This Disclosure document is being offered to you by Kozak & Tripp Private Asset
Management (“KTPAM” or “Firm”) about the investment advisory services we provide. It
discloses information about our services and the way those services are made available to
you, the client.
We are an investment management firm located in Highlands Ranch, Colorado. Our Firm
became a registered investment adviser in September 2018. Christopher Kozak and Trevor
Tripp are the owners of the firm.
We are committed to helping clients build, manage, and preserve their wealth, and to
provide guidance that helps clients to achieve their stated financial goals. We will offer an
initial complimentary meeting upon our discretion; however, investment advisory services
are initiated only after you and KTPAM execute an Investment Management Agreement.
Investment Management Services
We manage advisory accounts on a discretionary and non-discretionary basis. Once we
have determined a profile and investment plan with a client, we will execute the day-to-
day transactions without seeking prior client consent. Account supervision is guided by the
written profile and investment plan of the client. We may accept accounts with certain
restrictions if circumstances warrant. We primarily allocate client assets among various
equities, Exchanged Traded Funds (“ETFs”), mutual funds, cash and debt securities in
accordance with their stated investment objectives. All of which are considered asset
allocation categories for the client’s investment strategy.
During personal discussions with clients, we determine the client’s objectives, time
horizons, risk tolerance and liquidity needs. As appropriate, we also review a client’s prior
investment history, as well as family composition and background. Based on client needs,
we develop a client’s personal profile and investment plan. We then create and manage
the client’s investments based on that policy and plan. It is the client’s obligation to notify
us immediately if circumstances have changed with respect to their goals.
Once we have determined the appropriate strategy for you or your business and executed
the strategy, we will provide ongoing investment review and management services. This
approach requires us to periodically review your portfolio.
With our discretionary relationship, we will make changes to the portfolio, as we deem
appropriate, to meet your financial objectives. We trade these portfolios based on the
combination of our market views and your objectives, using our investment process. We
tailor our advisory services to meet the needs of our clients and seek to ensure that your
portfolio is managed in a manner consistent with those needs and objectives. You will have
the ability to leave standing instructions with us to refrain from investing in particular
industries or invest in limited amounts of securities.
Where appropriate, we provide advice about concentrated stock positions held in client
portfolios. Clients will engage us to advise on certain investment products that are not
maintained at their primary custodian, such as annuity contracts and assets held in
employer sponsored retirement plans and qualified tuition plans (i.e., 529 plans).
You are advised and are expected to understand that our past performance is not a
guarantee of future results. Certain market and economic risks exist that adversely affect
an account’s performance. This could result in capital losses in your account.
Financial Planning
While we will work with all clients to understand their financial objectives, we will not pre-
sent a formal financial plan to all of them. Our Firm may charge separate fees for the prep-
aration of a formal financial plan. Through the financial planning process, our team strives
to engage our clients in conversations around the family’s goals, objectives, priorities, vi-
sion, and legacy – both for the near term as well as for future generations. With the unique
goals and circumstances of each family in mind, our team may offer financial planning ideas
and strategies to address the client’s holistic financial picture, including estate, income tax,
charitable, cash flow, wealth transfer and family legacy objectives. Our team partners with
our client’s other advisors (CPA, estate attorney, insurance broker, etc.) to ensure a coordi-
nated effort of all parties toward the client’s stated goals. Such services include various
reports on specific goals and objectives or general investment and/or planning recommen-
dations, guidance to outside assets and periodic updates.
Our specific services in preparing your formal financial plan may include:
• Review and clarification of your financial goals;
• Assessment of your overall financial position including cash flow, balance sheet,
investment strategy, risk management and estate planning;
• Creation of a unique plan for each goal you have, including personal and business
real estate, education, retirement or financial independence, charitable giving,
estate planning, business succession and other personal goals;
• Development of a goal-oriented investment plan, with input from various advisors
to our clients around tax suggestions, asset allocation, asset location, expenses,
risk and liquidity factors for each goal. This includes IRA and qualified plans, tax-
able and trust accounts that require special attention;
• Design of a risk management plan including risk tolerance, risk avoidance, mitiga-
tion and transfer, including liquidity as well
as various insurance and possible com-
pany benefits; and
• Crafting and implementation of, in conjunction with your estate and/or corporate
attorneys as tax advisor, an estate plan to provide for you and/or your heirs in the
event of an incapacity or death.
A written evaluation of each client's initial situation or Financial Plan is provided to the
client. The recommendations will not be reviewed nor updated, unless requested by the
client at which point a new Agreement between Client and Adviser may be executed.
Employer Sponsored Retirement Plan Services
For employer-sponsored retirement plans with participant-directed investments, our firm
provides its advisory services as an investment adviser as defined under Section 3(21) of
the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended (“ERISA”).
When serving as an ERISA 3(21) investment adviser, the Plan Sponsor and our Firm share
fiduciary responsibility. The Plan Sponsor retains ultimate decision-making authority for
the investments and may accept or reject the recommendations in accordance with the
terms of a separate ERISA 3(21) Investment Adviser Agreement between our Firm and the
Plan Sponsor. We provide the following services to the Plan Sponsor:
• Screen investments and make recommendations.
• Monitor the investments regularly and suggests replacement investments when
appropriate.
• Provide an annual investment report.
• Assist the Plan Sponsor in developing an Investment Policy Statement (“IPS”).
We can also be engaged to provide financial education to Plan participants. The scope of
education provided to participants will not constitute “investment advice” within the
meaning of ERISA and participant education will relate to general principles for investing
and information about the investment options currently in the Plan. We may also partic-
ipate in initial enrollment meetings and periodic workshops and enrollment meetings for
new participants.
Consulting Services
We also provide clients investment advice on a more-limited basis on one-or-more isolated
areas of concern such as small business consulting, real estate, pension plan consulting, or
any other specific topic. Additionally, we provide advice on non-securities matters about
the rendering of estate planning, insurance, real estate, and/or annuity advice.
In these cases, you will be required to select your own investment managers, custodian
and/or insurance companies for the implementation of consulting recommendations. If
your needs include brokerage and/or other financial services, we will recommend the use
of one of several investment managers, brokers, banks, custodians, insurance companies
or other financial professionals. You must independently evaluate these firms before
opening an account or transacting business, and you have the right to effect business
through any firm you choose.
Disclosure Regarding Rollover Recommendations
We are fiduciaries under the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 and when we provide invest-
ment advice to you regarding your retirement plan account or individual retirement ac-
count, we are also 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 gov-
erning retirement accounts. We have to act in your best interest and not put our interest
ahead of yours. At the same time, the way we make money creates some conflicts with
your interests.
A client or prospect leaving an employer typically has four options regarding an existing
retirement plan (and may engage in a combination of these options): (i) leave the money
in the former employer’s plan, if permitted, (ii) roll over the assets to the new employer’s
plan, if one is available and rollovers are permitted, (iii) rollover to an Individual Retirement
Account (“IRA”), or (iv) cash out the account value (which could, depending upon the cli-
ent’s age, result in adverse tax consequences). Our Firm may recommend an investor roll
over plan assets to an IRA for which our Firm provides investment advisory services. As a
result, our Firm and its representatives may earn an asset-based fee. In contrast, a recom-
mendation that a client or prospective client leave their plan assets with their previous
employer or roll over the assets to a plan sponsored by a new employer will generally result
in no compensation to our Firm. Our Firm therefore has an economic incentive to encour-
age a client to roll plan assets into an IRA that our Firm will manage, which presents a con-
flict of interest. To mitigate the conflict of interest, there are various factors that our Firm
will consider before recommending a rollover, including but not limited to: (i) the invest-
ment options available in the plan versus the investment options available in an IRA, (ii)
fees and expenses in the plan versus the fees and expenses in an IRA, (iii) the services and
responsiveness of the plan’s investment professionals versus those of our Firm, (iv) protec-
tion of assets from creditors and legal judgments, (v) required minimum distributions and
age considerations, and (vi) employer stock tax consequences, if any. Our Firm’s Chief Com-
pliance Officer remains available to address any questions that a client or prospective client
has regarding the oversight.
Wrap Fee Program
We do not offer a Wrap Fee Program.
Assets
As of December 31, 2023, our assets under management totaled $628,432,583. Our Firm
manages $627,848,253 under discretionary management and $584,330 under non-discre-
tionary management.