Beers Kight Financial Advisors, LLC (“BKFA”) is a limited liability company organized
in 2011 in South Carolina. BKFA is owned by Beers Financial, LLC, and McGregor Financial
Advisors, LLC (MFA”). Val H. Beers and Barry T. Kight are managing members of BKFA.
Mr. Beers is also BKFA’s chief compliance officer.
Through its investment adviser representatives, BKFA provides investment advisory
services to clients. BKFA is a registered investment adviser resulting from the successions of
Beers Financial and MFA. The purpose of this brochure and brochure supplements is to provide
important information to clients and prospective clients about BKFA, its investment adviser
representatives, and the investment advisory services that they provide.
BKFA provides portfolio management services, pension consulting services, and
personalized financial planning for wide range of entities including individuals, businesses,
retirement plans, trusts, estates, and charitable organizations.
Portfolio Management Services
BKFA provides regular and continuous advice to clients regarding the investment of
client funds based on the individual needs of each client. Through personal discussions in which
goals and objectives based on a client’s particular circumstances are established, BKFA develops
a client’s personal investment policy and creates and manages a securities portfolio based on that
policy. During the data-gathering process, BKFA determines the client’s individual objectives,
time horizons, risk tolerance, and liquidity needs. As appropriate, BKFA reviews and discusses
a client’s prior investment history, family composition, and family background.
As part of its portfolio management service, BKFA recommendations stocks, bonds,
mutual funds, and other securities in a client’s account. BKFA places orders for the execution of
these transactions through one or more broker-dealers.
BKFA performs these portfolio management services on a discretionary basis, meaning
that BKFA has the authority to decide which securities to purchase and sell for the client.
Clients may impose reasonable restrictions on investing in certain securities, types of
securities, or industry sectors by providing such notice in writing to BKFA.
Pension Consulting Services
BKFA provides separately or in combination several advisory services regarding pension
plans. The primary clients for services are pension, profit sharing, and 401(k) plans, but BKFA
also provides these services to individuals, trusts, estates, and charitable organizations. These
pension consulting services include four distinct services as follows:
1. Investment Policy Statement Preparation (“IPS”) – BKFA meets with the client to
determine an appropriate investment strategy that reflects the plan sponsor’s stated
investment objectives for management of the overall plan. BKFA then prepares a written
IPS detailing those needs and goals, including an encompassing policy under which these
goals are to be achieved. The IPS also lists the criteria for selection
of investment
vehicles as well as the procedures and timing interval for monitoring of investments
performance.
2. Selection of Investment Vehicles – BKFA assists plan sponsors in constructing
appropriate asset allocation models. BKFA then reviews various mutual funds to
determine which investments are appropriate to implement the client’s IPS. The number
of investments to be recommended will be determined by the client, based on the IPS.
3. Monitoring of Investment Performance – BKFA continually monitors client investments
based on the procedures and timing intervals delineated in the IPS. Although BKFA is
not involved in any way in the purchase or sale of these investments, BKFA supervises
the client’s portfolio and makes recommendations to the client as market factors and each
client’s needs dictate.
4. Employee Communication – For clients with pension, profit sharing, and 401(k) plans
and with individual plan participants who exercise control over assets in their own
account, BKFA provides educational support and investment workshops designed for the
plan participants. The nature of the topics to be covered will be determined by BKFA
and the client under applicable ERISA guidelines. The educational support and
investment workshops will not provide plan participants with individualized, tailored
investment advice or individualized, tailored asset allocation recommendations.
Financial Planning Services
BKFA provides financial planning services in two primary ways. First, BKFA can
provide a comprehensive evaluation of a client’s current and future financial situation resulting
in a written financial plan. Second, BKFA can give advice to clients on securities or non-
securities topics that may include tax and budgetary planning, estate planning, insurance, and
business planning.
Regarding the comprehensive evaluation, BKFA will provide to the client a written
report which provides the client with a detailed financial plan designed to assist that client in
achieving his or her financial goals and objectives. To prepare this financial plan, BKFA and
each client may address the following areas: personal and familial matters, tax considerations,
current and future cash flows, investment alternatives, insurance needs, retirement strategies, and
estate planning considerations. To address these areas, BKFA gathers the following information,
as necessary, through in-depth personal interviews and a questionnaire completed by the client:
the client’s current financial status, tax status, goals, objectives regarding investments returns,
and risk tolerance. BKFA carefully reviews documents supplied by the client and then prepares
the personalized, written financial plan. If the client chooses to implement the recommendations
in the plan, BKFA suggests that the client work closely with the appropriate financial, legal, and
accounting professionals.
Managing Client Assets
As of December 31, 2023, BKFA managed on a discretionary basis, approximately
$172,288,500 in client assets.