Firm Description
Dominion Portfolio Management, Inc. was founded in 1995 and is a SEC registered investment adviser
with its principal place of business located in Texas. DPM engages in fee based portfolio asset
management on behalf of its clients. Dominion Portfolio Management, Inc is a wholly owned subsidiary
of Calton & Associates, Inc.
The following paragraphs describe our services and fees. 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" "DPM" refer to Dominion Portfolio
Management, Inc.. and the words "you," "your," and "client" refer to you as either a client or
prospective client 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 participate in our discretionary portfolio management
services, we require you to grant us discretionary authority to manage your account. Subject to a grant
of discretionary authorization, we have the authority and responsibility to formulate investment
strategies on your behalf. Discretionary authorization will allow us to determine the specific securities,
and the amount of securities, to be purchased or sold for your account without obtaining your approval
prior to each transaction. We will also have discretion over the broker or dealer to be used for
securities transactions in your account. Discretionary authority is typically granted by the investment
advisory agreement you sign with our firm, a power of attorney, or trading authorization forms.
We may also offer non-discretionary portfolio management services. 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. You have an unrestricted right to decline to implement any advice provided by our firm
on a non-discretionary basis.
As part of our portfolio management services, we may use one or more third party money managers to
manage a portion of your account on a discretionary basis. The third party money managers may use
one or more of their model portfolios to manage your account. We will regularly monitor the
performance of your accounts managed by third party money managers, and may hire and fire
any third party money managers without your prior approval. We may pay a portion of our advisory fee
to the sub-adviser(s) we use; however, you will not pay our firm a higher advisory fee as a result of any
third party money managers relationships.
To determine your individual needs, each non-institutional client will be required to complete a
confidential investor profile containing a variety of personal and financial information. Requested
information includes investment goals, time horizons and risk tolerance. We may require you to
complete additional investor profiles should you experience significant change in your financial
condition or familial obligations. Through an analysis of this data, we develop a portfolio for you. All
portfolios are client specific. A DPM IAR will consult with you on the overall investment strategy to be
implemented. You will have
the opportunity to place reasonable restrictions on the management
of your portfolio, such as limiting individual securities, asset allocation weightings, industries, etc. Any
restrictions will be detailed in the advisory contract. We will then implement the chosen investment
strategy through the purchase of a number of stocks, bonds, ETF's or mutual funds (no-load or load
waived) that are deemed to be appropriate for you. We will then monitor your portfolio and when
deemed appropriate we will make changes in specific security selections. We may alter asset
allocations as situations warrant based on market conditions or changes in your personal or family
obligations.
Types of Investments
Assets are invested primarily in individual securities, exchanged traded funds (ETF's) or mutual funds
(load-waived or no-load). Investments may also include equities (stocks), warrants, corporate debt
securities, commercial paper, certificates of deposit, municipal securities, investment company
securities, mutual funds shares and U. S. government securities.
Additionally, we may advise you on various types of investments 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 conflict with the advice we give to other clients
regarding the same security or investment.
IRA Rollover Recommendations
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.
We benefit financially from the rollover of your assets from a retirement account to an account that we
manage or provide investment advice, because the assets increase our assets under management
and, in turn, our advisory fees. As a fiduciary, we only recommend a rollover when we believe it is in
your best interest.
Assets Under Management
As of December 31, 2021, we provide continuous management services for $188,055,684 in client
assets on a discretionary basis.