Providence Financial Advisors, LLC (CRD # 124839) (PFA) is registered with the Securities
and Exchange Commission as an investment adviser. PFA is based in Kansas and is
organized as a limited liability company under the laws of the State of Kansas and the
United States of America. The firm has been in business since 2003 and currently has 3
employees.
PFA’s mailing address and main office location is 6900 College Blvd., Suite 440, Overland
Park, KS 66211. Regular business hours are from 8:30am to 5:00pm Monday through
Friday and by appointment only. The firm can be contacted by phone at (913) 323-0535
and by fax at (866) 711-3213.
Steven T. Cox, CFA, founded the firm and currently serves as President and Chief
Compliance Officer. He is also the Chairman of the Investment Committee.
Mark J. Donaldson, CFA, and Steven T. Cox, Jr. are also members of the Investment
Committee.
PFA provides individualized portfolio management, investment advisory/consulting and
financial planning services to individuals, trusts and estates, and businesses. PFA also
provides assistance and advice to businesses related to their defined contribution plans.
The firm’s primary service is ongoing portfolio management. When providing these
services, the firm not only makes recommendations related to investments, but also
implements these recommendations and provides ongoing monitoring and reporting.
Clients may elect to give the firm discretion to make all decisions (discretionary
management), or may prefer to approve all decisions before implementation (non
discretionary management).
The firm also provides ongoing investment advisory/consulting services. When providing
these non-management services, the firm makes investment recommendations but the
client is responsible for determining whether or not to implement recommendations. The
client is also responsible for actual implementation.
Although some financial planning is provided as a courtesy to ongoing clients, the firm also
offers separate financial planning services. These services are available generally on a
project basis, but can also be structure as an ongoing engagement. In a financial planning
engagement, the firm provides advice or other strategic assistance in areas such as
education funding, retirement planning, estate planning, risk management, employee
benefits planning, tax planning, etc. In financial planning engagements, clients
are
responsible for determining whether or not to implement a recommendation, and if they
decide to do so, are responsible for actual implementation.
In addition these services that are provided to individuals, the firm also provides
retirement plan services to businesses where the firm provides plan level services such as
discretionary management services, non-discretionary management services, and
investment advisory services related to different types of retirement plans. When
providing management services, the firm is responsible for implementing
recommendations. When the firm is providing advisory services, the client is responsible
for implementation of recommendations.
Regardless of the services provided, each is tailored to the individual needs of a particular
client (whether an individual, a family, or a business) through an assessment conducted
prior to an engagement. Clients may impose restrictions related to the level of discretion
granted, the types of investments used, etc. Terms of an actual engagement, including
description of service, limitations and restrictions, fees, etc., are all detailed before any
engagement begins in a written client agreement.
Because PFA is a registered investment adviser, we are required to meet certain fiduciary
standards when providing investment advice to clients. Additionally, when we provide
investment advice related to a retirement plan account or an individual retirement account,
we are considered fiduciaries within the meaning of Title I of the Employee Retirement
Income Security Act and/or the Internal Revenue Code, as applicable, which are laws
governing retirement accounts. As such, we are required to act in your best interest and
not put our interest ahead of yours, even though our compensation creates some conflicts
with your interests in that the more you have us manage, the more we can earn. Our clients
however are under no obligation to use services recommended by our associated persons.
Furthermore, we believe that our recommendations are in the best interests of our clients
and are consistent with our clients’ needs.
As of 11/30/2022, PFA managed approximately $298,295,491 of assets, of which
approximately $247,395,761 was managed on a discretionary basis and approximately
$50,899,730 was managed on a nondiscretionary basis. PFA also provided ongoing
advisory services on approximately $80,616,857 of additional assets.