Clearview Wealth Management, LLC ("Clearview Wealth Management", or “the firm”) is an
SEC-registered investment adviser with its principal place of business located in Irvine,
California.
Clearview Wealth Management is a limited liability company that began to conduct advisory
business in 2018. This is an outgrowth of the Investment Management and Financial
Planning business established by Mark Phillips in 2003. Mark initially affiliated, as a
Registered Rep. and Investment Advisor Representative, with American Express Financial
Advisors (later re-named Ameriprise Financial). In 2010, Mark changed affiliation to
Commonwealth Financial Network as a Registered Rep. and Investment Advisor
Representative.
In 2018, Mark established Clearview Wealth Management as a Registered Investment
Advisor and a limited liability company in the state of California in and of itself while
maintaining affiliation with Commonwealth Financial Network. The current ownership
percentages for Clearview wealth management, LLC is: Mark Phillips 66%, Nick Bautista
17%, and Eric Figarsky 17%.
In May 2019, Clearview Wealth Management and all associated persons of Clearview wealth
management terminated the broker-dealer relationship and affiliation with Commonwealth
Financial Network. Simultaneous with that, Clearview Wealth management and its affiliated
persons established a broker-dealer relationship with TD Ameritrade to have TD Ameritrade
Institutional provide custodial services to Clearview Wealth Management clients and allow
Clearview Wealth Management to provide investment management services to these same
client accounts custodied at TD Ameritrade. In November 2019 Charles Schwab, and their
Schwab Institutional division announced the purchase of TD Ameritrade and the intention to
merge the two institutional divisions providing custody and brokerage services to clients of
RIA firms such as Clearview Wealth Management., LLC. In September of 2023 all accounts of
Clearview Wealth Management., LLC clients being held through TD Ameritrade Institutional
will be transitioned to Schwab Institutional.
Clearview Wealth Management will offer financial planning, portfolio oversight, investment
management, retirement plan consulting services, and broad financial advice services to
select individuals and entities. This will be by written contract with these individuals and
entities. The scope of advice and oversight will be in alignment with the training and expertise
of the professionals engaged by and affiliated with the firm. In addition, these services will be
limited to the work as explicitly detailed in the written contract between Clearview Wealth
Management and these select individuals and entities. The services provided will be tailored
to the individual needs of each client. As such, each client may impose limited restrictions on
the scope of advice for financial planning or retirement plan consulting services and the
specific securities or investment vehicles considered for inclusion within their financial plan
and/or investment management strategy.
Clearview Wealth Management offers the following advisory services to our clients:
Wealth Management Consulting/Financial Planning:
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Clearview Wealth Management provides financial planning advisory services on a wide range
of financial topics, including, but not limited to, budgeting and cash flow analysis, major
purchases, education planning and funding strategies, retirement income/longevity planning
strategies, portfolio and investment analysis, estate planning analysis and strategies,
business succession planning strategies, and fringe benefit analysis. Individuals may engage
Clearview Wealth Management for consulting services on a negotiated hourly, or fixed-fee
basis.
Recommendations and advice offered by Clearview Wealth Management do not constitute
legal, tax, or accounting advice. Individuals and entities engaging Clearview Wealth
Management for financial advice and oversight should coordinate and discuss the impact of
the financial strategies discussed in the areas involving law and tax that they receive from a
Clearview Wealth Management advisor with their attorney and/or accountant.
Clearview Wealth Management may, within the scope of comprehensive financial planning,
offer many clients investment portfolio allocation advice within the scope of agreed to
services for these clients. This advice may include how a client’s invested assets may be
optimally proportioned between broad asset classes (stocks, bonds, cash) or between asset
categories (US Large Co. stock, International Co. stock, Treasury Bonds, High Yield Bonds,
Real Estate Investment Trusts, etc.). In providing any such advice we consider a wide
variety of investments and securities and do not
offer advice on limited types of investment
or security only.
The effectiveness of the financial planning services provided by Clearview Wealth
Management advisors depend largely on the personal information the client provides to the
advisor. For Clearview Wealth Management advisors to provide appropriate financial
planning advice to you as our client it is very important that you provide accurate and
complete responses to your advisor’s questions about your financial condition, needs and
objectives, and any reasonable restrictions you wish to apply to the choices you prefer to
make regarding all areas of your financial life. It is also important that you inform your
Clearview Wealth Management advisor of any changes in your financial condition, personal
circumstances, and your needs and wants (goals), if any, that you suspect may in any way
affect the overall financial planning, insurance, Tax, and investment strategies that may
optimize your likelihood of success.
Investment Management Services
Clearview Wealth Management enables advisors of the firm to assist clients in developing a
personalized investment portfolio using one or more investment types, including, but not
limited to, stocks, bonds, mutual funds, exchange-traded funds (“ETFs”), UITs, variable and
fixed-indexed annuities, and alternative investments. The advisor typically acts as portfolio
manager, with full investment discretion, although clients may elect to have the advisor
manage the account on a nondiscretionary basis. The client agrees to pay for this service
typically by having the advisor directly charge the agreed to fee to the account being
managed.
The advisors of Clearview Wealth Management are Investment Advisor Representatives. As
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such they may offer investment management services to you as a client of Clearview Wealth
Management.
If you engage your advisor to also, and separately, work for you as your investment advisor,
and you establish a relationship with, and open investment accounts through him/her as or
assign him/her to be your Investment Advisor on an existing account, you will pay an
investment management and oversight fee to Clearview Wealth Management per our fee
schedule and agreement. Your advisor and other advisors of Clearview Wealth Management
will receive a portion of the fee that Clearview Wealth Management charges you for this
investment management service.
Clearview Wealth Management, LLC receives no compensation for services outside of the
compensation received directly from clients like you for advisory services provided to clients
engaged with Clearview Wealth Management in a financial planning, investment
management, and or retirement plan consulting arrangement.
As of March 28, 2023, there is approximately $127,956,000 in discretionary and $12,000 in
non-discretionary assets under management. Total assets under management is
approximately $127,968,000.
Retirement Plan Consulting Services
The advisors of Clearview Wealth Management provide fee-for-service Retirement Plan
Consulting Services (RPC) whereby advisors offer one-time or ongoing advisory services to
qualified retirement plan sponsors (RPC clients). Clients may engage advisors for Retirement
Plan Consulting services on a negotiated hourly, flat, fixed, and/or asset-based fee basis. The
maximum annual account consulting fee, when stated as a percentage of assets, is not to
exceed 1.50% of plan assets unless that amount is less than $3000 which is the minimum
retirement plan consulting annual fee. Advisors may assist plan sponsors with their fiduciary
duties and provide both broad education and individualized advice to plan participants based
upon the needs of the plan and/or plan participants regarding investment management
matters, such as:
• Plan Design and features
• TPA review and benchmarking
• Fee and other plan cost benchmarking
• Guidance on QDIA and enrollment safe harbor
• Trustee record-keeping
• Participant communication
• Investment policy statement support
• Investment selection and monitoring
• Overall portfolio composition
• Participant advice programs
this service is separate from financial planning or ongoing investment management services
offered by the firm. If individual participants of a retirement plan for which Clearview wealth
management’s provides retirement plan consulting services wish to engage the advisors of
Clearview Wealth Management for individual financial planning and or investment
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management services that participant will need to sign a separate and distinct agreement as
an individual for those services and pay for them separately.