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Brave Warrior Advisors, LLC
Part 2A of Form ADV
The Brochure
Item 1 – Cover Page
12 East 49th Street
New York, NY 10017
March 28, 2025
This brochure provides information about the qualifications and business practices of Brave Warrior
Advisors, LLC (“Brave Warrior” or the “Advisor”). If you have any questions about the contents of
this brochure, please contact us at 212-421-9760. The information in this brochure has not been
approved or verified by the United States Securities and Exchange Commission or by any state
securities authority.
Additional information about Brave Warrior is also available on the SEC’s website at:
www.adviserinfo.sec.gov.
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Item 2 - Summary of Material Changes
There are no material changes incorporated into this brochure since the last annual
amendment filed in March 2024.
Item 3 - Table of Contents
Item 1 – Cover Page ............................................................................................................................ 1
Item 2 - Summary of Material Changes .............................................................................................. 2
Item 3 - Table of Contents ................................................................................................................... 2
Item 4 - Advisory Business .................................................................................................................. 2
Item 5 - Fees and Compensation ........................................................................................................ 3
Item 6 - Performance Based Fees and Side-by-Side Management ..................................................... 5
Item 7 - Types of Clients ..................................................................................................................... 5
Item 8 - Methods of Analysis, Investment Strategies and Risk of Loss ............................................. 5
Item 9 - Disciplinary Information ....................................................................................................... 8
Item 10 - Other Financial Industry Activities and Affiliations ............................................................ 8
Item 11 - Code of Ethics, Participation or Interest in Client Transactions and Personal Trading ....... 8
Item 12 - Brokerage Practices ............................................................................................................. 9
Item 13 - Review of Accounts ........................................................................................................... 11
Item 14 - Client Referrals and Other Compensation ......................................................................... 11
Item 15 - Custody ............................................................................................................................. 12
Item 16 - Investment Discretion ........................................................................................................ 12
Item 17 - Voting Client Securities ..................................................................................................... 12
Item 18 - Financial Information ......................................................................................................... 13
Item 4 - Advisory Business
Brave Warrior’s investment strategy focuses on clients investing in a limited number of long
equity positions. Investments are made in demonstrably healthy businesses that Brave Warrior
believes will be successful in the long-term. Brave Warrior endeavors to buy at prices that will
protect clients’ capital from substantial erosion should fundamentals diverge from expectations.
Clients’ assets under management are invested in securities chosen entirely at the discretion of the
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Advisor (provided that a client may specifically request that their account not be invested in a
particular security for legal or special concerns) after the Advisor explains its investment approach
and ascertains that the client is generally prepared to invest at least $5 million as a long-term
investment in the equity markets without specialized needs that would require modification of the
portfolio of stocks.
Brave Warrior was founded in 2009 and is solely owned by Glenn H. Greenberg (the “Principal”).
Effective as of October 14, 2022, Glenn H. Greenberg established 281 DBE LLC and since March 2,
2023, he currently provides his services as Chief Investment Officer and other portfolio management
services through 281 DBE LLC to Brave Warrior. While the services are now provided through an
entity, there has not been any change of control of the ownership of Brave Warrior, which continues
to be owned by Glenn H. Greenberg. Glenn H. Greenberg continues to exercise the day-to-day control
of Brave Warrior. 281 DBE LLC now has responsibility for the investment decisions for Brave
Warrior. As of December 31, 2023, Brave Warrior managed approximately $5,410,045,203 of
regulatory assets under management on a discretionary basis on behalf of approximately 281
accounts.
Clients of Brave Warrior include Separately Managed Account (“SMA”) Clients and Private Fund
Clients, which include the Brave Warrior Ranger Accredited, LP, Brave Warrior Ranger Fund (BVI)
Ltd, Brave Warrior Ranger Fund, LP and Brave Warrior Ranger Qualified, LP, collectively, the
“Private Funds”. The Private Funds were formerly known as the AVM Ranger Accredited, LP, AVM
Ranger Fund (BVI) Ltd, AVM Ranger Fund, LP and AVM Ranger Qualified, LP, and were sub-
advised by Brave Warrior from June 2020 through March 2021 on behalf of Arlington Value Capital,
LLC. The SMA Clients and Private Fund Clients are collectively referred to in this brochure as the
“Clients.”
Item 5 - Fees and Compensation
Except as noted below, fees for SMA clients are generally non-negotiable and are charged on a
quarterly basis, in arrears, at the rate of 0.5% of the assets under management, including accrued
dividends, as of the last business day of the calendar quarter (i.e., 2% annually). Dependent on the
individual arrangement selected by each SMA client, fees charged for Brave Warrior’s advisory
services may be deducted from the client’s account or paid by the client via check/wire. Brave
Warrior may adjust fees on a pro rata basis to reflect any material account contributions or
withdrawals that Brave Warrior, in its sole discretion determines would result in material fee
adjustments.
Fees for the Private Funds include a management fee ranging from 1% to 2.4% annually and a
performance allocation calculated as a percentage of net profits, generally 15%, allocated to Limited
Partners, subject to the specific terms as outlined in each Funds’ governing documents. Fees are
payable to Brave Warrior GP, LLC, the Funds’ General Partner or Brave Warrior Advisors LLC, for
the off shore entities. Arlington Value Capital, LLC (or its designee) is entitled to receive a portion
of the management fee and performance allocation paid or allocated by each Private Fund to Brave
Warrior. Payments to Arlington Value Capital, LLC will not result in an increase in the aggregate
fees or allocations to which Limited Partners of the Funds are subject.
Brave Warrior reserves the right to reduce or waive fees for client accounts. Brave Warrior provides
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investment advice to accounts of the Principal, certain family members of, and family trusts or other
entities formed by or for the benefit of, the Principal, current and former employees, family members
of employees, two retired former traders, a charitable foundation funded by the principal, certain
contractors of the principal, and accounts valued near or less than $200,000 on a fee-waived basis.
Brave Warrior calculates its SMA management fees based on values derived from an independent
pricing source, which provides a master pricing file that ensures pricing uniformity for all of Brave
Warrior’s SMA clients’ management fees. Many of Brave Warrior’s SMA clients are custodied at
Pershing; however, some SMA Clients custody their assets at other qualified custodians. Each
client receives a statement from their custodian at least quarterly (see the Custody section for more
information).
Private Fund fees are calculated by the Fund Administrator, NAV Consulting, and verified by Brave
Warrior. Management fees are assessed on a monthly basis and performance allocations are assessed
annually as outlined in each Private Fund’s governing documents.
SMA clients may request in writing that (i) upon a partial withdrawal from an account, Brave
Warrior continue to manage the account as if such amount had not been withdrawn, or (ii) Brave
Warrior manage the account based on a notional asset value that is in excess of the actual value
of the account; in each case, new investments made on behalf of the account may be made using
margin borrowing. Historically, a name utilized to describe this practice is “A-Field”. To the extent
that a SMA client has requested in writing that Brave Warrior disregard a withdrawal in
managing the account or manage the account based on a notional asset value, as described above,
the fee will be determined based upon a value of the account that disregards such withdrawal or
reflects the notional asset value of such account, as applicable.
A SMA client is able to cancel an investment advisory contract without penalty within five
business days after the date of its execution by the SMA client. Thereafter, either party is able to
cancel an advisory contract by giving 30 days' prior written notice. If Brave Warrior or the SMA
client cancels the contract, the fee for the quarter will be pro-rated over the period during which the
contract was in effect based on the value of the assets in the SMA client’s account on the date of
cancellation.
Brave Warrior may invest a portion of SMA clients’ assets in registered investment companies,
including, but not limited to, mutual funds. Advisers to such funds charge a management fee in
addition to Brave Warrior’s management fee. SMA clients may incur fees from their custodian.
Further, SMA clients will incur brokerage costs; please see the Brokerage Practices section for more
information.
In addition to management fees and performance allocations, the Private Funds each bear their own
expenses including, but not limited to, accounting, auditing, legal, consulting and other professional
fees and expenses, as well as investment-related expenses including commissions, bid-ask spreads,
mark-ups, interest on margin borrowing, costs related to short sales, transfer taxes, and custodian
fees, as outlined in each Funds’ governing documents. Common expenses may be incurred on behalf
of the Private Funds or one or more other Clients. The Advisor will seek to allocate any common
expenses among the Private Funds or other Clients in a manner that is fair and reasonable over time.
Expense allocation decisions will involve potential conflicts of interest including an incentive to
favor accounts that pay higher (or any) performance fees and conflicts relating to different expense
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arrangements with certain Clients. SMA Clients will not bear common expenses but will bear their
own direct expenses. The Private Fund will bear direct expenses and allocated common expenses
among the Private Funds pro rata based on relative assets under management. The Advisor may,
however, in its sole discretion, use other methods to allocate certain common expenses among the
Private Funds if it deems another method more appropriate based on the relative use of the product
or service, the nature or source of the product or service, the relative benefits derived by the Private
Funds and the relevant other Clients from the product or service, or other relevant factors.
Nonetheless, the portion of a common expense that the Advisor allocates to the Private Funds for a
particular product or service, may not reflect the relative benefit derived by the Private Funds from
that product or service in any particular instance. The Advisor’s expense allocations often depend
on inherently subjective determinations and, accordingly, expense allocations made by the Advisor
in good faith will be final and binding on the Private Funds.
Item 6 - Performance Based Fees and Side-by-Side Management
Brave Warrior receives performance-based compensation in the form of performance allocations for
the Private Funds as described above. As a result, Brave Warrior has an incentive to allocate limited
investment opportunities to Clients from whom the greatest performance-based compensation may
be earned. In addition, any performance-based compensation received from a Client may create an
incentive for Brave Warrior to make investments for such Client that are riskier or more speculative
than would be the case in the absence of such performance-based compensation. Brave Warrior
maintains side-by-side trading policies and procedures to address the side-by-side management of
Clients that pay a performance fee and those that do not pay a performance fee in order that
investments are not allocated to Clients based on the amount of management fees and performance-
based compensation Brave Warrior receives.
Item 7 - Types of Clients
Brave Warrior primarily provides customized investment supervisory services to individuals and
associated trusts, estates, or charitable organizations, endowments, corporations and other
businesses. In addition, Brave Warrior provides investment supervisory services to Private Funds as
described above.
Brave Warrior generally requires a minimum of $5 million in assets for the establishment and
maintenance of a separately managed investment advisory account. Brave Warrior, in its discretion,
may accept separately managed investment advisory accounts under this minimum. The Private
Funds maintain investment minimums as outlined in each Fund’s governing documents.
Item 8 - Methods of Analysis, Investment Strategies and Risk of Loss
Brave Warrior invests primarily in equity positions. Brave Warrior offers an investment strategy
focused on holding a limited number of long equity positions. Brave Warrior conducts fundamental
analysis on all securities purchased for Client accounts. In making its investment decisions, Brave
Warrior relies on internally generated research derived from annual reports, prospectuses, filings
with the SEC, corporate press releases, inspections of corporate activities, conversations with the
firm and/or competitors, financial newspapers, magazines, and other sources. Brave Warrior may
also utilize industry experts in conducting research and/or materials prepared by others in making
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an investment decision, including third-party consultants. During the research process, Brave
Warrior makes an assessment of the quality of the security in question by, among other things,
examining financial metrics of the relevant company, the integrity and strategic vision of the
management team and the ability to execute such strategy, as well as the attractiveness and risks
of the company’s industry.
Risk of Loss
All investing involves a risk of loss that Clients should be prepared to bear. The investment
strategies offered by Brave Warrior could lose money over short or long periods of time. Identifying
undervalued securities and other assets is difficult, and there are no assurances that Brave
Warrior’s investment strategies will succeed. Brave Warrior cannot give any guarantee that it will
achieve a Client’s investment objectives or that Clients will receive a return of their investment.
Below is a summary of potentially material risks for each significant Brave Warrior investment
strategy used, the methods of analysis used, and/or the particular type of security recommended.
• Dependence on Key Individual - Client portfolios are dependent on the continued
service and active investment efforts of the Principal, Mr. Glenn H. Greenberg.
• Lack of Diversification – The Advisor’s investment strategy is to hold less than 20
stocks, which means that it will typically invest a greater percentage of its assets in the
securities of fewer issuers. Holding fewer stocks may increase volatility of returns.
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Stock Market Risk - There is the chance that stock prices overall will decline.
Stock markets tend to move in cycles, with periods of rising prices and periods of falling
prices.
Liquidity Risk – Under certain market conditions, such as during volatile markets or
when trading in a security or market is otherwise impaired, the liquidity of a Client’s
portfolio may be reduced.
• Brave Warrior may rely on information that turns out to be wrong. Brave Warrior
selects investments based, in part, on information provided by issuers to regulators
or made directly available to Brave Warrior by the issuers or other sources. Brave
Warrior is not always able to confirm the completeness or accuracy of such information,
and in some cases, complete and accurate information is not available. Incorrect or
incomplete information increases risk and could result in losses.
• Brave Warrior may fail to identify successful companies. Identifying undervalued
securities and other assets is difficult, and there are no assurances that such a strategy
will succeed. Furthermore, Clients may be forced to hold such investments for a
substantial period of time before realizing any anticipated value.
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Investing in securities entails risks associated with the underlying business. Investments
in securities entail all the risks associated with the underlying businesses, including
reliance on a company’s managers and their ability to execute business strategies. In
addition, all businesses face risks such as adverse changes in regulatory requirements,
interest rate and currency fluctuations, general economic downturns, changes in political
situations, market competitions and other factors. Brave Warrior will not have day-to-
day control over any company in which it invests for Clients.
Investing in foreign securities involves certain risks and opportunities not typically
associated with investing in securities of U.S. companies. These include changes in
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exchange rates and exchange control regulations, political and social instability,
expropriation, imposition of foreign taxes, and less liquid markets and less available
information than is generally the case in the United States, higher transaction costs,
foreign government restrictions, less government supervision of exchanges, brokers and
issuers, greater risks associated with counterparties and settlement, difficulty in enforcing
contractual obligations, lack of uniform accounting and auditing standards and greater
price volatility.
There is no public offering of Private Fund shares and investors are prohibited from
selling their shares unless the Advisor consents. The Private Fund shares have not been
registered under the Securities Act or any state securities laws, and, for that reason,
additional transfer restrictions are imposed by law.
Although Private Fund investors may be permitted to redeem shares and thereby
withdraw capital from the Private Funds, there are a number of important restrictions on
this right as outlined in each Private Fund’s governing documents. The Advisor may, in
its sole discretion at any time, redeem some or all of a Private Fund investor’s share.
Such mandatory redemption could result in adverse tax and/or economic consequences.
The Advisor may suspend the right of any Private Fund investor to withdraw capital or
receive distributions from a Private Fund if, in the Advisor’s judgment, that suspension
would be in the Fund’s best interests. Situations in which a suspension might occur
include, but are not limited to, when disruptions in the markets would make pricing
and/or liquidation of some of the Fund’s assets difficult or would result in losses if the
Fund attempted such liquidations, or when there exist other extraordinary circumstances,
as determined by the Advisor, that cause withdrawals or payments to be impracticable
under existing economic or market conditions or conditions relating to the Fund (e.g.
simultaneous withdrawal requests that cannot, in the aggregate, be fulfilled with material
adverse consequences to the Fund or its investors.
Cyberattacks and security vulnerabilities could result in a breach for Brave Warrior, its
vendors or the underlying companies in which we invest. A breach could potentially
result in the disclosure of client data, misuse of confidential information or theft of assets.
Force Majeure, The Adviser, its Clients and/or Funds may be affected by force majeure
events (i.e., events beyond the control of the party claiming that the event has occurred,
including, without limitation, acts of God, fire, flood, earthquakes, outbreaks of an
infectious disease, pandemic or any other serious public health concern, war, terrorism,
labor strikes, major plant breakdowns, pipeline or electricity line ruptures, failure of
technology, defective design and construction, accidents, demographic changes,
government macroeconomic policies, social instability, etc.). Some force majeure events
may adversely affect the ability of a party (including a counterparty to a Client or Fund
to perform its obligations until it is able to remedy the force majeure event. Certain force
majeure events (such as war or an outbreak of an infectious disease) could have a broader
negative impact on the world economy and international business activity. These Force
Majeure events and the risks of loss can be substantial and could have a material adverse
effect on Brave Warrior’s business and Clients’ portfolios including investments made
by the Adviser.
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Item 9 - Disciplinary Information
Brave Warrior and its employees have not been involved in any legal or disciplinary events in the
past 10 years that would be material to a client’s evaluation of the company or its personnel.
Item 10 - Other Financial Industry Activities and Affiliations
Brave Warrior GP, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, serves as the General Partner of
the Private Funds and receives the performance allocation. Brave Warrior and its employees do
not have any relationships or arrangements with other related person companies that pose material
conflicts of interest.
Item 11 - Code of Ethics, Participation or Interest in Client Transactions and
Personal Trading
Brave Warrior buys and sells the same securities for its Clients as it does for the Principal of the
Advisor and certain of his family members and may buy and sell such securities for certain
employees and certain of their family members. This practice presents inherent conflicts of
interests, such as Brave Warrior, the Principal, employees, and/or certain of their family members:
1) trading before Clients (i.e., front-running), and/or 2) receiving a better price than Clients. To
mitigate potential conflicts of interest associated with personal trading, Brave Warrior has adopted
a Code of Ethics and Policies Governing Personal Securities Transactions (the “Code”) that obligates
all principals, officers, directors and employees to put the interests of Brave Warrior’s Clients before
their own personal interests and to act honestly and fairly in all respects in their dealings with
Clients. With limited exceptions, all shares purchased and sold on the same trading day are allocated
via a computer program among all accounts, including accounts for the Principal, employees and
their respective family members, and all other Clients. Under no circumstances will the accounts of
the Principal, employees or their respective family members receive a more advantageous price than
Client accounts for a particular security purchased or sold on the same trading day. It is anticipated
that all accounts of the Principal, his immediate family members and all other Clients have a
substantially similar percentage of assets in each security (though account composition will vary
to some extent based upon a number of factors, including different investment objectives or
restrictions, risk profiles, timing of actual or anticipated capital additions or withdrawals, and
problems of allocating small numbers of shares). As mentioned above, to the extent certain accounts
have different security weightings (as a result of the factors mentioned above), securities may be
purchased and sold for such accounts when other Client accounts are not purchasing or selling the
same security. Employees (other than the Principal) and their family members may not necessarily
have the same account composition as the Principal and other Clients. With limited exceptions,
trades for these employees and their family members are required to be approved by the Principal
prior to the execution of such trades.
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All Clients and investors receive an information statement summarizing this “Side-By-Side Trading
Approach and Procedures” (the “Side-By-Side Policy”). All of Brave Warrior’s personnel are also
required to comply with all applicable federal securities laws. As described above, under Brave
Warrior’s Side-By-Side Policy, Brave Warrior’s Principal invests the bulk of his investment
the same core positions as Brave Warrior’s Clients and generally participates
assets
proportionately with Clients in these core positions. The Code requires Brave Warrior personnel
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and other access persons to pre-clear certain securities transactions, disclose their reportable
securities holdings and business activities annually, and provide quarterly reports regarding personal
trading. Clients and prospective clients may obtain a copy of the Code by contacting Donna
Downing, the Chief Compliance Officer, via e-mail (ddowning@bravewarrior.com) or by
telephone at (212) 421-9760.
Item 12 - Brokerage Practices
Brave Warrior has discretionary authority to select the brokers through whom transactions for its
Clients will be carried out. Since Brave Warrior manages a relatively small pool of assets, it will
limit itself to a relatively small number of brokers so as to remain an important customer for each,
thereby seeking the best service, most timely information flow and best execution. These are the
three most important criteria in Brave Warrior’s selection of brokers. In addition, the value of
products or services that a broker may provide to Brave Warrior, which assist Brave Warrior in its
investment decision-making process, may be a factor in choosing a broker. Outstanding trade
execution capability and superior service may be given greater emphasis than obtaining the absolute
lowest commission on transactions. For Clients that utilize Pershing as a custodian, Brave
Warrior uses Pershing’s platform for those Clients’ transactions. Brave Warrior typically will
only utilize brokers that were approved by Pershing. This practice may be viewed as a best
execution risk because Brave Warrior is not necessarily free to use any broker for Client transactions
unless they “trade away” from Pershing. However, Brave Warrior may only utilize Pershing’s
approved brokers to avoid “trade away” fees, trade error risks, operational costs, and in order to
uphold Brave Warrior’s duty to seek best execution for Clients’ securities transactions.
Pershing also serves as the prime broker for the Private Funds.
At least annually, selected Brave Warrior employees meet to systematically evaluate the execution
performance of its brokers. The review of brokers consists of various factors including, as
applicable: names of brokers; average commission rate charged by each broker; services, if any,
provided by the broker other than execution; whether the execution services were satisfactory;
reason for using that broker; unusual trends; and potential conflicts of interest. Any other factors
Brave Warrior thinks necessary will also be considered in order for Brave Warrior to make a
reasonable decision about best execution determinations.
Brave Warrior has entered into a commission sharing arrangement in which a portion of the
commissions or trades executed by Brave Warrior on behalf of its Clients are aggregated and used
to compensate certain independent research providers for the research services they provide. Brave
Warrior also receives research (proprietary or from third-parties) and other ancillary services (e.g.
conference access) from brokers. Brave Warrior generally requires brokers with whom it does
business to provide research information on securities, industries or economic trends. When Brave
Warrior uses Client brokerage commissions (or markups or markdowns) to obtain research or other
products or services, it receives a benefit because Brave Warrior does not have to produce or pay
for the research, products or services. Further, Brave Warrior h a s an incentive to select a
broker-dealer based on our interest in receiving the research or other products or services, rather
than on our Clients’ interest in receiving most favorable execution. In conjunction with Brave
Warrior’s periodic best execution analyses, Brave Warrior will review products and services received
from broker-dealers to ensure Brave Warrior is in compliance with the safe harbor of Section 28(e);
further, Brave Warrior will make a good faith determination that the value of the brokerage and
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research services obtained is reasonable in relation to the amount of the commissions paid. Please
see the Client Referrals and Other Compensation section below for additional disclosures.
Brave Warrior generally aggregates orders for its Clients’ accounts for trade execution with the
same broker. When orders are aggregated, each participating account will be allocated securities on
an average price basis. It is anticipated that all accounts of the Principal, his respective family
members and all other Clients will have a substantially similar percentage of assets in each
security (though account composition will vary to some extent based upon a number of factors,
including different investment objectives or restrictions, risk profiles, timing of actual or anticipated
capital additions or withdrawals, and problems of allocating small numbers of shares). To the extent
certain accounts have different security weightings (as a result of the factors mentioned above),
securities may be purchased and sold for such accounts when other Client accounts are not
purchasing or selling the same security. On occasion when an order is partially filled, participating
accounts will receive a pro rata average priced allocation, subject to exceptions resulting from the
account composition factors described above. From time to time, Brave Warrior engages in
“opposite trading,” when on the same day one Client account buys a security and a different Client
account sells the same security. Brave Warrior’s employees (other than Brave Warrior’s
Principal) and their family members may not necessarily have the same account composition as
Brave Warrior's Principal and other clients. With limited exceptions, all shares purchased and
sold on the same trading day are allocated via a computer program among all accounts, including
accounts for Brave Warrior's Principal, employees and their respective family members, and all
other Clients. Under no circumstances will the accounts of Brave Warrior’s Principal, employees
or their respective family members receive a more advantageous price than Client accounts for a
particular security purchased or sold on the same trading day. Brave Warrior allocates investment
opportunities among its Clients in a fair and equitable manner. As described above, order aggregation
and allocation processes and the timing of investments can result in varying performance across
Clients’ accounts.
In seeking best execution for transactions on behalf of Clients, Brave Warrior, from time to time
may instruct the broker-dealer that executes the transaction to allocate, or “step-out”, a portion of
such transaction to another broker-dealer. Step-out transactions occur for accounts valued under
$110,000 and accounts custodied away from Pershing. The broker-dealer to which Brave Warrior
has “stepped out” would then settle and complete the designated portion of the transaction, and the
executing broker-dealer would settle and complete the remaining portion of the transaction that
has not been “stepped-out”. Each broker-dealer may receive a commission or brokerage fee with
respect to that portion of the transaction that it settles and completes. Step-out transactions allow
accounts custodied away from Pershing and Pershing accounts under $110,000 to be aggregated
with other Brave Warrior Client accounts and receive average pricing on transactions.
Brave Warrior will use its best efforts to assure that orders are entered correctly; however, to the
extent that an error occurs, it is to be (i) reported to the Chief Compliance Officer; and (ii) corrected
as soon as practicable. If an error is discovered on the trade date or thereafter, the trade will be
broken, if possible. If the executing broker cannot break the trade, the error should be reported
to the Chief Compliance Officer, who will investigate the matter and the trade (and its correcting
trade).
Trades that cannot be broken in SMA Client accounts will be allocated to Brave Warrior’s trade
error account maintained at Pershing. Brave Warrior is responsible for its own errors in the SMA
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Client accounts and not the errors of other persons, including third party brokers and custodians,
unless otherwise expressly agreed to by Brave Warrior. To the extent that SMA Client account
trades allocated to the Brave Warrior's error account are profitable; at the end of each year all
amounts relating to such profitable trades will be contributed by the Advisor to a charitable
organization. Brave Warrior may net trade error gains and losses in the trade error account;
this may benefit Brave Warrior by having to pay less for trade error losses.
Trade Errors in the Private Funds will be handled as outlined in each Private Funds’ governing
documents. Generally, unless an error is the result of bad faith, gross negligence, or willful
misconduct by Brave Warrior, the Private Funds are responsible for any trade error and Brave
Warrior will not be required to bear the cost of any trade error or reimburse the Private Fund for
resulting costs or losses.
Item 13 - Review of Accounts
The Principal of Brave Warrior reviews (formally or informally) the portfolios of securities in which
Clients are invested on a continuous basis. Executions are verified within a day after each
purchase or sale. Upon capital contributions or withdrawals, the Principal of Brave Warrior reviews
the account(s) affected to determine any course of action that might be needed.
SMA Clients receive the following written reports: trade confirmations on each transaction,
including commissions paid; monthly and/or quarterly statements of activity in each account
summarizing all trades, dividends received and cash withdrawals or contributions; monthly
summaries of all securities and cash held in each account; and investment letters on a semi-annual
basis reviewing Brave Warrior’s investment strategy. SMA Clients also receive a statement of
assets in the advisory account at the end of each billing period, the billing factor and resulting
advisory fee charged to each account. Private Fund investors receive a monthly Limited Partner
Report and a copy of the Private Fund Audited Financial Statements within 120 days of each Funds’
fiscal year-end. The Principal is reasonably available to SMA Clients and Private Fund investors
for consultation and, at least annually, Brave Warrior will contact SMA Clients and Private Fund
investors, in writing, with a request to notify the firm if their financial situation or investment
objectives have changed.
Item 14 - Client Referrals and Other Compensation
Products and services provided by Pershing, how they benefit Brave Warrior, and the related
conflicts of interest are also described above (see Item 12 – Brokerage Practices). Although Brave
Warrior finds Pershing’s products and services, including the economic benefits received, to be
valuable tools for servicing Client accounts, Brave Warrior’s receipt of these products and services
from Pershing may be viewed as a conflict of interest for us to recommend Pershing as a custodian
to Clients. The availability of Pershing’s products and services for Brave Warrior, however, is not
guaranteed nor based on us giving particular investment advice, such as buying particular securities
for our Clients or based on a specified level of trading activity through Pershing Advisor Solutions.
Arlington Value Capital, LLC (or its designee) is entitled to receive a portion of the Management
Fee and Performance allocation paid or allocated to Brave Warrior by the Private Funds. Payments
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to Arlington Value Capital, LLC will not result in an increase in the aggregate fees or allocations to
which Limited Partners of the Funds are subject.
Item 15 - Custody
All SMA Clients’ accounts are held in custody by unaffiliated qualified broker/dealers or banks,
but the Advisor can access certain Clients’ funds through our ability to instruct the custodian to
debit advisory fees. In these cases, Brave Warrior is considered to have custody of Client assets
under t h e A d v i s e r s A c t applicable rules. Account custodians send statements directly to the
account owners on at least a quarterly basis. Clients should carefully review these statements and
should compare these statements to any account information provided by Brave Warrior.
SMA Client services can include the transfer of assets as instructed in a Standard Letter of
Authorization. While the SMA Client’s qualified custodians are contractually responsible for
executing a transfer or withdrawal, Brave Warrior may receive instructions directly from the SMA
Client and then forward the written requests to the SMA Client’s custodian. All instructions for
transfers or withdrawals must be in writing and include the signature of an authorized individual.
Brave Warrior additionally verifies all written instructions received from SMA Clients verbally.
Private Fund assets are also held in custody by unaffiliated qualified broker/dealers or banks, but the
Advisor has access to Client accounts since it or an affiliate serves as the General Partner of each
Private Fund. Limited Partners will not receive statements from the custodian. Instead, the Private
Funds are subject to an annual audit and the audited financial statements are distributed to each
Limited Partner. The audited financial statements will be prepared in accordance with generally
accepted accounting principles and distributed within 120 days of each Private Fund’s fiscal year
end.
Item 16 - Investment Discretion
As disclosed above in the Advisory Business section, Brave Warrior has full discretionary authority
with respect to investment advisory accounts to sell, purchase, exchange, trade in or generally to
invest and reinvest all assets at any time held in a Client’s account. The Principal is the sole
decision maker for investment decisions for Client accounts which are based on his own research,
research conducted by Brave Warrior’s research analysts as well as any research obtained from
broker-dealers as more fully described above in the Brokerage Practices section. Brave Warrior
maintains a contingency plan for continuous management of Client accounts in the event the
Principal is temporarily unavailable for any reason. Brave Warrior does not anticipate entering into
Client agreements that allow a Client to mandate or restrict the advisory decisions of Brave Warrior.
SMA Clients, however, may request that Brave Warrior avoid investments in certain industries or
companies for their account due to legal or special concerns of the SMA Client. Should Brave
Warrior agree, contractually or informally, to a SMA Client-requested mandate or restriction of an
account, Brave Warrior will manage the account accordingly.
Item 17 - Voting Client Securities
Brave Warrior will accept authority, through a provision in a Client’s advisory agreement, to vote
Client securities. Brave Warrior has adopted Proxy Voting and Class Action Participation Policies
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and Procedures (the “Procedures”) that are designed to ensure that Brave Warrior votes proxies with
respect to Client securities in the best interests of its Clients. All proxies that Brave Warrior receives
will be treated in accordance with the Procedures. The Procedures also require that Brave Warrior
identify and address conflicts of interest between Brave Warrior and its Clients. If a material
conflict of interest exists, Brave Warrior will determine whether voting in accordance with the
guidelines set forth in the Procedures is in the best interests of the Client or take some other
appropriate action (e.g., retain an independent third party to vote the proxy).
Brave Warrior generally votes in favor of routine corporate housekeeping proposals. For all other
proposals, Brave Warrior will determine whether a proposal is in the best interests of its Clients
and may take into account the following factors, among others: (i) whether the proposal was
recommended by management and Brave Warrior’s opinion of management; (ii) whether the
proposal acts to entrench existing management; and (iii) whether the proposal fairly compensates
management for past and future performance. Clients may not direct proxy voting for particular
solicitations.
Clients may obtain a copy of Brave Warrior’s Procedures and information about how Brave
Warrior voted a client’s proxies by contacting either of Joe Tarallo or Glenn H. Greenberg via e-
mail (joe@bravewarrior.com or glenn@bravewarrior.com) or by telephone at (212) 421-9760.
Clients that do not provide Brave Warrior authority, through an advisory agreement, to vote Client
securities are responsible for voting any proxies and should contact their custodian with questions
about receiving proxies and t h e process for the Client to execute voting on such proxies.
Brave Warrior does not forward proxies to such Clients, but they may contact Brave Warrior (see
contact info directly above) with questions about a particular solicitation.
Brave Warrior does not generally direct Clients’ participation in class actions. On occasion, Brave
Warrior, in its sole discretion, may elect to participate in a class action on behalf of Clients.
Item 18 - Financial Information
Brave Warrior has never filed for bankruptcy, is not required to include a balance sheet for its
most recent fiscal year and is not aware of any financial condition that is expected to affect its ability
to manage Client accounts.
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