Description of Services and Fees
We are a registered investment adviser based in Overland Park, KS. We are organized as a limited
liability company under the laws of the State of Kansas. We have been providing investment
advisory services since 2008. Pete A. Martinez is our firm's principal owner. Currently, we offer the
following investment advisory services, which are personalized to each individual client:
1. Portfolio Management Services
2. Financial Planning Services
3. Pension Consulting Services
4. Educational Seminars
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 Insight
Financial Services and the words "you", "your" and "client" refer to you as either a client or
prospective client of our firm. Also, you may see the term "Associated Person" throughout this
brochure. As used in this brochure, our Associated Persons are our firm's officers, employees, and
all individuals providing investment advice on behalf of our firm.
Portfolio Management Services
We offer discretionary portfolio 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 (the "suitability information") at the beginning of our advisory relationship. We will use the
suitability information we gather to develop a strategy that enables our firm to give you ongoing 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. In providing portfolio management services, we may provide conflicting advice
amongst clients, based on factors such as risk tolerance, needs and objectives of the client. For
example, we may sell a holding for one client while we may purchase the same security for another
client.
We may provide a suggested allocation for other accounts not under our continuous management,
such as retirement accounts held with a client's current employer. We receive no compensation for
this service. In such cases, we have no responsibility for implementing the suggested allocation for
these assets.
If you participate in our discretionary portfolio management services, we require you to grant our firm
discretionary authority to manage your account. Discretionary authorization will allow our firm 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 granted by the
investment advisory agreement you sign with our firm. 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.
As part of our portfolio management services, we may use one or more Third Party Asset Managers
("TPAM") to manage a portion of your account on a discretionary basis. The TPAMs may use one or
more of their model portfolios to manage your account. We will regularly monitor the performance of
your accounts managed by TPAM(s), and may hire and fire any TPAM without your prior approval.
We may recommend that you purchase variable annuities to be included in your investment
portfolio(s). We will refer you to a variable annuity provider for the purchase of the investment. We
are not compensated as a result of your purchase of the variable annuity, however we will manage
the subaccounts under our portfolio management program and be compensated according to your
negotiated fee schedule.
Financial Planning Services
We offer broad-based, modular, and consultative financial planning services. Financial planning will
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. 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 provide a 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 our firm. 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.
Pension Consulting Services
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, formation of the investment policy statement,
asset allocation advice, investment performance monitoring, and/or communication and education
services where we will assist the client in providing meaningful information regarding the retirement
plan to its participants. Additionally, we may offer the client assistance in setting up a relationship
with a third-party administrator and processing enrollment forms. These pension consulting services
are usually non-discretionary, but in some cases discretionary arrangements are accepted. For non-
discretionary consulting, the ultimate decision to act on behalf of the plan shall remain with the plan
sponsor or other named fiduciary. Advice to plan participants will be limited to general, impersonal
advice. Plan participants who wish to engage our firm for individualized planning services and fees
may do so by executing a separate agreement with our firm.
We offer various levels of advisory and consulting services to employee benefit plans ("Plan") and to
the participants of such plans ("Participants"). The services are designed to assist plan sponsors in
meeting their management and fiduciary obligations to Participants under the Employee Retirement
Income Securities Act ("ERISA"). Pursuant to adopted regulations of the U.S. Department of Labor,
we are required to provide the Plan's responsible plan fiduciary (the person who has the authority to
engage us as an investment adviser to the Plan) with a written statement of the services we provide
to the Plan, the compensation we receive for providing those services, and our status.
The services we provide to your Plan are described above, and in the advisory agreement that you
sign. Our compensation for these services is described in Item 5 in this brochure and also in the
service agreement.
Status - In performing fiduciary services, we are acting either as a non-discretionary fiduciary of the
Plan as defined in Section 3(21) under ERISA, or as a discretionary fiduciary of the plan as defined
in Section 3(38) under ERISA, as set forth in the arrangement with each Plan sponsor.
Educational Seminars
We may conduct speaking engagements and educational seminars for a fee. The topics may include
issues related to asset/wealth management services, such as financial planning, investment
planning, retirement planning, and/or various other economic and investment topics. The information
covered in a seminar is not based on the individual needs of the attendees. We do not provide
investment advice to attendees unless engaged independently, and only where the attendee's
individualized financial information, investment goals, and objectives are provided.
Types of Investments
We primarily offer advice on ETFs and Mutual Funds. Refer to the Methods of Analysis, Investment
Strategies and Risk of Loss below for additional disclosures on this topic. Additionally, we may
advise you on various types of investments, including variable annuities, 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.
Since our investment strategies and advice are based on each client's specific financial situation, the
investment advice we provide to you may be different or conflicting with the advice we give to other
clients regarding the same security or investment.
Assets Under Management
As of December 31, 2023, we provide continuous management services for $173,638,505 in client
assets on a discretionary basis.