About Our Firm
NorthCape Wealth Management LLC is a registered investment adviser that provides investment
management and financial advisory services to individual and institutional investors to help them
achieve their financial needs and goals. NorthCape Wealth Management is owned by Erik O’Neill and
Patrick Markey and has been a registered investment adviser since 2021.
Our firm takes pride in providing personalized service to our clients and acknowledges that it is held to a
fiduciary standard of care.
Types of Advisory Services We Offer
NorthCape Wealth Management offers a variety of advisory services to individuals, high net worth
individuals, trusts, businesses, and corporations. These services include:
• Investment and wealth management
• Selection of Independent Managers
• Financial planning and consulting
• Fiduciary and non-fiduciary services for plan sponsors
We work with our clients to determine their investment objectives and risk profile and develop a
customized investment plan based on their individual needs and goals. NorthCape Wealth Management
will utilize the financial information provided by the client to analyze and develop strategies and
solutions to assist the client in meeting their financial goals.
Prior to NorthCape Wealth Management rendering any of the foregoing services, clients are required to
enter into one or more written advisory agreements with NorthCape Wealth Management setting forth
the relevant terms and conditions of the advisory relationship.
Investment and Wealth Management Services
NorthCape Wealth Management manages our clients’ portfolios on a discretionary and, in limited
circumstances, non-discretionary basis. Our investment and wealth management services are tailored
to the needs of our clients and are based on a comprehensive understanding of each client’s current
situation, past experiences, and future goals. With this acquired knowledge we create, analyze,
strategize, and implement goal-oriented investment solutions. These solutions become our clients’
investment policy. This policy and our matched strategies are designed to be risk appropriate, cost
effective and tax efficient.
Our wealth management services generally include a broad range of comprehensive financial planning
and/or consulting services, as well as discretionary or, in limited circumstances, non-discretionary
management of investment portfolios.
Client assets are primarily allocated among individual equity and debt securities, exchange-traded
funds ("ETFs") and mutual funds in accordance with the client's stated investment objective and
risk/volatility parameters. In certain circumstances, we may recommend the use of private market
preferred securities. We may also recommend clients allocate a certain portion of their assets to
independent investment managers ("Independent Managers"). Where appropriate, NorthCape Wealth
Management may also provide advice about many types of legacy positions or other investments held in
client portfolios. Clients may also engage NorthCape Wealth Management 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 (to the extent permissible without an insurance license) and assets
held in employer sponsored retirement plans and qualified tuition plans (i.e., 529 plans). In these
situations, NorthCape Wealth Management will direct or make recommendations on a non-
discretionary basis for 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
custodian for the plan trustee or administrator and clients retain responsibility for effecting trades in
these accounts.
NorthCape Wealth Management 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. You should promptly notify us if there are changes in your financial
situation or if you wish to place any limitations on the management of your account. You may impose
reasonable restrictions or mandates on the management of your account if NorthCape Wealth
Management determines, in our sole discretion, the conditions would not materially impact the
performance of a management strategy or prove overly burdensome to the firm's management efforts.
To the extent a client decides to invest with an Independent Manager or in a particular fund, those
managers and funds will have their own investment practices. Those investment practices are
described in each manager’s Form ADV or fund’s prospectus, or in its offering or other disclosure
documents. In addition, selected money managers or funds typically have discretion to determine the
type and amount of securities to be purchased or sold for the portion of the assets managed by the
money manager or fund.
Selection of Independent Managers
NorthCape Wealth Management may select certain Independent Managers to actively manage all or a
portion of its clients' assets. Pursuant to the terms of the investment advisory agreement, NorthCape
Wealth Management shall have the discretion to appoint and terminate these third-party advisers. The
specific terms and conditions under which a client engages an Independent Manager may also be set
forth in a separate written agreement with the designated Independent Manager. Certain Independent
Managers require a separate investment advisory agreement with the Independent Manager, while
others do not. In addition to this brochure, clients may also receive the written disclosure documents of
the respective Independent Managers engaged to manage their assets.
NorthCape Wealth Management evaluates a variety of information about Independent Managers, which
may include 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, NorthCape Wealth Management seeks to assess the Independent Managers' investment
strategies, past performance, and risk results in relation to its clients' individual portfolio allocations and
risk exposure. NorthCape Wealth Management also takes into consideration each Independent
Manager's management style, returns, reputation, financial strength, reporting, pricing, and research
capabilities, among other factors.
Independent Managers utilized by NorthCape Wealth Management include unified managed account
managers, separate account managers and a mutual fund advisory program available through Wells
Fargo & Company (“Wells Fargo”).
NorthCape Wealth Management continues to provide services relative to the discretionary or non-
discretionary selection of the Independent Managers. On an ongoing basis, NorthCape Wealth
Management monitors the performance of those accounts being managed by Independent Managers.
NorthCape Wealth Management seeks to ensure the Independent Managers' strategies and target
allocations remain aligned with its clients' investment objectives and overall best interests.
Programs Offered Through Wells Fargo Advisors
When utilizing Wells Fargo as the Independent Manager, or managers available through a program
offered by Wells Fargo, investment management services are provided through the Personalized Unified
Managed Account Program, Private Advisor Network Program (a separately managed account program)
or FundSource® Program (a mutual fund advisory program). The Wells Fargo programs require clients to
sign an investment advisory agreement for access to their programs in addition to our investment
management agreement.
Financial Planning and Consulting Services
NorthCape Wealth Management offers different levels of financial planning and consulting services to
help our clients identify, prioritize and work towards their goals and objectives. Our consulting services
give our clients the ability to receive a broad range of financial advice and services, including specific
security recommendations, for the duration of the advisory agreement.
Our process starts with an extensive review of a client's family situation, which includes assets and
liabilities as well as estate, tax, and insurance needs. We then employ a risk tolerance and risk capacity-
focused simulation to get a detailed cash flow analysis and proposed asset allocation. Together, this
information is analyzed to develop a proposed financial plan, which is designed to be dynamic in nature,
ever-evolving due to life changes, along with changes in cash flow needs, risk tolerance, time horizon, or
investment objectives.
NorthCape Wealth Management’s financial planning and consulting services may include any of the
following topics:
• Cash Flow Analysis
• Financial Record Organizing
• Estate Planning
• Charitable Giving
• Education Planning
• Business Planning
• Concentrated Stock
• Federal Benefits & Health Care
• Death & Disability
• Divorce Planning
• Liability Management
• Investment Consulting
• Tax Planning
• Insurance Review
• Family Governance
• Retirement Plan Consulting and Employee
Benefits Analysis
While each of these services is available on a stand-alone basis, certain services may also be rendered
in conjunction with investment portfolio management services as part of a comprehensive wealth
management engagement. In performing these services, NorthCape Wealth Management 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. NorthCape Wealth
Management may recommend clients engage the firm for additional related services, or we may
recommend other professionals to implement our recommendations. These additional services by
NorthCape Wealth Management or another professional are provided at an additional cost to you, which
is based on the nature, extent, complexity, and other characteristics of the services. This creates a
conflict of interest because we will have an incentive to recommend additional services based on the
compensation to be received, rather than solely based on your needs, and in some cases, based on the
prospect of cross-referrals of advisory clients from the other professional or his or her firm.
Implementation of financial planning recommendations is entirely at your discretion. You have complete
freedom in selecting a financial adviser to assist you with implementing the recommendations made in
your financial plan and are under no obligation to act on the advice of NorthCape Wealth Management.
Financial planning recommendations are of a generic nature and are not limited to any specific product
or service offered by a broker dealer or insurance company. Should you choose to implement the
recommendations contained in the plan, NorthCape Wealth Management suggests you work closely
with your attorney, accountant and/or insurance agent.
NorthCape Wealth Management will act solely in our capacity as a registered investment adviser and
does not provide any legal, accounting or tax advice. You should seek the counsel of a qualified
accountant and/or attorney when necessary. As part of our advisory services, we may assist clients with
tax loss harvesting and will work with the client’s tax specialist to answer any questions related to the
client’s portfolio.
Fiduciary and Non-Fiduciary Services for Plan Sponsors
Retirement plan sponsors may retain our firm to provide advisory and consulting services for plan assets.
Fiduciary services available to plan sponsors include:
• Reviewing and assisting in the establishment of investment policies and objectives on behalf of
the plan
• Assistance with development of an Investment Policy Statement
• Recommending core investments to be offered to plan participants for selection by the plan
sponsor
• Recommending investment managers, within the meaning of ERISA Section 3(38), on behalf of the
plan, to be offered as investment options for plan participants
• Monitoring of the plan’s investments or investment managers in accordance with the plan’s
Investment Policy Statement or other relevant guidelines
Non-fiduciary consulting services available to plan sponsors include:
• Educating plan participants on investment options available within the plan
• Preparation of periodic performance reports for the plan’s investments
• Assistance with monitoring the reasonableness of the fees and expenses of the plan’s
investments or investment managers in accordance with the plan’s Investment Policy Statement
or other relevant guidelines
• Benchmarking existing plan service providers to industry peers, and where appropriate,
conducting a search for new providers for the plan sponsor’s consideration and providing our
recommendation.
Portfolio Management Services for Wrap Fee Program
NorthCape Wealth Management offers portfolio management services through a wrap fee program. A
bundled or “wrap fee” program is an advisory fee program under which you pay one bundled fee to
compensate NorthCape Wealth Management for portfolio management and trade execution. A wrap fee
program may not be the lowest cost option if you would like to restrict your investments to open-end
mutual funds or other long-term investment products.
Amount of Assets We Manage
As of December 31, 2023, NorthCape Wealth Management managed approximately $549,449,161 on a
discretionary basis and $16,163,043 on a non-discretionary basis. Discretionary assets under
management are those for which we have an ongoing responsibility to select and make securities
recommendations that are in line with your financial needs and objectives and then effect those
securities transactions without first consulting you. Non-discretionary assets under management are
those for which we have an ongoing responsibility to select and make securities recommendations that
are in line with your financial needs and objectives and then effect those securities transactions only
after consulting with you to inform you of the transaction(s) and obtaining your approval to move forward.