Description of Services and Fees
Seamount Financial Group, Inc. is a registered investment adviser primarily based in Colorado
Springs, Colorado with office locations in California and Arizona. We are organized as a corporation
under the laws of the State of Colorado. Our firm has been providing investment advisory services
since 1999 while some of our Associated Persons have been providing advisory services before 1999.
Leon Colafrancesco, Aaron McLaughlin, and Christopher Dorsett are the shareholders and owners of
our firm.
The following paragraphs describe our services and fees. 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. Also, you may see the term Associated Person throughout this Brochure. As used in
this Brochure, our Associated Persons are our firm's officers, employees, and all individuals providing
investment advice on behalf of our firm. Seamount Financial Group, Inc. offers investment advice with
the assistance of its Investment Adviser Representatives (IARs).
Wealth Management Services
Our firm offers wealth management services where we manage our clients’ investments within the
larger context of the client’s overall wealth management and planning process. Wealth management
services consist of ongoing advice and discretionary investment management services. These services
include an initial consultation along with follow up consultations, as may be agreed, to discuss your
unique investment objectives, time horizon, risk tolerance, tax circumstances, and various other
financial factors to assist us in gathering information about your financial needs and circumstances.
Based on our evaluation of the foregoing factors, we will use the 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 wealth management services, we will customize an
investment portfolio for you in accordance with your risk tolerance and investing objectives. Once we
construct an investment portfolio for you, we will monitor your portfolio's performance on an ongoing
basis, and will periodically rebalance the portfolio as required by, among other things, changes in
market conditions and in your financial circumstances.
If you engage our firm for wealth management services, we require you to grant our firm discretionary
authority to manage your account. Discretionary authorization will allow us to determine the specific
securities, and the number of securities, to be purchased or sold for your account without your
approval prior to each transaction. Please see Item 16 (Investment Discretion) of this Disclosure
Brochure for more information.
The wealth management process varies for each client as it is based on the client's individual financial
circumstances. In the event we accept a client account that does not meet our stated account
minimum (see Item 7 of this Disclosure Brochure), we may alter the wealth management process
structure to better accommodate the client's needs and requested services.
As part of our wealth management services, we may also provide portfolio evaluation services
that typically involve the review of your investment portfolio, such as your 401K account, and in an
effort to achieve your target allocation we will recommend investment allocations based on your
investment profile. We will not cause any transactions in conjunction with the advice and/or
recommendations given, and you will be responsible for implementing our investment
recommendations. To the extent we have access to your closing quarterly account statements, we
may agree to monitor your account on a quarterly basis to ensure the account remains aligned with
your stated financial objectives. Under no circumstances do we maintain your account log-in
credentials on file. You are free at all times to accept or reject any of our investment
recommendations.
We manage our clients’ investments within the larger context of the client’s overall wealth management
and financial planning process. As part of our portfolio management services, we may, in our sole
discretion, provide clients with complimentary or reduced cost financial planning services that
complement the management of the client’s investment portfolio in order to better serve our clients and
help them manage their overall financial affairs. For more information on the nature of these services,
please see below.
Financial Planning Services
We provide stand-alone financial planning and consulting services that are tailored to the client's
individual needs, which may be broad-based in nature or may only focus on certain areas. Investment
Advisor Representatives may provide advice on general issues relating to such topics as financial
management,
risk management, asset allocation, estate planning, retirement planning, educational
funding, or other needs identified by the client. The financial planning process will involve a review of
the client's current financial condition, investment objectives, risk tolerance, and other relevant financial
suitability information.
Financial plans are generally produced within four to six weeks, and are based on your financial
situation at the time we present our recommendations and/or plan to you, and on the financial
information you provide to us. You must promptly notify our firm if your financial situation, goals,
objectives, or needs change. 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, and you may
place securities transactions with any brokerage firm.
Pension Consulting Services
We offer pension consulting services to employee benefit plans and their fiduciaries based upon the
needs of the plan and the services requested by the plan sponsor or named fiduciary. In general, these
services may include an existing plan review and analysis, plan-level advice regarding fund selection
and investment options, education services to plan participants, investment performance monitoring,
and/or ongoing consulting. The ultimate decision to act on behalf of the plan shall remain with the plan
sponsor or other named fiduciary.
We may also assist with participant enrollment meetings and provide investment-related educational
seminars to plan participants on such topics as: Diversification; Asset allocation; Risk tolerance; and
Time horizon. Our educational seminars may include other investment-related topics specific to the
particular plan. We may also provide additional types of pension consulting services to plans on an
individually negotiated basis. All services, whether discussed above or customized for the plan based
upon requirements from the plan fiduciaries (which may include additional plan-level or participant-
level services) shall be detailed in a written agreement and be consistent with the parameters set forth
in the plan documents.
Types of Investments
In general, we offer advice on equity securities, corporate debt securities, mutual fund shares, U.S.
Government securities, municipal bonds, managed futures, variable annuities, and interests in
partnerships investing in real estate interests and oil and gas interests. While we may recommend
various types of securities, we do not necessarily recommend one particular type of security over
another since each client has different needs and different tolerance for risk. Our firm's investment
adviser representatives may advise you on any type of investment deemed appropriate based on your
stated goals and objectives. We may also provide advice on any type of investment held in your
portfolio at the inception of our advisory relationship. You may request, in writing, that we refrain from
investing in particular securities or certain types of securities.
IRA Rollover Recommendations
For purposes of complying with the DOL’s Prohibited Transaction Exemption 2020-02 (“PTE 2020-02”)
where applicable, we are providing the following acknowledgment to you.
When we provide investment advice to you regarding your retirement plan account or individual
retirement account, we are fiduciaries within the meaning of Title I of the Employee Retirement Income
Security Act and/or the Internal Revenue Code, as applicable, which are laws governing retirement
accounts. The way we make money creates some conflicts with your interests, so we operate under a
special rule that requires us to act in your best interest and not put our interest ahead of yours. Under
this special rule’s provisions, we must:
• Meet a professional standard of care when making investment recommendations (give prudent
advice);
• Never put our financial interests ahead of yours when making recommendations (give loyal
advice);
• Avoid misleading statements about conflicts of interest, fees, and investments;
• Follow policies and procedures designed to ensure that we give advice that is in your best
interest;
• Charge no more than is reasonable for our services; and
• Give you basic information about conflicts of interest.
We benefit financially from the rollover of your assets from a retirement account to an account that we
manage or provide investment advice, because the assets increase our assets under management
and, in turn, our advisory fees. As a fiduciary, we only recommend a rollover when we believe it is in
your best interest.
Assets Under Management
As of February 29, 2024, we manage approximately $604,710,584 in client assets on a discretionary
basis.