Integrated Financial Solutions is a SEC-registered investment adviser with its principal place of business
located in Virginia. Integrated Financial Solutions began conducting business in 2001.
Listed below are the firm's principal shareholders (i.e., those individuals and/or entities controlling 25%
or more of this company).
• M. Michael Tafazoli, ChFC
Integrated Financial Solutions offers the following advisory services to our clients:
INDIVIDUAL PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT
Our firm provides non-continuous asset management of client funds based on the individual needs of
the client. Through personal discussions in which goals and objectives based on the client's particular
circumstances are established, we develop the client's personal investment policy. We create and
manage a portfolio based on that policy. During our data-gathering process, we determine the client's
individual objectives, time horizons, risk tolerance, and liquidity needs. As appropriate, we may also
review and discuss a client's prior investment history, as well as family composition and background.
We mainly manage these advisory accounts on a discretionary basis and on a limited basis we manage
non-discretionary accounts. Account supervision is guided by the client's stated objectives (i.e.,
maximum capital appreciation, growth, income, or growth and income), as well as tax considerations.
Clients may impose reasonable restrictions on investing in certain securities, types of securities, or
industry sectors.
Once the client's portfolio has been established, we review the portfolio on a daily basis and if
necessary, rebalance the portfolio on an annual basis, based on the client's individual needs.
VISION2020 WEALTH MANAGEMENT PLATFORM
The Wealth Management Platform – Advisor Managed Portfolios Program (“Advisor Managed Portfolios”)
provides comprehensive investment management of your assets through the application of asset
allocation planning software as well as the provision of execution, clearing and custodial services through
Pershing.
Advisor Managed Portfolios provides risk tolerance assessment, efficient frontier plotting, fund profiling
and performance data, and portfolio optimization and re-balancing tools. Utilizing these tools and based
on your responses to a risk tolerance questionnaire (“Questionnaire”) and discussions that we have
together regarding, among other things, investment objective, risk tolerance, investment time horizon,
account restrictions, and overall financial situation, we construct a portfolio of investments for you. This
portfolio may consist of mutual funds, exchange traded funds, equities, options, debt securities, variable
life, variable annuity sub-accounts (certain restrictions may apply) and other investments.
Each portfolio is designed to meet your individual needs, stated goals and objectives. Additionally, you
have the opportunity to place reasonable restrictions on the types of investments to be held in the
portfolio.
Because some types of investments involve certain additional degrees of risk, they will only
be recommended when consistent with the client's stated investment objectives, tolerance for risk,
liquidity and suitability.
RETIREMENT PLAN CONSULTING SERVICES
We offer retirement consulting services to employee benefit plans and their fiduciaries. The services are
designed to assist the plan sponsor (the “Company”) in meeting their management and fiduciary
obligations to the plan under ERISA.
Retirement consulting services will consist of general or specific advice, and may include any one or all
the following:
1. Strategic Planning and Investment Policy Development/Review.
2. Plan Review.
3. Plan Fee and Cost Review.
4. Acting as Third-Party Service Provider Liaison.
5. Assessment of Plan Investments and Investment Options.
6. Plan Participant Education and Communication.
The Company may also engage us to provide the following additional services, for separate compensation:
1. Review of Executive Benefits.
2. Assist with Plan Conversion.
3. Merger and Acquisition Assistance.
4. Assist with Corrective Actions to Comply with Applicable Regulations.
5. Coordination with Other Advisers.
We will determine with the Company in advance the scope of services to be performed and the fees for
all requested services. Prior to engaging us to provide pension consulting services, the Company will be
required to enter into a written agreement with us setting forth the terms and conditions of the
engagement, describing the scope of the services to be provided, and the relevant fees and fee-paying
arrangements. The services outlined above that we provide are explained in more detail in the written
agreement.
When we perform our agreed upon services, we will not be required to verify the accuracy or consistency
of any information received from the Company.
We will serve in a fiduciary capacity with respect to some of the services that we provide which will be
further explained in the written agreement
we sign with the Company. The Company is always free to
seek independent advice about the appropriateness of any recommendations made by us.
Investment Policy Statement Preparation (hereinafter referred to as ''IPS''):
We will meet with the sponsor (in person or over the telephone) to determine an appropriate
investment strategy that reflects the plan sponsor's stated investment objectives for management of
the overall plan. Our firm then prepares a written IPS detailing those needs and goals, including an
encompassing policy under which these goals are to be achieved. The IPS also lists the criteria for
selection of investment vehicles as well as the procedures and timing interval for monitoring of
investment performance.
Selection of Investment Vehicles:
We assist plan sponsors in constructing appropriate asset allocation models. We will then review various
mutual funds (both index and managed) to determine which investments are appropriate to implement
the client's IPS. The number of investments to be recommended will be determined by the client, based
on the IPS.
Monitoring of Investment Performance:
We monitor client investments continually, based on the procedures and timing intervals delineated in
the Investment Policy Statement. Although our firm is not involved in any way in the purchase or sale of
these investments, we supervise the client's portfolio and will make recommendations to the client as
market factors and the client's needs dictate. We are involved in discretionary trading and rebalancing
of assets in participants accounts that consent to this service based on risk tolerance.
Employee Communications:
For pension, profit sharing and 401(k) plan clients with individual plan participants exercising control
over assets in their own account (''self-directed plans''), we also provide quarterly educational support
and investment workshops designed for the plan participants when the plan sponsor engages our firm
to provide these services. The nature of the topics to be covered will be determined by us and the client
under the guidelines established in ERISA Section 404(c). The educational support and investment
workshops will NOT provide plan participants with individualized, tailored investment advice or
individualized, tailored asset allocation recommendations.
FINANCIAL PLANNING
We provide a variety of financial planning services to you regarding the management of your financial
resources, based upon an analysis of your needs. Generally, such financial planning services will involve
preparing a financial program for you based on your financial circumstances and objectives. This
information typically covers present and anticipated assets and liabilities, including insurance, savings,
investments and anticipated retirement or other employee benefits.
We gather required information through in-depth personal interviews. Information gathered includes
the client's current financial status, tax status, future goals, returns objectives and attitudes towards
risk. We carefully review documents supplied by the client, including a questionnaire completed by the
client, and prepare a written report. Should the client choose to implement the recommendations
contained in the plan, we suggest the client work closely with his/her attorney, accountant, insurance
agent, and/or stockbroker. Implementation of financial plan recommendations is entirely at the client's
discretion.
Our financial planning typically includes general recommendations for a course of activity or specific
actions that you should take. For example, recommendations may be made that the Clients obtain
insurance or revise existing coverage, establish an individual retirement account, increase or decrease
funds held in savings accounts or to invest funds in certain securities.
Other financial planning services that we may provide include ongoing financial counseling, account
review, securities research and other advisory services related to investments.
You are under no obligation to act on the financial planning recommendations. Moreover, if you elect to
act on any of the recommendations, you are under no obligation to affect the transaction through any
broker/dealer recommended by us.
Financial planning services to be provided to you will be outlined on the client agreement that you sign
with us.
Typically, the financial plan is presented to the client within six months of the contract date, provided
that all information needed to prepare the financial plan has been promptly provided.
LIMITATIONS: As individuals of Integrated Financial Solutions are registered as representatives of a
broker-dealer and/or as insurance agents/brokers of various insurance companies, recommendations
made in financial plans are limited to only those products offered through these companies.
AMOUNT OF MANAGED ASSETS
As of 12/31/2022 we were actively managing $127,709,776 of clients' assets on a discretionary basis
plus $129,031,335 of clients' assets on a non-discretionary basis.