Description of Services and Fees
CBG & Company, Inc. is a federally registered investment adviser based in Indianapolis, Indiana. We
are organized as a corporation under the laws of the State of Indiana. We have been providing
investment advisory services since 2008. Roy C. Bodinus, Daniel E. Garwood,
and Nicholas D. Catlin are our principal owners. Currently, we offer the following investment advisory
services, which are personalized to each individual client:
• Portfolio Management Services
• Financial Planning and Pension Consulting Services
We are an independent financial adviser that provides wealth management services by incorporating
financial planning, investment portfolio management and other aggregated financial services. The
combination of industry experience and comprehensive research allows our firm to provide quality
advisory services to our clients.
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 CBG & Company,
Inc. 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 and non-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 continuous and focused investment advice and/or to make investments on your behalf.
As part of our portfolio management services, we typically customize an investment portfolio for you in
accordance with your risk tolerance and investing objectives. 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. 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 typically granted by
the investment advisory agreement you sign with our firm, a power of attorney, or 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 non-discretionary arrangements with our firm, we must obtain your approval prior to
executing any transactions on behalf of your account.
IRA Rollover Recommendations
Effective December 20, 2021 (or such later date as the US Department of Labor (“DOL”) Field
Assistance Bulletin 2018-02 ceases to be in effect), for purposes of complying with the DOL’s
Prohibited Transaction Exemption 2020-02 (“PTE 2020-02”) where applicable, we are providing the
following acknowledgment to you.
When we provide investment advice to you regarding your 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 your interests, so we operate under a
special rule that requires us to act in your best interest and not put our interest ahead of yours. Under
this special rule’s provisions, we must:
• Meet a professional standard of care when making investment recommendations (give prudent
advice);
• Never put our financial interests ahead of yours when making recommendations (give loyal
advice);
• Avoid misleading statements about conflicts of interest, fees, and investments;
• Follow policies and procedures designed to ensure that we give advice that is in your best interest;
• Charge no more than is reasonable for our services; and
• Give you basic information about conflicts of interest.
Investors considering rolling over assets from a qualified employer-sponsored retirement plan
(“Employer Plan”) to an Individual Retirement Account (“IRA”) should review and consider the
advantages and disadvantages of an IRA rollover from their Employer Plan. A plan participant leaving
an employer typically has four options (and may engage in a combination of these options):
(1) Leave the money in the former employer’s plan, if permitted;
(2) Rollover the assets to a new employer’s plan (if available and rollovers are permitted);
(3) Rollover Employer Plan assets to an IRA; or,
(4) Cash out the Employer Plan assets and pay the required taxes on the distribution.
At a minimum, Investors should consider fees and expenses,
investment options, services, penalty-free
withdrawals, protection from creditors and legal judgments, required minimum distributions, and
employer stock. We encourage you to discuss your options and review the above listed considerations
with an accountant, third-party administrator, investment advisor to your Employer Plan (if available), or
legal counsel, to the extent you consider necessary.
We have an economic incentive to encourage investors to rollover Employer Plan assets into an IRA
managed by us, as we will earn fees as a result.
Financial Planning and Pension Consulting Services
We offer 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 work 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 basic
limited financial plan addressing such issues as retirement advice, pension reviews, college education
planning and/or a portfolio review.
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.
As part of our Financial Planning 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 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 be either discretionary or 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.
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
• Time horizon
Our educational meetings will include other investment-related topics specific to the particular plan if
appropriate.
We will 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.
General - Advisory Services to Retirement Plans and Plan Participants
As disclosed above, 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 (which is described below).
The services we provide to your Plan are described above, and in the service agreement that you have
previously signed. Our compensation for these services is described above and also in the service
agreement. We do not receive any other compensation, direct or indirect, for the services we provide
to the Plan or Participants.
Status
In providing services to the Plan and Participants, our status is that of a federally registered investment
adviser domiciled in Indiana, and we are not subject to any disqualifications under Section 411 of
ERISA. 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.
Types of Investments
We offer advice on equity securities, exchange traded funds, corporate debt securities, certificates of
deposit, municipal securities, and investment company securities.
Additionally, we will advise you on any type of investment that we deem appropriate based on your
stated goals and objectives.
You may request that we refrain from investing in particular securities or certain types of securities.
You must provide these restrictions to our firm in writing.
Assets Under Management
As of February 29, 2024, we manage $219,737,973 in client assets on a discretionary basis, and $0 in
client assets on a non-discretionary basis.