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TITAN GLOBAL CAPITAL MANAGEMENT USA LLC
508 LaGuardia Place
New York, NY 10012
www.titan.com
November 20, 2025
Form ADV Part 2A
Item 1. Cover Page
This wrap fee brochure (the “Brochure”) provides information about the qualifications and business
practices of Titan Global Capital Management USA LLC (CRD # 290111) (“Titan” or the “Firm”), an
investment adviser registered with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”).
Registration does not imply a certain level of skill or training. If you have any questions about the
contents of this Brochure, please contact us at support@titan.com. The information in this Brochure has
not been approved or verified by the SEC or by any state securities authority.
Additional information about Titan also is available on the SEC’s website at https://adviserinfo.sec.gov/.
© 2025 Titan Global Capital Management USA LLC. Titan is a registered trademark of Titan Global Capital
Management, Inc. All advisory services are provided by Titan Global Capital Management USA LLC, a federally
registered investment advisor. Results are not guaranteed.
Item 2. Material Changes
This Item 2 discusses material changes since our last annual Form ADV Part 2A amendment filing in
March 2025. This summary of material changes does not describe all modifications, such as updates to
dates and numbers, stylistic changes, corrections or clarifications.
Since the last annual amendment in March 2025, the following material changes have been made:
● We updated our fee structure, which included:
○ Removing the client fee for access to our platform; and
○ Replacing our previous advisory fee structure with a single, flat rate of 0.40% for all
clients.
● We updated our Investment Advisor compensation structure to include variable compensation
that can be earned by Investment Advisor Representatives for assets they introduce to Titan.
This Brochure may be requested at any time, without charge, by contacting Titan at support@titan.com
or can be found on our website at www.titan.com.
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Item 3. Table of Contents
Item 1. Cover Page
Item 2. Material Changes
Item 3. Table of Contents
Item 4. Services, Fees and Compensation
Item 5. Account Requirements and Types of Clients
Item 6. Portfolio Manager Selection and Evaluation
Item 7. Client Information Provided to Portfolio Managers
Item 8. Client Contact with Portfolio Managers
Item 9. Additional Information
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Item 4. Services, Fees and Compensation
Services
Titan Global Capital Management USA LLC (“Titan”), an SEC registered investment adviser, is a
wholly-owned subsidiary of Titan Global Capital Management, Inc. (“Titan Global”) and has been in
operation since 2020. Titan is a privately held company headquartered in New York, New York.
Information about Titan’s organizational and ownership structure is provided on Part 1 of Titan’s Form
ADV, which is available online at http://www.adviserinfo.sec.gov. Titan aims to offer a modernized,
convenient investing experience for our Clients with access to a comprehensive array of fully managed
and automated strategies. All of these services are provided through an easy-to-use mobile app and web
interface. Titan provides discretionary investment advisory services to separately managed accounts of
individuals (each a “Client,” and collectively, “Clients”) in a program that bundles or “wraps” services
together and charges a single fee based on the value of assets under management (the “Wrap Program”
or the “Program”). The Program seeks to provide personalized, long-term oriented investment
portfolios. The services provided under the Program are advisory, trade execution, clearance, settlement,
custody and reporting. Titan offers these services to individual taxable accounts and individual
retirement accounts (“IRA”), specifically Roth and traditional accounts. In addition, Titan provides
Clients with retirement account rollover recommendations in compliance with the U.S. Department of
Labor's Prohibited Transaction Exemption 2020-02.
From time to time, Titan intends to introduce additional products or services under the Program to
continue to enhance our personalized, long-term oriented investment portfolio offerings. Future
offerings will contain additional terms and conditions applicable to each such offering and additional
disclosures describing associated risks.
The Wrap Program does not provide comprehensive financial or tax planning or legal advice, and
Clients are advised and afforded the opportunity to seek the advice and counsel of the Client’s
own tax, financial, and legal advisers. Neither Titan nor any of its affiliates is responsible for
establishing or maintaining any Client’s compliance with the requirements of the Internal Revenue Code
for a traditional IRA or Roth IRA, or any other type of account that may be offered through the Wrap
Program or determining any Client’s individual tax treatment regarding such accounts. Furthermore,
neither Titan nor any of its affiliates are responsible for withholding any tax penalties that may apply to
Clients’ Titan accounts or for any state or federal income tax withholding, except as may otherwise be
required by applicable law.
The Wrap Program seeks to provide personalized, long-term oriented investment portfolios that are
invested in a personalized blend of Titan proprietary and automated equity strategies, Exchange traded
funds (“ETFs”), US Treasury money market funds, and registered investment companies (“RICs”), as
applicable based on personal information, including investment risk and financial parameters.
Titan’s proprietary equity strategies are actively managed, with the exception of Automated Bonds and
Automated Equities, which are passively managed and are evaluated for rebalance at least quarterly.
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Advisory Business – Program Description
Titan’s Wrap Program interacts with its Clients through a software application that is available through
mobile platforms (the “Titan App”) and the Firm’s website, www.titan.com (collectively known as the
“Titan Platform”). The advisory services are delivered through the Titan Platform. Titan may
occasionally provide advice in person or over the phone. Each Client provides personal information
about themselves, including financial resources, investment goals and objectives by answering a
questionnaire. Titan utilizes the information from the questionnaire to create an investment portfolio that
is customized to each Client’s risk tolerance, financial parameters and investment objectives. For each
Client’s portfolio plan, Titan may consider the Client’s employment status, income, investment goals
and reasons to invest, investment time horizon and investable assets. Titan evaluates each Client’s
responses and proposes a portfolio plan from among conservative, moderate and aggressive growth
portfolios. The portfolio recommendation created by Titan for each Client is based largely upon the
information provided by the Client. As such, the suitability of the investment plan recommendations is
limited by and relies on the accuracy and completeness of the information provided by the Client. A
Client may specify the degree of risk level (conservative, moderate, and aggressive risk tolerance)
associated with their Client account, and the amount of assets in the Client account. A Client is able to
restrict the purchase of specific securities, subject to certain limitations as stated in the Titan Platform.
Each Client is able to update his/her risk profile or financial profile at any time. Clients are obligated to
update their information promptly if there are changes to their financial situation, goals, objectives,
personal circumstances, time horizon or if other relevant information changes or becomes available.
A Client is required to enter into an investment advisory agreement with Titan (“Advisory Account
Management Agreement”), which discusses the services the Client will receive, the fees charged to the
Client, and the conditions of the Client’s relationship with Titan. Our advisory relationship begins upon
the effective date of the Advisory Account Management Agreement with a Client. Any preliminary
information provided to a Client before we accept the Advisory Account Management Agreement does
not constitute investment advice under the Investment Advisers Act of 1940, as amended (the “Advisers
Act”), and should not be relied on as such.
Clients enter into an agreement whereby Apex Clearing Corporation (“Apex”) will act as the clearing
broker and qualified custodian for Client accounts and Titan Global Technologies LLC (“TGT”), Titan’s
affiliated SEC-registered broker-dealer and FINRA member, acts as an introducing broker (such
agreement, the “Customer Agreement”). Under the terms of the Customer Agreement, the Client
authorizes (i) TGT to introduce all securities trades and transactions from Titan to Apex and (ii) Apex to
establish and carry the Client’s account that holds the Client’s securities and cash and records the
Client’s transactions in the Wrap Program. Using Apex’s application program interface (“API”), the
Titan Platform allows Clients to create an investment account instantly on any mobile device, tablet, or
computer. All account opening functionalities, including identity verification and approval, are handled
digitally and instantly by TGT in coordination with Apex. The investments in each Client’s account are
held in a separate account in the name of the Client at Apex, and not with Titan or TGT.
Investment Discretion
Titan has full discretionary authority to manage assets on behalf of Clients who enter into the Titan
Wrap Program, as described above. Discretionary trading authority permits Titan to select which
securities to buy and sell and when to place orders for the execution of securities in Client accounts on
the Clients’ behalf, so that Titan may maintain the Client’s portfolio and make ongoing changes as Titan
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believes appropriate. Titan trades in Client accounts for any number of reasons, including in response to
Client actions such as deposits or withdrawals. Titan also trades in order to rebalance Client accounts, to
change investment options, or otherwise to further the investment objectives that Clients specify via the
Titan Platform. See how the portfolio is constructed under Investment Strategies and Methods of
Analysis in Item 6 below.
The equity shares purchased or sold on behalf of a Client and/or held in Client accounts may be either
whole shares or fractional shares. Titan enables dollar based investing, whereby Titan can buy a fixed
dollar amount rather than whole shares. Titan aggregates all dollar based purchases and places whole
share orders for execution. TGT introduces whole share orders to Apex for execution. Thereafter, Titan
allocates the fractional shares to the individual Client accounts. To the extent that TGT will trade
fractional shares of any ETF or equity on behalf of Clients, it does so by allocating any excess fractional
shares to Titan’s fractional facilitation account carried by Apex. In turn, Titan accumulates fractional
shares and manages its fractional facilitation account through trades in whole share quantities in
accordance with Titan and Apex’s policies and procedures as they pertain to the management of such
accounts and positions. Titan, TGT, and Apex each reserve the right, at any time and each in its sole
discretion, without prior notice to Clients, to change the details of the policies and procedures governing
the mechanics of trading fractional shares, including, without limitation, allocation calculation and
rounding procedures. Fractional shares, however, are typically not transferable outside of a Client’s
account because the financial system in the U.S. currently is structured only to accommodate transfers of
full shares. As a result, fractional shares may not be marketable or transferrable to another brokerage
account. In the event of a liquidation or transfer of the assets in a Client’s account to another account,
Titan may convert such fractional shares to cash.
Titan receives a portion of the Wrap Program Fee (as defined below) for its services. Titan does not
receive any performance-based compensation for its services.
Brokerage and Custody Services
Titan has an arrangement with Apex, a third-party qualified custodian, through which execution,
clearing, settlement and custody services are provided to Clients. Brokerage services are provided
through Titan’s affiliated broker-dealer, TGT. Apex and TGT are FINRA and Securities Investor
Protection Corporation (“SIPC”) members, and SEC-registered broker-dealers. Additional information
about these entities and their services is noted in further detail in Item 9 of this Brochure.
Fees
The Wrap Program charges Clients a “wrap” fee (the “Wrap Program Fee”), which is not based on
transactions in a Client’s account, but is a bundled fee that includes the costs for advisory services (the
“Advisory Fee”) and any fees associated with execution, clearance, custody, and account reporting.
Except as noted below, the annual Advisory Fee that Titan charges is a flat fee of 0.40% for advisory
services. The Advisory Fee is prorated and charged monthly, in arrears. The Advisory Fee is assessed
based on the daily average market value of assets under management (“AUM”) in a Client’s portfolio
over the previous month’s billing cycle. Titan may from time to time, in its sole discretion, offer lower
fees through promotions, referrals and other discounts to and/or negotiate separate fee and billing
arrangements with some Clients that differ from the Wrap Program Fee.
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In calculating a Client’s Advisory Fee, certain assets are not counted because Titan does not charge an
Advisory Fee on these assets. Assets for which we do not charge an Advisory Fee include assets held in
ARK Venture Fund and any assets held in a client’s legacy Personal Trading Account. Exclusions are
subject to change. All other assets held in your Titan Account(s), including the cash you invest, the
value of the securities and appreciation thereon, and assets acquired through dividend reinvestments, are
subject to the Advisory Fee outlined above.
Since the asset-based fee is determined by average daily account balance, if assets are deposited into or
withdrawn from an account after the inception of a month, the base fee payable with respect to such
assets is adjusted accordingly. For the first billing period of our advisory relationship, the Wrap Program
Fee is calculated on a pro rata basis. In the event the Advisory Account Management Agreement is
terminated, the Wrap Program Fee for the final billing period is prorated through the effective date of the
termination and the outstanding portion of the Wrap Program Fee is charged to the Client. Clients
authorize Titan and TGT, through the Advisory Account Management Agreement to deduct fees directly
from Client custodial accounts at Apex or from their funding source. See “Direct Fee Debit of Titan’s
Fee” below.
Titan imposes a minimum cash reserve requirement (the “Cash Reserve”) on certain investment
strategies. The Cash Reserve is a minimum allocation of cash in a Client’s account used to pay your
Advisory Fee and any other fees and expenses. Titan will sell assets in your Titan Account from time to
time to facilitate a withdrawal request, replenish a Client’s Cash Reserve, and/or to pay the Advisory Fee
and any other fees and expenses as applicable. If a Client is invested in any illiquid strategies,
(including, but not limited to, Apollo Diversified Credit Fund, Apollo Diversified Real Estate Fund, and
Carlyle Tactical Private Credit Fund) the Client will not be able to withdraw the liquid portion, except in
the process of a full liquidation and account termination. If you are enrolled in Titan’s Cash Sweep
Program (described below), the funds held in Cash Reserve will be automatically “swept” into an
FDIC-insured account maintained by Apex Clearing at a participating bank. Your Cash Reserve will
therefore earn interest pursuant to the terms of Titan’s Cash Sweep Program. Please be advised that
Titan may make references within its Platform to terms such as ‘Buying Power,’ which may include
money held in the Cash Sweep Program.
The minimum Cash Reserve that Clients are required to maintain in their Account depends on their
investments or asset holdings as further described in the Advisory Account Management Agreement.
Fee Comparison
As described above, a portion of the Wrap Program Fee is used to cover the securities brokerage
commissions attributed to the management of Titan’s Clients’ portfolios. The number of transactions
made in Clients’ accounts, as well as the commissions charged for each transaction, determines the
relative cost of the Wrap Program versus paying for execution on a per transaction basis and paying a
separate fee for advisory services. Services provided through the Wrap Program may cost Clients more
or less than purchasing advisory and execution (brokerage) services separately. Titan’s Wrap Program
Fee may also be higher or lower than fees charged by other wrap sponsors of comparable investment
advisory programs. Since Titan pays the transactions charges in the Client’s account, there is a financial
incentive for Titan not to place transactions in the Client’s account, or to place fewer trades or trade less
frequently.
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A wrap fee account may not be in the best interest of a Client with minimal or no trading activity as
compared to a non-wrap fee account or brokerage account where the Client would otherwise pay trading
costs as incurred but a lower fee in a non-wrap account or no advisory fee in a brokerage account. In that
case, Clients would not receive the services provided by Titan, which are designed, among other things,
to determine which investments are appropriate for the portfolio and the Client’s account. Titan’s
decision to trade or rebalance a portfolio or strategy will largely be guided by its fundamental research
process, which is driven by both proprietary qualitative and quantitative methods. Titan may execute
trades at its discretion based on this research process, under the oversight of Titan’s Chief Investment
Officer. Aside from covering most of your fees to our broker-dealer and transaction costs, fees
associated with the Wrap Program include access to our proprietary investment strategies and in-house
research, and therefore are higher than a typical advisory fee for a traditional ETF, RIC, or similar
advisory product. Titan believes its Wrap Program Fee is reasonable considering the quality and scope
of the services it provides and the fees charged by other investment advisers offering similar
services/programs.
Fee Discretion
Titan in its sole discretion may from time to time offer lower fees through promotions, referrals and
other discounts to some accounts that differ from the Wrap Program Fee stated above. Conversely, from
time to time, Titan may in its sole discretion also raise its Wrap Program Fee. Negotiated fees may differ
based on factors, including but not limited to, the type and size of the account, the historical and/or
expected size and number of trades for the account, and the services to be provided to the Client.
Any such program or initiative may be expanded, narrowed, suspended, canceled or modified at any
time by Titan. To the extent any such program or initiative is canceled or terminated, Clients will once
again be charged the then-current Wrap Program Fee on a going forward basis. Titan shall have sole
discretion in determining whether or not any existing Client or potential Client meets the requirements
to participate in and/or benefit from any such program or initiative, and Titan shall not be liable to the
Client or any other party in connection with any such decision and/or in connection with the
administration of any such program or initiative generally.
Additional Advisor Compensation
Investment Advisor Representatives (“IARs”) at Titan may receive additional compensation based on a
percentage of the assets they introduce to Titan. This compensation creates a conflict of interest because
IARs have a financial incentive to encourage prospective and existing clients to invest additional assets
with Titan. This compensation does not change the fees you pay, and Titan IARs do not receive bonuses
based on asset allocation.
Other Fees
The Wrap Program includes all trade charges applicable to an account. However, Titan’s Wrap Program
Fee does not include other related costs and expenses. In addition to the Titan Wrap Program Fee,
Clients may incur certain other fees imposed by third-party financial institutions. (e.g., transfer fees,
administrative fees, other fees). These additional fees and charges may include:
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● Brokerage, Clearing and Service Provider Charges
Titan’s fees do not cover certain charges imposed by Apex. These types of charges include, but
are not limited to, wire transfer fees, paper statement fees, and bounced check fees. TGT shares
in certain fees paid by the Client to Apex or otherwise (including, without limitation, additional
fees for the preparation and delivery of paper documents, account transfers and other services)
and anticipates sharing in certain revenue paid to Apex for directing orders to particular broker
dealers or market centers for execution, which will create a conflict of interest for Titan in
performing its services pursuant to the Advisory Account Management Agreement. Please see
Item 9 for additional information regarding such payment for order flow arrangement. Clients
also pay their own taxes on gains and income in connection with the account and its activities.
The issuer of some of the securities purchased for Clients, such as ETFs, American Depository
Receipts, and RICs may charge product fees and expenses that affect Clients. Titan does not
charge these fees to Clients and does not benefit directly or indirectly from any such fees. An
ETF typically includes embedded expenses that may reduce the fund’s net asset value, and
therefore directly affect the fund’s performance and indirectly affect a Client’s portfolio
performance or an index benchmark comparison. RICs typically charge management fees and
other expenses, such as sales loads and/or other charges and short-term redemption fees, as
disclosed in the applicable prospectus. These fees are in addition to the Wrap Program Fee
Clients pay to Titan. Clients should review all fees charged to fully understand the total amount
of fees they will pay.
● Direct Fee Debit of Titan’s Fee
Clients authorize and direct Titan and TGT, to instruct the custodian to deduct the Wrap Program
Fee, and any other fees owed, directly from any of the Client’s custodial account at Apex or
linked funding source and pay those fees to Titan. Titan and TGT may also take the Wrap
Program Fee from a Client’s account by instructing Apex to deduct such fee from the assets in
the Client’s account, including by selling (liquidating) a sufficient amount of holdings to cover
the Wrap Program Fee.
Each time a Client uses our advisory services, they reaffirm their agreement that Titan, and TGT,
may charge the Client’s account, as applicable. In the event Titan cannot charge the Client’s
account or funding source, it reserves the right to terminate a Client’s access to its advisory
services. Termination of accounts will be undertaken at Titan’s sole discretion. Each Client may
also terminate its account at any time. Upon full termination of a Client’s account, assets are
liquidated as soon as practicable, unless the Client directs otherwise, and money is returned to
the Client via the Client’s funding source less any Wrap Program Fee due and owing, if
applicable. Once the account termination process is initiated, Titan will receive the Wrap
Program Fee from the Client with respect to the Client’s account, which will be deducted from
the transferring proceeds.
● Account Additions and Withdrawals
Except for certain investment opportunities discussed below, Clients may deposit and withdraw
from their account at any time, subject to Titan’s right to terminate a Client’s account. Deposits
to an account must be done via bank transfer. Titan Clients may withdraw most account assets on
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five (5) days’ notice to Titan, subject to the usual and customary securities settlement
procedures. See below for limitations on withdrawals for certain RIC investments. However,
Titan designs its portfolios as long-term investments and the withdrawal of assets may impair the
achievement of a Client’s investment objectives. Clients are advised that when cash is
withdrawn, they may be subject to transaction fees, and/or tax ramifications. Clients may request
to transfer their portfolio in kind to another financial advisor by contacting support@titan.com to
initiate an Automated Customer Account Transfer (“ACAT”). ACATs are subject to certain
limitations and a one-time transaction fee disclosed HERE.
Certain RIC investments recommended by Titan (including Diversified Real Estate by Apollo,
Private Credit by Carlyle, and the ARK Venture Fund) have deposit minimum amounts as well as
limitations on the amount and timing of withdrawals; and in some cases withdrawal amounts will
not be allowed as they are subject to availability at the discretion of the RIC, independent of
Titan and TGT. Titan and TGT will process approved withdrawal requests related to investments
Clients hold as part of their recommended portfolio on a first in, first out (FIFO) basis, meaning
assets approved for withdrawal will be processed in the order in which they were invested, unless
otherwise directed by the Client.
Item 5. Account Requirements and Types of
Clients
The Titan Wrap Program is designed to provide investment advice to individuals who are U.S. citizens,
or lawful residents of the U.S. - for tax purposes - who have a social security number or individual
taxpayer identification number, are located in the U.S., have a valid U.S. residential mailing address, and
maintain a U.S. banking account. To create an account, Titan requires a client to invest an initial
minimum of $500 for individual taxable accounts and IRAs, which is communicated during the
onboarding process before account creation. If funds are withdrawn and the account is reduced below
this amount, Titan reserves the right to close the Client’s account. Titan reserves the right to change its
minimum account size or value in the future at its discretion. Titan reserves the right to impose a
maximum account size or value in the future at its discretion.
Participation in the Wrap Program requires that the Client successfully complete a new account
application, including submitting various personally identifiable information required by U.S. federal
law. Clients approved for an investment advisory account must maintain a brokerage account pursuant to
a Customer Agreement with Apex and TGT (whereby Apex will act as the clearing broker and qualified
custodian and TGT will act as an introducing broker for the Client’s account).
Item 6. Portfolio Manager Selection and
Evaluation
Titan is both the sponsor and the sole portfolio manager for the Titan Wrap Program. The Wrap Program
is designed and implemented by Titan’s principals alongside the Titan team. Together they oversee the
investment advice offered under the Program. They are responsible for portfolio monitoring;
construction, maintenance, and updates to Titan’s investment processes; and other core functions such as
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maintaining Titan’s technology and managing core Titan personnel. For a detailed description of Titan’s
advisory business and advisory services, see Services and Program Description under Item 4 above.
Investment Strategies and Methods of Analysis
Fundamental Proprietary Research Process for Equities. Titan has developed a fundamental research
process, which includes both qualitative and quantitative factors, that it employs to construct and
manage a portfolio that is personalized to a Client based on factors such as income, risk tolerance,
investment goals and reasons to invest, time horizon and net assets. The research process aims to select
equities whose underlying businesses are expected to meet certain characteristics such as the following:
durable competitive advantages, high returns on capital, strong management teams, and attractive
valuations. These criteria, among others, are used to manage each Client’s portfolio.
Process for Titan Crypto, Automated Bonds and Automated Equities
Titan manages Titan Crypto, which holds one or more ETFs with exposure to crypto-currency assets.
Titan also manages Automated Stocks and Automated Bonds strategies, which are a collection of ETFs
that track bond and equity markets with a diversified exposure. Titan uses Modern Portfolio Theory as
the basis for its selection of ETFs and evaluates each strategy for rebalancing quarterly.
Management through Similarly Managed “Model” Accounts. Titan manages Client accounts through the
use of similarly managed “model” portfolios, whereby Titan allocates all or a portion of its Clients’
assets among equity securities, ETFs, interval funds, and cash equivalents on a discretionary basis using
its proprietary research processes. To implement its investment strategies and to manage Client
accounts, Titan employs its fundamental research processes, described above, or quantitative methods of
modern portfolio theory, which determine investment selection and asset allocation. The strategies
selected are personalized to each Client based on factors such as the Client’s income, risk tolerance,
investment goals and reasons to invest, time horizon, and net assets. The composition of a Client’s
portfolio may be adjusted based on updates to such Client’s personal information or updates to
proprietary research. In general, choosing a shorter time horizon, lower risk tolerance, and more
conservative investment goals will result in a more conservative and more liquid portfolio, and choosing
a longer time horizon, higher risk tolerance, and more aggressive investment goals will result in a more
aggressive and less liquid portfolio. A Client may specify the degree of risk level (conservative,
moderate and aggressive growth), but a Client is not able to select specific securities. Clients are able to
personalize their portfolios by restricting the purchase of specific securities that would otherwise be
included in a strategy, subject to certain limitations as stated in the Titan Platform. A Client will be able
change his/her risk profile or select (switch to) a portfolio with a different risk profile. Clients are
obligated to update their information promptly if there are changes to their financial situation, goals,
objectives, personal circumstances, time horizon or if other relevant information changes or becomes
available. Clients are prompted to review their financial profiles, and notify Titan of any changes
thereto, at least annually.
Titan manages Client accounts, including but not limited to security asset selection, rebalancing, and
other investment considerations. Model output may be manually overridden by Titan, if in the best
interests of Clients, based on the principals’ previous experience, such as during historically unique
market environments.
Rebalancing and Ongoing Management. As the value of a Client’s investments fluctuate, the portfolio
could diverge from a Client’s desired risk preferences. Rebalancing, the practice of adjusting a Client’s
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strategy weights, typically occurs during the course of Titan’s research processes. This means
rebalancing occurs opportunistically instead of on a fixed cadence. To participate in the Wrap Program,
Clients agree to have their accounts or underlying strategies rebalanced at Titan’s discretion. While Titan
seeks to ensure that Client assets are managed in a manner consistent with their individual investment
objectives and risk tolerance, securities transactions effected pursuant to a model investment strategy are
usually done without regard to a Client’s individual tax ramifications. As a consequence of rebalancing,
Clients may incur potentially adverse tax consequences. Titan does not render tax advice to Clients, who
should consult their own tax advisors for specific guidance.
Performance Based Fees and Side-By-Side Management
Titan does not charge performance-based fees (i.e., a fee based on a share of capital gains or capital
appreciation of a Client’s assets).
Risk of Loss
Titan constructs strategy portfolios with a small number of securities and ETFs. Client portfolios are not
fully diversified and will be subject to general movements in the stock market and bond market and the
value fluctuations of each particular issuer’s stock.
Titan does not guarantee the future performance of any Client’s account or portfolio. Clients must
understand that investments made via the Wrap Program involve substantial risk and are subject to
various market, currency, economic, political and business risks, and that those investment decisions and
actions will not always be profitable. Clients may lose some or all of the amount invested.
Titan shall have no liability for any losses in a Client’s account due to reasons other than Titan’s breach
of fiduciary duties or other violation of law. The price of any security can decline for a variety of reasons
outside of Titan’s control, including, but not limited to, changes in the macroeconomic environment,
unpredictable market sentiment, forecasted or unforeseen economic developments, interest rates,
regulatory changes, and domestic or foreign political, demographic, or social events. There is no
guarantee that Titan’s judgment or investment decisions about particular securities assets will
necessarily produce the intended results. Titan’s judgment may prove to be incorrect, and a Client might
not achieve his or her investment objectives.
High volatility and/or the lack of deep and active liquid markets may prevent the sale of a Client’s
securities assets at all, or at an advantageous time or price because Titan and Apex may have difficulty
finding a buyer and may be forced to sell at a significant discount to market value. The Wrap Program,
by its automated nature, limits excessive trading risk, although human programming error may result in
excessive trading. Titan cannot guarantee any level of performance or that any Client will avoid a loss of
account assets. Any investment in securities assets involves the possibility of financial loss that Clients
should be prepared to bear.
When evaluating risk, financial loss may be viewed differently by each Client and may depend on many
different risk items, each of which may affect the probability of adverse consequences and the
magnitude of any potential losses. The following risks may not be all-inclusive but should be considered
carefully by a prospective Client before entering the Wrap Program. These risks should be considered as
possibilities, with additional regard to their actual probability of occurring and the effect on a Client if
there is, in fact, an occurrence.
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● Market Risk: The price of a security, exchange-traded fund, and/or RIC asset may drop in
reaction to tangible and intangible events and conditions. This type of risk is caused by external
factors
independent of a security’s particular underlying circumstances. For example,
macroeconomic environment, unpredictable market sentiment, forecasted or unforeseen
economic developments, interest rates, regulatory changes, and domestic or foreign political,
demographic, or social events. If a Client has a high allocation in a particular asset/class, it may
negatively affect overall performance to the extent that the asset/class underperforms relative to
other market assets. Conversely, a low allocation to a particular asset class that outperforms other
asset/classes in a particular period may cause that Client account to underperform relative to the
overall market.
● Investment Risk: There is no guarantee that Titan’s judgment or investment decisions about
particular securities or asset classes will necessarily produce the intended results. Titan’s
judgment may prove to be incorrect, and a Client might not achieve his or her investment
objectives. Titan may also make future changes to the investing algorithms and services that it
provides. In addition, it is possible that Clients or Titan itself may experience computer
equipment failure, loss of internet access, viruses, or other events that may impair access to
Titan’s software based financial service.
● Volatility and Correlation Risk: Clients should be aware that Titan’s asset selection process is
based in part on a careful evaluation of past price performance and volatility in order to evaluate
future probabilities. However, it is possible that different or unrelated asset/classes may exhibit
similar price changes in similar directions which may adversely affect a Client and may become
more acute in times of market upheaval or high volatility. Past performance is no guarantee of
future results, and any historical returns, expected returns, or probability projections may not
reflect actual future performance.
● Equity-Related Risk: Investing in individual companies involves investments in common stocks
and is subject to the volatility and individual risks associated with those stocks. These price
movements may result from factors affecting individual companies, industries, or the securities
market as a whole. Individual companies may report poor results or be negatively affected by
industry and/or economic trends and developments. The prices of securities issued by such
companies may suffer a decline in response. In addition, the equity market tends to move in
cycles, which may cause stock prices to fall over short or extended periods of time.
● Fixed Income-Related Risk: Investing in fixed income instruments is subject to the interest rate
risk and individual risks associated with those securities. These price movements may result
from factors affecting interest rates, corporate debt, inflation, or the securities market as a whole.
Holdings may be negatively affected by macroeconomic trends and developments. In addition,
the fixed income markets tend to move in cycles, which may cause fixed income security prices
to fall over short or extended periods of time.
● Titan Treasury Investment Risk: Investments in Titan Treasury will include debt securities that
are backed by the full faith and credit of the U.S. government. Nevertheless, the investment will
not be insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (the “FDIC”) or any other
government agency. There is no guarantee of yield on the Client’s investment. Any potential
yield will reflect current interest rates and will change over time. During periods when interest
rates are low or there are negative interest rates, any yield (and total return) also could be low or
even negative. Titan Treasury is not designed to offer capital appreciation. In exchange for its
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emphasis on stability and liquidity, the money market investments available through Titan
Treasury may offer lower long-term performance than stock or bond investments.
● Smart Treasury. The investment options available in Smart Treasury are government money
market mutual funds ("Treasury Funds") that primarily invest in U.S. treasuries and other
government securities. Upon enrollment and before Smart Treasury can be enabled, Titan will
collect certain information from you that we use to calculate your anticipated optimal after tax
yield. Specifically, Titan will consider your (1) state of residence, (2) adjusted gross income (or
“taxable income”), (3) whether you file jointly with a spouse, (4) your household adjusted gross
income (if filing jointly), (5) all applicable Advisory Fees, and (5) the amount of your investment
and applicable Titan fees, if any (collectively your “Tax Inputs”).
○ Tax Logic Limitations. Titan will not consider other factors that may provide a more
accurate after-tax yield for you, including: (1) deductions, (2) tax credits, (3) your
specific tax obligations including any dependents, (4) your local or municipal tax
liabilities, or (5) the potential that any yield earned could be taxed as a capital gains
distribution (collectively your “Tax Input Limitations”). Titan will also not consider
contemporaneous changes in tax law. Smart Treasury is only available to U.S. residents,
and our tax logic assumes that you reside in the United States. Furthermore, Titan makes
the following additional assumptions in determining your anticipated best available
after-tax yield that may or may not be accurate for your specific tax situation:
1. There is a 1:1 ratio between a Treasury Fund’s holding mix and the interest
income contribution. For example, if a Treasury Fund is 60% invested in U.S.
Treasuries, then Titan assumes for tax purposes that 60% of the income is derived
from U.S. Treasuries.
2. Any interest derived from a Treasury Fund’s investment in U.S. Government
Agency debt is not taxable at the state level.
3. Any interest derived from a Treasury Fund’s investment in repurchase agreements
is taxable at the state level.
○ For Treasury Funds, Smart Treasury uses the current 7-Day Yield, an annualized figure
based on the average income return over the previous seven days, net of the applicable
fund's expenses, but does not include Titan’s Advisory Fee. These yields can change
frequently due to market conditions. For Cash Reserve, Smart Treasury leverages an
Annual Percentage Yield (APY) that reflects the total amount of interest paid on an
account, considering the interest rate and the frequency of compounding over a 365-day
period.
○ It's important to know that after-tax yields are estimates and may not be accurate for all
individual circumstances. Tax situations can vary significantly from person to person, and
actual after-tax earnings may be higher or lower, influenced by numerous factors
including the frequency of compounding, the variability of the yield, and personal tax
situations. Please consult with a tax advisor for accurate information regarding your
specific tax situation.
○ Investment Option Limitations. With Smart Treasury enabled, Titan will invest your funds
into a single Treasury Fund that Titan (at its sole discretion) believes to be in your best
interest after considering your Tax Inputs. Currently available investment options include,
but are not limited to, (1) Schwab U.S. Treasury Money Fund (ticker symbol SNSXX)
(the “Schwab Fund”), (2) Vanguard Treasury Money Market Fund (ticker symbol
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VUSXX) (the “Vanguard Fund”), and (3) The Gabelli U.S. Treasury Money Market Fund
(ticker symbol GABXX). Titan reserves the right to add or remove investment options at
its sole discretion and without prior notice to you. Investment options are limited to those
that are available to Titan through Apex Clearing Corporation (“Apex”), an unaffiliated
SEC-registered broker-dealer and Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (“FINRA”)
member, which provides brokerage related services to Titan and its clients. Apex will also
provide custody, clearing, and settlement services for all investments in Titan Treasury
Funds.
● ETF Risks, including Net Asset Valuations and Tracking Error: ETF performance may not
exactly match the performance of the index or market benchmark that the ETF is designed to
track because 1) the ETF will incur expenses and transaction costs not incurred by any applicable
index or market benchmark; 2) certain securities comprising the index or market benchmark
tracked by the ETF may, from time to time, temporarily be unavailable; and 3) supply and
demand in the market for either the ETF and/or for the securities held by the ETF may cause the
ETF shares to trade at a premium or discount to the actual net asset value of the securities owned
by the ETF. Certain ETF strategies may from time to time include the purchase of fixed income,
commodities, foreign securities, American Depository Receipts, or other securities for which
expenses and commission rates could be higher than normally charged for exchange-traded
equity securities, and for which market quotations or valuation may be limited or inaccurate.
Clients should be aware that to the extent Titan invests in ETF securities, they will pay two
levels of compensation – the Wrap Program Fee charged by Titan plus any management fees
charged by the issuer of the ETF. This scenario may cause a higher cost (and potentially lower
investment returns) than if a Client purchased the ETF directly.
ETFs typically include embedded expenses that may reduce the fund’s net asset value, and
therefore directly affect the fund’s performance and indirectly affect a Client’s portfolio
performance or an index benchmark comparison. Expenses of the fund may include investment
adviser management fees, custodian fees, brokerage commissions, and legal and accounting fees.
ETF expenses may change from time to time at the sole discretion of the ETF issuer. ETF
tracking error and expenses may vary. Shareholders are also liable for taxes on any fund-level
capital gains, as ETFs are required by law to distribute capital gains in the event they sell
securities for a profit that cannot be offset by a corresponding loss.
● Crypto Investment Risk. Among other risks associated with crypto investing, the prices of
underlying crypto assets can be and have been extremely volatile, and crypto asset exchanges
have been closed due to fraud, failure, or security breaches. Crypto assets are created, issued,
transmitted, and stored according to protocols run by computers in crypto asset networks. It is
possible that these protocols have undiscovered flaws which could result in the loss of some or
all crypto investment held by the Client. There may also be network attacks against these
protocols which may result in the loss of some or all crypto investments held by the Client. Some
crypto assets held indirectly by the Client may be created, issued, or transmitted using
experimental cryptography which could have underlying flaws. Advancements in quantum
computing could break the cryptographic rules of protocols which support the crypto investment
offered by Titan. Titan makes no guarantees about the reliability of the cryptography used to
create, issue, or transmit crypto assets.
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○ Crypto assets do not have stable values. Crypto assets represent a speculative investment
and involve a high degree of risk. As relatively new products and technologies, crypto
assets have not been widely adopted as a means of payment for goods and services by
major retail and commercial outlets. Conversely, a significant portion of the demand for
crypto assets is generated by speculators and investors seeking to profit from the short- or
long-term holding of crypto assets. The relative lack of acceptance of crypto assets in the
retail and commercial marketplace limits the ability of end clients to pay for goods and
services with crypto assets. A lack of expansion by crypto assets into retail and
commercial markets, or a contraction of such use, may result in increased volatility.
Prices of the crypto assets have fluctuated widely for a variety of reasons and may
continue to experience significant price fluctuations. Several factors may affect the price
of the crypto assets, including, without limitation: (i) total crypto assets in existence; (ii)
global crypto asset supply and demand; (iii) Clients' expectations with respect to the rate
of inflation of fiat currencies; (iv) currency- and crypto asset-exchange rates; (v) interest
rates; (vi) fiat currency withdrawal and deposit policies of the crypto asset exchanges;
(vii) trade volume and liquidity on crypto asset exchanges; (viii) interruptions,
suspensions, or terminations of major crypto asset exchanges; (ix) cyber theft of crypto
assets from online crypto asset wallet providers, or news of such theft from such
providers, or theft from individual crypto asset wallets; (x) investment and trading
activities of hedge funds and other large crypto asset investors; (xi) sovereign monetary
policies, trade restrictions, and inflation controls; (xii) regulatory measures that affect the
usability of crypto assets as a form of legal tender and/or otherwise restrict or facilitate
crypto asset purchases, sales, or holdings; (xiii) availability and popularity of businesses
that provide crypto asset-related services; (xiv) development and maintenance of
open-source software protocols for crypto asset networks, applications or platforms; (xv)
increased competition from other payment services; and (xvi) domestic and foreign
political, economic, and financial events and/or uncertainty.
If crypto asset markets continue to be subject to high volatility, Clients may experience
losses based on their investments. Even if Clients are able to hold their crypto assets for
long, potentially indefinite periods, their crypto assets may never generate a profit.
Additionally, Clients should be aware that there is no assurance that the crypto assets will
maintain their long-term value in terms of future purchasing power.
○ Prior performance of a crypto asset is not necessarily indicative of future results. Many
crypto assets have experienced high levels of performance and rapid increases in price,
followed by significant downturns in performance and similarly rapid decreases in price.
○ Crypto assets may not have long-term viability. Crypto assets are a new and relatively
untested product. There is considerable uncertainty about their long term viability, which
could be affected by a variety of factors, including many market-based factors such as
economic growth, inflation, and others. In addition, the success of crypto assets will
depend on the long-term utility and economic viability of blockchain and other new
technologies related to crypto assets. Due in part to these uncertainties, the price of crypto
assets are volatile and may be hard to sell. Titan does not control any of these factors, and
therefore may not be able to control the ability of any crypto asset to maintain its value
over time.
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It is not guaranteed that a liquidity partner will be able to purchase and sell crypto assets
on a Client’s behalf. The crypto asset market presents significant risks that could
negatively impact the ability to purchase and sell crypto assets on a Client’s behalf (for
example, the crypto asset market frequently involves shallow trade volume, extreme
hoarding, low liquidity, and high bankruptcy risk). Blocks of crypto assets are often
hoarded by a few owners and/or are kept out of circulation. Ownership concentration is
high, which increases liquidity risk because large blocks of crypto assets are difficult to
sell in a timely and efficient manner. Further, exchanges may not treat all customers
equally. The daily trade volume of crypto assets may also only be a small fraction of total
crypto assets mined. The lack of a robust and regulated derivatives market for crypto
assets means that market participants do not have as many mechanisms to hedge or create
the liquidity in the crypto asset market that is typical of traditional capital markets. The
crypto asset market also currently lacks many institutional participants, which could help
to stabilize the market. For these reasons, among others, any investment in crypto may
result in Titan or a third party, as applicable, being unable to purchase or sell a crypto
asset on a Client’s behalf for an extended period of time.
that could adversely
In addition, the crypto asset exchanges and other trading venues on which the crypto
assets trade are relatively new and, in most cases, largely unregulated. They may
therefore (i) be more exposed to fraud and failure than regulated exchanges for securities,
derivatives, and fiat currencies and (ii) become subject to rules and regulations that
prohibit the trading venue from listing the crypto assets held by a Client in the future.
Much of the daily trading volume of crypto assets is conducted on poorly capitalized,
unregulated, unaudited, and unaccountable exchanges located outside of the U.S. that
often do not have, or have limited, listing requirements. Such exchanges may engage in
unethical practices
impact crypto asset pricing, such as
front-running, wash trading, and trading with insufficient funds. To the extent that the
crypto asset exchanges or other crypto asset trading venues are involved in fraud or
experience security failures or other operational issues, this could result in a reduction in
crypto asset market prices and adversely affect a Client’s investment in crypto assets.
Even the largest exchanges have been subject to operational interruption (e.g., thefts of
crypto assets from operational or “hot” wallets, suspension of trading on exchanges due
to denial of service attacks by hackers, malware, bankruptcy proceedings, and cessation
of services by exchanges). Such disruptions have limited the liquidity of crypto assets on
the affected crypto asset exchange, and have resulted in higher volatility and a reduction
in confidence in the broader crypto asset market. The price of crypto assets on exchanges
may also be impacted by policies, regulations, or interruptions of the ability to transfer
fiat currency into or out of larger crypto asset exchanges.
○ Cryptocurrency Exchanges, Intermediaries and Custodians. Cryptocurrency exchanges,
as well as other intermediaries, custodians and vendors used to facilitate cryptocurrency
transactions, are relatively new and largely unregulated in both the United States and
many foreign jurisdictions. In addition to a higher level of operational risk than regulated
futures or securities exchanges, cryptocurrency exchanges can experience volatile market
movements, flash crashes, fraud, various forms of market manipulation, theft, transaction
processing delays and other cybersecurity risks. Trading in cryptocurrencies may be
halted by the various trading venues due to unusual trading activity, outages or other
problems with a cryptocurrency platform. If any such exchange, intermediary or
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custodian experiences such technical difficulties, those difficulties could prevent you
from accessing the cryptocurrency holdings in your Crypto account. Any such third party,
as well as Titan, may not have sufficient financial coverage through bonds, insurance or
other products to repay your losses.
○ The value of crypto assets is uncertain and may not match the price a Client pays. Crypto
assets, and securities that track the value of crypto assets derive their value from a variety
of factors, including demand for the crypto asset associated with its utility or
functionality. Additionally, value is affected by demand for the crypto asset from
speculators. If too many speculators invest in crypto assets the value of the crypto assets
may not correspond to the price at which the crypto assets are exchanged. The value of
crypto assets may in particular be subject to momentum pricing and therefore, an
inaccurate valuation. Momentum pricing typically is associated with growth stocks and
other assets whose valuation, as determined by the investing public, accounts for
anticipated future appreciation in value. The price of a crypto asset is determined
primarily using data from various currency exchanges, over-the-counter markets, and
derivative platforms. Momentum pricing of crypto assets has resulted, and may continue
to result, in speculation regarding future appreciation in the value of the crypto assets,
inflating and making more volatile the price of such crypto assets. The crypto assets that
lead the market may be subject to even more speculation.
In addition, the value of the crypto assets on trading venues that are largely unregulated
may be inaccurate and the rules or regulations that apply to such trading venues are
subject to change, which may result in the listing of the crypto assets held by a Client to
be removed from certain trading venues, further obscuring the valuation of such crypto
assets.
○ Innovations in the crypto asset industry may cause the crypto assets purchased on behalf
of a Client to lose value. The development and acceptance of the cryptographic and
algorithmic protocols governing the issuance of and transactions in crypto assets is
subject to a variety of factors that are difficult to evaluate and predict. The use of crypto
assets to, among other things, buy and sell goods and services is part of a new and rapidly
evolving commercial practice that employs digital assets based on a computer-generated
mathematical and/or cryptographic protocol. The growth of this commercial practice in
general, and the use of crypto assets in particular, is subject to a high degree of
uncertainty. Factors affecting further development of the crypto asset industry include,
among other things, the continued worldwide adoption of crypto assets; governmental
and quasi-governmental regulation of crypto assets and/or crypto asset exchanges;
changing consumer demographics, tastes and preferences; sustained development and
maintenance of open-source software protocols; the popularity and availability of
alternative and/or new payment services; and general economic conditions. If these
factors negatively affect or impede the development of the crypto asset industry, the value
of a Client’s investment in crypto assets may also be negatively affected.
○ Crypto assets may be negatively affected by technological advances that undermine the
cryptographic consensus mechanism underpinning blockchain and distributed ledger
protocols. Advances in cryptography or technical advances such as the development of
quantum computing could present risks to the viability of crypto assets by undermining
or vitiating the cryptographic consensus mechanism that underpins blockchain and
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distributed ledger protocols. Similarly, legislators could prohibit the use of current and/or
future cryptographic protocols.
○ Crypto assets may rely on third-party blockchains. Certain crypto assets may rely on or
are built on a public or third-party blockchain and the success of such blockchain may
have a direct impact on the success of crypto assets offered via the Titan Platform. These
crypto assets are partly dependent on the effectiveness and success of such blockchains,
as well as the success of other blockchain and decentralized data storage systems that are
being used by the issuer of the crypto assets. There is no guarantee that any of these
systems or their sponsors will continue to exist or be successful. This could lead to
disruptions of the operations of the issuer of crypto assets offered via the Titan Platform
and could negatively affect any crypto assets held by a Client from such issuer.
○ Geopolitical events may affect the value of crypto assets. The impact of geopolitical
events on the supply and demand for crypto assets is uncertain. As an alternative to fiat
currencies that are backed by central governments, digital assets such as crypto assets,
which are relatively new, are subject to supply and demand forces based in part upon the
desirability of an alternative, decentralized means of buying and selling goods and
services. It is unclear how such supply and demand will be impacted by geopolitical
events. Nevertheless, political or economic crises may motivate large-scale acquisitions
or sales of crypto assets globally and/or locally. Large-scale sales of crypto assets are
likely to result in a reduction in the value of crypto assets offered via the Titan Platform
and may adversely affect a Client’s investment in crypto assets via the Titan Platform.
○ The exchanges used to execute transactions in crypto assets are not always accurate. The
execution of transactions in crypto assets on exchanges may, from time to time, result in
certain trade errors. These trade errors may occur any time an exchange is used to
purchase crypto assets on behalf of Clients.
○ Regulatory changes may affect the value of crypto assets. Regulation of crypto assets in
the U.S. and in foreign jurisdictions is in its early stages of development and is subject to
unpredictable changes which may have an adverse impact on the crypto assets offered via
the Titan Platform. The regulatory status of crypto assets remains unclear or unsettled in
many jurisdictions. Legislative and regulatory changes or actions at the local, state,
federal, foreign, or international level may adversely affect the use, transfer, exchange,
and value of crypto assets. These legislative and regulatory changes or actions are
difficult to predict and may adversely impact the crypto assets offered via the Titan
Platform.
As crypto assets have grown in popularity and market size, U.S. legislators and regulators
have begun to develop laws and regulations and have, at times, released interpretive
guidance governing the crypto asset industry. Both legislators and regulators have
expressed concerns that crypto assets can be used by criminals to evade taxes and launder
money. To the extent that future actions by legislators and/or regulators impose
restrictions or limitations on the crypto asset market, the demand for crypto assets is
likely to be reduced. In addition, such actions may limit the ability of Clients to convert
crypto assets into fiat currency or use crypto assets to pay for goods and services, which,
in each case, is likely to result in a reduction of demand and, in turn, a decline in the
value of crypto assets.
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Additional or changing regulations could also limit the use of crypto assets on various
crypto asset platforms. Such reductions in use could decrease or remove the value of the
functionality achieved on those platforms and cause a substantial decrease in the value of
the crypto assets.
Various foreign jurisdictions may adopt laws, regulations, or directives that address the
crypto asset market and participants in such market. Any such laws, regulations, or
directives may (i) conflict with those of the U.S., (ii) negatively impact the acceptance of
crypto assets inside and outside the U.S., (iii) impede the growth or sustainability of the
crypto asset market in foreign jurisdictions, and/or (iv) otherwise negatively affect the
value of crypto assets. These laws, regulations or directives, if any, are impossible to
predict, but any such change could be substantial and adverse to the value of investments
made by Clients in crypto assets.
Regulation of crypto assets in the U.S. varies by state, and the regulations of certain states
may limit the ability of third parties to operate within those states. Certain states require
persons to obtain a license to conduct a crypto asset business. If a third party facilitating
your investment in Crypto at Titan were deemed to be conducting an unlicensed crypto
asset business, it would be subject to significant additional regulation and/or regulatory
consequences. This could lead to significant changes with respect to Clients investments
in crypto assets.
Additionally, the different regulations by state could affect the transferability of crypto
assets. To the extent that state regulations differ, certain crypto assets may only be
tradable in specific states. This could decrease the demand for and market for crypto
assets.
○ Clients should not count on any protection or guarantees from federal or state securities
laws with respect to crypto assets. Many crypto assets, including crypto assets offered via
the Titan Platform, are not registered with or qualified by the SEC. Although Titan is
registered under the Advisers Act and Clients are provided certain protections from fraud
under applicable securities laws, Clients will generally not otherwise be afforded the full
set of protections provided under the Securities Act of 1933 (the “Securities Act”),
Securities Exchange Act of 1934, other federal securities laws or comparable state law
with respect to any underlying crypto assets in which Clients have invested through their
Crypto account. Thus, Clients should not expect any protection under the Securities Act.
Further, if a regulator were to find that an underlying crypto asset should have been
registered under the Securities Act or state law, it could disrupt the market in that crypto
asset. If regulators were to take action related to a crypto asset that a Client has invested
in, it could decrease the value of the crypto asset or lead to a determination that the
transaction in the crypto asset is void. ETFs that you invest in via your Titan Crypto
account are securities, however, and are afforded protections under the Securities Act,
although such protection may not make Clients whole for all losses that may ensue.
○ It is not clear how crypto asset investments and any returns thereon will be taxed. The tax
characterization of crypto assets is uncertain. The purchase of crypto assets may result in
adverse tax consequences to a Client, including withholding taxes, income taxes, and tax
reporting requirements. Clients are encouraged to review IRS Notice 2014-21 (the
“Notice”) that sets forth published guidance from the U.S. Internal Revenue Service
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released in 2014 concerning the consequences of transacting in crypto assets. If a crypto
asset is characterized as a “virtual currency” for income purposes, then, under the Notice,
the general rules applicable to property transactions would apply. Potential Clients are
strongly encouraged to seek independent legal and tax advice regarding their individual
circumstances and objectives in determining the percentage of assets to invest in crypto
assets via the Titan Platform.
○ A stolen or incorrectly transferred digital asset is generally not retrievable. Once a
transaction has been verified and recorded in a block that is added to the blockchain, an
incorrect transfer of crypto assets or a theft of crypto assets generally will not be
reversible. To the extent that any third party who controls the direct crypto investment
that underlies your Crypto account investments is unable to seek redress for such error or
theft, such loss could adversely affect a Client’s investment.
○ Concentration of Investments: The portfolios will typically hold a relatively small
number of security positions, which will expose the portfolio to the particular industry or
market sector the security represents and the value of the specific company. Losses in one
or more positions, or a downturn in an industry or market sector in which the company
participates, could adversely affect the portfolio’s performance in a particular period.
Portfolios will also generally be concentrated in a single or limited number of crypto
securities. This is particularly true given the limited number of crypto assets available via
the Titan Platform. Such limited diversification may heighten the concentration of risk,
which, in turn, could expose the Client to losses disproportionate to market movements in
general if there are disproportionately greater adverse price movements with respect to
investments.
● Risks of RICs: Shares of RICs are generally distributed and redeemed on an ongoing basis by the
fund itself or a broker acting on its behalf. The trading price at which a share is transacted is
equal to a fund’s stated daily per share net asset value (“NAV”), plus any shareholders fees (e.g.,
sales loads, purchase fees, redemption fees). The per share NAV of a RIC is calculated at the end
of each business day, although the actual NAV fluctuates with intraday changes to the market
value of the fund’s holdings. The trading prices of a RICs shares may differ significantly from
the NAV during periods of market volatility, which may, among other factors, lead to the mutual
fund’s shares trading at a premium or discount to NAV.
● Risks of Interval Funds: An interval fund is a type of closed-end RIC with shares that are
redeemed when the fund periodically offers to repurchase a percentage of outstanding shares at
NAV. The rules for interval funds, along with the types of assets held, make this investment
largely illiquid compared with (open-end) mutual funds and ETFs. Offers to repurchase shares
may be oversubscribed, with the result that shareholders may only be able to have a portion of
their shares repurchased. There is no guarantee that an investor will be able to redeem shares on
a given repurchase date or in the desired amount. In addition, to the extent an interval fund
invests in companies with smaller market capitalizations, derivatives, or securities that entail
significant market or credit risk, the liquidity risk may be greater. Clients should refer to the
interval fund’s prospectus for details.
● Fundamental Investment Strategy Risks: Titan’s portfolio management and trading decisions are
based on fundamental research conducted by its professionals. The research process incorporates
various operating and financial factors aimed at exploiting market trends, anomalies and pricing
discrepancies with a view to selecting investments in pursuit of the portfolio’s investment
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objectives. The process of designing and perfecting the research, portfolio construction, and
management model is highly complex. Titan cannot guarantee that the model will indeed
function as intended or that it will produce profits on investments as implemented. The
fundamental and quantitative strategies utilized by Titan have inherent limitations, including the
possibility of human error in the design, data input or implementation process, imperfections of a
model to keep up with changes in the markets and the behavior of market participants over time.
The risk of errors, malfunctions and anomalies is inherent in each component of the
programming process, how those components function together, and how the program absorbs
market data interpreted by Titan. In addition, any portfolio manager judgment during the
approval or override of model results is based on human skills and abilities similar to
non-quantitative investing, with all the risks, potential errors or miscalculations that any asset or
portfolio manager faces.
● Liquidity and Valuation Risk: High volatility and/or the lack of deep and active liquid markets
for a security asset may prevent the sale of a Client’s securities assets at all, or at an
advantageous time or price because Titan and Apex may have difficulty finding a buyer and may
be forced to sell at a significant discount to market value. Some securities (including ETFs) that
hold or trade financial instruments may be adversely affected by liquidity issues as they manage
their portfolios. While Titan values the securities held in Client accounts based on reasonably
available exchange-traded security data, Titan may from time to time receive or use inaccurate
data, which could adversely affect security valuations, transaction size for purchases or sales,
and/or the resulting fees paid to Titan.
● Credit Risk: Titan cannot control, and Clients are exposed to, the risk that financial
intermediaries or issuers may experience adverse economic consequences that may include
impaired credit ratings, default, bankruptcy or insolvency, any of which may affect portfolio
values or management. This risk applies to assets on deposit with any broker utilized by a Client,
notwithstanding asset segregation and insurance requirements that are beneficial to Clients
generally. In addition, exchange trading venues or trade settlement and clearing intermediaries
could experience adverse events that may temporarily or permanently limit trading or adversely
affect the value of securities assets held by Clients. Finally, any issuer of securities assets may
experience a credit event that could impair or erase the value of the issuer’s securities assets held
by a Client. Titan seeks to limit credit risk through ETFs, which are subject to regulatory limits
and leverage such that fund shareholders are given liquidation priority versus the fund issuer;
however, certain funds and products may involve higher issuer credit risk because they are not
structured as a registered fund.
● Legislative and Tax Risk: Performance may directly or indirectly be affected by government
legislation or regulation, which may include, but is not limited to: changes in investment adviser
or securities asset trading regulation; change in the U.S. government’s guarantee of ultimate
payment of principal and interest on certain government securities and changes in the tax code
that could affect interest income, income characterization, and/or tax reporting obligations.
● Inflation, Currency, and Interest Rate Risks: Security prices and portfolio returns will likely vary
in response to changes in inflation and interest rates. Inflation causes the value of future dollars
to be worth less and may reduce the purchasing power of an investor’s future interest payments
and principal. Inflation also generally leads to higher interest rates, which in turn may cause the
value of many types of fixed income investments to decline. The liquidity and trading value of
foreign currencies could be affected by global economic factors, such as inflation, interest rate
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levels, and trade balances among countries, as well as the actions of sovereign governments and
central banks. In addition, the relative value of the U.S. dollar-denominated assets managed by
Titan may be affected by the risk that currency devaluations affect Titan’s purchasing power.
● Operational Risk: Operational risk is the exposure to the chance of loss arising from
shortcomings or failures in internal processes or systems of Titan, TGT, or Apex, external events
impacting those systems, and human error. A Client account may suffer a loss arising from
shortcomings or failures in internal processes, people or systems, or from external events.
Operational risk can arise from many factors ranging from routine processing errors to
potentially costly incidents related to, for example, major systems failures.
Trade errors and other operational mistakes (“Operating Events”) occasionally may occur in
connection with Titan’s management of Client accounts. Titan has policies and procedures that
address identification and correction of Operating Events. An Operating Event generally is
compensable by Titan to a Client when it is a mistake (whether an action or inaction) in which
Titan has, in Titan’s reasonable view, deviated from the applicable investment guidelines or the
applicable standard of care in managing a Client account, subject to the considerations set forth
below.
Operating Events may include, but are not limited to, the following: (i) the placement of orders
(either purchases or sales) in excess of the amount intended to trade for a Client account; (ii) the
purchase (or sale) of when it should have been sold (or purchased); (iii) a purchase or sale not
intended for the Client account; and (iv) incorrect allocations of trades. Operating Events can
also occur in connection with other activities that are undertaken by Titan and TGT, such as fee
calculations, and other matters that are non-advisory in nature.
Titan makes its determinations regarding Operating Events pursuant to its policies on a case-
by-case basis, in its discretion, based on factors it considers reasonable, including regulatory
requirements, contractual obligations, and business practices. Not all Operating Events will be
considered compensable mistakes.
Relevant factors Titan considers when evaluating whether an Operating Event is compensable
include, among others, the nature of the service being provided at the time of the event, specific
applicable contractual and legal requirements and standards of care, whether an applicable
investment guideline was contravened, and the nature of the relevant circumstances.
Operating Events may result in gains or losses or could have no financial impact. Operating
Events involving erroneous transactions in Client accounts generally are corrected in accordance
with the procedures established by Titan, TGT, and/or Apex.
When Titan determines that remediation by Titan is appropriate, the Client will be compensated
as determined in good faith by Titan. Titan will determine the amount to be reimbursed, if any,
based on what it considers reasonable guidelines regarding these matters in light of all of the
facts and circumstances related to the Operating Event. In general, compensation is expected to
be limited to direct and actual losses, which may be calculated relative to comparable
conforming investments, market factors and benchmarks and with reference to related
transactions, and/or other factors Titan considers relevant. Compensation generally will not
include any amounts or measures that Titan determines are speculative or uncertain.
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● Cybersecurity Risks: Titan and its service providers are subject to risks associated with a breach
in cybersecurity. Cybersecurity is a generic term used to describe the technology, processes and
practices designed
to protect networks, systems, computers, programs and data from
cyber-attacks and hacking by other computer users, and to avoid the resulting damage and
disruption of hardware and software systems, loss or corruption of data, and/or misappropriation
of confidential information. In general, cyber-attacks are deliberate, but unintentional events may
have similar effects. Cyber-attacks may cause losses to Titan’s Clients by interfering with the
processing of transactions, affecting Titan’s ability to calculate net asset value or impeding or
sabotaging trading. Clients may also incur substantial costs as the result of a cybersecurity
breach, including those associated with forensic analysis of the origin and scope of the breach,
increased and upgraded cybersecurity, identity theft, unauthorized use of proprietary information,
litigation, and the dissemination of confidential and proprietary information. Any such breach
could expose Titan to civil liability as well as regulatory inquiry and/or action. In addition,
Clients could be exposed to additional losses as a result of unauthorized use of their personal
information. While we have established business continuity plans, incident response plans and
systems designed to prevent cyber-attacks, there are inherent limitations in such plans and
systems, including the possibility that certain risks have not been identified. Similar types of
cybersecurity risks also are present for issuers of securities assets in which we invest, which
could result in material adverse consequences for such issuers and may cause a Client’s
investment in such securities assets to lose value.
● Reliance on Management and Other Third Parties: ETF investments will rely on third-party
management and advisers. Titan is not expected to have an active role in the day-to-day
management of fund investments. Carried interest and other incentive distributions to fund
management may create an incentive towards more speculative investments than would
otherwise have been made.
● Market Volatility: General economic conditions have an impact on the success of Titan’s
investment strategies. Changing external economic conditions in the U.S. and global economics
could have a significant impact on the success of the Titan Platform and Clients’ investments.
The stability and sustainability of growth in global economies may be impacted by terrorism or
acts of war. There can be no assurance that such markets and economic systems will be available
for issuers of securities assets available via the Titan Platform to operate. Changing economic
conditions, thus, could potentially adversely impact the valuation of Clients’ investments in
securities assets via the Titan Platform.
● Large Investment Risks: Clients may collectively account for a large portion of the assets in
certain investments. A decision by many investors to buy or sell some or all of a particular
investment where Clients hold a significant portion of that investment may negatively impact the
value of that investment.
● Limitations of Disclosure: The foregoing list of risks does not purport to be a complete
enumeration or explanation of the risks involved in investing in investments. As investment
strategies develop and change over time, Clients may be subject to additional and different risk
factors. No assurance can be made that profits will be achieved or that substantial losses will not
be incurred.
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Voting of Client Securities
Titan exercises voting authority over Client proxies pursuant to its proxy voting policies and procedures
in accordance with Rule 206(4)-6 of the Advisers Act. The policies require Titan to vote proxies
received in a manner consistent with the overall best interests of the Clients and to seek to avoid material
conflicts of interests. Titan has retained a third party service provider, Glass Lewis & Co. (“Glass
Lewis”), to provide research recommendations, voting and recordkeeping services with respect to
Clients’ securities for which Titan has proxy voting authority.
Glass Lewis provides Titan recommendations intended to maximize shareholder value. These
recommendations are based on Glass Lewis’ own internal guidelines, research, and analysis. Glass
Lewis’s Proxy Voting Policy Guidelines can be found here. Proxy votes are generally cast consistent
with Glass Lewis analysis and recommendations; however, Titan will vote against a recommendation, or
abstain from voting, if it is deemed in the best interest of its Clients to do so. Titan considers the
following factors, among others, in determining whether a proposal is in its Clients’ best interests: (1)
economic effect on shareholder value; (2) impact to existing shareholder rights; (3) dilution of existing
shares; (4) effect on management or director accountability to shareholders; and (5) if a shareholder
initiative, impact to the time and resources of the company. If a material conflict of interest regarding
proxy voting arises between Titan and its Clients that is not adequately addressed by the aforementioned
guidelines, Titan will notify Clients of the conflict and request consent to Titan’s intended response to
the proxy solicitation. If Clients consent to Titan’s intended response or fail to respond to the notice
within a reasonable time specified in the notice, Titan will vote the proxy as described in the notice. If
Clients object in writing to Titan’s intended response, then Titan will vote in accordance with such
Clients’ response. Titan has implemented policies and procedures that are reasonably designed to
sufficiently evaluate Glass Lewis to ensure that Titan casts votes in the best interests of its Clients. Titan
conducts initial and ongoing due diligence of Glass Lewis, including without limitation: evaluating the
Glass Lewis proxy voting guidelines, periodically sampling proxy vote recommendations provided by
Glass Lewis to ensure that voting complies with Titan’s proxy voting policy and procedures, and
reviewing conflicts of interest disclosed by Glass Lewis and determining whether Glass Lewis’s policies
and procedures are reasonably designed to address the conflicts of interest. Clients may request a copy
of Titan’s proxy voting policies and procedures and voting records, as provided by Rule 206(4)-6, by
contacting Titan at support@titan.com.
Clients are permitted to vote their own proxies by submitting a request in writing to Titan. If a client
chooses to vote their own proxies, they do so on an “all or none” basis and agree to respond to their own
proxies independently of Titan.
Clients shall maintain exclusive responsibility for all legal proceedings or other type events pertaining to
the account assets, including, but not limited to, class action lawsuits.
Item 7. Client Information Provided to
Portfolio Managers
Titan acts as the sole portfolio manager under the Wrap Program and, as such, it does not share Client
information with any other portfolio managers. Titan has access to all Client information with respect to
the particular Client accounts managed through the Titan Platform. Titan relies on information provided
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by the Client through the interactive questionnaire and/or live conversations with clients in order to
provide investment advice.
Titan gathers information regarding the Client’s financial circumstances, investment goals, and
investment objectives. Other information collected by Titan through the questionnaire or Advisor calls
may include, among other things, information about a Client’s investment horizon, investment
experience, and net worth. Clients are reminded to promptly update the information provided in their
profiles, entered via the Titan Platform, if such information changes.
Item 8. Client Contact with Portfolio
Managers
Information regarding a Client’s portfolio holdings and performance will be available to Clients through
the Titan Platform. Clients may communicate with Titan through the Titan Platform and via email at
support@titan.com. Clients may contact Titan with respect to technical or operational questions
regarding the web-based application via email or telephone. Titan provides investment advice through
the Titan Platform. Titan may occasionally provide investment advice in person or over the phone.
Item 9. Additional Information
Disciplinary Information
Registered investment advisers are required to disclose all material facts regarding any legal or
disciplinary events that would be material to an evaluation of such adviser or the integrity of such
adviser’s management.
Titan’s employees, including its registered investment adviser representatives, have not been involved
on an individual basis in any legal or disciplinary events that are material to a Client’s evaluation of
Titan’s advisory business or the integrity of its management.
On August 21, 2023, Titan announced a settlement with the SEC that primarily covers certain legacy
marketing and disclosure issues involving Titan’s cryptocurrency strategy between August 2021 and
October 2022. The SEC order states that Titan did not implement policies and procedures that were
reasonably designed to comply with marketing regulations and made certain misleading representations.
Although Titan reached a settlement with the SEC, Titan neither admits nor denies any wrongdoing.
Titan fully cooperated with the SEC’s inquiry and is pleased to have reached a resolution of these issues.
The SEC Order acknowledges Titan’s cooperation and remedial efforts since July 2022, including hiring
a new Chief Legal and Chief Compliance Officer and additional legal and compliance staff. Titan
continues to make significant investments to build and enhance its compliance program.
The settlement also covers policy and procedure issues, and a customer agreement issue. To resolve the
matter, Titan has paid $1,050,052, which has been used to compensate impacted customers.
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Other Financial Industry Activities and Affiliations
Titan is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Titan Global Capital Management, Inc. (“Titan Global”), which is
also the parent company of TGT.
Broker-Dealer
Titan’s affiliate, TGT, is registered with the SEC as a broker-dealer and is also a FINRA member.
Certain of Titan’s personnel are registered representatives of TGT to the extent necessary or appropriate
to perform their responsibilities. TGT primarily introduces Clients to full-service carrying brokers; this
is currently exclusive to Apex. Titan and TGT have overlapping officers and personnel, and also share
office space and certain expenses.
Titan requires Clients to use the execution services offered by TGT. For the avoidance of doubt, Titan
places trades on behalf of Clients with TGT, which will introduce the trades to Apex on a fully disclosed
basis, and Apex will execute such trades on behalf of said Clients. Apex also clears and settles all trades.
TGT shares in certain fees paid by the Client to Apex or otherwise (including, without limitation,
additional fees for the preparation and delivery of paper documents, account transfers and other
services), which creates a conflict of interest for Titan in performing its services pursuant to the
Advisory Account Management Agreement.
TGT makes available to its customers the ability to participate in a cash sweep program (the “Cash
Sweep Program”) facilitated by Apex, whereby cash held in eligible customer accounts is deposited into
an FDIC-insured account at one or more participating banks. TGT customers participating in the Cash
Sweep Program receive interest from participating banks on the cash deposited pursuant to the Cash
Sweep Program terms. In addition, TGT pays a cash payment to customers who participate in the Cash
Sweep Program. TGT receives variable income, which is subject to change, from Apex in connection
with customers’ participation in the Cash Sweep Program. TGT and Titan therefore have an incentive to
encourage Clients to participate in the Cash Sweep Program. Clients must affirmatively elect to
participate in the Cash Sweep Program. Please be advised that Clients will likely receive a higher APY
if they choose to hold their cash elsewhere.
Payment For Order Flow
Broadly speaking, the concept of payment for order flow encompasses a wide variety of cash or in-kind
compensation structures that a broker may receive for directing its customers’ orders to a particular
broker-dealer or trading venue. Apex receives remuneration for directing orders to particular broker
dealers or market centers for execution. TGT, which clears trades through Apex, shares in such
payments. The remuneration TGT receives will be directly correlated to the amount of trading activity
directed by Titan for Client accounts. Titan does not otherwise have insight into the payment for order
flow generated for any individual trade. The SEC has stated that the existence of payment for order flow
raises the potential for conflicts of interest for broker-dealers handling customer orders. That said, TGT
conducts regular and rigorous reviews of Titan’s orders and execution quality and TGT will consider its
order-for-flow arrangement with Apex when conducting these reviews.
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Relationship with ARK Investment Management LLC
ARK pays TGT a services fee (“Services Fee”) in connection with brokerage services TGT provides
related to the ARK Venture Fund. The Services Fee is the greater of (1) a fixed fee or (2) an asset-based
fee that varies according to the value of Titan advisory Client and TGT brokerage customers’ interests in
the ARK Venture Fund. TGT’s receipt of this fee from ARK creates a conflict of interest for Titan in
performing its advisory services pursuant to the Advisory Account Management Agreement because
TGT receives compensation when Titan recommends the ARK Venture Fund to advisory Clients that it
would not receive when Titan recommends other investment products that do not compensate TGT for
brokerage services to advisory Clients.
Titan does not charge an asset-based Wrap Program Fee for Client assets invested in the ARK Venture
Fund. However, as set forth below. Further, Titan has implemented policies and procedures designed to
help ensure that its recommendations of the ARK Venture Fund are in the best interest of Clients,
notwithstanding the relationship between ARK Venture Fund and TGT.
Code of Ethics
Titan has adopted a Code of Ethics (“Code”) as required by the applicable securities laws. The Code
establishes and reinforces a standard of business conduct expected of its supervised persons and
provides specific guidance related to managing conflicts of interests and Titan’s fiduciary duty to its
Clients. This includes procedures relating to: (1) the confidentiality of Client information; (2) a
prohibition on insider trading; (3) a prohibition of rumor mongering; (4) restrictions on the acceptance
of significant gifts and the reporting of certain gifts and business entertainment items; (5) personal
securities asset trading procedures; and (6) reporting of internal violations of the Code, among other
things. All supervised persons at Titan must acknowledge the terms of the Code annually, or as
amended. Titan will provide a copy of its Code to Clients and prospective Clients upon request. To
request a copy of the Code, please contact Titan at support@titan.com.
Brokerage and Custody Practice
As discussed above, TGT, Titan’s affiliated broker-dealer, introduces all trades in securities (placed by
Titan on behalf of its Clients) to Apex, an unaffiliated qualified custodian. Apex establishes and carries
Client accounts that hold Client securities and cash, and records Client trades. In each case, orders for
Clients are placed with TGT and effected manually and/or through electronic trading systems
maintained by TGT, which will then be executed by Apex.
Titan and TGT seek to use a custodian/clearing broker that will hold Client assets on terms that are most
advantageous when compared with other available providers and their services. We consider a wide
range of factors, including the ability to clear and settle trades, capabilities to facilitate transfers and
payments to and from accounts (wire transfers, check requests, bill payment, etc.), availability of
investment research and tools that assist us in making investment decisions, quality of services,
competitiveness of the price of those services, reputation, financial strength, and stability of the provider.
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Duty to Seek Best Execution
Titan’s use of TGT and Apex will comply with its duty to obtain “best execution.” In seeking best
execution, the determinative factor is not just cost, but whether the transaction represents the best
qualitative execution, taking into consideration the full range of the broker’s services described above.
To participate in the Wrap Program, Clients direct all brokerage transactions for their accounts to TGT.
Clients cannot designate or select a different broker for trade execution. Titan may use other brokers to
execute trades for Client accounts other than Apex.
As part of its best execution responsibilities, Titan reviews and monitors, among other things, (a) data
and/or reports regarding execution costs of transactions executed by Apex. Titan seeks to ensure that
Clients' transactions are conducted in the best interest of Clients, including by continuing to seek to
obtain best execution for Clients through Titan’s review and adoption of TGT’s best execution policies
and procedures, and any material updates thereto with regard to trades placed by or through TGT. In
addition, Titan’s trade allocation policy seeks to (i) provide a fair allocation of purchases and sales of
investments among Clients, (ii) not systematically advantage one Client over another, and (iii) ensure
compliance with appropriate regulatory requirements.
As discussed further above, from time to time, Apex receives compensation in the form of rebates,
monetary compensation, or inter-company transfer of funds for routing customer orders, including
orders for Clients, to a designated exchange, market maker, dealer, or market center for execution. TGT
receives payments from Apex in connection with such order flow, and, in all cases, Titan and TGT, seek
the best execution possible for Clients’ orders.
Trade Aggregation
When Titan considers it to be in your best interest, we may, but are not required to, aggregate your order
for the sale or purchase of securities for your account with orders for other Clients of the Wrap Program.
Under this approach, the transactions may be averaged as to the price and will be allocated among our
Clients in proportion to the purchase and sale orders placed for each Client account.
Trade Errors
Consistent with its fiduciary duties, Titan’s policy is to exercise care in making and implementing
investment decisions for Client accounts. Titan typically employs operational quality control procedures.
However, Titan relies on a significant amount of data from multiple sources and cannot guarantee that
all relevant data are free from error.
Under Titan’s policy, a trade error will be researched to determine whether Clients were economically
harmed as a result of the error. Where it is determined that Titan caused the error, the Client will be
reimbursed by Titan for losses directly attributable to Titan’s error. If an investment gain is realized in
the Client’s account, the Client may retain such gain.
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Custody
Titan does not maintain custody of Client assets that we manage. Client assets are maintained in an
account at a “qualified custodian,” Apex, with the exception of cash maintained in the Cash Sweep
Program directly. Under Titan’s Advisory Account Management Agreement, Clients authorize Titan to
instruct the custodian to deduct Titan’s advisory fees directly from Client accounts at Apex, which is
considered a form of “custody.” For this reason, we are deemed to have “custody” of Client assets for
this limited purpose. While Titan instructs Apex to withdraw its fees, Apex maintains actual custody of
Client assets. Clients will receive account statements from Apex on a monthly basis. Account statements
from Apex will reflect the withdrawal of any fees. All Clients are advised to review their account
statements promptly to confirm the accuracy of the information contained. Should discrepancies or
errors be found, Clients should contact Titan, TGT or Apex directly.
If a Client elects to participate in the Cash Sweep Program, which is facilitated by Apex, cash
maintained in eligible Apex customer accounts is deposited into an account at one or more participating
banks, including BNY Mellon, N.A. (as Intermediary Bank). A list of participating banks is available at:
https://apexfintechsolutions.com/legal/disclosures/.
Participation or Interest in Client Transactions and Personal Trading
Titan anticipates that, in appropriate circumstances, consistent with Clients’ investment objectives, it
will recommend to accounts advised by Titan to effect the purchase or sale of securities assets in which
Titan, TGT, its management persons and/or Clients, directly or indirectly, have a position or interest.
These activities create conflicts of interest between TGT and Titan’s Clients with regard to such matters
as allocation of opportunities to participate in, or refrain from participation in, particular investments or
to dispose of certain investments.
We address these conflicts in various ways, including (i) through disclosure in this Wrap Brochure and
in the Advisory Account Management Agreement; (ii) we are required to recommend securities assets
that are suitable for each Client based upon Client investment goals, time horizon and risk profile; and
(iii) we have established a variety of restrictions, procedures and disclosures designed to address
potential conflicts of interest—both those arising between and among Client accounts as well as between
Client accounts and our business.
Titan’s employees and persons associated with Titan are required to follow Titan’s Code. Employees of
Titan and TGT may not trade for their own accounts in securities assets which are restricted by Titan.
The Code is designed to assure that the personal securities asset transactions, activities and interests of
our employees will not interfere with (i) making decisions in the best interest of Clients; and (ii)
implementing such decisions while, at the same time, allowing employees to invest for their own
accounts. Under the Code, certain classes of securities assets have been designated as exempt
transactions, based upon a determination that personal employee transactions in these types of securities
assets would not materially interfere with the best interest of Titan’s Clients. Employee trading is
continually monitored under the Code, and to reasonably prevent conflicts of interest between Titan,
TGT, and its Clients. Titan requires Clients to use the services of TGT, its affiliated broker-dealer, which
executes trades through Apex.
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Review of Accounts
Titan will contact or remind Clients on a no less than annual basis to ask if there have been any changes
to their financial situation and investment objectives, and to update their information. Titan, as
applicable, conducts reviews when material changes may have occurred to a Client’s portfolio or
investment objectives and Titan is made aware of those material changes by the Client. Titan may not
monitor all Client accounts at all times. Titan considers implications and the volatility associated with
each of its chosen asset classes when deciding when and how to rebalance portfolios.
Apex prepares statements showing all transactions and account balances on a monthly basis. All
information relating to Client accounts, including account performance and account balance, are
provided on the Titan Platform in real-time. Titan urges Clients to compare Apex account statements
with the information available on the Titan Platform.
Client Referrals and Other Compensation
Titan and its related persons do not receive an economic benefit (such as sales awards or other prizes)
from any third party for providing investment advice to Clients.
Titan may from time to time offer compensation to current Clients, current employees, and solicitors for
referring new Clients. Titan has certain arrangements in which it pays third parties (e.g., bloggers and
others) who post advertisements for Titan a flat fee per each referred Client. Titan also engages in
partnerships that may pay Titan for referral of client services. All such compensation arrangements are
disclosed at the time of referral. In addition, Titan’s “refer a friend” or similar program offers a monetary
award, or other similar compensation, for qualified referrals. Referral programs may be terminated at
any time, and referral rewards are subject to removal at any time and at Titan’s sole discretion.
New Clients are advised of the compensation received by the referring client before opening the
account. Referring Clients and solicitors must adhere to terms and conditions established by Titan and
set forth in an agreement with Titan in accordance with Securities and Exchange Commission Rule
206(4)-3 under the Advisers Act. Referrals can only be made within the Titan Platform. Clients are not
charged any fee or other costs for being referred to Titan by a current Client, marketer or solicitor. These
arrangements may create an incentive for a third party or other existing Client to refer prospective
Clients to Titan, even if the third party would otherwise not make the referral. These arrangements may
also create a conflict of interest for a Client to maintain a certain level of assets managed through Titan
if doing so would result in eligibility to receive an incentive, bonus or additional compensation.
Financial Information
In certain circumstances, registered investment advisers are required to provide you with financial
information and disclosures about their financial condition. Titan does not require or solicit the
prepayment of any fees and does not have any financial condition that is reasonably likely to impair it
from meeting its contractual commitments to Clients. Titan has not been the subject of any bankruptcy
proceedings.
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