Our firm is dedicated to providing individuals and other types of clients with a wide array of investment
advisory services. Our firm is a limited liability company formed under the laws of the State of California in
2016 and has been in business as an investment adviser since that time. Our firm is wholly owned by Kevin
Nichols.
Our firm provides asset management and investment consulting services for many different types of clients
to help meet their financial goals while remaining sensitive to risk tolerance and time horizons. As a
fiduciary it is our duty to always act in the client’s best interest. This is accomplished in part by knowing
the client. Our firm has established a service-oriented advisory practice with open lines of communication.
Working with clients to understand their investment objectives while educating them about our process,
facilitates the kind of working relationship we value.
Types of Advisory Services Offered
Comprehensive Portfolio Management:
As part of our Comprehensive Portfolio Management service clients will be provided asset management
and an initial financial plan or consultation. This service is designed to assist clients in meeting their
financial goals through the use of a financial plan or consultation. Our firm conducts client meetings to
understand their current financial situation, existing resources, financial goals, and tolerance for risk. Based
on what is learned, an investment approach is presented to the client, consisting of individual stocks, bonds,
ETFs, mutual funds and other public and private securities or investments. Once the appropriate portfolio
has been determined, portfolios are continuously and regularly monitored, and if necessary, rebalanced
based upon the client’s individual needs, stated goals and objectives. Upon client request, our firm provides
a summary of observations and recommendations for the planning or consulting aspects of this service.
529 Account Management Services through American Funds:
As part of this service, we manage section 529 accounts with portfolios consisting of mutual funds available
through American Funds (“AF”), a family of funds available from the Capital Group. This service is
complimentary. We will not evaluate any type of security other than mutual funds offered by AF. Portfolios will
be designed to meet a particular investment goal, determined to be suitable to the client’s circumstances.
Retirement Plan Consulting:
Our firm provides retirement plan consulting services to employer plan sponsors on an ongoing basis.
Generally, such consulting services consist of assisting employer plan sponsors in establishing, monitoring
and reviewing their company's participant-directed retirement plan. As the needs of the plan sponsor
dictate, areas of advising could include: investment options, plan structure and participant education.
Retirement Plan
Consulting services typically include:
• Establishing an Investment Policy Statement – Our firm will assist in the development of a
statement that summarizes the investment goals and objectives along with the broad strategies to
be employed to meet the objectives.
• Investment Options – Our firm will work with the Plan Sponsor to evaluate existing investment
options and make recommendations for appropriate changes.
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• Asset Allocation and Portfolio Construction – Our firm will recommend strategic asset allocation
models to aid Participants in developing strategies to meet their investment objectives, time
horizon, financial situation and tolerance for risk.
• Investment Monitoring – Our firm will monitor the performance of the investments and notify the
client in the event that underperformance causes us to recommend a change in the investment
choices, and in times of market volatility.
In providing services for retirement plan consulting, our firm does not provide any advisory services with
respect to the following types of assets: employer securities, real estate (excluding real estate funds and
publicly traded REITS), participant loans, non-publicly traded securities or assets, other illiquid investments,
or brokerage window programs (collectively, “Excluded Assets”).
All retirement plan consulting services shall be in compliance with the applicable state laws regulating
retirement consulting services. This applies to client accounts that are retirement or other employee
benefit plans (“Plan”) governed by the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended
(“ERISA”). If the client accounts are part of a Plan, and our firm accepts appointment to provide services to
such accounts, our firm acknowledges its fiduciary standard within the meaning of Section 3(21) of ERISA
as designated by the Retirement Plan Consulting Agreement with respect to the provision of services
described therein.
Tailoring of Advisory Services
Our firm offers individualized investment advice to our Comprehensive Portfolio Management clients.
General investment advice will be offered to our Retirement Plan Consulting clients.
Each Comprehensive Portfolio Management client has the opportunity to place reasonable restrictions on the
types of investments to be held in the portfolio. Restrictions on investments in certain securities or types of
securities may not be possible due to the level of difficulty this would entail in managing the account.
Participation in Wrap Fee Programs
Our firm does not offer or sponsor a wrap fee program.
Regulatory Assets Under Management
As of December 31, 2022 our firm manages $201,988,509 in assets on a discretionary basis and $9,237,015
on a non-discretionary basis for a total of $211,225,524 of assets under management.