Description of Services
Frazier Financial Advisors, LLC (“FFA”) is a registered investment adviser based in Columbus, Ohio.
We are organized as a limited liability company under the laws of the State of Ohio. Joshua J. Frazier,
Brian T. Houts, Andrew C. Gephart, James A. Frazier and Benjamin M. Foor are owners of Frazier
Financial Advisors. Our firm has been in business since 1997. Currently, we offer the following
investment advisory services, which are personalized to each individual client:
• Investment Management Services
• Financial Planning Services
• Selection of Other Advisers
• Investment Management of Plan Assets
The following paragraphs describe our services. 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.
Investment Management Services
We offer discretionary and non-discretionary investment management services. Our investment
advice is tailored to meet our clients’ needs and investment objectives. If you retain our firm for
portfolio management services, we will meet with you to determine your investment objectives, risk
tolerance, and other relevant information (the “suitability information”) at the beginning of our advisory
relationship. We will use the suitability 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. As part of our portfolio management services, we may customize an investment portfolio for
you in accordance with your risk tolerance and investing objectives. We may also invest your assets
using a predefined strategy, or we may invest your assets according to one or more portfolios
developed by our firm.
As part of our Investment Management service, we provide wealth planning services designed to help
our clients organize their financial situation and plan for the successful transfer of wealth to the next
generation in the most tax-advantaged manner. Such services generally include financial planning in
the following areas:
• Estate Planning and Trustee Oversight
• Integrated Tax and Financial Planning
• Family Philanthropy
• Risk Management
If you participate in our discretionary portfolio management services, we require you to grant our firm
discretionary authority to manage your account in order to select securities and execute transactions
without permission from you prior to each transaction. You may limit our discretionary authority (for
example, limiting the types of securities that can be purchased for your account) by providing our firm
with your restrictions and guidelines in writing. If you enter into non-discretionary arrangements with
our firm, we must obtain your approval prior to executing any transactions on behalf of your account.
FFA will often recommend an investor roll over plan assets to an IRA, due to there usually being a
wider array of investment options available and lower cost options. However, there is a potential
conflict of interest because we would earn a fee based on the value of the IRA account under
management. In contrast, if a client or prospective client left his or her plan assets with his/her former
employer or roll the assets to a plan sponsored by a new employer there would be no compensation
to us.
Financial Planning Services
We offer broad-based, modular, and consultative financial planning services. Financial planning will
typically involve providing a variety of advisory services to clients regarding the management of their
financial resources based upon an analysis of their individual needs. If you retain our firm for financial
planning services, we will meet with you to gather information about your financial circumstances and
objectives.
Financial plans are based on your financial situation at the time we present the plan to you, and on
the financial information you provide to our firm.
You are under no obligation to act on our financial planning recommendations. Should you choose to
act on any of our recommendations, you are not obligated to implement the financial plan through any
of our other investment advisory services. Moreover, you may act on our recommendations by placing
securities transactions with any brokerage firm. FFA suggests the client work closely with his/her
attorney, accountant or insurance agency. To the extent requested by you, we may recommend the
services of other professionals. If you engage any recommended professionals and a dispute arises
thereafter relative to such engagement, you agree to seek recourse exclusively from and against the
engaged professional.
Selection of Third-Party Advisors, Platforms and Programs
FFA offers clients a variety of different investment management programs, each particularly suited to
individual needs. These programs are offered through various arrangements with third party advisors,
model providers and platform services. In order to assist clients in the selection of investment
management programs, we will typically gather information from you about your financial situation,
investment objectives, and reasonable restrictions you want imposed on the management of the
account. Your investment adviser representative will work with you to customize a portfolio that meets
these objectives.
Third-Party Advisors – We have entered into agreements with various unaffiliated third-party
investment advisors for the provision of certain investment advisory services. Factors considered in
the selection of a third-party advisor include but may not be limited to: i) Our firm’s preference for a
particular third-party advisor; ii) the client’s risk tolerance, goals and objectives, as well as investment
experience; and, iii) the amount of client assets available for investment.
The third-party advisors are registered investment advisors who offer investment advisory and
investment management programs. A complete description of the services provided, the amount of
total fees, the payment structure, termination provisions and other aspects of the third-party advisor’s
advisory business are detailed and disclosed in: i) the third-party advisor’s Form ADV Part 2A; ii) the
program wrap brochure (if applicable) or other applicable disclosure documents; iii) the disclosure
documents of the portfolio manager(s) selected; or, iv) the third-party advisor’s account opening
documents. A copy of all relevant disclosure documents of the third-party advisor and of the individual
portfolio manager(s) will be provided to anyone interested in these programs/managers. You will be
required to sign an agreement directly with the recommended third-party advisor(s).
Model Portfolio Selection – FFA offers model portfolio selection services which allows FFA to exercise
discretion to select model portfolios managed by unaffiliated third-party investment advisors,
collectively referred to as “model providers”. We will select the model portfolio(s) that align with your
risk tolerance and investment objectives. The model providers are available to FFA through the
Schwab or Fidelity Advisory Services platform. The platform provides FFA with discretionary authority
to implement selected model providers on your behalf. Securities transactions will be decided upon
and executed by the model provider on a discretionary basis. This means that the model provider
selected will have the ability to buy and sell securities in your account without obtaining your approval.
Generally, clients may not impose restrictions on investing in certain securities or types of securities in
accounts managed by a third-party advisor.
We will have the discretionary authority to select the model provider and the model portfolio(s) as well
as the ability to reallocate funds from or to a model provider and/or model portfolio(s). You should be
aware that there may be other model providers not recommended by our firm, that are suitable for you
and that may be less costly than arrangements recommended by our firm. No guarantees can be
made that your financial goals or objectives will be achieved through the selection of model providers
or by a recommended/selected model portfolio.
We will periodically review reports provided to clients. We will contact clients at least annually, or
more often to review your financial situation and objectives, and, to assist you in understanding and
evaluating the services provided by a third-party advisor and/or model provider. Please notify us of
any changes in your financial situation, investment objectives, or account restrictions.
Investment Management of Employee Benefit Plans
We provide discretionary investment management services to ERISA covered employee benefit plans
(“Plan”). In providing investment management services to the Plan, we directly manage and provide
advice regarding the selection of the Plan’s investments offered to participants under the Plan. We
monitor the investments and determine the retention, removal and addition of investments in the
Plan’s pooled investment account.
The services are designed to assist plan sponsors in meeting their management and fiduciary
obligations to Participants under the Employee Retirement Income Securities Act (“ERISA”). Pursuant
to adopted regulations of the U.S. Department of Labor, we are required to provide the Plan's
responsible plan fiduciary (the person who has the authority to engage us as an investment adviser to
the Plan) with a written statement of the services we provide to the Plan, the compensation we
receive for providing those services, and our status (which is described in Item 5 below).
In providing services to the Plan, our status is that of an investment adviser registered under the
Investment Advisers Act of 1940, and we are not subject to any disqualifications under Section 411 of
ERISA. In performing fiduciary services, we are acting as a discretionary fiduciary of the Plan as
defined in Section 3(38) under ERISA.
Types of Investments
We typically create a portfolio of equity securities, warrants, corporate, government and municipal
debt securities, commercial paper, certificates of deposit, mutual funds and ETFs, options contracts
on securities and commodities, futures contracts on securities and commodities, limited partnerships
and annuities.
Assets Under Management
As of February 21, 2024, we managed $669,982,996 in client assets on a discretionary basis and
$97,879,208 on a non-discretionary basis.