SETUP PROCEDURES
for the
Private Account Consultant Management Services
Our management services are set up so that we never have actual access to a client funds, which is further explained within the agreement and throughout this website. We would suggest that you review the setup procedures provided below for our private consultant management services, should you have an interest in proceeding forward with our services.
Private Account Consultant Management Services Setup Procedures:
The Private Account Consultant Management Services is a secure and confidential arrangement between you, the client, and us. This is possible as the client sets up and funds a “Online” self-directed brokerage account in their own individual, trust, and/or business name at Fidelity Investments, Interactive Brokers or another preferred discount brokerage firm. Please specify, if you have a different discount brokerage firm and/or bank that you would prefer, and we would be glad to see if their Self-Directed Online Brokerage Services are compatible for our Private Account Consultant Management Services.
Simply visit online your preferred discount brokerage firm or bank and follow the instructions to set up an “Online” self-directed brokerage account and follow the various funding instructions for an individual, trust, small business or corporate account. A combination of both taxable and tax-deferred funds for this consultant management services is possible and the most popular tax-deferred fund types are: SEP’s, IRA’s, ROTH’s and/or Employee Profit-Sharing Plans.
Clients’ funds remain securely in their name at the preferred major brokerage firms and/or banks mentioned above, while, we manage (consult on) the funds “Online.”
Please remember that whatever type of account you chose to setup with either brokerage firm, it will be their understanding that you are the trader for the account and its primary contact. Once the account is setup and funded, your time requirement for the account will be only a few minutes per calendar quarter. You will be able to monitor the performance online throughout the world. This type of confidentiality is commonly practiced around the world, and we extend this type of private arrangement to our clients, while keeping our business relationships strictly private. Our arrangement will, as stated within the consultant agreement, remain confidential between you, the client, and ourselves.
This privacy is one of the reasons for our higher rates of return, which allows us to execute smaller trades for individual accounts instead of larger ones for a group. Normally, these large trades would draw attention, reducing the level of profitable trades and net returns for our clients. It also allows us to offer five different trading models for clients with varying risk tolerance levels and investment profiles as well as never having access to the clients’ funds.
You may be restricted to transferring only a portion of the tax-deferred funds due to commissions charged by your current brokerage firm. It will not be necessary to contact your current stock broker through this entire process, as it is likely he or she would simply make every attempt to deter you from using an actual active manager. Stock brokers, who derive most, if not all, of their income from commissions and add-on fees, commonly refer to themselves as financial advisors, financial planners, financial sales representatives. Their interest is in creating transactions to produce commissions as well as add-on fees, which are direct “conflicts of interest” with the client.
When filling out the discount brokerage firm material, please be sure to comply with the following areas of the application:
1. The brokerage firm application may ask you if your account will be a managed account. The answer is “no,” since your funds will not be placed into a fund or group of funds or institutional account, but will be self-directed and managed by you.
2. Please be sure to select the “online” self-directed brokerage account application, authorizing your account for “online” trading.
Extra step for online fund security: Once the online self-directed brokerage account is established, you can have an “extra layer of fund security” by logging into your online brokerage trading account, clicking on the “transfer“ link, then, select from the drop-down menu “transfer lockdown,“ where you would be allowed to setup a completely different password from your login, to disable or enable fund transfer abilities.
You will be able to provide us trading ability with the new account number and access code, once the account is setup and funded, as agreed upon through our Private Account Manager’s Private Account Consultant Management Services Agreement.
We appreciate your interest in our Private Account Consultant Management Services, and look forward to providing further clarification on our information contained within the website as well as the selected brokerage firm account application. Furthermore, we would be willing to review your existing investments, either over the phone or in person, to see which trading model would best meet your needs for proper diversification.