Overview
A. Advisory Firm and Ownership
WRA is a New York limited liability company which was founded in 2017 and is based in New York,
NY (“WRA”, the “Firm”, “we”, “us”, or “our”). WRA and its affiliates WR Securities, LLC doing
business as Wolfe Research Securities (“WRS”), a FINRA member broker-dealer and a NFA
introducing broker and Wolfe Research, LLC (“WR”) are under the common control of Wolfe
HoldCo, LLC (“WHC”). WRA, WRS, and WR are all wholly owned subsidiaries of WHC. Edward
Wolfe is the principal owner of WHC.
B. The Types of Advisory Services We Provide
WRA provides investment advisory services to institutional clients such as pension plans,
corporations, and other business entities. Our primary focus is on providing objective and
sophisticated fundamental, quantitative, and macro research. “Services” include, but are not
limited to, the following types of research products and services:
• Research Analyst-prepared written research reports primarily related to US equity
securities (“Research Reports”);
• Corporate access in connection with research conferences, non-deal roadshows, investor
meetings;
• Subscriptions to data sets that may be used by institutional clients as inputs for their own
internal analysis and investment models;
• Other research-related communications from Research Analysts, including conferences,
calls, and client meetings, relating to published research reports produced by Research
Analysts;
• Development of proprietary quantitative models designed to identify trading
opportunities in various global markets;
• Bespoke research, infrastructure, API, data, and analysis requests to perform back testing
of factors and analytics for clients; and
• Licensing of proprietary quantitative models and investable strategies to sponsors of
exchange-traded funds and other collective investment vehicles.
• Bespoke investment advisory services to institutional clients, including pension plans, that
is tailored or personalized to the client’s individual investment objectives and investment
portfolio, depending on the particular mandate.
Our Research Analysts cover over 700 stocks focusing on over 100 subsectors.
C. Advisory Services
We do not provide specific investment advice to clients or with respect to their respective
investment portfolios or management of assets. Our Services are provided without regard to a
client’s specific investment objectives, financial situation, or particular needs. Research Reports
are solely impersonal investment advice.
Our Services do not include trade execution, trading or brokerage services. The advisory
relationship with our clients is strictly limited to the provision of Services, and any trades,
transactions or orders that may be executed, routed, or otherwise processed through us on
behalf of clients will be handled by other broker-dealers at the discretion of the client.
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D. Wrap Fee Programs
We do not make our Services available through wrap fee programs.
E. Assets Under Management
We do not manage client assets.