Description of Firm
Precedent Wealth Partners, LLC (“Firm” or “Adviser”) provides individuals and other types of
clients with a wide array of investment advisory services. Our Firm is a limited liability company
formed under the laws of the State of Delaware in March 2023 and has been in business as an
investment adviser since April 2023. Our Firm is principally owned by Precedent Holdings, LLC.
The purpose of this Brochure is to disclose the conflicts of interest associated with the investment
transactions, compensation and any other matters related to investment decisions made by our
Firm or its representatives. As a fiduciary, it is our duty to always act in the client’s best interest.
As used in this brochure, the words "we," "our," and "us" refer to Precedent Wealth Partners, LLC
and the words "you," "your," and "client" refer to you as either a client or prospective client of our
Firm.
Types of Advisory Services Offered
Portfolio Management Services:
Our Firm provides Portfolio Management Services to clients on a discretionary or non-
discretionary basis. This service will include asset management and other financial planning or
consulting services as requested by you. The service is designed to assist you in meeting your
financial goals by ascertaining your investment objectives. Thereafter, the Firm will have the
responsibility and authority to formulate investment strategies on your behalf. Our Firm will
conduct discussions with you to understand your current financial situation, existing resources,
and tolerance for risk. Based on what is learned, an investment approach is presented to you,
including, as appropriate, individual stocks, bonds, ETFs, options, mutual funds and other public
and private securities or investments. Once the appropriate portfolio has been determined, your
portfolio under our supervision is regularly monitored, and if necessary, revised and/or rebalanced
based upon your individual needs, stated goals and objectives. Upon your request, the Firm
provides a summary of observations and recommendations for the financial planning or consulting
aspects of this service.
Source of Information
The Firm will interview you to determine your:
• Investment Objectives
• Risk tolerance
• Desired return parameters
• Other factors and preferences
Investment Selections
Based upon our understanding of your needs, we then invest your portfolio. The Firm does not
provide identical advice to every client, though we may employ similar strategies and purchase
similar securities in other client accounts.
Reasons portfolios may differ from clients:
• Your preferences
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• Your investment criteria
• Your risk tolerance compared to that of other clients
• Securities you already own that would generate a taxable gain if sold
• Your time horizon
Though not our regular and typical practice, you may request that we assist you in the
management of your portfolio on a non-discretionary basis. If we so agree, your portfolio will be
identified as non-discretionary in our written agreement with you. If you determine to engage our
Firm on a non-discretionary investment advisory basis, you must be willing to accept that the
Firm cannot affect any account transactions without obtaining prior consent to any such
transaction(s) from you. Therefore, our Firm will be unable to affect any account transactions (as
it would for its discretionary clients) without first obtaining your consent.
Financial and Wealth Planning Services:
Our Firm offers financial and wealth planning services which typically involves providing a variety
of advisory services upon request to most of our clients regarding the management of their
financial resources based upon an analysis of their individual needs. These services can range
from broad-based financial planning to consultative subject planning, which may include, but is
not limited to, any or all of the following; Business Planning, Cash Flow Forecasting, Gift and
Estate Planning, Financial Reporting, Investment Consulting, Insurance Planning, Retirement
Planning, Risk Management (asset protection & insurance), Employee Benefits, Concentrated
Wealth Strategies, Charitable Planning, Distribution Planning, Education Planning, Social
Security Planning, Income Tax Planning, and Third Party Investment Manager Due Diligence.
Our Firm can help the client with implementation of planning recommendations, as needed or
requested by the client. Implementation may include working with a client’s other professionals, such
as attorneys, CPAs, brokers, and insurance agents. Implementation of recommendations is always
solely at the client’s discretion.
Retirement Plan Consulting:
Our Firm offers to provide retirement plan consulting services to employer plan sponsors on an
ongoing basis. Generally, such consulting services consist of assisting employer plan sponsors
in establishing, monitoring, and reviewing their company's participant-directed retirement plan.
As the needs of the plan sponsor dictate, areas of advising may include:
• Establishing an Investment Policy Statement – Our Firm will assist in the
development of a statement that summarizes the investment goals and objectives
along with the broad strategies to be employed to meet the objectives.
• Investment Options – Our Firm will work with the Plan Sponsor to evaluate existing
investment options and make recommendations for appropriate changes.
• Asset Allocation and Portfolio Construction – Our Firm will develop strategic asset
allocation models to aid Participants in developing strategies to meet their investment
objectives, time horizon, financial situation, and tolerance for risk.
• Investment Monitoring – Our Firm will monitor the performance of the Plan’s
investments and notify the client in the event of over/underperformance and in times
of market volatility.
• Participant Education – Our Firm will provide opportunities to educate plan
participants about their retirement plan offerings, different investment options, and
general guidance on allocation strategies.
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In providing services for retirement plan consulting, our Firm does not provide any advisory
services with respect to the following types of assets: employer securities, real estate (with the
exception of real estate funds and publicly traded REITS), participant loans, non-publicly traded
securities or assets, other illiquid investments, or brokerage window programs (collectively,
“Excluded Assets”). All retirement plan consulting services shall be in compliance with the
applicable state laws regulating retirement consulting services. This applies to client accounts
that are retirement or other employee benefit plans (“Plan”) governed by the Employee
Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended (“ERISA”). If the client accounts are part of
a Plan, and our Firm accepts appointment to provide services to such accounts, our Firm
acknowledges its obligation to meet the fiduciary standard within the meaning of Section 3(21) or
3(38) of ERISA as designated by the Retirement Plan Consulting Agreement with respect to the
provision of services described therein.
Retirement Plan Rollover Recommendations:
A client or prospective client leaving an employer typically has four options regarding disposition of
a balance in an existing retirement plan (and may engage in a combination of these options):
(i) leave the money in the former employer’s plan, if permitted, (ii) roll over the assets to a new
employer’s plan, if one is available and rollovers are permitted, (iii) roll
over to an Individual
Retirement Account (“IRA”), or (iv) cash out the account value (which could, depending upon
the client’s age, result in adverse tax consequences). If our Firm recommends that a client roll
over their retirement plan assets into an account to be managed by our Firm, such a
recommendation creates a conflict of interest if our Firm will earn new or increased current
compensation as a result of the rollover. If our Firm provides a recommendation as to whether a
client should engage in a rollover or not, the Firm is acting as a fiduciary 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. The U.S. Department of Labor
provides regulations to which our Firm is obligated to conform to qualify under permitted
exceptions to the general prohibition against fiduciaries to employer plans earning compensation
in connection with their advice. No client is under any obligation to roll over retirement plan
assets to an account managed by our Firm.
Under these regulations, we must:
• Meet a professional standard of care when making investment recommendations (give
prudent advice);
• Never put our financial interests ahead of yours when making recommendations (give
loyal advice);
• Avoid misleading statements about conflicts of interest, fees, and investments;
• Follow policies and procedures designed to ensure that we give advice that is in your
best interest;
• Charge no more than is reasonable for our services; and
• Give you basic information about conflicts of interest.
Selection of Independent Money Managers:
In certain limited situations, our Firm may recommend that you use the services of a third-party
money manager ("TPMM") to manage all, or a portion of, your investment portfolio. After
gathering information about your financial situation and objectives, we may recommend that you
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engage a specific TPMM or investment program. Factors that we take into consideration when
making our recommendation(s) include, but are not limited to, the following: the TPMM's
performance, methods of analysis, fees, your financial needs, investment goals, risk tolerance,
and investment objectives. Our Firm will monitor the TPMM(s)' performance to ensure its
management and investment style remains aligned with your investment goals and objectives.
The TPMM(s) will actively manage your portfolio and will assume discretionary investment
authority over your account. In addition, TPMM(s) may be granted authority to further delegate
such discretionary investment authority to other TPMM(s). Our Firm will assume discretionary
authority to hire and fire TPMM(s) and/or reallocate your assets to other TPMM(s) where we
deem such action appropriate.
Assets Held Away From Our Firm:
If you agree, we may leverage an Order Management System through Pontera to implement
investment selection and rebalancing strategies on your behalf in held away accounts (i.e.,
accounts not directly held with our recommended custodian). These are primarily 401(k)
accounts, HSAs, 403bs, 529 education savings plans, 457 plans, profit sharing plans, and other
assets not custodied with our recommended custodian. Pontera is a software provider making a
platform available to our Firm that facilitates this management. We regularly review the available
investment options in these accounts, monitor them, and rebalance and implement our strategies
in the same way we do your other managed accounts, though using different tools as necessary.
There may be a difference in the performance of our strategies of an account using Pontera in
comparison to your other accounts held at our recommended custodian.
Dynasty Network:
We have entered into a contractual relationship with Dynasty Financial Partners, LLC ("Dynasty"),
which provides our Firm with operational and back-office support including access to a network
of service providers. Through the Dynasty network of service providers, we may receive preferred
pricing on trading technology, reporting, custody, brokerage, compliance, and other related
services. Dynasty charges our Firm a "Platform Fee," the expense of which we bear and therefore
is included as part of your annual investment management fee, as described in Item 5 below. In
addition, Dynasty's subsidiary, Dynasty Wealth Management, LLC ("DWM") is an SEC registered
investment adviser, that provides access to a range of investment services including: separately
managed accounts (“SMA”), mutual fund and ETF asset allocation strategies, and unified
managed accounts ("UMA") managed by external Third-Party Managers (collectively, the
"Investment Programs"). We may separately engage the services of Dynasty and/or its
subsidiaries to access the Investment Programs. Under the SMA and UMA programs, we will
maintain the ability to select the specific, underlying Third Party Managers that will, in turn, have
day-to-day discretionary trading authority over the requisite client assets.
DWM sponsors an investment management platform (the "Platform" or the "TAMP") that is
available to the advisers in the Dynasty Network, such as our Firm. Through the Platform, DWM
and Dynasty collectively provide certain technology, administrative, operations and advisory
support services that allow us to manage our client portfolios and access Third-Party Managers
that provide discretionary services in the form of traditional managed accounts and investment
models. We can allocate all or a portion of Client assets among the different Third-Party Managers
via the Platform. We may also use the model management feature of the TAMP by creating our
own asset allocation model and underlying investments that comprise the model. Through the
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model management feature, we may be able to outsource the implementation of trade orders and
periodic rebalancing of the model when needed.
We will maintain the direct contractual relationship with you, the Client, and obtain, through such
agreements, the authority to engage independent third-party managers, DWM and/or Dynasty, as
applicable, for services rendered through the Platform in service to the Client. We may delegate
discretionary trading authority to DWM and/or independent Third-Party Managers to effect
investment and reinvestment of Client assets with the ability to buy, sell or otherwise effect
investment transactions and allocate client assets. If the Client participates in certain Investment
Programs, DWM or the designated manager, as applicable, is also authorized without prior
consultation with either us or the Client to buy, sell, trade, or allocate Client assets in accordance
with the Client’s designated portfolio objective and to deliver instructions to the designated broker-
dealer and/or custodian of the Client’s assets.
Tailoring of Advisory Services
Our Firm offers individualized investment advice to our clients. Each client may impose reasonable
restrictions, in writing, on the types of investments to be held in the portfolio or our Firm’s services.
Restrictions on investments in certain securities or types of securities may affect the performance
of the account due to the level of difficulty of the restriction when managing the account.
Participation in Wrap Fee Programs
Our Firm does not offer or sponsor a wrap fee program.
Regulatory Assets Under Management
As of December 31, 2023, we provide continuous management services for $359,741,219 in
client assets on a discretionary basis, and $18,929,181 in client assets on a non-discretionary
basis.