A. Description of the Advisory Firm
XPS Capital LLC (hereinafter “Cope Corrales”) is a limited liability company organized in
the District of Columbia. The firm was formed in May 2019 and was registered as an
investment advisor in November 2020, and the principal owners are Luis Corrales and
Joseph Cope.
B. Types of Advisory Services
Portfolio Management Services
Cope Corrales offers ongoing portfolio management services based on the individual
goals, objectives, time horizon, and risk tolerance of each client. Cope Corrales creates an
Investment Policy Statement for each client, which outlines the client’s current situation
(income, tax levels, and risk tolerance levels). Portfolio management services include, but
are not limited to, the following:
• Investment strategy • Personal investment policy
• Asset allocation • Asset selection
• Risk tolerance • Regular portfolio monitoring
Cope Corrales evaluates the current investments of each client with respect to their risk
tolerance levels and time horizon. Cope Corrales will request discretionary authority from
clients in order to select securities and execute transactions without permission from the
client prior to each transaction. Risk tolerance levels are documented in the Investment
Policy Statement, which is given to each client.
Cope Corrales seeks to provide that investment decisions are made in accordance with
the fiduciary duties owed to its accounts and without consideration of Cope Corrales’s
economic, investment or other financial interests. To meet its fiduciary obligations, Cope
Corrales attempts to avoid, among other things, investment or trading practices that
systematically advantage or disadvantage certain client portfolios, and accordingly, Cope
Corrales’s policy is to seek fair and equitable allocation of investment
opportunities/transactions among its clients to avoid favoring one client over another
over time. It is Cope Corrales’s policy to allocate investment opportunities and
transactions it identifies as being appropriate and prudent among its clients on a fair and
equitable basis over time.
Pension Consulting Services
Cope Corrales offers consulting services to pension or other employee benefit plans
(including but not limited to 401(k) plans). Pension consulting may include, but is not
limited to:
• identifying investment objectives and restrictions
• providing guidance on various assets classes and investment options
• recommending money managers to manage plan assets in ways designed to
achieve objectives
• monitoring performance of money managers and investment options and making
recommendations for changes
• recommending other service providers, such as custodians, administrators and
broker-dealers
• creating a written pension consulting plan
These services are based on the goals, objectives, demographics, time horizon, and/or risk
tolerance of the plan and its participants.
Financial Planning
Financial plans and financial planning may include, but are not limited to: investment
planning; life insurance; tax concerns; retirement planning; college planning; and
debt/credit planning.
Investment planning involves working with clients to make sure their investments match
their respective risk tolerance and goals. Tax concerns are addressed by working with the
client to determine and compare effective tax rates for income, capital gains and other
earnings or investments, then attempting to allocate the client’s resources accordingly.
Life insurance planning entails reviewing the life insurance and/or disability insurance
needs of the client, together with any applicable dependents, spouse or other relatives,
and assessing appropriate coverage for these individuals. College planning entails
helping clients save for higher education, whether for the client or his/her children or
other dependents, in the ideal manner to suit the client’s overall financial goals and means.
Financial
planning to address retirement entails making sure clients are financially
equipped for retirement in light of the client’s anticipated income and expenses,
investments, and other assets. Debt/credit planning consists of breaking down client
budgets and aiding clients in decision-making as to current debt, anticipated significant
expenses and potential debt, and avoiding excessive debt.
Pontera Services
We provide an additional service for accounts not directly held in our custody, but
where we do have discretion, and may leverage an Order Management System to
implement tax-efficient asset location and opportunistic rebalancing strategies on behalf
of the client. These are primarily = Employer Sponsored Retirement Plans that we do not
custody. We regularly review the available investment options in these accounts,
monitor them, and rebalance and implement our strategies in the same way we do other
accounts, though using different tools as necessary. This fee will be assessed and billed
monthly.
These directly managed accounts are held away, such as 401(k)’s. As it is impossible to
directly debit the fees from these accounts, those fees will be debited from the client’s
taxable account on a pro-rata basis. If the client does not have a taxable account, those
fees will be billed directly to the client.
Private Placement Consulting Services
Cope Corrales also provides advice about certain privately placed securities to clients
(“Private Placement Consulting”). The Private Placement Consulting includes:
• advice on the source of funds for the private placement, in respect to their entire
financial picture.
• determine individual client suitability of private placement investment and
continue to monitor during holding period.
• Conduct due diligence on the Private placement opportunity including reviewing
the operators, financials and deal structure.
• Maintain continual communication with fund, fielding questions from clients and
providing an intermediary between the fund and client.
• Advice on follow-on funds and coordinate with their unique and specific financial
circumstances.
• Capital Call Management.
Subscription Services
Cope Corrales provides a newsletter only to clients using Cope Corrales’s other advisory
services and for free; it does not entail an additional fee. It will offer recommendations on
purchasing and selling specific securities, sectors, asset classes, or other specific groupings
of securities at a stated time, but clients are not obligated to act on the recommendations
mentioned in the newsletter. These recommendations are separate and apart from the
advisory services of the firm and do not overlap.
Services Limited to Specific Types of Investments
Cope Corrales generally limits its investment advice to mutual funds, fixed income
securities, real estate funds, insurance products including annuities, equities and ETFs.
Cope Corrales may use other securities as well to help diversify a portfolio when
applicable.
C. Client Tailored Services and Client Imposed Restrictions
Cope Corrales offers the same suite of services to all of its clients. However, specific client
investment strategies and their implementation are dependent upon the client Investment
Policy Statement which outlines each client’s current situation (income, tax levels, and risk
tolerance levels). Clients may not impose restrictions in investing in certain securities or
types of securities in accordance with their values or beliefs.
D. Wrap Fee Programs
A wrap fee program is an investment program wherein the investor pays one stated fee
that includes management fees, transaction costs, and certain other administrative fees.
Cope Corrales does not participate in any wrap fee programs.
E. Assets Under Management
Cope Corrales has the following assets under management:
Discretionary Amounts: Non-discretionary Amounts: Date Calculated:
$153,322,757 $124,486 December 2023