FIRM DESCRIPTION
Hedges Asset Management LLC (hereinafter referred to as “Hedges Asset Management,” “we,”
“us,” “the Firm,” or “our Firm”) is a Nevada limited liability company with its principal office
located in Reno, Nevada. The principal owner and Chief Compliance Officer of Hedges Asset
Management is William Hedges.
As a registered investment adviser, we are a fiduciary to you, our client, meaning we have a
fundamental obligation to act and provide investment advice that is in your best interest. Should
any material conflicts of interest exist that might affect the impartiality of our investment advice,
they will be disclosed to you in this Brochure. We urge you to review this Brochure carefully and
consider our qualifications, business practices and the nature of our advisory services before
becoming our client.
Hedges Asset Management is a newly established investment adviser with approximately
$150,000,000 under management.
ADVISORY PROGRAMS
Hedges Asset Management provides investment management services to our clients. In connection
with our investment management services, Hedges Asset Management provides advice with
respect to stocks, bonds, mutual fund, municipal securities, U.S. Treasuries, options, limited
partnerships, and certificates of deposits.
Hedges Asset Management’s advisory services are tailored to the needs of our clients based on
their individual investment objectives, risk tolerance, cash or income needs, and any investment
restrictions. Although Hedges Asset Management seeks to accommodate any reasonable
investment restrictions or guidelines set by our clients, we may decline to accommodate certain
investment restrictions that are incompatible with our Firms’ investment philosophy or that may
have an adverse effect on our ability to manage your account.
Investors considering rolling over assets from a qualified employer-sponsored retirement plan
(“Employer Plan”) to an Individual Retirement Account (“IRA”) should review and consider the
advantages and disadvantages of an IRA rollover from their Employer Plan. A plan participant
leaving an employer typically has four options (and may engage in a combination of these options):
(1) Leave the money in the former employer’s plan, if permitted; (2) Rollover the assets
to a new
employer’s plan (if available and rollovers are permitted); (3) Rollover Employer Plan assets to an
IRA; or (4) Cash out the Employer Plan assets and pay the required taxes on the distribution. At a
minimum, Investors should consider fees and expenses, investment options, services, penalty-free
withdrawals, protection from creditors and legal judgments, required minimum distributions, and
employer stock. Hedges Asset Management encourages you to discuss your options and review
the above-listed considerations with an accountant, third-party administrator, investment advisor
to your Employer Plan (if available), or legal counsel, to the extent you consider necessary.
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By recommending that you rollover your Employer Plan assets to an IRA, Hedges Asset
Management may earn asset-based fees as a result. In contrast, leaving assets in your Employer
Plan or rolling the assets to a plan sponsored by your new employer likely results in little or no
compensation to Hedges Asset Management. Hedges Asset Management has an economic
incentive to encourage investors to rollover Employer Plan assets into an IRA managed by Hedges
Asset Management. Investors may face increased fees when they move retirement assets from an
Employer Plan to a rollover IRA account.
To ensure that our initial determination of an appropriate portfolio remains suitable and that the
account continues to be managed in a manner consistent with the client’s investment guidelines,
we will maintain quarterly contact with our clients in terms of portfolio construction, transactions
and performance.
Hedges Asset Management enters into formal written agreements with our clients setting forth the
terms and conditions under which we will provide our advisory services (the “Investment
Management Agreement”). The Investment Management Agreement sets forth the scope of the
services to be provided and the compensation we receive from the client for such services. The
Investment Management Agreement may be terminated by either party in writing at any time by
giving thirty (30) days signed written notice to the other party.
Our advisors offer the advisory service described below to our clients:
ASSETS UNDER MANAGEMENT
Hedges Asset Management manage $ 155,000,000.00 on discretionary basis on Asset under
Management as of December 31, 2022.