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United States
Securities & Exchange Commission
Firm Disclosure Brochure
Form ADV Part II
N E W C A P I T A L
CRD 131658
New Capital Management LP
3355 West Alabama Street, Suite 275
Houston, TX 77098
(713) 874-1444
www.newcapitalmgmt.com
Revision Date: March 31, 2025
This brochure, pursuant to SEC Rule 206(4)-3, provides information about the qualifications and business practices
of New Capital Management LP (“New Capital” or “NCM”). If you have any questions about the contents of this
brochure, please contact New Capital by phone at (713) 874-1444 or by email at lg@newcapitalmgmt.com. The
information in this brochure has not been approved or verified by the United States Securities and Exchange
Commission (“SEC”) or by any state securities authority.
Additional information about New Capital is also available on the SEC’s website at www.adviserinfo.sec.gov. You
may search for information by using New Capital’s CRD Number 131658.
New Capital is an SEC Registered Investment Advisor. Registration with the SEC does not imply a certain level of
skill or training, only that total firm assets under management exceed $100 million in value.
This revision fully supplants and replaces any prior editions of New Capital’s Form ADV II.
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2. Material Changes
● New Capital Management’s assets under management as of December 31, 2024, are
approximately $465,813,150 held across 123 client relationships, of which approximately
$451,850,484 is held in 120 discretionary client relationships, and approximately
$13,962,665 is held in 3 limited discretionary relationships.
● Effective January 1, 2024, New Capital began including cash balances in its fee
calculations. This was in response to the steep rise in short-term interest rates which
resulted in an increased offering of cash management options.
● New Capital appointed Jaycee Smalley as Vice President to stand in for Leonard Golub,
President, in his absence, assist with personnel matters, and perform light business
networking.
● New Capital hired Deysi Davila as a Paraplanner.
● New Capital introduced two new versions of its Model Portfolios: Market Models, which
are designed to track closely to their respective benchmarks, and US-only Models, which
are designed for clients who prefer investments limited to the United States.
● New Capital began utilizing client testimonials on its website and social media platforms
as part of its updated marketing strategy.
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3. Table of Contents
Form ADV Part II .......................................................................................................................... 1
2. Material Changes ....................................................................................................................... 2
3. Table of Contents ....................................................................................................................... 3
4. Advisory Business ..................................................................................................................... 4
5. Fees and Compensation ............................................................................................................. 5
6. Performance-based Fees and Side-by-Side Management .......................................................... 6
7. Types of Clients ......................................................................................................................... 7
8. Methods of Analysis, Investment Strategies, and Risk of Loss ................................................. 7
9. Disciplinary Information .......................................................................................................... 11
10. Other Financial Industry Activities and Affiliations .............................................................. 11
11. Code of Ethics, Participation/Interest in Client Transactions, Personal Trading ................... 12
12. Brokerage Practices .............................................................................................................. 13
13. Review of Accounts ............................................................................................................... 14
14. Client Referrals and Other Compensation ............................................................................. 14
15. Custody .................................................................................................................................. 14
16. Investment Discretion ............................................................................................................ 15
17. Voting Client Securities ......................................................................................................... 15
18. Financial Information............................................................................................................. 15
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4. Advisory Business
New Capital Management LP (“NCM”), a Texas limited partnership, is a fee-only investment
and financial advisory firm started in 2004. Leonard M. Golub is the firm’s founder, shareholder,
and advisor. The general partner of New Capital Management LP is Solaris Advisors LLC, a
Texas limited liability company, with Mr. Golub being the only owner of over 25% of NCM’s
limited partnership interests.
Mr. Golub graduated from Amherst College (Massachusetts) in 1989 (Bachelor of Arts), from
the University of Texas McCombs School of Business in 1999 (Master of Business
Administration) and earned the Chartered Financial Analyst designation in 2003.
New Capital Management’s primary practices are investment management and wealth
management. NCM specializes in broadly diversified portfolios primarily employing institutional
no-load, low-expense mutual funds on behalf of clients. NCM employs primarily passively
managed (“index fund”) strategies for clients (especially for equity exposure) but may also
utilize a substantial allocation to actively managed funds. NCM believes that it can efficiently
deliver meaningful diversification to clients along the following critical dimensions:
● Category (Equity, Fixed Income, Real Estate, Commodities, etc.)
● Geography (Domestic, Foreign, Emerging Markets, etc.)
● Industry (Energy, Technology, Financial, etc.)
● Capital Structure (Equity, Debt, Convertible Debt, etc.)
● Equity Style (Large, Small, Value, Growth, etc.)
● Alternatives (Hedge mutuals, Hedge funds, Private Equity funds, etc.) [note: these are
sparingly used by New Capital Management given their high fee structures)
Clients may seek greater or lesser levels of portfolio customization with NCM, which may also
include the imposition of restrictions on the acquisition of certain securities or types of securities.
NCM offers socially responsible investments to clients who want them. NCM also provides
management, for a fee, of client held-away assets, such as 401(k) assets, in order to better
integrate them into an overall portfolio strategy. NCM also has significant expertise in the
management of positions of low-cost basis/highly appreciated stock, including the use of options
to hedge concentrated equity positions.
NCM, itself and in conjunction with other professional advisors, also provides advisory services
in the following areas:
● Estate Planning
● Insurance Planning
● Tax and Accounting
● Education Planning
● Charitable Planning
● Real Estate
● Business Planning
● Asset Protection
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● Career/Retirement Planning
Upon review of a client's financial status, NCM may propose that the client include, as part of his
or her financial portfolio, one or more types of products that are not part of the investment
advisory services provided by NCM, such as insurance products. If the client chooses to include
such a product in his or her financial portfolio, NCM recommends that the client work closely
with his or her attorney, accountant, insurance agent and other related professionals.
Incorporation of the non-advisory financial product into the client's financial plan is entirely at
the client's discretion.
For insurance products, NCM provides access to a platform of insurance products by DPL
Financial Partners, LLC ("DPL"). The client is under no obligation to use DPL's service and may
seek insurance advice from any licensed agent. The insurance products and fee structures
available from DPL may differ from those available from other third-party insurance agents.
NCM recommends that the client fully evaluate products and fee structures to determine which
arrangements are most favorable to the client prior to making an investment decision. NCM does
not receive compensation for insurance products selected by the client, whether secured through
DPL or any other agent, but may assess additional fees for such products and associated advisory
services directly from the client.
5. Fees and Compensation
New Capital Management is only compensated by fees paid directly by its clients. NCM does not
receive commissions, does not receive payments from third parties, and has no financial interest
in any services or investment products employed for its clients. Accordingly, NCM has no
fee-related conflicts of interest and therefore no incentive to recommend investment products
based on the compensation received, rather than on a client’s needs. When NCM recommends
mutual funds for clients, they are no-load funds (i.e., they have no sales charges).
NCM assesses its fee based on the following standard fee schedule:
Breakpoint
Fee
basis
0.75%
$1 million and less
0.70%
$1 million - $3 million
0.60%
$3 million - $5 million
0.50%
$5 million - $8 million
$8 million - $20 million
0.40%
$20 million - $100 million 0.30%
0.20%
$100 million +
NCM’s fees are not generally negotiable. New Capital regularly participates in and analyzes
surveys of advisors that offer services and investments similar to our own, and we establish our
fee schedules with reference to the results of these surveys. We believe our fees are generally in
line or below industry medians. In rare circumstances NCM may negotiate to charge a greater or
lesser fee based upon certain criteria, including but not limited to asset class, services rendered,
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anticipated future earning capacity, anticipated future additional assets, dollar amount of assets to
be managed, related accounts, account composition, pre-existing client relationship, account
retention, pro bono activities, client referrals, client tenure, or financial hardship.
Fees are deducted quarterly in advance directly from pre-determined discretionary client
accounts (clients may select how to apportion fees among their accounts). NCM delivers a fee
billing statement along with its quarterly reports to clients. Additionally, fees are reflected as
“Advisor Fee” on the client’s broker custodian statement. NCM also sends an end of year report
to clients showing all fees billed for the year by account. A $2,500 minimum annual fee applies
to all households, and this minimum means that any household with under $250,000 in assets
under management would incur a rate higher than NCM’s maximum rate of 0.75%.
Clients incur additional management fees from any mutual or other funds used for portfolios.
Clients also incur brokerage transaction fees from NCM’s main custodian, Fidelity Investments,
for trading securities, as follows:
Equities and ETF’s
No transaction fee mutual funds
Transaction fee mutual funds
Household< $1M Household > $1M
$4.95
$0
$15
$0
$0
$15
As clients pay NCM’s quarterly retainer fee in advance, any terminating client may obtain a
refund of this pre-paid fee if the advisory contract is terminated before the end of the billing
period. The refund is made pro rata on the days remaining in the quarter.
NCM currently uses Fidelity Investments as its primary broker. While NCM could elect to use
another primary broker(s), NCM gains efficiency advantages from its use of a sole broker and
believes those efficiencies allow it to maintain a relatively lower fee structure than industry
average. Additionally, NCM does not believe that other brokers are able to render services at
meaningfully lower rates than those negotiated by NCM with Fidelity. However, Fidelity’s
surcharge on Dimensional and Vanguard funds causes NCM to carefully evaluate the benefits of
any particular trading initiatives in client accounts.
6. Performance-based Fees and Side-by-Side Management
NCM does not currently assess fees based on a share of capital gains on or capital appreciation
of the assets of clients. Accordingly, NCM does not have any incentive to favor accounts that
receive a performance-based fee over those that do not.
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7. Types of Clients
NCM provides investment advice mostly to families and individuals (including high net worth
individuals), but also to related trusts, businesses, charitable foundations, and pension funds.
While NCM does not have any stated requirements for opening or maintaining an account, such
as a minimum account size, the majority of NCM’s clients have at least $1,000,000, and
frequently more, in net household investable assets. Average household account size is
approximately $3.7 million. A majority of clients are in Houston, but there are also clients in
other parts of Texas, in other U.S. states, and in other countries.
8. Methods of Analysis, Investment Strategies, and Risk of Loss
NCM’s focus is on getting a client into the right portfolio for them. That necessarily involves
analysis of client, securities, investment environment, and portfolio.
Analysis of Client
On the client analysis side, the following methods are employed:
● Life Planning. NCM explores prospect/client goals and needs through an in-depth
Discovery process. This process explores client background, family history, financial
history and experience, and personal goals. This background information enables a
thorough survey of actual and potential client cash needs over a long horizon. NCM
provides clients with detailed summaries of this information.
● Financial Planning. NCM utilizes client background information developed during the
Life Planning effort as the foundation for a full financial planning effort which juxtaposes
goals and needs with available and prospective resources to determine whether a
successful financial outcome (defined as both meeting all goals and not outliving
resources) is likely. NCM provides prospects and clients with detailed reports of this
work, which is also reviewed annually for changes.
● Investment Planning. Client risk capacity, risk tolerance, and return requirements are
assessed using risk tolerance software, financial planning software, and investment
modeling software which produces a recommended equity/fixed income allocation. This
basic model is further refined using tactical assessments of current market valuations, and
a recommended portfolio is discussed with the client. Refinements may follow that result
in a final model and its implementation through trades. NCM provides clients with
documentation including risk questionnaires, investment objectives, and portfolio detail
reports.
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Analysis of Securities
NCM engages in a variety of activities to form a basis for investment recommendations to
clients. In general, NCM regularly monitors the securities marketplace for the appearance of
products that can:
● Fill voids in client portfolios
● Further diversification, and thereby decrease risk, of client portfolios
● Improve upon existing methods, portfolios, or products
● Lower costs for clients
NCM gains information about such investment products through a variety of sources, including
the financial press (newspapers, magazines, and financial blogs), but especially through direct
relationships and information subscriptions which include but are not limited to:
to clients or
Relationships with Fund Companies. NCM meets regularly with representatives of fund
companies whose products NCM either recommends
is evaluating for
recommendation. NCM is under no obligation to adopt fund company recommendations. Such
meetings, alone or in conjunction with other advisors, are non-compensatory and educational in
nature and designed to:
● Introduce funds to NCM
● Review fund performance
● Discuss investment strategy and environment
● Help form a reasonable basis for NCM recommendations
● Receive fund learning materials
As a public advisor, NCM is sought out by a wide variety of companies seeking to gain access
for use in NCM’s portfolios. NCM believes that its relationships with fund companies confer
substantial benefits upon its clients including NCM’s greater insight into fund composition,
investment philosophy, fees and expenses, track record, management, alternatives, statistics,
performance, valuations, and more.
Relationship with Fidelity. Since 2006, NCM has maintained a relationship with Fidelity
Investments. Through this relationship, NCM has access to Fidelity’s vast mutual funds
warehouse. Additionally, as a registered investment advisor, NCM is granted access for its clients
to the institutional class shares – generally the least expensive class – of virtually all fund
companies. NCM believes that its access to institutional shares in Fidelity’s funds warehouse
confers substantial advantages on its clients and enables an unrestricted “go anywhere” approach
to investment.
Relationship with Dimensional Fund Advisors. Since 2008, NCM is authorized to purchase funds
managed by Dimensional Fund Advisors (“Dimensional”). Dimensional, with over $500 billion
in assets under management, is a fund company with significant and recognized skills in the
assembly of sophisticated, low-cost, passive global equity portfolios, and distributes its funds
solely through approved advisors. The Dimensional approval process requires advisors to submit
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a profile questionnaire to Dimensional and attend training seminars at Dimensional’s offices. The
relationship with Dimensional is significant and substantial but non-binding, and NCM is under
no obligation to invest any minimum amount of client funds with Dimensional. Instead, NCM is
often disposed to utilize Dimensional funds in client portfolios because it believes that
Dimensional’s funds confer very substantial investment benefits for its clients, especially in core
equity exposure. For example, Dimensional’s core equity funds represent a larger universe of
equity exposure than most competing funds and thereby actually reduce the need to engage in
multiple transactions to gain comprehensive exposures.
Analysis of Investment Environment
NCM prefers to focus on current effective total yield (undistributed earnings plus dividends) and
yield spreads of investments to better understand the investment environment. Yields, provided
they are rationally generated by an investment, often communicate substantial information about
future returns, and help investors decide between investments of different risks. A riskier
investment, for example, should produce a higher yield (or spread) than a less risky investment.
When they do not, such as when prices for an asset class are bid so high that the investor is no
longer compensated via effective yield for the risks being assumed, caution is warranted.
Relative yields, in NCM’s judgment, can convey substantial information about the general
investment environment.
Model Portfolios
NCM utilizes model portfolios that are composed of equity, fixed income, and other assets
(commodities, real estate, etc.) to provide, broadly diversified exposure to asset class market
returns. Model portfolios range from most Conservative (Model 0) to most Aggressive (Model
10) and are assigned to target risk benchmarks, against which portfolio and performance metrics
are compared. NCM further provides variations of its investment models designed to meet
clients’ primary investment concerns more precisely, whether that be portfolio performance,
portfolio costs, portfolio volatility, or portfolio restrictions such as ESG restrictions.
Our most commonly used models generally incorporate Factor-based investment approaches,
with portfolio tilts toward value stocks, small cap stocks, and profitable company stocks. These
factors offer the possibility, but not the guarantee, of return outperformance of the general
market due to intentional “tilts” towards systematic return premiums. This investment approach
is commonly known as a “smart beta” approach and will generally exhibit modest tracking error
with designated benchmarks.
Some clients may desire minimal tracking error to benchmarks and our Market Models provide
this. This investment approach is commonly known as a “beta” approach and will generally
exhibit minimal tracking error with the designated benchmarks.
NCM also offers Environmental, Social, and Governance (“ESG”) Model variants. Our approach
to ESG integration does not generally exclude particular industries, geographies, or strategies;
rather, it utilizes modified exposures to reduce the presence of companies that may violate ESG
screens.
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Monitoring and Rebalancing
NCM monitors and rebalances client portfolios primarily using a portfolio analysis, reporting,
and portfolio management system produced by Orion Advisors Technology, LLC, a major
independent provider of investment data services. NCM regularly transfers and reconciles all
client account transaction and position information into this system, which then produces asset
allocation, performance, risk measures, cash flow, and other reports.
NCM strives to meet or exceed the designated target risk benchmarks without the assumption of
excessive additional risk. Tax considerations are made for all trades made in non-qualified
accounts. Trading costs are considered for all trades made. Fees are considered for all securities
employed. Client accounts are generally rebalanced with changes to client risk tolerance or client
circumstances; systematic portfolio rebalancing based upon assessed changes in the investment
environment; or opportunistically when market circumstances, projected risk, or valuations
merit.
risks commonly associated with
NCM’s model portfolios are broadly diversified across global equity and fixed income markets.
Accordingly, the primary risk that clients face is the risk of systematic market volatility, rather
individual securities (such as bankruptcy or
than
mismanagement). Such volatility, however, is the price that any investor must pay to achieve
market returns, and it cannot be avoided. In general, and over time, higher returning assets will
experience higher price volatility, while lower returning assets will experience lower price
volatility. Over the long term, defined as from ten to twenty years, asset classes may generally be
expected to yield their normalized rates of return. Over the short term, however, any particular
asset class may produce returns that deviate, sometimes dramatically, from the long-term rate of
return. A major risk to any investor, therefore, is the possibility that the investor will allow
shorter-term volatility to force them from their position before the expected return is earned. One
of NCM’s major risk management efforts, therefore, is to work with clients on a personal basis to
minimize behavioral impulses that can compromise long-term portfolio returns.
Despite the expectation of a long-term expected return, assets that NCM acquires for its clients
may face the risk of losses, conceivably permanent, from changes in interest rates, tax rates, rates
of price inflation, government policies, technology, and from war, crises, revolutions, man-made
disasters, natural disasters, bank failures, communication disruptions, and other unforeseen
events. Moreover, the broad geographical diversification of NCM’s portfolios makes these
occurrences more likely to impact the portfolios in any given year. However, the broad
diversification also significantly mutes the impact of any single occurrence on the larger
portfolio.
Still, while material risks are involved in any investment strategy, they are even more so
involved with the lack of an investment strategy, where inflation is a constant threat to
undermine the value of currencies. Over the past eighty-five years, inflation has been present in
the United States economy every year except for during the Great Depression (when prices
declined). Investors therefore face a choice between certain, constant, and permanent debasement
of the purchasing power of their assets should they choose to hold them primarily in cash and
cash equivalents, and equally certain but far more intermittent and temporary losses with higher
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returning, more volatile assets. One of NCM’s primary functions is to find the proper medium
between these two positions taking into consideration the particular needs of the client.
9. Disciplinary Information
No NCM personnel have been involved in any legal or disciplinary events before any court, any
regulatory agency or authority, or any self-regulatory organization. Accordingly, there are no
legal or disciplinary events that are material to a client’s or prospective client’s evaluation of
NCM’s advisory business or the integrity of its management.
10. Other Financial Industry Activities and Affiliations
As a fiduciary, New Capital Management Limited has certain legal obligations, including the
obligation to act in clients’ best interest. New Capital Management Limited maintains a Business
Continuity and Succession Plan and seeks to avoid a disruption of service to clients in the event
of an unforeseen loss of key personnel, due to disability or death. To that end, New Capital
Management Limited entered into a contingent succession agreement with Buckingham Strategic
Wealth, LLC, effective January 15, 2015. This agreement provides for the continuity of
investment management of client accounts, cooperation of custodians in facilitating client
accounts access by successor advisors, and potential compensation to New Capital’s shareholders
and/or their assigns. NCM can provide additional information about this agreement, including a
client consent pre-authorization form, to any current or prospective client upon request.
NCM is not registered, and has no application pending to register, as a broker-dealer, a registered
representative of a broker-dealer, a futures commission merchant, a commodity pool operator, or
a commodity trading advisor.
NCM maintains relationships, to varying degrees, with a variety of other professionals including:
1. Broker-dealers (especially Fidelity Investments and its affiliates)
2. Investment companies or other pooled investment vehicles (including mutual funds,
closed-end investment companies, unit investment trusts, private investment companies
or hedge funds, and offshore funds)
3. Other investment advisers or financial planners
4. Banking or thrift institutions
5. Accountants or accounting firms
6. Lawyers or law firms
7. Insurance companies or agencies
8. Real estate and mortgage brokers
9. Sponsors or syndicators of limited partnerships
None of these relationships are compensated, and as a result NCM believes that conflicts of
interests with clients are either non-existent or not material. NCM enters relationships with such
entities for two major purposes: (1) to enhance NCM’s own service to clients by being able to
make timely and qualified referrals of clients in need of other professional services, and (2) as
part of NCM’s efforts to market itself to and through other professionals.
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11. Code of Ethics, Participation/Interest in Client Transactions, Personal Trading
NCM maintains and follows a Code of Ethics designed to meet the requirements of its
registration. NCM’s Code of Ethics addresses numerous areas including General Policy, Access
Persons, Chief Compliance Officer’s Designee, Standards of Business Conduct, Custodial
Account Reporting, Protecting the Confidentiality of Client Information, Social Media Policy,
Prohibition of Insider Trading, Trading Preclearance, Personal Securities Transactions and
Trading Limits, Trading Blackout Periods, Compliance Procedures, Short-Term Trading Profits,
Margin Transactions, Limit Orders, Participation in Affiliated Limited Offerings, Interested
Transactions, Outside Business Activities, Service as an Officer or Director, Gifts and
Entertainment, Political Contributions, Covered Associates, Rumor Mongering, Anti-Corruption
Practices, Whistleblower Policy, Reporting of Violations, and Recordkeeping.
Senior
Investors,
In addition, NCM maintains a Policies & Procedures Manual outlining areas of Advertising,
Advisory Agreement, Advisory Fees, Agency Cross Transactions, Annual Compliance Reviews,
Anti-Money Laundering, Best Execution, Books and Records, Cloud Computing, Code of
Ethics, Complaints, Continuing Education, Corporate Records, Custody, Cybersecurity, Digital
Assets, Directed Brokerage, Disaster Recovery, Disclosure Brochures, E-Mail and Other
Electronic Communications, Electronic Signature, Environmental, Social, and Governance
Investing (ESG), ERISA, Form CRS, Identity Theft, Insider Trading, Incident Response,
Investment Processes, Mutual Fund Share Class Selection, Outside Business Activities,
Pandemic Response, Performance, Political Contributions, Principal Trading, Privacy, Proxy
Voting, Registration, Regulatory Reporting,
Social Media,
Solicitors/Promotors, Soft Dollars, Supervision and Internal Controls, Third-Party Managers and
Vendors, Trading, Valuation of Securities, and Wrap Fees.
New Capital annually reviews its Code of Ethics and Policy & Procedures with all employees in
a series of meetings and requires each employee to maintain a copy at their desk for quick
reference and to sign and date a copy of the current Code. All signed documents are held with
the firm’s compliance documents. Clients or prospective clients may receive a copy of the firm’s
current Code of Ethics or Policies & Procedures by contacting the firm at 713-874-1444.
12. Brokerage Practices
New Capital Management has an arrangement with National Financial Services LLC and
Fidelity Brokerage Services LLC (collectively, and together with all affiliates, "Fidelity")
through which Fidelity provides NCM with "institutional platform services." The institutional
platform services include, among others, brokerage, custody, and other related services. Fidelity's
institutional platform services that assist NCM in managing and administering clients' accounts
include software and other technology that (i) provide access to client account data (such as trade
confirmations and account statements); (ii) facilitate trade execution and allocate aggregated
trade orders for multiple client accounts; (iii) provide research, pricing and other market data;
(iv) facilitate payment of fees from its clients' accounts; and (v) assist with back-office functions,
record-keeping and client reporting.
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Fidelity also offers other services intended to help NCM manage and further develop its advisory
practice. Such services include, but are not limited to third party research, publications, access to
educational conferences, roundtables and webinars, practice management resources, access to
consultants and other third-party service providers who provide a wide array of business related
services and technology with whom NCM may contract directly.
NCM is independently operated and owned and is not a wholly or partially owned subsidiary of
Fidelity Investments or any other custodian or brokerage.
Fidelity generally does not charge its advisor clients separately for custody services but is
compensated by account holders through commissions and other transaction-related or
asset-based fees for securities trades that are executed through Fidelity or that settle into Fidelity
accounts (i.e., transactions fees are charged for certain no-load mutual funds, commissions are
charged for individual equity and debt securities transactions). Fidelity provides access to many
no-load mutual funds without transaction charges and other no-load funds at nominal transaction
charges.
NCM takes the size and purpose of client accounts into consideration when determining which
funds to use to cost effectively engage in transactions for clients. For example, a very large client
account may be relatively impervious to transaction fees and may therefore be appropriate for
purchases of funds that bear higher transaction charges. Conversely, a small retirement account
may be better served with no transaction fee funds.
NCM maintains a secondary brokerage relationship with Interactive Brokers, but generally
utilizes that relationship solely for the purposes of obtaining least expensive margin rates for
clients who seek substantial loans for longer periods of time.
13. Review of Accounts
NCM periodically reviews its clients’ accounts and financial plans. Such reviews occur:
● Daily, using NCM’s trade rebalancing system, which compares client portfolios to
assigned model portfolios and alerts NCM to potential portfolio drift. NCM may or may
not elect to act depending upon factors such as trade costs, tactical portfolio concerns,
client tax basis, and similar.
● Quarterly, upon generation of and prior to distribution of client quarterly reports. Such
reviews are focused primarily on assessing whether any divergence of client accounts
from assigned target risk benchmarks has occurred during the quarter and, if so, the cause
and remedy.
● Annually, prior to and during meetings with clients for a regular review. Changes to
account positions may result from changes in the investment environment or changes in a
client’s personal financial condition.
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● Ad hoc, such as upon requests by clients, during periods of high market volatility, or
simply during performance of tasks for clients.
NCM provides regular quarterly and comprehensive end of year reports to its clients. These
reports are generated using a system provided by Orion Advisors Technology, LLC, a major
financial data provider.
14. Client Referrals and Other Compensation
NCM does not compensate any client or other person or entity, directly or indirectly, for client
referrals. NCM therefore believes that no conflicts of interest arise from referrals that it receives.
15. Custody
New Capital’s primary qualified custodian for client funds is Fidelity Investments. New Capital
maintains “Level 1” asset movement authorization at Fidelity for client accounts, which permits
NCM to act in accordance with client Standing Letters of Authorization (SLOA’s). NCM is in
the process of reducing any authorizations that would require annual “surprise audits” of the
firm.
Clients receive monthly and end of year account and tax statements directly from Fidelity and
should carefully and regularly review those statements for accuracy. NCM maintains online
access to copies of all client statements and tax documents.
NCM has secondary custody relationships with the following organizations:
Purpose
529 Accounts
Company
Interactive Brokers Margin Lending
Brighter Futures
Fidelity Charitable Charitable Donor Advised Funds
Guideline
Vontobel
DPL Financial
Employer 401(k) Plans
International Custody
Life insurance and annuity contracts
A minority of NCM clients may have investments with other investment companies that are not
eligible for custody with NCM’s custodians (for example, a hedge fund or limited partnership).
In such cases, clients will receive statements directly from the investment company, while NCM
makes attempts to be established as the client’s agent of record.
New Capital also establishes and maintains variable annuity account custody for clients at
applicable insurance company providers. New Capital selects variable annuity providers for its
clients based upon a combination of costs and subaccounts selection.
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16. Investment Discretion
NCM accepts full discretionary authority to manage securities accounts on behalf of clients
which confers power of attorney to manage client accounts without requiring prior client
permission to place trades. Clients who wish to manage specific securities or accounts are
required to establish separate self-managed accounts for such purposes.
Clients further grant trading and asset movement authorities to NCM via the Investment
Management Agreement and via Fidelity Investment’s account applications.
17. Voting Client Securities
NCM does not provide the means or authority to vote client securities. Clients receive their
proxies or other solicitations directly from custodians, corporate issuers, investment companies,
or transfer agents. Clients are welcome to contact NCM with questions about particular
solicitations.
18. Financial Information
NCM has no financial condition that is reasonably likely to impair its ability to meet contractual
commitments to clients.
NCM has not been the subject of a bankruptcy petition at any time.
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