ShoreHaven Wealth Partners, LLC ("ShoreHaven Wealth Partners" or the "Firm") offers a variety of
advisory services, which include financial planning, consulting, and investment management services.
Prior to ShoreHaven Wealth Partners rendering any of the foregoing advisory services, clients are
required to enter into one or more written agreements with ShoreHaven Wealth Partners setting forth
the relevant terms and conditions of the advisory relationship (the "Advisory Agreement").
ShoreHaven Wealth Partners filed for registration as an investment adviser in June 2020 and is owned
by Lawrence Durso, Michael Durso and Michael Lombardi. As of February 8, 2024, the Firm
had $400,868,341 in assets under management, $400,868,341 of which are discretionary and $0 of
which are non-discretionary. As of February 8, 2024, ShoreHaven Wealth Partners had $17,230,868 in
assets under advisement, which are held away from the Firm's Custodian.
While this brochure generally describes the business of ShoreHaven Wealth Partners, certain sections
also discuss the activities of its Supervised Persons, which refer to the Firm's officers, partners,
directors (or other persons occupying a similar status or performing similar functions), employees or
other persons who provide investment advice on ShoreHaven Wealth Partners' behalf and are subject
to the Firm's supervision or control.
Financial Planning and Consulting Services
ShoreHaven Wealth Partners offers clients a broad range of financial planning and consulting services,
which include any or all of the following functions:
•Business Planning
•Cash Flow Forecasting
•Trust and Estate Planning
•Financial Reporting
•Investment Consulting
•Insurance Planning
•Retirement Planning
•Risk Management
•Charitable Giving
•Distribution Planning
•Tax Planning
•Education Planning
While each of these services is available on a stand-alone basis, certain of them can also be rendered
in conjunction with investment portfolio management as part of a comprehensive wealth management
engagement (described in more detail below).
In performing these services, ShoreHaven Wealth Partners is not required to verify any information
received from the client or from the client's other professionals (e.g., attorneys, accountants, etc.,) and
is expressly authorized to rely on such information. ShoreHaven Wealth Partners recommends certain
clients engage the Firm for additional related services, its Supervised Persons in their individual
capacities as insurance agents or registered representatives of a broker-dealer and/or other
professionals to implement its recommendations. Clients are advised that a conflict of interest exists
for the Firm to recommend that clients engage ShoreHaven Wealth Partners or its affiliates to provide
(or continue to provide) additional services for compensation, including investment management
services. Clients retain absolute discretion over all decisions regarding implementation and are under
no obligation to act upon any of the recommendations made by ShoreHaven Wealth Partners under a
financial planning or consulting engagement. Clients are advised that it remains their responsibility to
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promptly notify the Firm of any change in their financial situation or investment objectives for the
purpose of reviewing, evaluating or revising ShoreHaven Wealth Partners' recommendations and/or
services.
Investment and Wealth Management Services
ShoreHaven Wealth Partners manages client investment portfolios on a discretionary or non-
discretionary basis. In addition, ShoreHaven Wealth Partners provides certain clients with wealth
management services which include a broad range of financial planning and consulting services as
well as discretionary management of investment portfolios.
ShoreHaven Wealth Partners primarily allocates client assets among various exchange-traded funds
("ETFs"), mutual funds, and independent investment managers through separately managed accounts
or subadvisory relationships ("Independent Managers") in accordance with their stated investment
objectives. Where appropriate the Firm may also recommend alternative investments and
cryptocurrencies.
Where appropriate, the Firm also provides advice about any type of legacy position or other investment
held in client portfolios, but clients should not assume that these assets are being continuously
monitored or otherwise advised on by the Firm. Clients can engage ShoreHaven Wealth Partners to
manage and/or advise on certain investment products that are not maintained at their primary
custodian, such as variable life insurance and annuity contracts and assets held in employer
sponsored retirement plans and qualified tuition plans (i.e., 529 plans). In these situations,
ShoreHaven Wealth Partners directs or recommends the allocation of client assets among the various
investment options available with the product. These assets are generally maintained at the
underwriting insurance company or the custodian designated by the product's provider and clients may
be responsible to implement the recommendations depending on the authority the Firm is given by the
product's provider.
ShoreHaven Wealth Partners tailors its advisory services to meet the needs of its individual clients and
seeks to ensure, on a continuous basis, that client portfolios are managed in a manner consistent with
those needs and objectives. ShoreHaven Wealth Partners consults with clients on an initial and
ongoing basis to assess their specific risk tolerance, time horizon, liquidity constraints and other
related factors relevant to the management of their portfolios. Clients are advised to promptly notify
ShoreHaven Wealth Partners if there are changes in their financial situation or if they wish to place any
limitations on the management of their portfolios. Clients can impose reasonable restrictions or
mandates on the management of their accounts if ShoreHaven Wealth Partners determines, in its sole
discretion, the conditions would not materially impact the performance of a management strategy or
prove overly burdensome to the Firm's management efforts.
Retirement Plan Consulting Services
ShoreHaven Wealth Partners provides various consulting services to qualified employee benefit plans
and their fiduciaries. This suite of institutional services is designed to assist plan sponsors in
structuring, managing and optimizing their corporate retirement plans. Each engagement is individually
negotiated and customized, and includes any or all of the following services:
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•Plan Design and Strategy
•Plan Review and Evaluation
•Executive Planning & Benefits
•Investment Selection
•Plan Fee and Cost Analysis
•Plan Committee Consultation
•Fiduciary and Compliance
•Participant Education
As disclosed in the Advisory Agreement, certain of the foregoing services are provided by ShoreHaven
Wealth Partners as a fiduciary under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as
amended ("ERISA"). In accordance with ERISA Section 408(b)(2), each plan sponsor is provided with
a written description of ShoreHaven Wealth Partners' fiduciary status, the specific services to be
rendered and all direct and indirect compensation the Firm reasonably expects under the engagement.
Use of Independent Managers
As mentioned above, ShoreHaven Wealth Partners selects certain Independent Managers to actively
manage a portion of its clients' assets. The specific terms and conditions under which a client engages
an Independent Manager are set forth in a separate written agreement with the designated
Independent Manager. That agreement can be between the Firm and the Independent Manager (often
called a subadvisor) or the client and the Independent Manager (sometimes called a separate account
manager). The Independent Managers may also be accessed through a TAMP or other platform of
managers. In addition to this brochure, clients will typically also receive the written disclosure
documents of the respective Independent Managers engaged to manage their assets.
ShoreHaven Wealth Partners evaluates a variety of information about Independent Managers, which
includes the Independent Managers' public disclosure documents, materials supplied by the
Independent Managers themselves and other third-party analyses it believes are reputable. To the
extent possible, the Firm seeks to assess the Independent Managers' investment strategies, past
performance and risk results in relation to its clients' individual portfolio allocations and risk exposure.
ShoreHaven Wealth Partners also takes into consideration each Independent Manager's management
style, returns, reputation, financial strength, reporting, pricing and research capabilities, among other
factors.
ShoreHaven Wealth Partners continues to provide services relative to the discretionary selection of the
Independent Managers. On an ongoing basis, the Firm monitors the performance of those accounts
being managed by Independent Managers. ShoreHaven Wealth Partners seeks to ensure the
Independent Managers' strategies and target allocations remain aligned with its clients' investment
objectives and overall best interests.
Investment Management and Transactions
The development and maintenance of the ShoreHaven Wealth Partners Models, is materially
supported by BlackRock Fund Advisors and/or its affiliates, including BlackRock Investments, LLC
(collectively, "BlackRock"), which provides ShoreHaven Wealth Partners with investment research,
model recommendations and marketing support at no cost. Research and recommendations provided
by BlackRock to ShoreHaven Wealth Partners, however, predominantly favor the use of iShares ETFs,
which are distributed by BlackRock. While ShoreHaven Wealth Partners is under no obligation to
utilize iShares ETFs in the management of the ShoreHaven Wealth Partners Models, such models will
predominantly and sometimes exclusively utilize iShares ETFs in their construction. This creates a
material conflict of interest for ShoreHaven Wealth Partners as the receipt of such services from
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BlackRock reduces ShoreHaven Wealth Partners' operating costs, which creates an incentive for
ShoreHaven Wealth Partners to recommend and utilize products sponsored or distributed by
BlackRock in the management of all client accounts.
Use of BlackRock Fund Advisers
BlackRock Fund Advisors BlackRock Fund Advisors ("BlackRock", CRD No. 105247) has granted
ShoreHaven Wealth Partners with access to its Aladdin® Platform, a portfolio management and risk
analytics operating system, as well as marketing support at no cost to ShoreHaven Wealth Partners.
Investment models generated by the Aladdin® Platform are used by ShoreHaven Wealth Partners in
the development and maintenance of the Models and their related series. The investment models
generated by the Aladdin® Platform predominantly and sometimes exclusively utilize iShares ETFs,
which are sponsored, distributed and/or advised by BlackRock. ShoreHaven Wealth Partners receipt of
investment research, models and/or technology from BlackRock creates a conflict of interest for
ShoreHaven Wealth
Partners because the receipt of these benefits reduces ShoreHaven Wealth
Partners' operating costs, which, in turn, creates an incentive for ShoreHaven Wealth Partners to
recommend and/or use iShares ETFs and/or other BlackRock products in the investment management
of client accounts. BlackRock does not provide and is not responsible for providing investment advice
to clients of ShoreHaven Wealth Partners, does not participate in or make any investment decisions on
behalf of ShoreHaven Wealth Partners or clients of ShoreHaven Wealth Partners, does not endorse
any investment decision or recommendation made by ShoreHaven Wealth Partners or its IARs, and
has no obligation to continue to provide ShoreHaven Wealth Partners with its investment models
and/or access to the Aladdin® Platform. In addition to investment research, models and/or technology,
BlackRock provides or may provide discounted or free attendance to conferences, meetings and other
educational or social events, which may include full coverage of travel expenses to such events.
Clients should be aware that the receipt of these benefits creates a conflict of interest for ShoreHaven
Wealth Partners as it creates another incentive for ShoreHaven Wealth Partners to recommend the
use of iShares ETFs and/or other BlackRock products in the investment management of client
accounts. ShoreHaven Wealth Partners addresses these conflicts of interest by (1) providing
disclosure of the relationship and the associated conflicts of interest to clients in this Wrap Fee
Program Brochure and (2) reminding clients that they have the ability to impose reasonable restrictions
on the securities or types of securities to be held in their portfolios, including a restriction on the
purchase and/or use of investment products associated with BlackRock.
Tax Transition and Overlay Services
ShoreHaven Wealth Partners may enter into a sub-advisory agreement (the "Implementation Services
Agreement") with certain registered investment advisers ("RIAs") to provide tax transition and overlay
services ("Tax Transition and Overlay Services") to certain non-qualified clients of such RIAs ("Sub-
Advised Clients") with respect to certain model portfolios. Such RIAs will have also entered into an
agreement with BlackRock with respect to certain non-discretionary model portfolios provided by
BlackRock (as described above). As noted above, such model portfolios provided by BlackRock or its
affiliate will include (i) all Affiliated Funds or (ii) a significant allocation to Affiliated Funds and the
remaining allocation to External Products, subject to parameters set by BlackRock. Pursuant to the
Implementation Services Agreement, an RIA or its supervised personnel (its "Access Persons") may
engage ShoreHaven Wealth Partners to manage a Sub-Advised Client account in a tax aware manner
and consistent with the risk profile of a particular model portfolio selected by such RIA or its Access
Person, subject to certain guidelines provided to the RIA or its Access Person (the "Guidelines"). The
RIA is responsible for determining the suitability of a particular model portfolio for the Sub-Advised
Clients. The Tax Transition and Overlay Services are provided by ShoreHaven Wealth Partners. Such
Tax Transition and Overlay Services seek to improve after-tax returns for a Sub-Advised Client
account while aligning the client account with the risk/return profile of the applicable model portfolio,
subject to any Sub-Advised Client-specific Guidelines. Ongoing trading of such Sub-Advised Client
accounts by ShoreHaven Wealth Partners will occur to accommodate client activity, cash
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management, tax loss harvesting, tracking error improvement, and periodic rebalancing of the
applicable model portfolio. The actual holdings in a Sub-Advised Client account, and the performance
of such account, may differ from the holdings and performance of the model portfolio due to the
Guidelines applicable to such account and the trading of such account in a tax-aware manner.
Information relating to the model portfolios, including brochures and fact sheets, are available through
the portal. ShoreHaven Wealth Partners trades a Sub-Advised Client account and enters into
transactions on the basis of tax information maintained by the Adviser and the custodian of the account
and consistent with ShoreHaven Wealth Partners' wash sale guidelines, which may be updated by
ShoreHaven Wealth Partners from time to time. ShoreHaven Wealth Partners cannot guarantee the
accuracy of any such tax information. ShoreHaven Wealth Partners does not provide tax advice, and
proper tax treatment of transactions, including the application of the wash sale rules, should be
determined by the Sub-Advised Clients' independent tax advisor. ShoreHaven Wealth Partners has no
responsibility with respect to any tax reporting and filings that may be required by Sub-Advised Clients
in connection with the transactions taken in the Sub-Advised Client accounts resulting from the Tax
Transition and Overlay Services. In addition, ShoreHaven Wealth Partners cannot be responsible for
the actions of other managers or actions by a Sub-Advised Client that may cause such Sub-Advised
Clients to be disallowed the loss on the sale of a particular security in its account. There is currently no
fee charged by ShoreHaven Wealth Partners for any such Tax Transition and Overlay Services.
However, Affiliated Funds included in the Client accounts pay fees to ShoreHaven Wealth Partners or
its affiliates for providing management, administrative, or other services. In addition, ShoreHaven
Wealth Partners may require that RIAs meet certain assets under management thresholds across
applicable Sub-Advised Client accounts in connection with the provision of such Tax Transition and
Overlay Services.
Use of Dynasty Financial Partners, LLC TAMP
ShoreHaven Wealth Partners has entered into a contractual relationship with Dynasty Financial
Partners, Dynasty Wealth management and its affiliates ("Dynasty"), which provides ShoreHaven
Wealth Partners with operational and back-office support including access to a network of service
providers. Through the Dynasty network of service providers, ShoreHaven Wealth Partners may
receive preferred pricing on trading technology, reporting, custody, brokerage, compliance and other
related services. Dynasty works closely with the Firm on the operational and investment set-up to fully
understand the Firm's objectives and transition capabilities. Dynasty will initially provide the Firm's chief
compliance officer as well as control person in setting up the Firm. Dynasty charges a "Platform Fee,"
for which, unless otherwise disclosed, the client will be charged, separate from and in addition to such
client's annual investment management fee, as described in Item 5 below. In addition, Dynasty's
subsidiary, Dynasty Wealth Management, LLC ("DWM") is an SEC registered investment adviser, that
provides access to a range of investment services including: separately managed accounts ("SMA"),
mutual fund and ETF asset allocation strategies, and unified managed accounts ("UMA") managed by
external third-party managers (collectively, the "Investment Programs"). ShoreHaven Wealth Partners
and its clients may separately engage the services of Dynasty and/or its subsidiaries to access the
Investment Programs. Under the SMA and UMA programs, ShoreHaven Wealth Partners will maintain
the ability to select the specific, underlying third-party managers that will, in turn, have day-to-day
discretionary trading authority over the requisite client assets.
DWM sponsors an investment management platform (the "Platform" or the "TAMP") that is available to
the advisers in the Dynasty Network, such as ShoreHaven Wealth Partners. Through the Platform,
DWM and Dynasty collectively provide certain technology, administrative, operations and advisory
support services that allow advisers to manage their own portfolios and access independent third-party
managers that provide discretionary services in the form of traditional managed accounts and
investment models. Advisers can allocate all or a portion of client assets among the different
independent third-party managers via the Platform. Advisers may also use the model management
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feature of the TAMP by creating their own asset allocation model and underlying investments that
comprise the model. Through the model management feature, advisers may be able to outsource the
implementation of trade orders and periodic rebalancing of the model when needed.
ShoreHaven Wealth Partners will maintain the direct contractual relationship with each client and
obtain, through such agreements, the authority to engage independent third-party managers, DWM
and/or Dynasty, as applicable, for services rendered through the Platform in service of such client.
ShoreHaven Wealth Partners may delegate discretionary trading authority to DWM and/or independent
third-party managers to effect investment and reinvestment of client assets with the ability to buy, sell
or otherwise effect investment transactions and allocate client assets. If a client is participating in
certain Investment Programs, DWM or the designated manager, as applicable, is also authorized
without prior consultation of ShoreHaven Wealth Partners or the client to buy, sell, trade or allocate
such client's assets in accordance with the client's designated portfolio and to deliver instructions to the
designated broker-dealer and/or custodian of such client's assets.
IRA Rollover Recommendations
Effective December 20, 2021 (or such later date as the US Department of Labor ("DOL") Field
Assistance Bulletin 2018-02 ceases to be in effect), 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.