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A. Description of Advisory Firm
Heritage Wealth Architects, LLC is a registered investment advisor firm originally registered
with the Minnesota state regulators as of February 22, 2012. However, as of April 6, 2018, the
firm became registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). On October 4,
2017, the form of entity was changed to an S-Corporation with James S. Knapp, President/CEO
as the Principal Owner of the S-Corporation.
B. Description of Advisory Services Offered
Advisory Services
Heritage Wealth Architects, Inc. (“Heritage Wealth” or “Advisor”) principal service is providing
fee-based investment advisory services and financial planning services. The Advisor practices
custom management of portfolios, on a discretionary basis, according to the client’s objectives.
The Advisor’s primary approach is to use a combination of technical and tactical allocation
strategy aimed at reducing risk and increasing performance. The Advisor may use any of the
following: exchange listed securities, over-the-counter securities, corporate debt securities, CDs,
municipal securities, mutual funds, options in securities to accomplish this objective, outside
money managers, alternative investments. The Advisor measures and selects mutual funds and
money managers by using various criteria, such as the fund manager’s tenure, and/or overall
career performance, and/or sector exposure. The Advisor may recommend, on occasion,
redistributing investment allocations to diversify the portfolio in an effort to reduce risk and
increase performance. The Advisor may recommend specific stocks to increase sector weighting
and/or dividend potential. The Advisor may recommend employing cash positions as a possible
safeguard against market movement which may adversely affect the portfolio. The Advisor may
recommend selling positions for reasons that include, but are not limited to, harvesting capital
gains or losses, a change in a business’s strategy, business or sector risk exposure to a specific
security or class of securities, overvaluation or overweighting of the position(s) in the portfolio,
change in risk tolerance of client, or any risk deemed unacceptable for the client’s risk tolerance.
Heritage Wealth will provide investment advisory services and portfolio management services
and will not provide securities custodial or other administrative services. At no time will
Heritage Wealth accept or maintain custody of a client’s funds or securities.
We offer an automated investment program (the “Program”) through which clients are invested
in a range of investment strategies we have constructed and manage, each consisting of a
portfolio of exchange-traded funds (“ETFs”) and a cash allocation. The client may instruct us to
exclude up to three ETFs from their portfolio. The client’s portfolio is held in a brokerage
account opened by the client at Charles Schwab & Co., Inc. (“CS&Co”). We use the Institutional
Intelligent Portfolios® platform (“Platform”), offered by Schwab Performance Technologies
(“SPT”), a software provider to independent investment advisors and an affiliate of CS&Co., to
operate the Program. We are independent of and not owned by, affiliated with, or sponsored or
supervised by SPT, CS&Co., or their affiliates (together, “Schwab”). We, and not Schwab, are
the client’s investment advisor and primary point of contact with respect to the Program. We are
solely responsible, and Schwab is not responsible, for determining the appropriateness of the
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Program for the client, choosing a suitable investment strategy and portfolio for the client’s
investment needs and goals, and managing that portfolio on an ongoing basis. We have
contracted with SPT to provide us with the Platform, which consists of technology and related
trading and account management services for the Program. The Platform enables us to make the
Program available to clients online and includes a system that automates certain key parts of our
investment process (the “System”). The System includes an online questionnaire that helps us
determine the client’s investment objectives and risk tolerance and select an appropriate
investment strategy and portfolio. Clients should note that we will recommend a portfolio via the
System in response to the client’s answers to the online questionnaire. The client may then
indicate an interest in a portfolio that is one level less or more conservative or aggressive than
the recommended portfolio, but we then make the final decision and select a portfolio based on
all the information we have about the client. The System also includes an automated investment
engine through which we manage the client’s portfolio on an ongoing basis through automatic
rebalancing and tax-loss harvesting (if the client is eligible and elects).
We charge clients a fee for our services as described below under Item 5 Fees and
Compensation. Our fees are not set or supervised by Schwab. Clients do not pay brokerage
commissions or any other fees to CS&Co. as part of the Program. Schwab does receive other
revenues in connection with the Program.
We do not pay SPT fees for the Platform so long as we maintain $100 million in client assets in
accounts at CS&Co. that are not enrolled in the Program. If we do not meet this condition, then
we pay SPT an annual licensing fee of 0.10% (10 basis points) on the value of our clients’ assets
in the Program. This fee arrangement gives us an incentive to recommend or require that our
clients with accounts not enrolled in the Program be maintained with CS&Co.
Financial Planning
In addition to investment supervisory services, Heritage Wealth may provide financial planning
services to some of its clients. The Advisor’s financial planning services will include a
consultation with client to discuss the client’s financial goals and objectives whereby the Advisor
will then develop or amend a written financial plan for the client. The Advisor will discuss
recommendations, which may include, but not be limited to, topics such as retirement needs,
investments, taxes, insurance, estate planning, business planning and other relevant topics with
the client. The Advisor’s recommendations for portfolio customization are based on the client’s
investment objectives, goals, financial situation, and risk tolerance. In addition to tailored
investment advice financial planning services may also include recommendations relating to
investment, budgeting, and asset management strategies.
Seminars
Heritage Wealth may also offer educational seminars or workshops on topics including but not
limited to, investments, financial and estate planning, and business and tax planning. Heritage
Wealth
will not charge a fee for these seminars or workshops.
Qualified Retirement Plan Consulting Services
Heritage Wealth will evaluate the Plan and its operation including, at a minimum, its: Trustee,
custodial and recordkeeping arrangement; design; fiduciary compliance program; costs and fees
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associated with investments and service providers; required and elective contributions; employee
communication and education program, and; investment selection and monitoring process,
including its investment policy statement, hereinafter referred to as the “IPS”. With regard to the
IPS, the Advisor will assist the Plan Sponsor in drafting and adopting a suitable IPS, amending it
from time to time, and will provide information and recommendations, consistent with the IPS,
to aid the Plan Sponsor in selecting and monitoring investments offered to Participants in the
Plan. Information and recommendations will be based on data as of the end of each calendar
quarter. Within a reasonable period of time following each calendar quarter, the Advisor will
provide the Plan Sponsor with a written report detailing, at a minimum, all costs and fees
associated with investments and operation of the Plan, and information and recommendations,
consistent with the IPS, for the Plan Sponsor's selection, deletion and replacement of investments
offered to Participants in the Plan.
The Advisor's roles and actions in fulfilling all responsibilities pertaining to this Agreement shall
not include those of the Plan's Trustee, and will be performed solely at the direction of the Plan
Sponsor, its authorized officers, employees and/or agents. At no time will the Advisor accept,
maintain possession of, or have custodial responsibility for, the Plan's assets. The Advisor will
not conduct or effect the purchase or sale of any assets of the Plan on behalf of the Plan Sponsor.
The Advisor will not advise, in any manner, any entity related to the Plan other than the Plan
Sponsor. Communicational and educational activities in which the Advisor engages related to
Participants in the Plan shall be solely at the direction of the Plan Sponsor, and shall not be
represented by the Advisor or Plan Sponsor as investment, tax or legal advice. The Advisor is
not licensed to provide, shall not provide, nor be construed to provide, the services of an attorney
or accountant.
Pension Consulting Services to Plan Participants
Heritage Wealth will offer pension consulting services and participant fiduciary advice to plan
participants for assets held in retirement plans (both qualified and non-qualified), pursuant to the
Pension Protection Act of 2006. The Advisor’s pension consulting services and participant
fiduciary advice will be based on information obtained from the plan participant about goals and
investment objectives, time horizon, risk tolerance and the plan participant's financial situation.
Heritage Wealth will utilize Investment Policy Statements when providing standardized asset
allocation recommendations for the investment assets of plan participants within retirement plans
(both qualified and non-qualified). The plan participant is responsible for implementation of
recommendations and Heritage Wealth will not act on the plan participants behalf to implement
these recommendations.
When Heritage Wealth provides 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.
As a fiduciary, we must provide advice in the “Best Interest” of the Retirement Investor; charge
“reasonable” compensation for the services provided to you; and, not make misleading
statements about investment transactions, compensation, and conflicts of interest.
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Selection of Other Advisors
Heritage Wealth may recommend and refer clients to unaffiliated money managers or investment
advisors through Managed Account programs sponsored by a third-party provider. In these
arrangements, the client will then enter into a program and investment advisory agreement with
the program sponsor and sub-advisors. Heritage Wealth will assist and advise the client in
establishing investment objectives for the sub-advisors and continue to provide oversight of the
client account and ongoing monitoring of the activities of the sub-advisors. The sub-advisors will
develop an investment strategy to meet those objectives by identifying appropriate investments
and monitoring such investments. In consideration for such services, the program sponsor will
charge a program fee that includes the investment advisory fee of the sub-advisors, the
administration of the program, trading, clearance, and settlement costs. The program sponsor will
add Heritage Wealth's advisory fee (described below in Item 5A&B) and will deduct the overall
fee from the client account quarterly in advance based on the fair market value of the portfolio
assets under management in the account at the end of the preceding quarter.
The client, prior to entering into an agreement with a third party money manager selected by
Heritage Wealth, will be provided with that manager’s Brochure. In addition, Heritage Wealth
and its client will agree in writing that the client’s account will be managed by that selected third
party money manager on a discretionary basis. Heritage Wealth will review managers and
managed account programs on a regularly scheduled basis, and may act on such information in
accordance with the client agreement.
Business Consulting
Investment Advisor Representatives of Heritage Wealth may provide general advice to clients on
business related topics including, but not limited to, business valuation, business management,
strategy, strategic planning and financial structure. Fees are billed at a rate of $350 per hour and
are paid as referenced in Item 5A&B below. Fees are negotiable. Pre-payment of fees will not
exceed $500 per client, 6 months in advance.
C. Client Tailored Services and Client Imposed Restrictions
Heritage Wealth will tailor its advisory services to its client’s individual needs based on meetings
and conversations with the client. If clients wish to impose certain restrictions on investing in
certain securities or types of securities, the Advisor will address those restrictions with the client
to have a clear understanding of the client’s requirements.
D. Wrap Fee Programs
Heritage Wealth does not provide portfolio management services to wrap fee programs.
E. Assets Under Management
Heritage Wealth manages client assets and as of December 31, 2022 has the following assets
under management:
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Discretionary assets: $155,824,329
Non-discretionary assets: $ 52,029,066