you with a description of the material changes.
Since the last annual amendment filed on March 31, 2025, we do not have any material changes to disclose.
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Item 3. Table of Contents
Section:
Page(s):
Item 1. Cover Page for Part 2A of Form ADV: Firm Brochure ................................................................ 1
Item 2. Material Changes to Part 2A of Form ADV: Firm Brochure ........................................................ 2
Item 3. Table of Contents .......................................................................................................................... 3
Item 4. Advisory Business ........................................................................................................................ 4
Item 5. Fees and Compensation ................................................................................................................ 6
Item 6. Performance-Based Fees and Side-By-Side Management .......................................................... 13
Item 7. Types of Clients .......................................................................................................................... 13
Item 8. Methods of Analysis, Investment Strategies and Risk of Loss ................................................... 13
Item 9. Disciplinary Information ............................................................................................................ 21
Item 10. Other Financial Industry Activities and Affiliations ................................................................. 22
Item 11. Code of Ethics, Participation or Interest in Client Transactions and Personal Trading ............ 23
Item 12. Brokerage Practices .................................................................................................................. 23
Item 13. Review of Accounts .................................................................................................................. 27
Item 14. Client Referrals and Other Compensation ................................................................................ 27
Item 15. Custody ..................................................................................................................................... 28
Item 16. Investment Discretion ............................................................................................................... 29
Item 17. Voting Client Securities ............................................................................................................ 29
Item 18. Financial Information ............................................................................................................... 29
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Item 4. Advisory Business
Tamar Securities, LLC also conducts business under the following names:
• Firefighters United Financial Services
•
911 Financial Services
• Tamar Insurance Solutions
We are dedicated to providing individuals, pensions, profit sharing plans, trusts, estates, corporations and
other types of organizations and individual clients with a wide array of investment advisory services. Tamar
Securities, LLC, is a limited liability company formed in the State of California. Our firm has been in
business as an investment adviser since June of 2010 and is solely owned by Amit Raz Stavinsky. Mr.
Stavinsky has been a registered investment professional in the U.S. since 1991.
The purpose of this brochure is to disclose the conflicts of interest associated with the investment
transactions, compensation, and any other matters related to investment decisions made by our firm or its
representatives. As a fiduciary, it is our duty to always act in the client’s best interest. This is
accomplished in part by knowing our client. Our firm has established a service-oriented advisory practice
with open lines of communication for many different types of clients to help meet their financial goals
while remaining sensitive to risk tolerance and time horizons. Working with clients to understand their
investment objectives while educating them about our process, facilitates the kind of working relationship
we value.
At our firm, all the services provided first begin with a review of each client’s personal criteria that includes
their goals, needs, risk tolerance, and income needs versus growth, tax, legal issues, liquidity requirements,
and investment objectives and guidelines.
Next, we perform the following disciplines:
• Evaluating investment managers and holdings on the basis of both qualitative and quantitative
criteria;
• Making sure that portfolio managers consistently employ and follow their pre-subscribed
•
disciplined investment process;
Subjecting all investment professionals and financial products to a screening process (This
includes: organizational ownership, portfolio management tenure, investment process and
implementation, investment research, long and short-term performance, and risk/reward
assumed in portfolios as measured by their Beta, Alpha, active market timing, and significant
sector and position concentration), and monitoring and rebalancing asset allocation models on
either quarterly, semiannually or annual basis in order to establish an Efficient Frontier for
increasing portfolio returns and decreasing volatility.
1. Portfolio Management:
Our firm offers discretionary portfolio management services. As part of this service clients will be provided
with asset management and financial planning or consulting services. This service is designed to assist
clients in meeting their financial goals through the use of a financial plan and/or consultation. Our
investment advice is tailored to meet our clients' needs and investment objectives. The client should also
be made aware that they will be responsible for all transaction costs associated with the ongoing
management of their accounts.
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If you participate in our discretionary portfolio management services, we require you to grant us
discretionary authority to manage your account. Subject to a grant of discretionary authorization, we have
the authority and responsibility to formulate investment strategies on your behalf. Discretionary
authorization will allow us to determine the specific securities, and the amount of securities, to be purchased
or sold for your account without obtaining your approval prior to each transaction. We will also have
discretion over the broker or dealer to be used for securities transactions in your account. Discretionary
authority is typically granted by the investment advisory agreement you sign with our firm.
You may limit our discretionary authority (for example, limiting the types of securities that can be purchased
or sold for your account) by providing our firm with your restrictions and guidelines in writing.
As part of our portfolio management services, we invest your assets according to one or more model
portfolios developed by our firm. These models are designed for investors with varying degrees of risk
tolerance ranging from a more aggressive investment strategy to a more conservative investment approach.
Clients whose assets are invested in model portfolios may not set restrictions on the specific holdings or
allocations within the model, nor the types of securities that can be purchased in the model. Please see Item
8., Methods of Analysis, Investment Strategies and Risk of Loss section for detailed information on our
strategies.
Types of Investments
We offer advice on various types of investments such as equities, exchange traded funds (“ETFs”), mutual
funds and bonds based on your stated goals and objectives. Refer to the Methods of Analysis, Investment
Strategies and Risk of Loss below for additional disclosures on this topic.
Since our investment strategies and advice are based on each client’s specific financial situation, the
investment advice we provide to you may be different or conflicting with the advice we give to other clients
regarding the same security or investment.
For a list and description of each of the investment strategies we offer, please see Item 8., Methods of
Analysis, Investment Strategies and Risk of Loss.
2. Financial Planning and Consulting:
As part of our portfolio management services, we offer financial planning and consulting services to clients
for the management of financial resources based upon an analysis of current situation and goals. Financial
planning services will typically involve preparing a financial plan or rendering a financial consultation for
clients based on the client’s financial goals and objectives. This planning or consulting may encompass
Investment Planning, Retirement Planning, and Estate Planning.
Written financial plans or financial consultations rendered to clients usually include general
recommendations for a course of activity or specific actions to be taken by the clients (e.g., recommending
that clients begin or revise investment programs, create or revise wills or trusts, obtain or revise insurance
coverage, commence or alter retirement savings, or establish education or charitable giving programs).
Implementation of the recommendations will be at the discretion of the client. As part of our approach to
wealth management, we may also refer clients to unaffiliated third-party service providers for estate
planning services. Clients are under no obligation to engage the services of the unaffiliated third-party
service provider and clients do so at their own discretion. We are not responsible or liable for any of the
services provided by these unaffiliated third parties and the firm is not compensated for these referrals. Our
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firm provides clients with a summary of their financial situation, and observations for financial planning
engagements upon client request. Financial consultations are not typically accompanied by a written
summary of observations and recommendations, as the process is less formal than the planning service.
We manage $1,521,678,938 on a discretionary basis and $0 on a non-discretionary basis as of December
31, 2025.
Item 5. Fees and Compensation
1. Portfolio Management:
Our annual portfolio management fee is billed and payable, quarterly in advance, based on the
account balance at the end of the previous quarter. Below are the fee schedules for our portfolio
management. If the portfolio management agreement is executed at any time other than the first
day of a calendar quarter, our fees will apply on a pro rata basis, which means that the advisory fee
is payable in proportion to the number of days in the quarter for which you are a client. In our sole
discretion and depending on the Client’s circumstances including the Client’s employment, we will
negotiate our advisory fee. No increase in the annual fee would be effective without the Client's
prior written consent.
In the event that you wish to terminate our services, you will need to contact us in writing and state that
you wish to terminate our services. Upon receipt of a client’s notice of termination, our firm will refund
the unearned portion of our advisory fee to you.
Fee schedule is as follows:
1) Market Value Securities (“MVS®”)
All Equity discretionary money managed programs which include Market Value Securities (MVS®) will
adhere to the following pricing schedule:
Assets Under Management
Annual Net Fee Assessed
First $500,000
2.25%
Over $500,000
1.75%
Over $1,000,000
1.25%
2) Growth Market Value Securities (GMVS®)
All Equity discretionary money managed programs which include Growth Market Value Securities
(GMVS®) will adhere to the following pricing schedule:
Assets Under Management
Annual Net Fee Assessed
First $500,000
2.25%
Over $500,000
1.75%
Over $1,000,000
1.25%
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3) Total Asset Fund (“TAF®”)
All Equity discretionary money managed programs which include Total Asset Fund (TAF®) will adhere to
the following pricing schedule:
Assets Under Management
Annual Net Fee Assessed
First $500,000
2.25%
Over $500,000
1.75%
Over $1,000,000
1.25%
4) Market Value Securities (MVS®) or Growth Market Value Securities (GMVS®) (TAF®) Hybrid
All Equity discretionary money managed programs which include (MVS®) (GMVS®) (TAF®) Hybrid will
adhere to the following pricing schedule:
Assets Under Management
Annual Net Fee Assessed
First $500,000
2.25%
Over $500,000
1.75%
Over $1,000,000
1.25%
5) Total Asset Market (“TAM®”)
All Equity discretionary money managed programs which include Total Asset Market (TAM®) will adhere
to the following pricing schedule:
Assets Under Management
Annual Net Fee Assessed
First $500,000
2.25%
Over $500,000
1.75%
Over $1,000,000
1.25%
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6) Total Asset Value (“TAV®”) (ua) Ultra Aggressive, TAV (a) Aggressive and TAV (ma) Moderately
Aggressive
All Equity discretionary money managed programs which include Total Asset Value (TAV®) subcategories;
(TAV®) (ua) Ultra Aggressive, (TAV®) (a) Aggressive and (TAV®) (ma) Moderately Aggressive, will
adhere to the following pricing schedule:
Assets Under Management
Annual Net Fee Assessed
First $500,000
2.25%
Over $500,000
1.75%
Over $1,000,000
1.25%
7) Fixed Income Portfolios (FIP®)
All discretionary Fixed Income Portfolios (FIP®) will adhere to the following pricing schedule:
Assets Under Management
Annual Net Fee Assessed
First $500,000
0.75%
Over $500,000
0.65%
Over $1,000,000
0.55%
8) (TAV®) (a) Aggressive (FIP®)
All Equity and Fixed Income discretionary money managed programs which include (TAV®) (a) Aggressive
(FIP®) will adhere to the following pricing schedule:
Assets Under Management
Annual Net Fee Assessed
First $500,000
1.80%
Over $500,000
1.42%
Over $1,000,000
1.04%
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9) (TAV®) (ma) Moderately Aggressive (FIP®)
All Equity and Fixed Income discretionary money managed programs which include (TAV®) (ma)
Moderately Aggressive (FIP®) will adhere to the following pricing schedule:
Assets Under Management
Annual Net Fee Assessed
First $500,000
1.65%
Over $500,000
1.31%
Over $1,000,000
0.97%
10) (TAV®) (FIP®) International
All Fixed Income and Equity discretionary money managed programs, which include (TAV®) (FIP®)
International will adhere to the following pricing schedule:
Assets Under Management
Annual Net Fee Assessed
First $500,000
1.43%
Over $500,000
1.15%
Over $1,000,000
0.87%
11) (TAV®) (a) Aggressive (FIP®) International
All Fixed Income and Equity discretionary money managed programs, which include (TAV®) (a)
Aggressive (FIP®) International will adhere to the following pricing schedule:
Assets Under Management
Annual Net Fee Assessed
First $500,000
1.67%
Over $500,000
1.33%
Over $1,000,000
0.98%
12) TAV® (ma) Moderately Aggressive (FIP®) International
All Fixed Income and Equity discretionary money managed programs, which include (TAV®) (ma)
Moderately Aggressive (FIP®) International will adhere to the following pricing schedule:
Assets Under Management
Annual Net Fee Assessed
First $500,000
1.58%
Over $500,000
1.26%
Over $1,000,000
0.94%
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(TAV®) (FIP®) Hybrid (13-14):
13) (TAV®) (FIP®) (uc) Ultra Conservative
All Fixed Income and Equity discretionary money managed programs which include Total Asset Value
(“TAV®”) (FIP®) (uc) Ultra Conservative will adhere to the following pricing schedule:
Assets Under Management
Annual Net Fee Assessed
First $500,000
0.92%
Over $500,000
0.76%
Over $1,000,000
0.62%
14) (TAV®) (FIP®) Conservative
All Fixed Income and Equity discretionary money managed programs which include Total Asset Value
(“TAV®”) (FIP®) (c) Conservative will adhere to the following pricing schedule:
Assets Under Management
Annual Net Fee Assessed
First $500,000
1.05%
Over $500,000
0.87%
Over $1,000,000
0.69%
15) (TAV®) (FIP®)
All Equity discretionary money managed programs which include Total Asset Value (TAV®) (FIP®) will
adhere to the following pricing schedule:
Assets Under Management
Annual Net Fee Assessed
First $500,000
1.20%
Over $500,000
0.98%
Over $1,000,000
0.76%
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Fixed Income Portfolio (FIP®) and Market Value Securities (MVS®) Hybrid (16 -18):
16) FIP® (MVS®) or (GMVS®) Hybrid
All Fixed Income and Equity discretionary money managed programs, which include (FIP®) (MVS®)
Hybrid will adhere to the following pricing schedule:
Assets Under Management
Annual Net Fee Assessed
First $500,000
1.43%
Over $500,000
1.15%
Over $1,000,000
0.87%
17) (MVS®) or (GMVS®) (FIP®) (a) Aggressive
All Fixed Income and Equity discretionary money managed programs which include (MVS®) or (GMVS®)
(FIP®) (a) Aggressive will adhere to the following pricing schedule:
Assets Under Management
Annual Net Fee Assessed
First $500,000
1.80%
Over $500,000
1.42%
Over $1,000,000
1.04%
18) (MVS®) or (GMVS®) (FIP®) (ma) Moderately Aggressive
All Fixed Income and Equity discretionary money managed programs which include (MVS®) or (GMVS®)
(FIP®) (ma) Moderately Aggressive will adhere to the following pricing schedule:
Assets Under Management
Annual Net Fee Assessed
First $500,000
1.65%
Over $500,000
1.31%
Over $1,000,000
0.97%
19) Cash Management
All discretionary Cash Management programs will adhere to the following pricing schedule:
Assets Under Management
Annual Net Fee Assessed
$0 to $10,000,000
0.25%
$10,000,001 to $20,000,000
0.15%
Over $20,000,000
0.10%
There is a minimum account value of $100,000 for Prime Brokerage accounts held at Schwab.
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Additional Fees and Expenses
Clients will incur transaction fees for trades executed by their chosen custodian, based on a percentage of
the dollar amount of assets in the account(s). These transaction fees are separate from our firm’s advisory
fees and will be disclosed by the chosen custodian. Charles Schwab & Co., Inc. does not charge transaction
fees for U.S. listed equities and exchange traded funds. Our firm also recommends National Financial
Services/Purshe Kaplan Sterling Investments as a custodian for client accounts. Other major custodians
have recently eliminated transaction fees for all ETFs and U.S. listed equities, so clients may pay more for
investing in the same securities at National Financial Services (NFS)/Purshe Kaplan Sterling (PKS).
Clients may also pay holdings charges imposed by the chosen custodian for certain investments, charges
imposed directly by a mutual fund, index fund, or exchange traded fund, which shall be disclosed in the
fund’s prospectus (i.e., fund management fees, initial or deferred sales charges, mutual fund sales loads,
12b-1 fees, surrender charges, variable annuity fees, IRA and qualified retirement plan fees, and other fund
expenses), mark-ups and mark-downs, spreads paid to market makers, fees for trades executed away from
custodian, wire transfer fees and other fees and taxes on brokerage accounts and securities transactions.
Our firm does not receive a portion of these fees.
Commissionable securities sales.
In order to sell securities for a commission, our supervised persons are registered representatives of Purshe
Kaplan Sterling Investments, Inc. (“PKS”), a registered broker-dealer and Member FINRA/SIPC. PKS
clears through National Financial Services (NFS). Our supervised persons may accept compensation for
the sale of securities or other investment products, including distribution or service (“trail”) fees from the
sale of mutual funds. You should be aware that the practice of accepting commissions for the sale of
securities:
1. Presents a conflict of interest and gives our firm and/or our supervised persons an incentive to
recommend investment products based on the compensation received, rather than on your needs.
We generally address commissionable sales conflicts that arise:
a) when explaining to clients that commissionable securities sales create an incentive to
recommend products based on the compensation we and/or our supervised persons may
earn and may not necessarily be in the best interests of the client;
b) When recommending commissionable mutual funds, explaining that “no-load” funds are
available through our firm if the client wishes to become an investment advisory client.
2. In no way prohibits you from purchasing investment products recommended by us through other
brokers or agents which are not affiliated with us.
3. Does not exceed more than 50% of our revenue.
4. Does not reduce your advisory fees to offset the commissions our supervised persons receive.
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Item 6. Performance-Based Fees and Side-By-Side Management
We do not accept performance-based fees or participate in side-by-side management. Performance-based
fees are fees that are based on a share of a capital gains or capital appreciation of a client's account. Side-
by-side management refers to the practice of managing accounts that are charged performance-based fees
while at the same time managing accounts that are not charged performance-based fees. Our fees are
calculated as described in the Fees and Compensation section above, and are not charged on the basis of a
share of capital gains upon, or capital appreciation of, the funds in your advisory account.
Item 7. Types of Clients
We have the following types of clients:
Individuals;
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• High Net Worth Individuals;
• Charitable Organizations;
Pension and Profit Sharing Plans; and
•
• Corporations or other business types.
Item 8. Methods of Analysis, Investment Strategies and Risk of Loss
Methods of Analysis:
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Global Macro;
Analysis of Sectors and Industries;
Top Down Relative Value;
Bottom Up Relative value
Underlying Fundamentals;
Cyclical; • Technical.
The following are the investment strategies we offer:
(1) Market Value Securities (“MVS®”)
Market Value Securities (MVS®) offers a strategic, discretionary fee based, long-term approach
to Global Asset Allocation portfolios of small to large cap individual equities. The investment
philosophy is founded on the belief that superior investment performance depends primarily on
investing in the most attractive global Economic Sectors, and Sub-Industries based on supply and
demand analysis.
The MVS® program includes different threshold balances of assets under management. In
general, the minimum requirement to participate in the program is $100,000 of assets under
management. However, to accommodate some of the Firm’s legacy household clients and/or to be
able, under certain circumstances, to provide additional investment options, the MVS® program
has created a diluted version of its main discipline with lower threshold minimums of under
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$100,000 in assets under management.
The underlying number and type of individual equity positions that make up the entire MVS®
portfolio will vary based on the accounts’ threshold balances in the program. For example, the
MVS® program with assets under management of over $100,000 will likely carry a higher
number of different underlying equity positions to better target specific sectors and industries in
the world economy.
On the other hand, lower MVS® thresholds’ balances than $100,000 in assets under management
will likely carry fewer underlying equity positions that are typically a part of the higher threshold
MVS® program.
As such, accounts engaged in the MVS® discipline which maintain less than the $100,000
threshold balances of assets under management will be subject to increased concentration risk, as
well as likely higher company risk, equity risk, volatility risk, market risk, capital risk, foreign
exposure risk, legal and regulatory risk, liquidity risk, strategy risk, inflation risk, and interest rate
risk.
(2) Growth Market Value Securities Portfolios (GMVS™)
Growth Market Value Securities, or GMVS®, is a discretionary, fee-based, long-term approach to
investing in equity securities of innovative companies that have yet to capture meaningful market
share in their respective industries. Additionally, at times, this program reserves the option to
purchase preferred stocks, convertible preferred stocks, warrants, rights offerings, and options.
Qualified participants, with signed options trading and margin agreement on file, will participate,
when deemed appropriate, in purchasing and selling options for growth, income, and risk mitigation.
When using this portfolio our firm follows the following: i) the portfolio, in general, will hold no
more than 18 stocks, (ii) individual equity positions, generally, will not exceed 20 percent of the
portfolio’s value, (iii) industry group and sub-sector holdings, in general, cannot exceed 40% of the
portfolio, and (iv) account total cash position, in general, cannot exceed 40% of portfolio value.
The GMVS® program includes different threshold balances of assets under management. In
general, the minimum requirement to participate in the program is $100,000 of assets under
management. However, to accommodate some of the firm’s legacy household clients and/or to be
able, under certain circumstances, to provide additional investment options, the GMVS® program
has created a diluted version of its main discipline with lower threshold minimums of under
$100,000 in assets under management.
(3) Total Asset Fund TAF (TAF®)
TAF® offers a unique, discretionary fee based, managed money program that utilizes no load
Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) and/or Index Funds (Although there are no upfront sales charges,
other fees and expenses do apply) to structure long-term Global Asset Allocation portfolios.
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(4) (MVS®) or Growth Market Value Securities (GMVS®) (TAF®) Hybrid
Provides for either (MVS®) or (GMVS®) fusion with the (TAF®) index fund of funds investment
discipline. This investment strategy attempts to enhance the individual equity holdings of the
(MVS®) or the (GMVS®) disciplines by providing additional international and emerging markets
exposure of equity and commodity holdings via Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs). In general, the
asset allocation into the (MVS®) or (GMVS®) programs is set at 65%, and into the (TAF®) index
fund of funds at 35%.
(5) Total Asset Market (TAM®)
TAM® offers a disciplined, discretionary fee based mutual fund of funds program. It attempts to
establish long-term Strategic Asset Allocation portfolios that are made of a few select, best in
class, on and offshore underlying mutual funds that are purchased at Net Asset Value (NAV).
The underlying number and type of mutual funds that make up the entire TAM portfolio will vary
based on the assets’ threshold in the program. For example, the TAM program with assets under
management of over $75,000 will likely carry a higher number of different underlying mutual
funds to better target specific sectors and industries in the world economy.
On the other hand, lower TAM thresholds’ account balances than $75,000 of assets under
management will likely carry fewer underlying family funds that are typically apart of the higher
threshold balances of the TAM program.
As such, accounts engaged in the TAM discipline which maintain less than the $75,000 of assets
under management threshold balances will be subject to increased concentration risk, as well as
higher risks associated with the company risk, equity risk, volatility risk, market risk, capital risk,
foreign exposure risk, legal and regulatory risk, liquidity risk, strategy risk, inflation risk, and
interest rate risk.
(6) Fixed Income Portfolios (FIP®)
Fixed Income Portfolios (FIP®) is a discretionary or non-discretionary investment discipline,
which includes primarily discounted State and Federal tax exempt and taxable Municipal bonds.
At times, this fixed income portfolio also invests in corporate bonds, convertible bonds, high yield
bonds- foreign denominated bonds, preferred stocks, convertible preferred stocks, dividend
yielding stocks, exchange traded funds (ETF), and closed end mutual funds. The Firm emphasizes
discounted high grade debt securities over equity and alternative investments to achieve both
constant annual income returns and fixed income price appreciation.
Total Asset Value (TAV®)
Total Asset Value (TAV®) offers a unique platform that attempts to combine, on a discretionary
fee basis, four of Tamar Securities, LLC's investment disciplines. These investment disciplines
include: 1) Total Asset Market (TAM®), 2) Total Asset Fund (TAF®), 3) Market Value Securities
(MVS®) or Growth Market Value Securities (GMVS®) and 4) Fixed Income Portfolio (FIP®).
Total Asset Value (TAV®) is a diluted version of The Firm's four primary investment programs.
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(7) TAV® (ua) UltraAggressive
TAV® (ua) Aggressive strives to achieve an asset allocation model which, in general, 50% of the
investment weighting is allocated in Market Value Securities (MVS®) or alternatively to Growth
Market Value Securities (GMVS®), 25% investment weighting is allocated to Total Asset Fund
(TAF®), and 25% investment weighting is allocated to Total Asset Market (TAM®). Additionally,
this strategy is subject to extreme volatility risk in financial markets or Beta; and hence, designed
for qualified investors with an extensive investment experience and a very long-term investment
horizon.
(8) TAV® (a) Aggressive
TAV® (a) Aggressive strives to achieve an asset allocation model which, in general, includes 25%
investment weighting in Market Value Securities (MVS®) or alternatively Growth Market Value
Securities (GMVS®), 35% investment weighting in Total Asset Fund (TAF®), and 40%
investment weighting in Total Asset Market (TAM®).
(9) TAV® (ma) Moderately Aggressive
Additionally, TAV® (ma) Moderately Aggressive strives to achieve an asset allocation model
which, in general, includes 20% investment weighting in Market Value Securities (MVS®) or
alternative Growth Market Value Securities (GMVS®), 35% investment weighting in Total Asset
Fund (TAF®) and 45% investment weighting in Total Asset Market (TAM®). Tamar Securities,
LLC’s “Top Down” global value strategy determines its ongoing asset allocation weighting among
its three underlining disciplines namely MVS or alternatively GMVS, TAF and TAM in an attempt
to achieve optimum risk reward performance results.
(10)
TAV® (FIP®)
TAV® (FIP®) strives to achieve an asset allocation model which, in general, includes 30%
investment weighting in either Market Value Securities (MVS®) or alternatively Growth Market
Value Securities (GMVS®), and 70% investment weighting in Fixed Income Portfolio (FIP®).
(11)
TAV® (a) Aggressive (FIP®)
TAV® (a) Aggressive (FIP®) strives to achieve an asset allocation model which, in general
includes 17% investment weighting in Market Value Securities (MVS®) or alternatively Growth
Market Value Securities (GMVS®), 25% investment weighting in Total Asset Fund (TAF®), 28%
investment weighting in Total Asset Market (TAM®), and 30% investment weighting in Fixed
Income Portfolio (FIP®).
(12) TAV® (ma) Moderately Aggressive (FIP®)
TAV® (ma) Moderately Aggressive (FIP®) strives to achieve an asset allocation model which, in
general, includes 13% investment weighting in Market Value Securities (MVS®) or alternatively
Growth Market Value Securities (GMVS®), 20% investment weighting in Total Asset Fund
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(TAF), 27% investment weighting in Total Asset Market (TAM®), and 40% investment weighting
in Fixed Income Portfolio (FIP®).
(13) Total Asset Value (TAV®)(FIP®) International
Total Asset Value (FIP®) International utilizes alternative investments to U.S. domestic mutual
funds. This program, designed for mostly foreign investors, includes the following three asset
allocation models: a.) Total Asset Fund (TAF®), b.) Market Value Securities (MVS®) or Growth
Market Value Securities (GMVS®), and c.) Fixed Income Portfolio (FIP®).
The program disciplines include the following three sub categories: 1) TAV® (FIP®) International
Portfolio that, in general, strives to achieve an asset allocation model of 55% investment weighting
in Fixed Income Portfolio (FIP®), 15% investment weighting in Market Value Securities (MVS®)
or alternatively Growth Market Value Securities (GMVS®), and 30% investment weighting in
Total Asset Fund (TAF®), 2) TAV® (a) Aggressive (FIP®) International Portfolio that, in general,
strives to achieve an asset allocation model of 40% investment weighting in Fixed Income
Portfolio, 25% investment weighting in Market Value Securities (MVS®) or alternatively Growth
Market Value Securities (GMVS®), and 35% investment weighting in Total Asset Fund (TAF®),
and 3) TAV® (ma) Moderately Aggressive (FIP®) International Portfolio that, in general, strives
to achieve an asset allocation model of 45% investment weighing in Fixed Income Portfolio
(FIP®), 35% investment weighting in Market Value Securities (MVS®) or alternatively Growth
Market Value Securities (GMVS®), and 20% investment weighting in Total Asset Fund (TAF®).
As with the previous TAV programs, Tamar Securities, LLC’s “Top Down” global value strategy
determines its ongoing asset allocation weighting among its underlining disciplines and asset
classes. The investment process is gradual, fundamental in nature, and occasionally, technically
driven. Implementing fundamental and technical analysis to uncover oversold market conditions
can lead to excessive cash balances in the interim.
(14) Total Asset Value (TAV®) (FIP®) Hybrid
This program combines the asset allocation model of the (FIP®) discipline of individual bonds
with the equity investment strategy of the (MVS®) or the (GMVS®) investment portfolios. This
investment discipline includes the following hybrids: 1) (TAV®) (FIP®) Ultra Conservative which
in general allocates 10% of the funds to equity investments such as (MVS®) or (GMVS®), and
90% of the funds to individual bonds (FIP®), 2) (TAV®) (FIP®) Conservative which in general
allocates 20% of the funds to equity investments such as (MVS®) or (GMVS®), and 80% of the
funds to individual bonds (FIP®), and 3) (TAV®)(FIP®) which in general allocates 30% of the
funds to equity investments such as (MVS®) or (GMVS®), and 70% of the funds to individual
bonds (FIP®).
(15) Fixed Income Portfolios (FIP®) and Market Value Securities (MVS®) or (GMVS Hybrid)
This strategy combines the Firm’s (MVS®) or (GMVS®) global asset allocation investment
portfolio of primarily small to large cap individual equities with our (FIP®) fixed income portfolio
discipline of individual bonds as follows: 1) (FIP®) (MVS®) or (GMVS®) Hybrid that strives to
achieve an asset allocation model which in general consists of 60% investment weighting into the
Fixed Income Portfolio (FIP®) strategy, and 40% investment weighting into the Market Value
Securities (MVS®) or (GMVS®) programs; 2) (MVS®) or (GMVS®) (FIP® ) A (Aggressive)
that strives to achieve an asset allocation model which in general consists of 70% investment
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weighing into the Market Value Securities (MVS®) or (GMVS®) programs, and 30% investment
weighting into the Fixed Income Portfolio (FIP®) strategy and; 3) (MVS®) or (GMVS®) (FIP®)
MA (Moderately Aggressive) that strives to achieve an asset allocation model which in general
consists of 60% investment weighting into the Market Value Securities (MVS®) or (GMVS®)
programs, and 40% investment weighting into the Fixed Income Portfolio (FIP®) strategy.
(16) Cash Management
Cash Management consists in general of short duration fixed income securities such as taxable and
tax-free institutional money markets, FDIC insured certificate of deposits, Treasury bills,
mortgage-backed securities, commercial paper, government agencies, high- and low-grade
corporate bonds, tax free and taxable municipal bonds, step-up coupon bonds, preferred stocks and
floating rate bonds. These portfolios can be subject to interest rate risk, credit risk, and market
volatility risk. This program prioritizes liquidity and cash flow by structuring laddered fixed
income portfolios with different maturities, coupon payments and credit risks.
Investment Approach:
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Long-Term Purchases: Our firm may buy securities for your account and hold them for a
relatively long time (more than a year) in anticipation that the security’s value will appreciate
over a long horizon. The risk of this strategy is that our firm could miss out on potential short
term gains that could have been profitable to your account, or it’s possible that the security’s
value may decline sharply before our firm makes a decision to sell.
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Short-Term Purchases: When utilizing this strategy, our firm may also purchase securities with
the idea of selling them within a relatively short time (typically a year or less). Our firm does
this in an attempt to take advantage of conditions that our firm believes will soon result in a
price swing in the securities our firm purchase.
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Trading: Our firm purchase securities with the idea of selling them very quickly (typically
within 30 days or less). Our firm does this in an attempt to take advantage of our predictions of
brief price swings. Trading involves risk that may not be suitable for every investor and may
involve a high volume of trading activity. Active trading accounts should be considered
speculative in nature with the objective being to generate short-term profits. This activity may
result in the loss of more than 100% of an investment.
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Alternative Investments primary strategies include: a Long/Short Technology hedge fund, a
Private Equity Fund, and a Private Equity Real Estate Portfolio. Our firm can endorse
nontraditional investment strategies that could provide hedges and/or some downside market
protection.
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Cash & Cash Equivalents: Cash and cash equivalents generally refer to either United States
dollars or highly liquid short-term debt instruments such as, but not limited to, treasury bills,
bank CD’s and commercial papers. Generally, these assets are considered nonproductive and
will be exposed to inflation risk and considerable opportunity cost risk. Investments in cash and
cash equivalents will generally return less than the advisory fee charged by our firm. Our
firm may recommend cash and cash equivalents as part of our clients’ asset allocation when
deemed appropriate and in their best interest. Our firm considers cash and cash equivalents to
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be an asset class. Therefore, our firm assesses an advisory fee on cash and cash equivalents
unless indicated otherwise in writing.
Risk of Loss:
Investing in securities involves risk of loss that clients should be prepared to bear. While the stock and
bond markets may increase in value and consequently your account(s) could follow suit, it is also
possible that the stock and bond markets may decrease in value, and consequently your account(s) could
suffer a loss. It is important that you understand the risks associated with investing in the stock and
bond markets, your investment portfolios are appropriately diversified, and that you ask any questions
you may deem important for managing your investment portfolio(s).
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Capital Risk: Capital risk is one of the most basic, fundamental risks of investing; it is the risk
that you may lose 100% of your money. All investments carry some form of risk, and the loss
of capital is generally a risk for any investment instrument.
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Company Risk: When investing in stock positions, there is always a certain level of company
or industry specific risk that is inherent in each investment. This is also referred to as
unsystematic risk and can be reduced through appropriate diversification. There is the risk that
the company will perform poorly or have its value reduced based on factors specific to the
company or its industry. For example, if a company’s employees go on strike or the company
receives unfavorable media attention for its actions, the value of the company may be reduced.
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Economic Risk: The prevailing economic environment is important to the health of all
businesses. Some companies, however, are more sensitive to changes in the domestic or global
economy than others. These types of companies are often referred to as cyclical businesses.
Countries in which a large portion of businesses are in cyclical industries are thus also very
economically sensitive and carry a higher amount of economic risk. If an investment is issued
by a party located in a country that experiences wide swings from an economic standpoint or
in situations where certain elements of an investment instrument are hinged on dealings in such
countries, the investment instrument will generally be subject to a higher level of economic
risk.
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Equity (Stock) Market Risk: Common stocks are susceptible to general stock market
fluctuations and volatile increases and decreases in value as market confidence in and
perceptions of their issuers change. If you hold common stock, or common stock equivalents,
of any given issuer, you would generally be exposed to greater risk than if you held preferred
stocks and debt obligations of the issuer.
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ETF & Mutual Fund Risk: When investing in an ETF or mutual fund, you will bear additional
expenses based on your pro rata share of the ETF’s or mutual fund’s operating expenses,
including the potential duplication of management fees. The risk of owning an ETF or mutual
fund generally reflects the risks of owning the underlying securities in the ETF, or in the mutual
fund. Clients will also incur brokerage costs when purchasing ETFs.
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Financial Risk: Financial risk is represented by internal disruptions within an investment or the
issuer of an investment that can lead to unfavorable performance of the investment. Examples
of financial risk can be found in cases like Enron or many of the dot com companies that were
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caught up in a period of extraordinary market valuations that were not based on solid financial
footings of the companies.
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Fixed Income Securities Risk: Typically, the values of fixed-income securities change inversely
with prevailing interest rates. Therefore, a fundamental risk of fixed-income securities is
interest rate risk, which is the risk that their value will generally decline as prevailing interest
rates rise, which may cause your account value to likewise decrease, and vice versa. How
specific fixed income securities may react to changes in interest rates will depend on the
specific characteristics of each security. Fixed-income securities are also subject to credit risk,
prepayment risk, valuation risk, and liquidity risk. Credit risk is the chance that a bond issuer
will fail to pay interest and principal in a timely manner, or that negative perceptions of the
issuer’s ability to make such payments will cause the price of a bond to decline.
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Foreign Exposure Risk: Our firm may have exposure to foreign markets, including emerging
markets, which can be more volatile than the U.S. markets. As a result, returns and net asset
values may be affected to a large degree by fluctuations in currency exchange rates, political or
economic conditions in a particular country. Any investments in emerging market countries
may involve risks greater than, or in addition to, the risks of investing in more developed
countries.
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Inflation Risk: Inflation risk involves the concern that in the future, your investment or proceeds
from your investment will not be worth what they are today. Throughout time, the prices of
resources and end-user products generally increase; and thus, the same general goods and
products today will likely be more expensive in the future. The longer an investment is held,
the greater the chance that the proceeds from that investment will be worth less in the future
than they are today. Said another way, a dollar tomorrow will likely get you less than what it
can today.
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Interest Rate Risk: Certain investments involve the payment of a fixed or variable rate of
interest to the investment holder. Once an investor has acquired or has acquired the rights to an
investment that pays a particular rate (fixed or variable) of interest, changes in overall interest
rates in the market will affect the value of the interest-paying investment(s) they hold. In
general, changes in prevailing interest rates in the market will have an inverse relationship to
the value of existing, interest-paying investments. In other words, as interest rates move up, the
value of an instrument paying a particular rate (fixed or variable) of interest will go down. The
reverse is generally true as well.
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Legal/Regulatory Risk: Certain investments or the issuers of investments may be affected by
changes in state or federal laws or in the prevailing regulatory framework under which the
investment instrument or its issuer is regulated. Changes in the regulatory environment or tax
laws can affect the performance of certain investments or issuers of those investments; and
thus, can have a negative impact on the overall performance of such investments.
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Liquidity Risk: Certain assets may not be readily converted into cash or may have a very limited
market in which they trade. This can create a substantial delay in the receipt of proceeds from
an investment. Liquidity risk can also result in unfavorable pricing when exiting (i.e. not being
able to quickly get out of an investment before the price drops significantly) a particular
investment can have a negative impact on investment returns.
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Market Risk: The value of your portfolio may decrease if the value of an individual company
or multiple companies in the portfolio decreases, or if our belief about a company’s intrinsic
worth is incorrect. Further, regardless of how well individual companies perform, the value of
your portfolio could also decrease if there are deteriorating economic or market conditions. It
is important to understand that the value of your investment may fall, sometimes sharply, in
response to changes in the market, and you could lose money. Investment risks include price
risk as may be observed by a drop in a security’s price due to company specific events (e.g.
earnings disappointment or downgrade in the rating of a bond) or general market risk (e.g. such
as a “bear” market when stock values fall in general). For fixed-income securities, a period of
rising interest rates could erode the value of a bond since bond values generally fall as bond
yields go up. Past performance is not a guarantee of future returns.
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Strategy Risk: There is no guarantee that the investment strategies discussed herein will work
under all market conditions and each investor should evaluate his/her ability to maintain any
investment he/she is considering in light of his/her own investment time horizon. Investments
are subject to risk, including possible loss of principal.
Alternative Investments:
For clients who own alternative investments, the absence of a public market, lack of liquidity and an
expected long term investment time horizon may include the following risks that you should consider:
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You may experience the risk that your investment or assets within your investment may not be
able to be liquidated quickly, thus, extending the period of time by which you may receive the
proceeds from your investment.
Liquidity risk can also result in unfavorable pricing when exiting (i.e. not being able to quickly
get out of an investment before the price drops significantly) a particular investment and
therefore, can have a negative impact on investment returns.
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No guarantee that investors will receive a distribution. Distributions may be derived from the
proceeds of the offering, from borrowings, or from the sale of assets, and we have no limits on
the amounts we may pay from such other sources. Payments of distributions from sources other
than cash flow from operations may decrease or diminish an investor's interest;
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Economic factors affecting the real estate markets generally, including changes in the economy,
tenant turnover, interest rates, availability of mortgage funds, operating expenses, cost of
insurance and tenants' ability to continue to pay rent;
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No connection between the share price of the REIT and the net asset value of the REIT until
such time as the assets are valued.
Item 9. Disciplinary Information
We have determined that our firm and related persons have nothing to disclose in regard to disciplinary
information.
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Item 10. Other Financial Industry Activities and Affiliations
Some registered financial advisers of our firm are also registered representatives of Purshe Kaplan
Sterling Investments, Inc. (“PKS”), a registered broker-dealer and member FINRA/SIPC. PKS is a
broker-dealer that is independently owned and operated and is not affiliated with our firm. In order to
comply with FINRA Conduct Rule 3280, PKS as an unaffiliated broker-dealer may periodically review
the investment advisory transactions of our firm. This information will be viewed by PKS’ compliance
department personnel for supervisory purposes only. No information viewed will be utilized for
purposes of solicitation or shared with any affiliation outside the scope of regulatory compliance. As a
result of this relationship, they may offer products and Independent Money Manager services and
receive customary fees. A conflict of interest exists when sales of commissionable securities create an
incentive to recommend products based on the compensation earned. To mitigate this potential conflict,
our firm will act in the client’s best interest.
Neither the Adviser nor any of its management persons is a commodity broker/futures commission
merchant, a commodity pool operator, commodity trading adviser or an associated person for the
foregoing entities or has an application for registration pending.
1. Insurance company of agency:
Some representatives of our firm are licensed insurance agents appointed by various insurance
companies in the state of California. They may offer insurance products and receive customary fees
as a result of insurance sales. A conflict of interest exists as these insurance sales create an incentive
to recommend products based on the compensation advisers and/or supervised persons may earn.
To mitigate this potential conflict, our firm will act in the client’s best interest. Further, Clients are
under no obligation to act upon any recommendations or execute any transactions utilizing the
firm’s representatives. Additionally, our firm also is registered as an insurance brokerage firm under
the name of Tamar Insurance Solutions. Clients may be solicited to use the services of this firm and
our representatives will receive commissions as a result of these transactions. A conflict of interest
exists as these commissionable securities sales create an incentive to recommend products based
on the compensation earned. To mitigate this potential conflict, our firm will act in the client’s best
interest.
2. Banking or thrift institution:
Our firm has nothing to disclose in this regard.
3. Real Estate and other Companies:
Management person, Amit Stavinsky, is a general partner for Gapa, LLC, Roscoe Lennox, LLC,
Stavinsky Investments, LLC, and Tamar Investments, LLC, limited liability companies formed in
California for mostly real estate development projects but also for equity, fixed-income, and
private equity investments. Additionally, Amit Stavinsky is a limited partner in the following
Wood Ranch BBQ & Grill entities: Wood Ranch Northridge, LLC, Wood Ranch Thousand Oaks,
LLC, Wood Ranch Valencia, LLC, Wood Ranch Cerritos, LLC, Wood Ranch San Diego, LLC,
Wood Ranch Rancho Santa Margarita, LLC, Wood Ranch Irvine, LLC, Wood Ranch Corona,
LLC, and Wood Ranch Manhattan Beach.
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Mr. Stavinsky spends approximately 5 hours per month on these activities. Clients are under no
obligation to utilize this service and Tamar Securities’ clients are not solicited to invest in this
outside business therefore no conflicts of interest exist.
Item 11. Code of Ethics, Participation or Interest in Client Transactions and Personal Trading
Description of Our Code of Ethics
We strive to comply with applicable laws and regulations governing our practices. Therefore, our Code of
Ethics includes guidelines for professional standards of conduct for persons associated with our firm. Our
goal is to protect your interests at all times and to demonstrate our commitment to our fiduciary duties of
honesty, good faith, and fair dealing with you. All persons associated with our firm are expected to adhere
strictly to these guidelines. Persons associated with our firm are also required to report any violations of
our Code of Ethics. Additionally, we maintain and enforce written policies reasonably designed to prevent
the misuse or dissemination of material, non-public information about you or your account holdings by
persons associated with our firm.
Clients or prospective clients may obtain a copy of our Code of Ethics by contacting us at the telephone
number on the cover page of this brochure.
Participation or Interest in Client Transactions
Neither our firm nor any persons associated with our firm has any material financial interest in client
transactions beyond the provision of investment advisory services as disclosed in this brochure.
Personal Trading Practices
Our firm or persons associated with our firm may buy or sell the same securities that we recommend to you
or securities in which you are already invested. A conflict of interest exists in such cases because we have
the ability to trade ahead of you and potentially receive more favorable prices than you will receive. To
mitigate this conflict of interest, it is our policy that neither our firm nor persons associated with our firm
shall have priority over your account in the purchase or sale of securities.
Item 12. Brokerage Practices
We recommend that you establish an account with a custodian/brokerage firm with which we have an
existing relationship. Such relationships may include benefits provided to our firm, including but not
limited to, market information, and administrative services that help our firm manage your account(s).
We believe that recommended broker-dealers provide quality execution services for our clients at
competitive prices. Price is not the sole factor we consider in evaluating best execution. We also
consider the quality of the brokerage services provided by recommended broker-dealers, including the
firm's reputation, execution capabilities, commission rates, and responsiveness to our clients and our
firm. By using another broker or dealer you may incur lower transaction costs.
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While we recommend custodians to clients, clients can decide whether or not to follow our advice.
Clients that choose to establish accounts with their elected custodians could do so directly with them.
At Tamar, we do not open these direct accounts for our clients.
At Tamar Securities, LLC, we seek to recommend custodians/broker-dealers that hold our clients’ assets
and execute their transactions on terms that are most advantageous when compared to other available
providers and their services. The following, are some of the wide range factors we consider when
recommending preferred custodians.
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combination of transaction execution services along with asset custody services
capability to execute, clear and settle trades (buy and sell securities for your account)
capabilities to facilitate transfers and payments to and from accounts (wire transfers, check
requests, bill payment, etc.)
breadth of investment products made available (stocks, bonds, mutual funds, exchange traded
funds (ETFs), etc.)
availability of investment research and tools that assist us in making investment decisions
quality of services
competitiveness of the price of those services (commission rates, margin interest rates, other
fees, etc.)
reputation, financial strength, and stability of the provider
trading capabilities
experience, knowledge and professionalism of the individuals executing the transactions
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• Access to a wide range of offerings
• Access to Bid Wanted lists
• Access to Initial Public Offerings, Best price execution, and up to standard technological
advancements for best execution, asset allocation, and reporting capabilities
Our recommended custodians provide us and our clients with access to its institutional brokerage – trading,
custody, reporting and related services. They also make available various support services. Some of those
services help us manage or administer our clients’ accounts while others help us manage and grow our
business. Our preferred custodians’ support services are generally available on an unsolicited basis.
Our firm does not utilize client brokerage commissions to obtain research or other products or services. Our
preferred custodians may make certain research and brokerage services available at no additional cost to
our firm. These services include research services such as research reports on recommendations or other
information about, particular companies or industries; economic surveys, data and analysis; financial
publications; portfolio evaluation services; financial database software and services; computerized news
and pricing services; quotation equipment for use in running software used in investment decision-making;
and other products or services that provide lawful and appropriate assistance to us in the performance of
our investment decision-making responsibilities. The aforementioned research and brokerage services are
used by our firm to manage accounts. Without this arrangement, our firm might be compelled to purchase
the same or similar services at our own expense.
As a result of receiving the services, we may have an incentive to continue to use or expand the use of our
preferred custodians’ services. Our firm examined this potential conflict of interest and we have determined
that the relationship is in the best interest of our firm’s clients and satisfies our client obligations, including
our duty to seek best execution.
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Our recommended custodians charge brokerage commissions and transaction fees for effecting certain
securities transactions (i.e., transaction fees are charged for certain no-load mutual funds, commissions are
charged for individual equity and debt securities transactions). They enable us to obtain many no-load
mutual funds without transaction charges and other no-load funds at nominal transaction charges. Our
preferred custodians’ commission rates are generally discounted from customary retail commission rates.
However, the commission and transaction fees charged by our preferred custodians may be higher or lower
than those charged by other custodians and/or broker-dealers.
Our clients (with the exception of legacy wrap fee program clients) may pay a commission to our
recommended custodians that are higher than the amount another qualified broker-dealer might charge to
affect the same transaction. We determined in good faith that the commission is reasonable in relation to
the value of the brokerage and research services received. In seeking best execution, the determinative
factor is not the lowest possible cost, but whether the transaction represents the best qualitative execution,
taking into consideration the full range of a broker-dealers’ services, including the value of research
provided, execution capability, commission rates, and responsiveness.
Accordingly, although we will seek competitive rates, to the benefit of all clients, we may not necessarily
obtain the lowest possible commission rates for specific client account transactions.
Investment research products and services that are obtained by our firm will generally be used to service
all of our clients.
In addition to the benefits, our recommended custodians may also make available to our firm other products
and services that benefit us, but may not directly benefit our clients’ accounts. These benefits may include:
educational conferences and events, technology, compliance, legal, and business consulting; publications
and conferences on practice management and business successions; and access to employee benefits
providers, human capital consultants and insurance providers. In addition, our preferred custodians may
make available, arrange and/or pay vendors for these types of services rendered to our firm by independent
third parties. Our preferred custodians may discount or waive fees it would otherwise charge for some of
these services or pay all or a part of the fees of a third-party providing these services to our firm.
Some of these products and services assist our firm in managing and administering clients’ accounts.
These include software and other technology (and related technological training) that provide access to
client account data (such as trade confirmations and account statements), facilitate trade execution (and
allocation of aggregated trade orders for multiple client accounts), provide research, pricing information
and other market data, facilitate payment of our fees from clients’ accounts, and assist with back-office
training and support functions, recordkeeping and client reporting.
Many of these services generally may be used to service all or some substantial number of our accounts,
including accounts not maintained at our recommended custodians.
While as a fiduciary, our firm endeavors to act in our clients’ best interests, our recommendation that clients
maintain their assets in accounts at our preferred custodians may be based in part on the benefit our firm
receives and not solely on the nature, cost, or quality of custody and brokerage services provided by our
preferred custodians. This interest conflicts with the clients' interest of obtaining the lowest commission
rate available. Therefore, we must determine in good faith, based on the best execution policy stated above
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that such commissions are reasonable in relation to the value of the services provided by such executing
broker-dealers.
Research and Other Soft Dollar Benefits
We do not have any soft dollar arrangements.
Brokerage for Client Referrals
We do not direct client transactions to a particular broker-dealer for soft dollars.
Directed Brokerage.
Not all advisers require their clients to direct brokerage. We do not require clients direct brokerage,
however, neither we nor any of our firm’s related personnel have discretionary authority in making the
determination of the brokers with whom orders for the purchase or sale of securities are placed for
execution, and the commission rates at which such securities transactions are effected.
Special Considerations for ERISA Clients
A retirement or ERISA plan client may direct all or part of portfolio transactions for its account through a
specific broker or dealer in order to obtain goods or services on behalf of the plan.
Such direction is permitted provided that the goods and services provided are reasonable expenses of the
plan incurred in the ordinary course of its business for which it otherwise would be obligated and
empowered to pay. ERISA prohibits directed brokerage arrangements when the goods or services purchased
are not for the exclusive benefit of the plan.
Consequently, we will request that plan sponsors who direct plan brokerage provide us with a letter
documenting that this arrangement will be for the exclusive benefit of the plan.
We allow clients to direct brokerage. However, we may be unable to achieve the most favorable execution
of client transactions. Client directed brokerage may cost clients more money. For example, in a directed
brokerage account, you may pay higher brokerage commissions because we may not be able to aggregate
orders to reduce transaction costs, or you may receive less favorable prices.
We perform investment management services for various clients. There are occasions on which portfolio
transactions may be executed as part of concurrent authorizations to purchase or sell the same security for
numerous accounts served by our firm, which involve accounts with similar investment objectives.
Although such concurrent authorizations potentially could be either advantageous or disadvantageous to
any one or more particular accounts, they are affected only when we believe that to do so will be in the best
interest of the effected accounts. When such concurrent authorizations occur, the objective is to allocate the
executions in a manner which is deemed equitable to the accounts involved.
In any given situation, we attempt to allocate trade executions in the most equitable manner possible, taking
into consideration clients’ objectives, current asset allocation and availability of funds using price
averaging, proration, and consistently non-arbitrary methods of allocation.
Prime Brokerage
Our firm participates in prime brokerage services provided by different bond traders. Orders shall be
transmitted to bond dealers for trade executions. Purshe Kaplan Sterling Investment, Schwab Institutional,
RBC Capital Markets LLC, Pershing LLC, Legent Clearing, Inc. and Wedbush Morgan Securities, can clear
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our prime brokerage transactions in our block trading brokerage account established in the name of Tamar
Securities, LLC with our preferred custodian; Schwab Institutional. Next, markup block trades are allocated
to designated clients prior to placing orders. Additionally, fee-based block trades cleared by prime brokerage
firms are also allocated in the same way to designated clients prior to placing orders. There are no mark-
ups applied to block trades allocated to advisory accounts.
Pursuant to the prime brokerage services agreement, Tamar Securities, LLC will maintain all details of each
prime brokerage transaction, including, but not limited to; contract amount, the security involved, the
number of shares or units, and whether the transaction was a long or short sale or a purchase.
Item 13. Review of Accounts
Investment adviser representatives of our firm will monitor your accounts on an ongoing basis and will
conduct account reviews at least on an annual basis to ensure the advisory services provided to you are
consistent with your investment needs and objectives.
The nature of these reviews is to learn whether clients’ accounts are in line with their changing life
circumstances, risk parameters, investment objectives, and appropriately positioned based on market
conditions, and their investment policies, if applicable.
We encourage our clients to inform us of any changes in work, family, health, or other life circumstances
that might warrant a reassessment of investment goals. We strive to adhere to each client's asset allocation
guidelines and to rebalance or reallocate client portfolios as needed to implement the investment strategy
we have developed for the client or to adapt to changes in client needs, goals, risk tolerance or other factors.
We may, or at your request, provide you with a written report. Reports we can provide will contain
relevant account and/or market-related information such as an inventory of account holdings and account
performance, etc. You will receive trade confirmations and monthly and/or quarterly statements from your
account custodian(s).
Clients with financial plans do not receive written or verbal updated reports regarding their financial plans
unless they separately contract with us for a post-financial plan meeting or request an update to their initial
written financial plan.
Item 14. Client Referrals and Other Compensation
As mentioned in Item 4, Advisory Business, we may refer clients to unaffiliated third-party service
providers for estate planning services. Clients are under no obligation to engage the services of the
unaffiliated third-party service provider and clients do so at their own discretion. We are not responsible
or liable for any of the services provided by these unaffiliated third parties and the firm is not
compensated for these referrals.
As disclosed under Item 10, Other Financial Industry Activities and Affiliations, persons providing
investment advice on behalf of our firm are licensed insurance producers. For information on the conflicts
of interest this presents, and how we address these conflicts.
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We do not receive any compensation from any third-party in connection with providing investment advice
to you nor do we compensate any individual or firm for client referrals.
Refer to Item 12, Brokerage Practices section above for disclosures on research and other benefits we may
receive resulting from our relationship with your account custodian.
Item 15. Custody
As paying agent for our firm, your independent custodian will directly debit your account(s) for the
payment of our advisory fees. This ability to deduct our advisory fees from your accounts causes our firm
to exercise limited custody over your funds or securities. We do not have physical custody of any of your
funds and/or securities. Your funds and securities will be held with a bank, broker-dealer, or other
qualified custodian. You will receive account statements from the qualified custodian(s) holding your
funds and securities at least quarterly. The account statements from your custodian(s) will indicate the
amount of our advisory fees deducted from your account(s) each billing period. You should carefully
review account statements for accuracy.
Wire Transfer and/or Standing Letter of Authorization
Our firm, or persons associated with our firm, may effect fund transfers from client accounts to one or
more third- parties designated, in writing, by the client without obtaining written client consent for each
separate, individual transaction, as long as the client has provided us with written authorization to do so.
Such written authorization is known as a Standing Letter of Authorization. An adviser with authority to
conduct such third- party fund transfers on a client's behalf has access to the client's assets and therefore
has custody of the client's assets in any related accounts.
However, we do not have to obtain a surprise annual audit, as we otherwise would be required to by reason
of having custody, as long as we meet the following criteria:
1. You provide written, signed instruction to the qualified custodian that includes the third-party’s
name and address or account number at a custodian;
2. You authorize us in writing to direct transfers to the third party either on a specified schedule or
from time to time;
3. Your qualified custodian verifies your authorization (e.g., signature review) and provides a transfer
of funds notice to you promptly after each transfer;
4. You can terminate or change the instruction;
5. We have no authority or ability to designate or change the identity of the third party, the address,
or any other information about the third-party;
6. We maintain records showing that the third party is not a related party to us nor located at the same
address as us; and
7. Your qualified custodian sends you, in writing, an initial notice confirming the instruction and an
annual notice reconfirming the instruction.
We hereby confirm that we meet the above criteria.
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Item 16. Investment Discretion
Clients have the option of providing our firm with investment discretion on their behalf, pursuant to a signed
investment advisory client agreement. This type of agreement only applies to our Portfolio Management
clients. By granting investment discretion, we are authorized to execute securities transactions, which
securities are bought and sold, and the total amount to be bought and sold. Limitations may be imposed by
the client in the form of specific constraints on any of these areas of discretion with our firm’s written
acknowledgement.
Item 17. Voting Client Securities
We do not vote proxies on behalf of your advisory accounts. If you own shares of applicable securities, you
are responsible for exercising your right to vote as a shareholder.
In most cases, you will receive proxy materials directly from the account custodian. However, in the event
we were to receive any written or electronic proxy materials, we would forward them directly to you by
mail, unless you have authorized our firm to contact you by electronic mail, in which case, we would
forward any electronic solicitations to vote proxies.
Item 18. Financial Information
Our firm does not have any financial condition or impairment that would prevent us from meeting our
contractual commitments to you. We do not take physical custody of client funds or securities, or serve as
trustee or signatory for client accounts, and, we do not require the prepayment of more than $1,200 in fees
six or more months in advance. Therefore, we are not required to include a financial statement with this
brochure.
We have not filed a bankruptcy petition at any time in the past ten years.
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Additional Brochure: TAMAR SECURITIES, LLC FIP WRAP BROCHURE (2026-03-31)
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ITEM 1. COVER PAGE FOR PART 2A APPENDIX 1 OF FORM ADV:
WRAP FEE PROGRAM BROCHURE FOR:
FIXED INCOME PORTFOLIO
(“FIP®”) WRAP FEE PROGRAM ACCOUNTS
DATED: March 31, 2026
TAMAR SECURITIES, LLC
21031 VENTURA BOULEVARD, SUITE 1101
WOODLAND HILLS, CA 91364
FIRM WEBSITE ADDRESS:
WWW.TAMARSECURITIES.COM
This Fixed Income Portfolio (FIP®) wrap fee program brochure provides information about the
qualifications and business practices of Tamar Securities, LLC. If you have any questions regarding the
contents of this brochure, please contact the main offices of Tamar Securities at 818-914-7460. The
information in this brochure has not been approved or verified by the United States Securities and
Exchange Commission or by any State Securities Authority. Additional information about Tamar
Securities, LLC is also available on the SEC’s website at www.adviserinfo.sec.gov.
Please note use of the term “registered investment adviser” and description of Tamar Securities, LLC
and/or our associates as “registered” does not imply a certain level of skill or training. You are
encouraged to review this Brochure and Brochure Supplements for our firm’s associates which advise
you for more information on the qualifications of our firm and its employees.
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Item 2 - Material Changes To Part 2A Appendix 1 (Wrap Fee Program Brochure) of Form ADV:
Tamar Securities, LLC is required to advise you of any material changes to our Wrap Fee Program Brochure
(“Wrap Brochure”) as of our last annual update, identify those changes either on the cover page of our
Wrap Brochure or either on the page immediately following the cover page, or also in a separate
communication accompanying our Wrap Brochure. We must state clearly that we are discussing only
material changes as of the last annual update of our Wrap Brochure. In addition, we must provide the
date of the last annual update of our Wrap Brochure.
Please note, we do not have to provide this information to a client or prospective client who has not
received a previous version of our Wrap Brochure.
Last Annual Amendment Filing Date: March 31, 2025
Since our annual amendment filing, Tamar Securities, LLC does not have any material changes to report.
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Item 3 - Table of Contents
Topic: Page(s):
Item 2 - Material Changes To Part 2A Appendix 1 (Wrap Fee Program Brochure) of Form ADV ................. 2
Item 3 - Table Of Contents ............................................................................................................................ 3
Item 4 - Services, Fees and Compensation ................................................................................................... 4
Item 5 - Account Requirements and Types of Clients ................................................................................... 6
Item 6 - Portfolio Manager Selection and Evaluation ................................................................................... 6
Item 7 - Client Information Provided to Portfolio Manager(s) ..................................................................... 9
Item 8 - Client Contact with Portfolio Manager(s) ........................................................................................ 9
Item 9 - Additional Information .................................................................................................................... 9
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Item 4 - Services, Fees and Compensation
A. Description of our services, including the types of portfolio management services, provided under
each program. We must indicate the wrap fee charged for each program, or, if fees vary according to
a schedule, provide such schedule. Further, we are required to indicate whether fees are negotiable
and identify the portion of the total fees, or range of fees, paid to portfolio managers.
Fixed Income Portfolio (FIP®) offers a discretionary fee based value strategy that includes discounted
and premium taxable high yield bonds, double tax-exempt and taxable municipal bonds, preferred
stocks, convertible bonds, and foreign- denominated bonds. The firm emphasizes discounted high
grade debt securities over equity and alternative investments in order to achieve both constant
annual income returns and fixed income price appreciation. The firm may use proceeds accumulated
from bond redemptions and income generated in order to invest in equities. Additionally, the
investment process is gradual, fundamental in nature; and therefore, at times supply constraints as
well as low interest rate environment could lead to excessive cash balances where by many of the buy
orders bid on are not executed in a timely manner.
The group performs daily, in depth, independent research of debt instruments regardless of size and
ratings. In-house research of all prospectuses and published updates are analyzed and stacked against
both the rating agencies’ opinion, and the street research reports. In addition, the same In-house
research is also applied to the Municipal Debt Market in California. Near three decades of researching
and investing in this space has landed our firm with a large data base of a vast California Municipal
Debt issuance as well as a set of expertise to enable us to capitalize quickly when dislocations in this
debt market occur.
Management of Fixed Income Portfolios (FIP®) can be performed on a dual platform: Discretionary
and Non-Discretionary fee basis (Registered Investment Advisor), and Discretionary and Non-
Discretionary transactional basis through our firm’s association with the broker dealer: Purshe Kaplan
Sterling Investments (PKS), and their clearing operations with National Financial Services (NFS).
Additionally, the broker-dealers we do advisory business with may clear through RBC Capital Markets
LLC, Pershing LLC, Legent Clearing, Inc. Wedbush Morgan Securities and Crews & Associates, Inc., Inc.
Israeli citizens will be able to open accounts with Tamar Securities, LLC which are custodied with Bank
of Hapoalim domiciled in Israel, whereby we will place the trades through Crews & Associates, Inc.,
an SEC registered investment advisor and FINRA/SIPC member broker-dealer.
We seek professional Bid/Offer execution of bond trades, across all Fixed Income Desks on Wall
Street. It is our motto to fight on behalf of our clients for best in class executions. In order to
accomplish this optimal Bid/Offer pricing principal, we first establish multiple relationships with Fixed
Income desks around the country. Second, all bond purchase Offerings are Bid on, and finally, all bond
sell Offerings are put out for a Bid from at least three bond desks on Wall Street. This process ensures
best in class trade executions; and therefore, substantially improves Bid/Offer pricings for the firm’s
clients.
In many cases, and at odds with Wall Street practices, this Bid/Offer execution platform is duplicated
for odd lot bond offerings where there is not enough liquidity; thereby, allowing our firm to Bid on
bond Offerings at even deeper discounts then is warranted in a typical market place.
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At the end, independently of on which bond desk a Fixed Income transaction took place, all trades
settle with our firm’s preferred custodian; Schwab Institutional. Last, periodic ongoing reviews are
scheduled with all clients. This process includes the followings: 1) Review of the entire portfolio as
well as its underlying Fixed Income Securities benchmarked each quarter against their respective
Fixed Income indexes, 2) Recalibrate each client’s asset allocation models as his or her life
circumstances change, and 3) Present consolidated reporting that incorporates the Fixed Income
Portfolios (FIP®) with the entire holdings of the clients’ other investments disciplines.
Fixed Income Portfolios (FIP®) Wrap Program Fee Schedule:
Maximum Fee Schedule: Portfolio Management for Managed Accounts
All Fixed Income Portfolio (FIP®) Accounts will adhere to the following pricing schedule:
Assets Under Management
First $500,000
Next $500,000
Over $1,000,000
Annual Net Fee Assessed
1.00%
0.90%
0.80%
Our firm’s fees are generally not negotiable. Further, our firm’s fees are billed on a pro-rata
annualized basis quarterly in advance based on the value of your account on the last day of the
previous quarter.
B. Explanation that a wrap fee program may cost you more or less than purchasing such services
separately and description of the factors that bear upon the relative cost of the program, such as the
cost of the services if provided separately and the trading activity in your account(s).
A wrap fee program allows our clients to pay a specified fee for investment advisory services and for
the execution of transactions. The advisory services may include portfolio management and/or advice
concerning selection of other advisers, and the fee is not based directly upon transactions in your
account. Your fee is bundled with our costs for executing transactions in your account(s). This results
in a higher advisory fee to you. We do not charge our clients higher advisory fees based on their
trading activity, but you should be aware that we may have an incentive to limit our trading activities
in your account(s) because we are charged for executed trades. In order to overcome this potential
conflict of interest, clients may choose to pay all transactions’ costs associated with the ongoing
management of their accounts. By participating in a wrap fee program, you may end up paying more
or less than you would through a non-wrap fee program where a lower advisory fee is charged, but
trade execution costs are normally passed directly through to you by the executing broker.
C. Description of any fees that you may pay in addition to a wrap fee, and description of the
circumstances under which you may pay these fees, including, if applicable, mutual fund expenses
and mark-ups, mark-downs, or spreads paid to market makers.
You may pay custodial fees, charges imposed directly by a mutual fund, index fund, or an exchange
traded fund which shall be disclosed in the fund’s prospectus (i.e., fund management fees and other
fund expenses), mark-ups and mark-downs, spreads paid to market makers, wire transfer fees and
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other fees and taxes on brokerage accounts and securities transactions. These fees are not included
within the wrap-fee you are charged by our firm.
D. If someone recommending a wrap fee program to you receives compensation as a result of your
participation in the program, we must disclose this fact. Further, we are required to explain, if
applicable, that the amount of the compensation may be more than what the person would receive
if you participated in our other wrap fee programs or paid separately for investment advice, brokerage
and other services. Finally, we must explain that someone recommending a wrap fee program may
have a financial incentive to recommend the wrap fee program over other programs or services.
We do not recommend or offer the wrap program services of other providers. Our investment
advisory representatives receive a portion of the advisory fee that you pay us, either directly as a
percentage of your overall fee or as their salary from our firm. In cases where our investment advisory
representatives are paid a percentage of your overall advisory fee, this may create an incentive to
recommend that you participate in a wrap fee program rather than a non-wrap fee program (where
you would pay for trade execution costs) or brokerage account where commissions are charged. This
is because, in some cases, we may stand to earn more compensation from advisory fees paid to us
through a wrap fee program arrangement if your account is not actively traded.
Item 5 - Account Requirements and Types of Clients
We require a minimum account balance of $100,000 for our Wrap Fee services. Generally, this minimum
account balance requirement is not negotiable and would be required throughout the course of the
client’s relationship with our firm.
Types of clients we typically manage on their behalf wrap fee accounts include:
Individuals;
Foreign Citizens;
Trusts, Estates, and Charitable Organizations;
Pension and Profit Sharing Plans;
High Net Worth Individuals;
On and off shore Corporations, limited liability Companies, and/or other business types.
Item 6 - Portfolio Manager Selection and Evaluation
A. Description of how our firm selects and reviews portfolio managers, our basis for recommending or
selecting portfolio managers for particular clients, and our criteria for replacing or recommending the
replacement of portfolio managers for the program and for particular clients.
Our firm does not utilize outside portfolio managers. All accounts are managed by our in-house
professionals.
B. Disclosure of whether our firm or any related persons act as a portfolio manager for a wrap fee
program described in the wrap fee program brochure. We must explain the conflicts of interest that
we face because of this arrangement and describe how we address these conflicts of interest.
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Our firm and its related persons act as portfolio manager(s) for this wrap fee program. This may create
a conflict of interest in that other investment advisory firms may charge the same or lower fees than
our firm for similar services.
C.
If our firm, or any of our supervised persons covered under or investment adviser registration, act as
a portfolio manager for a wrap fee program described in the wrap fee program brochure, we must
respond to Items 4.B, 4.C, 4.D (Advisory Business), 6 (Performance-Based Fees and Side- By-Side
Management), 8.A (Methods of Analysis, Investment Strategies and Risk of Loss) and 17 (Voting Client
Securities) of Part 2A of Form ADV (Firm Brochure).
Our firm and supervised persons act as portfolio manager(s) for this wrap fee program.
1. Advisory Business.
See Item 4 of this Wrap Fee Program Brochure for information about our wrap fee advisory
programs. We offer individualized investment advice to clients utilizing our firm’s FIP® Wrap Fee
Program. We usually do not allow clients to impose restrictions on investing in certain securities
or types of securities due to the level of difficulty this would entail in managing their account. In
the rare instance that we would allow restrictions, it would be limited to our firm’s FIP® Wrap
Fee Program.
Our wrap fee and non-wrap fee accounts are managed on an individualized basis according to
the client’s investment objectives, financial goals, risk tolerance, and the program’s discipline.
We do not manage wrap fee accounts in a different fashion than non-wrap fee accounts.
2. Performance-based fees and side-by-side management.
We do not accept performance-based fees or participate in side-by-side management.
Performance-based fees are fees that are based on a share of a capital gains or capital
appreciation of a client's account. Side-by-side management refers to the practice of managing
accounts that are charged performance-based fees while at the same time managing accounts
that are not charged performance-based fees. Our fees are calculated as described in the Fees
and Compensation section above, and are not charged on the basis of a share of capital gains
upon, or capital appreciation of, the funds in your advisory account.
3. Methods of analysis, investment strategies and risk of loss.
Methods of Analysis:
Global Macro;
Analysis of Sectors and Industries;
Top Down Value Analysis;
Underlying Fundamentals;
Cyclical;
Technical.
Investment Strategies:
Long term purchases (securities held at least a year);
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Short term purchases (securities sold within a year);
Trading (securities sold within 30 days);
Risk of Loss:
Investing in securities involves risk of loss that clients should be prepared to bear. While the stock
and bond markets may increase in value and consequently your account(s) could follow suite, it
is also possible that the stock and bond markets may decrease in value, and consequently your
account(s) could suffer a loss. It is important that you understand the risks associated with
investing in the stock and bond markets, your investment portfolios are appropriately diversified,
and that you ask any questions you may deem necessary for managing your investment
portfolio(s).
Alternative Investments:
For clients who own alternative investments, the absence of a public market, lack of liquidity and
an expected long term investment time horizon may include the following risks that you should
consider:
You may experience the risk that your investment or assets within your investment may not
be able to be liquidated quickly, thus, extending the period of time by which you may receive
the proceeds from your investment. Liquidity risk can also result in unfavorable pricing when
exiting (i.e. not being able to quickly get out of an investment before the price drops
significantly) a particular investment and therefore, can have a negative impact on investment
returns.
No guarantee that investors will receive a distribution. Distributions may be derived from the
proceeds of the offering, from borrowings, or from the sale of assets, and we have no limits
on the amounts we may pay from such other sources. Payments of distributions from sources
other than cash flow from operations may decrease or diminish an investor's interest;
Economic factors affecting the real estate markets generally, including changes in the
economy, tenant turnover, interest rates, availability of mortgage funds, operating expenses,
cost of insurance and tenants' ability to continue to pay rent;
No connection between the share price of the REIT and the net asset value of the REIT until
such time as the assets are valued.
4. Voting client securities.
a.
If we have, or will accept, proxy authority to vote client securities, we must briefly describe
our voting policies and procedures, including those adopted pursuant to SEC Rule 206(4)-6.
SEC Rule 206(4)-6 requires investment advisers who have voting authority with respect to
securities held in their clients’ accounts to monitor corporate actions and vote proxies in their
clients’ interests. We are required by the SEC to adopt written policies and procedures, make
those policies and procedures available to clients, and retain certain records with respect to
proxy votes cast.
Our firm votes clients’ proxies for all of the participants in our Wrap Account Management
service. It should be noted that our firm does not vote proxies for clients of Alternative
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is the separate
Investments and Independent Money Managers’ Programs as this
responsibility of these parties. We understand our duty to vote client proxies and to do so in
the best interest of our clients. Our firm further understands that any material conflicts
between our interests and those of our clients with regard to proxy voting must be resolved
before proxies are voted. We subscribe to a proxy monitor and voting agent service, which
includes access to proxy analysis with research and vote recommendations. Our firm will
generally vote in accordance with the recommendations of the proxy voting firm we subscribe
to, but may vote in a different fashion on particular votes if we determine that such actions
are in the best interest of our clients. Where applicable, we will consider any specific voting
guidelines designated in writing by a client. Clients may request a copy of our firm’s written
policies and procedures regarding proxy voting and/or information on how particular proxies
were voted.
b. Whether we pay for proxy voting services with soft dollars or pass the cost on to our clients
through a supplement to our advisory fee.
We do not pay for proxy voting services with soft dollars. Also, we do not charge an additional
fee to vote proxies.
Item 7 - Client Information Provided to Portfolio Manager(s)
We are required to communicate the information about you to your portfolio manager(s), and to inform
you how often or under what circumstances we provide such updated information. Our firm
communicates with your portfolio manager(s) on a regular basis as needed (daily, weekly, monthly,
quarterly, and annually) in order to ensure your most current investment goals and objectives are
understood, and followed by your portfolio manager(s). In most cases, we will communicate such
information as part of our regular investment management duties.
In addition, we will communicate personal information to your portfolio manager(s) when you instruct us
to do so, market or economic conditions warrant such action, and it is generally prudent to act in this
manner.
Item 8 - Client Contact with Portfolio Manager(s)
Clients are always free to directly contact their portfolio manager(s) with any questions or concerns they
have about their portfolios or other matters.
Item 9 - Additional Information
A. We are required to respond to: 1. Item 9 (Disciplinary Information); and 2. Item 10 (Other Financial
Industry Activities and Affiliations) of Part 2A of Form ADV.
1. We have determined that our firm and management have no disciplinary information to disclose.
2. We have the following Financial Industry Activities and Affiliations to disclose:
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a. Certain of our firm’s advisory affiliates, in their individual capacities, are registered
representative with Purshe Kaplan Sterling Investments, Inc. (“PKS”), a registered broker-
dealer and member FINRA/SIPC. Our firm is not affiliated with PKS. In order to comply with
FINRA Conduct Rule 3040, PKS as an unaffiliated broker-dealer may periodically review the
investment advisory transactions of our firm. This information will be viewed by PKS’
compliance department personnel for supervisory purposes only. No information viewed will
be utilized for purposes of solicitation or shared with any affiliation outside the scope of
regulatory compliance. Clients are under no obligation to act upon any recommendations or
execute any transactions through our advisory affiliates if they decide to follow the
recommendations.
b. Certain of our firm’s advisory affiliates, in their individual capacities, are licensed insurance
agents with various insurance companies in the state of California. In their individual capacity,
they may recommend, on a fully disclosed commission basis, the purchase of certain
insurance products. A conflict of interest exists to the extent that our firm’s advisory affiliates
may recommend the purchase of insurance products where our firm’s advisory affiliates
receive insurance commissions or other additional compensation. Clients are under no
obligation to act upon any recommendations or execute any transactions through our
advisory affiliates if they decide to follow the recommendations.
c. Management person, Amit Stavinsky, is a general partner for Gapa, LLC, Roscoe Lennox, LLC,
and Tamar Investments, LLC- limited liability companies formed in California for real estate
investments and development. Mr. Stavinsky spends 12-14 hours per month on this activity.
Tamar Securities’ clients are not solicited to invest in this outside business therefore no
conflicts of interest exist.
B. We are required to respond to: 1. Items 11 (Code of Ethics or Interest in Client Transactions and
Personal Trading); 2. Item 13 (review of Accounts); 3. Item 14 (Client Referrals and Other
Compensation); and 4. Item 18 (Financial Information) of Part 2A of Form ADV, as applicable to our
wrap fee clients.
1. Code of ethics, participation or interest in client transactions and personal trading.
We recognize that the personal investment transactions of members and employees of our firm
demand the application of a high Code of Ethics and require that all such transactions be carried out
in a way that does not endanger the interest of any client. At the same time, we believe that if
investment goals are similar for clients and for members and employees of our firm, it is logical and
even desirable that there be common ownership of some securities.
Therefore, in order to prevent conflicts of interest, we have in place a set of procedures (including a
pre-clearing procedure) with respect to transactions effected by our members, officers and
employees for their personal accounts1. In order to monitor compliance with our personal trading
policy, we have a quarterly securities transaction reporting system for all of our associates.
1 For purposes of the policy, our associate’s personal account generally includes any account (a) in the name of our associate, his/her
spouse, his/her minor children or other dependents residing in the same household, (b) for which our associate is a trustee or executor,
or (c) which our associate controls, including our client accounts which our associate controls and/or a member of his/her household
has a direct or indirect beneficial interest in.
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Furthermore, our firm has established a Code of Ethics which applies to all of our associated
personnel. An investment adviser is considered a fiduciary. As a fiduciary, it is an investment
adviser’s responsibility to provide fair and full disclosure of all material facts and to act solely in the
best interest of each of our clients at all times. We have a fiduciary duty to all clients. Our fiduciary
duty is considered the core underlying principle for our Code of Ethics which also includes Insider
Trading and Personal Securities Transactions Policies and Procedures. We require all of our
supervised persons to conduct business with the highest level of ethical standards and to comply
with all federal and state securities laws at all times. Upon employment or affiliation and at least
annually thereafter, all supervised persons will sign an acknowledgement that they have read,
understand, and agree to comply with our Code of Ethics. Our firm and supervised persons must
conduct business in an honest, ethical, and fair manner and avoid all circumstances that might
negatively affect or appear to affect our duty of complete loyalty to all clients. This disclosure is
provided to give all clients a summary of our Code of Ethics. However, if a client or a potential client
wishes to review our Code of Ethics in its entirety, a copy will be provided promptly upon request.
a. If either our firm or a related person invests in the same securities (or related securities, e.g.,
warrants, options or futures) that our firm or a related person recommends to clients, we are
required to describe our practice and discuss the conflicts of interest this presents and
generally how we address the conflicts that arise in connection with personal trading.
See Item 9 Section B (1.) of our Code of Ethics description. Related persons of our firm may
buy or sell securities and other investments that are also recommended to clients. In order to
minimize this conflict of interest, our related persons will place client interests ahead of their
own interests and adhere to our firm’s Code of Ethics, a copy of which is available upon
request.
b.
If either our firm or a related person recommends securities to clients, or buys or sells
securities for client accounts, at or about the same time that either you or a related person
buys or sells the same securities for our firm’s (or the related person's own) account, we are
required to describe our practice and discuss the conflicts of interest it presents. We are also
required to describe generally how we address conflicts that arise.
See Item 9 Section B (1.) of our Code of Ethics description. Related persons of our firm may
buy or sell securities for themselves at or about the same time they buy or sell the same
securities for client accounts. In order to minimize this conflict of interest, our related persons
will place client interests ahead of their own interests and adhere to our firm’s Code of Ethics,
a copy of which is available upon request. Further, our related persons will refrain from buying
or selling the same securities within 48 hours of buying or selling for our clients. If related
persons’ accounts are included in a block trade, our related persons will always trade personal
accounts last.
2. Review of accounts.
a. Review of client accounts, along with a description of the frequency and nature of our review,
and the titles of our employees who conduct the review.
We review accounts on at least a monthly basis for our clients subscribing to our firm’s FIP®
Wrap Fee Program. The nature of these reviews is to learn whether clients’ accounts are in
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line with their changing life circumstances, risk parameters, investment objectives,
appropriately positioned based on market conditions, and their investment policies, if
applicable. Only our Financial Advisors or Portfolio Managers will conduct these reviews.
b. Review of client accounts on other than a periodic basis, along with a description of the factors
that trigger a review.
We may review client accounts more frequently than described above. Among the factors
which may trigger an off-cycle review are major market or economic events, a material
change in the life of the client, and/or a general request by the client.
c. Description of the content and indication of the frequency of written or verbal regular reports
we provide to clients regarding their accounts.
We do not provide written reports to clients, unless asked to do so. Verbal reports to clients
take place on at least an annual basis when we contact clients.
3. Client referrals and other compensation.
As disclosed under Item 9, persons providing investment advice on behalf of our firm
are licensed insurance producers. See Item 9 for information on the conflicts of interest this
presents, and how we address these conflicts.
We do not receive any compensation from any third party in connection with providing
investment advice to you nor do we compensate any individual or firm for client referrals.
We do not pay referral fees (non-commission based) to independent solicitors (non-registered
representatives) for the referral of their clients to our firm in accordance with Rule 206 (4)-3 of
the Investment Advisers Act of 1940.
4. Financial information.
a.
If we require or solicit prepayment of more than $1,200 in fees per client, six months or more
in advance, we must include a balance sheet for our most recent fiscal year.
We do not require nor do we solicit prepayment of more than $1,200 in fees per client, six
months or more in advance; therefore, we have not included a balance sheet for our most
recent fiscal year.
b. If we are an SEC-registered adviser and have discretionary authority or custody of client funds
or securities, or we require or solicit prepayment of more than $1,200 in fees per client, six
months or more in advance, we must disclose any financial condition that is reasonably likely
to impair our ability to meet contractual commitments to clients.
We have nothing to disclose in this regard.
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c.
If we have been the subject of a bankruptcy petition at any time during the past ten years, we
must disclose this fact, the date the petition was first brought, and the current status.
We have nothing to disclose in this regard.
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Additional Brochure: TAMAR SECURITIES, LLC MVS WRAP BROCHURE (2026-03-31)
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ITEM 1. COVER PAGE FOR PART 2A APPENDIX 1 OF FORM ADV:
WRAP FEE PROGRAM BROCHURE FOR:
MARKET VALUE SECURITIES
(MVS®) WRAP FEE PROGRAM ACCOUNTS
DATED: March 31, 2026
TAMAR SECURITIES, LLC
21031 VENTURA BOULEVARD, SUITE 1101
WOODLAND HILLS, CA 91364
FIRM WEBSITE ADDRESS:
WWW.TAMARSECURITIES.COM
This Market Value Securities (MVS®) wrap fee program brochure provides information about the
qualifications and business practices of Tamar Securities, LLC. If you have any questions regarding the
contents of this brochure, please contact the main offices of Tamar Securities, LLC at 818-914-7460. The
information in this brochure has not been approved or verified by the United States Securities and
Exchange Commission or by any State Securities Authority. Additional information about Tamar
Securities, LLC is also available on the SEC’s website at www.adviserinfo.sec.gov.
Please note use of the term “registered investment adviser” and description of Tamar Securities, LLC
and/or our associates as “registered” does not imply a certain level of skill or training. You are
encouraged to review this Brochure and Brochure Supplements for our firm’s associates which advise
you for more information on the qualifications of our firm and our employees.
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Item 2 - Material Changes To Part 2A Appendix 1 (Wrap Fee Program Brochure) of Form ADV:
Tamar Securities, LLC is required to advise you of any material changes to our Wrap Fee Program Brochure
(“Wrap Brochure”) as of our last annual update, identify those changes either on the cover page of our
Wrap Brochure or either on the page immediately following the cover page, or also in a separate
communication accompanying our Wrap Brochure. We must state clearly that we are discussing only
material changes as of the last annual update of our Wrap Brochure. In addition, we must provide the
date of the last annual update of our Wrap Brochure.
Please note, we do not have to provide this information to a client or prospective client who has not
received a previous version of our Wrap Brochure.
Last Annual Amendment Filing Date: March 31, 2025
Since our annual amendment filing, Tamar Securities, LLC does not have any material changes to report.
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Item 3 - Table of Contents
Topic: Page(s):
Item 2 - Material Changes To Part 2A Appendix 1 (Wrap Fee Program Brochure) of Form ADV ................. 2
Item 3 - Table Of Contents ............................................................................................................................ 3
Item 4 - Services, Fees and Compensation ................................................................................................... 4
Item 5 - Account Requirements and Types of Clients ................................................................................... 6
Item 6 - Portfolio Manager Selection and Evaluation ................................................................................... 6
Item 7 - Client Information Provided to Portfolio Manager(s) ..................................................................... 9
Item 8 - Client Contact with Portfolio Manager(s) ...................................................................................... 10
Item 9 - Additional Information .................................................................................................................. 10
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Item 4 - Services, Fees and Compensation
A. Description of our services, including the types of portfolio management services, provided under
each program. We must indicate the wrap fee charged for each program, or, if fees vary according to
a schedule, provide such schedule. Further, we are required to indicate whether fees are negotiable
and identify the portion of the total fees, or range of fees, paid to portfolio managers.
Market Value Securities (MVS®) offers a strategic, discretionary fee-based, long-term approach to
Global Asset Allocation portfolios of small to large cap individual equities. The investment philosophy
is founded on the belief that superior investment performance depends primarily on investing in the
most attractive global Economic Sectors, and Sub-Industries based on supply and demand analysis.
The program endorses a top-down value discipline that seeks to identify globally undervalued
Markets, Economic Sectors, Industries, and Specific Securities in “Super Cycles” that sell at deep
discounts to both their respective and historical intrinsic values. “Super Cycles” are defined as
undervalued Economic Sectors, and Industries in the Global Economy that our firm believes are best
positioned for “Long-Term Growth”.
The first step in the process analyzes the relative attractiveness of global Economic Sectors, and their
Sub-Industries. This is done first via in-depth analysis of supply and demand fundamentals, and growth
rate projections. Second, global Economic Sectors and Sub-Industries are identified and selected.
Next, individual small to large cap equities are researched. At the end, a rigorous due diligence process
is implemented for identifying and selecting individual equities that sell at deep discounts to their
respective and historical intrinsic values. Intrinsic values are determined by using discounted cash flow
and relative valuation models. The fundamental analysis used to select the individual equities that
end up making the Market Value Securities portfolio includes primarily low absolute and relative
valuations such as price/earnings, price/book, price/cash, and debt to equity ratios. Other
fundamental research followed is based on analysis of barriers to entry, market share, return on
equity, growth projections, liquidity, market capitalization, free cash flow generation, debt structure,
management tenure, quality of brand, and franchise value.
The program utilizes general asset management guidelines in order to attempt to achieve favorable
risk/reward performance results independent of the market’s strength or weakness. The following are
the disciplines implemented: 1) The portfolio, in general can’t hold less than twenty stocks, 2) Individual
equity positions in general can’t exceed 15% of the portfolio value, 3) Economic Sector holdings, in
general can’t exceed 45% of the portfolio value, 4) Industry group holdings can’t, in general exceed 30%
of the portfolio value, 5) Account total cash position, in general, can’t exceed 30% of the portfolio;
thereafter, the initial gradual process of allocating the funds per the program’s investment discipline,
and 6) The portfolio can’t hold less than six Economic Sectors. In general, TAMAR Securities, LLC’s “Top
Down” global value strategy and its bottom up individual stock selection determine its ongoing asset
allocation weighting among its underlining individual equity positions. The investment process is
gradual, fundamental in nature, and occasionally, technically driven. Implementing, fundamental and
technical analysis to uncover oversold market conditions can lead in the interim to excessive cash
balances.
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Our firm believes that prior to a “Super Cycle” peak companies will have massive capital expenditures
associated with Growth, Mergers and Acquisitions activities. Eventually, at the height of a “Super
Cycle” the sector and its individual equities will dominate the market from an earnings and market
capitalization stand point. For example, Technology and Telecommunications grew to 40% of the S&P
500 Index in February of 2000, and during the Japanese Real Estate bubble properties of this that
country were valued at more than the entire combined U.S Real Estate market. When these signs are
apparent, we will rotate out of the Economic Sectors, Sub-Industries, and their related Individual
Equities in favor of new undervalued Economic Sectors and Sub-Industries in the world’s economy.
Lastly, periodic ongoing reviews are scheduled with all clients. This process includes the followings: (i)
Review of the entire portfolio as well as its underlying Economic Sectors, Sub-Industries and their
respective Individual Equities benchmarked each quarter against their respective Equity and World
Indexes, (ii) Recalibrate each client’s asset allocation models as his or her life circumstances change,
and (iii) Present consolidated reporting that incorporates the Market Value Securities (MVS®)
portfolio with the entire holdings of the clients’ other investments disciplines.
MVS® Wrap Program Fee Schedule:
All Equity discretionary money managed programs which include Market Value Securities (MVS®) will
adhere to the following pricing schedule:
Assets Under Management
First $500,000
Next $500,000
Over $1,000,000
Annual Net Fee Assessed
2.50%
2.00%
1.50%
Our firm’s fees are generally not negotiable. Further, our firm’s fees are billed on a pro-rata
annualized basis quarterly in advance based on the value of your account on the last day of the
previous quarter.
B. Explanation that a wrap fee program may cost you more or less than purchasing such services
separately and description of the factors that bear upon the relative cost of the program, such as the
cost of the services if provided separately and the trading activity in your account(s).
A wrap fee program allows our clients to pay a specified fee for investment advisory services and for
the execution of transactions. The advisory services may include portfolio management and/or advice
concerning selection of other advisers, and the fee is not based directly upon transactions in your
account. Your fee is bundled with our costs for executing transactions in your account(s). This results
in a higher advisory fee to you. We do not charge our clients higher advisory fees based on their
trading activity, but you should be aware that we may have an incentive to limit our trading activities
in your account(s) because we are charged for executed trades. In order to overcome this potential
conflict of interest, clients may choose to pay all transactions’ costs associated with the ongoing
management of their accounts.
By participating in a wrap fee program, you may end up paying more or less than you would through
a non-wrap fee program where a lower advisory fee is charged, but trade execution costs are normally
passed directly through to you by the executing broker.
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C. Description of any fees that you may pay in addition to a wrap fee, and description of the
circumstances under which you may pay these fees, including, if applicable, mutual fund expenses
and mark-ups, mark-downs, or spreads paid to market makers.
You may pay custodial fees, charges imposed directly by a mutual fund, index fund, or an exchange
traded fund which shall be disclosed in the fund’s prospectus (i.e., fund management fees and other
fund expenses), mark-ups and mark-downs, spreads paid to market makers, wire transfer fees and
other fees and taxes on brokerage accounts and securities transactions. These fees are not included
within the wrap-fee you are charged by our firm.
D. If someone recommending a wrap fee program to you receives compensation as a result of your
participation in the program, we must disclose this fact. Further, we are required to explain, if
applicable, that the amount of the compensation may be more than what the person would receive
if you participated in our other wrap fee programs or paid separately for investment advice, brokerage
and other services. Finally, we must explain that someone recommending a wrap fee program may
have a financial incentive to recommend the wrap fee program over other programs or services.
We do not recommend or offer the wrap program services of other providers. Our investment
advisory representatives receive a portion of the advisory fee that you pay us, either directly as a
percentage of your overall fee or as their salary from our firm. In cases where our investment advisory
representatives are paid a percentage of your overall advisory fee, this may create an incentive to
recommend that you participate in a wrap fee program rather than a non-wrap fee program (where
you would pay for trade execution costs) or brokerage account where commissions are charged. This
is because, in some cases, we may stand to earn more compensation from advisory fees paid to us
through a wrap fee program arrangement if your account is not actively traded.
Item 5 - Account Requirements and Types of Clients
We require a minimum account balance of $100,000 for our Wrap Fee services. Generally, this minimum
account balance requirement is not negotiable and would be required throughout the course of the
client’s relationship with our firm.
Individuals;
Foreign Citizens;
Trusts, Estates, and Charitable Organizations;
Pension and Profit Sharing Plans;
Types of clients we typically manage on their behalf wrap fee accounts include:
High Net Worth Individuals;
On and off shore Corporations, limited liability Companies, and/or other business types.
Item 6 - Portfolio Manager Selection and Evaluation
A. Description of how our firm selects and reviews portfolio managers, our basis for recommending or
selecting portfolio managers for particular clients, and our criteria for replacing or recommending the
replacement of portfolio managers for the program and for particular clients.
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Our firm does not utilize outside portfolio managers. All accounts are managed by our in-house
professionals.
B. Disclosure of whether our firm or any related persons act as a portfolio manager for a wrap fee
program described in the wrap fee program brochure. We must explain the conflicts of interest that
we face because of this arrangement and describe how we address these conflicts of interest.
Our firm and its related persons act as portfolio manager(s) for this wrap fee program. This may create
a conflict of interest in that other investment advisory firms may charge the same or lower fees than
our firm for similar services.
C.
If our firm, or any of our supervised persons covered under or investment adviser registration, act as
a portfolio manager for a wrap fee program described in the wrap fee program brochure, we must
respond to Items 4.B, 4.C, 4.D (Advisory Business), 6 (Performance-Based Fees and Side- By-Side
Management), 8.A (Methods of Analysis, Investment Strategies and Risk of Loss) and 17 (Voting Client
Securities) of Part 2A of Form ADV (Firm Brochure).
Our firm and supervised persons act as portfolio manager(s) for this wrap fee program.
1. Advisory Business.
See Item 4 of this Wrap Fee Program Brochure for information about our wrap fee advisory
programs. We offer individualized investment advice to clients utilizing our firm’s MVS® Wrap
Fee Program. We usually do not allow clients to impose restrictions on investing in certain
securities or types of securities due to the level of difficulty this would entail in managing their
account. In the rare instance that we would allow restrictions, it would be limited to our MVS®
Wrap Fee Program.
Our wrap fee and non-wrap fee accounts are managed on an individualized basis according to the
client’s investment objectives, financial goals, risk tolerance, and the program’s discipline. We do
not manage wrap fee accounts in a different fashion than non-wrap fee accounts.
2. Performance-based fees and side-by-side management.
We do not accept performance-based fees or participate in side-by-side management.
Performance-based fees are fees that are based on a share of a capital gains or capital
appreciation of a client's account. Side-by-side management refers to the practice of managing
accounts that are charged performance-based fees while at the same time managing accounts
that are not charged performance-based fees. Our fees are calculated as described in the Fees
and Compensation section above, and are not charged on the basis of a share of capital gains
upon, or capital appreciation of, the funds in your advisory account.
3. Methods of analysis, investment strategies and risk of loss.
Methods of Analysis:
Global Macro;
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Analysis of Sectors and Industries;
Top Down Value Analysis;
Underlying Fundamentals;
Cyclical;
Technical.
Investment Strategies:
Long term purchases (securities held at least a year);
Short term purchases (securities sold within a year);
Trading (securities sold within 30 days);
Risk of Loss:
Investing in securities involves risk of loss that clients should be prepared to bear. While the stock
and bond markets may increase in value and consequently your account(s) could follow suite, it
is also possible that the stock and bond markets may decrease in value, and consequently your
account(s) could suffer a loss. It is important that you understand the risks associated with
investing in the stock and bond markets, your investment portfolios are appropriately diversified,
and that you ask any questions you may deem necessary for managing your investment
portfolio(s).
Alternative Investments:
For clients who own alternative investments, the absence of a public market, lack of liquidity and
an expected long term investment time horizon may include the following risks that you should
consider:
You may experience the risk that your investment or assets within your investment may not
be able to be liquidated quickly, thus, extending the period of time by which you may receive
the proceeds from your investment. Liquidity risk can also result in unfavorable pricing when
exiting (i.e. not being able to quickly get out of an investment before the price drops
significantly) a particular investment and therefore, can have a negative impact on investment
returns.
No guarantee that investors will receive a distribution. Distributions may be derived from the
proceeds of the offering, from borrowings, or from the sale of assets, and we have no limits
on the amounts we may pay from such other sources.
Payments of distributions from sources other than cash flow from operations may decrease
or diminish an investor's interest;
Economic factors affecting the real estate markets generally, including changes in the
economy, tenant turnover, interest rates, availability of mortgage funds, operating expenses,
cost of insurance and tenants' ability to continue to pay rent;
No connection between the share price of the REIT and the net asset value of the REIT until
such time as the assets are valued.
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4. Voting client securities.
a.
If we have, or will accept, proxy authority to vote client securities, we must briefly describe
our voting policies and procedures, including those adopted pursuant to SEC Rule 206(4)-6.
SEC Rule 206(4)-6 requires investment advisers who have voting authority with respect to
securities held in their clients’ accounts to monitor corporate actions and vote proxies in their
clients’ interests. We are required by the SEC to adopt written policies and procedures, make
those policies and procedures available to clients, and retain certain records with respect to
proxy votes cast.
Our firm votes client proxies for all of the participants in our Wrap Account Management
service. It should be noted that our firm does not vote proxies for clients of Alternative
Investments and Independent Money Managers’ Programs as this
is the separate
responsibility of these parties. We understand our duty to vote client proxies and to do so in
the best interest of our clients. Our firm further understands that any material conflicts
between our interests and those of our clients with regard to proxy voting must be resolved
before proxies are voted. We subscribe to a proxy monitor and voting agent service, which
includes access to proxy analysis with research and vote recommendations.
Our firm will generally vote in accordance with the recommendations of the proxy voting firm
we subscribe to, but may vote in a different fashion on particular votes if we determine that
such actions are in the best interest of our clients. Where applicable, we will consider any
specific voting guidelines designated in writing by a client. Clients may request a copy of our
firm’s written policies and procedures regarding proxy voting and/or information on how
particular proxies were voted.
b. Whether we pay for proxy voting services with soft dollars or pass the cost on to our clients
through a supplement to our advisory fee.
We do not pay for proxy voting services with soft dollars. Also, we do not charge an additional
fee to vote proxies.
Item 7 - Client Information Provided to Portfolio Manager(s)
We are required to communicate the information about you to your portfolio manager (s) and to inform
you how often or under what circumstances we provide such updated information. Our firm
communicates with your portfolio manager(s) on a regular basis as needed (daily, weekly, monthly,
quarterly, and annually) in order to ensure your most current investment goals and objectives are
understood, and followed by your portfolio manager(s). In most cases, we will communicate such
information as part of our regular investment management duties.
In addition, we will communicate personal information to your portfolio manager(s) when you instruct us
to do so, market or economic conditions warrant such action, and it is generally prudent to act in this
manner.
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Item 8 - Client Contact with Portfolio Manager(s)
Clients are always free to directly contact their portfolio manager(s) with any questions or concerns they
have about their portfolios or other matters.
Item 9 - Additional Information
A. We are required to respond to: 1. Item 9 (Disciplinary Information); and 2. Item 10 (Other Financial
Industry Activities and Affiliations) of Part 2A of Form ADV.
1. We have determined that our firm and management have no disciplinary information to disclose.
2. We have the following Financial Industry Activities and Affiliations to disclose:
a. Certain of our firm’s advisory affiliates, in their individual capacities, are registered
representative with Purshe Kaplan Sterling Investments, Inc. (“PKS”), a registered broker-
dealer and member FINRA/SIPC. Our firm is not affiliated with PKS. In order to comply with
FINRA Conduct Rule 3040, PKS as an unaffiliated broker-dealer may periodically review the
investment advisory transactions of our firm. This information will be viewed by PKS’
compliance department personnel for supervisory purposes only. No information viewed will
be utilized for purposes of solicitation or shared with any affiliation outside the scope of
regulatory compliance. Clients are under no obligation to act upon any recommendations or
execute any transactions through our advisory affiliates if they decide to follow the
recommendations.
b. Certain of our firm’s advisory affiliates, in their individual capacities, are licensed insurance
agents with various insurance companies in the state of California. In their individual capacity,
they may recommend, on a fully disclosed commission basis, the purchase of certain
insurance products. A conflict of interest exists to the extent that our firm’s advisory affiliates
may recommend the purchase of insurance products where our firm’s advisory affiliates
receive insurance commissions or other additional compensation. Clients are under no
obligation to act upon any recommendations or execute any transactions through our
advisory affiliates if they decide to follow the recommendations.
c. Management person, Amit Stavinsky, is a general partner for Gapa, LLC, Roscoe Lennox, LLC,
Tamar Investments, LLC limited liability companies formed in California for real estate
investments and development. Mr. Stavinsky spends 12-14 hours per month on this activity.
Tamar Securities’ clients are not solicited to invest in this outside business therefore no
conflicts of interest exist.
B. We are required to respond to: 1. Items 11 (Code of Ethics or Interest in Client Transactions and
Personal Trading); 2. Item 13 (review of Accounts); 3. Item 14 (Client Referrals and Other
Compensation); and 4. Item 18 (Financial Information) of Part 2A of Form ADV, as applicable to our
wrap fee clients.
1. Code of ethics, participation or interest in client transactions and personal trading.
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We recognize that the personal investment transactions of members and employees of our firm
demand the application of a high Code of Ethics and require that all such transactions be carried out
in a way that does not endanger the interest of any client. At the same time, we believe that if
investment goals are similar for clients and for members and employees of our firm, it is logical and
even desirable that there be common ownership of some securities.
Therefore, in order to prevent conflicts of interest, we have in place a set of procedures (including a
pre-clearing procedure) with respect to transactions effected by our members, officers and
employees for their personal accounts1. In order to monitor compliance with our personal trading
policy, we have a quarterly securities transaction reporting system for all of our associates.
Furthermore, our firm has established a Code of Ethics which applies to all of our associated
personnel. An investment adviser is considered a fiduciary. As a fiduciary, it is an investment
adviser’s responsibility to provide fair and full disclosure of all material facts and to act solely in the
best interest of each of our clients at all times. We have a fiduciary duty to all clients. Our fiduciary
duty is considered the core underlying principle for our Code of Ethics which also includes Insider
Trading and Personal Securities Transactions Policies and Procedures. We require all of our
supervised persons to conduct business with the highest level of ethical standards and to comply
with all federal and state securities laws at all times. Upon employment or affiliation and at least
annually thereafter, all supervised persons will sign an acknowledgement that they have read,
understand, and agree to comply with our Code of Ethics. Our firm and supervised persons must
conduct business in an honest, ethical, and fair manner and avoid all circumstances that might
negatively affect or appear to affect our duty of complete loyalty to all clients. This disclosure is
provided to give all clients a summary of our Code of Ethics. However, if a client or a potential client
wishes to review our Code of Ethics in its entirety, a copy will be provided promptly upon request.
a. If either our firm or a related person invests in the same securities (or related securities, e.g.,
warrants, options or futures) that our firm or a related person recommends to clients, we are
required to describe our practice and discuss the conflicts of interest this presents and
generally how we address the conflicts that arise in connection with personal trading.
b.
See Item 9 Section B (1.) of our Code of Ethics description. Related persons of our firm may
buy or sell securities and other investments that are also recommended to clients. In order
to minimize this conflict of interest, our related persons will place client interests ahead of
their own interests and adhere to our firm’s Code of Ethics, a copy of which is available upon
request.
If either our firm or a related person recommends securities to clients, or buys or sells
securities for client accounts, at or about the same time that either you or a related person
buys or sells the same securities for our firm’s (or the related person's own) account, we are
required to describe our practice and discuss the conflicts of interest it presents. We are also
required to describe generally how we address conflicts that arise.
See Item 9 Section B (1.) of our Code of Ethics description. Related persons of our firm may
buy or sell securities for themselves at or about the same time they buy or sell the same
1 For purposes of the policy, our associate’s personal account generally includes any account (a) in the name of our associate, his/her
spouse, his/her minor children or other dependents residing in the same household, (b) for which our associate is a trustee or
executor, or (c) which our associate controls, including our client accounts which our associate controls and/or a member of his/her
household has a direct or indirect beneficial interest in.
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securities for client accounts. In order to minimize this conflict of interest, our related persons
will place client interests ahead of their own interests and adhere to our firm’s Code of Ethics,
a copy of which is available upon request. Further, our related persons will refrain from buying
or selling the same securities within 48 hours of buying or selling for our clients. If related
persons’ accounts are included in a block trade, our related persons will always trade personal
accounts last.
2. Review of accounts.
a. Review of client accounts, along with a description of the frequency and nature of our review,
and the titles of our employees who conduct the review.
We review accounts on at least a monthly basis for our clients subscribing to MVS®Wrap Fee
Program. The nature of these reviews is to learn whether clients’ accounts are in line with
their changing life circumstances, risk parameters, investment objectives, appropriately
positioned based on market conditions, and their investment policies, if applicable. Only our
Financial Advisors or Portfolio Managers will conduct these reviews.
b. Review of client accounts on other than a periodic basis, along with a description of the factors
that trigger a review.
We may review client accounts more frequently than described above. Among the factors
which may trigger an off-cycle review are major market or economic events, a material
change in the life of the client, and/or a general request by the client.
c. Description of the content and indication of the frequency of written or verbal regular reports
we provide to clients regarding their accounts.
We do not provide written reports to clients, unless asked to do so. Verbal reports to clients
take place on at least an annual basis when we contact clients.
3. Client referrals and other compensation.
As disclosed under Item 9, persons providing investment advice on behalf of our firm
are licensed insurance producers. See Item 9 for information on the conflicts of interest this
presents, and how we address these conflicts.
We do not receive any compensation from any third party in connection with providing
investment advice to you nor do we compensate any individual or firm for client referrals.
We do not pay referral fees (non-commission based) to independent solicitors (non-registered
representatives) for the referral of their clients to our firm in accordance with Rule 206 (4)-3 of
the Investment Advisers Act of 1940.
4. Financial information.
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a.
If we require or solicit prepayment of more than $1,200 in fees per client, six months or more
in advance, we must include a balance sheet for our most recent fiscal year.
We do not require nor do we solicit prepayment of more than $1,200 in fees per client, six
months or more in advance; therefore, we have not included a balance sheet for our most
recent fiscal year.
b. If we are an SEC-registered adviser and have discretionary authority or custody of client
funds or securities, or we require or solicit prepayment of more than $1,200 in fees per
client, six months or more in advance, we must disclose any financial condition that is
reasonably likely to impair our ability to meet contractual commitments to clients.
We have nothing to disclose in this regard.
c.
If we have been the subject of a bankruptcy petition at any time during the past ten years, we
must disclose this fact, the date the petition was first brought, and the current status.
We have nothing to disclose in this regard.
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Additional Brochure: TAMAR SECURITIES, LLC TAF WRAP BROCHURE (2026-03-31)
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ITEM 1. COVER PAGE FOR PART 2A APPENDIX 1 OF FORM ADV:
WRAP FEE PROGRAM BROCHURE FOR:
TOTAL ASSET FUND
(TAF®) WRAP FEE PROGRAM ACCOUNTS
DATED: March 31, 2026
TAMAR SECURITIES, LLC
21031 VENTURA BOULEVARD, SUITE 1101
WOODLAND HILLS, CA 91364
FIRM WEBSITE ADDRESS:
WWW.TAMARSECURITIES.COM
This Total Asset Fund (TAF®) wrap fee program brochure provides information about the qualifications
and business practices of Tamar Securities, LLC. If you have any questions regarding the contents of
this brochure, please contact the main offices of Tamar Securities, LLC at 818-914-7460. The
information in this brochure has not been approved or verified by the United States Securities and
Exchange Commission or by any State Securities Authority. Additional information about Tamar
Securities, LLC is also available on the SEC’s website at www.adviserinfo.sec.gov.
Please note use of the term “registered investment adviser” and description of Tamar Securities, LLC
and/or our associates as “registered” does not imply a certain level of skill or training. You are
encouraged to review this Brochure and Brochure Supplements for our firm’s associates which advise
you for more information on the qualifications of our firm and its employees.
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Item 2 - Material Changes To Part 2A Appendix 1 (Wrap Fee Program Brochure) of Form ADV:
Tamar Securities, LLC is required to advise you of any material changes to our Wrap Fee Program Brochure
(“Wrap Brochure”) as of our last annual update, identify those changes either on the cover page of our
Wrap Brochure or either on the page immediately following the cover page, or also in a separate
communication accompanying our Wrap Brochure. We must state clearly that we are discussing only
material changes as of the last annual update of our Wrap Brochure. In addition, we must provide the
date of the last annual update of our Wrap Brochure.
Last Annual Amendment Filing Date: March 31, 2025
Since our annual amendment filing, Tamar Securities, LLC does not have any material changes to report.
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Item 3 - Table of Contents
Topic:
Page(s):
Item 2 - Material Changes To Part 2A Appendix 1 (Wrap Fee Program Brochure) of Form ADV ................. 2
Item 3 - Table Of Contents ............................................................................................................................ 3
Item 4 - Services, Fees and Compensation ................................................................................................... 4
Item 5 - Account Requirements and Types of Clients ................................................................................... 6
Item 6 - Portfolio Manager Selection and Evaluation ................................................................................... 6
Item 7 - Client Information Provided to Portfolio Manager(s) ..................................................................... 9
Item 8 - Client Contact with Portfolio Manager(s) ........................................................................................ 9
Item 9 - Additional Information .................................................................................................................... 9
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Item 4 - Services, Fees and Compensation
A. Description of our services, including the types of portfolio management services, provided under
each program. We must indicate the wrap fee charged for each program, or, if fees vary according to
a schedule, provide such schedule. Further, we are required to indicate whether fees are negotiable
and identify the portion of the total fees, or range of fees, paid to portfolio managers.
Total Asset Fund (TAF®) offers a discretionary fee based, managed money program that utilizes no
load Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) and/or Index Funds (Although there are no upfront sales charges,
other fees and expenses do apply) in order to structure long-term Global Asset Allocation portfolios.
The program endorses a top-down value discipline that seeks to identify globally undervalued
Markets, Economic Sectors, Industries, Fixed Income, and Specific Securities in “Super Cycles” that
sell at deep discounts to both their respective and historical intrinsic values. “Super Cycles” are
defined as undervalued Economic Sectors, and Industries in the Global Economy that our firm believes
are best positioned for “Long-Term Growth”. The select list due diligence process begins with a
rigorous screening process of the entire global universe of over 1000 Exchange and/or Index Traded
Funds (ETFs).
Next, qualitative and quantitative assessments are applied for deciding on the best in class underlying
funds that will end up making the Total Asset Fund (TAF®) portfolio. This extensive due diligence
process of filtering out the entire global universe of all Exchange and/or Traded Index Funds includes
but is not limited to the followings: 1) Researching organizational ownership, 2) Finding out portfolio
management tenure, 3) Understanding the investment process and its implementation, and 4)
Studying long and short-term performance results. This process also attempts to evaluate risk/reward
parameters assumed by Exchange and/or Traded Index Funds as measured by their quantitative
and/or Mathematical Calculations of Risk.
The followings are some of the criteria studied when quantitative risk parameters are evaluated: Beta,
Alpha, Standard Deviation, Sharpe Ratio, and R-Squared. In addition, the followings are some of the
risk parameters researched when qualitative data is included: Market Risk, Economic Sector Risk,
Industry Risk, Significant Sector and Position Concentration Risk, Liquidity Risk, Management Fee Risk,
and Net Asset Value Risk defined as market pricing at either above (Premium), below (Discount) or at
(Par) to the Exchange Trading Fund’s true Net Asset Value.
The program utilizes general asset management guidelines in order to attempt to achieve favorable
risk/reward performance results independent of the market’s strength or weakness. The following are
the guidelines : 1) The portfolio, normally will not hold less than six Exchange Traded and/or Index
Funds (ETFs), 2) The discipline’s total cash position normally will not exceed 30% of the portfolio’s value,
and 3) Sector Exchange Traded and/or Index Fund holdings, normally will not exceed 45% of the
portfolio’s value. Additionally, throughout the tenure of the Total Asset Fund (TAF®) program, Global
Asset Allocation models are either rebalanced quarterly, semi-annually or annually. In general, TAMAR
Securities, LLC’s “Top Down” global value strategy determines its ongoing asset allocation weighting
among its underlining disciplines and asset classes. The investment process is gradual, fundamental in
nature, and occasionally, technically driven. Implementing, fundamental and technical analysis to
uncover oversold market conditions can lead in the interim to excessive cash balances.
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This process of rebalancing a diversified global portfolio across a strategic combination of asset lasses,
in turn can potentially increase the investment overall returns while decreasing its volatility.
Lastly, periodic ongoing reviews are scheduled with all clients. This process includes the followings: 1)
Review of the entire portfolio as well as its underlying Exchange and/or Index Funds (ETFs)
benchmarked each quarter against their respective Equity and Fixed Income indexes, 2) Recalibrate
each client’s asset allocation models as his or her life circumstances change, and 3) Present
consolidated reporting that incorporates the Total Asset Fund (TAF®) portfolio with the entire
holdings of the clients’ other investments disciplines.
TAF® Wrap Program Fee Schedule:
All Equity discretionary money managed programs which include Total Asset Fund (TAF®) will adhere
to the following pricing schedule:
Assets Under Management
First $500,000
Next $500,000
Over $1,000,000
Annual Net Fee Assessed
2.50%
2.00%
1.50%
Our firm’s fees are generally not negotiable. Further, our firm’s fees are billed on a pro-rata
annualized basis quarterly in advance based on the value of your account on the last day of the
previous quarter.
B. Explanation that a wrap fee program may cost you more or less than purchasing such services
separately and description of the factors that bear upon the relative cost of the program, such as the
cost of the services if provided separately and the trading activity in your account(s).
A wrap fee program allows our clients to pay a specified fee for investment advisory services and for
the execution of transactions. The advisory services may include portfolio management and/or advice
concerning selection of other advisers, and the fee is not based directly upon transactions in your
account. Your fee is bundled with our costs for executing transactions in your account(s). This results
in a higher advisory fee to you. We do not charge our clients higher advisory fees based on their
trading activity, but you should be aware that we may have an incentive to limit our trading activities
in your account(s) because we are charged for executed trades. In order to overcome this potential
conflict of interest, clients may choose to pay all transactions’ costs associated with the ongoing
management of their accounts. By participating in a wrap fee program, you may end up paying more
or less than you would through a non-wrap fee program where a lower advisory fee is charged, but
trade execution costs are normally passed directly through to you by the executing broker.
C. Description of any fees that you may pay in addition to a wrap fee, and description of the
circumstances under which you may pay these fees, including, if applicable, mutual fund expenses
and mark-ups, mark-downs, or spreads paid to market makers.
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You may pay custodial fees, charges imposed directly by a mutual fund, index fund, or an exchange
traded fund which shall be disclosed in the fund’s prospectus (i.e., fund management fees and other
fund expenses), mark-ups and mark-downs, spreads paid to market makers, wire transfer fees and
other fees and taxes on brokerage accounts and securities transactions. These fees are not included
within the wrap-fee you are charged by our firm.
D. If someone recommending a wrap fee program to you, receives compensation as a result of your
participation in the program, we must disclose this fact. Further, we are required to explain, if
applicable, that the amount of the compensation may be more than what the person would receive
if you participated in our other wrap fee programs or paid separately for investment advice, brokerage
and other services. Finally, we must explain that someone recommending a wrap fee program may
have a financial incentive to recommend the wrap fee program over other programs or services.
We do not recommend or offer the wrap program services of other providers. Our investment
advisory representatives receive a portion of the advisory fee that you pay us, either directly as a
percentage of your overall fee or as their salary from our firm. In cases where our investment advisory
representatives are paid a percentage of your overall advisory fee, this may create an incentive to
recommend that you participate in a wrap fee program rather than a non-wrap fee program (where
you would pay for trade execution costs) or brokerage account where commissions are charged. This
is because, in some cases, we may stand to earn more compensation from advisory fees paid to us
through a wrap fee program arrangement if your account is not actively traded.
Item 5 - Account Requirements and Types of Clients
We require a minimum account balance of $100,000 for our Wrap Fee services. Generally, this minimum
account balance requirement is not negotiable and would be required throughout the course of the
client’s relationship with our firm.
Individuals;
Foreign Citizens;
Trusts, Estates, and Charitable Organizations;
Pension and Profit Sharing Plans;
Types of clients we typically manage on their behalf wrap fee accounts include:
High Net Worth Individuals;
On and off shore Corporations, limited liability Companies, and/or other business types.
Item 6 - Portfolio Manager Selection and Evaluation
A. Description of how our firm selects and reviews portfolio managers, our basis for recommending or
selecting portfolio managers for particular clients, and our criteria for replacing or recommending the
replacement of portfolio managers for the program and for particular clients.
Our firm does not utilize outside portfolio managers. All accounts are managed by our in-house
professionals.
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B. Disclosure of whether our firm or any related persons act as a portfolio manager for a wrap fee
program described in the wrap fee program brochure. We must explain the conflicts of interest that
we face because of this arrangement and describe how we address these conflicts of interest.
Our firm and its related persons act as portfolio manager(s) for this wrap fee program. This may create
a conflict of interest in that other investment advisory firms may charge the same or lower fees than
our firm for similar services.
C.
If our firm, or any of our supervised persons covered under or investment adviser registration, act as
a portfolio manager for a wrap fee program described in the wrap fee program brochure, we must
respond to Items 4.B, 4.C, 4.D (Advisory Business), 6 (Performance-Based Fees and Side- By-Side
Management), 8.A (Methods of Analysis, Investment Strategies and Risk of Loss) and 17 (Voting Client
Securities) of Part 2A of Form ADV (Firm Brochure).
Our firm and supervised persons act as portfolio manager(s) for this wrap fee program.
1. Advisory Business.
See Item 4 of this Wrap Fee Program Brochure for information about our wrap fee advisory
programs. We offer individualized investment advice to clients utilizing the following services
offered by our firm’s TAF® Wrap Fee Program. We usually do not allow clients to impose
restrictions on investing in certain securities or types of securities due to the level of difficulty this
would entail in managing their account. In the rare instance that we would allow restrictions, it
would be limited to the TAF® Wrap Fee Program.
Our wrap fee and non-wrap fee accounts are managed on an individualized basis according to the
client’s investment objectives, financial goals, risk tolerance, and the program’s discipline. We do
not manage wrap fee accounts in a different fashion than non-wrap fee accounts.
2. Performance-based fees and side-by-side management.
We do not accept performance-based fees or participate in side-by-side management.
Performance-based fees are fees that are based on a share of a capital gains or capital
appreciation of a client's account. Side-by-side management refers to the practice of managing
accounts that are charged performance-based fees while at the same time managing accounts
that are not charged performance-based fees. Our fees are calculated as described in the Fees
and Compensation section above, and are not charged on the basis of a share of capital gains
upon, or capital appreciation of, the funds in your advisory account.
3. Methods of analysis, investment strategies and risk of loss.
Methods of Analysis:
Global Macro;
Analysis of Sectors and Industries;
Top Down Value Analysis;
Underlying Fundamentals;
Cyclical;
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Technical;
Investment Strategies we use:
Long term purchases (securities held at least a year);
Short term purchases (securities sold within a year);
Trading (securities sold within 30 days);
Risk of Loss:
Investing in securities involves risk of loss that clients should be prepared to bear. While the stock
and bond markets may increase in value and consequently your account(s) could follow suite, it
is also possible that the stock and bond markets may decrease in value, and consequently your
account(s) could suffer a loss. It is important that you understand the risks associated with
investing in the stock and bond markets, your investment portfolios are appropriately diversified,
and that you ask any questions you may deem necessary for managing your investment
portfolio(s).
Alternative Investments:
For clients who own alternative investments, the absence of a public market, lack of liquidity and
an expected long term investment time horizon may include the following risks that you should
consider:
You may experience the risk that your investment or assets within your investment may not
be able to be liquidated quickly, thus, extending the period of time by which you may receive
the proceeds from your investment. Liquidity risk can also result in unfavorable pricing when
exiting (i.e. not being able to quickly get out of an investment before the price drops
significantly) a particular investment and therefore, can have a negative impact on investment
returns.
No guarantee that investors will receive a distribution. Distributions may be derived from the
proceeds of the offering, from borrowings, or from the sale of assets, and we have no limits
on the amounts we may pay from such other sources.
Payments of distributions from sources other than cash flow from operations may decrease
or diminish an investor's interest;
Economic factors affecting the real estate markets generally, including changes in the
economy, tenant turnover, interest rates, availability of mortgage funds, operating expenses,
cost of insurance and tenants' ability to continue to pay rent;
No connection between the share price of the REIT and the net asset value of the REIT until
such time as the assets are valued.
4. Voting client securities.
a.
If we have, or will accept, proxy authority to vote client securities, we must briefly describe
our voting policies and procedures, including those adopted pursuant to SEC Rule 206(4)-6.
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SEC Rule 206(4)-6 requires investment advisers who have voting authority with respect to
securities held in their clients’ accounts to monitor corporate actions and vote proxies in their
clients’ interests. We are required by the SEC to adopt written policies and procedures, make
those policies and procedures available to clients, and retain certain records with respect to
proxy votes cast.
Our firm votes client proxies for all of the participants in our Wrap Account Management
services. It should be noted that our firm does not vote proxies for clients of Alternative
Investments and Independent Money Managers’ Programs as this
is the separate
responsibility of these parties. We understand our duty to vote client proxies and to do so in
the best interest of our clients. Our firm further understands that any material conflicts
between our interests and those of our clients with regard to proxy voting must be resolved
before proxies are voted. We subscribe to a proxy monitor and voting agent service, which
includes access to proxy analysis with research and vote recommendations. Our firm will
generally vote in accordance with the recommendations of the proxy voting firm we subscribe
to, but may vote in a different fashion on particular votes if we determine that such actions
are in the best interest of our clients. Where applicable, we will consider any specific voting
guidelines designated in writing by a client. Clients may request a copy of our firm’s written
policies and procedures regarding proxy voting and/or information on how particular proxies
were voted.
b. Whether we pay for proxy voting services with soft dollars or pass the cost on to our clients
through a supplement to our advisory fee.
We do not pay for proxy voting services with soft dollars. Also, we do not charge an additional
fee to vote proxies.
Item 7 - Client Information Provided to Portfolio Manager(s)
We are required to communicate the information about you to your portfolio manager(s), and to inform
you how often or under what circumstances we provide such updated information. Our firm
communicates with your portfolio manager(s) on a regular basis as needed (daily, weekly, monthly,
quarterly, and annually) in order to ensure your most current investment goals and objectives are
understood, and followed by your portfolio manager(s). In most cases, we will communicate such
information as part of our regular investment management duties. In addition, we will communicate
personal information to your portfolio manager(s) when you instruct us to do so, market or economic
conditions warrant such action, and it is generally prudent to act in this manner.
Item 8 - Client Contact with Portfolio Manager(s)
Clients are always free to directly contact their portfolio manager(s) with any questions or concerns they
have about their portfolios or other matters.
Item 9 - Additional Information
A. We are required to respond to: 1. Item 9 (Disciplinary Information); and 2. Item 10 (Other Financial
Industry Activities and Affiliations) of Part 2A of Form ADV.
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1. We have determined that our firm and management have no disciplinary information to disclose.
2. We have the following Financial Industry Activities and Affiliations to disclose:
a. Certain of our firm’s advisory affiliates, in their individual capacities, are registered
representative with Purshe Kaplan Sterling Investments, Inc. (“PKS”), a registered broker-
dealer and member FINRA/SIPC. Our firm is not affiliated with PKS. In order to comply with
FINRA Conduct Rule 3040, PKS as an unaffiliated broker-dealer may periodically review the
investment advisory transactions of our firm. This information will be viewed by PKS’
compliance department personnel for supervisory purposes only. No information viewed will
be utilized for purposes of solicitation or shared with any affiliation outside the scope of
regulatory compliance. Clients are under no obligation to act upon any recommendations or
execute any transactions through our advisory affiliates if they decide to follow the
recommendations.
b. Certain of our firm’s advisory affiliates, in their individual capacities, are licensed insurance
agents with various insurance companies in the state of California. In their individual capacity,
they may recommend, on a fully disclosed commission basis, the purchase of certain
insurance products. A conflict of interest exists to the extent that our firm’s advisory affiliates
may recommend the purchase of insurance products where our firm’s advisory affiliates
receive insurance commissions or other additional compensation. Clients are under no
obligation to act upon any recommendations or execute any transactions through our
advisory affiliates if they decide to follow the recommendations.
c. Management person, Amit Stavinsky, is a general partner for Gapa, LLC, Roscoe Lennox, LLC
and Tamar Investments, LLC- limited liability companies formed in California for real estate
investments and development. Mr. Stavinsky spends 12-14 hours per month on this activity.
Tamar Securities’ clients are not solicited to invest in this outside business therefore no
conflicts of interest exist.
B. We are required to respond to: 1. Items 11 (Code of Ethics or Interest in Client Transactions and
Personal Trading); 2. Item 13 (review of Accounts); 3. Item 14 (Client Referrals and Other
Compensation); and 4. Item 18 (Financial Information) of Part 2A of Form ADV, as applicable to our
wrap fee clients.
1. Code of ethics, participation or interest in client transactions and personal trading.
We recognize that the personal investment transactions of members and employees of our firm
demand the application of a high Code of Ethics and require that all such transactions be carried out
in a way that does not endanger the interest of any client. At the same time, we believe that if
investment goals are similar for clients and for members and employees of our firm, it is logical and
even desirable that there be common ownership of some securities.
Therefore, in order to prevent conflicts of interest, we have in place a set of procedures (including a
pre-clearing procedure) with respect to transactions effected by our members, officers and
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employees for their personal accounts1. In order to monitor compliance with our personal trading
policy, we have a quarterly securities transaction reporting system for all of our associates.
Furthermore, our firm has established a Code of Ethics which applies to all of our associated
personnel. An investment adviser is considered a fiduciary. As a fiduciary, it is an investment
adviser’s responsibility to provide fair and full disclosure of all material facts and to act solely in the
best interest of each of our clients at all times. We have a fiduciary duty to all clients. Our fiduciary
duty is considered the core underlying principle for our Code of Ethics which also includes Insider
Trading and Personal Securities Transactions Policies and Procedures. We require all of our
supervised persons to conduct business with the highest level of ethical standards and to comply
with all federal and state securities laws at all times. Upon employment or affiliation and at least
annually thereafter, all supervised persons will sign an acknowledgement that they have read,
understand, and agree to comply with our Code of Ethics. Our firm and supervised persons must
conduct business in an honest, ethical, and fair manner and avoid all circumstances that might
negatively affect or appear to affect our duty of complete loyalty to all clients. This disclosure is
provided to give all clients a summary of our Code of Ethics. However, if a client or a potential client
wishes to review our Code of Ethics in its entirety, a copy will be provided promptly upon request.
a. If either our firm or a related person invests in the same securities (or related securities, e.g.,
warrants, options or futures) that our firm or a related person recommends to clients, we are
required to describe our practice and discuss the conflicts of interest this presents and
generally how we address the conflicts that arise in connection with personal trading.
b.
See Item 9 Section B (1.) of our Code of Ethics description. Related persons of our firm may
buy or sell securities and other investments that are also recommended to clients. In order to
minimize this conflict of interest, our related persons will place client interests ahead of their
own interests and adhere to our firm’s Code of Ethics, a copy of which is available upon
request.
If either our firm or a related person recommends securities to clients, or buys or sells
securities for client accounts, at or about the same time that either you or a related person
buys or sells the same securities for our firm’s (or the related person's own) account, we are
required to describe our practice and discuss the conflicts of interest it presents. We are also
required to describe generally how we address conflicts that arise.
See Item 9 Section B (1.) of our Code of Ethics description. Related persons of our firm may
buy or sell securities for themselves at or about the same time they buy or sell the same
securities for client accounts. In order to minimize this conflict of interest, our related persons
will place client interests ahead of their own interests and adhere to our firm’s Code of Ethics,
a copy of which is available upon request. Further, our related persons will refrain from buying
or selling the same securities within 48 hours of buying or selling for our clients. If related
persons’ accounts are included in a block trade, our related persons will always trade personal
accounts last.
1 For purposes of the policy, our associate’s personal account generally includes any account (a) in the name of our associate, his/her
spouse, his/her minor children or other dependents residing in the same household, (b) for which our associate is a trustee or executor,
or (c) which our associate controls, including our client accounts which our associate controls and/or a member of his/her household
has a direct or indirect beneficial interest in.
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2. Review of accounts.
a. Review of client accounts, along with a description of the frequency and nature of our review,
and the titles of our employees who conduct the review.
We review accounts on at least a monthly basis for our clients subscribing to the TAF® Wrap
Fee Program. The nature of these reviews is to learn whether clients’ accounts are in line with
their changing life circumstances, risk parameters, investment objectives, appropriately
positioned based on market conditions, and their investment policies, if applicable. Only our
Financial Advisors or Portfolio Managers will conduct these reviews.
b. Review of client accounts on other than a periodic basis, along with a description of the factors
that trigger a review.
We may review client accounts more frequently than described above. Among the factors
which may trigger an off-cycle review are major market or economic events, a material
change in the life of the client, and/or a general request by the client.
c. Description of the content and indication of the frequency of written or verbal regular reports
we provide to clients regarding their accounts.
We do not provide written reports to clients, unless asked to do so. Verbal reports to clients
take place on at least an annual basis when we contact clients which subscribe to the
TAF®Wrap Fee Program.
3. Client referrals and other compensation.
As disclosed under Item 9, persons providing investment advice on behalf of our firm
are licensed insurance producers. See Item 9 for information on the conflicts of interest this
presents, and how we address these conflicts.
We do not receive any compensation from any third party in connection with providing
investment advice to you nor do we compensate any individual or firm for client referrals.
We do not pay referral fees (non-commission based) to independent solicitors (non-registered
representatives) for the referral of their clients to our firm in accordance with Rule 206 (4)-3 of
the Investment Advisers Act of 1940.
4. Financial information.
a.
If we require or solicit prepayment of more than $1,200 in fees per client, six months or more
in advance, we must include a balance sheet for our most recent fiscal year.
We do not require nor do we solicit prepayment of more than $1,200 in fees per client, six
months or more in advance; therefore, we have not included a balance sheet for our most
recent fiscal year.
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b. If we are an SEC-registered adviser and have discretionary authority or custody of client funds
or securities, or we require or solicit prepayment of more than $1,200 in fees per client, six
months or more in advance, we must disclose any financial condition that is reasonably likely
to impair our ability to meet contractual commitments to clients.
We have nothing to disclose in this regard.
c.
If we have been the subject of a bankruptcy petition at any time during the past ten years, we
must disclose this fact, the date the petition was first brought, and the current status.
We have nothing to disclose in this regard.
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Additional Brochure: TAMAR SECURITIES, LLC TAM WRAP BROCHURE (2026-03-31)
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ITEM 1. COVER PAGE FOR PART 2A APPENDIX 1 OF FORM ADV:
WRAP FEE PROGRAM BROCHURE FOR:
TOTAL ASSET MARKET
(TAM®) WRAP FEE PROGRAM ACCOUNTS
DATED: March 31, 2026
TAMAR SECURITIES, LLC
21031 VENTURA BOULEVARD, SUITE 1101
WOODLAND HILLS, CA 91364
FIRM WEBSITE ADDRESS:
WWW.TAMARSECURITIES.COM
This Total Asset Market (TAM®) wrap fee program brochure provides information about the
qualifications and business practices of Tamar Securities, LLC. If you have any questions regarding the
contents of this brochure, please contact the main offices of Tamar Securities, LLC at 818-914-7460. The
information in this brochure has not been approved or verified by the United States Securities and
Exchange Commission or by any State Securities Authority. Additional information about Tamar
Securities, LLC is also available on the SEC’s website at www.adviserinfo.sec.gov.
Please note use of the term “registered investment adviser” and description of Tamar Securities, LLC
and/or our associates as “registered” does not imply a certain level of skill or training. You are
encouraged to review this Brochure and Brochure Supplements for our firm’s associates which advise
you for more information on the qualifications of our firm and its employees.
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Item 2 - Material Changes To Part 2A Appendix 1 (Wrap Fee Program Brochure) of Form ADV:
Tamar Securities, LLC is required to advise you of any material changes to our Wrap Fee Program Brochure
(“Wrap Brochure”) as of our last annual update, identify those changes either on the cover page of our
Wrap Brochure or either on the page immediately following the cover page, or also in a separate
communication accompanying our Wrap Brochure. We must state clearly that we are discussing only
material changes as of the last annual update of our Wrap Brochure. In addition, we must provide the
date of the last annual update of our Wrap Brochure.
Please note, we do not have to provide this information to a client or prospective client who has not
received a previous version of our Wrap Brochure.
Last Annual Amendment Filing Date: March 31, 2025
Since our annual amendment filing, Tamar Securities, LLC does not have any material changes to report.
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Item 3 - Table of Contents
Topic:
Page(s):
Item 2 - Material Changes To Part 2A Appendix 1 (Wrap Fee Program Brochure) of Form ADV ................. 2
Item 3 - Table Of Contents ............................................................................................................................ 3
Item 4 - Services, Fees and Compensation ................................................................................................... 4
Item 5 - Account Requirements and Types of Clients ................................................................................... 6
Item 6 - Portfolio Manager Selection and Evaluation ................................................................................... 6
Item 7 - Client Information Provided to Portfolio Manager(s) ..................................................................... 9
Item 8 - Client Contact with Portfolio Manager(s) ........................................................................................ 9
Item 9 - Additional Information .................................................................................................................... 9
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Item 4 - Services, Fees and Compensation
A. Description of our services, including the types of portfolio management services, provided under
each program. We must indicate the wrap fee charged for each program, or, if fees vary according to
a schedule, provide such schedule. Further, we are required to indicate whether fees are negotiable
and identify the portion of the total fees, or range of fees, paid to portfolio managers.
Total Asset Market (TAM®) offers a disciplined, discretionary, and non-discretionary fee based mutual
fund of funds program. It attempts to establish long-term Strategic Asset Allocation portfolios that
are made out of a few select, best in class, on and off shore underlying mutual funds that are
purchased at Net Asset Value (NAV). These funds are selected out of a total universe of approximately
200 mutual fund families that include unaffiliated load-waived and no-load funds (Although there are
no upfront sales charges, other fees and expenses do apply).
The program endorses a top-down value discipline that seeks to identify globally undervalued
Markets, Economic Sectors, Industries, Fixed Income, and Specific Securities in “Super Cycles” that
sell at deep discounts to both their respective and historical intrinsic values. “Super Cycles” are
defined as undervalued Economic Sectors, and Industries in the Global Economy that our firm believes
are best positioned for “Long-Term Growth”. The select list due diligence process that aims to identify
some of the world’s best underlying mutual funds begins with a rigorous screening process of the
entire global universe of about 200 mutual fund families.
Next, qualitative and quantitative assessments are applied for deciding on the best in class underlying
mutual funds that will end up making the Total Asset Market (TAM®) portfolio. This extensive due
diligence process of filtering out a global universe of approximately 200 mutual fund families includes
but is not limited to the followings: 1) Researching organizational ownership, 2) Finding out portfolio
management tenure, 3) Understanding the investment process and its implementation, and 4)
Studying long and short-term performance results. This process also attempts to evaluate risk/reward
parameters assumed by the mutual fund managers as measured by their quantitative and/or
Mathematical Calculations of Risk. The followings are some of the criteria studied when quantitative
risk parameters are evaluated: Beta, Alpha, Standard Deviation, Sharpe Ratio, and R-Squared. In
addition, the followings are some of the risk parameters researched when qualitative data is included:
Market Risk, Economic Sector Risk, Industry Risk, Significant Sector and Position Concentration Risk,
Liquidity Risk, and Management Fee Risk of expense ratios, 12b-1 charges, and early withdrawals.
Throughout the tenure of the Total Asset Market (TAM®) program, Global Asset Allocation models
are either rebalanced quarterly, semi-annually or annually in order to achieve an optimal strategic
asset allocation on the Efficient Frontier. This process of rebalancing a diversified global portfolio
across a strategic combination of asset classes, in turn can potentially increase the overall investment
returns while decreasing its volatility. Additionally, the investment process is gradual, fundamental in
nature, and occasionally technically driven. Implementing, fundamental, and technical analysis to
uncover oversold market conditions can lead in the interim to excessive cash balances.
Last, periodic Ongoing Reviews are scheduled with all clients. This process includes the followings: 1)
Review of the entire portfolio as well as its underlying mutual funds benchmarked each quarter
against their respective Equity and Fixed Income indexes, 2) Recalibrate each client’s asset allocation
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models as his or her life circumstances change, and 3) Present consolidated reporting that
incorporates the Total Asset Market (TAM®) portfolio with the entire holdings of the clients’ other
investments disciplines.
TAM® Wrap Program Fee Schedule:
All Equity discretionary money managed programs which include Total Asset Market (TAM®) will
adhere to the following pricing schedule:
Assets Under Management
First $500,000
Next $500,000
Over $1,000,000
Annual Net Fee Assessed
2.50%
2.00%
1.50%
Our firm’s fees are generally not negotiable. Further, our firm’s fees are billed on a pro-rata
annualized basis quarterly in advance based on the value of your account on the last day of the
previous quarter.
B. Explanation that a wrap fee program may cost you more or less than purchasing such services
separately and description of the factors that bear upon the relative cost of the program, such as the
cost of the services if provided separately and the trading activity in your account(s).
A wrap fee program allows our clients to pay a specified fee for investment advisory services and for
the execution of transactions. The advisory services may include portfolio management and/or advice
concerning selection of other advisers, and the fee is not based directly upon transactions in your
account. Your fee is bundled with our costs for executing transactions in your account(s). This results
in a higher advisory fee to you. We do not charge our clients higher advisory fees based on their
trading activity, but you should be aware that we may have an incentive to limit our trading activities
in your account(s) because we are charged for executed trades. In order to overcome this potential
conflict of interest, clients may choose to pay all transactions’ costs associated with the ongoing
management of their accounts. By participating in a wrap fee program, you may end up paying more
or less than you would through a non-wrap fee program where a lower advisory fee is charged, but
trade execution costs are normally passed directly through to you by the executing broker.
C. Description of any fees that you may pay in addition to a wrap fee, and description of the
circumstances under which you may pay these fees, including, if applicable, mutual fund expenses
and mark-ups, mark-downs, or spreads paid to market makers.
You may pay custodial fees, charges imposed directly by a mutual fund, index fund, or an exchange
traded fund which shall be disclosed in the fund’s prospectus (i.e., fund management fees and other
fund expenses), mark-ups and mark-downs, spreads paid to market makers, wire transfer fees and
other fees and taxes on brokerage accounts and securities transactions. These fees are not included
within the wrap-fee you are charged by our firm.
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D. If someone recommending a wrap fee program to you receives compensation as a result of your
participation in the program, we must disclose this fact. Further, we are required to explain, if
applicable, that the amount of the compensation may be more than what the person would receive
if you participated in our other wrap fee programs or paid separately for investment advice, brokerage
and other services. Finally, we must explain that someone recommending a wrap fee program may
have a financial incentive to recommend the wrap fee program over other programs or services.
We do not recommend or offer the wrap program services of other providers. Our investment
advisory representatives receive a portion of the advisory fee that you pay us, either directly as a
percentage of your overall fee or as their salary from our firm. In cases where our investment advisory
representatives are paid a percentage of your overall advisory fee, this may create an incentive to
recommend that you participate in a wrap fee program rather than a non-wrap fee program (where
you would pay for trade execution costs) or brokerage account where commissions are charged. This
is because, in some cases, we may stand to earn more compensation from advisory fees paid to us
through a wrap fee program arrangement if your account is not actively traded.
Item 5 - Account Requirements and Types of Clients
We require a minimum account balance of $100,000 for our Wrap Fee services. Generally, this minimum
account balance requirement is not negotiable and would be required throughout the course of the
client’s relationship with our firm.
Individuals;
Foreign Citizens;
Trusts, Estates, and Charitable Organizations;
Pension and Profit Sharing Plans;
Types of clients we typically manage on their behalf wrap fee accounts include:
High Net Worth Individuals;
On and off shore Corporations, limited liability Companies, and/or other business types.
Item 6 - Portfolio Manager Selection and Evaluation
A. Description of how our firm selects and reviews portfolio managers, our basis for recommending or
selecting portfolio managers for particular clients, and our criteria for replacing or recommending the
replacement of portfolio managers for the program and for particular clients.
Our firm does not utilize outside portfolio managers. All accounts are managed by our in-house
professionals.
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B. Disclosure of whether our firm or any related persons act as a portfolio manager for a wrap fee
program described in the wrap fee program brochure. We must explain the conflicts of interest that
we face because of this arrangement and describe how we address these conflicts of interest.
Our firm and its related persons act as portfolio manager(s) for this wrap fee program. This may create
a conflict of interest in that other investment advisory firms may charge the same or lower fees than
our firm for similar services.
C.
If our firm, or any of our supervised persons covered under or investment adviser registration, act as
a portfolio manager for a wrap fee program described in the wrap fee program brochure, we must
respond to Items 4.B, 4.C, 4.D (Advisory Business), 6 (Performance-Based Fees and Side- By-Side
Management), 8.A (Methods of Analysis, Investment Strategies and Risk of Loss) and 17 (Voting Client
Securities) of Part 2A of Form ADV (Firm Brochure).
Our firm and supervised persons act as portfolio manager(s) for this wrap fee program.
1. Advisory Business.
See Item 4 of this Wrap Fee Program Brochure for information about our wrap fee advisory
programs. We offer individualized investment advice to clients utilizing the following services
offered by our firm‘s TAM® Wrap Fee Program. We usually do not allow clients to impose
restrictions on investing in certain securities or types of securities due to the level of difficulty this
would entail in managing their account. In the rare instance that we would allow restrictions, it
would be limited to the following services: TAM® Wrap Fee Program.
Our wrap fee and non-wrap fee accounts are managed on an individualized basis according to the
client’s investment objectives, financial goals, risk tolerance, and the program’s discipline. We do
not manage wrap fee accounts in a different fashion than non-wrap fee accounts.
2. Performance-based fees and side-by-side management.
We do not accept performance-based fees or participate in side-by-side management.
Performance-based fees are fees that are based on a share of a capital gains or capital
appreciation of a client's account. Side-by-side management refers to the practice of managing
accounts that are charged performance-based fees while at the same time managing accounts
that are not charged performance-based fees. Our fees are calculated as described in the Fees
and Compensation section above, and are not charged on the basis of a share of capital gains
upon, or capital appreciation of, the funds in your advisory account.
3. Methods of analysis, investment strategies and risk of loss.
Methods of Analysis:
Global Macro;
Analysis of Sectors and Industries;
Top Down Value Analysis;
Underlying Fundamentals;
Cyclical;
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Technical.
Investment Strategies:
Long term purchases (securities held at least a year);
Short term purchases (securities sold within a year);
Trading (securities sold within 30 days);
Risk of Loss:
Investing in securities involves risk of loss that clients should be prepared to bear. While the stock
and bond markets may increase in value and consequently your account(s) could follow suite, it
is also possible that the stock and bond markets may decrease in value, and consequently your
account(s) could suffer a loss. It is important that you understand the risks associated with
investing in the stock and bond markets, your investment portfolios are appropriately diversified,
and that you ask any questions you may deem necessary for managing your investment
portfolio(s).
Alternative Investments:
For clients who own alternative investments, the absence of a public market, lack of liquidity and
an expected long term investment time horizon may include the following risks that you should
consider:
You may experience the risk that your investment or assets within your investment may not
be able to be liquidated quickly, thus, extending the period of time by which you may receive
the proceeds from your investment. Liquidity risk can also result in unfavorable pricing when
exiting (i.e. not being able to quickly get out of an investment before the price drops
significantly) a particular investment and therefore, can have a negative impact on investment
returns.
No guarantee that investors will receive a distribution. Distributions may be derived from the
proceeds of the offering, from borrowings, or from the sale of assets, and we have no limits
on the amounts we may pay from such other sources. Payments of distributions from sources
other than cash flow from operations may decrease or diminish an investor's interest;
Economic factors affecting the real estate markets generally, including changes in the
economy, tenant turnover, interest rates, availability of mortgage funds, operating expenses,
cost of insurance and tenants' ability to continue to pay rent;
No connection between the share price of the REIT and the net asset value of the REIT until
such time as the assets are valued.
4. Voting client securities.
a.
If we have, or will accept, proxy authority to vote client securities, we must briefly describe
our voting policies and procedures, including those adopted pursuant to SEC Rule 206(4)-6.
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SEC Rule 206(4)-6 requires investment advisers who have voting authority with respect to
securities held in their clients’ accounts to monitor corporate actions and vote proxies in their
clients’ interests. We are required by the SEC to adopt written policies and procedures, make
those policies and procedures available to clients, and retain certain records with respect to
proxy votes cast.
Our firm votes client proxies for all of the participants in our Wrap Account Management
service. It should be noted that our firm does not vote proxies for clients of Alternative
Investments and Independent Money Managers’ Programs as this
is the separate
responsibility of these parties. We understand our duty to vote client proxies and to do so in
the best interest of our clients. Our firm further understands that any material conflicts
between our interests and those of our clients with regard to proxy voting must be resolved
before proxies are voted. We subscribe to a proxy monitor and voting agent service, which
includes access to proxy analysis with research and vote recommendations. Our firm will
generally vote in accordance with the recommendations of the proxy voting firm we subscribe
to, but may vote in a different fashion on particular votes if we determine that such actions
are in the best interest of our clients. Where applicable, we will consider any specific voting
guidelines designated in writing by a client. Clients may request a copy of our firm’s written
policies and procedures regarding proxy voting and/or information on how particular proxies
were voted.
b. Whether we pay for proxy voting services with soft dollars or pass the cost on to our clients
through a supplement to our advisory fee.
We do not pay for proxy voting services with soft dollars. Also, we do not charge an additional
fee to vote proxies.
Item 7 - Client Information Provided to Portfolio Manager(s)
We are required to communicate the information about you to your portfolio manager(s), and to inform
you how often or under what circumstances we provide such updated information. Our firm
communicates with your portfolio manager(s) on a regular basis as needed (daily, weekly, monthly,
quarterly, and annually) in order to ensure your most current investment goals and objectives are
understood, and followed by your portfolio manager(s). In most cases, we will communicate such
information as part of our regular investment management duties. In addition, we will communicate
personal information to your portfolio manager(s) when you instruct us to do so, market or economic
conditions warrant such action, and it is generally prudent to act in this manner.
Item 8 - Client Contact with Portfolio Manager(s)
Clients are always free to directly contact their portfolio manager(s) with any questions or concerns they
have about their portfolios or other matters.
Item 9 - Additional Information
A. We are required to respond to: 1. Item 9 (Disciplinary Information); and 2. Item 10 (Other Financial
Industry Activities and Affiliations) of Part 2A of Form ADV.
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1. We have determined that our firm and management have no disciplinary information to disclose.
2. We have the following Financial Industry Activities and Affiliations to disclose:
a. Certain of our firm’s advisory affiliates, in their individual capacities, are registered
representative with Purshe Kaplan Sterling Investments, Inc. (“PKS”), a registered broker-
dealer and member FINRA/SIPC. Our firm is not affiliated with PKS. In order to comply with
FINRA Conduct Rule 3040, PKS as an unaffiliated broker-dealer may periodically review the
investment advisory transactions of our firm. This information will be viewed by PKS’
compliance department personnel for supervisory purposes only. No information viewed will
be utilized for purposes of solicitation or shared with any affiliation outside the scope of
regulatory compliance. Clients are under no obligation to act upon any recommendations or
execute any transactions through our advisory affiliates if they decide to follow the
recommendations.
b. Certain of our firm’s advisory affiliates, in their individual capacities, are licensed insurance
agents with various insurance companies in the state of California. In their individual capacity,
they may recommend, on a fully disclosed commission basis, the purchase of certain
insurance products. A conflict of interest exists to the extent that our firm’s advisory affiliates
may recommend the purchase of insurance products where our firm’s advisory affiliates
receive insurance commissions or other additional compensation. Clients are under no
obligation to act upon any recommendations or execute any transactions through our
advisory affiliates if they decide to follow the recommendations.
c. Management person, Amit Stavinsky, is a general partner for Gapa, LLC, Roscoe Lennox, LLC
and Tamar Investments, LLC - limited liability companies formed in California for real estate
investments and development. Mr. Stavinsky spends 12-14 hours per month on this activity.
Tamar Securities’ clients are not solicited to invest in this outside business therefore no
conflicts of interest exist.
B. We are required to respond to: 1. Items 11 (Code of Ethics or Interest in Client Transactions and
Personal Trading); 2. Item 13 (review of Accounts); 3. Item 14 (Client Referrals and Other
Compensation); and 4. Item 18 (Financial Information) of Part 2A of Form ADV, as applicable to our
wrap fee clients.
1. Code of ethics, participation or interest in client transactions and personal trading.
We recognize that the personal investment transactions of members and employees of our firm
demand the application of a high Code of Ethics and require that all such transactions be carried out
in a way that does not endanger the interest of any client. At the same time, we believe that if
investment goals are similar for clients and for members and employees of our firm, it is logical and
even desirable that there be common ownership of some securities.
Therefore, in order to prevent conflicts of interest, we have in place a set of procedures (including a
pre-clearing procedure) with respect to transactions effected by our members, officers and
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employees for their personal accounts1. In order to monitor compliance with our personal trading
policy, we have a quarterly securities transaction reporting system for all of our associates.
Furthermore, our firm has established a Code of Ethics which applies to all of our associated
personnel. An investment adviser is considered a fiduciary. As a fiduciary, it is an investment
adviser’s responsibility to provide fair and full disclosure of all material facts and to act solely in the
best interest of each of our clients at all times. We have a fiduciary duty to all clients. Our fiduciary
duty is considered the core underlying principle for our Code of Ethics which also includes Insider
Trading and Personal Securities Transactions Policies and Procedures. We require all of our
supervised persons to conduct business with the highest level of ethical standards and to comply
with all federal and state securities laws at all times. Upon employment or affiliation and at least
annually thereafter, all supervised persons will sign an acknowledgement that they have read,
understand, and agree to comply with our Code of Ethics. Our firm and supervised persons must
conduct business in an honest, ethical, and fair manner and avoid all circumstances that might
negatively affect or appear to affect our duty of complete loyalty to all clients. This disclosure is
provided to give all clients a summary of our Code of Ethics. However, if a client or a potential client
wishes to review our Code of Ethics in its entirety, a copy will be provided promptly upon request.
a. If either our firm or a related person invests in the same securities (or related securities, e.g.,
warrants, options or futures) that our firm or a related person recommends to clients, we are
required to describe our practice and discuss the conflicts of interest this presents and
generally how we address the conflicts that arise in connection with personal trading.
See Item 9 Section B (1) of our Code of Ethics description. Related persons of our firm may
buy or sell securities and other investments that are also recommended to clients. In order to
minimize this conflict of interest, our related persons will place client interests ahead of their
own interests and adhere to our firm’s Code of Ethics, a copy of which is available upon
request.
b.
If either our firm or a related person recommends securities to clients, or buys or sells
securities for client accounts, at or about the same time that either you or a related person
buys or sells the same securities for our firm’s (or the related person's own) account, we are
required to describe our practice and discuss the conflicts of interest it presents. We are also
required to describe generally how we address conflicts that arise.
See Item 9 Section B (1) of our Code of Ethics description. Related persons of our firm may
buy or sell securities for themselves at or about the same time they buy or sell the same
securities for client accounts. In order to minimize this conflict of interest, our related persons
will place client interests ahead of their own interests and adhere to our firm’s Code of Ethics,
a copy of which is available upon request. Further, our related persons will refrain from buying
or selling the same securities within 48 hours of buying or selling for our clients. If related
persons’ accounts are included in a block trade, our related persons will always trade personal
accounts last.
1 For purposes of the policy, our associate’s personal account generally includes any account (a) in the name of our associate, his/her
spouse, his/her minor children or other dependents residing in the same household, (b) for which our associate is a trustee or executor,
or (c) which our associate controls, including our client accounts which our associate controls and/or a member of his/her household
has a direct or indirect beneficial interest in.
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2. Review of accounts.
a. Review of client accounts, along with a description of the frequency and nature of our review,
and the titles of our employees who conduct the review.
We review accounts on at least a monthly basis for our clients subscribing to the TAM® Wrap
Fee Program. The nature of these reviews is to learn whether clients’ accounts are in line with
their changing life circumstances, risk parameters, investment objectives, appropriately
positioned based on market conditions, and their investment policies, if applicable. Only our
Financial Advisors or Portfolio Managers will conduct these reviews.
b. Review of client accounts on other than a periodic basis, along with a description of the factors
that trigger a review.
We may review client accounts more frequently than described above. Among the factors
which may trigger an off-cycle review are major market or economic events, a material
change in the life of the client, and/or a general request by the client.
c. Description of the content and indication of the frequency of written or verbal regular reports
we provide to clients regarding their accounts.
We do not provide written reports to clients, unless asked to do so. Verbal reports to clients
take place on at least an annual basis when we contact clients.
3. Client referrals and other compensation.
As disclosed under Item 9, persons providing investment advice on behalf of our firm
are licensed insurance producers. See Item 9 for information on the conflicts of interest this
presents, and how we address these conflicts.
We do not receive any compensation from any third party in connection with providing
investment advice to you nor do we compensate any individual or firm for client referrals.
We do not pay referral fees (non-commission based) to independent solicitors (non-registered
representatives) for the referral of their clients to our firm in accordance with Rule 206 (4)-3 of
the Investment Advisers Act of 1940.
4. Financial information.
a.
If we require or solicit prepayment of more than $1,200 in fees per client, six months or more
in advance, we must include a balance sheet for our most recent fiscal year.
We do not require nor do we solicit prepayment of more than $1,200 in fees per client, six
months or more in advance; therefore, we have not included a balance sheet for our most
recent fiscal year.
b. If we are an SEC-registered adviser and have discretionary authority or custody of client funds
or securities, or we require or solicit prepayment of more than $1,200 in fees per client, six
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months or more in advance, we must disclose any financial condition that is reasonably likely
to impair our ability to meet contractual commitments to clients.
We have nothing to disclose in this regard.
c.
If we have been the subject of a bankruptcy petition at any time during the past ten years, we
must disclose this fact, the date the petition was first brought, and the current status.
We have nothing to disclose in this regard.
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Additional Brochure: TAMAR SECURITIES, LLC TAV WRAP BROCHURE (2026-03-31)
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ITEM 1. COVER PAGE FOR PART 2A APPENDIX 1 OF FORM ADV:
WRAP FEE PROGRAM BROCHURE FOR:
TOTAL ASSET VALUE
(TAV®) WRAP FEE PROGRAM ACCOUNTS
DATED: March 31, 2026
TAMAR SECURITIES, LLC
21031 VENTURA BOULEVARD, SUITE 1101
WOODLAND HILLS, CA 91364
FIRM WEBSITE ADDRESS:
WWW.TAMARSECURITIES.COM
This Total Asset Value (TAV®) wrap fee program brochure provides information about the qualifications
and business practices of Tamar Securities, LLC. If you have any questions regarding the contents of
this brochure, please contact the main offices of Tamar Securities, LLC at 818-914. The information in
this brochure has not been approved or verified by the United States Securities and Exchange
Commission or by any State Securities Authority. Additional information about Tamar Securities, LLC is
also available on the SEC’s website at www.adviserinfo.sec.gov.
Please note use of the term “registered investment adviser” and description of Tamar Securities, LLC
and/or our associates as “registered” does not imply a certain level of skill or training. You are
encouraged to review this Brochure and Brochure Supplements for our firm’s associates which advise
you for more information on the qualifications of our firm and our employees.
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Item 2 - Material Changes To Part 2A Appendix 1 (Wrap Fee Program Brochure) of Form ADV:
Tamar Securities, LLC is required to advise you of any material changes to our Wrap Fee Program Brochure
(“Wrap Brochure”) as of our last annual update, identify those changes either on the cover page of our
Wrap Brochure or either on the page immediately following the cover page, or also in a separate
communication accompanying our Wrap Brochure. We must state clearly that we are discussing only
material changes as of the last annual update of our Wrap Brochure. In addition, we must provide the
date of the last annual update of our Wrap Brochure.
Please note, we do not have to provide this information to a client or prospective client who has not
received a previous version of our Wrap Brochure.
Last Annual Amendment Filing Date: March 31, 2025
Since our annual amendment filing, Tamar Securities, LLC does not have any material changes to report.
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Item 3 - Table of Contents
Topic: Page(s):
Item 2 - Material Changes To Part 2A Appendix 1 (Wrap Fee Program Brochure) of Form ADV ................. 2
Item 3 - Table Of Contents ............................................................................................................................ 3
Item 4 - Services, Fees and Compensation ................................................................................................... 4
Item 5 - Account Requirements and Types of Clients ................................................................................... 8
Item 6 - Portfolio Manager Selection and Evaluation ................................................................................... 9
Item 7 - Client Information Provided to Portfolio Manager(s) ................................................................... 11
Item 8 - Client Contact with Portfolio Manager(s) ...................................................................................... 12
Item 9 - Additional Information .................................................................................................................. 12
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Item 4 - Services, Fees and Compensation
A. Description of our services, including the types of portfolio management services, provided under
each program. We must indicate the wrap fee charged for each program, or, if fees vary according to
a schedule, provide such schedule. Further, we are required to indicate whether fees are negotiable
and identify the portion of the total fees, or range of fees, paid to portfolio managers.
Total Asset Value (TAV®) investment program offers a platform that attempts to combine, on a
discretionary fee basis, four of Tamar Securities, LLC's investment disciplines. These investment
disciplines include:
1) Total Asset Market (TAM®);
2) Total Asset Fund (TAF®);
3) Market Value Securities (MVS®); and
4) Fixed Income Portfolio (FIP®).
Total Asset Value (TAV®) is a diluted version of the firm's following primary investment programs:
Total Asset Market (TAM®) offers a disciplined discretionary fee based mutual fund of funds program.
This program, attempts to establish long-term strategic asset allocation portfolios that are made out
of a few select, best in class, on and off shore underlying mutual funds that are purchased at Net Asset
Value (NAV). These funds are selected out of a total universe of approximately 200 mutual fund
families that include unaffiliated load waived and no load funds (Although there are no upfront sales
charges, other fees and expenses do apply).
For more information, please refer to our Total Asset Market (TAM®) brochure.
Total Asset Fund (TAF®) offers a discretionary fee based managed money program that utilizes no load
Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) and/or Index Funds (Although there are no upfront sales charges, other
fees and expenses do apply) in order to structure Global Asset Allocation portfolios.
For more information, please refer to our Total Asset Fund (TAF®) brochure.
Market Value Securities (MVS®) offers a strategic discretionary fee-based, long-term approach to
Global Asset Allocation portfolios of small to large capitalization individual equities. The investment
philosophy is founded on the belief that superior investment performance depends primarily on
investing in the most attractive Global Economic Sectors, and Sub-Industries based on supply and
demand analysis.
For more information, please refer to our Market Value Securities (MVS®) brochure.
Fixed Income Portfolio (FIP®) offers a discretionary fee based value strategy that includes discounted
taxable high yield bonds, double tax-exempt and taxable municipal bonds, preferred stocks,
convertible bonds, and foreign- denominated bonds. The firm emphasizes discounted high grade debt
securities over equity and alternative investments in order to achieve both constant annual income
returns and fixed income price appreciation. The firm may use proceeds accumulated from bond
redemptions and income generated in order to invest in equities.
For more information, please refer to our Fixed Income Portfolio (FIP®) brochure
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Total Asset Value ("TAV®") program is divided into two main investment disciplines; TAV® (a)
Aggressive, and TAV® (ma) Moderately Aggressive. TAV® (a) Aggressive strives to achieve an asset
allocation model which, in general, includes 25% investment weighting in Market Value Securities
(MVS®), 35% investment weighting in Total Asset Fund (TAF®), and 40% investment weighting in Total
Asset Market (TAM®). On the other hand, TAV® (ma) Moderately Aggressive strives to achieve an
asset allocation model which, in general, includes 20% investment weighting in Market Value
Securities (MVS®), 35% investment weighting in Total Asset Fund (TAF®) and 45% investment
weighting in Total Asset Market (TAM®). TAMAR Securities, LLC's "Top Down" global value strategy
determines its ongoing asset allocation weighting among its three underlining disciplines namely
MVS, TAF and TAM in an attempt to achieve an optimum risk reward performance results.
Total Asset Value ("TAV®") is also subdivided into the following four additional main categories which
include Fixed Income Portfolio (FIP®):
(1) TAV® (a) Aggressive (FIP®) that strives to achieve an asset allocation model which, in general,
includes 17% investment weighting in Market Value Securities (MVS®), 25% investment weighting in
Total Asset Fund (TAF®), 28% investment weighting in Total Asset Market (TAM®), and 30%
investment weighting in Fixed Income Portfolio (FIP®).
(2) TAV® (ma) Moderately Aggressive (FIP®) that strives to achieve an asset allocation model which,
in general, includes 13% investment weighting in Market Value Securities (MVS®), 20% investment
weighting in Total Asset Fund (TAF), 27% investment weighting in Total Asset Market (TAM®), and
40% investment weighting in Fixed Income Portfolio (FIP®).
(3) TAV® (FIP®) that strives to achieve an asset allocation model which, in general, includes 30%
investment weighting in either Market Value Securities (MVS®), Total Asset Fund (TAF®) or Total Asset
Market (TAM®), and 70% investment weighting in Fixed Income Portfolio (FIP®). As with the previous
two main Total Asset Value ("TAV®") programs, TAMAR Securities, LLC's "Top Down" global value
strategy determines its ongoing asset allocation weighting among its four underlining disciplines
namely MVS, TAF, TAM, and FIP in an attempt to achieve an optimum risk reward performance results.
(4) TAV® (FIP®) International, in general, utilizes alternative investments to U.S domestic
mutual funds. This program, designed for mostly foreign investors includes the following three asset
allocation models: a.) Total Asset Fund (TAF®), b.) Market Value Securities (MVS®), and c.) Fixed
Income Portfolio (FIP®). The program disciplines include the following three sub categories: 1) TAV®
(FIP®) International Portfolio that, in general, strives to achieve an asset allocation model of 55%
investment weighting in Fixed Income Portfolio (FIP®), 15% investment weighting in Market Value
Securities (MVS®), and 30% investment weighting in Total Asset Fund (TAF®), 2) TAV® (a) Aggressive
(FIP®) International Portfolio that, in general, strives to achieve an asset allocation model of 40%
investment weighting in Fixed Income Portfolio, 25% investment weighting in Market Value Securities
(MVS®), and 35% investment weighting in Total Asset Fund (TAF®), and 3) TAV® (ma) Moderately
Aggressive (FIP®) International Portfolio that, in general, strives to achieve an asset allocation model
of 45% investment weighing in Fixed Income Portfolio (FIP®), 35% investment weighting in Market
Value Securities (MVS®), and 20% investment weighting in Total Asset Fund (TAF®). As with the
previous TAV programs, TAMAR Securities, LLC’s “Top Down” global value strategy determines its
ongoing asset allocation weighting among its underlining disciplines and asset classes. The investment
process is gradual, fundamental in nature, and occasionally, technically driven. Implementing
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fundamental and technical analysis to uncover oversold market conditions can lead in the interim to
excessive cash balances.
TAV® (a) Aggressive and TAV® (ma) Moderately Aggressive Wrap Program Fee Schedule:
All Equity discretionary money managed programs, which include Total Asset Value (TAV®)
subcategories; TAV® (a) Aggressive and TAV® (ma) Moderately Aggressive, will adhere to the following
pricing schedule:
Assets Under Management
First $500,000
Next $500,000
Over $1,000,000
Annual Net Fee Assessed
2.50%
2.00%
1.50%
TAV® (a) Aggressive (FIP®) Wrap Program Fee Schedule:
All Equity and Fixed Income discretionary money managed programs, which include TAV® (a)
Aggressive (FIP®) will adhere to the following pricing schedule:
Assets Under Management
First $500,000
Next $500,000
Over $1,000,000
Annual Net Fee Assessed
2.05%
1.67%
1.29%
TAV® (ma) Moderately Aggressive (FIP®) Wrap Program Fee Schedule:
All Equity and Fixed Income discretionary money managed programs, which include TAV® (ma)
Moderately Aggressive (FIP®) will adhere to the following pricing schedule:
Assets Under Management
First $500,000
Next $500,000
Over $1,000,000
Annual Net Fee Assessed
1.90%
1.56%
1.22%
TAV® (FIP®) Wrap Program Fee Schedule:
All Fixed Income and Equity discretionary money managed programs, which include TAV® (FIP®) will
adhere to the following pricing schedule:
Assets Under Management
First $500,000
Next $500,000
Over $1,000,000
Annual Net Fee Assessed
1.45%
1.23%
1.01%
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TAV® (FIP®) International Wrap Program Fee Schedule:
All Fixed Income and Equity discretionary money managed programs, which include TAV® (FIP®)
International will adhere to the following pricing schedule:
Assets Under Management
First $500,000
Next $500,000
Over $1,000,000
Annual Net Fee Assessed*
1.68%
1.40%
1.12%
TAV® (a) Aggressive (FIP®) International Wrap Program Fee Schedule:
All Fixed Income and Equity discretionary money managed programs, which include TAV® (FIP®)
International will adhere to the following pricing schedule:
Assets Under Management
First $500,000
Next $500,000
Over $1,000,000
Annual Net Fee Assessed*
1.92%
1.58%
1.23%
TAV® (ma) Moderately Aggressive (FIP®) International Wrap Program Fee Schedule:
All Fixed Income and Equity discretionary money managed programs, which include TAV® (FIP®)
International will adhere to the following pricing schedule:
Assets Under Management
First $500,000
Next $500,000
Over $1,000,000
Annual Net Fee Assessed*
1.83%
1.51%
1.19%
Our firm’s fees are generally not negotiable. Further, our firm’s fees are billed on a pro-rata
annualized basis quarterly in advance based on the value of your account on the last day of the
previous quarter.
B. Explanation that a wrap fee program may cost you more or less than purchasing such services
separately and description of the factors that bear upon the relative cost of the program, such as the
cost of the services if provided separately and the trading activity in your account(s).
A wrap fee program allows our clients to pay a specified fee for investment advisory services and for
the execution of transactions. The advisory services may include portfolio management and/or advice
concerning selection of other advisers, and the fee is not based directly upon transactions in your
account. Your fee is bundled with our costs for executing transactions in your account(s). This results
in a higher advisory fee to you. We do not charge our clients higher advisory fees based on their
trading activity, but you should be aware that we may have an incentive to limit our trading activities
in your account(s) because we are charged for executed trades. In order to overcome this potential
conflict of interest, clients may choose to pay all transactions’ costs associated with the ongoing
management of their accounts. By participating in a wrap fee program, you may end up paying more
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or less than you would through a non-wrap fee program where a lower advisory fee is charged, but
trade execution costs are normally passed directly through to you by the executing broker.
C. Description of any fees that you may pay in addition to a wrap fee, and description of the
circumstances under which you may pay these fees, including, if applicable, mutual fund expenses
and mark-ups, mark-downs, or spreads paid to market makers.
You may pay custodial fees, charges imposed directly by a mutual fund, index fund, or an exchange
traded fund which shall be disclosed in the fund’s prospectus (i.e., fund management fees and other
fund expenses), mark-ups and mark-downs, spreads paid to market makers, wire transfer fees and
other fees and taxes on brokerage accounts and securities transactions. These fees are not included
within the wrap-fee you are charged by our firm.
D. If someone recommending a wrap fee program to you receives compensation as a result of your
participation in the program, we must disclose this fact. Further, we are required to explain, if
applicable, that the amount of the compensation may be more than what the person would receive
if you participated in our other wrap fee programs or paid separately for investment advice, brokerage
and other services. Finally, we must explain that someone recommending a wrap fee program may
have a financial incentive to recommend the wrap fee program over other programs or services.
We do not recommend or offer the wrap program services of other providers. Our investment
advisory representatives receive a portion of the advisory fee that you pay us, either directly as a
percentage of your overall fee or as their salary from our firm. In cases where our investment advisory
representatives are paid a percentage of your overall advisory fee, this may create an incentive to
recommend that you participate in a wrap fee program rather than a non-wrap fee program (where
you would pay for trade execution costs) or brokerage account where commissions are charged. This
is because, in some cases, we may stand to earn more compensation from advisory fees paid to us
through a wrap fee program arrangement if your account is not actively traded.
Item 5 - Account Requirements and Types of Clients
We require a minimum account balance of $100,000 for our Wrap Fee services. Generally, this minimum
account balance requirement is not negotiable and would be required throughout the course of the
client’s relationship with our firm.
Individuals;
Foreign Citizens;
Trusts, Estates, and Charitable Organizations;
Pension and Profit Sharing Plans;
Types of clients we typically manage on their behalf wrap fee accounts include:
High Net Worth Individuals;
On and off shore Corporations, limited liability Companies, and/or other business types.
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Item 6 - Portfolio Manager Selection and Evaluation
A. Description of how our firm selects and reviews portfolio managers, our basis for recommending or
selecting portfolio managers for particular clients, and our criteria for replacing or recommending the
replacement of portfolio managers for the program and for particular clients.
Our firm does not utilize outside portfolio managers. All accounts are managed by our in-house
professionals.
B. Disclosure of whether our firm or any related persons act as a portfolio manager for a wrap fee
program described in the wrap fee program brochure. We must explain the conflicts of interest that
we face because of this arrangement and describe how we address these conflicts of interest.
Our firm and its related persons act as portfolio manager(s) for this wrap fee program. This may create
a conflict of interest in that other investment advisory firms may charge the same or lower fees than
our firm for similar services.
C.
If our firm, or any of our supervised persons covered under or investment adviser registration, act as
a portfolio manager for a wrap fee program described in the wrap fee program brochure, we must
respond to Items 4.B, 4.C, 4.D (Advisory Business), 6 (Performance-Based Fees and Side- By-Side
Management), 8.A (Methods of Analysis, Investment Strategies and Risk of Loss) and 17 (Voting Client
Securities) of Part 2A of Form ADV (Firm Brochure).
Our firm and supervised persons act as portfolio manager(s) for this wrap fee program.
1. Advisory Business.
See Item 4 of this Wrap Fee Program Brochure for information about our wrap fee advisory
programs. We offer individualized investment advice to clients utilizing our firm’s TAV® Wrap Fee
Program. We usually do not allow clients to impose restrictions on investing in certain securities
or types of securities due to the level of difficulty this would entail in managing their account. In
the rare instance that we would allow restrictions, it would be limited to our TAV® Wrap Fee
Program.
Our wrap fee and non-wrap fee accounts are managed on an individualized basis according to the
client’s investment objectives, financial goals, risk tolerance, and the program’s discipline. We do
not manage wrap fee accounts in a different fashion than non-wrap fee accounts.
2. Performance-based fees and side-by-side management.
We do not accept performance-based fees or participate in side-by-side management.
Performance-based fees are fees that are based on a share of a capital gains or capital
appreciation of a client's account. Side-by-side management refers to the practice of managing
accounts that are charged performance-based fees while at the same time managing accounts
that are not charged performance-based fees. Our fees are calculated as described in the Fees
and Compensation section above, and are not charged on the basis of a share of capital gains
upon, or capital appreciation of, the funds in your advisory account.
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3. Methods of analysis, investment strategies and risk of loss.
Methods of Analysis:
Global Macro;
Analysis of Sectors and Industries;
Top Down Value Analysis;
Underlying Fundamentals;
Cyclical;
Technical.
Investment Strategies:
Long term purchases (securities held at least a year);
Short term purchases (securities sold within a year);
Trading (securities sold within 30 days);
Risk of Loss:
Investing in securities involves risk of loss that clients should be prepared to bear. While the stock
and bond markets may increase in value and consequently your account(s) could follow suite, it
is also possible that the stock and bond markets may decrease in value, and consequently your
account(s) could suffer a loss. It is important that you understand the risks associated with
investing in the stock and bond markets, your investment portfolios are appropriately diversified,
and that you ask any questions you may deem necessary for managing your investment
portfolio(s).
Alternative Investments:
For clients who own alternative investments, the absence of a public market, lack of liquidity and
an expected long term investment time horizon may include the following risks that you should
consider:
You may experience the risk that your investment or assets within your investment may not
be able to be liquidated quickly, thus, extending the period of time by which you may receive
the proceeds from your investment. Liquidity risk can also result in unfavorable pricing when
exiting (i.e. not being able to quickly get out of an investment before the price drops
significantly) a particular investment and therefore, can have a negative impact on investment
returns.
No guarantee that investors will receive a distribution. Distributions may be derived from the
proceeds of the offering, from borrowings, or from the sale of assets, and we have no limits
on the amounts we may pay from such other sources. Payments of distributions from sources
other than cash flow from operations may decrease or diminish an investor's interest;
Economic factors affecting the real estate markets generally, including changes in the
economy, tenant turnover, interest rates, availability of mortgage funds, operating expenses,
cost of insurance and tenants' ability to continue to pay rent;
No connection between the share price of the REIT and the net asset value of the REIT until
such time as the assets are valued.
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4. Voting client securities.
a.
If we have, or will accept, proxy authority to vote client securities, we must briefly describe
our voting policies and procedures, including those adopted pursuant to SEC Rule 206(4)-6.
SEC Rule 206(4)-6 requires investment advisers who have voting authority with respect to
securities held in their clients’ accounts to monitor corporate actions and vote proxies in their
clients’ interests. We are required by the SEC to adopt written policies and procedures, make
those policies and procedures available to clients, and retain certain records with respect to
proxy votes cast.
Our firm votes client proxies for all of the participants in our Wrap Account Management
service. It should be noted that our firm does not vote proxies for clients of Alternative
Investments and Independent Money Managers’ Programs as this
is the separate
responsibility of these parties. We understand our duty to vote client proxies and to do so in
the best interest of our clients. Our firm further understands that any material conflicts
between our interests and those of our clients with regard to proxy voting must be resolved
before proxies are voted. We subscribe to a proxy monitor and voting agent service, which
includes access to proxy analysis with research and vote recommendations.
Our firm will generally vote in accordance with the recommendations of the proxy voting firm
we subscribe to, but may vote in a different fashion on particular votes if we determine that
such actions are in the best interest of our clients. Where applicable, we will consider any
specific voting guidelines designated in writing by a client. Clients may request a copy of our
firm’s written policies and procedures regarding proxy voting and/or information on how
particular proxies were voted.
b. Whether we pay for proxy voting services with soft dollars or pass the cost on to our clients
through a supplement to our advisory fee.
We do not pay for proxy voting services with soft dollars. Also, we do not charge an additional
fee to vote proxies.
Item 7 - Client Information Provided to Portfolio Manager(s)
We are required to communicate the information about you to your portfolio manager (s) and to inform
you how often or under what circumstances we provide such updated information. Our firm
communicates with your portfolio manager(s) on a regular basis as needed (daily, weekly, monthly,
quarterly, and annually) in order to ensure your most current investment goals and objectives are
understood, and followed by your portfolio manager(s). In most cases, we will communicate such
information as part of our regular investment management duties.
In addition, we will communicate personal information to your portfolio manager(s) when you instruct us
to do so, market or economic conditions warrant such action, and it is generally prudent to act in this
manner.
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Item 8 - Client Contact with Portfolio Manager(s)
Clients are always free to directly contact their portfolio manager(s) with any questions or concerns they
have about their portfolios or other matters.
Item 9 - Additional Information
A. We are required to respond to: 1. Item 9 (Disciplinary Information); and 2. Item 10 (Other Financial
Industry Activities and Affiliations) of Part 2A of Form ADV.
1. We have determined that our firm and management have no disciplinary information to disclose.
2. We have the following Financial Industry Activities and Affiliations to disclose:
a. Certain of our firm’s advisory affiliates, in their individual capacities, are registered
representative with Purshe Kaplan Sterling Investments, Inc. (“PKS”), a registered broker-
dealer and member FINRA/SIPC. Our firm is not affiliated with PKS. In order to comply with
FINRA Conduct Rule 3040, PKS as an unaffiliated broker-dealer may periodically review the
investment advisory transactions of our firm. This information will be viewed by PKS’
compliance department personnel for supervisory purposes only. No information viewed will
be utilized for purposes of solicitation or shared with any affiliation outside the scope of
regulatory compliance. Clients are under no obligation to act upon any recommendations or
execute any transactions through our advisory affiliates if they decide to follow the
recommendations.
b. Certain of our firm’s advisory affiliates, in their individual capacities, are licensed insurance
agents with various insurance companies in the state of California. In their individual capacity,
they may recommend, on a fully disclosed commission basis, the purchase of certain
insurance products. A conflict of interest exists to the extent that our firm’s advisory affiliates
may recommend the purchase of insurance products where our firm’s advisory affiliates
receive insurance commissions or other additional compensation. Clients are under no
obligation to act upon any recommendations or execute any transactions through our
advisory affiliates if they decide to follow the recommendations.
c. Management person, Amit Stavinsky, is a general partner for Gapa, LLC, Roscoe Lennox, LLC
and Tamar Investments, LLC limited liability companies formed in California for real estate
investments and development. Mr. Stavinsky spends 12-14 hours per month on this activity.
Tamar Securities’ clients are not solicited to invest in this outside business therefore no
conflicts of interest exist.
B. We are required to respond to: 1. Items 11 (Code of Ethics or Interest in Client Transactions and
Personal Trading); 2. Item 13 (review of Accounts); 3. Item 14 (Client Referrals and Other
Compensation); and 4. Item 18 (Financial Information) of Part 2A of Form ADV, as applicable to our
wrap fee clients.
1. Code of ethics, participation or interest in client transactions and personal trading.
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We recognize that the personal investment transactions of members and employees of our firm
demand the application of a high Code of Ethics and require that all such transactions be carried out
in a way that does not endanger the interest of any client. At the same time, we believe that if
investment goals are similar for clients and for members and employees of our firm, it is logical and
even desirable that there be common ownership of some securities.
Therefore, in order to prevent conflicts of interest, we have in place a set of procedures (including a
pre-clearing procedure) with respect to transactions effected by our members, officers and
employees for their personal accounts1. In order to monitor compliance with our personal trading
policy, we have a quarterly securities transaction reporting system for all of our associates.
Furthermore, our firm has established a Code of Ethics which applies to all of our associated
personnel. An investment adviser is considered a fiduciary. As a fiduciary, it is an investment
adviser’s responsibility to provide fair and full disclosure of all material facts and to act solely in the
best interest of each of our clients at all times. We have a fiduciary duty to all clients. Our fiduciary
duty is considered the core underlying principle for our Code of Ethics which also includes Insider
Trading and Personal Securities Transactions Policies and Procedures. We require all of our
supervised persons to conduct business with the highest level of ethical standards and to comply
with all federal and state securities laws at all times. Upon employment or affiliation and at least
annually thereafter, all supervised persons will sign an acknowledgement that they have read,
understand, and agree to comply with our Code of Ethics. Our firm and supervised persons must
conduct business in an honest, ethical, and fair manner and avoid all circumstances that might
negatively affect or appear to affect our duty of complete loyalty to all clients. This disclosure is
provided to give all clients a summary of our Code of Ethics. However, if a client or a potential client
wishes to review our Code of Ethics in its entirety, a copy will be provided promptly upon request.
a. If either our firm or a related person invests in the same securities (or related securities, e.g.,
warrants, options or futures) that our firm or a related person recommends to clients, we are
required to describe our practice and discuss the conflicts of interest this presents and
generally how we address the conflicts that arise in connection with personal trading.
See Item 9 Section B (1.) of our Code of Ethics description. Related persons of our firm may
buy or sell securities and other investments that are also recommended to clients. In order
to minimize this conflict of interest, our related persons will place client interests ahead of
their own interests and adhere to our firm’s Code of Ethics, a copy of which is available upon
request.
b.
If either our firm or a related person recommends securities to clients, or buys or sells
securities for client accounts, at or about the same time that either you or a related person
buys or sells the same securities for our firm’s (or the related person's own) account, we are
required to describe our practice and discuss the conflicts of interest it presents. We are also
required to describe generally how we address conflicts that arise.
See Item 9 Section B (1.) of our Code of Ethics description. Related persons of our firm may
buy or sell securities for themselves at or about the same time they buy or sell the same
1 For purposes of the policy, our associate’s personal account generally includes any account (a) in the name of our associate, his/her
spouse, his/her minor children or other dependents residing in the same household, (b) for which our associate is a trustee or
executor, or (c) which our associate controls, including our client accounts which our associate controls and/or a member of his/her
household has a direct or indirect beneficial interest in.
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securities for client accounts. In order to minimize this conflict of interest, our related persons
will place client interests ahead of their own interests and adhere to our firm’s Code of Ethics,
a copy of which is available upon request. Further, our related persons will refrain from buying
or selling the same securities within 48 hours of buying or selling for our clients. If related
persons’ accounts are included in a block trade, our related persons will always trade personal
accounts last.
2. Review of accounts.
a. Review of client accounts, along with a description of the frequency and nature of our review,
and the titles of our employees who conduct the review.
We review accounts on at least a monthly basis for our clients subscribing to TAV® Wrap Fee
Program. The nature of these reviews is to learn whether clients’ accounts are in line with
their changing life circumstances, risk parameters, investment objectives, appropriately
positioned based on market conditions, and their investment policies, if applicable. Only our
Financial Advisors or Portfolio Managers will conduct these reviews.
b. Review of client accounts on other than a periodic basis, along with a description of the factors
that trigger a review.
We may review client accounts more frequently than described above. Among the factors
which may trigger an off-cycle review are major market or economic events, a material
change in the life of the client, and/or a general request by the client.
c. Description of the content and indication of the frequency of written or verbal regular reports
we provide to clients regarding their accounts.
We do not provide written reports to clients, unless asked to do so. Verbal reports to clients
take place on at least an annual basis when we contact clients.
3. Client referrals and other compensation.
As disclosed under Item 9, persons providing investment advice on behalf of our firm
are licensed insurance producers. See Item 9 for information on the conflicts of interest this
presents, and how we address these conflicts.
We do not receive any compensation from any third party in connection with providing
investment advice to you nor do we compensate any individual or firm for client referrals.
We do not pay referral fees (non-commission based) to independent solicitors (non-
registered representatives) for the referral of their clients to our firm in accordance with Rule
206 (4)-3 of the Investment Advisers Act of 1940.
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4. Financial information.
a.
If we require or solicit prepayment of more than $1,200 in fees per client, six months or more
in advance, we must include a balance sheet for our most recent fiscal year.
We do not require nor do we solicit prepayment of more than $1,200 in fees per client, six
months or more in advance; therefore, we have not included a balance sheet for our most
recent fiscal year.
b. If we are an SEC-registered adviser and have discretionary authority or custody of client
funds or securities, or we require or solicit prepayment of more than $1,200 in fees per
client, six months or more in advance, we must disclose any financial condition that is
reasonably likely to impair our ability to meet contractual commitments to clients.
We have nothing to disclose in this regard.
c.
If we have been the subject of a bankruptcy petition at any time during the past ten years, we
must disclose this fact, the date the petition was first brought, and the current status.
We have nothing to disclose in this regard.
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