Hammond Iles Wealth Advisors (hereinafter referred to as "HIWA") is an investment advisory firm
offering a variety of advisory services customized to your individual needs.
A. HIWA was established in 2001. R. Gregory Hammond is the Managing Member and primary owner.
Scott Iles is the President and secondary owner. Additional business information about Greg and Scott
is disclosed on the Supplemental Brochures attached to this Brochure.
B. HIWA offers the following advisory services. Each of the services is more fully described below.
• Dynamic Portfolio Management Program
• Third Party Manager Asset Management Platforms
• Financial Planning & Consulting Services
• Speaking Engagements
C. HIWA tailors the advisory services it offers to your individual needs. You may impose restrictions
and/or limitations on the investing in certain securities or types of securities.
You should expect to have at least three meetings with HIWA. The first meeting is focused on
gathering information about you and your financial situation and getting to know you. HIWA will
complete a fact find questionnaire. Further, depending on the information gathered and the services
you will receive, HIWA may complete a risk tolerance questionnaire. The second meeting HIWA will
present recommendations. The third meeting is used for implementation, and to answer your
questions. The information gathered by HIWA will assist HIWA to provide you with the requested
services and customize the services to your financial situation. Depending on the services you have
requested, HIWA will gather various financial information and history from you including, but not limited
to:
• Retirement and financial goals
• Investment objectives
• Investment horizon
• Risk tolerance
• Financial needs
• Cash flow analysis
• Cost of living needs
• Education needs
• Savings tendencies
• Other applicable financial information required by HIWA in order to provide the investment
advisory services requested.
D. HIWA does not participate in any wrap fee programs.
E. As of December 31, 2023, we have $107,059,399 of client assets under our discretionary
management. HIWA does not offer non-discretionary asset management services. Additionally, we
provide investment advice on an additional $272,590,272.42 of assets that are directly managed by the
third party money manager. These assets are not considered assets under management since they
are managed by Matson Money, Inc.
Dynamic Portfolio Management Program (DPM)
HIWA offers asset management services whereby HIWA will manage your account on a discretionary
basis based upon your individual investment goals, objectives, risk tolerance, and investment time
horizon. The objective of HIWA's management services is long term growth to outpace inflation. The
goal is to position portfolios in a broadly diversified allocation for long-term growth periodically
reviewed and rebalanced to maintain your risk preference. The services include the following:
a. Investor Profile - HIWA consults with the client to obtain detailed financial information and other
pertinent data using an investor profile worksheet to enable HIWA to determine the appropriate
investment guidelines, risk tolerance and other factors that will assist in ascertaining the suitability of
the account.
b. Portfolio Management Selection - HIWA provides asset management of your funds. HIWA
diversifies and manages your portfolio. Investments are determined based upon your investment
objectives, risk tolerance, net worth, net income and other various suitability factors. HIWA manages
your account on an individualized basis. You may impose restrictions and guidelines which can affect
the composition and performance of your portfolios. For these reasons, performance of portfolios
within the same investment objective can differ and you should not expect the performance of your
portfolio to be identical to the average client of HIWA.
c. Sub-Advisor - HIWA may utilize Zachs Investment Management as a sub-advisor and its separate
managed account strategies to provide additional diversification to the portfolio.
d. Model portfolio services, tax transition, tax harvesting, and tax withdrawal services, and trade
execution services may also be provided by 55IP, LLC (“55IP”). The services provided by 55IP are
provided to HIWA at no cost and are not subject to any requirement to maintain a certain amount of
client assets invested into 55IP Model Portfolios. However, 55IP is compensated directly by the
product sponsors that comprise 55IP Model Portfolios.
e. Performance Evaluation and Monitoring Services - Account reports will be provided to you on a
monthly or quarterly basis by the account custodian.
Upon completing its analysis of your situation, HIWA will determine an asset allocation customized to
your financial goals, objectives and risk tolerance. HIWA has designed various model portfolios. HIWA
will determine which of its model portfolios would be most suitable for you. From there, HIWA
customizes your portfolio allocation taking into consideration your limitations or restrictions, the market
and economy at the time and your financial situation, goals and objectives.
HIWA will provide continuous and ongoing management of your account. Unless otherwise expressly
requested by you, HIWA will manage your account on a discretionary basis and will make changes to
the allocation as deemed appropriate by HIWA. HIWA will determine the securities to be purchased
and sold in the account and will alter the securities holdings from time to time, without prior
consultation with you. HIWA may actively trade securities and hold such holdings for periods of 30
days or less or maintain positions for long or short term periods. Discretionary authority will be granted
by you to HIWA by execution of the Client Agreement.
HIWA primarily uses open-ended, no-load and load waived mutual funds purchased at net asset value
(NAV) and exchange traded funds (ETFs). Additionally, for clients where HIWA deems appropriate
closed-end funds and fixed income securities, such as corporate and municipal bonds and preferred
stocks, are also utilized.
Transactions in the account, account reallocations and rebalancing are taxable events, with the
exception of IRA accounts, 403(b) accounts and other qualified retirement accounts.
Third Party Manager Asset Management Services
Asset management services are offered through a third-party asset manager not affiliated with HIWA.
HIWA Advisory Representatives refer clients to a program deemed appropriate to the client under a
co-advisory capacity. HIWA has entered into an agreement with Matson Money, Inc. to offer its asset
management platform. Matson Money has designed several fund of funds consisting of a portfolio of
registered investment companies. Matson Money's fund of funds portfolios are referred to as the Free
Market Fund series or the Matson Money Fund series.
HIWA will assist the client to select an appropriate allocation model. HIWA will assist the client to
complete applications and any forms required to establish an account and engage the third-party
manager. At least annually, HIWA will endeavor to meet with the client to review their account, discuss
changes to the client's financial situation, suitability of the model allocation and manager, and discuss
any other financial issues.
Clients are advised that a conflict of interest exists for HIWA to recommend the services of a third-party
manager where compensation will be earned by HIWA. Fees for such programs may be higher or
lower than if client directly obtained the services of the third-party manager or if client obtained
advisory services separately. Further, there are other third-party managers offering similar services for
a lower cost for which HIWA will not receive compensation. To mitigate that conflict of interest
disclosures are provided in this Disclosure Brochure.
HIWA will not directly conduct any securities transactions on behalf of the client or participate directly
in the selection of the securities to be purchased or sold for the client. Investment decisions are made
by the third-party manager in accordance with the agreement between client and manager.
Additional information about Matson Money and its services is disclosed in the Matson Money
Disclosure Brochure provided to you by HIWA.
Financial Planning & Consulting Services
Planning services are based on your financial situation at the time and are based on financial
information
disclosed by you to HIWA. You are advised that certain assumptions are made with
respect to interest and inflation rates and use of past trends and performance of the market and
economy. However, past performance is in no way an indication of future performance. HIWA cannot
offer any guarantees or promises that your financial goals and objectives will be met. Further, you must
continue to review the plan and update the plan based upon changes in your financial situation, goals,
or objectives or changes in the economy. Should your financial situation or investment goals or
objectives change, you must notify HIWA promptly of the changes. You are advised that the advice
offered by HIWA may be limited and is not meant to be comprehensive. Therefore, you may need to
seek the services of other professionals such as an insurance adviser, attorney and/or accountant.
You are not obligated to implement advice through HIWA or Advisory Representatives. Should you
implement the plan with HIWA's Advisory Representatives commissions or other compensation will be
received in addition to the advisory fee paid to HIWA.
Educational Seminars/Speaking Engagements
HIWA offers to conduct seminars on various financial related topics. Generally, the seminars or
workshops are educational and informative in nature and are not meant to provide specific advice
regarding any one person's specific financial situation. Any individual wanting specific analysis and/or
advice will be required to schedule an individual appointment with HIWA.
General Information
Investment recommendations and advice offered by HIWA are not legal advice or accounting advice.
You should coordinate and discuss the impact of financial advice with your attorney and/or accountant.
You are advised that it is necessary to inform HIWA promptly with respect to any changes in your
financial situation and investment goals and objectives. Failure to notify HIWA of any such changes
could result in investment recommendations not meeting your needs.
IRA Rollover Recommendations
Effective December 20, 2021 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.
IRA Rollover Considerations
As part of our consulting and advisory services, we offer recommendations and advice concerning your
employer retirement plan or other qualified retirement account. Our recommendations may include you
consider withdrawing the assets from your employer's retirement plan or other qualified retirement
account and rolling the assets over to an individual retirement account ("IRA"). Further, we offer our
management services to be applied to those funds and securities rolled into an IRA or other account
for which we will receive compensation. If you elect to roll the assets to an IRA that is subject to our
management, we will charge you an asset based fee as described below under Item 5. This practice
presents a conflict of interest because persons providing investment advice on your behalf have an
incentive to recommend a rollover to you for the purpose of generating fee based compensation rather
than solely based on your needs. You are under no obligation, contractually or otherwise, to complete
the rollover. Furthermore, if you do complete the rollover, you are under no obligation to have the
assets in an IRA managed by us.
It is important for you to understand that many employers permit former employees to keep their
retirement assets in their company plan. Also, current employees can sometimes move assets out of
their company plan before they retire or change jobs. In determining whether to complete the rollover
to an IRA, and to the extent the following options are available, you should consider the costs and
benefits of each.
An employee will typically have four options:
1. Leave the funds in your employer's (former employer's) plan.
2. Move the funds to a new employer's retirement plan.
3. Cash out and taking a taxable distribution from the plan.
4. Roll the funds into an IRA rollover account.
Each of these options has advantages and disadvantages and before making a change we encourage
you to speak with your tax adviser.
If you are considering rolling over your retirement funds to an IRA for us to manage it is important you
understand the following:
1. Determine whether the investment options in your employer's retirement plan address your needs or
whether you might want to consider other types of investments.
a. Employer retirement plans generally have a more limited investment menu than IRAs.
b. Employer retirement plans often have unique investment options not available to the public such as
employer securities, or previously closed funds.
2. Your current plan may have lower fees than our fees.
a. If you are interested in investing only in mutual funds, you should understand the cost structure of
the share classes available in your employer's retirement plan and how the costs of those share
classes compare with those available in an IRA.
b. You should understand the various products and services you might take advantage of at an IRA
provider and the potential costs of those products and services.
c. It is likely you will not be charged a management fee and will not receive ongoing asset
management services unless you elect to have such services. In the event your plan offers asset
management or model management, there is a fee associated with the services that is more or less
than our asset management fee.
3. Our strategy may have higher risk than the option(s) provided to you in your plan.
4. Your current plan may offer financial advice, guidance, and/or model management or portfolio
options at no additional cost.
5. If you keep your assets titled in a 401k or retirement account, you could potentially delay your
required minimum distribution beyond age 73.
6. Your 401k may offer more liability protection than a rollover IRA; each state may vary.
Generally, federal law protects assets in qualified plans from creditors. Since 2005, IRA assets have
been generally protected from creditors in bankruptcies. However, there can be some exceptions to
the general rules so you should consult an attorney if you are concerned about protecting your
retirement plan assets from creditors.
7. You may be able to take out a loan on your 401k, but not from an IRA.
8. IRA assets can be accessed any time; however, distributions are subject to ordinary income tax and
may also be subject to a 10% early distribution penalty unless they qualify for an exception such as
disability, higher education expenses or the purchase of a home.
9. If you own company stock in your plan, you may be able to liquidate those shares at a lower capital
gains tax rate.
10. Your plan may allow you to hire us as the manager and keep the assets titled in the plan name.
It is important that you understand the differences between these types of accounts and to decide
whether a rollover is best for you. Prior to proceeding, if you have questions contact your investment
adviser representative, or call our main number as listed on the cover page of this brochure.