Overview

Assets Under Management: $172 million
Headquarters: COLLEGE STATION, TX
High-Net-Worth Clients: 46
Average Client Assets: $3 million

Services Offered

Services: Portfolio Management for Individuals

Clients

Number of High-Net-Worth Clients: 46
Percentage of Firm Assets Belonging to High-Net-Worth Clients: 71.62
Average High-Net-Worth Client Assets: $3 million
Total Client Accounts: 240
Non-Discretionary Accounts: 240

Regulatory Filings

CRD Number: 117769
Last Filing Date: 2025-01-27 00:00:00
Website: https://tdcadvisors.com

Form ADV Documents

Primary Brochure: TDC CAPITAL ADVISORS, INC. ADV BROCHURE (2025-07-28)

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TDC Capital Advisors, Inc. 1598 Copperfield Parkway College Station, Texas 77845 979.260.9696 www.tdcadvisors.com July 28, 2025 FORM ADV PART 2A BROCHURE This brochure provides information about the qualifications and business practices of TDC Capital Advisors, Inc. If you have any questions about the contents of this brochure, please contact us at 979.260.9696. 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 TDC Capital Advisors, Inc. is also available on the SEC's website at www.adviserinfo.sec.gov. The searchable IARD/CRD number for TDC Capital Advisors, Inc. is 117769. TDC Capital Advisors, Inc. is a registered investment adviser. Registration with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission or any state securities authority does not imply a certain level of skill or training. 1 Item 2 Summary of Material Changes 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 our last annual updating amendment dated January 27, 2025, we have made the following material changes to our Form ADV: Item 4. Advisor Business was updated to disclose that James Larkin is now the sole owner of TDC Capital Advisors, Inc. Item 10. Other Financial Industry Activities and Affiliations was updated to disclose that James M. Larkin owner of TDC, along with Messrs. Kyle Cox and Aubry Taylor, are shareholders of Thompson, Derrig & Craig, P.C. (TDC PC") a public accounting firm. Item 13. Review of Accounts was updated to disclose that reviews will be conduced by Ronnie L. Craig and James M. Larkin. 2 Item 3 Table Of Contents Item 1 Cover Page Item 2 Summary of Material Changes Item 3 Table Of Contents Item 4 Advisory Business Item 5 Fees and Compensation Item 6 Performance-Based Fees and Side-By-Side Management Item 7 Types of Clients Item 8 Methods of Analysis, Investment Strategies and Risk of Loss Item 9 Disciplinary Information Item 10 Other Financial Industry Activities and Affiliations Item 11 Code of Ethics, Participation or Interest in Client Transactions and Personal Trading Item 12 Brokerage Practices Item 13 Review of Accounts Item 14 Client Referrals and Other Compensation Item 15 Custody Item 16 Investment Discretion Item 17 Voting Client Securities Item 18 Financial Information Item 19 Requirements for State Registered Investment Advisers Item 20 Additional Information Page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Page 4 Page 5 Page 5 Page 5 Page 6 Page 7 Page 7 Page 7 Page 8 Page 8 Page 9 Page 9 Page 9 Page 9 Page 10 Page 10 Page 10 3 Item 4 Advisory Business Description of Services and Fees We are a registered investment adviser based in College Station, Texas. We are organized as a corporation under the laws of the State of Texas. We have been providing investment advisory services since 2003. James Larkin is our firm's owner. The following paragraphs describe our services and fees. Please refer to the description of each investment advisory service listed below for information on how we tailor our advisory services to your individual needs. As used in this brochure, the words "we", "our" and "us" refer to TDC Capital Advisors, Inc. and the words "you", "your" and "client" refer to you as either a client or prospective client of our firm. Also, you may see the term Associated Person throughout this brochure. As used in this brochure, our Associated Persons are our firm's officers, employees, and all individuals providing investment advice on behalf of our firm. We offer non-discretionary portfolio management services. Our investment advice is tailored to meet our clients' needs and investment objectives. If you retain our firm for portfolio management services, we will meet with you to determine your investment objectives, risk tolerance, and other relevant information (the "suitability information") at the beginning of our advisory relationship. We will use the suitability information we gather to develop a strategy that enables our firm to give you ongoing and focused investment advice and/or to make investments on your behalf. Once we construct an investment portfolio for you, we will monitor your portfolio's performance on an ongoing basis, and will rebalance the portfolio as required by changes in market conditions and in your financial circumstances. We must obtain your approval prior to executing any transactions on behalf of your account. Our fee for portfolio management services is based on a percentage of your assets we manage and is set forth in the following fee schedule: Assets Under Management Annual Fee First $250,000 1.00% $250,001 - $750,000 0.75% Above $750,000 0.50% Our annual portfolio management fee is billed and payable quarterly in arrears based on the value of your account on the last day of the quarter. 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. Our advisory fee is negotiable, depending on individual client circumstances. At our discretion, we may combine the account values of family members living in the same household to determine the applicable advisory fee. For example, we may combine account values for you and your minor children, joint accounts with your spouse, and other types of related accounts. Combining account values may increase the asset total, which may result in your paying a reduced advisory fee based on the available breakpoints in our fee schedule stated above. We will deduct our fee directly from your account through the qualified custodian holding your funds and securities. We will deduct our advisory fee only when you have given our firm written authorization permitting the fees to be paid directly from your account. Further, the qualified custodian will deliver an account statement to you at least quarterly. These account statements will show all disbursements from your account. You should review all statements for accuracy. We will also receive a duplicate copy of your account statements. 4 You may terminate the portfolio management agreement upon written notice to our firm. You will incur a pro rata charge for services rendered prior to the termination of the portfolio management agreement, which means you will incur advisory fees only in proportion to the number of days in the quarter for which you are a client. Types of Investments We primarily offer advice on mutual funds; however, we may also offer advice on equity securities, corporate debt securities, certificates of deposit, municipal securities, and U.S. Government securities. You may request that we refrain from investing in particular securities or certain types of securities. You must provide these restrictions to our firm in writing. Assets Under Management As of December 31, 2024, we provide continuous management services for $171,934,687 in client assets on a non-discretionary basis. Item 5 Fees and Compensation Please refer to the "Advisory Business" section in this brochure for information on our advisory fees and fee deduction arrangements. Additional Fees and Expenses As part of our investment advisory services to you, we may invest, or recommend that you invest, in mutual funds and exchange traded funds. The fees that you pay to our firm for investment advisory services are separate and distinct from the fees and expenses charged by mutual funds or exchange traded funds (described in each fund's prospectus) to their shareholders. These fees will generally include a management fee and other fund expenses. You will also incur transaction charges and/or brokerage fees when purchasing or selling securities. These charges and fees are typically imposed by the broker-dealer or custodian through whom your account transactions are executed. We do not share in any portion of the brokerage fees/transaction charges imposed by the broker-dealer or custodian. To fully understand the total cost you will incur, you should review all the fees charged by mutual funds, exchange traded funds, our firm, and others. For information on our brokerage practices, please refer to the "Brokerage Practices" section of this brochure. Item 6 Performance-Based Fees and Side-By-Side Management We do not accept performance-based fees or participate in side-by-side management. 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. Performance-based fees are fees that are based on a share of capital gains or capital appreciation of a client's account. Our fees are calculated as described in the Advisory Business 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 offer investment advisory services to individuals, trusts, estates, charitable organizations, corporations, and other business entities. 5 In general, we do not require a minimum dollar amount to open and maintain an advisory account; however, we have the right to terminate your Account if it falls below a minimum size which, in our sole opinion, is too small to effectively manage. Item 8 Methods of Analysis, Investment Strategies and Risk of Loss Our Methods of Analysis and Investment Strategies We may use one or more of the following methods of analysis or investment strategies when providing investment advice to you: • Fundamental Analysis – involves analyzing individual companies and their industry groups, such as a company's financial statements, details regarding the company's product line, the experience and expertise of the company's management, and the outlook for the company's industry. The resulting data is used to measure the true value of the company's stock compared to the current market value. The risk of fundamental analysis is that information obtained may be incorrect and the analysis may not provide an accurate estimate of earnings, which may be the basis for a stock's value. If securities prices adjust rapidly to new information, utilizing fundamental analysis may not result in favorable performance. • Cyclical Analysis – a type of technical analysis that involves evaluating recurring price patterns and trends. Economic/business cycles may not be predictable and may have many fluctuations between long term expansions and contractions. The lengths of economic cycles may be difficult to predict with accuracy and therefore the risk of cyclical analysis is the difficulty in predicting economic trends and consequently the changing value of securities that would be affected by these changing trends. • Long Term Purchases – securities purchased with the expectation that the value of those securities will grow over a relatively long period of time, generally greater than one year. • Short Term Purchases – securities purchased with the expectation that they will be sold within a relatively short period of time, generally less than one year, to take advantage of the securities' short-term price fluctuations. Our investment strategies and advice may vary depending upon each client's specific financial situation. As such, we determine investments and allocations based upon your predefined objectives, risk tolerance, time horizon, financial horizon, financial information, liquidity needs, and other various suitability factors. Your restrictions and guidelines may affect the composition of your portfolio. More than a small portion of our clients' assets are advised using short term and long term purchases. Short term trading is not a fundamental part of our overall investment strategy, but we may use this strategy when we determine that it is suitable given your stated investment objectives and tolerance for risk. Short term trading generally involves a greater degree of risk than long term trading due to market volatility over a short period of time; however, our short term purchases typically have a longer than average investment horizon to mitigate risks associated with market volatility. Long term purchases may also be affected by unforeseen long term changes in the company in which you are invested or in the overall market. As a result of revised IRS regulations, custodians and broker-dealers will begin reporting the cost basis of equities acquired in client accounts on or after January 1, 2011. Your custodian will default to the FIFO accounting method for calculating the cost basis of your investments. You are responsible for contacting your tax advisor to determine if this accounting method is the right choice for you. If your tax advisor believes another accounting method is more advantageous, please provide written notice to our firm immediately and we will alert your account custodian of your individually selected accounting method. Please note that decisions about cost basis accounting methods will need to be made before trades settle, as the cost basis method cannot be changed after settlement. 6 Risk of Loss Investing in securities involves risk of loss that you should be prepared to bear. We do not represent or guarantee that our services or methods of analysis can or will predict future results, successfully identify market tops or bottoms, or insulate clients from losses due to market corrections or declines. We cannot offer any guarantees or promises that your financial goals and objectives will be met. Past performance is in no way an indication of future performance. Recommendation of Particular Types of Securities As disclosed under the "Advisory Business" section in this brochure, we primarily recommend mutual funds. Mutual funds are professionally managed collective investment systems that pool money from many investors and invest in stocks, bonds, short-term money market instruments, other mutual funds, other securities or any combination thereof. The fund will have a manager that trades the fund's investments in accordance with the fund's investment objective. While mutual funds generally provide diversification, risks can be significantly increased if the fund is concentrated in a particular sector of the market, primarily invests in small cap or speculative companies, uses leverage (i.e., borrows money) to a significant degree, or concentrates in a particular type of security (i.e., equities) rather than balancing the fund with different types of securities. The returns on mutual funds can be reduced by the costs to manage the funds. Also, while some mutual funds are "no load" and charge no fee to buy into, or sell out of, the fund, other types of mutual funds do charge such fees which can also reduce returns. Mutual funds can also be "closed end" or "open end". So-called "open end" mutual funds continue to allow in new investors indefinitely which can dilute other investors' interests. Item 9 Disciplinary Information Neither our firm nor any of our Associated Persons has any reportable disciplinary information. Item 10 Other Financial Industry Activities and Affiliations James M. Larkin owner of TDC, along with Messrs. Kyle Cox and Aubry Taylor, are shareholders of Thompson, Derrig & Craig, P.C. ("TDC PC") a public accounting firm. If you require accounting services, we will recommend that you use TDC PC. Our advisory services are separate and distinct from the compensation paid to TDC PC for their services. The referral arrangement we have with TDC PC presents a conflict of interest because we may have a financial incentive to recommend TDC PC's services. While we believe that compensation charged by TDC PC is competitive, such compensation may be higher than fees charged by other firms providing the same or similar services. You are under no obligation to use TDC PC's services and may obtain comparable services and/or lower fees through other firms. 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 our Associated Persons. 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 of our Associated Persons 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. 7 Our Code of Ethics is available to you upon request. You may obtain a copy of our Code of Ethics by contacting James Larkin, Chief Compliance Officer, at the phone number located on the cover page of this Brochure. Participation or Interest in Client Transactions Neither our firm nor any of our Associated Persons 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 eliminate this conflict of interest, it is our policy that neither our Associated Persons nor we shall have priority over your account in the purchase or sale of securities. Item 12 Brokerage Practices We recommend the brokerage and custodial services of Fidelity Investments, among others. 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 value of research provided, the firm's reputation, execution capabilities, commission rates, and responsiveness to our clients and our firm. In recognition of the value of research services and additional brokerage products and services recommended broker-dealers provide, you may pay higher commissions and/or trading costs than those that may be available elsewhere. Directed Brokerage You may instruct our firm to use one or more particular brokers for the transactions in your account. If you choose to direct our firm to use a particular broker, you should understand that this might prevent our firm from effectively negotiating brokerage commissions on your behalf. This practice may also prevent our firm from obtaining favorable net price and execution. Thus, when directing brokerage business, you should consider whether the commission expenses, execution, clearance, and settlement capabilities that you will obtain through your broker are adequately favorable in comparison to those that we would otherwise obtain for you. Block Trades We do not combine multiple orders for shares of the same securities purchased for advisory accounts we manage (the practice of combining multiple orders for shares of the same securities is commonly referred to as "block trading"). Accordingly, you may pay different prices for the same securities transactions than other clients pay. Furthermore, we may not be able to buy and sell the same quantities of securities for you and you may pay higher commissions, fees, and/or transaction costs than other clients. This does not apply to mutual funds which do not trade in blocks. Item 13 Review of Accounts Ronnie L. Craig and James M. Larkin will monitor their assigned accounts on an ongoing basis and will conduct account reviews at least annually to evaluate the appropriateness of investments and portfolio mix for meeting your goals. Additional reviews may be conducted based on various circumstances, including, but not limited to: • contributions and withdrawals, 8 • year-end tax planning, • market moving events, • security specific events, and/or, • changes in your risk/return objectives. We will provide you with annual report of positions, activity, and performance. In addition, you will receive trade confirmations and monthly or quarterly statements from your account custodian(s). Item 14 Client Referrals and Other Compensation 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. Item 15 Custody We 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 independent, qualified custodian. You will receive account statements from the independent, 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. If you have a question regarding your account statement or if you did not receive a statement from your custodian, please contact James Larkin, Chief Compliance Officer, at the phone number located on the cover page of this Brochure. Item 16 Investment Discretion We do not exercise investment discretion over the management of your account(s); therefore, we will obtain your approval prior to the execution of any transactions for your account(s). Item 17 Voting Client Securities We will not vote proxies on behalf of your advisory accounts. At your request, we may offer you advice regarding corporate actions and the exercise of your proxy voting rights. If you own shares of common stock or mutual funds, 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 solicitation to vote proxies. 9 Item 18 Financial Information We are not required to provide financial information to our clients because we do not: require the prepayment of more than $1200 in fees and six or more months in advance, or take custody of client funds or securities, or • • • have a financial condition that is reasonably likely to impair our ability to meet our commitments to you. Item 19 Requirements for State Registered Investment Advisers We are a federally registered investment adviser; therefore, we are not required to respond to this item. Item 20 Additional Information Your Privacy We view protecting your private information as a top priority. Pursuant to applicable privacy requirements, we have instituted policies and procedures to ensure that we keep your personal information private and secure. We do not disclose any nonpublic personal information about you to any nonaffiliated third parties, except as permitted by law. In the course of servicing your account, we may share some information with our service providers, such as transfer agents, custodians, broker-dealers, accountants, consultants, and attorneys. We restrict internal access to nonpublic personal information about you to employees, who need that information in order to provide products or services to you. We maintain physical and procedural safeguards that comply with regulatory standards to guard your nonpublic personal information and to ensure our integrity and confidentiality. We will not sell information about you or your accounts to anyone. We do not share your information unless it is required to process a transaction, at your request, or required by law. You will receive a copy of our privacy notice prior to or at the time you sign an advisory agreement with our firm. Thereafter, we will deliver a copy of the current privacy policy notice to you on an annual basis. If you have any questions regarding this policy, please contact James Larkin, Chief Compliance Officer, at the phone number located on the cover page of this Brochure. Trade Errors In the event a trading error occurs in your account, our policy is to restore your account to the position it should have been in had the trading error not occurred. Depending on the circumstances, corrective actions may include canceling the trade, adjusting an allocation, and/or reimbursing the account. If a trade error results in a profit, you will keep the profit. 10