A About Our Firm. Hidden Cove Wealth Management, LLC is a Washington limited liability company founded in
2022. The principals of our firm are Shane Dir, AIF®, CPFA, Darrell Martin, and Ron Elzig. We are registered as
an investment advisor with the SEC and our principal offices are located in Bainbridge Island, Washington. Neither
we, nor any of our associated persons, are affiliated with any broker-dealer firm or issuer of securities. We provide
tailored investment advice to our clients acting exclusively in a fiduciary capacity.
The information contained in this brochure describes our investment advisory services, practices, and fees. Please
refer to the description of each investment advisory service listed below for information on how we tailor our
services to the needs of our clients. As used throughout this brochure, the words “HCWM,” “we,” “our,” “firm,”
and “us” refer to Hidden Cove Wealth Management, LLC, and the words “you,” “your,” and “client” refer to you
as either a client or prospective client of our firm.
Prior to forming an investment advisor-client relationship, we may offer you a complimentary general consultation
to discuss the nature of our services and to determine how we can best assist you in achieving your financial goals
and objectives. Investment advisory services begin only upon your execution of a written advisory agreement with
HCWM.
B C Our Services. We offer a variety of investment advisory services to clients. Our investment advice is always tailored
according to each client’s unique financial circumstances, objectives, and needs. A description of our various
investment advisory services is as follows:
Private Wealth Management
We offer private wealth management services that combine ongoing and continuous portfolio management with
financial planning and consulting services that are designed to assist our clients in the management of their overall
financial affairs.
We will manage your designated investment accounts in accordance with our understanding of your unique
financial circumstances, investment objectives, goals, and needs. You will be required to deposit your assets to an
account (or accounts) held in your name at an independent qualified custodian and execute a limited power of
attorney granting our firm trading authority over your account. In most instances, you will be required to grant our
firm discretionary authority to implement transactions within your account without obtaining your prior approval
for each specific transaction. In addition to selecting the specific securities to be bought and sold for your account,
the amount of such securities to be bought or sold, and the timing of such transactions, our discretionary authority
will extend to allow us to select, engage, and disengage third-party money managers (each, an “Independent
Manager”) to assist us in the management of your assets. In limited circumstances, we may agree to manage your
account on a non-discretionary basis, requiring that we obtain your consent prior to implementing any transactions
within your account. You may impose reasonable restrictions on our management of your account(s), including
instructing us not to purchase certain specific securities, industry sectors, and/or asset classes.
We will consult with you at the inception of our relationship and periodically thereafter, as necessary, to gather
information regarding your financial circumstances, investment objectives and limitations, tolerance for investment
risk, time horizon for investments, tax situation, current and expected income level and cash flow needs, and other
considerations. Based on our analysis of these factors, we will recommend and implement a portfolio of investments
intended to align with your unique investor profile. We will monitor your account(s) on an ongoing basis (including
any assets allocated to Independent Managers) and implement changes to your portfolio as needed or appropriate,
in consideration of current economic conditions, our market opinions and assumptions, and any material changes
in your individual financial circumstances, goals, and needs.
As indicated above, the portfolio we design for you may incorporate the use of Independent Managers to provide
discretionary management to some or all of your assets via a “Separately Managed Account” (“SMA”)
arrangement, or, where multiple SMAs are combined into a single account structure, a “Unified Managed Account”
(“UMA”) arrangement. In certain circumstances, the Independent Managers we recommend to assist in the
management of your account may require you to execute a separate written trading authorization, advisory
agreement, platform agreement, and/or other account opening documentation. You will be provided with the Form
ADV Part 2A (or equivalent disclosures) for any recommended Independent Manager(s) at or prior to the time they
begin to manage your account. We will monitor the performance of your SMAs or UMAs on an ongoing basis,
reallocate assets among Independent Managers (or terminate Independent Manager relationships) as necessary, and
be responsible as your primary fiduciary advisor to ensure that the investment programs implemented by the
Independent Managers remain suitable and well aligned to meet with your unique investment needs and goals.
Private wealth management clients also receive financial planning and consulting services as part of our
comprehensive approach to wealth management. We will prepare a written financial plan for you and meet with
you periodically to track progress towards your financial goals and to review and update the plan as necessary
throughout the duration of our relationship. A full description of our financial planning services can be found below.
Through a combination of in-person consultations, phone conferences, and/or electronic communications (e.g., e-
mail) we will further provide you with ongoing support and guidance with respect to routine financial matters such
as budgeting and cash flow concerns, credit, and debt management, and insurance coverage. At your request, we
may also provide recommendations for the allocation of your assets contained in certain accounts that are “held
away” from those over which we exercise trading authority (e.g., employer sponsored retirement accounts, qualified
tuition plans, variable annuity sub-accounts). For these assets, we are limited to advising you as to the allocation of
your holdings among the various investment options made available by the product sponsor, issuer, or custodian.
You will make all final investment decisions with respect to our financial planning and consulting advice and will
be responsible for implementation and monitoring of all investments held outside of the accounts over which we
maintain trading authority.
Financial Planning and Consulting Services
We also offer financial planning and consulting services on a stand-alone basis. This advice may cover, without
limitation, some, or all of the following financial topics:
➢ Budgeting and Cash Management: Assisting the client in understanding cash inflows and outflows and
setting and maintaining a sustainable budget.
➢ Risk Management and Insurance Planning: Evaluating areas of financial and other risk to the client and
designing and recommending insurance coverage to protect the client’s family, home, assets, and cash flow
from the effects of unexpected events.
➢ Financial Planning Relating to Specific Life/Business Events: Providing the client with specialized advice
unique to events such as child birth, divorce, business transactions, real estate transactions, and other
specific events, both planned and unplanned.
➢ Estate Planning: Advance planning for the client’s incapacitation and/or death, including end of life
care/disability planning,
handling of the client’s end of life financial affairs, and the management and
distribution of assets upon the client’s death in a tax and cost efficient manner.
➢ Tax Planning: Analyzing the client’s unique tax circumstances and current tax regulations and designing
tax efficient strategies intended to reduce tax liabilities for the client in the short and long term.
➢ Retirement Planning: Assisting the client in the design and implementation of a long term income and asset
management plan intended to grow and protect their income and assets such that the client can maintain
their desired standard of living throughout their retirement.
➢ Investment Planning/Investment Goal Setting: Designing an overall plan for the investment and
management of the client’s assets, including investment accounts (taxable and non-taxable), personal
property, real property, and business interests in a manner designed to achieve their short and long term
goals and objectives. Assisting the client in determining appropriate investment goals and objectives.
➢ Education Planning and Funding: Analyzing and designing a plan to fund educational needs of the client
and the client’s family.
These services are available either as part of an ongoing comprehensive financial planning and consulting
relationship or on a one-time project basis.
For ongoing financial planning and consulting engagements, we will consult with you at the inception of our
relationship to obtain an understanding of your unique financial circumstances, goals, and key areas of financial
concern. We will analyze the information and documents you provide and deliver an initial written financial plan,
report, or summary of our observations and recommendations designed to address your unique situation and assist
you in meeting your long-term and short-term financial goals. We will meet with you in person, by phone/tele-
video conference or by other agreed upon method quarterly, monthly, or annually thereafter (as agreed) to review
your financial plan, report, or summary, track progress towards your goals, and update our financial
recommendations as necessary. As part of our ongoing relationship with you, we will also remain reasonably
available to consult with you on an as-needed basis and to provide you with advice and guidance regarding any of
the topics addressed within your written financial plan and any other common financial concerns and questions
arising as part of your overall financial affairs (e.g., questions related to retirement planning, education planning,
budgeting and cash flow management, insurance planning, etc.).
For one-time financial planning engagements, you may select to receive broad-based financial planning services
or advice regarding discrete financial topics or transactions. We will consult with you at the inception of our
relationship to obtain an understanding of your unique financial circumstances, goals, and key topics or transactions
of financial concern. We will analyze the information and documents you provide and deliver an initial written
financial plan, report, or summary of our observations and recommendations designed to address your unique
situation and needs. For the most limited engagements, our advice may be conveyed to you solely via in-person
consultations, by telephone/tele-video conference, and/or through e-mail correspondence. Once our final
recommendations are delivered to you (whether in writing or otherwise) the engagement is concluded and no further
update or review of our recommendations is provided. We will only update and review our one-time financial
planning advice, plans, and reports at your specific request, subject to your payment of an additional fee and
execution of a separate written agreement for these services.
Our stand-alone financial planning and consulting advice is non-discretionary in nature – you are never obligated
to implement any of our recommendations and will make all final investment decisions. You will be responsible
for the selection of service providers and the implementation and monitoring of your investments.
While you are never obligated to utilize HCWM for any further services, upon request, we may assist you with the
implementation of our recommendations - additional fees may apply. Where you choose to engage us for private
wealth management services following the conclusion of a financial planning and consulting engagement, we may
offset all or a portion of our financial planning and consulting fees against the fees to be charged for private wealth
management services.
We do not provide legal, accounting, or tax services to clients and clients are advised to seek legal, tax, and
accounting advice from their independent tax and legal advisors.
Retirement Plan Consulting Services
We offer a variety of retirement plan consulting services to qualified retirement plans and their fiduciaries based
upon the needs of the plan and the services requested by the plan sponsor or named fiduciary. In general, these
services may include a review of an existing plan, formulation of the investment policy statement, assistance
selecting and monitoring plan service providers, recommendations regarding investment selection, on-going
consulting, portfolio management services, and participant enrollment and investment education services. The
specific services requested by the plan are outlined in a written advisory agreement executed prior to the
commencement of our services.
Where retirement plan consulting services are provided to a plan regulated under the Employee Retirement Income
Security Act of 1974 (“ERISA”), we will provide services to the plan sponsor and/or named fiduciaries as described
above for the fees set forth in Item 5 of this brochure. In providing services to any plan and its underlying
participants, our status is that of an investment advisor registered under the Investment Advisers Act of 1940. We
are not subject to any disqualifications under Section 411 of ERISA. We may offer fiduciary services acting as a
fiduciary of the plan as defined in ERISA Section 3(21), or as an investment manager as defined in ERISA Section
3(38). In all cases, disclosure of our status under ERISA when providing these services will be clearly set forth in
a written advisory agreement with the client. If there is any discrepancy between the disclosures in this paragraph
and the agreement, the agreement shall govern.
D Wrap Fee Program. We do not currently sponsor, serve as a portfolio manager to, or recommend any wrap fee
programs to our clients.
Types of Investments Recommended. While we don’t recommend any particular type of investment over any other,
client portfolios are typically constructed using a diversified mix of some or all of the following instruments:
individual stocks, corporate and government issued bonds, mutual funds, exchange traded funds (“ETFs”), real
estate investment trusts (“REITs”), money market funds, certificates of deposit, cash and cash equivalents. Where
appropriate, your portfolio may also include certain privately offered securities, insurance products, and/or other
types of investments. At your request, we may further advise you regarding legacy investments held in your account
at the inception of our relationship.
Types of Strategies Recommended. The investment strategies we typically implement within client accounts are
described in Item 8 of this brochure.
E Assets Under Management. As of December 2023, we manage approximately $242,423,943 of client assets on a
discretionary basis and $10,480,465 on a non-discretionary basis. Of that, we advise an approximately $67,646,781
in assets held in company retirement plans.