Description of Firm
Kirk Capital Advisors LLC is a registered investment adviser based in Vienna, VA and organized
as a limited liability company ("LLC") under the laws of the Commonwealth of Virginia. We have
been providing investment advisory services since March 2021. W. Kirk Taylor, CFP® is the
owner of our firm, and he has been working in the financial industry since 1988.
The following paragraphs describe our services and fees. Please refer to the description of each
investment advisory service listed below for information on how we tailor our advisory services to your
individual needs. As used in this Brochure, the words "we," "our," and "us" refer to Kirk Capital
Advisors LLC and the words "you," "your," and "client" refer to you as either a client or prospective
client of our firm.
Portfolio Management Services
Our firm offers discretionary portfolio management services where the investment advice is tailored to
meet your individual circumstances and investment objectives. These services include an initial
discovery consultation and ongoing review consultations, as may be agreed, to discuss your unique
financial situation and changing needs over time. We will ask that you complete certain investor
questionnaires, on-boarding forms, and/or other documents to assist us in gathering information about
your financial needs and circumstances. This would include your investment experience, investment
objectives, time horizon, liquidity needs, risk tolerance, tax circumstances, and various other financial
factors necessary for us to develop a complete investor profile.
Based on our evaluation of the foregoing factors, we will use the information we gather to develop a
strategy that enables our firm to give you continuous and focused investment advice and/or to make
investments on your behalf. Once we construct an investment portfolio for you we will monitor your
portfolio's performance on an ongoing basis and will rebalance the portfolio as appropriate. Clients are
required to notify our firm immediately if their financial circumstances and/or investment objectives
change from what has already been disclosed to our firm.
If you enter into discretionary arrangements with our firm, you must grant our firm discretion over the
selection and amount of securities to be purchased or sold for your account(s) before we can buy or
sell securities on your behalf. Discretionary authority enables our firm to execute transactions within
your account without obtaining your consent or approval prior to each transaction. In limited
circumstances and in our sole discretion, we may accept instructions from you that limit our
discretionary authority (for example, limiting the types of securities that can be purchased or sold for
your account). Such requests must be presented to our firm in writing.
As part of our portfolio management services we will invest your assets according to one or more
model portfolios developed by our firm. These models are designed for investors with varying degrees
of risk tolerance ranging from a more aggressive investment strategy to a more conservative
investment strategy.
In addition, we also provide discretionary management services to certain held-away assets that
primarily consist of retirement accounts, such as a 401(k) account. These services are provided on an
unaffiliated third-party web-based platform where clients will go through a one-time setup process
enabling our firm to make any necessary trades or rebalancing to their portfolios. Under no
circumstances will we possess privileges that would impute custody to our firm under applicable rules
and regulations, including, but not limited to: maintaining your account log-in credentials on file; having
the ability to change your address on record or ability to authorize distributions from your accounts; or
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authorization to open any new accounts on your behalf through the web-based platform. Unless we
agree to invoice our fee, these arrangements require clients to have a taxable account with a qualified
custodian where our advisory fees will be deducted from.
Financial Planning Services
We provide financial planning and consulting as a stand-alone service where we offer modular,
consultative, and/or broad-based services. These services generally involve a variety of advisory
services regarding the management of the client's financial resources based upon an analysis of their
individual needs. If you retain our firm for these services, we will meet with you to gather information
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your financial circumstances and objectives. As required, we will conduct follow-up interviews for
the purpose of reviewing and/or collecting additional financial data. Once such information has been
reviewed and analyzed, we will provide you with our recommendations designed to help you achieve
your stated financial goals and objectives.
Our recommendations are based on your financial situation at the time we provide our
recommendations, and on the financial information you provide to our firm. You will always have the
right to accept or reject our recommendations. All terms of the engagement, including specific services
to be performed, will be evidenced in a written agreement between you and our firm.
Wrap Fee Program
We are a portfolio manager to and sponsor of a wrap fee program, which is a type of investment
program that provides clients with access to several money managers or mutual fund asset allocation
models for a single fee that includes administrative fees, management fees, and commissions.
When you participate in our wrap fee program, you will pay our firm a single fee, which includes our
money management fees, certain transaction costs, and custodial and administrative costs. We
receive a portion of the wrap fee for our services. The overall cost you will incur if you participate in our
wrap fee program may be higher or lower than you might incur by separately purchasing the types of
securities available in the program.
Transactions for your account must be executed by Pershing Advisor Solutions, LLC, a securities
broker-dealer and a member of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority and the Securities Investor
Protection Corporation. Assets will be custodied at Pershing Advisor Solutions, LLC. To compare the
cost of the wrap fee program with non-wrap fee portfolio management services, you should consider
the frequency of trading activity associated with our investment strategies and the brokerage
commissions charged by Pershing Advisor Solutions, LLC or other broker-dealers, and the advisory
fees charged by investment advisers. For more information concerning the Wrap Fee Program, please
see Appendix 1 to this Brochure.
IRA Rollover Recommendations
For purposes of complying with the DOL's Prohibited Transaction Exemption 2020-02 ("PTE 2020-02")
where applicable, we are providing the following acknowledgment to you.
When we provide investment advice to you regarding your retirement plan account or individual
retirement account, we are 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. The way we make money creates some conflicts with your interests, so we operate under a
special rule that requires us to act in your best interest and not put our interest ahead of yours. Under
this special rule's provisions, 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
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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.
We benefit financially from the rollover of your assets from a retirement account to an account that we
manage or provide investment advice, because the assets increase our assets under management
and, in turn, our advisory fees. As a fiduciary, we only recommend a rollover when we believe it is in
your best interest.
Types of Investments
We primarily offer advice on equity securities, corporate debt securities, mutual fund shares, exchange
traded funds, and real estate investment trusts. Additionally, we may advise you on any type of
investment that we deem appropriate based on your stated goals and objectives. We may also provide
advice on any type of investment held in your portfolio at the inception of our advisory relationship. You
may request that we refrain from investing in particular securities or certain types of securities, and
such requests must be delivered to us in writing.
Assets Under Management
As of December 31, 2023, we provide continuous management services for $149,744,000 in client
assets managed on a discretionary basis.