Overview
TKA provides investment advice through consultations to corporate pension, profit sharing,
thrift and savings plans, endowment funds, high net worth individuals, corporations, and
foundations. TKA offers these services through a combination of the services described below.
Clients may elect to use any or all of these services. TKA was founded in 2012 and is jointly
owned by Joseph Taiber and Philip Kosmala.
Investment Policy and Strategy
TKA will assist the client in assessing financial objectives, investment goals and risk tolerance.
Based upon this information, TKA will begin the asset allocation process. TKA will facilitate
asset-liability modeling or asset allocation studies to establish investment guidelines. Once the
client has accepted the asset allocation, TKA will develop a written Investment Policy
Statement ("IPS"). The IPS will provide investment guidelines, objectives, and policies
designed to help achieve the client’s goals. TKA will review this policy and strategy on a
regular basis, with formal review, conducted annually at a minimum.
Advisory and consulting services are tailored to meet each client's risks and/or return
parameters. Clients may impose restrictions on various types of asset classes, investment
strategies, or specific securities within an asset class.
Investment Manager Search
TKA will identify investment managers or funds to provide asset management services for the
asset classes identified in the client’s asset allocation strategy. TKA will guide the client
through the process of selecting one or more managers by helping the client develop
specific criteria for the managers of each
asset class, by preparing a list of potential managers
and by helping the client interview prospective managers. TKA will also assist in custody
searches for the client.
Ongoing Performance Evaluation
TKA will evaluate the performance of selected managers and will provide reports analyzing
the investment performance and characteristics of managers in terms of rates of return
relative to appropriate benchmarks and peer groups, adherence to guidelines, and risk
adjusted return metrics.
The engagement, termination, and allocation of assets to various independent managers are
client decisions. The investment results realized by clients will be affected by numerous
factors including, but not limited to, investment styles, portfolio allocation, securities
selection, trading activities, and manager discretion - all of which are beyond the scope of
TKA's services. TKA is not responsible for investment and trading activities or decisions of
managers. Accordingly, TKA makes no warranties regarding the performance of managers
and is not responsible for performance (gains and losses) results or activities of managers
or client portfolio allocation decisions.
Client Assets Under Management
As of December 31, 2022, TKA managed $114,018,272 of client advisory assets on a
discretionary basis. In addition, the firm provides investment advice to institutional clients on
$12,184,312,634 worth of securities assets that do not constitute regulatory assets as defined by
our regulator, and therefore are precluded from being reported on Item 5 of TKA’s ADV Part
1A and are not included as part of the supervised assets noted above.