A. Description of the Advisory Firm
Inscription Capital, LLC (“Inscription” or the “Advisor”) is a limited liability company organized in the
State of Delaware. Inscription became an investment advisory firm registered with the U.S. Securities and
Exchange Commission (“SEC”) in February 2018. Inscription is wholly owned by Inscription Capital
Holdings, LLC. The majority of Inscription Capital Holdings, LLC is owned by BEO Holdings, LLC.
Stephan Farber, a Financial Advisor with Inscription, also conducts business under the “doing business as”
name Sound Post Capital.
All statements in this Disclosure Brochure, including those made in the present tense, describe the
prospective business of Inscription. If you have any questions regarding the contents of this Disclosure
Brochure, please contact the Advisor by telephone at (713) 673-8999 or by email at
[email protected].
B. Types of Advisory Services
Inscription provides holistic and personalized financial planning and discretionary and non-discretionary
investment advisory services to individuals, including high net worth individuals, and entities, including,
but not limited to, family offices, trusts, estates, and private foundations (each a “Client”).
The Advisor serves as a fiduciary to Clients, as defined under the applicable laws and regulations. As a
fiduciary, the Advisor upholds a duty of loyalty, fairness and good faith towards each Client and seeks to
mitigate potential conflicts of interest. Our fiduciary commitment is further described in our Code of
Ethics. For more information regarding our Code of Ethics, please see Item 11 – Code of Ethics,
Participation or Interest in Client Transactions and Personal Trading.
Financial Planning and Consulting Services
Inscription provides a variety of comprehensive financial planning and consulting services to Clients. Such
engagements can be part of the investment advisory engagement or pursuant to a separate engagement.
Generally, such financial planning services will involve preparing a financial plan or rendering a financial
consultation based on the Client’s financial goals and objectives. This planning or consulting can
encompass one or more areas of need, including, but not limited to cash flow analysis, investment planning,
retirement planning, estate planning, personal savings, educational savings, divorce planning, and other
areas of a Client’s financial situation.
A financial plan developed for or financial consultation rendered to the Client will typically include general
recommendations for a course of activity or specific actions to be taken by the Client. For example,
recommendations can be made that the Client start or revise their investment programs, commence or alter
retirement savings, establish education savings and/or charitable giving programs. Inscription can
recommend the services of itself and/or other professionals to implement its recommendations. Clients are
advised that a conflict of interest exists if Inscription recommends its own services, as such a
recommendation may increase the advisory fees paid to Inscription. The Client is under no obligation to
act upon any of the recommendations made by Inscription under a financial planning or consulting
engagement to engage the services of any such recommended professional, including Inscription itself.
Investment Management Services
In designing and implementing customized models and portfolio strategies, Inscription can manage, on a
discretionary or nondiscretionary basis, a broad range of investment strategies and vehicles. Inscription
primarily allocates Client assets among various mutual funds, exchange-traded funds (“ETFs”), structured
products, options, alternative investments, and individual debt and equity securities in accordance with
Clients’ stated investment objectives. In addition, Inscription can allocate Client assets among Digital
assets, precious metals, private funds, private equity, closed-end funds, fixed-income, g securities, REITs,
private debt, [CD + MMF, cash management], as appropriate given the clients risk tolerance and investment
objectives.
Inscription can further recommend to Clients that all or a portion of their investment portfolio be managed
on a discretionary basis by one or more unaffiliated money managers or investment platforms (“External
Managers”). On a case-by-case basis some Clients will be required to enter into a separate agreement with
the External Manager(s), which will set forth the terms and conditions of the Client’s engagement of the
External Manager, or will receive a Statement of Investment Selection in a single contract relationship.
Inscription generally renders services to the Client relative to the discretionary selection of External
Managers. Inscription also assists in establishing the Client’s investment objectives for the assets managed
by External Managers, monitors and reviews the account[s] performance and defines any restrictions on
the account[s]. The investment management fees charged by the designated External Managers, together
with the fees charged by the corresponding designated qualified custodian of the Client’s assets, will in
addition to, advisory fees charged by Inscription.
Retirement Accounts – When the Advisor provides investment advice to Clients regarding ERISA
retirement accounts or individual retirement accounts (“IRAs”), the Advisor is a fiduciary within the
meaning of Title I of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (“ERISA”) and/or the Internal
Revenue Code (“IRC”), as applicable, which are laws governing retirement accounts. When deemed to be
in the Client’s best interest, the Advisor will provide investment advice to a Client regarding a distribution
from an ERISA retirement account or to roll over the assets to an IRA, or recommend a similar transaction
including rollovers from one ERISA sponsored Plan to another, one IRA to another IRA, or from one type
of account to another account (e.g. commission-based account to fee-based account). Such a
recommendation creates a conflict of interest if the Advisor will earn a new (or increase its current)
advisory fee as a result of the transaction. No client is under any obligation to roll over a retirement account
to
an account managed by the Advisor.
Commodities Pool Investment – Certain Advisory Persons are also associated persons of Quantor Capital
LLC (“Quantor”), a commodity pool operator (NFA ID: 0503326) with the Commodity Futures Trading
Commission (“CFTC”). As a part of the Advisor’s Investment Management Services, Advisory Persons
can recommend that the Client invest a portion of their assets in Quantor Core Fund, LP, a commodities
pool, which will be managed separately by Quantor. The Advisor will not have day-to-day investment
supervision over the assets managed by Quantor. Clients are not obligated to implement commodities
recommendations provided by the Advisor or its Advisory Persons. Please see Item 10 – Other Financial
Industry Activities and Affiliations for additional information.
Betterment Institutional Platform - Inscription can recommend that certain Clients implement their
investment portfolios through Betterment Institutional, a division of Betterment LLC (herein “Betterment
Institutional” or the “Investment Platform”). Betterment Institutional is what is often termed a “robo-
advisor”, an online wealth management service that provides automated, algorithm-based portfolio
management advice. Robo-advisors use technology to deliver similar services as traditional advisors, but
generally only offer portfolio management and do not get involved in a Client’s personal situation, such
as taxes and retirement or estate planning. Inscription chose to affiliate with Betterment Institutional due
to the Investment Platform’s customized portfolio allocations, automated rebalancing, and competitive
fees. Inscription utilizes Betterment Institutional as a complement to its services to provide cost effective
investing coupled with personalized financial planning.
To establish accounts with Betterment Institutional, the Client will also enter into one or more agreements
with Betterment that provides the authority for discretionary investment management by the Investment
Platform. Inscription remains the Client’s primary advisor and relationship contact and will select or
construct a portfolio of ETFs and/or cash equivalents from the universe of investments included on the
Investment Platform.
Inscription will have the discretionary authority to instruct Betterment Institutional with respect to portfolio
construction, asset allocation and other investment decisions, subject to the limitations described herein.
Betterment Institutional will implement the portfolio and be responsible for the discretionary trading of the
ETFs in the Client’s portfolio, including the purchase and sale of investments and the automatic rebalancing
back to targets.
Betterment Institutional utilizes between ten to twelve different ETF’s, representing various asset classes
for the construction of investment portfolios. As discussed above, Inscription will work with each Client
to select/construct a portfolio to meet the needs of the Client. The Client has limited ability to put
restrictions on its accounts. The account[s] cannot contain investments that are not included in the
Betterment Institutional universe of ETFs and cash equivalents.
Betterment Institutional, under its discretionary authority, will automatically adjust and rebalance the
Client’s accounts daily based on the drift tolerance established for the positions in the investment portfolio.
The Advisor’s investment philosophy is long-term, but the Advisor may make such tactical overrides to
take advantage of market pricing anomalies or strong market sectors. The Advisor does not actively trade
in the Client’s account[s] and is limited to amending allocations once per account per trading day through
Betterment Institutional, the Client should be aware of these potential disadvantages.
For its services, Betterment Institutional will charge an asset-based fee that is in addition to the Advisor’s
fee. Betterment Institutional’s fee includes the securities transaction fees for all trades. The Advisor will
only receive its investment advisory fees as detailed in Item 5.A. below and does not share in any fees
earned by Betterment Institutional.
The Client, prior to entering into an agreement with the Investment Platform, will be provided with the
Investment Platform's Form ADV Part 2A (or a brochure that makes the appropriate disclosures).
Retirement Plan Advisory Services
Inscription provides retirement plan advisory services on behalf of the retirement plans (each a “Plan”) and
the company (the “Plan Sponsor”). The Advisor’s retirement plan advisory services are designed to assist
the Plan Sponsor in meeting its fiduciary obligations to the Plan and its Plan Participants. Each engagement
is customized to the needs of the Plan and Plan Sponsor. Services generally include:
• Vendor Analysis
• Plan Participant Enrollment and Education Tracking
• Investment Policy Statement (“IPS”) Design and Review
• Investment Oversight Services (ERISA 3(21)) and 3(38)
• Performance Reporting
• Ongoing Investment Recommendation and Assistance
These services are provided by Inscription serving in the capacity as a fiduciary under the Employee
Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended (“ERISA”). In accordance with ERISA Section
408(b)(2), the Plan Sponsor is provided with a written description of Inscription’s fiduciary status, the
specific services to be rendered and all direct and indirect compensation the Advisor reasonably expects
under the engagement.
C. Client-Tailored Advisory Services
Inscription provides portfolio management services using investment models designed to meet a variety of
Client investment objectives. Client portfolios are managed on the basis of individual Clients’ financial
situation and investment objectives. Clients can impose reasonable restrictions on the management of their
accounts if Inscription determines, in its sole discretion, that the conditions would not materially impact
the performance of a management strategy or prove overly burdensome for Inscription’s management
efforts.
D. Assets Under Management
As of December 31, 2023 , Inscription manages $1,276,713,756
in client assets, $ 1,012,647,587.08 of which is managed on a discretionary basis and $ 264,066,168.86 on
a non-discretionary basis.