A. ADVR, LLC is a limited liability company formed on October 7, 2021 in the State of Delaware and began
offering advisory services in August of 2022. ADVR, LLC expects to conduct business routinely through
the website Advisor.com and is referred throughout as “Advisor” or the “Firm”. Hunter Stunzi serves as
Advisor’s President and individually owns more than 60% of the firm. Advisor’s principal business is
offering financial advice to clients through its Advisor Wealth Management platform (AWM) for either a
fixed annual service fee or an asset-based fee. Advisor also may recommend other advisers through its
Advisor Referral Platform, as well as offer or refer other financial products and services as described
below.
B. TYPES OF ADVISORY SERVICES
AWM: INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT AND FINANCIAL CONSULTING SERVICES
ADVR, LLC. provides clients with investment management and financial consulting services as designated
by the client. The services provided depend on the nature and complexity of the client’s situation and
could include some or all of the following: financial goal setting, risk tolerance and capacity analysis,
portfolio design and asset allocation, investment management, cash flow and expense planning, debt
management and planning, education planning, risk management, trust planning, small business
planning, and other financial planning.
Services to be provided will be identified in a written agreement executed by each client with Advisor
setting forth the terms and conditions of the engagement and describing the scope of the services to be
provided (“advisory agreement”). Advisor and the client will work together to determine the specific
suite of services to be provided. Advisor’s investment management and financial consulting fees differ
and are negotiable, but generally range from $1,000 to $5,000 per year on a flat fee basis, depending
upon the services required. Alternatively, Advisor may charge an asset-based fee of 0.5% of assets under
management (“AUM”) for high-net-worth investors that may elect additional investment services.
Advisor provides financial consulting, including the development of a financial plan. These services are
tailored to each client and may, as conditions warrant or upon client request, include recommendations
regarding non-investment related matters such as estate, tax, or insurance planning. Such engagements
will be provided under a separate agreement with Advisor or with third parties recommended by
Advisor and/or selected by the client to provide those services.
Advisor provides investment management services by developing a range of asset allocation models
implemented primarily using exchange traded funds (ETFs). Multiple asset allocation models are
available and recommendations among one or more of these models is based on the client’s goals, risk
tolerance and investment objectives. Such allocations are designed to support specific groups of clients
that fit certain criteria – portfolios are not individually tailored. Reasonable restrictions can be imposed
in the course of developing a financial plan; however, clients may not impose restrictions within the
allocation models. Advisor assists clients, by evaluating a client’s goals, risk tolerance and other factors,
in selecting an appropriate allocation model or models.
Once selected, models are implemented on a discretionary basis. Specific asset management includes
but is not limited to; periodic rebalancing (or choosing not to rebalance, if conditions warrant) of the
asset allocation models chosen by the client. Rebalancing is at the discretion of Advisor, and is partially
based on, but not limited to, market movement, market environment, client risk tolerance, client risk
capacity, asset performance, percent to total deviation from allocation models and manager
performance.
Advisor engages in a client intake process involving communication with prospective clients and the
collection of their financial information to help determine each client’s investment objectives and risk
tolerance. In performing its services, Advisor will rely entirely on information received from the client or
from the client’s other professionals.
As appropriate for, or as requested by, the client, Advisor may recommend additional financial products
and services, including the services of other professionals for implementation purposes. Such
recommendations are made on a non-discretionary basis and clients are under no obligation to engage
the services of any recommended professional. If the client engages any such recommended
professional, and a dispute arises thereafter relative to such engagement, the client agrees to seek
recourse exclusively from and against the engaged professional/firm. The client retains absolute
discretion over model selection and other implementation decisions and is free to accept or reject any
recommendation from Advisor. Clients are encouraged to renew Advisor’s investment management and
financial consulting services on an annual basis for the purpose of reviewing and updating Advisor’s
previous recommendations and/or services.
It remains the client’s responsibility to promptly notify Advisor if there is ever any change in their
financial situation or investment objectives for the purpose of reviewing, evaluating, or revising
Advisor’s previous recommendations or services.
ADVISOR REFERRAL PLATFORM
Advisor.com also operates as a 3rd party solicitor and collects fees from partner firms for referring
prospective clients (“Investors”) to Unaffiliated Investment Advisers via its Advisor Referral Platform.
Referrals are based on the Investors’ self-reported personal financial information, opting into the referral,
and the Unaffiliated Investment Adviser’s capacity to serve the Investor. All fees received by Advisor
through the Advisor Referral Platform are paid exclusively by the Unaffiliated Investment Advisers and
the nature and type of compensation is disclosed to Investors at the time of the referral. Although
Advisor makes introductions it believes are suitable based on the information provided by the Investor
and Unaffiliated Investment Adviser, it does not review, analyze or recommend any particular strategies
or offerings of any Unaffiliated Investment Adviser, or make suitability determinations about any such
offering, product, or strategy. If no Unaffiliated Investment Adviser are deemed appropriate by Advisor
based on an Investor’s profile, no introduction will be made.
Advisor does not charge fees to the Investors that participate in Advisor Referral Platform. However,
Investors will likely incur fees or charges that are imposed by the Unaffiliated Investment Advisers in
connection with any services they may choose to receive from them. Participating advisers pay Advisor a
referral fee in connection with each introduction made through the Advisor Referral platform. The
referral fee is a one-time fee that is paid to Advisor whether the Investor ultimately decides to enter an
advisory relationship with a Unaffiliated Investment Adviser or not. The referral fee will be payable to
Advisor when the referral or introduction occurs.
If no referral is made, no fee is received by Advisor and, thus, Advisor has an incentive to ensure that
every investor that employs the Advisor Referral Platform is referred. This can serve as a conflict of
interest with
Investors that may not be a good match with current participating advisers. Similarly, the
Advisor Referral Platform can refer investors to Advisor’s AWM services. This presents a potential conflict
of interest as the prospective revenue to Advisor from AWM management fees is typically greater than
referral fees paid by Unaffiliated Investment Advisers.
Advisor seeks to limit these conflicts by referring to unaffiliated investment advisors when we feel it is in
the Investors best interest based on the Investors self-reported information such as income, assets,
needs and location. Where multiple Participating Advisers meet the requirements identified by an Investor
and are deemed equally suitable, the introduction will be made to the Participating Adviser that is willing to
pay Advisor the highest referral fee, as determined through an auction. Please see our Advisor.com terms of
use for more information.
Advisor seeks to mitigate these conflicts by offering access to broadly suitable strategies and by
considering important selection criteria from prospective Investors including age, investable assets,
income, time to retirement, location, and desired services. Additionally, Investors using the Advisor
Referral Program are first considered for Unaffiliated Investment Advisers before attempting a match to
Advisor.
OTHER SERVICES
Non-Investment Consulting/Implementation Services. If requested by the client, Advisor may provide
consulting services regarding non-investment related matters such as tax planning, insurance plan
evaluation, or direct services such as tax preparation provided by approved 3rd parties.
Neither Advisor, nor any of its representatives, serves as an attorney and no portion of Advisor’s
services should be construed as legal services. Accordingly, Advisor does not prepare estate planning
documents. To the extent requested by a client, Advisor may recommend the services of other
professionals for certain non-investment implementation purposes (i.e. attorneys, accountants,
insurance representatives, etc.), including certain of Advisor’s related persons in their separate
capacities as registered representative and/or licensed insurance agent. The client is under no obligation
to engage the services of any such recommended professional. The client retains absolute discretion
over all such implementation decisions and is free to accept or reject any recommendation from
Advisor.
Commission Offerings — No Client Obligation / Potential for Conflict of Interest. Where
representatives of Advisor may recommend securities or other financial products on which they may
earn a commission, such representatives have a conflict of interest in that they may earn more by
recommending such financial products to you. Advisor seeks to mitigate these conflicts by regular
education of the representatives and routinely monitoring the recommendations they make. No client
is under any obligation to purchase any securities or insurance commission products from a
representative of Advisor. Clients are reminded that they may purchase securities and insurance
products recommended by Advisor through other, non-affiliated registered representatives of broker-
dealers and/or insurance agencies. Please see Item 5, Fees and Compensation, for additional
information.
Retirement Plan Rollovers — No Client Obligation / Potential for Conflict of Interest. A client or
prospective client leaving an employer typically has four options regarding 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 the 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 result in adverse tax consequences). If Advisor recommends that a client roll over their
retirement plan assets into an account to be managed by Advisor, such a recommendation creates a
conflict of interest if Advisor will earn a new (or increase its current) advisory fee as a result of the
rollover. To the extent that Advisor recommends that clients roll over assets from their retirement plan
to an IRA managed by Advisor, then Advisor represents that it and its representatives are fiduciaries
under the Employment Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (“ERISA”), or the Internal Revenue Code,
or both. No client is under any obligation to roll over retirement plan assets to an account managed by
Advisor. Advisor seeks to mitigate this conflict of interest in part through its flat fee structure, which
does not reward additional asset under management and, further, can accommodate guidance provided
within plans.
Use of Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs), availability and costs. Exchange traded funds (ETFs) are available
directly to the public. Thus, a prospective client can obtain the funds used by Advisor independent of
engaging Advisor as an investment advisor. However, if a prospective client determines to do so, he/she
will not receive Advisor’s initial and ongoing investment advisory services. Please Note: In addition to
Advisor’s investment advisory fee described below, and transaction and/or custodial fees discussed
below, clients will also incur charges imposed at the fund level, such as management fees and other
fund expenses. Please see Item 5 for additional information about fees and expenses.
Portfolio Inactivity. Advisor has a fiduciary duty to provide services consistent with the client’s best
interest. As part of its investment advisory services, Advisor will review client portfolios on an
ongoing basis to determine if any changes are necessary based upon various factors, including, but not
limited to, investment performance, style drift, account additions/withdrawals, and/or a change in the
client’s investment objective. Based upon these factors, there may be extended periods of time when
Advisor determines that changes to a client’s portfolio are neither necessary nor prudent. Of course, as
indicated below, there can be no assurance that investment decisions made by Advisor will be profitable
or equal to any specific performance level(s).
Client Obligations. In performing its services, Advisor shall not be required to verify any information
received from the client or from the client’s other professionals, and is expressly authorized to rely on
the information provided as accurate and complete. Moreover, each client is advised that it remains
their responsibility to promptly notify Advisor if there is ever any change in their financial situation or
investment objectives for the purpose of reviewing, evaluating or revising Advisor’s previous
recommendations or services.
Advisor shall provide advisory services specific to the needs of each client. Prior to providing advisory
services, the Firm will ascertain each client’s investment objective(s). Thereafter, Advisor shall
recommend that the client allocate investment assets consistent with the designated investment
objective(s). The client may, at any time, impose reasonable restrictions, in writing, on Advisor’s
services.
C. Advisor does not participate in a wrap fee program.
D. As of September 1st 2023, Advisor has non-discretionary assets under management of
$42,800,934 and no assets under management on a discretionary basis.