Our firm provides individuals and other types of clients with a wide array of investment advisory
services. Our firm is a corporation formed under the laws of the State of California in 2003 and has
been in business as an investment adviser since 2017. Our firm is owned by Drew McCoy (50%) and
Amy Aquino (50%).
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
Wrap Comprehensive Portfolio Management:
Please see our Form ADV Part 2A Appendix 1 (“Wrap Fee Program Brochure”) for information
regarding our Wrap Comprehensive Portfolio Management service.
Financial Planning & Consulting:
Our firm provides a variety of standalone financial planning and consulting services to clients for the
management of financial resources based upon an analysis of current situation, goals, and objectives.
Financial planning services will typically involve preparing a financial plan or rendering a financial
consultation for clients based on the client’s financial goals and objectives. This planning or
consulting may encompass Investment Planning, Retirement Planning, Estate Planning, Charitable
Planning, Education Planning, Corporate and Personal Tax Planning, Cost Segregation Study,
Corporate Structure, Real Estate Analysis, Mortgage/Debt Analysis, Insurance Analysis, Lines of
Credit Evaluation, or Business and Personal Financial Planning.
Written financial plans or financial consultations rendered to clients usually include general
recommendations for a course of activity or specific actions to be taken by the clients.
Implementation of the recommendations will be at the discretion of the client. Our firm provides
clients with a summary of their financial situation, and observations for financial planning
engagements. Financial consultations are not typically accompanied by a written summary of
observations and recommendations, as the process is less formal than the planning service. Assuming
that all the information and documents requested from the client are provided promptly, plans or
consultations are typically completed within 6 months of the client signing a contract with our firm.
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
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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.
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Investment Options – Our firm will work with the Plan Sponsor to evaluate existing
investment options and make recommendations for appropriate changes.
• Asset Allocation and Portfolio Construction – Our firm will develop 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 of over/underperformance 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) or 3(38) of ERISA as designated by the Retirement Plan Consulting Agreement with respect to
the provision of services described therein.
Legacy Asset Management:
Legacy clients who are actively involved in security selection and asset allocation for their portfolio(s)
and had a commission based pricing arrangement with the prior firm may be eligible for the Legacy
Asset Management service. As part of our Legacy Asset Management service, our firm provides
investment advice services as requested in creation of portfolios consisting of individual stocks, bonds,
exchange traded funds (“ETFs”), options, mutual funds and other public securities or investments, as
desired by the client. Once the appropriate portfolio has been determined, portfolios are periodically
monitored, and if necessary, recommendations are made by our firm as to rebalancing based upon the
client’s individual needs, stated goals and objectives.
Tailoring of Advisory Services
Our firm offers individualized investment advice to our Wrap Comprehensive Portfolio Management
clients. General investment advice will be offered to our Financial Planning & Consulting and
Retirement Plan Consulting clients.
Each Wrap Comprehensive Portfolio Management client may 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.
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Participation in Wrap Fee Programs
All Comprehensive Management services are only offered through wrapped accounts, which are
managed on an individualized basis according to the client’s investment objectives, financial goals,
risk tolerance, etc. Please see our Wrap Fee Program Brochure for more information.
Regulatory Assets Under Management
As of December 31, 2023, our firm manages $412,063,940.00 on a discretionary basis and
$3,864,484.00 on a non-discretionary basis.