NDVR provides personal financial advice, financial planning, portfolio design and management
services that we describe collectively as our “Wealth Optimization Services,” or simply
“Services.” We offer our Services in the U.S. to individuals, families, and their related entities,
such as trusts, estates, and charitable organizations, that open an NDVR account (each, a “Client,”
also referred to throughout as “you” or “your”) and enter an NDVR Client Account and Investment
Advisory Agreement (“Client Agreement”).
We built our Wealth Optimization Services with the goal of improving your financial outcomes.
We design and manage intelligent portfolios that are personalized, adaptive, and optimized for the
purposes of growing your wealth, protecting your planned cash flows, and efficiently transferring
your estate to the next generation. Our approach is founded on rigorous and proprietary
quantitative research and powered by advanced technology.
Personalized Planning and Portfolio Design
We provide our Services through proprietary digital tools with the support of NDVR personnel
who are professional financial advisors (“NDVR Advisors”). The combination of advanced
technology, quantitative investing techniques, and a dedicated team is designed to assist you in
developing and pursue your unique wealth optimization plans. Please see Item 8 for more
information on our methods of analysis, investment strategies, and risk of loss.
NDVR Portal
As a Client, you can work with an NDVR Advisor and use the NDVR Portfolio Lab™ and NDVR
Optimization Engine™, which we describe below. These tools and all the features of your NDVR
account are accessible through the “NDVR Portal,” which includes any website, mobile
application or other means of electronic access or communication through which we provide
Services.
NDVR Portfolio Lab™
We use our proprietary digital tools to tailor our Services to each Client. Using the NDVR Portfolio
Lab, you can create a plan for your portfolio that describes your: (i) initial investment, (ii) planned
contributions and withdrawals over your intended time horizon, and (iii) current and future tax
profile (together, your “Requirements”). You can also use the NDVR Portfolio Lab to set your
priorities and investment preferences, including: (i) equity geographic diversification, (ii) socially
responsible investing rules, (iii) restrictions, and (iv) investment factor overlays you would like to
apply to your U.S. equity portfolio (together, your “Investment Instructions”). You will typically
have Requirements and Investment Instructions for each unique portfolio that you engage us to
manage (a “Portfolio”). As described below, we use the NDVR Optimization Engine™, which
you access through the NDVR Portfolio Lab, to analyze potential portfolio configurations, or
strategies, for you to consider and select.
NDVR Optimization Engine™
The NDVR Optimization Engine is powered by proprietary algorithms that we use to analyze your
Requirements and Investment Instructions, the investments you could hold in your Portfolio, and
potential future market conditions. The NDVR Optimization Engine uses rigorously researched
models that incorporate historical and current data of various financial assets, including U.S. equity
securities, foreign equity securities, futures, options, and U.S. Treasury bills, notes and bonds, to
generate realistic simulations of potential future market conditions. We model the performance of
assets in different market and economic conditions by analyzing class returns, volatility, and
correlation among the classes.
Our algorithms evaluate the performance of possible portfolios under those simulated conditions
to generate a range of potential portfolio strategies. You can use the NDVR Portfolio Lab to
evaluate these strategies and instruct us to implement a portfolio strategy that we show you; or you
can make changes to your Requirements or Investment Instructions and generate new portfolio
strategies. When you select a portfolio strategy and fund it, we will use the NDVR Optimization
Engine to build and manage it as a live Portfolio. Each live Portfolio is subject to actual market
conditions and investment choices. Each live Portfolio is allocated and rebalanced by our
proprietary algorithms, under the oversight of our Portfolio Management team. For additional
information regarding our portfolio design and management processes, please see Item 8 –
Methods of Analysis, Investment Strategies and Risk of Loss.
NDVR’s Investment Committee (the “Committee”) is responsible for approving material changes
in our portfolio design and management processes as well as related matters such as the design
and operation of the NDVR Optimization Engine. The Committee can change these processes and
related matters without prior notice to you, including, for example, by adjusting or overriding
algorithms, by manually implementing recommendations they generate, and temporarily
suspending trading if the Committee believes it is in the best interest of Clients to do so.
The NDVR Optimization Engine may invest in a range of Assets to create your Portfolio. When
applied to your Portfolio, the term “Assets” includes all cash, stocks, bonds, commodities, mutual
funds, exchange traded funds (“ETFs”), exchange traded notes (“ETNs”), money market funds,
investments in other collective investment vehicles, futures, options, swaps, and other financial
instruments and related contracts, whether certificated or uncertificated and whether for present or
future delivery, and all rights and entitlements thereto, including the securities and other property
and the proceeds thereof currently or in the future held in a designated custody account with a
qualified, third-party custodian (a “Linked Custody Account”). As provided in your Client
Agreement, you grant us discretionary authority to manage your Assets held in a Linked Custody
Account. For purposes of this brochure, an “Account” consists of all the Assets held in one or more
associated Linked Custody Accounts.
The NDVR Optimization Engine will manage your Portfolio and adjust the Assets that comprise
it based on factors such as the passage of time, changing market conditions, tax efficiency, and
unplanned contributions and withdrawals without any action required on your part and without
notifying you prior to making such adjustments. We may, in our sole discretion, but subject to
your Requirements, Investment Instructions, and selected strategy, invest and manage your
Portfolio in a way that differs from your initial Portfolio allocation, including to a material extent.
We will also adjust the Assets in your Portfolio based on new information that you provide us.
Your Requirements, Investment Instructions, and corresponding Portfolios are unique and
specifically designed for you based on the information you provide us. We encourage you to ensure
your information is accurate and current.
We do not provide accounting, legal or tax advice, although (through the NDVR Optimization
Engine) we will provide investment advice that takes into account your stated tax status and on
that basis aims to maximize your after-tax performance. Clients should not construe any
recommendation made by NDVR or any information in the NDVR Portal as tax or legal advice.
Cash Delivery
We manage your Portfolio pursuant to your Requirements, Investment Instructions, and selected
strategy, and to account for the withdrawals in your Requirements. You can link checking and
other accounts to your Account and instruct us to deliver cash directly to them on a one-time or
recurring basis.
NDVR Advisors
When you open an Account, we will assign one or more NDVR Advisors to help you use our
Services. You will be able to schedule consultations with your NDVR Advisor, who is available
to provide personalized financial planning and advice, including advice relating to your use of the
NDVR Portal and our proprietary tools, such as the NDVR Portfolio Lab and NDVR Optimization
Engine, to create your Requirements, Investment Instructions, and Portfolios. NDVR Advisors are
available by appointment and during normal business hours. They can be reached via telephone,
email, or video. Any information NDVR and NDVR Advisors provide is not a substitute for the
advice of a qualified attorney or tax advisor. You should consult with your attorney or tax advisor
to discuss any legal or tax-related concerns.
Our advice is based on the information you provide us, including your Requirements and
Investment Instructions associated with each Portfolio as well as personal attributes such as age,
beneficiaries, employment status, estate planning objectives, and investment time horizon. We use
our proprietary algorithms to monitor and manage your Portfolios. Your NDVR Advisor will
contact you periodically to review your Requirements, Investment Instructions, and Portfolios. If
you make material changes to your Requirements, Investment Instructions, or Account
information, your NDVR Advisor might contact you to discuss them. Discussions with your
NDVR Advisor are not a substitute for updating, as necessary, your Requirements, Investment
Instructions and selected strategy.
Our founder and CEO, Michael Simon, is the principal owner of NDVR. NDVR was incorporated
in Delaware on January 23, 2019. As of January 31, 2024, NDVR managed $175,400,000 of Client
Assets.