This Disclosure document is being offered to you by Wager Wealth Management and
Financial Planning, LLC (“WWM”) in connection with the investment advisory services we
provide. It discloses information about the services that we provide and the manner in
which those services are made available to you, the client.
We are an investment management firm located in Colorado. The firm was established
by Glenn Wager in 2016. We specialize in investment advisory services for individuals,
institutions, families, trusts and estates. We are committed to helping clients build,
manage, and preserve their wealth, and to provide assistance that helps clients to achieve
their stated financial goals. We will offer an initial complimentary meeting upon our
discretion; however, investment advisory services are initiated only after you and WWM
execute an engagement letter or client agreement.
Investment and Wealth Management and Supervision Services
We offer discretionary investment management and investment supervisory services for
a fee based on a percentage of your assets under management. These services include
investment analysis, allocation of investments, quarterly portfolio statements, financial
commentaries, and ongoing monitoring of client portfolios. We primarily allocate client
assets among various mutual funds, exchange-traded funds (“ETFs”), and individual debt
(bonds) and equity securities in accordance with their stated investment objectives. Cash
and cash equivalents and any margin debt balances are included in the calculation of
advisory fees, unless otherwise noted and agreed to in the executed Agreement.
We will work with you to obtain necessary information regarding your financial condition,
investment objectives, liquidity requirements, risk tolerance, time horizons, and any
restrictions on investing. This information enables us to determine the portfolio best
suited for your investment objective and needs.
In performing our services, we shall not be required to verify any information received
from you or from other professionals. If you request, we may recommend and/or engage
the services of other professionals for implementation purposes. You have the right to
decide whether or not to engage the services of any such recommended professional.
Once we have determined the types of investments to be included in your portfolio and
allocated them, we will provide ongoing portfolio review and management services. This
approach requires us to review your portfolio at least quarterly.
We will rebalance the portfolio, as we deem appropriate, to meet your financial
objectives. We trade these portfolios and rebalance them based on the combination of
our market views and your objectives, using our investment process. We tailor our
advisory services to meet the needs of our clients and seek to ensure that your portfolio
is managed in a manner consistent with those needs and objectives.
In all cases, you have a direct and beneficial interest in your securities, rather than an
undivided interest in a pool of securities. We do have limited authority to direct the
Custodian to deduct our investment advisory fees from your accounts, but only with the
appropriate authorization from you.
Where appropriate, we may also provide advice about any type of legacy position or
other investment held in client portfolios. Clients may engage us to manage and/or
advise on certain investment products that are not maintained at their primary
custodian, such as variable life insurance and annuity contracts and assets held in
employer sponsored retirement plans and qualified tuition plans (i.e., 529 plans).
Disclosure Regarding Rollover Recommendations
We are fiduciaries under the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 and when we provide
investment advice to you regarding your retirement plan account or individual retirement
account, we are also 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. We have to act in your best interest and not put our
interest ahead of yours. At the same time, the way we make money creates some conflicts
with your interests.
A client or prospect 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) rollover 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). Our Firm may recommend an
investor roll over plan assets to an IRA for which our Firm
provides investment advisory
services. As a result, our Firm and its representatives may earn an asset-based fee. In
contrast, a recommendation that a client or prospective client leave their plan assets with
their previous employer or roll over the assets to a plan sponsored by a new employer
will generally result in no compensation to our Firm. Our Firm therefore has an economic
incentive to encourage a client to roll plan assets into an IRA that our Firm will manage,
which presents a conflict of interest. To mitigate the conflict of interest, there are various
factors that our Firm will consider before recommending a rollover, including but not
limited to: (i) the investment options available in the plan versus the investment options
available in an IRA, (ii) fees and expenses in the plan versus the fees and expenses in an
IRA, (iii) the services and responsiveness of the plan’s investment professionals versus
those of our Firm, (iv) protection of assets from creditors and legal judgments, (v)
required minimum distributions and age considerations, and (vi) employer stock tax
consequences, if any. Our Firm’s Chief Compliance Officer remains available to address
any questions that a client or prospective client has regarding the oversight.
Financial Planning
Through the Financial Planning process, our team strives to engage our clients in
conversations around the family’s goals, objectives, priorities, vision, and legacy – both
for the near and long term. With the unique goals and circumstances of each family in
mind, our team will offer financial planning ideas and strategies to address the client’s
holistic financial picture, including estate, income tax, charitable, cash flow, wealth
transfer and family legacy objectives. Our team partners with our client’s other advisors
(CPA, Estate Attorney, Insurance broker, etc.) to ensure a coordinated effort of all
parties toward the client’s stated goals. Such services include various reports on specific
goals and objectives or general investment and/or planning recommendations,
guidance to outside assets and periodic updates.
Our specific services in preparing your plan include:
• Review and clarification of your financial goals.
• Assessment of your overall financial position including cash flow, balance sheet,
investment strategy, risk management and estate planning.
• Creation of a unique plan for each goal you have including real estate, education,
retirement or financial independence, charitable giving, estate planning, and
other personal goals.
• Development of a goal-oriented investment plan, with input from various
advisors to our clients around tax suggestions, asset allocation, expenses, risk
and liquidity factors for each goal. This includes IRA and qualified plans, taxable
and trust accounts that require special attention.
• Design of a risk management plan including risk tolerance, risk avoidance,
mitigation and transfer, including liquidity as well as various insurance and
possible company benefits.
• Crafting and implementation of, in conjunction with your estate and/or
corporate attorneys as tax advisor, an estate plan to provide for you and/or your
heirs in the event of an incapacity or death.
You are advised and are expected to understand that our past performance is not a
guarantee of future results. Certain market and economic risks exist that may adversely
affect an account’s performance. This could result in capital losses in your account.
Consulting Services
We also provide clients investment advice on a more-limited basis on one-or-more
isolated areas of concern such as estate planning, real estate, retirement planning, or any
other specific topic. Additionally, we may provide advice on non-securities matters in
connection with the rendering of estate planning, insurance, real estate, and/or annuity
advice. In these cases, you may be required to select your own investment managers,
broker-dealer and/or insurance companies for the implementation of consulting
recommendations. If your needs include brokerage and/or other financial services, we
may recommend the use of one of several investment managers, brokers, banks,
custodians, insurance companies or other financial professionals ("Firms"). You must
independently evaluate these Firms before opening an account or transacting business
and have the right to effect business through any firm you choose. You have the right to
choose whether to follow the consulting advice that we provide.
Wrap Fee Programs
We do not place Client assets into a wrap fee program.
Assets
As of December 31, 2023, we have $134,390,053 in assets under our management. We
manage $128,459,040 in discretionary assets and $5,931,013 in non-discretionary assets.