Overview
The primary business of Alexander Randolph Advisory, Inc. is to provide investment and wealth
management services. Our firm has been in business since 1991 and Gary W. Schlaffer is currently
the principal owner of the firm.
We provide investment management services to individuals, trusts, retirement plans and charitable
organizations in the form of managing or overseeing the management of each client’s investment
portfolio on a continuous basis. In addition, wealth management and financial planning services are
provided to many of our individual clients and typically involve assisting clients in the management
of their financial affairs. Such services include but are not limited to retirement planning, income
and estate tax planning, assisting in the preparation of clients’ personal and trust income tax returns,
planning for college educational funding and evaluating life and disability insurance coverages.
The investment management services provided by our firm are tailored to the individual financial
needs, objectives and risk tolerance of each client as specified in an investment policy statement
completed and agreed to by the client which clearly states the following:
1. The client’s investment objective(s).
2. The client’s investment horizon (i.e. how long the client intends to leave their portfolio
invested and the anticipated withdrawals from the portfolio).
3. The target asset allocation of the client’s investment portfolio between growth and
income oriented securities.
4. The risks and limitations of different types of investments to be purchased in the client’s
portfolio.
5. Constraints and restrictions which the client imposes on the management of their
portfolio and the securities which can be purchased and/or sold within the portfolio.
Investment management services are rendered on both a discretionary and non-discretionary basis
with the type of account (discretionary or non-discretionary) being clearly stated in each client’s
investment management contract. For accounts managed on a non-discretionary basis, we obtain the
client’s specific consent prior to executing any transactions to purchase or sell securities in their
investment
portfolio. For accounts managed on a discretionary basis, we typically determine the
specific securities to be bought and sold as well as the amount of each specific security to be bought
and sold without obtaining the client’s consent. All security transactions executed without the
client’s specific consent are consistent with the target asset allocation and constraints specified in the
client’s investment policy statement.
As of December 31, 2023, client investment assets managed by Alexander Randolph Advisory, Inc.
were as follows:
Number of Assets Under
Client Portfolios Management
Discretionary Clients 128 $247,723,556
Non-Discretionary Clients 21 113,374,602
Total 149 $361,098,158
Retirement Rollovers-Potential for Conflict of Interest. When a client or prospective client
terminates their employment with their employer, the client/prospective client typically has four
options regarding the assets they have in their former employer’s 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 the assets to their new employer’s plan, if one is available and the plan offered by their new
employer permits rollovers from previous employer plans, (iii) roll the assets to an Individual
Retirement Account (“IRA”), or (iv) receive a cash distribution of the assets they have in the plan
(which could, depending upon the client’s age, result in adverse tax consequences). If Alexander
Randolph Advisory, Inc. or one of our firm’s representatives recommends that a client roll over their
retirement plan assets into an account to be managed by our firm, such a recommendation creates a
conflict of interest if our firm will receive fees for managing the assets. No client is under any
obligation to roll over retirement plan assets to an account managed by Alexander Randolph
Advisory, Inc. Our firm’s Chief Compliance Officer, Gary Schlaffer, is available to address any
questions that clients or prospective clients may have regarding the potential for conflicts of interest
presented by retirement plan rollover recommendations.