The mission of OneAscent Wealth Management, LLC (“OneAscent”), founded in May 2020, is to provide
investment advisory services to clients and their professional advisors through the offering of managed
accounts, proprietary strategies, and assistance to other investment advisors. OneAscent is owned by
OneAscent Holdings LLC, which in turn is principally owned by Harry Pearson and Rob Grubb.
Asset Management
Asset management services may be provided on either a “discretionary” or “non-discretionary” basis.
When a client engages the firm to provide asset management services on a discretionary basis, we will
monitor your accounts to ensure that they are meeting your investment objectives. If any changes are
needed to your investments, we will make the changes. These changes may involve selling a security or
group of investments and buying others, utilizing a separate account (third-party) manager, or keeping
the proceeds in cash. We may also allocate some or all your assets to a Unified Managed Account
platform through our advisory affiliate OneAscent Investment Solutions LLC. You may at any time place
reasonable restrictions on the types of investments we may use on your behalf, or on the allocations to
each security type, though such restrictions may limit the potential performance of your portfolio. You
will receive at your request written or electronic confirmations from your account custodian after any
changes are made to your account. You will also receive statements directly from your account custodian.
Clients engaging us on a discretionary basis will be asked to execute a Limited Power of Attorney
(granting us the discretionary authority over the client accounts) as well as a written agreement that
outlines the responsibilities of both the client and the firm.
Asset management services may be provided to client accounts held at a custodian that is not directly
accessible by the firm (“Held Away Accounts”). The firm may, but is not required to, manage these Held
Away Accounts using the Pontera Order Management System that allows the Firm to view and manage
these assets.
Asset management services may be provided to clients by utilizing fee-based annuity and insurance
options via a third-party platform.
In certain limited circumstances, and in the discretion of the firm, a client may engage the firm to provide
investment management services on a non-discretionary basis. This means the firm monitors the accounts
in the same way as for discretionary services. The difference is that changes to your account will not be
made until we have confirmed with you (either verbally or in writing) that our proposed change is
acceptable to you.
Unified Managed Accounts and OneAscent Investment Solutions LLC
As mentioned above, we may allocate some or all your assets to our advisory affiliate, OneAscent
Investment Solutions LLC (“OAIS”), an advisory affiliate of OneAscent. OAIS can create a Unified
Managed Account or “UMA”, which is a single portfolio with a mix of asset classes and investment
positions using model portfolios, which may consist of third-party managers, and to a lesser extent, other
investment options such as mutual funds and exchange traded funds. This is accomplished with the use
of an Overlay Manager. The Overlay Manager that OneAscent has selected is Adhesion Wealth Advisors
Solutions (“Adhesion”), which provides portfolio trading, re-balancing, reporting and other
administrative services. Each UMA is designed to meet a specific goal, while maintaining diversification
to mitigate short term risk, and at the same time positioned to appreciate and create income for the
investor. UMAs are created by OAIS and accessed by other advisors (including OneAscent’s advisory
teams) for their clients.
OneAscent provides UMA services on a discretionary basis, meaning that you will grant OneAscent
discretionary authority to manage your account through the selection of an Overlay Manager, third party
managers, and other investment options. In addition, you will authorize your account custodian to follow
our instructions as well as instructions given by Adhesion to effect transactions, deliver securities, deduct
fees, and take other actions with respect to your account. We retain the right to replace any third-party
manager on discretionary basis. You will not have a direct contractual relationship with Adhesion or any
other third-party manager.
When clients engage OneAscent to provide UMA services, the client and OneAscent will execute an
Investment Management Agreement that describes the services to be provided, the fees for the service,
other expenses related to the provision of the investment management services, and how to terminate the
agreement. Depending on the service a client has selected, OneAscent will separately provide each client
with the applicable disclosure documents for any third-party manager or service providers utilized, which
includes information about their services, model portfolios, investment strategies at or before execution
of our Investment Management Agreement.
Tax Overlay Manager Services
For clients who elect, OneAscent offers tax overlay management services as an additional option for
accounts utilizing the UMA Program through the Overlay Manager, Adhesion. Tax overlay management
services are an additional service and will increase the management fee. Clients are no under no
obligation to elect to receive tax overlay management services. Adhesion will develop a tax strategy for
your account based on the information and instructions provided by us on your behalf. Tax overlay
management services in an investment account offer benefits and limitations, as described below. The
tax strategy developed for you by Adhesion is provided solely in connection with your account and the
Overlay Manager does not provide general tax planning services. If you do elect the tax overlay
management services option, please consider the following:
• The Tax Overlay Manager will implement tax overlay management services based on the
information and instructions provided for your account(s).
• The Tax Overlay Manager does not provide general tax advice, tax return preparation or tax
planning services.
• The Tax Overlay Manager will seek to reduce the overall tax burden of the account while seeking
to maintain the risk and return characteristics of the model portfolios received from Strategists
and/or Managers.
• When providing tax overlay management services to the account, short-term gains are avoided
where possible, but long-term gains are not limited unless you have requested a mandate to limit
realized long-term gains.
The Overlay Manager will provide tax overlay management services with the assumption that the Overlay
Manager will continue to provide services to the account for an entire tax year. The termination or
removal of the overlay management services before the completion of an entire tax year may result in
adverse tax consequences, including without limitation realization of short-term capital gains. Regardless
of your account size or any other factors, we strongly recommend that you continuously consult with a
tax professional prior to and throughout the investing of your assets.
The Tax Overlay Management Services are offered at an additional cost to you.
Financial Planning
In most cases, the client will supply an OneAscent representative with information including income,
investments, savings, insurance, age, the values the client would like to see advanced as part of their
planning process, and many other items that are helpful to the firm in assessing financial goals. The
information is typically provided during personal interviews and supplemented with written information.
Once the information is received, we will discuss your financial needs and goals with you, and compare
your current financial situation with the goals you state. Once these are compared, we will create a
financial and/or investment plan to help you meet your goals, and work with you to educate you about
household finances and investments.
The plan is intended to be a suggested way to achieve financial goals in keeping with the client’s values.
Not every plan will be the same for every client. Each one is specific to the client who requested it.
Because the plan is based on information supplied by you, it is very important that you accurately and
completely communicate to us the information we need. Also, your circumstances and needs may change
as your engagement with us progresses. It is very important that you continually update us with any
changes so that if the updates require changes to your plan, we can make those changes. Otherwise, your
plan may no longer be accurate.
Financial Consulting
OneAscent may provide financial consulting services (including investment and non-investment related
matters, including estate planning, retirement planning, tax planning, etc.). Prior to engaging OneAscent
to provide planning or consulting services, clients are generally required to enter into a written agreement
with OneAscent setting forth the terms and conditions of the engagement (including termination),
describing the scope of the services to be provided, and the portion of the fee that is due from the client
prior to OneAscent commencing services.
Investment Advisory Services for Pooled Retirement Plans
When Plan Sponsors have direct investment responsibility for Plan assets, unbiased council is mission
critical. Our process begins with a detailed review of the Plan’s assumptions and interviews with the
overall committee, individual committee members, and management. This initial step helps to ensure the
investment portfolio is best designed to meet the specific needs and objectives of the client within a
framework incorporating specific risk tolerances, objectives, and constraints. We believe the best
approach for establishing successful strategic asset allocation guidelines begins with a quantitative
analysis of historical data (returns, risk, and correlation) as well as quantitative analysis of possible future
results. Following the initial review and completion of the Client Risk Profile, potential asset classes and
strategies to be included in the portfolio are identified and defined based on their functional attributes
(e.g., debt versus equity, domestic versus international, liquid versus illiquid, inflation sensitive versus
deflation sensitive) in order to identify those asset classes and strategies we believe offer the
characteristics required for long-term investment success relative to the unique needs/objectives and risk
tolerance of the client.
Participant Directed Retirement Plan ERISA Investment Fiduciary Services
As a Plan Sponsor, you may want to appoint a qualified investment firm to serve as the named Investment
Fiduciary for your Plan to minimize your fiduciary responsibility regarding the investments available to
your plan participants. OAWM may serve as the named Investment Fiduciary to a qualified retirement
plan which may include being an “investment manager" within the meaning of ERISA Section 3(38) and
a “fiduciary” within the meaning of ERISA Section 3(21). OAWM will acknowledge our fiduciary status
and duties in writing. The primary clients for these services will be pension, profit sharing, 403(b), and
401(k) plans that provide for participant directed investments. ERISA Investment Fiduciary Services are
comprised of three distinct services. Clients may choose to use any or all of these services.
The Investment Fiduciary shall have the following discretionary authority and responsibility:
• To manage the investment of the Trust Fund using only the investment options available through
the recordkeeper, products, and/or platforms chosen by Plan Sponsor;
• To appoint and remove one or more investment managers;
• To establish, revise from time to time, and communicate to the Trustee and/or Investment
Manager(s), assist in building and investment policy for the Plan. We will meet with your and/or
your plan committee (in person or over the telephone) to determine an appropriate investment
strategy that reflects the Plan Sponsor’s stated investment objectives for management of the
overall plan. Our firm then prepares a written IPS detailing those needs and goals, including an
encompassing policy under which these goals are to be archived. The IPS also lists the criteria
for selection of investment vehicles as well as the procedures and timing interval for monitoring
of investment performance.
Assets Under Management
As of December 31, 2023, OneAscent has $520,942,904 in assets under management across 2,462
accounts. OneAscent also provides consulting services giving OneAscent $241,958,863 in assets under
advisement.