Other Professional Activities 31
Item 5 Additional Compensation 31
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Item 6 Supervision 31
Brochure Supplement 32
A. General Requirements 33
B. Investment Adviser Representative Information 33
Item 2 Education and Business Experience 33
Item 3 Disciplinary Information 34
Item 5 Additional Compensation 34
Item 6 Supervision 34
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Adviser Description
Daviman Financial, LLC (“Daviman,” or, the “Adviser”) is a Delaware limited liability
company formed on August 9, 2016. Rone Davis is the sole owner of Daviman. Daviman
is a fiduciary and is required to act in a client’s best interest at all times.
The primary types of investment advisory services offered by the Adviser are financial
planning, investment management, retirement plan consulting, and investment
consulting.
Financial Planning
The Adviser works to develop a comprehensive financial plan for every client. Daviman
begins with an intensive fact-finding session which helps the Adviser become totally
familiar with the client’s current financial situation (including among other things, income
taxes, investments, insurance, estate affairs and family circumstances), as well as their
personal goals and priorities for the next several years. Then, working from this
comprehensive information, the Adviser prepares a detailed financial plan which
documents the client’s situation, identifies all areas which will be impacted, and makes
specific goal-oriented recommendations. The Adviser’s specific goal-oriented
recommendations are designed to educate and allow a client to coordinate his/her
financial affairs more efficiently, increase cash flow, prudently reduce income taxes, and
attempt to improve his/her overall net worth. Once the financial plan is completed and the
appropriate advisers have reviewed the plan, a meeting is scheduled to discuss the plan
and the specific items to be implemented with the client. Reports will be provided
throughout the process and during implementation. As reports are provided ongoing, a
full written plan may not be necessary for completion.
Investment Management
Investment advisory services offered by Daviman are specifically tailored to meet the
needs of each client. Prior to delivering investment advisory services, the Adviser will
ascertain each client’s specific investment objective. Then Daviman will allocate, or
recommend that the client allocate, their investment assets consistent with the designated
investment objective. Clients may impose reasonable restrictions on any of the Adviser’s
investment advisory services at any time, but restrictions must be delivered to the Adviser
in writing and must be signed by the client.
Daviman also works with Clients to implement an investment program in which Client
accounts are sub-managed by independent third-party money managers. More
specifically, Daviman will assist Clients in determining the appropriate allocation of the
Clients’ invested assets among different asset classes, and in turn may recommend one
or more third-party money managers who specialize in each of those asset classes. The
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third-party managers will be responsible for continuously monitoring the Client account
and making trades when necessary.
Retirement Plan Consulting
As part of providing the discretionary or non-discretionary investment services to Plans,
Daviman provides certain information and services to the Plan and the Plan
Sponsor/Trustees. These other services are designed to assist the Plan Sponsor in
meeting its management and fiduciary obligations to the Plan under ERISA.
The other services may consist of the following:
● Platform Provider Search and Plan Set-Up
● Plan Review
● Plan Fee and Cost Review
● Plan Participant Education and Communication
● Plan Benchmarking
In addition, as part of the services provided to the Plan it may make available certain
model allocation portfolios to Plan participants. Specifically, participants may enter
personal information, such as time horizon, risk tolerance and age, into various
educational tools made available by Daviman directly or through its affiliated partners.
Thereafter, some education tools may recommend an allocation model for that
participant’s retirement assets. There are several allocation models which could be
provided by the 3(38) Manager for the Plan and/or Participants ranging from relatively
conservative to relatively aggressive based on the participant’s questionnaire or approach
to risk. Plans and/or Participants are free to accept or reject the allocation models for
individual security selection based on Plan availability.
Reports summarizing the participant’s current asset allocation, transactions and current
holdings can be accessed at any time through the Plan custodian website. Participants
are encouraged to visit the Plan custodian website
on a regular basis to review their
account details. In addition, pooled asset accounts for participants can be obtained from
the Third Party Administrator (TPA) annually or upon request to them for a separate fee
based on the TPA’s independent fee schedule.
All retirement plan consulting services shall be in compliance with the applicable state
law(s) regulating retirement plan consulting services. This applies to client accounts that
are pension or other employee benefit plans governed by the Employee Retirement
Income Security Act of 1974, as amended (“ERISA”). If the client accounts are part of a
Plan, and Daviman accepts appointments to provide our services to such accounts,
Daviman acknowledges that we are a fiduciary within the meaning of Sections 3(21) and
3(38) of ERISA.
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Investment Consulting
This service includes discussing with the client investment options, analyzing the client’s
current investment portfolio, and making recommendations based on the client’s specific
personal investment criteria.
Please note: It is always the client’s responsibility to promptly notify Daviman if there is
any change in their financial situation or investment objective. This notification of change
allows the Adviser an opportunity to review, evaluate, or revise our previous
recommendations or services.
Additional Services
The Adviser may furnish advice on matters not involving securities, such as:
Retirement Income Planning Personal Financial Planning
Withdrawal Rate Analysis Education Planning
Cash Flow & Budgeting Employee Benefits & 401(k) Guidance
Insurance Review & Planning Corporate Retirement Plan Guidance
Estate & Charitable Gift Planning Tax Planning
Business Successions
Other Services
Managed Non-Discretionary Assets
In addition to providing investment management of client assets on a discretionary basis,
the Adviser, for a separate and additional fee, provides certain limited services to clients
with respect to “Managed Non-Discretionary Assets.” These services consist solely of the
following:
Daviman is available to consult with the client on a semi-annual basis (or more often if
requested by the client) regarding the Managed Non-Discretionary Assets. However, the
client is solely responsible for all decisions and consequences on the client’s Managed
Non-Discretionary Assets, including decisions on whether to retain or sell all or a portion
of the Managed Non-Discretionary Assets. This responsibility remains solely with the
client regardless of whether any security is reflected on account reports prepared by the
Adviser.
Daviman is available to service Managed Non-Discretionary Assets, such as setting up
and monitoring regular distributions and special one-time distribution requests.
The Adviser can process any trades on the Managed Non-Discretionary Assets, but only
when requested to do so by the client in writing. Upon receipt of any client’s written
request, Daviman will endeavor, but cannot guarantee, that any such transaction will be
affected on the day received or at any specific time or price.
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Limitations for Non-Discretionary Assets
Clients that engage the Adviser on a non-discretionary investment advisory basis must
be willing to accept that Daviman cannot affect any account transactions without obtaining
prior written consent to any such transaction(s) from the client. Thus, in the event of a
market correction during which the client is unavailable, Daviman will be unable to affect
any account transactions (as it would for its discretionary accounts) without first obtaining
the client’s written consent.
Tailored Relationships
At the Adviser, advisory services are tailored to the specific needs of each client. Prior to
providing advisory services, the Adviser will ascertain each client’s investment goals and
objectives. The Adviser then allocates and/or recommends that the client allocate
investment assets consistent with the designated investment objective. The client may,
at any time, impose reasonable restrictions on the Adviser’s services, but restrictions
must be delivered to the Adviser in writing, and must be signed by the client.
In performing services for the client, the Adviser is not required to verify any information
it received from the client or from the client’s other professionals and the Adviser is
expressly authorized by the client to rely on this information. Each client is advised that
it remains the client’s responsibility to promptly notify the Adviser if there is ever any
change in the client’s financial situation or investment objectives for the purpose of
reviewing, evaluating, or revising the Adviser’s previous recommendations or services to
the client.
Managed Assets
As of December 31, 2023, the Adviser managed $100,956,835 in discretionary assets
under management and $2,616,001 in non-discretionary assets under management for
a total of $103,572,836.