Description of Services and Fees
Private Wealth Advisors is a registered investment adviser based in Fresno, CA. We are organized as
a limited liability company under the laws of the State of California. We have been providing
investment advisory services since 2007. Martin L. Mazorra is our principal owner. Currently, we offer
the following investment advisory services, which are personalized to each individual client:
•Portfolio Management Services
•Financial Consulting Services
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. As used in this brochure, the words "we", "our" and "us" refer to Private Wealth
Advisors and the words "you", "your" and "client" refer to you as either a client or prospective client of
our firm.
Portfolio Management Services
We offer discretionary portfolio management services. We may have legacy accounts that are
managed on a non-discretionary basis; however, we do not currently offer non-discretionary
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 at the beginning of our
advisory relationship. 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 portfolio management services, we may customize an investment portfolio for you according
to your risk tolerance and investing objectives. We may also invest your assets using a predefined
strategy. Once we construct an investment portfolio for you we will monitor your portfolio's performance
on an ongoing basis, and will rebalance the portfolio as required by changes in market conditions and
in your financial circumstances.
Each client will have the opportunity to place reasonable restrictions on the types of investments to be
held in the portfolio. Restrictions and/or guidelines on investments (for example, limiting the types of
securities that can be purchased for your account) should be provided to our firm in writing.
Restrictions and guidelines you impose may affect the composition and performance of your portfolio.
For these reasons, performance of your portfolio may not be identical with the average client in our
portfolio management program.
If you participate in our discretionary portfolio 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 amount of securities, to be purchased or sold for your account without
your approval prior to each transaction. Discretionary authority is typically granted by the investment
advisory agreement you sign with our firm and the appropriate trading authorization forms.
You may impose reasonable restrictions on investing in certain securities, types of securities, or
industry sectors. These restrictions or guidelines must be provided to us in writing.
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Financial Consulting Services
We provide a variety of financial consultation services to individuals, families and other clients
regarding the management of their financial resources based upon an analysis of their current
situation, goals, and objectives. Generally, such financial services involve the rendering of one or
more financial consultations for clients based on the client's financial goals and objectives. This
consulting may encompass one or more of the following areas: Investment Planning, Retirement
Planning, Estate Planning, Charitable Planning, Education Planning, Corporate and Personal Tax
Planning, Cost Segregation Study, Corporate Structure, Real Estate Analysis, Mortgage/Debt Analysis,
Insurance Analysis, Lines of Credit Evaluation, Business and Personal Financial Planning.
Our financial consultations rendered to clients usually include general recommendations for a course
of activity or specific actions to be taken by the clients. For example, recommendations may be made
that the clients begin or revise investment programs, create or revise wills or trusts, obtain or revise
insurance coverage, commence or alter retirement savings, or establish education or charitable giving
programs.
For financial consulting engagements, we may or may not (depending upon the scope of each
engagement) provide our clients with a written summary of our observations and recommendations.
You are under no obligation to act on our financial consulting 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.
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. These pension consulting services will generally be non-discretionary and
advisory in nature. 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
•Time horizon
Our educational seminars may include other investment-related topics specific to the particular plan.
General - Advisory Services to Retirement Plans and Plan Participants
We offer various levels of advisory and consulting services to employee benefit plans ("Plan") and to
the participants of such plans ("Participants"). 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
below).
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The services we provide to your Plan are described above, and in the service agreement that you have
previously signed. Our compensation for these services is described below, at Item 5, and also in the
service agreement. We do not reasonably expect to receive any other compensation, direct or indirect,
for the services we provide to the Plan or Participants, unless the plan sponsor directs us to deduct our
fee from the plan or directs the plan record-keeper to issue payment for our fee out of the plan. If we
receive any other compensation for such services, we will (i) offset the compensation against our
stated fees, and (ii) we will promptly disclose the amount of such compensation, the services rendered
for such compensation and the payer of such compensation to you.
Status
In providing services to the Plan and Participants, 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 either as a non-discretionary
fiduciary of the Plan as defined in Section 3(21) under ERISA, or as a discretionary fiduciary of the
plan as defined in Section 3(38) under ERISA.
Rollover Recommendations
Effective December 20, 2021 (or such later date as the US Department of Labor ("DOL") Field
Assistance Bulletin 2018-02 ceases to be in effect), 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.
Types of Investments
We primarily offer advice on exchanged traded funds and mutual funds. However, we may advise you
on any type of investment that we deem 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 that we refrain from investing in particular securities or certain types of securities.
You must provide these restrictions to our firm in writing.
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Assets Under Management
As of January 29, 2024, we provide continuous management services for $352,844,806 in client assets
on a discretionary basis and $0 client assets on a non-discretionary basis.