Description of Firm
High Note Wealth, LLC is a registered investment adviser based in Deephaven, Minnesota. We are
organized as a limited liability company ("LLC") under the laws of the State of Delaware. We have
been providing investment advisory services since November 2019. We are owned by Katherine
Forrester Schneewind and Michael Wayne Forrester.
The following paragraphs describe our services and fees. 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 High Note Wealth, LLC 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. Our investment advice is tailored to meet our
clients' needs and investment objectives.
If you participate in our discretionary portfolio management services, we require you to grant us
discretionary authority to manage your account. Subject to a grant of discretionary authorization, we
have the authority and responsibility to formulate investment strategies on your behalf. Discretionary
authorization will allow us to determine the specific securities, and the amount of securities, to be
purchased or sold for your account without obtaining your approval prior to each transaction. We will
also have discretion over the broker or dealer to be used for securities transactions, and over the
commission rates to be paid. Discretionary authority is typically granted by the investment advisory
agreement you sign with our firm, a power of attorney, or trading authorization forms.
You may limit our discretionary authority (for example, limiting the types of securities that can be
purchased or sold for your account) by providing our firm with your restrictions and guidelines in
writing.
For certain clients, we also utilize the platform of a directly held mutual fund company, Capital
Group/American Funds Service Company ("AFS") to manage 529 plans. Through AFS, we have
access to a family of mutual funds with varying degrees of risk and investment objective in order to
create a customized and diverse portfolio for you.
We may also offer non-discretionary portfolio management services. If you enter into non-discretionary
arrangements with our firm, we must obtain your approval prior to executing any transactions on behalf
of your account. You have an unrestricted right to decline to implement any advice provided by our firm
on a non-discretionary basis.
As part of our portfolio management services, we may use one or more sub-advisers to manage a
portion of your account on a discretionary basis. The sub-adviser(s) may use one or more of their
model portfolios to manage your account. We will regularly monitor the performance of your accounts
managed by sub-adviser(s) and may hire and fire any sub-adviser without your prior approval. We
may pay a portion of our advisory fee to the sub-adviser(s) we use; however, you will not pay our firm a
higher advisory fee as a result of any sub-advisory relationships.
Financial Planning & Consulting Services
We offer financial planning services which typically involve providing a variety of advisory services to
clients regarding the management of their financial resources based upon an analysis of their
individual needs. These services can range from broad-based financial planning to consultative or
single subject planning to wealth planning services. If you retain our firm for financial planning
services, we will meet with you to gather information about your financial circumstances and
objectives. We may also use financial planning software to determine your current financial position
and to define and quantify your long-term goals and objectives. Once we specify those long-term
objectives (both financial and non-financial), we will develop shorter-term, targeted objectives. Once
we review and analyze the information you provide to our firm and the data derived from our financial
planning software, we will deliver a written plan to you, designed to help you achieve your stated
financial goals and objectives.
Financial plans are based on your financial situation at the time we present the plan to you, and on the
financial information you provide to us. You must promptly notify our firm if your financial situation,
goals, objectives, or needs change.
You are under no obligation to act on our financial planning 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.
Our wealth planning services are designed to help our clients organize their financial situation and plan
for the successful transfer of wealth to the next generation in the most tax-advantaged manner. Such
services generally include financial planning in the following areas:
• Family Continuity;
• Estate Planning and Trustee Oversight;
• Integrated Tax and Financial Planning;
• Lifestyle Management;
• Family Philanthropy; and
• Risk Management
Selection of Other Advisers - Use of Independent Third-Party Managers
We may recommend that you use the services of a third-party money manager ("TPMM") to manage
all, or a portion of, your investment portfolio. After gathering information about your financial situation
and objectives, we may recommend that you engage a specific TPMM or investment program. Factors
that we take into consideration when making our recommendation(s) include, but are not limited to, the
following: the TPMM's performance, methods of analysis, fees, your financial needs, investment goals,
risk tolerance, and investment objectives. We will monitor the TPMM(s)' performance to ensure its
management and investment style remains aligned with your investment goals and objectives.
The TPMM(s) will actively manage your portfolio and will assume discretionary investment authority
over your account. We will assume discretionary authority to hire and fire TPMM(s) and/or reallocate
your assets to other TPMM(s) where we deem such action appropriate.
Dynasty Network
We have entered into a contractual relationship with Dynasty Financial Partners, LLC (“Dynasty”),
which provides us with operational
and back-office support including access to a network of service
providers. Through the Dynasty network of service providers, we may receive preferred pricing on
trading technology, reporting, custody, brokerage, compliance and other related services. Dynasty
charges a “Platform Fee,” for which, unless otherwise disclosed, you will be charged, separate from
and in addition to your annual investment management fee, as described in Item 5 below. In addition,
Dynasty’s subsidiary, Dynasty Wealth Management, LLC (“DWM”) is an SEC registered investment
adviser, that provides access to a range of investment services including: separately managed
accounts (“SMA”), mutual fund and ETF asset allocation strategies, and unified managed accounts
(“UMA”) managed by external third party managers (collectively, the “Investment Programs”). We may
separately engage the services of Dynasty and/or its subsidiaries to access the Investment Programs.
Under the SMA and UMA programs, we will maintain the ability to select the specific, underlying third
party managers that will, in turn, have day-to-day discretionary trading authority over the requisite
client assets.
DWM sponsors an investment management platform (the “Platform” or the “TAMP") that is available to
the advisers in the Dynasty Network, such as us. Through the Platform, DWM and Dynasty collectively
provides certain technology, administrative, operations and advisory support services that allow us to
manage our own client portfolios and access independent third-party managers that provide
discretionary services in the form of traditional managed accounts and investment models. We can
allocate all or a portion of your assets among the different independent third-party managers via the
Platform. We may also use the model management feature of the TAMP by creating our own asset
allocation model and underlying investments that comprise the model. Through the model
management feature, we may be able to outsource the implementation of trade orders and periodic
rebalancing of the model when needed.
We will maintain the direct contractual relationship with you and obtain, through such agreements, the
authority to engage independent third-party managers, DWM and/or Dynasty, as applicable, for
services rendered through the Platform in service to you. We may delegate discretionary trading
authority to DWM and/or independent third-party managers to effect investment and reinvestment of
client assets with the ability to buy, sell or otherwise effect investment transactions and allocate client
assets. If you are participating in certain Investment Programs, DWM or the designated manager, as
applicable, is also authorized without prior consultation with either us or you to buy, sell, trade or
allocate your assets in accordance with your designated portfolio and to deliver instructions to the
designated broker-dealer and/or custodian of your assets.
Types of Investments
We offer advice on equity securities, corporate debt securities (other than commercial paper),
commercial paper, certificates of deposit, municipal securities, mutual fund shares, United States
government securities, money market funds, REITs, ETFs, structured notes, derivatives and limited
partnerships.
Additionally, we may advise you on various types of investments 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.
Since our investment strategies and advice are based on each client’s specific financial situation, the
investment advice we provide to you may be different or conflicting with the advice we give to other
clients regarding the same security or investment.
IRA 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.
Assets Held Away from Our Firm
We may leverage an Order Management System through Pontera to implement investment selection
and rebalancing strategies on behalf of the client in held away accounts (i.e., accounts not directly held
with our recommended custodian). These are primarily 401(k) accounts, HSAs, 403(b)s, 529
education savings plans, 457 plans, profit sharing plans, and other assets not custodied with our
recommended custodian. We regularly review the available investment options in these accounts,
monitor them, and rebalance and implement our strategies in alignment with how we do other
accounts, though using different tools as necessary. There may be a difference in the performance of
our strategies of an account using Pontera in comparison to accounts held at our recommended
custodian.
Assets Under Management
As of December 31, 2023, we provide continuous management services for $505,698,806 in client
assets on a discretionary basis, and no client assets on a non-discretionary basis.