Description of Services and Fees
The Nalls Sherbakoff Group, LLC is a registered investment adviser based in Knoxville, TN. We are
organized as a limited liability company under the laws of the State of Tennessee. We have been
providing investment advisory services since 2013. Donald Nalls is our firm's principal owner.
Currently, we offer the following investment advisory services, which are personalized to each
individual client:
• Portfolio Management Services
• Financial Planning Services
• Pension Consulting Services
• Educational seminars and workshops
The following paragraphs describe our services and fees. Please refer to the description of each
investment advisory service listed below for information on how we tailor our advisory services to your
individual needs. As used in this brochure, the words "we", "our" and "us" refer to The Nalls Sherbakoff
Group, LLC and the words "you", "your" and "client" refer to you as either a client or prospective client
of our firm. The use of these terms is not intended to imply that there is more than one individual
associated with this firm.
Portfolio Management Services
We offer discretionary management services. Our investment advice is tailored to meet our clients'
needs and investment objectives. If you retain our firm for portfolio management services, we will meet
with you to determine your investment objectives, risk tolerance, and other relevant information at the
beginning of our advisory relationship. We will use the information we gather to develop a strategy that
enables our firm to give you continuous and focused investment advice and/or to make investments on
your behalf. Once we construct an investment portfolio for you, we will monitor your portfolio's
performance on an ongoing basis, and will rebalance the portfolio as required by changes in market
conditions and in your financial circumstances.
If you participate in our discretionary portfolio management services, we require you to grant our firm
discretionary authority to manage your account, which includes authority to hire and fire third-party
investment advisers on your behalf. Discretionary authorization will allow us to determine the specific
securities, and the amount of securities, to be purchased or sold for your account without your approval
prior to each transaction. Discretionary authority is typically granted by the investment advisory
agreement you sign with our firm and the appropriate trading authorization forms. You may limit our
discretionary authority (for example, limiting the types of securities that can be purchased for your
account) by providing our firm with your restrictions and guidelines in writing. If you enter into
nondiscretionary arrangements with our firm, we must obtain your approval prior to executing any
transactions on behalf of your account.
Financial Planning Services
We offer financial planning services which typically involve providing a variety of advisory services to
clients regarding the management of their financial resources based upon an analysis of their individual
needs. These services can range from broad, comprehensive, financial planning to consultative or
single subject planning. If you retain our firm for financial planning services, we will meet with you to
gather information about your financial circumstances and objectives. Once we review and analyze the
information you provide to our firm, we will deliver a written plan to you, designed to help you achieve
your stated financial goals and objectives.
Financial plans are based on your financial situation at the time we present the plan to you, and on the
financial information you provide to us. You must promptly notify our firm if your financial situation,
goals, objectives, or needs change.
You are under no obligation to act on our financial planning recommendations. Should you choose to
act on any of our recommendations, you are not obligated to implement the financial plan through any
of our other investment advisory services. Moreover, you may act on our recommendations by placing
securities transactions with any brokerage firm.
Consulting Services
Pension
Consulting
We offer pension consulting services to employee benefit plans and their fiduciaries based upon the
needs of the plan and the services requested by the plan sponsor or named fiduciary. In general, these
services may include an existing plan review and analysis, plan-level advice regarding fund selection
and investment options, education services to plan participants, investment performance monitoring,
and/or ongoing consulting. These pension consulting services will generally be non-discretionary and
advisory in nature. The ultimate decision to act on behalf of the plan shall remain with the plan sponsor
or other named fiduciary.
Educational Seminars and Workshops (about Pension Consulting Services)
We may also assist with participant enrollment meetings and provide investment-related educational
seminars to plan participants on such topics as: Diversification; Asset allocation; Risk tolerance; and
Time horizon. Our educational seminars may include other investment-related topics specific to the
particular plan. We may also provide additional types of pension consulting services to plans on an
individually negotiated basis. All services, whether discussed above or customized for the plan based
upon requirements from the plan fiduciaries (which may include additional plan-level or participant-level
services) shall be detailed in a written agreement and be consistent with the parameters set forth in the
plan documents.
Status
In providing services to the Plan, our status is that of an investment adviser registered under the State
of Tennessee and other jurisdictions, and we are not subject to any disqualifications under Section 411
of ERISA. To the extent we are performing fiduciary services, we are acting as a fiduciary of the plan as
defined in Section 3(21) under ERISA.
Retirement Plan Rollovers
When we provide investment advice to clients regarding their retirement plan account or individual
retirement account, we are fiduciaries within the meaning of Title I of the Employee Retirement Income
Security Act and/or the Internal Revenue Code, as applicable, which are laws governing retirement
accounts. The way we make money creates some conflicts with our client’s interests, so we operate
under a special rule that requires us to act in our client’s best interest and not put our interest ahead of
our clients.
A client or prospective client leaving an employer typically has four options regarding an existing
retirement plan (and may engage in a combination of these options): (i) leave the money in the former
employer’s plan, if permitted, (ii) roll over the assets to the new employer’s plan, if one is available and
rollovers are permitted, (iii) roll over to an Individual Retirement Account (“IRA”), or (iv) cash out the
account value (which could, depending upon the client’s age, result in adverse tax consequences). If
we are asked by a client or prospective client to make a recommendation from among these choices,
we have a conflict of interest in that we have an incentive to recommend that a client roll over their
retirement plan assets into an account to be managed by Aspire in order to earn a new (or increase our
current) advisory fee as a result of the rollover. We address this conflict of interest by reviewing any
such recommendation to ensure it is in the best interest of the client. No client is under any obligation to
roll over retirement plan assets to an account managed by us.
Types of Investments
We primarily offer advice on equity securities, corporate debt securities, mutual funds, and exchange
traded funds (ETFs). Additionally, we may advise you on any type of investment that we deem
appropriate based on your stated goals and objectives. We may also provide advice on any type of
investment held in your portfolio at the inception of our advisory relationship. You may request in writing
that we refrain from investing in particular securities or certain types of securities.
Assets Under Management
As of December 31, 2023, we provide continuous management services for $254,479,707 in client
assets on a discretionary basis, and no client assets on a non-discretionary basis.