DCA Family Office, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (“DCA”), is an SEC registered
fee-only investment advisory firm headquartered in Roseville, California. Hereinafter, the terms
“we,” “us,” “our,” and “ours” refer to DCA, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise. We
provide portfolio management and family office services designed for ultra-high-net-worth clients.
DCA is principally owned by The Rocca Family Trust with Curtis M. Rocca III and Jennifer P.
Rocca, as Trustees, which owns 32.4 percent. In addition, DCARoccas, LLC, an entity in which
Curtis M. Rocca III is Manager, also owns 24.3 percent. No other Member owns more than 25%.
DCA provides investment recommendations primarily relating to private funds and private
investment opportunities on a non-discretionary basis. From time to time, DCA may also provide
investment advice relating to cash management, including various bonds and debt instruments, as
well as publicly traded equity securities.
DCA began operations in 2022 as a single-family office to help serve one Ultra-High-Net-Worth
family (“Founding Family”). In some cases, with client approval, DCA provides limited advisory
services to affiliates and to individual family members. The objective, scope, process and fees
associated with any such services will be clearly defined in a separate agreement with such
affiliates or family members.
In 2023, DCA expanded its services and began offering recommendations of securities and other
investments as well as other services as described below.
Our Portfolio Management Approach for Clients
Our portfolio management approach uses a six-step process, which includes: 1) gathering
information about the family and its investment needs and goals, 2) analyzing various scenarios
and tailoring a plan specific to the family’s needs, 3) formalizing the plan into a written investment
policy statement, 4) implementing the investment plan in accordance with defined client
guidelines, and 5) monitoring, and where applicable, adjusting allocation of investments, and 6)
actively engaging with managers of the investments to ensure accountability and help drive
performance. We frequently reevaluate and refine this process to adjust for changes as needed.
To begin the process, we gather information about the family. This information includes basic
facts and assumptions about your family, assets, liabilities, income, and expenses. It also includes
your goals, risk tolerance and objectives, as well as aspirational goals such as a vacation home(s),
travel, hobbies, new businesses, wealth transfers to family, and charitable giving. This helps DCA
to define where you want to go and guides our decisions to help get you there.
Next, we analyze various spending and investment scenarios. These scenarios help us identify the
effects of certain decisions. We also will explore the effect of investing more conservatively or
aggressively based on your risk tolerance and stated investment objectives. Since most of DCA’s
investments are private investments, they tend to be less liquid than publicly traded securities.
Accordingly, we pay particular attention to the family’s needs for liquidity to ensure that the
investment policy is appropriate from a risk, returns and liquidity perspective.
With this analysis in hand, we help you evaluate your choices. Choices often include how much to
spend, how much to retain, how to manage your assets, and how to manage your liabilities. How
we help manage your assets depends on your situation and your direction to us. For example, our
growth category can include a portfolio of illiquid assets, such as private equity and real estate.
Sometimes these assets exist already, and sometimes they need to be built out over time. We
consider and often account for the evolving nature of the overall asset mix by making adjustments
to liquid assets, which may be invested more conservatively due to concentration of illiquid
investments. Other strategies are considered for liquidity events, taxes, estate planning, wealth
transfers, charitable giving, asset protection, business succession, and retirement.
We will collaborate with the family’s other professionals and broader teams on legal, tax and other
issues (as DCA is neither a tax nor legal advisor) for making customized solutions based on your
needs. We will then make recommendations, on a non-discretionary basis, leaving you empowered
to make your own informed investment decisions. Once those decisions are made, DCA will help
you implement your plan.
Your plan must also be monitored. DCA provides this acute level of attention because we seek to
focus on fewer, larger relationships. Working with fewer, larger relationships enables us to spend
more time with the family to address details that often get ignored. This includes changes to your
facts and assumptions, evolving family dynamics, as well as the performance of your investment
strategy.
DCA meets with each client at least once a year to review, assess and adjust (as needed) their plan,
their investment policy guidelines, and stated investment objectives. DCA also connects with the
family quarterly about the performance of their investment strategy.
Furthermore, we make
ourselves available in person, by phone, or by email to address whatever needs arise. Such needs
could include general questions, service requests, planning, investments, and introductions to our
network. DCA also will often reach out to provide economic updates or just to connect personally
with our clients to stay connected regarding important developments going on in their lives.
Our Approach
Focusing on providing high-touch service to a limited number of family relationships, DCA
conducts detailed market analysis, economic analysis, financial analysis, and overall portfolio
construction / diversification analysis in formulating its investment recommendations. Generally,
our investment recommendations are in private investment vehicles mostly within the real estate,
real assets, agriculture, private company, private equity, and joint venture investment sectors and/or
cash management strategies. However, through discussions with the family, this may extend to
other investments which may be well suited to their stated investment objectives at the time.
We often coordinate with your accountant and estate planning lawyer to address tax, estate
planning, asset protection, and investment issues. That way you can spend more time pursuing
your passions. This effort to coordinate is important because without it the components of an
overall plan often become disconnected.
When presenting private investment opportunities, DCA will only do so with families that meet
the qualification requirements. DCA will work to source private investment opportunities, many of
which will not be generally available to the investing public, conduct due diligence, research and
recommend both affiliated and unaffiliated private funds to clients. The types of private funds
include, but are not limited to hedge funds, real estate funds, private equity funds, limited
offerings, and venture capital funds (collectively, “Private Investments”). Investing in Private
Investments involves various risks, which an investor should be aware of, including, but not
limited to, the potential for complete loss of initial investment. A discussion of certain (but not all)
investment risks is provided in Section 8 below. Note that we often recommend individual private
investments alongside or outside of a private fund structure, which often offer lower fees to our
clients as compared to investing solely through fund vehicles. Please also refer to Item 8 below for
further information on risks surrounding these types of securities and Item 10 regarding conflicts
for the affiliated private fund and related co-investments.
DCA may consider adding new clients during 2024. New clients should be aware that we have
committed to providing the Founding Family with recommendations to invest in certain Private
Investments deemed suitable with their investment objectives and in accordance with their
investment policy statement prior to DCA making such recommendations to other DCA clients.
Therefore, dependent upon the size of the investment opportunity and timing of the
recommendation, other DCA clients may not have access to the same investments. This is a
conflict of interest that must be considered prior to becoming a client of DCA.
Other than the above, our policy and practice for private investments is to allocate fairly and
equitably among our clients according to a specific and consistent basis so as not to advantage any
firm, personal or related account and so as not to favor or disfavor any client, or group of clients,
over any other.
Every relationship is different and presents different complexities. As a result, not every
relationship will require every service we offer. When appropriate, we will have a conversation
about your needs and customize a solution for your family for a negotiated fee under a separate
addendum to your Investment Advisory Agreement (“Client Agreement”). Clients are not required
to use DCA for any described service and services may be available from other professional
providers at lower cost.
Each client enters into a non-discretionary Client Agreement with DCA and will be asked a series
of questions that will result in a customized Investment Policy Statement, tailored to your family’s
specific needs and objectives. Each client also has the opportunity to place reasonable restrictions
on the types of investments to be held in their portfolio. Such restrictions must be put in writing by
the client and be outlined in the Client Agreement or Investment Policy Statement. In some cases,
with client approval DCA may provide limited advisory services to affiliates or to individual client
family members. While we strive to stay closely connected with our clients, it is important for you
to inform us promptly of any changes to your financial situation, investment objectives, liquidity
needs, and/or long-term goals.
P articipation in Wrap Fee Programs
We do not sponsor or participate in wrap fee programs.
R egulatory Assets Under Management
As of February 29, 2024, the most recent month end prior to the filing of this Brochure, DCA had
$138,510,973 in regulatory assets under management.