Summit Wealth Group LLC (“SWG”) has been in business since January 2014 and registered with the
Securities and Exchange Commission since January 2016. Thomas Hartman, Abigail Hurlburt, and Erik
Potts are the firm’s principal owners.
SWG provides personalized life planning and wealth management services to individuals, families,
trusts, charitable organizations, and foundations, pensions, and corporations. Our mission is to
improve our clients’ financial well-being and lives. We strive to know more about each client and their
situation than anyone else, so that we can make a meaningful impact on their lives.
Financial Life Planning
Our Financial Life Planning process is designed to help you identify your financial goals in life, and how
we may help you accomplish them. SWG aims to look at your life in a way that perhaps you haven’t
before, to determine what needs to be done to achieve your goals.
Discovery involves gathering information from the client but is not limited to just a client’s financial
circumstances. We gather as much information as possible to find out what motivates each client to
identify their life goals. This discovery process may take place over multiple meetings with the client.
These underlying motivational factors may not always be quantitative but are as important as a
number such as age or years to retirement, as they help us find the client’s true goals. The life plan
SWG ultimately produces is intended to be a suggested roadmap of how to meet the client’s goals.
Services Provided:
Discovery and Planning Process
• Discover and help to prioritize Client’s short- and long-term financial goals and aspirations.
• Identify life transitions that Client is and expects to be experiencing.
• Gather and organize Client’s data and documents.
• Analyze Client’s financial condition, challenges, and opportunities as they relate to the
goals of the Client.
• Develop an investment strategy that attempts to balance Client’s goals and tolerance for
volatility.
• Help Client with the financial implications of life transitions.
• Provide written recommendations and alternatives to help Client achieve stated goals.
• Help to implement financial decisions.
Ongoing Financial Advice and Service
• Monitor financial decisions made in the initial discovery process.
• Provide on-going continuous Financial Life Planning.
• Continue to help prioritize and implement Client’s short- and long-term goals and
aspirations.
• Meet regularly with Client to review goals and progress.
• Asset management services (See below).
• Monitor life transitions that Client is and expects to be experiencing.
• Strategize/coordinate with other Advisors (accountants, attorneys, insurance agents,
etc.).
SWG may recommend the services of other professionals for implementation purposes. You are under
no obligation to engage the services of any such recommended professional. You retain absolute
discretion over all such implementation decisions and are free to accept or reject any
recommendation from SWG. If you engage any professional recommended by SWG, and a dispute
arises thereafter relative to such engagement, you agree to seek recourse exclusively from and against
the engaged professional.
Wealth Management
Each client who engages SWG for wealth management services may be required to complete a
financial plan.
The wealth management
process involves developing an investment strategy that attempts to
balance a client’s goals and tolerance for volatility. We assess a client’s risk tolerance through a Risk
Tolerance Questionnaire. In some cases, a client’s risk tolerance may not be suitable to enable them
to meet their goals. SWG may then create planning options and numerous scenarios that SWG feels
would enable the client to meet their goals most likely and develops an appropriate asset allocation
strategy accordingly.
Wealth Management Services
• Develop written Investment Policy Statement.
• Portfolio construction, investment selection and execution of trades.
• Periodic performance reporting.
• Periodic advice on accounts held-away from SWG’s recommended custodian, when
appropriate.
• Re-balance the portfolio when appropriate.
• Re-allocate the portfolio due to changes the Client’s objectives or performance of the
mutual fund manager selected.
When we perform asset management services, we will do so on a discretionary basis. This means
that while we will continue an ongoing relationship with each client, being involved in various stages
of their lives and decisions to be made, but we will not seek specific approval of changes to client
accounts. Clients can always make deposits or withdrawals in their accounts at any time. Clients
should be aware that if SWG is managing your assets, you may not be able to place restrictions on the
types of investments in an account or portfolio. Because we take discretion when managing accounts,
clients engaging us will be asked to execute a Limited Power of Attorney (granting us the discretionary
authority over the client accounts) as well as an Investment Management Agreement that outlines the
responsibilities of both the client and SWG.
In very limited circumstances, we may provide investment management services on a non-
discretionary basis, which means we will manage the clients’ accounts as we do for our discretionary
clients, except we will consult with the client prior to implementing any investment recommendation.
Clients should be aware that some recommendations may be time-sensitive, in which case
recommendations not implemented because we are unable to reach a non-discretionary client may
not be made on a timely basis and therefore client’s account may not perform as well as it would have
had SWG been able to reach the client for a consultation on the recommendation.
Tax Preparation
SWG also offers tax preparation services in addition to comprehensive Financial Life Planning and
investment management. SWG’s tax services are designed to make the tax filing process simple and
stress free for each client, while also working to reduce a client’s tax liability on current and future
returns.
Financial Consulting
SWG may provide additional financial consulting services. Clients are required to enter into a written
agreement with SWG setting forth the terms and conditions of the engagement (including
termination), describing the scope of the services to be provided, and the portion of the fee that is
due from the client prior to SWG commencing services.
Assets Under Management
As of January 2, 2024, SWG had $516,062,244 in assets under management, and $64,985,604 in assets
under advisement. SWG defines “assets under advisement” as assets for which we provide investment
recommendations, but are not otherwise considered regulatory assets under management.