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Item 1. Introduction
Heritage Retirement Advisors LLC
March 24, 2025
Form Customer Relationship Summary (CRS)
Heritage Retirement Advisors LLC is registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) as an
investment adviser.
Brokerage and investment advisory services and fees differ, and you need to understand these differences. BD may
refer to FINRA or Securities Investor Protection Corporation. Free and simple tools are available to research firms
and financial professionals at Investor.gov/CRS, providing educational materials about broker-dealers, investment
advisers, and investing.
Item 2. Relationships and Services: What investment services and advice can you provide me?
We offer financial planning and investment advisory services to retail investors. We do not offer brokerage
services. We do not accept commissions from the sale of investment products. Our investment advisory services
are offered through an ‘assets under management’ arrangement. An assets under management arrangement is also
known as a ‘wrap fee’ program.
We make the following types of accounts available through custodians such as Charles Schwab: various types of
retirement accounts such as IRAs, SEP-IRAs, pensions, and small business 401(k)s. Taxable (non-IRA) accounts
are also offered, with different ownership titles such as JTWROS (joint tenants with rights of survivorship) or CP
(community property).
We also make available some non-publicly traded investments such as BDCs (business development companies) or
non-public REITs (real estate investment trusts). These non-public investments can occasionally be held at major
custodians such as Charles Schwab for little or no cost. If this arrangement is unavailable, we have relationships
with other custodians such as CNB Custody, which specializes in holding investments such as BDCs and non-public
REITs.
We monitor your investments by looking at your accounts and individual holdings no less than quarterly, and this a
part of our standard service.
Our firm has discretionary authority over your account(s). Having discretionary authority allows us to place trades
in your account(s). The most common circumstances that would trigger this authority are changes in the fund
management or investment style, or changes in the overall outlook for the economy. There is a material limitation in
this arrangement, in that we typically do not attempt to make frequent (typically not more often than monthly)
reallocations to your account(s).
Our firm offers an extensive menu of investment offerings such ETFs (exchange traded funds), mutual funds, UITs
(unit investment trusts), no-load variable annuities, structured products, money market funds, and individual stocks
and bonds, through our primary custodian Charles Schwab. Our investment offerings are limited to the ability of
Schwab being able to hold an investment, and/or our ability to find a custodian that will hold an investment in what
we have determined to be a cost effective arrangement for you.
Account Minimums and Other Requirements: Our firm does not have a minimum account size to open or
maintain an account.
Asset-based fees associated with wrap-fee program will include most transaction costs and fees to a custodian that
has custody of these assets, and therefore are higher than typical asset-based advisory fees. We attempt to use
investments that are on Schwab’s no-load, no-transaction fee platform whenever possible, to minimize the
occurrence of ‘ticket charges’, which are usually in the $5-$25 range.
The following questions are Conversation Starters, which you can ask us or others providing investment
advisory services:
“Given my financial situation, should I choose an investment advisory service? Why or why not?”
“How will you choose investments to recommend to me?”
“What is your relevant experience, including your licenses, education, and other qualifications? What do these
qualifications mean?”
Item 3. Fees, Costs, Conflicts, and Standard of Conduct: What fees will I pay?
You will pay fees and costs whether you make or lose money on your investments. Fees and costs will reduce any
amount of money you make on your investments over time. Please make sure you understand what fees and costs
you are paying.
You will pay custodian fees (if assets are held outside of Schwab), transactional fees to buy or sell securities (if an
investment isn’t on the custodian’s no-load, no-transaction-fee platform), expense ratios for mutual funds, variable
annuity sub-accounts and ETF’s, and mortality and expense charges for no-load variable annuities.
You will pay investment advisory fees according to the following ‘tiered’ schedule unless your fee schedule has
been discounted by us:
$0 to $250,000 – 1.92%; $250,001 to $500,000 – 1.500%; $500,001 to $1,000,000 – 1.250%
$1,000,001 to $1,500,000 – 1.000%; $1,500,001 to $2,000,000 – 0.800%;
$2,000,001 to $4,000,000 – 0.650%; $4,000,001 and up – 0.600%
When we act as your investment adviser, we have to act in your best interest and not put our interest ahead of yours.
At the same time, the way we make money creates some conflicts with your interests. You should understand and
ask us about these conflicts because they can affect the investment advice we provide you. Here are some examples
to help you understand what this means.
Our firm has a potential conflict, in that the more assets there are in your advisory account(s), the more you
will pay in fees. We may therefore have an incentive to encourage you to increase the assets in your
account(s).
Item 4. Disciplinary History
Do you or your financial professionals have legal or disciplinary history?
None of our advisors have legal or disciplinary histories. Visit Investor.gov/CRS for a free and simple search tool to
research your financial professionals.
Item 5. Additional Information
For additional information about our services, please request a copy of our Form ADV Part 2A (our firm brochure).
If you would like additional, up-to-date information or a copy of this disclosure, please call Greg Hutto, Chief
Compliance Officer at 817-503-0100 or email us at info@heritage-retirement.com.