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West Advisors, Incorporated
Item 1
Cover Page of Form ADV Part 2
Firm Brochure
Part 2B Supplement Attached
David West, CFA, MBA
Owner
email: westadvisors@comcast.net
11905 Napa Valley Lane, Fishers, IN 46037
Phone: (317) 627‐1083
February 2026
This brochure provides information about the qualifications and business practices of West Advisors,
Incorporated. In this brochure, when we say “we”, “our” or “us”, we mean West Advisors, Incorporated.
Any time we refer to ourselves as a “registered investment adviser” or indicate that we are “registered”, it
does not imply a certain level of skill or training.
The information in this brochure has not been approved or verified by the United States Securities and
Exchange Commission (SEC) or by any state securities authority. You can obtain additional information
about us on the SEC’s website at www.adviserinfo.sec.gov. Our identification number (CRD #) with the
SEC is 157236.
If you have any questions about the contents of this brochure, please contact us.
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Item 2: Summary of Material Changes
The Material Changes section of this brochure will be updated annually or when material
changes occur since the previous release of the Firm Brochure.
There have been no material changes since the previous release of this Brochure.
We suggest that you read all this document. If you have any questions about the information in
this brochure, please contact us.
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Item 3: Table of Contents
Item 1: Cover Page ................................................................................................................... 1
Item 2: Summary of Material Changes .................................................................................... 2
Item 4: Advisory Business ....................................................................................................... 4
Item 5: Fees and Compensation ................................................................................................8
Item 6: Performance‐Based Fees and Side‐by‐Side Management ............................................9
Item 7: Types of Clients ............................................................................................................9
Item 8: Methods of Analysis, Investment Strategies and Risk of Loss .....................................9
Item 9: Disciplinary Information ............................................................................................ 14
Item 10: Other Financial Industry Activities and Affiliations .................................................14
Item 11: Code of Ethics, Client Transactions and Personal Trading ...................................... 14
Item 12: Brokerage Practices ...................................................................................................15
Item 13: Review of Accounts ..................................................................................................16
Item 14: Client Referrals and Other Compensation ............................................................... 16
Item 15: Custody .....................................................................................................................16
Item 16: Investment Discretion ...............................................................................................17
Item 17: Voting Client Securities ............................................................................................17
Item 18: Financial Information................ ................................................................................17
Brochure Supplement for David West, CFA, MBA ............................................................... 18
Professional Designation Descriptions.................................................................................... 19
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Item 4: Advisory Business
Our Firm
David West, CFA, and MBA formed West Advisors, Incorporated in 2005. Our firm became a
registered investment advisor in 2011. David West is the sole owner of West Advisors, Inc.
Our Advisory Services
We will meet with a prospective client to discuss their circumstances, their needs and which of our
services they might want to use before we agree to provide advisory services for a client.
We use a written agreement with each client to define the type and scope of advisory services we
will provide, to specify our fees for those services and to define other important terms of our
advisory services. Either we or our client may terminate our agreement at any time without penalty
by providing written notice to the other party.
In our advisory service agreements, we specify that we act as a fiduciary to our client. As a
fiduciary, we are legally required to put our client’s interest ahead of our own.
We offer the following advisory services to clients:
1. Personal Financial Consulting – We provide consulting services to help our clients:
Identify different courses of action to improve the likelihood they will meet their future
a Define their financial goals
b Understand their present financial circumstances
c Evaluate the likelihood their present course of action will meet their future goals
d
goals
Financial consulting involves making assumptions about a client’s future investment returns and
future cash flows to simulate a client’s future financial situation. A financial plan cannot predict
the future and does not guarantee any future financial result. This inherent limitation of personal
financial planning is discussed thoroughly with each client.
Our personal financial consulting service generally consists of the following components, although
we will modify these services to meet the needs and requests of a client:
A. Gather Client Data and Help the Client Define their Goals – Our clients will specify
the financial issues they would like us to analyze. Generally, those financial issues
include:
1. Net worth
2. Annual cash flow
3. Expected spending needs
4. Retirement needs and abilities
5. Comparison of current and suggested investment asset allocation, based on the
client’s investment and risk profile
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6. Projection of client’s simulated cash flow over client’s chosen time horizon under
varying scenarios, showing the sensitivity of the projection to the differing inputs.
B. Define Responsibilities for Implementing and Monitoring the Investment Plan –
Generally, we assume the responsibility for implementing and monitoring their
investment plan, although the client may retain specified implementation or monitoring
responsibilities.
2. Discretionary Investment Management – In this advisory service, we manage our client’s
specified investment accounts according to our client’s specified investment objectives. We
can manage investment accounts a client may hold in various capacities – for example, as
account owner, as a participant in an employer sponsored retirement plan, as an IRA owner, as
a personal representative of an estate, as a custodian for a uniform transfer to minor account,
or in instances where a client is a trustee of a trust.
As of December 31, 2025, we were providing discretionary investment management to one (1)
client and our client assets under management were approximately four hundred and thirty
thousand, nine hundred and ninety-two dollars ($430,992).
Our discretionary investment management service generally consists of the following
components, although we will modify these services to meet the needs and requests of a client.
a. Develop an Investment Strategy- We work with our client to develop a strategic mix of
assets based on our client’s investment objectives, personal circumstances, risk
tolerance, and any restrictions our client has placed on allowable investments.
b. Develop an Investment Policy Statement – At client’s request, we expand our client’s
Investment Strategy into a written investment policy statement that will specify more
exhaustively how the client’s funds are to be invested and what limitations we must
follow when we invest the client’s funds. Policy statements further specify market-
based benchmarks against which individual investment managers or vehicles will be
measured, as well as total portfolio benchmarks.
c. Recommend a Custodian and Broker – We will recommend a custodian to hold our
client’s investment accounts, and we will recommend a broker to execute security
transactions for our client. Our clients are not obliged to accept our recommendation of
a custodian or broker. In our investment management agreement with each client, the
client will either direct us to use our recommended custodian and broker, or the client
will otherwise specify the custodian and broker we must use. Please see Item 12 –
Brokerage Practices, and Item 15 – Custody, for additional information.
d. Exercise Discretionary Investment Management – We will invest our client’s
investment funds using our own discretion and manage the funds on a continuous and
regular basis, but subject to the guidelines specified by the client.
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e. Review Investment Accounts – We will formally review our clients’ investment
accounts monthly for existing clients, at the time we begin managing funds for a new
client, upon request of a client, or when we consider it necessary to do so because of
market or other circumstances. Please see Item – 8 Methods of Analysis, Investment
Strategies and Risk of Loss and Item 13 – Review of Accounts, where we further
describe our review.
f. Report on Investment Accounts – We issue a written report on our client’s investment
accounts each calendar quarter. We deliver this report to clients in a digital or paper
format depending on the client’s preference.
3. Non-Discretionary Investment Management – In this advisory service, we provide advice to
our clients on their specified investment accounts according to our client’s specified
investment objectives. We can provide advice on investment accounts a client may hold in
various capacities – for example, as account owner, as a participant in an employer sponsored
retirement plan, as an IRA owner, as a personal representative of an estate, as a custodian for
a uniform transfer to minor account, or as trustee of a trust.
As of December 31, 2025, we were providing non-discretionary investment management to
fifteen (15) clients and our client assets under management were approximately six hundred
and thirty-six million, two hundred and thirty thousand, and nine hundred and seventy-four
dollars ($636,230,974).
Our non-discretionary investment management service generally consists of the following
components, although we will modify these services to fit the needs and requests of a client:
a. Develop an Investment Strategy - We work with our client to develop a strategic mix
of assets based on our client’s investment objectives, personal circumstances, risk
tolerance, and any restrictions our client has placed on allowable investments.
b. Develop an Investment Policy Statement – At client’s request, we expand our client’s
Investment Strategy into a written investment policy statement that will specify more
exhaustively how the client’s funds are to be invested and what limitations we must
follow when we invest the client’s funds. Policy statements further specify market-
based benchmarks against which individual investment managers or investment
vehicles will be measured, as well as total portfolio benchmarks. Policy statements may
further contain additional criteria used in evaluating existing or prospective investment
managers or investment vehicles, including but not limited to fees, key professional
tenure, transparency, and sustainability of investment process.
c. Recommend a Custodian and Broker – We will recommend a custodian to hold our
client’s investment accounts, and we will recommend a broker to execute security
transactions for our client. Our clients are not obliged to accept our recommendation of
a custodian or broker. In our investment management agreement with each client, the
client will either direct us to use our recommended custodian and broker, or the client
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will otherwise specify the custodian and broker we must use. Please see Item 12 –
Brokerage Practices, and Item 15 – Custody, for additional information.
d. Exercise Non-Discretionary Investment Management – We will actively monitor our
client’s investment funds and provide our clients with recommendations regarding their
investment funds. Funds are monitored on a continuous and regular basis. We review
and recommend investment vehicles. Our firm receives no referral fees, in part or in
whole, from other investment advisers or vehicles we recommend.
e. Review Investment Accounts – We will formally review our clients’ investment
accounts monthly for existing clients, at the time we begin managing funds for a new
client, upon request of a client, or when we consider it necessary to do so because of
market or other circumstances. Please see Item 8 - Methods of Analysis, Investment
Strategies and Risk of Loss and Item 13 – Review of Accounts, where we further
describe our review.
f. Report on Investment Accounts – We issue a written report on our client’s investment
accounts each calendar quarter. We deliver this report to clients in a digital or paper
format depending on the client’s preference.
4. Other Advisory Services – Our clients may request advisory services other than personal
financial consulting or discretionary or non-discretionary management, and we work with
clients to tailor advisory services to fit their needs. As examples, we offer the following
services to clients:
a. One Time or Periodic Investment Advice – We provide investment advice or analysis to
address a specific client request, such as to review investments held in a specific investment
account when we are not providing discretionary investment management for the account.
b. Review of Investment Offerings in an Employer Sponsored Retirement Plan – An employer
can retain us to evaluate the investment offerings in the retirement plan sponsored by the
employer, and to recommend changes in the plan’s investment offerings.
Non‐Advisory Services
We offer certain non‐advisory services to our clients, as follows:
1. Estate Planning Project Management – We facilitate interaction between our clients and
their Estate Planning advisors and attorneys such that the investment plan and the estate
plan work as an integrated whole.
2. Accounting and Bill Payment – We provide accounting services and bill payment services
for business and/or charitable enterprises affiliated with our clients, including the
preparation of data for the completion of tax returns.
Our advisory service clients are not required to utilize any of our non‐advisory service offerings.
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Wrap‐Fee Program
We do not participate in or sponsor any wrap‐fee program.
Item 5: Fees and Compensation
Fee Only Adviser
We are a “fee‐only” investment adviser. Our only source of compensation for advisory services is
the fee we charge our clients. We do not accept commissions, sales loads, or other compensation
from any third party.
Fee Arrangements
We bill our clients for our services as described below:
1. Discretionary and Non-Discretionary Investment Management – Our fee for our
discretionary investment management service is an annual flat fee rate paid quarterly,
negotiated with the client at the inception of the relationship and as revised by mutual
agreement upon an annual review.
a. Quarterly Billing – We bill for our investment management service in arrears at the
end of each calendar quarter based on the annual flat fee rate negotiated and agreed
upon in advance by the client. Periods less than one quarter are pro-rated on a
daily basis. We do not require clients to prepay our fee. Clients are invoiced for
fees. Our firm does not withdraw assets from Client accounts to pay fees.
2. Fees Charged by Third Parties – Clients will pay fees to third parties in addition to paying
our fee described above. These third-party fees may include some or all the following:
a. The custodian selected by the client may charge a fee for its custodial services.
b. The broker selected by the client will charge a commission for its brokerage
services or will make a markup on the price of a security when the broker executes
transactions in the client’s account. See Item 12 – Brokerage Practices.
c. When the client holds mutual funds or exchange traded funds in their account, the
mutual fund or exchange traded fund will charge a fee to all shareholders of the
fund, including our client. The fees charged by the mutual fund or exchange traded
fund will be described in the prospectus for the fund. The fees would generally be
comprised of a management fee, an operations fee and possibly a distribution fee.
We routinely use no‐load mutual funds. However, in extraordinary circumstances
we may recommend a mutual fund which imposes a sales charge, and in that case
our client may pay an initial or deferred sales charge – but we do not receive any
part of that sales charge. We are a fiduciary to our clients, and therefore we make
every reasonable attempt to minimize the cost of investing for our clients. We
regularly review the fees charged by mutual funds and exchange traded funds and
we consider the tradeoff between expected investment return and a fund’s fees
when we make investment decisions for clients.
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3. Ad-hoc Consulting/Services - We charge clients for consulting services not otherwise
incorporated under the terms of Discretionary or Non-Discretionary Investment
Management services (above) either on a flat fee basis negotiated in advance or based on
the time we incur to provide that service at our standard hourly rate for the staff member
providing the service, as agreed upon by us and client as appropriate.
As of December 31, 2025, our standard hourly rate for our professional ad-hoc services was $200
per hour. Our fee is due at the completion of the assignment to the client’s satisfaction. Our firm
does not withdraw assets from Client accounts to pay fees. In 2025, there were not ad-hoc services.
Item 6: Performance-Based Fees and Side-by-Side Management
We do not charge or accept any performance-based fees (fees based on capital gains or on the
capital appreciation of the assets in a client’s investment accounts). Accordingly, we do not engage
in side‐by‐side account management.
Item 7: Types of Clients
We provide our advisory services for individuals, high net worth individuals, married couples,
trusts, qualified retirement plans, and tax- exempt organizations.
Item 8: Methods of Analysis, Investment Strategies and Risk of Loss
Investment Process and Methods of Analysis
Our investment process typically follows these steps:
1. Determine the Client’s Investment Objective and Risk Tolerance – When we first begin to work
with a client, we meet with our client to define the client’s financial needs and to define the
client’s investment objective for the funds that we will manage as well as the level of risk our
client is willing to accept. We further assess our client’s investment knowledge and
experience.
2. Develop a Target Asset Allocation – We develop a Strategic Asset Allocation for our client
and a Strategic Benchmark that reflects that asset allocation. The purpose of a target asset
allocation is to select a group of investments (asset classes) whose combination maximizes the
expected return of a portfolio for a given level of risk (changes in market value) over the
client’s investing time horizon. This process is based on the principles of Modern Portfolio
Theory. Additionally, assets are structured to be sensitive to issues of taxation, such that tax-
intensive assets or assets that trade frequently are preferred to be held in tax-exempt accounts
while tax-efficient assets are emphasized in taxable accounts.
3. Develop a Statement of Investment Policy – At a client’s request, we develop a written
investment policy statement for our client that states our client’s investment objectives,
personal circumstances, risk tolerance, and any restrictions our client has placed on allowable
investments. The investment policy statement then provides guidance as to how the client’s
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assets are to be invested. The Statement of Investment Policy will include the Client’s Target
Asset Allocation but has a larger scope, up to including investment benchmarks and risk limits
within sub-portfolios of the client’s aggregate portfolio.
4. Modify Asset Class Weightings Given Current Market and/or Client Conditions – We believe
that securities markets are largely efficient over the long term, but that markets are not always
rational – a variety of factors can cause classes of assets to be priced at levels beyond what we
and other market observers and analysts believe offer a “fair” prospect of return for the level
of risk assumed. We underweight the asset classes that appear to provide unattractive after-
tax return/risk profiles. Furthermore, client specific factors may cause deviations from
Strategy Weights (e.g., anticipated future funding of large cash gifts may cause the accretion
of cash holdings beyond Strategic Weights in the months preceding the outflow). We then use
the modified asset class weightings in our initial asset purchases for new clients and when we
rebalance existing client accounts in our account review process each quarter.
5. Select Vehicles for Asset Classes – We recommend vehicles for the asset classes in our clients’
portfolios as follows:
a.
b.
c.
Passive Investment Vehicles – we frequently recommend passive management
for asset classes in our clients’ portfolios that are characterized by high
efficiency. Investment advisors are sometimes recommended where an
additional overlay of service, such as tax-loss harvesting, can be implemented
efficiently. For smaller portfolios, mutual funds, ETFs, or closed end funds
may also be used.
Active Managers – We may recommend active investment managers for our
clients’ portfolios for asset classes in our clients’ portfolios that are
characterized by lower efficiency. Separate accounts may be used where client
size warrants establishing those relationships. We may also recommend
mutual funds, ETFs, and/or closed end funds with active management of the
underlying assets where client size does not justify separate account
management.
Individual Securities – We buy, hold, or recommend for disposal securities in
a limited capacity as follows:
i. Bonds – We may buy or recommend for purchase individual bonds which
are issued by the US Treasury for the purpose of short-term investment of
cash balances. Such securities typically have less than one year to maturity.
In connection with other investment advisors also retained by our firm’s
clients, we may also make a concurrent recommendation regarding fixed
income securities denominated in currencies other than US Dollars.
ii. Stocks – Our firm’s activity with respect to the equity securities of
individual issuers is limited to the following:
1. making recommendations for existing client Qualified Replacement
Property or similar portfolios with respect to the prioritization of
which securities to use in making charitable gifts and making
recommendations at the client’s request for passively managed
separate accounts stocks that are excluded from further purchases.
d.
Mutual funds, exchange traded funds (ETFs), and Closed End Funds – Where
we hold mutual funds, exchange traded funds, and/or closed end funds, such
funds can have a variety of investment objectives as described below:
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i. To hold stocks issued by companies located throughout the world in
developing and emerging markets in a variety of market segments.
ii. To hold bonds issued by governments, agencies and businesses located
throughout the world in developed and emerging markets and with a variety
of credit ratings.
e.
iii. To follow a particular investment strategy, especially a strategy to provide
an expected return that has little correlation to the expected return of stocks
and bonds – often referred to as “alternative asset classes”. For example, we
will often hold mutual funds which pursue different arbitrage strategies,
mutual funds which invest in a particular industry such as mining of
precious metals or pipeline distribution companies, and mutual funds which
utilize hedging strategies to minimize the risk of stock market declines.
Other investments – Periodically a client may hold an investment that they ask
for the firm to incorporate into its performance calculations and to incorporate
into considerations of overall investment strategy but not with the mandate of
recommending ongoing holding or sale, for example ‐ annuity contracts, life
insurance, equity real estate (personal residence), or interests in private entities
or units in publicly traded partnerships.
6. Account Review – We perform a formal account review when we first begin to manage a new
client’s portfolio, on a monthly basis for existing clients, when requested by a client, or at other
times when we feel market or other circumstances warrant a review, such market/other
circumstances including but not limited to changes in client financial position or risk tolerance,
heightened market volatility, changes in market liquidity, changes in market structure or
regulation, changes in tax rates, political instability, etc. Our account review consists of the
following components.
a. We review our client’s investment objective.
b. We review the strategies we are employing to achieve our client’s investment objective.
c. We review the securities held in our client’s accounts.
d. We evaluate our client’s current holdings by asset class and compare them with our
modified asset class weightings and our client’s target asset allocation.
e. When appropriate, we recommend and/or assist in executing the transactions necessary
to bring the current holdings into compliance with our modified asset class weightings
and the target asset allocation.
f. When considering the necessity of rebalancing a client account, we consider trading
costs and income tax effects.
g. When it is appropriate, we contact our client to update their investment policy
statement.
Investment Strategies and Risk of Loss
We believe the investment strategies listed below and described above are prudent means for
clients to employ to achieve their investment objectives. However, all investment strategies
involve risk – no one can know with certainty the future outcome of today’s investment decisions.
We have listed below the risks involved in our investment strategies that we believe to be material.
Because of the risks involved in investing, as described below, a client’s investment accounts may
lose value, and the loss of value may be material.
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1. Modern Portfolio Theory and Target Asset Allocation
a. Strategy – We use Modern Portfolio Theory to determine how much of a given asset class
(domestic stocks, international stocks, bonds, cash, etc.) we will include in the target asset
allocation we recommend for each client account. To generate the target weights for each
asset class in a target asset allocation, Modern Portfolio Theory requires an assumption of
the average future return of each asset class, the variability in future returns, and the
correlation between the future returns of the asset classes.
b. Risks:
i. Assumptions of Future Returns and Correlation of Returns – It is possible that the
assumed future investment returns, the variability in those returns and correlation of
returns for each asset class will differ materially from actual future returns and
correlation of returns. As a result, the actual investment returns of our recommended
portfolios may differ materially from the expected returns of the portfolios.
ii. Correlation of Asset Classes‐ During times of financial crisis, the correlation of asset
class returns can behave differently (can be more correlated) than they are during
normal market conditions and in the assumptions, we use in our models. This can result
in our recommended portfolios behaving differently in times of financial crisis than
Modern Portfolio Theory would anticipate.
iii. Relevant Time Frames‐ The investment return from specific asset classes may vary
significantly in any given year from their historical averages and our expected future
returns. To receive the intended benefit of portfolios designed using Modern Portfolio
Theory, a client may have to hold our recommended target asset allocation for many
years.
2. Prospective Valuation Models
a. Strategy – Please see “Modify Asset Class Weightings Given Current Market and/or Client
Conditions” in the Investment Process and Methods of Analysis section of this Item 8 for
a discussion on how we use prospective valuation models.
b. Risks:
i. Model risk – The models we use may indicate prospective investment returns which
differ from the actual future returns of the asset classes we model, and those differences
may be material.
ii. Extended Periods of Abnormal Valuation – Even if our models are materially correct
in indicating prospective long-term returns of the modeled asset classes, it may take
several years for the asset classes to perform the way our models anticipate.
3. Vehicle Selection
a. Strategy‐ We believe that passive management generally delivers better after tax and after
fee returns in those asset classes characterized by a high degree of efficiency. Active
management can add value in general as those parameters are relaxed (e.g., as tax rates
move towards zero, as investment management fees decline, and/or as markets are
characterized by lesser degrees of efficiency).
b. Risks:
i. It is possible that the actively managed funds underperform the passive benchmarks
that represent their respective asset classes
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ii. It is possible for passive vehicles to provide adverse tracking of their respective broad
market index targets.
iii. It is possible that non-market events at investment management firms, either those used
directly or those serving as sub-advisors for a mutual fund, exchange-traded fund, or
closed end fund, necessitate the cessation of the use of the vehicle, generating adverse
tax and/or trading costs.
4. Geographic Investing and Currency Risk
a. Strategy – All of our discretionary investment management clients reside in the United
States (US). We believe that investing a portion of our client portfolios in stocks and bonds
denominated in currencies other than the US dollar may provide better long‐term
diversification than only investing in stocks and bonds denominated in US dollars.
b. Risks:
i. Geographic Investing – It is possible that over a given period of time investing solely in
US markets will provide a return superior to that received by investing in a globally
diversified portfolio.
ii. Currency Risk – When a client invests in securities denominated in currencies other than
the US dollar, it is possible to lose money based solely on changes in currency exchange
rates between the relevant foreign currencies and the US dollar.
5. Periodic Account Rebalancing
a. Strategy – We recommend rebalancing of portfolios back to target asset allocations in
quarterly reviews with clients as needed within the context of expected additions or
withdrawals on the portfolio going forward and the tax and trading costs associated with
such activity. We believe this improves a client’s returns by selling assets classes that have
appreciated relative to the target asset allocation and buying asset classes that have declined
relative to the target asset allocation.
b. Risks:
i. Trading Costs – Rebalancing a client’s account may incur a cost to trade which must be
set against the prospective benefits from rebalancing.
ii. Tax Costs‐ The client may incur a tax cost for rebalancing in a taxable account.
iii. Liquidity – Some assets by their nature are not candidates for regular rebalancing and
must be “rebalanced around”. Illiquid interests in private equity limited partnerships are
a common example.
6. Investing in Financial Assets
a. Stocks
i. Strategy - Over extended periods of time, stocks have historically provided investment
returns more than the rate of inflation. Investment returns from stocks have fluctuated
significantly over short and sometime extended periods of time. We recommend
investment in stocks to attempt to grow the purchasing power of our clients’ investment
assets.
ii. Risks - Investing in stocks includes the following material risks:
1. Market risk – the risk of a broad stock market decline
2. Fiscal and monetary policy – the risk that governmental policy decisions (e.g.,
increasing income tax rates) will cause a decline in stock prices
3. Currency risk – the risk that currency exchange rates change, and cause a loss to an
investor
4. Economic risk – the risk that changes in an economy cause a decline in stock prices
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5. Volatility risk – the risk that stock prices and investment returns can vary widely over
short or even extended periods of time.
b. Bonds
i. Strategy – Bonds have historically provided investment returns equal to or modestly
exceeding the rate of inflation, but which are significantly less than the long-term return
from stocks. Investment returns from bonds fluctuated less over short and extended
periods of time than investment returns from stocks. We recommend investment in bonds
to maintain the purchasing power of our clients’ investment assets and to provide current
income.
ii. Risks - Investing in bonds includes the following material risks:
1. Interest rate risk – when interest rates rise in the market, bond prices will decline, and
the price of long-term bonds will decline more than the price of short-term bonds.
2. Credit risk – the risk that the issuer of a bond will not make the interest and or
principal payments to the holder of the bond when they are due.
3. Inflation risk – the risk that the investment returns from bonds will be less than the
rate of inflation, so that a bond investor’s purchasing power will decline over time.
c. Mutual Funds, Exchange Traded Funds, Closed End Funds – We recommend investment
in mutual funds, exchange traded funds, and closed end funds which hold stocks, bonds,
and alternative asset classes. Please see our discussion, above, of the risks of investing in
these asset classes.
Item 9: Disciplinary Information
Neither we nor any of our advisers or employees have ever been involved in a disciplinary event
or criminal proceeding.
Item 10: Other Financial Industry Activities and Affiliations
David West, President, and the sole owner of our firm, holds the Chartered Financial Analyst
designation. As described in Item 4 – Advisory Business, we offer certain non‐advisory services
to our clients. Our advisory service clients have no obligation to use our non‐advisory services.
Item 11: Code of Ethics, Participation, or Interest in Client Transactions and
Personal Trading
Code of Ethics
We have adopted the Code of Ethics of the CFA Institute, and we require all our employees to
abide by the terms of our Code of Ethics. This Code of Ethics is available to clients and
prospective clients upon request. The key components of our Code of Ethics are as follows:
1. To fulfill our fiduciary responsibilities to our clients – to place our client’s interest before
our own.
2. To act with integrity and dignity when dealing with clients, prospects, team members, and
others.
3. To strive to maintain independence and objectivity.
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Policies to Address Potential Conflicts of Interest
We adopt policies to mitigate potential conflicts of interest. We have listed, below, certain of these
policies that we consider material:
We will not buy or sell securities directly to or from our clients.
1.
2. We will not match client securities transactions so that one client sells securities that
another client buys.
3. We and our employees own and trade the same securities that we recommend for our
clients.
To ensure our trading does not disadvantage our clients, we require that we rebalance our
client accounts prior to rebalancing our or our employees’ accounts.
4. We and our employees may engage in investment strategies for our own accounts
(including strategies with significant risks) which are different from the strategies we
employ for our client accounts. In addition, we may employ certain investment strategies
for some clients and not for others. To avoid conflicts of interest, we choose investment
strategies for each client based on our client’s individual investment objectives and risk
tolerance. Each of our clients is free to place restrictions on how we manage their
investments.
Item 12: Brokerage Practices
Directed Brokerage and Our Recommended Broker‐Dealer
Our clients direct us to execute transactions through a specified broker‐dealer. When our clients
specify which broker we are to use, clients may not receive the best execution of their transactions
or the lowest cost commissions ‐ this may cost our clients more money than if they received the
best execution of their transactions or the lowest cost commission. Not all advisers require clients
to specify a broker‐dealer. We may recommend a broker‐dealer to our clients. Our
recommendation is based on our evaluation of various account service and brokerage platforms
offered by institutional custodians and brokers to assist us in providing our advisory services to
our clients. These programs facilitate our ability to provide necessary services to our clients,
including, among other services:
1. Providing us access to information systems necessary to open and administer client
accounts.
2. Providing us access to dedicated traders and trading desks.
3. Providing our clients access to an extensive list of mutual funds from differing fund
families.
4. Providing us with the ability to directly enter trades for client accounts.
5. Providing us access to dedicated account representatives for the benefit of clients.
6. Providing us the ability to electronically download our clients’ account positions,
trades, and market prices from a custodian directly into our portfolio accounting
software. In recommending a broker, we may consider, among other things, the broker
or dealer’s execution capabilities, commission rates, reputation, access to the markets
for the securities being traded and the account service and brokerage platform offered
to support our client accounts. We will not necessarily attempt to obtain the lowest
possible commission rates for transactions.
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Soft Dollar Arrangements
We do not have any “Soft Dollar” arrangements. A “Soft Dollar” arrangement is an agreement
between an advisor and a broker‐dealer where the broker‐dealer will provide goods and services
(i.e., research, Bloomberg terminals, rent, etc.) to an advisory firm in exchange for directing client
commissions to the broker/dealer.
Item 13: Review of Accounts
As a component of our investment management service, we provide a review of our clients’
investment accounts. Please see Item 8 – Methods of Analysis, Investment Strategies and Risk of
Loss, for a discussion of the frequency and content of our account review. Our account review
consists of the following components:
1. We review our client’s investment objective.
2. We review the strategies we are employing to achieve our client’s investment objective.
3. We review the securities held in our client’s accounts.
4. We evaluate our client’s current holdings by asset class and compare them with our
modified asset class weightings and our client’s target asset allocation.
5. When appropriate, we recommend and/or assist in executing the transactions necessary to
bring the current holdings into compliance with our modified asset class weightings and
the target asset allocation.
6. When considering the necessity of rebalancing a client account, we consider trading costs
and income tax effects.
7. When it is appropriate, we contact our client to update their investment policy statement.
Mr. David J. West, CFA, MBA performs the review of client accounts. We send a written report
to our clients on a quarterly basis, showing the investments held in their accounts, the investment
performance of the accounts, and the current account holdings by asset class relative to our client’s
target asset allocation. We deliver our report in a paper format, though clients may request
reporting in a digital format in addition to or in replacement of paper reports.
Item 14: Client Referrals and Other Compensation
We do not pay compensation to any third party for referring clients to us. We do not receive
compensation from any third-party service provider for referring a client to a third service provider.
Please see Item 5 – Fees and Compensation, for more information on our fees and compensation.
Item 15: Custody
We do not accept or maintain custody of client funds. The qualified custodian selected by our
client will send monthly or quarterly statements directly to our client. We urge clients to carefully
review each statement they receive from their custodian, and to compare the balances between the
custodian’s statements and the quarterly reports we send to our client. Please see Item 13 – Review
of Accounts, for more details on the reports we send to clients.
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Item 16: Investment Discretion
We may accept discretionary authority over client’s investment assets. Please see Item 4 –
Advisory Business for a discussion of our discretionary investment management service. In our
written agreement with our client, our client may give us the authority to execute trades in their
accounts using our discretionary authority. Our clients may also limit or deny our discretionary
authority in their investment management agreement.
Item 17: Voting Client Securities
We do not accept the authority or responsibility to vote client securities. Clients will receive proxy
statements or other solicitations directly from their custodian. We do not accept client questions
about proxy statements or other materials they receive from their custodian.
Item 18: Financial Information
We do not have any financial condition that is reasonably likely to impair our ability to meet our
contractual commitments to our clients.
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ADV Part 2B
Brochure Supplement for:
David J. West, CFA ®, MBA
This brochure supplement provides information about David J. West, CFA®, MBA that
supplements the West Advisors, Incorporated brochure. You should have already received a copy
of that brochure. Please contact Mr. West if you have not received West Advisors, Incorporated
brochure or if you have any questions about the contents of this supplement. Additional
information about David J. West is available on the SEC’s website at www.adviserinfo.sec.gov.
.
Mr. West’s contact information and the contact information of West Advisors, Incorporated is as
follows:
David J. West, CFA®, MBA
email: westadvisors@comcast.net
11095 Napa Valley Lane, Fishers, IN 46037
Phone: (317) 627‐1083
Educational Background and Business Experience
Bachelor of Science degree, with honors in Finance, from Indiana University in May 1989. Master
of Business Administration degree from Indiana University in May of 1997. Mr. West has been
working full time as President of West Advisors, Incorporated from August 2005 to the present.
Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA®) ‐ Please see the Professional Designation Description
section below for more information.
Disciplinary Information
David West has never been involved in a disciplinary event or criminal proceedings.
Other Business Activities
As described in Item 4: Advisory Business above, we provide certain non-advisory services to our
clients. In 2024, Mr. West spent approximately 10% of his time providing non-advisory services
to our clients.
Additional Compensation
Mr. David West does not receive any additional compensation or economic benefit from anyone
who is not a client of our firm.
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Supervision
David West is involved in all material aspects of our investment process for all clients, including:
1. Formulation of written investment policy statements for clients
2. Formulation of investment strategy
3. Selection of investment vehicles
4. Review of investment accounts
5. Communication with clients
During the first quarter of 2023, we hired independent regulatory compliance consultant, Susan E.
Mitchell, (“Sue”). Although David West does not “report” to Sue, she was hired to oversee
regulatory compliance items in addition to personal quarterly transactions.
State Required Disclosures
David West has never been found liable in an arbitration proceeding. Mr. West has never been
found liable in a civil, self‐regulatory organization or administrative proceeding. Mr. West has
never filed a bankruptcy petition.
Professional Designation Descriptions
The Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation is an international professional certification
offered by the CFA Institute to financial analysts who complete a series of three examinations,
possess a bachelor's degree from an accredited institution (or have equivalent education or work
experience), and have 48 months of qualified, professional work experience. CFA charter-holders
are also obligated to adhere to a strict Code of Ethics and Standards governing their professional
conduct. Candidates sit for each of the three examinations, sequentially, after passing the previous
examination.
The examinations cover the following subject areas:
1. Ethical and Professional Standards
2. Quantitative Methods (such as the time value of money, and statistical inference)
3. Economics
4. Financial Reporting and Analysis
5. Corporate Finance
6. Analysis of Investments (stocks, bonds, derivatives, venture capital, real estate, etc.)
7. Portfolio Management and Analysis (asset allocation, portfolio risk, performance
measurement, etc.)
For more information, see the CFA Institute website at www.cfainstitute.org.
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