Investment Recommendation Services
X1 Wealth LLC is an internet investment adviser and provides investment advisory services to
individual clients who reside in the USA, through an app that X1 Inc. (X1 Wealth LLC’s parent
company, also referred to as “Parent Company”) owns and operates (the “App”). X1 Wealth has a
licensing agreement with X1 Inc. for the investment module within the App and X1 Wealth manages
and controls the features available in this portion of the App. The investing features in the App
allow users to buy a limited universe of stocks and exchange-traded funds (“ETFs”) using credit
card reward points instead of cash. By offering this service, X1 Wealth provides clients an
alternative method to investing in fractional shares of publicly traded companies and ETFs.
X1 Wealth considers a client’s investment objective when recommending individual stocks and
ETFs to purchase. A client’s investment objective is determined using a risk profile questionnaire
that must be completed for each account before making any investments through the App. Based
on these responses, we will place the client into an appropriate risk category. Although we review
client risk profiles before recommending investments, we do not guarantee nor ensure the success
of any of the recommended investments. We rely on the individual responses to the risk profile
questions to provide investment recommendations to our clients. Clients must provide accurate,
complete, and truthful answers to the risk profile questions.
X1 Wealth does not have discretion over Client trades and Clients can choose to use the App to
trade certain individual equities and ETFs that were not recommended based on their risk profile.
We monitor our Clients’ account holdings against each individual Client’s risk profile and on a
quarterly basis will provide trade recommendations to clients whose holdings are out of line with
their risk profile. Additionally, we evaluate our recommendations for Clients on at least a monthly
basis, and advise our Clients when those recommendations have changed. We also advise Clients
as to whether individual equities or ETFs that we have evaluated are within the Client’s risk profile.
From time to time, we may provide additional investment advice in the form of educational material
or specific buy or sell recommendations that arise due to changing market conditions.
X1 Wealth engages DriveWealth, LLC (“DriveWealth”), an SEC registered broker-dealer and
member of FINRA, to provide execution and clearing services to its clients. All client trades,
including buying or selling a select universe of investments that were not recommended and were
selected by the client, are placed through DriveWealth. Clients can only access our investment
advisory services through the App; however, clients can use other areas of the App for non-
investment advisory services that are provided and managed by our Parent Company.
X1 Wealth does not offer any legal or tax advice with respect to its investment recommendations,
and accordingly, the Adviser strongly urges individuals to work with their attorneys, accountants,
or other professionals regarding their financial and personal situations. Investments in ETFs,
equities, and other types of securities are not insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
or by any other federal government agency. ETFs and equities are not deposits or other obligations
of, or guaranteed by, X1 Wealth or any affiliate. Investments may lose value, including possible
loss of principal.
X1 Wealth LLC, a Delaware limited liability company and wholly owned subsidiary of X1 Inc, was
founded in 2022. The Adviser’s principal place of business is in San Francisco, California.
Fees and Compensation
X1 Wealth does not directly bill Clients for the investment advisory services we provide. Rather,
our Parent Company will compensate X1 Wealth for the investment advisory services X1 Wealth
provides to clients who are X1 Cardholders. X1 Cardholders are not charged any additional fees for
becoming X1 Wealth clients and receiving X1 Wealth’s investment advisory services.
In the X1 Wealth Wrap Program, the fee paid by the Parent Company to X1 Wealth on behalf of
our mutual clients is a single advisory fee that covers both investment advice and the execution of
transactions. The Parent Company currently pays X1 Wealth an annual wrap fee of $0.10 for each
account that X1 Wealth provides its investment advisory services. Neither X1 Wealth nor our Parent
Company receives any compensation that is tied to the transactions that take place in a Client’s
account. Our Parent
Company is not an investment adviser and does not receive any compensation
related to the investment advice provided by X1 Wealth. At no time will the wrap fee be charged to
clients of X1 Wealth.
Additional Fees
Clients are responsible for some additional fees that may be charged by DriveWealth. These fees
are called Pass-through Fees, and they are: an SEC fee (sell side only), TAF Fee (sell side), and
ADR Fee.
DriveWealth may also charge other fees (different from the Pass-through Fees) for providing
additional services to Clients. Clients will pay those other fees directly to DriveWealth. Other fees
may include fees for transferring a brokerage account from DriveWealth to another brokerage firm,
charges for miscellaneous requests such as requesting a physical copy of a trade confirmation or
requesting a tax document to be faxed or sent by regular mail, as well as charges for withdrawal or
other administrative requests, such as ACH transfers (outgoing) and wire transfers. To learn more
about the different fees that could be charged to Clients, please see the fee disclosures DriveWealth
provides upon opening a brokerage account with them.
Clients who invest in ETFs may also indirectly pay management fees or other expenses to the
purchased ETF. ETFs pay their own management, transaction, and administrative fees and
expenses, and those fees and expenses are indirectly borne by the shareholders in those investment
vehicles. Depending on the activities or services (e.g., transferring an account to another broker,
requesting physical copy of a trade confirm, and so on), the broker could also charge you other fees.
These additional fees are deducted directly by the ETF and reflected in its net asset value.
DriveWealth does not allow clients to maintain accounts directly with DriveWealth. In the event
that your X1 credit card account is closed, you may choose to hold, liquidate, or transfer the
investments in your X1 Wealth account.
If you choose to liquidate, the proceeds will be transferred to your connected bank account. Any
fees that a connected bank account charges will be borne by you. If you choose to transfer the
investments and assuming that transfer instructions are received in good order by DriveWealth, the
transfer will occur within 30 business days. Clients can only transfer whole shares to other
brokerages; fractional shares must be liquidated. Any fees charged by DriveWealth or the receiving
institution in connection with a transfer will be borne by you.
Other Important Considerations
▪ The investment products available for purchase with X1 Wealth can generally be purchased
by you outside of your X1 Wealth account, through broker-dealers or other investment firms
not affiliated with our Parent Company.
▪ Because you will pay to purchase equity securities and ETFs based on a point-to-dollar value
conversion of your X1 Card credit card points, the percentage of a share that you will receive
for those points is highly variable. Because the point value is static while the value of equity
securities and ETFs fluctuates, the fraction of a share that a point will purchase in each
transaction will vary. Details on our point conversion rates can be found below:
X1 Rewards Points Conversion Rate Cash Value
1 $0.007 $0.007
1,000 $0.007 $7.00
10,000 $0.007 $70.00
▪ As an X1 Cardholder, you receive a more favorable point conversion rate of $0.01 per point
when you redeem your points for credit with eligible merchants. This is because our Parent
Company fully bears the cost of point redemptions, and through business partnerships with
its selected merchants, is able to work with that merchant and attempt to negotiate more
favorable rates. When points are redeemed for cash back options, the conversion rate is
lower because our Parent Company bears the full cost associated with these redemptions
and is unable to pass any of the cost on to its merchant partners.
Our Parent Company offers its clients the same conversion rate for equity and ETF
purchases through X1 Wealth as it offers for its cash back program. Since our Parent
Company must also pay the wrap fee to us when cardholders choose to redeem their points
for investments rather than for cash back, our Parent Company has no financial incentive to
encourage clients to invest with X1 Wealth over the cash back program.
X1 Wealth has no control over the point conversion rates that are set by our Parent Company
and X1 Wealth does not receive any benefit nor cost savings tied to the different conversion
rates that our Parent Company offers to its cardholders.