Brand Asset Management Group, Inc. (BAMG, us, we, our) is a corporation organized
under the laws of the State of Missouri on March 2, 1992. Todd H. Brand is the principal
owner and Phil Daniels is the Chief Operating Officer of BAMG. BAMG’s advisory
services are made available to clients primarily through individuals associated with BAMG
as investment adviser representatives (“IARs”). For more information about the IARs
providing advisory services, clients should refer to the Brochure Supplement for his or her
IAR. The Brochure Supplement is a separate document that is provided by the IAR along
with this Brochure before or at the time the client engages the IAR.
We offer investment advisory services to individuals including high net worth individuals,
trusts and estates, pension and profit sharing plans, charitable organizations, and
corporations. This Disclosure Brochure provides you with information regarding our
qualifications, business practices, and the nature of advisory services that should be
considered before becoming our advisory client.
Please contact Sara Smith, Chief Compliance Officer, if you have any questions about
this Brochure.
Individuals associated with us will provide our investment advisory services. These
individuals are appropriately licensed and qualified to provide advisory services on our
behalf. Such individuals are known as Investment Adviser Representatives (Advisors).
Below is a description of the investment advisory services we offer. For more detail on
any product or service please reference the advisory agreement or speak with your
Advisor.
DESCRIPTION OF SERVICES PROVIDED
BAMG emphasizes continuous personal client consultation and interaction when
providing discretionary investment advisory services. We will work with our clients to
identify their investment goals, objectives, and risk tolerance in order to create an initial
portfolio allocation designed to reach those goals and objectives. We typically create a
portfolio consisting of a variety of securities, including but not limited to, mutual funds
(including closed-end funds), equities, exchanged traded funds, bonds, U.S.
governments, municipals, unit investment trusts (UITs), no-load variable annuities, and
life insurance. While we do not recommend or acquire new individual securities, often
times we advise and manage legacy assets that you bring into our wealth management
program.
Investment strategies vary based on your investment objectives and risk tolerance and at
times include long-term buy and hold trading, short-term trading and/or margin
transactions. Each portfolio will be designed to meet your particular investment goals,
objectives, circumstances, and risk tolerance. Each client will have the opportunity to
place reasonable written restrictions on the types of investments to be held in the portfolio.
You also should notify us in writing of any changes in your financial status, investment
objectives, policies, or restrictions. It could adversely affect the investment decisions we
make on your behalf if we do not have complete and accurate information.
Mosaic Wealth Management©
BAMG undertakes to provide each client with objective setting and asset allocation
services and assistance and the means to utilize the multi-asset, multi-style, multi-
manager diversification techniques used by the large institutional pools of assets. BAMG
prepares periodic reports concerning the investment programs and portfolios of each
client.
BAMG manages a client’s account on a discretionary basis; such discretion is granted by
you in writing when you sign our investment advisory agreement. We have the authority
to make investment decisions without consultation with you. These decisions would
involve determinations regarding which securities are bought and sold, the total amount
of securities to be bought or sold, and the price per share. Our discretionary authority in
making these determinations will be limited by conditions imposed by you in your
investment guidelines, objectives, or instructions otherwise provided to us.
In certain situations, the Mosaic option will be offered as a turnkey wealth management
service allowing advisory clients to pay one fee that can include BAMG’s advisory
services, most routine estate planning, and accounting services under an arrangement
established by BAMG with a certified public accounting firm and a law firm.
Brand Family Office
As an extension to our Mosaic Wealth Management© service offering, some clients
engage BAMG or our strategic partners to provide additional services for their families.
Brand Family Office services include (but are not limited to) the following:
• Cash Flow planning
• Investment planning (both private & public)
• Goals based planning
• Multi-Generational Estate planning *
• Philanthropy planning & implementation
• Income Tax planning *
• Family Education & Legacy discussions
• Locating or negotiating sources of refinancing or borrowing
• Bill pay services *
• Concierge medicine and health planning *
*BAMG may utilize trusted outsourced providers to implement strategies that may require
a separate contract to be executed.
BrandConnectSM
For certain related or smaller portfolios, we will recommend portfolio management
services through Institutional Intelligent PortfoliosTM, an automated, online investment
management platform for use by independent investment advisors and sponsored by
Schwab Performance Technologies (the “Program” and “SPT,” respectively). Through the
Program, we offer clients a range of investment strategies we have constructed and
manage, each consisting of a portfolio of exchange traded funds and mutual funds
(“Funds”) and a cash allocation. The client may instruct us to exclude up to three Funds
from their portfolio. The
client’s portfolio is held in a brokerage account opened by the
client at SPT’s affiliate, Charles Schwab & Co., Inc. (“CS&Co”). We are independent of
and not owned by, affiliated with, or sponsored or supervised by SPT, CS&Co or their
affiliates (together, “Schwab”).
We, and not Schwab, are the client’s investment advisor and primary point of contact with
respect to the Program. We are solely responsible, and Schwab is not responsible, for
determining the appropriateness of the Program for the client, choosing a suitable
investment strategy and portfolio for the client’s investment needs and goals, and
managing that portfolio on an ongoing basis.
We have contracted with SPT to provide us with the technology platform and related
trading and account arrangement services for the Program. This platform enables us to
make the Program available to clients online and includes a system that automates
certain key parts of our investment process (the “System”). The System includes an online
questionnaire that helps us determine the client’s investment objectives and risk tolerance
and select an appropriate investment strategy and portfolio. Clients should note that we
will recommend a portfolio via the System in response to the client’s answers to the online
questionnaire. The client may then indicate an interest in a portfolio that is one level less
or more conservative or aggressive than the recommended portfolio, but we then make
the final decision and select a portfolio based on all the information we have about the
client. The System also includes an automated investment engine through which we
manage the client’s portfolio on an ongoing basis through automatic rebalancing and tax-
loss harvesting (if the client is eligible and elects).
Clients do not pay fees to SPT in connection with the Program, but we charge clients a
fee for our services as described below under Item 5 Fees and Compensation. Our fees
are not set or supervised by Schwab. Clients do not pay brokerage commissions or any
other fees to CS&Co as part of the Program. Schwab does receive other revenues,
including (i) the profit earned by Charles Schwab Bank, SSB, a Schwab affiliate, on the
allocation to the Schwab Intelligent Portfolios Sweep Program described in the Schwab
Intelligent Portfolios Sweep Program Disclosure Statement; (ii) investment advisory
and/or administrative service fees (or unitary fees) received by Charles Schwab
Investment Management, Inc., a Schwab affiliate, from Schwab ETFs™ Schwab Funds®
and Laudus Funds® that we select to buy and hold in the client’s brokerage account; (iii)
fees received by Schwab from mutual funds in the Schwab Mutual Fund Marketplace®
(including certain Schwab Funds and Laudus Funds) in the client’s brokerage account for
services Schwab provides; and (iv) remuneration Schwab receives from the market
centers where it routes ETF trade orders for execution.
Institutional Advisory
BAMG provides trusted counsel to Qualified Retirement Plans working with retirement
plan sponsors to efficiently design your plan and ensure that it is high functioning towards
the objective of making successful retirees out of your people.
As an investment fiduciary, we work closely with your investment committee to create and
manage a retirement plan that reduces your fiduciary risk, utilizes the lowest-cost strategy
that will accomplish the job, provides completely transparent and full fee disclosure, and
emphasizes defined and continuous participant education.
BAMG brings completely tailored investment counsel and education to fiduciaries and
plan participants. Our solutions involve the creation of customized investment strategies
using the lowest cost available share classes of institutional quality investments.
Sub-Advisor Selection
BAMG may also select and appoint one or more Sub-Advisor(s) to provide Sub-Advisor
Services to Client’s Account. Such Sub-Advisor Services will be as determined by BAMG.
Such Sub-Advisor(s), in providing Sub-Advisor Services, shall have all of the same
authority relating to the management, including fee deduction authority, of Client’s
Account as is granted to BAMG. In addition, at BAMG’s discretion, BAMG may grant such
Sub-Advisor(s) full authority to further delegate such discretionary investment authority to
other Money Managers. Client will also agree to such authority within BAMG’s Advisory
Agreement or through a similar document directly with the Sub-Advisor(s) selected. All
fees paid by Client to BAMG are exclusive, and in addition to the fees paid to Sub-Advisor.
Presentation Services and Special Projects
We have provided educational programs to organizations and associations for more than
25 years. BAMG offers keynote speaking on a variety of topics such as behavioral
economics, asset location and allocation principles, avoiding the six most common
investment mistakes, how to integrate active and passive management in a portfolio, tax
strategies to help you keep more of what your investments earn, determining an
appropriate lifestyle and the means of funding it, understanding global capital markets,
and how to talk to your heirs about money.
We also provide two to eight hour programs on understanding personal finance. These
programs typically include education, materials and action plans in the areas of financial
goal setting, net worth analysis, investment types and uses, portfolio design and asset
allocation, financial independence, income generation, savings and cash flow strategies,
insurance needs analysis, estate planning concepts, and educational funding strategies.
We provide all necessary equipment and materials and can tailor our comments to the
needs of your organization or group.
As of December 31, 2023, we had approximately $795,551,199 of assets under
management on a discretionary basis and $38,435,091 on a non-discretionary basis.