What is a custodian?

As with all investment managers, our firm is required to have a custodian. Investments that you entrust to our firm are placed in custody with Fidelity’s clearing firm, National Financial Services LLC (NFS) – one of the largest clearing providers in the industry. The custodian may be a critical factor to consider when selecting your money manager, since it helps determine the level of service, support, and protection you can expect your financial advisor to provide you.

How does our relationship with Fidelity benefit you?

An experienced reputable firm helping to protect your assets and privacy
Fidelity’s 60-year reputation for integrity and financial management expertise gives our firm peace of mind. As a leader in the financial services field, Fidelity has a thorough understand of the products and services we need to help best serve you and how to deliver them to you in the most efficient and convenient ways.

Furthermore, with Fidelity, we know we are working with a provider who will maintain the highest level of integrity in providing brokerage and custody services- along with privacy protection- for your assets.

Additional protection for your investments
You can feel confident about the safeguarding of your assets, as Fidelity has arranged for insurance protection beyond coverage through SIPC (Securities Investor Protection Corporation). While your assets are covered by SIPC up to $500,000, including cash claims limited to $100,000, Fidelity provides supplemental protection that covers your account’s net equity over and above this SIPC coverage.

Long Term Vision with you in mind
Because the firm is privately owned, Fidelity is able to make decisions based on long –term benefits – not short-term gains – for the investors it serves. For example, Fidelity reinvests a large portion of its profits into technology and services each year, which helps us to enhance the services we offer you.

ACCess to an extensive range of products and services for your portfolio
Diversification is important to our job of managing your money for maximum returns and minimal risk. Working with Fidelity gives us access to a wide range of products and services – those offered by Fidelity as well as other firms – that can help us achieve your financial objectives.

Broad selection of investments – With one of the largest mutual fund supermarkets, Fidelity enables us to select what we think are the best investments for your portfolio, choosing among more than 5,700 mutual funds representing over 13,000 share class options from over 420 fund families.

Planning and wealth-building resources – As with many of our investors, one of your key goals is likely to be accumulating wealth and ensuring it is passed on as you wish. Whether you are saving for retirement or college, or need specialized wealth management services – such as trustee services, separately managed accounts, and alternative investments – we are confident that we will be able to access the products you need, when you need them

Trading strength that may save you money
We can also leverage the trading arm of Fidelity – National Financial Markets Group – to buy and sell individual stocks and bonds, and to utilize a full range of specialized investment vehicles. National Financial Markets Group provides us with access to an experienced team of traders on all major stock exchanges.

This access, combined with Fidelity’s state-of-the-art electronic trading systems, means National Financial Markets Group can match buyers and sellers more easily. This may translate into better pricing for us and for you.

Recordkeeping that helps simplify your life
The need to keep track of your transactions, including capital gains and losses, can be a burden – especially at tax time. Through our relationship with Fidelity, you will receive a simplified, consolidated statement each month that reflects all of your investment positions and transactions.