Financial Planning Services (“The Adviser”) is a State Registered Investment Adviser.
The Adviser offers financial planning and/or investment advisory services to its Clients. Such
services are offered through its Investment Adviser Representatives (“Adviser Representatives”).
Separate and apart from their registration as Adviser Representatives of the Adviser, the Adviser
Representatives are also Registered Representatives of Osaic WealthOsaic Wealth, Inc., (“Osaic
Wealth”), a SEC registered broker/dealer and investment adviser. Osaic Wealth is also a member
of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (‘FINRA”) and various other regulatory bodies.
Osaic Wealth does not provide any investment advisory services in conjunction with or as part of
the financial planning and/or investment advisory services provided by the Adviser.
The Adviser has been a registered investment advisor since 1983 and as of 12/2022 manages
$3,916,854.00 of assets on a non-discretionary basis and $94,391,712.00 of assets on a
discretionary basis.
During 2020, ownership of the Adviser transitioned from Kenneth P. Schmidt to Jacob A. Schmidt.
DESCRIPTION OF SERVICES PROVIDED
Financial Planning Services
The Adviser, through its Adviser Representatives, will typically provide a variety of financial
planning services to individuals or families regarding the management of their financial
resources, based upon an analysis of client’s needs. Generally, such financial planning services
will involve preparing a financial program for clients based on the client’s financial circumstances
and objectives. This information normally would cover present and anticipated assets and
liabilities, including insurance, savings, investments, and anticipated retirement or other
employee benefits.
The program developed for the clients will usually include recommendations for a course of
activity or specific actions to be taken by the clients. For example, recommendations may be
made that the clients establish an individual retirement account, increase or decrease funds held
in savings accounts, invest funds in securities, or obtain insurance or revise existing coverage.
The Adviser Representatives may develop tax or estate plans for clients and/or refer clients to an
accountant or attorney, for further related planning.
The Adviser Representatives may also create a cash flow analysis or work with and advise the
clients as to the rearrangement of cash flow in order to fund certain long term objectives such as
buying a house, planning for college, retirement, etc.
Portfolio Monitoring and Performance Appraisal
The Adviser will emphasize periodic personal client contact and interaction rather than
continuous and regular account supervision. The Adviser Representatives will work with clients
to identify their investment goals and objectives as well as risk tolerance in order to create an
initial portfolio allocation designed to complement their clients’ educational, home ownership
and retirement funding goals and objectives etc. The Adviser Representatives will create a
portfolio, consisting of one or more of the following: individual stocks or bonds; no-load funds,
(funds with no front-end or deferred sales charges and whose total charges against net assets for
sales related expenses and/or services do not exceed .25%); load-waived funds (front-end
commissions will not be charged); front-end load fee exclusion (advisory fees will not be charged
for a period of two years from the date the sales charge was earned) for mutual funds bought
prior to engaging the Adviser’s services; and/or front-end load mutual funds. Such portfolios may
also consist of variable life and/or variable annuity sub-accounts, which the Adviser’s
Representatives may have already sold to their clients on a full commission basis, in their
capacity
as Registered Representatives of Osaic Wealth.
Investment strategy will focus primarily on a long term buy and hold approach as opposed to
short-term trading. Each portfolio will be initially designed to meet a particular investment goal,
which the Adviser has determined to be fitting to the client’s circumstances. Once the
appropriate portfolio has been determined, the Adviser will review the portfolio periodically,
based on a time table agreed to by the client, and if necessary, rebalance such portfolio, based
upon the client’s individual needs, stated goals and objectives. However, each client will have the
opportunity to place reasonable restrictions on the types of investments to be held in the
portfolio. The Adviser’s strategy, generally, will be to seek to meet client investment objectives
while providing clients with access to the personal advisory services of its Adviser
Representatives on at least an annual basis, or more often, depending upon prior agreement
between each Adviser Representative and clients. The Adviser Representatives will not attempt
to manage short-term market fluctuations with active trading (market-timing/ allocation etc.).
However, the adviser may reallocate the portfolio as necessitated by large-scale, macroeconomic
changes in the securities markets.
Asset Allocation Services For External Pension, Profit Sharing, 401k and 403b Plan Assets
As part of a financial planning analysis and engagement, the Adviser and its Adviser
Representatives will assist clients in determining their investment goals and objectives partly
based on risk tolerance and retirement plan time horizons. The Adviser will then recommend an
initial asset allocation. However, when such assets are held outside of the control of Osaic
Wealth and the Adviser, the clients will be responsible for accepting and implementing the
Adviser’s recommendations. Further, the Adviser will neither provide Continuous Supervisory or
Portfolio Monitoring services for such accounts nor receive ongoing, asset-based compensation.
However, clients will be able to engage the Adviser Representatives to conduct a review of such
accounts as part of the Financial Plan provided by the Adviser to the client.
Wealth Management Platform – Advisor Managed Portfolios Program
We offer the Vision2020 Wealth Management Program (“WMP”) which provides comprehensive
investment management of a client’s assets through the application of asset allocation planning
software as well as the provision of execution, clearing and custodial services through Pershing,
LLC (“Pershing”).
The Advisor Managed Portfolios program 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 the client’s 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 our clients. This portfolio may
consist of mutual funds, exchange traded funds, equities, options, debt securities, variable life,
and/or variable annuity sub-accounts (certain restrictions may apply) or other investments.
Each portfolio is designed to meet the client’s individual needs, stated goals and objectives.
Additionally, the client has the opportunity to place reasonable restrictions on the types of
investments to be held in the portfolio.
For further WMP details please see the WMP Program Brochure. We provide this brochure to
the client prior to or concurrent with enrollment in WMP. Please read it thoroughly before
investing.