KGWP was formed in February 2005 by Matthew G. Kovalcik and Stephen P. Geraghty, who are the
firm’s Principals. Stephen P. Geraghty also serves as the firm's Chief Compliance Officer. The Adviser
provides financial planning services and portfolio management for clients through discretionary and
non-discretionary accounts for a percentage of assets under management and/or on an hourly or fixed-
fee basis, as applicable. The Adviser focuses primarily on high-net-worth individuals, most of whom
are retired or current corporate executives.
The Adviser is an independent registered investment adviser specializing in helping individuals and
businesses achieve financial stability, growth and independence. The firm works to help clients
achieve these goals through sound financial management. It fully commits its expertise and objectivity
to help clients plan for family needs, create strategies for charitable giving, and map a course for
preserving their wealth and building a legacy.
Advice is tailored to the individual client’s needs through interviews, the collection of important
information, and detailed financial planning, as applicable. KGWP utilizes the services of Raymond
James & Associates, Inc. ("RJA"), a registered broker-dealer, to execute brokerage trades for clients
and to serve as custodian of clients' funds and securities. KGWP and its principals are not affiliated
with RJA and are not registered representatives of RJA and do not receive any commissions or fees for
recommending these services.
As of March 18, 2024 the Adviser had the following in assets under management:
Discretionary Accounts: 626 Assets: $ 236,308,149
Non-Discretionary Accounts: 37 Assets: $ 831,045
Total Accounts: 663 Assets: $ 237,139,194
Types of Services
Financial Planning
KGWP offers financial planning services, which begins by identifying goals in three core areas: family,
charitable and career. Once the Adviser fully understands the qualitative aspects of the client's plan, a
review of the client’s current financial situation is completed. Clients understand that when KGWP is
engaged to address only certain components, the clients’ overall financial and investment issues may
not be taken into consideration.
The financial plan may include both long and short-term considerations, depending upon the individual
scenario. Upon completion, a plan is presented to the client. At this meeting, the client is provided with
recommendations that are deemed to be compatible with the client’s stated goals and objectives. An
implementation schedule is reviewed with the client to determine which steps will be pursued, and with
whom the steps may be accomplished. The client is under no obligation to utilize additional services of
KGWP and its representatives and is under no obligation to implement the advice or the plan. Clients
may choose all or certain components of the advice and recommendations and can implement the
recommendations through the service providers of their choice.
Investment Advisory Services
KGWP provides investment advisory services, defined as giving continuous advice to a client or
making investments for a client based on the individual needs of the client. Through financial planning
goals and objectives are established upon which KGWP develops a client's personal investment policy
and creates and manages a portfolio based on that policy. KGWP will manage a client's advisory
account on either a discretionary or a non-discretionary basis. Account supervision is guided by the
stated objectives of the client (i.e., maximum capital appreciation, growth, income, or growth and
income, and capital preservation, etc.). If the client has elected not to engage KGWP for financial
planning services but requires investment management assistance, the initial step in the advisory
process involves a meeting with the client for the purpose of defining the scope of the relationship.
Once defined, the client and KGWP enter into a written agreement. Upon entering into the agreement,
a KGWP representative requests from the client, and reviews, all necessary financial information. This
may include information on assets, liabilities, income and expenses, tax returns and personal and
family obligations. In addition, the client will be requested to provide financial goals and objectives,
both long and short term. Based on this review, appropriate investment vehicles will be proposed to
the client and a personal investment policy will be created for the client.
General Characteristics and Restrictions
Advisory recommendations are based on the clients' financial situation at the time the services are
provided and are based on financial information disclosed by you. We incorporate information about
trends and performance of securities, the market and the economy into our recommendations, which
are designed toward meeting your specific goals, objectives, and needs. Therefore, as your financial
information and situation change, you must notify us promptly.
Our clients are allowed to impose restrictions on the investments in their account. We may accept any
reasonable limitation or restriction placed by the client on our discretionary authority over the account.
All limitations and restrictions
placed on accounts must be presented to KGWP in writing.
KGWP may provide to you reports it prepares regarding your portfolio. You are encouraged to review
these reports and compare them against reports received from the independent custodian that services
your advisory account. You should immediately inform us of any discrepancy noted between the
custodian records and the reports you receive from us.
Privacy Notice
KGWP is a registered investment adviser committed to safeguarding your personal information. We
are required to collect certain personal information about you in the normal course of doing business.
This policy describes how we collect information about you, under what circumstances we may
disclose the information to others, and how we safeguard your information in our possession.
Information We Collect
We collect and use information about you in order to provide you with our financial products and
services. We obtain most information directly from you when you open an account or purchase
financial products or services through us. We may also obtain information about you from our
representatives and their affiliated businesses, if any, and from third parties such as retirement plan
sponsors or third-party administrators, mutual fund companies, insurance companies, your former
broker-dealer or its registered representative, clearing firms, or others who provide you with financial
products or services. This may include information such as your name, address, telephone number,
social security number or other tax identification number, date of birth, assets, income, net worth,
financial goals, occupation, beneficiary designations and other information from your application.
Information We Disclose
We may disclose information about you, on a need to know basis, to our staff, affiliates,
representatives, their affiliated businesses, and non-affiliated third parties who provide you with
financial products and services. These non-affiliated third parties may include retirement plan sponsors
or third-party administrators, mutual fund companies, insurance companies and agencies, other broker-
dealers, third party money managers, and clearing firms.
Our privacy policy is the same for current, as well as former clients. Also, if you close your account, in
the process of transferring your investments we may share your information with the new investment
adviser or custodian that you or your representative selects. If our representative servicing your
account leaves us to join another investment adviser, and the client chooses to continue that
relationship, the representative may be permitted to retain copies of your information so that he or she
can assist with the transfer of your account and continue to serve you at their new firm. The
representative’s continuing use of your information will be subject to the new firm’s privacy policy. We
may disclose information such as your name, address, social security number, date of birth,
transactional information, or other financial information when necessary for us to provide you with
financial products and services or report on your account, or where law prescribes disclosure. For
example, we report your tax-related information to federal and state governments, and we may disclose
information during the course of an audit or to law enforcement or regulatory agencies.
We do not disclose your information to non-affiliated companies who intend to market their products to
you. However, we may share your personal information with companies that we hire to perform
services for us, such as vendors that provide data processing and storage, computer software
maintenance and development, transaction processing, or other administrative duties on an as needed
basis only.
Securing Your Information
We are committed to protecting the privacy and confidentiality of your personal information. Only those
employees who need to have access to personal information to perform their jobs are authorized to use
your personal information. They may need access to your personal information to conduct business on
your behalf, service your account, help you pursue your financial objectives, and to conduct our
business.
Employees who have access to your personal information are required to maintain and protect the
confidentiality of that information and must follow established procedures. We maintain physical,
electronic and procedural safeguards reasonably designed to protect your personal information and to
comply with applicable laws and regulations.
Questions
If you have questions about our privacy policy, please contact our Chief Compliance Officer. We
appreciate your business and look forward to serving your financial service needs.
Business Continuity Plan
KGWP's policy is to respond to a significant business disruption by safeguarding employees' lives and
our property, making financial and operational assessments, quickly recovering and resuming
operations, protecting all of our books and records, and allowing clients to transact business. In the
event that we are unable to continue our business, clients will be given prompt access to their funds
and securities. A detailed Business Continuity Plan will be made available to clients upon request.