Firm Information and Advisory Service
The business activities of Shuttleworth & Company (hereafter “SCO”) consist of providing
investment advisory services. David L. Shuttleworth, founded SCO in March 1999. Erin M.
Maynard, Matthew R. Freiburger and David L. Shuttleworth are all shareholders in the firm. SCO
renders continuous management of accounts and provides advice to clients as to investment of
funds based on an individual client’s needs and suitability. SCO utilizes a balanced long-term
investment strategy. Therefore, suitable clients include individuals (including trusts and estates),
pension funds, charitable organizations, and other entities with established funds that have long
time horizons. Established goals and objectives serve as guidelines that portfolio managers of
Shuttleworth & Company use for investment management decisions. Advisory services are
performed in general on a discretionary basis. No client account participates in a wrap-fee program.
SCO has under its management the following assets as of December 31, 2023:
Discretionary $137,851,883
Non-Discretionary $0
Retirement Plan Rollover Recommendations - When SCO provides investment advice about your
retirement plan account or individual retirement account (“IRA”) including whether to maintain
investments and/or proceeds in the retirement plan account, roll over such investment/proceeds
from the retirement plan account to an IRA or make a distribution from the retirement plan account,
we acknowledge that SCO is a “fiduciary” within the meaning of Title I of the Employee
Retirement Income Security Act (“ERISA”) and/or the Internal Revenue Code (“IRC”) as
applicable, which are laws governing retirement accounts. The way SCO makes money creates
conflicts with your interests, so SCO operates under a special rule that requires SCO to act in your
best interest and not put our interest ahead of yours.
Under this special rule’s provisions, SCO must act as a fiduciary to a retirement plan account or
IRA under ERISA/IRC:
• Meet a professional standard of care when making investment recommendations (e.g.,
give prudent advice).
• Never put the financial interests of SCO ahead of you when making recommendations
(e.g., give loyal advice).
• Avoid misleading statements about conflicts of interest, fees, and investments.
• Follow policies and procedures designed to ensure that SCO gives advice that is in
your best interest.
• Charge no more than is reasonable for the services of SCO; and
• Give Client basic information about conflicts of interest.
To the extent we recommend you roll over your account from a current retirement plan account
to an individual retirement account managed by SCO, please know that SCO and our
investment
advisor representatives have a conflict of interest.
We can earn increased investment advisory fees by recommending that you roll over your account
at the retirement plan to an IRA managed by SCO. We will earn fewer investment advisory fees if
you do not roll over the funds in the retirement plan to an IRA managed by SCO.
Thus, our investment advisor representatives have an economic incentive to recommend a rollover
of funds from a retirement plan to an IRA which is a conflict of interest because our
recommendation that you open an IRA account to be managed by our firm can be based on our
economic incentive and not based exclusively on whether or not moving the IRA to our
management program is in your overall best interest.
We have adopted an impartial conduct standard to manage this conflict of interest whereby our
investment advisor representatives will (i) provide investment advice to a retirement plan
participant regarding a rollover of funds from the retirement plan in accordance with the fiduciary
status described below, (ii) not recommend investments which result in SCO receiving
unreasonable compensation related to the rollover of funds from the retirement plan to an IRA,
and (iii) fully disclose compensation received by SCO and our supervised persons and any material
conflicts of interest related to recommending the rollover of funds from the retirement plan to an
IRA and refrain from making any materially misleading statements regarding such rollover.
When providing advice to your regarding a retirement plan account or IRA, our investment advisor
representatives will act with the care, skill, prudence, and diligence under the circumstances then
prevailing that a prudent person acting in a like capacity and familiar with such matters would use
in the conduct of an enterprise of a like character and with like aims, based on the investment
objectives, risk, tolerance, financial circumstances, and a client’s needs, without regard to the
financial or other interests of SCO or our affiliated personnel.
SCO will generally require that anyone whose functions or duties relate to providing investment
advice possess a CFA, ChFC, or CPA designation, Series licensing, and/or experience judged by
SCO’s management to be comparable to the above.
Management Services for Held Away Accounts
SCO offers an additional service directly to clients that have accounts held away from SCO where
SCO has discretion and may use a third-party platform to facilitate the management of held away
accounts. SCO regularly reviews the available investment options in these accounts, monitors
them, rebalances, and implements our strategies in the same way we do other accounts, though
using different tools as necessary.