IFAM is the successor firm of IFM Capital Advisors, LLC, and has been a federally registered investment
adviser since October 28, 2014.
Focus Financial Partners
IFAM Capital is part of the Focus Financial Partners, LLC (“Focus LLC”) partnership. Specifically, IFAM
Capital is a wholly-owned indirect subsidiary of Focus LLC. Ferdinand FFP Acquisition, LLC is the sole
managing member of Focus LLC. Ultimate governance of Focus LLC is conducted through the board of
directors at Ferdinand FFP Ultimate Holdings, LP. Focus LLC is majority-owned, indirectly and
collectively, by investment vehicles affiliated with Clayton, Dubilier & Rice, LLC (“CD&R”). Investment
vehicles affiliated with Stone Point Capital LLC (“Stone Point”) are indirect owners of Focus LLC.
Because IFAM Capital is an indirect, wholly-owned subsidiary of Focus LLC, CD&R and Stone Point
investment vehicles are indirect owners of IFAM Capital.
Focus LLC also owns other registered investment advisers, broker-dealers, pension consultants,
insurance firms, business managers and other firms (the “Focus Partners”), most of which provide wealth
management, benefit consulting and investment consulting services to individuals, families, employers,
and institutions. Some Focus Partners also manage or advise limited partnerships, private funds, or
investment companies as disclosed on their respective Form ADVs.
Advisory Services
We provide holistic and personalized financial planning, wealth management and discretionary and non-
discretionary investment advisory services to individuals, including high net worth individuals, and
entities, including retirement plans.
Financial Planning and Consulting Services
IFAM provides a variety of basic and comprehensive financial planning and consulting services to clients.
Our planning and consulting services include cash flow analysis, investment planning, retirement
planning, estate planning, personal savings, educational savings, and other areas relevant to a client’s
financial situation. Financial planning services generally are included in the wealth and investment
management services we provide to our clients. When providing planning services, we are not serving
as attorneys or accountants.
Wealth Management Services
We seek to evaluate a client’s current financial situation and offer investment management services which
are aligned with the client’s goals and circumstances.
We manage client assets in accordance with models which are designed for a range of client investment
objectives and risk tolerances. We allocate assets primarily among various mutual funds, exchange-
traded funds (ETFs) and a third party manager of separately managed accounts. We are additionally the
investment manager for two strategies described below, for which we charge a Strategy fee.
Clients may also engage us to manage and/or advise on certain investment products that are not
maintained at their primary custodian, such as variable life insurance and annuity contracts and assets
held in employer sponsored retirement plans and qualified tuition plans (i.e., 529 plans). In these
situations, we direct or recommend the allocation of client assets among the various investment options
available with the product. These assets are generally maintained at the underwriting insurance company
or the custodian designated by the product’s provider.
The order management system that we use for some held away retirement plan accounts is provided by
Pontera Solutions, Inc. We review, monitor and manage these held away accounts in an integrated way
with the client accounts held at our primary custodian. Further information about this service is available
in Item 5.
We tailor our advisory services to meet the needs of its individual clients and seek to manage client in a
manner consistent with those needs and objectives. Clients are advised to promptly notify the Firm if
there are changes in their financial situation or if they wish to place any limitations on the management
of their portfolios.
Clients may impose reasonable restrictions or mandates on the management of their
accounts if the Firm determines, in its sole discretion, the conditions would not materially impact the
performance of a management strategy or prove overly burdensome to the Firm’s management efforts.
Investment Management Services
We offer two equity strategies with options overlay components:
A. IFAM Strategic Income Portfolio Strategy (“Strategic Income”). Our Strategic Income strategy
invests in 50 Large Cap Dividend Growth stocks. We implement an equity collar and sell calls against
the stocks in an effort to manage equity risk and generate income from the portfolio.
B. IFAM Dynamic Income Portfolio Strategy (“Dynamic Income”). Our Dynamic Income strategy invests
in commodity and global equity market index funds. We then sell calls against those index funds to
produce income within the strategy.
Focus Risk Solutions (FRS)
We help our clients obtain certain insurance solutions from unaffiliated, third-party insurance brokers by
introducing clients to our affiliate, Focus Risk Solutions, LLC (“FRS”), a wholly owned subsidiary of our
parent company, Focus Financial Partners, LLC. Please see Items 5 and 10 for a fuller discussion of
these services and other important information.
UPTIQ Treasury & Credit Solutions (UPTIQ)
We offer clients the option of obtaining certain financial solutions from unaffiliated third-party financial
institutions through UPTIQ Treasury & Credit Solutions, LLC (together with UPTIQ, Inc. and its affiliates,
“UPTIQ”). Please see Items 5 and 10 for a fuller discussion of these services and other important
information.
Retirement Plan Consulting Services
We provide various consulting services to qualified employee benefit plans and their fiduciaries. This
suite of services is designed to assist plan sponsors in structuring, managing and optimizing their
corporate retirement plans. IFAM is able to act as a fiduciary and offer services to plans under ERISA
Section 3(21) or 3(38). Each engagement is individually negotiated and customized and may include
any or all of the following services: Plan Design and Strategy, Plan Review and Evaluation, Executive
Planning & Benefits, Investment Selection (discretionary or non-discretionary), Plan Fee and Cost
Analysis, Plan Committee Consultation, Fiduciary and Compliance and Participant Education.
IFAM Capital is a fiduciary under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended
(“ERISA”) with respect to investment management services and investment advice provided to ERISA
plan clients, including ERISA plan participants. IFAM Capital is also a fiduciary under the Internal
Revenue Code (the “IRC”) with respect to investment management services and investment advice
provided to ERISA plans, ERISA plan participants, IRAs and IRA owners (collectively, “Retirement
Account Clients”). As such, IFAM Capital is subject to specific duties and obligations under ERISA and
the IRC that include, among other things, prohibited transaction rules which are intended to prohibit
fiduciaries from acting on conflicts of interest. When a fiduciary gives advice in which it has a conflict of
interest, the fiduciary must either avoid or eliminate the conflict or rely upon a prohibited transaction
exemption (a “PTE”).
As a fiduciary, we have duties of care and of loyalty to you and are subject to obligations imposed on us
by the federal and state securities laws. As a result, you have certain rights that you cannot waive or
limit by contract. Nothing in our agreement with you should be interpreted as a limitation of our obligations
under the federal and state securities laws or as a waiver of any unwaivable rights you possess.
As of December 31, 2023, IFAM had approximately $1,705,072,580 in regulatory assets under
management; approximately $1,671,805,684 was managed on a discretionary basis and approximately
$33,266,896 was managed on a non-discretionary basis for approximately 821 total clients.