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Brochure of
ReMY Investors & Consultants, LLC
1801 Century Park East
Suite 1111
Los Angeles, CA 90067
310-843-0050
March 2025
This brochure provides information about the qualifications and business practices of ReMY
Investors & Consultants, LLC (“ReMY”). If you have any questions about the contents of this
brochure, please contact us at 310-843-0050. 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.
information about ReMY also
is available on
the SEC’s website at
Additional
www.adviserinfo.sec.gov.
Although ReMY is a “Registered Investment Adviser,” that registration does not imply a certain level
of skill or training.
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Item 2.
Material Changes
Not applicable.
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Item 3.
Table of Contents
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Item 1.
Cover Page ..........................................................................................................
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Item 2.
Material Changes ...............................................................................................
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Item 3.
Table of Contents ...............................................................................................
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Item 4.
Advisory Business ..............................................................................................
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Item 5.
Fees and Compensation ....................................................................................
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Item 6.
Performance-Based Fees and Side-By-Side Management .............................
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Item 7.
Types of Clients ..................................................................................................
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Item 8.
Methods of Analysis, Investment Strategies and Risk of Loss ......................
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Item 9.
Disciplinary Information ..................................................................................
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Item 10.
Other Financial Industry Activities and Affiliations ......................................
Code of Ethics, Participation or Interest in Client
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Item 11.
Transactions and Personal Trading .................................................................
Item 12.
Brokerage Practices ........................................................................................... 14
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Item 13.
Review of Accounts ............................................................................................
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Item 14.
Client Referrals and Other Compensation .....................................................
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Item 15.
Custody ...............................................................................................................
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Item 16.
Investment Discretion........................................................................................
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Item 17.
Voting Client Securities ....................................................................................
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Item 18.
Financial Information .......................................................................................
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Item 19.
Requirements for State-Registered Advisers ..................................................
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Privacy Policy .............................................................................................................................
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Item 4.
Advisory Business
ReMY is a Delaware limited liability company that began operating in 2023. ReMY succeeds to the
business of ReMY Investors and Consultants Incorporated, which had been in business since 1993.
It serves as the investment adviser for a limited number of clients and investment limited partnerships.
ReMY’s President, controlling owner and primary portfolio manager is Mark S. Siegel. Mr. Siegel
also acts as a co-general partner of one of the investment limited partnerships that ReMY advises.
ReMY separates its assets into two broad categories described below: 1) Discretionary Investor
Services, and 2) Non-Discretionary Consulting Services. As of December 31, 2024, Discretionary
Services regulatory assets under management were approximately $411 million. Non-Discretionary
Services regulatory assets under management were approximately $444 million.
ReMY provides two distinct services for its clients:
Consultants
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ReMY provides two distinct services for its clients. As "Consultants," ReMY advises high net worth
individuals (and families) with respect to:
Determining "Investment Objectives" for clients and for their investment entities
(a)
(including, in many cases, entities created for multi-generational family planning);
Creating an "Asset Allocation Plan" to pursue the clients' objectives on an absolute and
(b)
risk-adjusted basis (with sensitivity to tax issues when and if appropriate);
Selecting "Appropriate Managers" to fulfill the mandates of the chosen asset allocation
(c)
plans; and
"Monitoring the Performance of the Managers" to assist the clients in determining whether
(d)
their objectives are being met.
ReMY also provides consulting services whereby it provides direct private placement (hedge fund or
private equity) research and ongoing monitoring on behalf of clients. ReMY will monitor such private
placements and may recommend the sale or purchase of new interests.
ReMY has sought to limit its business to a restricted number of individuals (and families) with
substantial assets so as to be able to offer its clients the custom-tailored service that they desire.
ReMY assists its clients by identifying their unique financial challenges and then designs a
comprehensive long-term solution to meet each client’s needs and goals.
Moreover, ReMY – working in concert with the client’s other advisors – frequently provides other
business advice to these same high net worth individuals, including assistance with business, estate,
tax and retirement planning.
ReMY believes that its personnel, its financial independence, and its emphasis on after-tax returns
distinguishes it from many other firms offering services to high-net-worth individuals and families.
In summary, ReMY offers its clients comprehensive wealth management which seeks to assure that
the clients’ assets work in concert to meet objective and measurable goals. ReMY often uses the
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term “Financial Architecture” to describe the overall plan it provides for clients – a plan designed to
maximize the returns that a client can achieve from his or her own business activities (where
applicable) together with the investments that ReMY helps the client make.
Investors
2.
As "Investors," ReMY assists certain clients by making available proprietary illiquid investments,
and pooled partnerships for their illiquid and other types of investments. Investments in the pooled
partnerships have been offered to certain clients taking into consideration the asset allocation and
management style selected by the client.
ReMY provides continuous advice regarding investments based on the individual needs of a client.
Through discussions in which goals and objectives based on a client's particular circumstances are
established, ReMY helps each client develop its investment strategy and creates and manages a
portfolio based on that strategy.
ReMY manages these advisory accounts on a discretionary basis only. Account supervision is guided
by the stated objectives of the client as outlined in the Investment Policy Statement or advisor
guideline statement of that client.
ReMY will create a portfolio typically consisting of mutual funds, separately managed accounts,
Exchange-Traded Funds (ETF's), individual debt and equity securities, exchange-listed closed-end
funds, limited partnerships, offshore corporations, and/or private placements, including hedge funds,
direct private debt transactions, direct private equity transactions and ReMY’s proprietary pooled
investment vehicles.
Item 5.
Fees and Compensation
Compensation for Consulting Services
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Compensation provided to ReMY for its consulting services is negotiable and varies, depending on
the nature of the services required by each client. Typically, ReMY charges a fee based on the assets
under management, which typically ranges between 0.2-1.0%. ReMY may also enter into other fee
arrangements with its clients. In certain instances, ReMY may charge a fixed fee, typically payable
quarterly.
ReMY generally requires a minimum of $50,000,000 of investment assets to begin a consulting
relationship with a client or group of affiliated clients, but reserves the right to waive this minimum.
Compensation for Investing Services
2.
Acting in its capacity as “Investors” and as the general partner or manager, respectively, of certain
investment partnerships or limited liability companies, ReMY may charge a flat annual fee of up to
2.0% of assets under management or other fixed yearly fee, which amount is payable in quarterly
installments at the beginning of each calendar quarter, and is based in certain cases on the net market
value of the assets at the close of the market on the date the fee accrues and becomes payable. In
addition, ReMY may receive a performance fee or allocation of up to 20% of net profits (including,
in certain cases, both realized and unrealized gains and losses), typically only if the account exceeds
a benchmark return. Certain performance fees or allocations may accrue only if such net profits
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exceed the increase, if any, in the specified benchmark (e.g., S&P 500 or specific percentage in
value). ReMY complies with Rule 205-3 under the Investment Advisers Act of 1940, as amended, to
the extent required by applicable law.
General Disclosure
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ReMY either deducts management fees and performance allocations and fees directly from client
accounts or bills a client for such amounts on request.
Accounts that invest in funds managed by third party advisers (including mutual funds) also pay,
indirectly, investment advisory fees to the managers of those funds.
ReMY believes that its fees are competitive with fees charged by other investment advisers for
comparable services. Comparable services may be available, however, from other sources for lower
fees.
Relationships with ReMY’s investment partnership clients are terminable on expiration of the
partnership’s term, dissolution of the partnership or on ReMY’s withdrawal as general partner.
Limited partners may withdraw from a fund, on specified prior written notice, on the last day of
December.
Except as may be otherwise negotiated in particular cases, the holder of an individually managed
account may terminate the account by giving 30 days’ prior written notice.
In all cases, expenses, the pro rata portion of the management fee and the performance allocation or
fee through the date of termination are charged to the account. All prepaid but unearned advisory fees
are refunded on termination of a client’s account. An investor who withdraws from a fund on a date
other than the last day of a quarter, however, does not receive a refund of the management fee
previously paid.
Each account is responsible for its own costs and expenses, including trading costs and expenses
(such as brokerage commissions, expenses related to short sales, and clearing and settlement charges),
ongoing legal, accounting and bookkeeping fees and expenses, and the fees and expenses charged by
any fund administrator for its accounting, bookkeeping and other services. ReMY bears its own
operating, general, administrative and overhead costs and expenses, other than the expenses described
above. All or part of these costs and expenses may be paid, however, by securities brokerage firms
that execute clients’ securities trades, as discussed in Item 12 below.
Item 6.
Performance-Based Fees and Side-By-Side Management
ReMY manages accounts that pay both performance-based compensation as described in Item 5 and
accounts that do not pay performance-based compensation. ReMY has a conflict of interest if, in any
time period, one fee structure would cause higher fees to ReMY than the other fee structure, because
ReMY would have an incentive to move assets into an account that would pay the higher fees. To
address this conflict, ReMY allocates client assets among investments and accounts that have
different fee structures, based on each client’s Asset Allocation Plan, as approved by the client. In
addition, ReMY has policies and procedures to review client account investment allocations on a
regular basis.
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Moreover, the performance-based fees charged are matched to the type of investment and are
typically earned based on outperformance of various benchmarks. The different benchmarks and
different fees reduce the likelihood that ReMY would know in advance which fee arrangement would
be most beneficial to ReMY.
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Types of Clients
ReMY provides investment advice to investment funds and other accounts. Investors in the funds
are required to invest a minimum of $500,000, but ReMY may waive this minimum. ReMY generally
requires a minimum of $50 million to begin an advisory relationship with a client or group of
affiliated clients, but may waive this minimum. ReMY’s separate account clients may include high-
net-worth individuals, institutions, trusts, endowments and pension plans.
Item 8.
Methods of Analysis, Investment Strategies and Risk of Loss
Investment Strategy
ReMY “Consulting” Strategies
ReMY’s consulting services for clients begin with a thorough discussion with its clients concerning
their long-term and short-term financial and personal goals. When this assessment has been
completed, ReMY works with the client to assist in determining whether the goals are realistic or
may need modifications. Based on these goals, ReMY makes recommendations to the client
respecting the client’s asset allocation, and, working with the client, arrives at an accepted asset
allocation.
When the asset allocation phase has been completed, ReMY makes recommendations respecting
third-party asset managers and funds and assists the client in completing required paperwork. Finally,
ReMY reports to each client on a quarterly basis the overall financial results achieved, and provides
suitable benchmarks to assist the client in measuring and judging the client’s investment
performance.
ReMY “Investors” Strategies
ReMY has created investment partnerships which invest, respectively, in hedge funds, in managed
accounts, and in private equity deals. These partnerships are an adjunct to the consulting services
which are described above.
ReMY conducts proprietary fund/manager/deal research to evaluate and find suitable investments to
recommend to clients, to manage client assets on a discretionary basis, or to include as investments
in our proprietary pooled vehicles. As part of its proprietary research, ReMY utilizes databases,
industry contacts, and other industry resources to find investments. ReMY then conducts independent
research to evaluate the investment for client portfolios.
ReMY may utilize mutual funds, separately managed accounts, Exchange-Traded Funds (ETF's),
individual debt and equity securities, exchange-listed closed-end funds, limited partnerships,
offshore corporations, and/or private placements, including hedge funds, direct private debt
transactions and direct private equity transactions.
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Investing in any of the above securities involves risk of loss, including the loss of principal, which
clients should be prepared to bear. There are additional risks associated with private placements, and
those risks are discussed below. Private placement securities can carry greater risk than an exchange-
traded security for several reasons. Private placements are less liquid than exchange-traded securities,
with withdrawals generally prohibited for one year from the date of purchase, sometimes longer.
Managers can also invest in a wider range of securities, including synthetic positions known as
derivatives. They can also employ margin to increase leverage, which in turn increases the risk of
loss.
ReMY clients investing in these proprietary pooled investment vehicles will receive an offering
memorandum that details the full range of risks present. Clients will be asked to sign a separate
application to invest in these securities and attest to their having read and understood the offering
memorandum.
General Disclosure
The investment strategies summarized above represent ReMY’s current intentions, are general in
nature and are not exhaustive. For accounts in which ReMY has discretion, there are no limits on the
types of securities in which ReMY may take positions on behalf of its clients, the types of positions
that it may take, the concentration of its investments or the amount of leverage that it may use. ReMY
may use any trading or investment techniques, whether or not contemplated by the expected
investment strategies described above. In addition, there are limitations in describing any investment
strategy due to its complexity, confidentiality and indefinite nature. Depending on conditions and
trends in securities and commodities markets and the economy generally, ReMY may pursue any
objectives or use any techniques that it considers appropriate and in clients’ interest.
Risk Factors
Investing in securities involves risk of loss that clients should be prepared to bear. Below are some
of the risks that investors should consider before investing in any account that ReMY manages. Any
or all of such risks could materially and adversely affect investment performance, the value of any
account or any security held in an account, and could cause investors to lose substantial amounts of
money. Below is only a brief summary of some of the risks that a client or investor may encounter.
Potential investors in a fund should review such fund’s offering circular carefully and in its entirety,
and consult with their professional advisers before deciding whether to invest.
The risks described below also generally apply to individually managed accounts and accounts and
funds managed by unaffiliated investment advisers retained by ReMY to manage client accounts. A
potential client should discuss with ReMY’s representatives any questions that such person may have
before opening an account.
● Client accounts may not achieve their investment objectives. A strategy may not be
successful and investors may lose some or all of their investment.
● Investor sentiment on the market, an industry or an individual stock, fixed income or other
security is not predictable and can adversely affect an account’s investments.
● An account may hold stocks that disappoint earnings expectations and decline, and may short
stocks that beat earnings expectations and rise.
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● ReMY or a third-party manager may not be able to obtain complete or accurate information
about an investment and may misinterpret the information that it does receive. ReMY or a
third-party manager also may receive material, non-public information about an issuer that
prevents it from trading securities of that issuer for a client when the client could make a profit
or avoid losses.
● ReMY or a third-party manager may take positions in securities of small, unseasoned
companies that are less actively traded and more volatile than those of larger companies.
● A third-party manager may engage in hedging, which may reduce profits, increase expenses
and cause losses. Price movement in a hedging instrument and the security hedged do not
always correlate, resulting in losses on both the hedged security and the hedging instrument.
Not all third-party manager strategies hedge a client’s portfolio positions, and frequently may
not do so.
● An account may have higher portfolio turnover and transaction costs than a similar account
managed by another investment adviser. These costs reduce investments and potential profit
or increase loss.
● A third-party manager may sell securities short, resulting in a theoretically unlimited risk of
loss if the prices of the securities sold short increase.
● A third-party manager may use leverage by borrowing on margin, selling securities short and
trading derivatives, which increases volatility and risk of loss. These instruments can be
difficult to value. An incorrect valuation could result in losses.
● A third-party manager may sell covered and uncovered options on securities. The sale of
uncovered options could result in unlimited losses.
● Counterparties such as third-party managers, brokers, dealers, custodians and administrators
with which ReMY does business on behalf of clients may default on their obligations. For
example, a client may lose its assets on deposit with a broker if the broker, its clearing broker
or an exchange clearing house becomes bankrupt.
● A third-party manager may cause a client to enter into repurchase agreements or reverse
repurchase agreements. These instruments can have effects similar to margin trading and
leveraging strategies.
● ReMY or a third-party manager may cause clients to invest in securities of non-U.S., private
and government issuers. The risks of these investments include political risks; economic
conditions of the country in which the issuer is located; limitations on foreign investment in
any such country; currency exchange risks; withholding taxes; limited information about
the issuer; limited liquidity; and limited regulatory oversight.
● Changes in economic or geopolitical conditions can adversely affect investment performance.
At times, economic conditions in the U.S. and elsewhere and geopolitical conditions have
deteriorated significantly, resulting in volatile securities markets and large investment losses.
Government actions responding to these conditions could lead to inflation and other negative
consequences to investors.
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● ReMY or a third-party manager may acquire for a client a large position in an issuer’s
securities but the client nevertheless is unlikely to have any control over the issuer’s
management. In addition, if ReMY or a third-party manager holds a large position in an
issuer’s securities, it could depress the market for those securities.
● Some of an account’s positions may be or become illiquid, in which case ReMY or a third-
party manager may not be able to sell such positions.
● An account may invest in restricted securities that are subject to long holding periods or that
are not traded in public markets, or securities held by an account may become restricted.
These securities are difficult or impossible to sell at prices comparable to the market prices
of similar publicly-traded securities and may never become publicly traded.
● An account’s investments may not be diversified. Therefore, a loss in any one position,
industry or sector in which a fund has invested may cause significant losses.
● ReMY or a third-party manager may determine the value of securities and commodities held
in client accounts, whether or not a public market exists for such instruments. If the valuation
is inaccurate, it might receive more compensation than that to which it is entitled, a new
investor in a fund might receive an interest that is worth less than the investor paid and an
investor that is withdrawing assets might receive more than the amount to which the investor
is entitled, to the detriment of other investors.
● ReMY and its affiliates and agents generally are not responsible to any client or investor for
losses incurred in an account unless the conduct resulting in such loss breached ReMY’s
fiduciary duty to the client or investor.
● There is not and will not be an active market for fund interests. It may be impossible to transfer
any such interests, even in an emergency.
● A fund may not be able to generate cash necessary to satisfy investor withdrawals. Substantial
withdrawals in a short period could force ReMY or a third-party manager to liquidate
investments too rapidly, and may so reduce the size of a fund that it cannot generate returns
or reduce losses.
● A fund may limit or suspend withdrawals of an investor’s assets from the fund.
● A fund may establish a reserve for contingencies if ReMY or a third-party manager considers
it appropriate. Investors may not withdraw or redeem assets covered by that reserve until it is
lifted.
● No client or investor has been represented by separate counsel. The attorneys who represent
ReMY or its manager do not represent clients or investors. Clients and investors must hire
their own counsel for legal advice and representation.
● A fund may dissolve or expel any investor at any time, even if such actions adversely affect
one or more investors.
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● ReMY, a third-party manager, an administrator or any government agency may freeze assets
that any of them believes a client holds in violation of anti-money laundering laws or rules or
on behalf of a suspected terrorist, and may transfer such assets to a government agency.
None of those parties will be liable for losses related to actions taken in an effort to comply
with anti-money laundering regulations.
● A fund may take action with respect to an investor’s investment or withdrawal/redemption
proceeds as it considers appropriate under relevant legislation and regulations, including but
not limited to the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act, and any associated legislation,
regulations or guidance, or similar legislation, regulations or guidance enacted in any
jurisdiction that seeks to implement similar tax reporting and/or withholding tax regimes.
Failure by an investor to assist a fund in meeting its obligations pursuant to such legislation
and regulations may result in pecuniary loss to that investor.
● Under new legislation, an audit adjustment to a fund’s U.S. tax return for any tax year
beginning after 2017 could result in a tax liability (including interest and penalties) imposed
on the fund for the year during which the adjustment is determined.
● The funds do not typically intend to make distributions, but intend instead to reinvest
substantially all income and gain. Therefore, an investor may have taxable income from a
fund without a cash distribution to pay the related taxes.
● Federal, state and international governments may increase regulation of investment advisers,
private investment funds and derivative securities, which may increase the time and resources
that ReMY must devote to regulatory compliance, to the detriment of investment activities.
● ReMY is not registered with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission as a commodity
pool operator. The equity interests in the funds are not registered under the Securities Act of
1933, and the funds are not registered investment companies under the Investment Company
Act of 1940. ReMY believes that none of these registrations is required because exemptions
are available under applicable law. If a regulatory authority deems that any of these
registrations is required, ReMY and any fund could be subject to expensive legal action and
potential termination. In addition, investors in the funds do not have certain regulatory
protection that they would have if these registrations were in place.
● ReMY’s or a third-party manager’s activities could cause adverse tax consequences to clients
and investors, including liability for interest and penalties.
● ReMY’s or a third-party manager’s activities may cause an account that is subject to the
Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 to engage in a prohibited transaction
under that Act.
● If a limited partnership client becomes insolvent, investors may be required to return with
interest any distributions and forfeit any undistributed profits.
● ReMY and its affiliates may spend time on activities that compete with a fund without
accountability to investors, including investing for other clients and their own accounts. If
ReMY receives better compensation and other benefits from managing other assets or client
accounts compared to managing a fund, it has incentive to allocate more time to those other
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activities. These factors could influence ReMY not to make investments on a fund’s behalf
even if such investments would benefit the fund.
● ReMY may provide certain investors or clients more frequent or detailed reports, special
compensation arrangements and withdrawal rights that it does not provide to other investors
or clients.
● The computer systems, networks and devices used by ReMY and service providers to ReMY
and ReMY’s clients to carry out routine business operations employ a variety of protections
designed to prevent damage or interruption from computer viruses, network failures,
computer and telecommunication failures, human error, infiltration by unauthorized persons
and security breaches. Despite the various protections used, systems, networks, or devices
potentially can be breached. A client could be negatively impacted as a result of a
cybersecurity breach. Cybersecurity breaches can include unauthorized access to systems,
networks, or devices; infection from computer viruses or other malicious software code; and
attacks that shut down, disable, slow, or otherwise disrupt operations, business processes, or
website access or functionality. Cybersecurity breaches may cause disruptions and impact
business operations, potentially resulting in financial losses to a client; impediments to
trading; the inability by us and other service providers to transact business; violations of
applicable privacy and other laws; regulatory fines, penalties, reputational damage,
reimbursement or other compensation costs, or additional compliance costs; as well as the
inadvertent release of confidential information. Similar adverse consequences could result
from cybersecurity breaches affecting issuers of securities in which a client invests;
governmental and other regulatory authorities; exchange and other financial market operators,
banks, brokers, dealers, and other financial institutions; and other parties. In addition,
substantial costs may be incurred by these entities in order to prevent any cybersecurity
breaches in the future.
The above is only a brief summary of some of the important risks that a client or investor may
encounter. Before deciding to invest in a fund that ReMY manages, you should consider carefully all
of the risk factors and other information in the fund’s offering circular.
Item 9. Disciplinary Information
This Item is not applicable, because ReMY has no reportable disciplinary information.
Item 10. Other Financial Industry Activities and Affiliations
ReMY also acts as a commodity pool operator or commodity trading adviser with respect to certain
of its clients, but is exempt from registration with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.
Item 11.
Code of Ethics, Participation or Interest in Client Transactions and Personal
Trading
ReMY has adopted a Code of Ethics in compliance with the Rule 204A-1 under the Investment
Advisers Act of 1940, that establishes standards of conduct for ReMY’s supervised persons. The
Code of Ethics includes general requirements that ReMY’s supervised persons comply with their
fiduciary obligations to clients and applicable securities laws, and specific requirements relating to,
among other things, personal trading, insider trading, conflicts of interest and confidentiality of client
information. It requires supervised persons to comply with the personal trading restrictions described
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below and periodically to report their personal securities transactions and holdings to ReMY’s
Compliance Officer, and requires the Compliance Officer to review those reports. It also requires
supervised persons to report any violations of the Code of Ethics promptly to the Compliance
Officer. Each supervised person of ReMY receives a copy of the Code of Ethics and any
amendments to it and must acknowledge in writing having received those materials. Annually, each
supervised person must certify that he or she complied with the Code of Ethics during the preceding
year. Clients and prospective clients may obtain a copy of ReMY’s Code of Ethics by contacting
Eugene Naka at 310-843-0050.
Under ReMY’s Code of Ethics, ReMY and its officers and employees may personally invest in
securities of the same classes as ReMY purchases for clients and may own securities of issuers whose
securities that ReMY subsequently purchases for clients. This practice creates a conflict of interest
in that any of such persons can use his or her knowledge about actual or proposed securities
transactions and recommendations for a client account to profit personally by the market effect of
such transactions and recommendations. To address this conflict, except as described in Item 12
regarding aggregating securities transactions, ReMY and its officers and employees typically must
obtain pre-approval before engaging in most securities transactions, if such transaction could conflict
with client transactions. ReMY and its officers and employees may also buy or sell specific securities
for their own accounts based on personal investment considerations aside from company or industry
fundamentals, which ReMY does not believe appropriate to buy or sell for clients.
ReMY solicits investors who may or may not be ReMY’s clients to invest in its limited partnership
clients. ReMY has an incentive to cause a client to invest in a limited partnership instead of an
individually managed account because of the reduced expenses and administrative burdens of
managing a fund compared to an individually managed account, ReMY’s performance compensation
from a limited partnership receives more favorable tax treatment than that from an individually
managed account and limited partners have less transparency and liquidity than individual account
clients. In addition, if a fund investor also has an individually managed account with ReMY that uses
an investment strategy that is similar to that of the fund, the investor may use knowledge of the other
account’s portfolio to decide if and when to make an additional investment or withdraw assets from
the fund at times when other fund investors would have made similar decisions had they had similar
transparency. ReMY discloses these conflicts of interest to clients and investors.
Because ReMY manages more than one account, there may be conflicts of interest over its time
devoted to managing any one account and allocating investment opportunities among all accounts
that it manages. For example, ReMY selects investments for each client based solely on investment
considerations for that client. Different clients may have differing investment strategies and expected
levels of trading. ReMY may buy or sell a security for one type of client but not for another, or may
buy (or sell) a security for one type of client while simultaneously selling (or buying) the same
security for another type of client. ReMY attempts to resolve all such conflicts in a manner that is
generally fair to all of its clients. ReMY may give advice to, and take action on behalf of, any of its
clients that differs from the advice that it gives or the timing or nature of action that it takes on behalf
of any other client so long as it is ReMY’s policy, to the extent practicable, to allocate investment
opportunities to its clients fairly and equitably over time. ReMY is not obligated to acquire for any
account any security that ReMY or its officers or employees may acquire for its or their own accounts
or for any other client, if in ReMY’s absolute discretion, it is not practical or desirable to acquire a
position in such security for that account.
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ReMY and its employees are prohibited from receiving direct monetary payments from investment
managers or vendors for any reason. As indicated below, ReMY employees may receive de minimus
benefits from money managers and vendors that ReMY recommends to clients. ReMY believes this
de minimus conflict is mitigated primarily by our team approach to making investments, along with
the materiality threshold described below. Any benefits received by employees are covered by
ReMY’s code of ethics and are prohibited above a materiality threshold of $200. These benefits may
include gifts, entertainment, meals, training, lodging, or other similar items.
Item 12. Brokerage Practices
In most cases, the third-party managers selected by ReMY (or by ReMY’s clients with ReMY’s
advice) determine the brokers to execute transactions in client account.
In limited instances, ReMY has complete discretion in selecting the broker that it uses for client
transactions and the commission rates that clients pay such brokers. In selecting a broker for any
transaction or series of transactions, ReMY may consider a number of factors, including, for example:
financial strength and stability;
the availability of stocks to borrow for short trades.
• net price, clearance, settlement and reputation;
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• efficiency of execution and error resolution;
• block trading and block positioning capabilities;
• willingness to execute related or unrelated difficult transactions in the future;
• special execution capabilities;
• order of call;
• offering to ReMY on-line access to computerized data regarding clients’ accounts;
• computer trading systems; and
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ReMY has a policy of not accepting “soft dollars” from firms providing services to ReMY. However,
ReMY receives in the ordinary course of business, and without regard to commissions generated,
directly from a broker the following:
research reports, services and conferences;
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• consultations;
• performance measurement data;
• custody, recordkeeping and similar services.
ReMY pays substantial amounts for research and analytical services that enable ReMY to provide
the best quality services for its clients.
ReMY may retain a prime broker to serve as a fund client’s prime broker and custodian. The services
that a prime broker provides as prime broker and custodian may include providing custody, margin
financing, clearing, settlement and stock borrowing in accordance with the terms of the prime
brokerage and custody agreements entered into with the fund client. ReMY receives other services
from the prime brokers. These services may include: portfolio reporting and access to Electronic
Communications Networks. These arrangements may be deemed to be a soft dollar arrangement.
ReMY expects to use a substantial portion of these services for research and trading on behalf of the
client accounts, but some may be used for administrative purposes, which would not be within the
safe harbor of section 28(e) of the 1934 Act. Although many prime brokers provide similar services
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to investment advisers in exchange for brokerage, custody and clearance fees and other charges, if
ReMY did not receive these services from a prime broker, ReMY would be required to pay for all
or some portion of them. If ReMY has authority to trade securities in a fund client account, ReMY
expects to direct a significant portion of the securities transactions to a prime broker, but is not
required to direct a particular number or percentage of trades to it or to continue to use it as the fund
client account’s prime broker and custodian, but ReMY has an incentive to do so based on its prior
and continued services.
The fund client’s obligations to a prime broker and its respective affiliates will be secured by way of
a first priority perfected security interest over all of the fund client’s assets held in custody by the
fund client’s prime broker. A prime broker and its affiliates may transfer to themselves all rights, title
and interest in and to those assets as collateral and may deal with, lend, dispose of, pledge or otherwise
use all such collateral for their own purposes. If any such transfer occurs, the client will rank as such
custodian’s (or affiliate’s) unsecured creditor. If such custodian or affiliate becomes insolvent, the
client may not be able to recover such equivalent securities in full. In addition, the client’s cash held
by a custodian may not be segregated from such custodian’s own cash and, if not so segregated, may
be used by such custodian or affiliate in the course of its business and the client will therefore rank
as an unsecured creditor in relation thereto.
If any of an account’s investments are registered in the name of a custodian or affiliate due to the
nature of the law or market practice of a particular jurisdiction, such investments will not be
segregated from the custodian’s or affiliate’s own investments and if such custodian or affiliate
becomes insolvent, the client may not be able to recover such equivalent investments in full.
ReMY’s relationships with brokers that provide research or other services influence ReMY’s
judgment and create conflicts of interest in allocating brokerage business between firms that provide
research and other services and firms that do not. ReMY has an incentive to select or recommend a
broker based on ReMY’s interest in receiving soft dollar services rather than clients’ interest in
receiving the most favorable execution. These conflicts of interest are particularly influential to the
extent that ReMY receives goods and services that it would otherwise be required to pay itself.
ReMY addresses these conflicts of interest by annually evaluating the trade execution services that
ReMY receives from the brokers that it uses to execute trades for clients. Such evaluation includes
comparing those services to the services available from other brokers. ReMY considers, among other
things, alternative market makers and market centers, the quality of execution services, the value
of continuing with various soft dollar services and adding or removing brokers, increasing or
decreasing targets for each broker and the appropriate level of commission rates.
ReMY may aggregate securities sale and purchase orders for a client with similar orders being made
contemporaneously for other accounts that ReMY manages or with accounts of its affiliates. In such
event, ReMY may charge or credit a client the average transaction price of all securities purchased
or sold in such transactions. As a result, however, the price may be less favorable to the client than it
would be if ReMY were not executing similar transactions concurrently for other accounts. ReMY
may also cause a client to buy or sell securities directly from or to another client, if such a cross-
transaction is in the interests of both clients.
If a client directs ReMY to use a specific broker, ReMY has not negotiated the terms and conditions
(including, among others, commission rates) relating to the services provided by such broker. ReMY
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is not responsible for obtaining from any such broker the best prices or particular commission rates.
A client that directs ReMY to use a specific broker may not be able to participate in aggregate
securities transactions and may trade after such aggregate transactions and receive less favorable
pricing and execution. The client may pay higher commissions and mark-ups than it would pay if
ReMY had discretion to select broker-dealers other than those that the client chooses.
Item 13.
Review of Accounts
While the underlying holdings within client portfolios are monitored on an ongoing basis, client
accounts will be formally reviewed as least quarterly by one of the ReMY investment professionals.
The review will generally be done through a written report where ReMY will discuss or review
general market conditions, specific investment performance, and any other relevant client-specific
information.
More frequent reviews may be triggered by material changes in variables such as the client's
individual circumstances, or the market, political or economic environment.
ReMY has the following general guidelines in connection with reviews: (i) provide objective advice
and avoid personal bias; (ii) make recommendations in writing whenever possible; (iii) adopt the
point of view of the fiduciary or co-trustees of the client; (iv) when advising a client, keep the client's
objective foremost in mind; and (v) use common sense.
Item 14.
Client Referrals and Other Compensation
Not applicable.
Item 15.
Custody
The custodian of each individually managed account sends account statements at least quarterly to
the client. Each client should carefully review those statements and compare them with the statements
that such client receives directly from ReMY, if any.
Item 16.
Investment Discretion
ReMY has discretionary authority to manage investment accounts on behalf of clients pursuant to a
grant of authority in each fund’s limited partnership agreement or a limited power of attorney in each
client’s account agreement. Except for ReMY’s limited partnership clients, such discretion is limited
by the requirement that clients advise ReMY of:
the investment objectives of the account;
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• any changes or modifications to those objectives; and
• any specific investment restrictions relating to the account.
A client must promptly notify ReMY in writing if the client considers any investments recommended
or made for the account to violate such objectives or restrictions. A client may at any time direct
ReMY to sell any securities or take such other lawful actions as the client may specify to cause the
account to comply with the client’s investment objectives. In addition, a client may notify ReMY at
any time not to invest any funds in the client’s account in specific securities or specific categories of
securities.
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Item 17.
Voting Client Securities
If ReMY has discretionary authority over a client account that holds an individual security and is not
managed by a third-party manager, ReMY may vote proxies on behalf of each account over which
ReMY has proxy voting authority based on ReMY’s determination of such account’s best interests.
In determining whether a proposal serves an account’s best interests, ReMY considers a number of
factors, including:
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the proposal’s economic effect on shareholder value;
the threat that the proposal poses to existing rights of shareholders;
the dilution of existing shares that would result from the proposal;
the effect of the proposal on management or director accountability to shareholders; and
if the proposal is a shareholder initiative, whether it wastes time and resources of the company or
reflects the grievance of one individual.
ReMY abstains from voting proxies when ReMY believes that it is appropriate to do so.
If requested by a separate account client, ReMY will vote proxies as per the client’s instructions.
If a material conflict of interest over proxy voting arises between ReMY and a client, ReMY will
vote all proxies in accordance with the policy described above. If ReMY determines that this policy
does not adequately address the conflict of interest, ReMY will notify the client of the conflict and
request that the client consent to ReMY’s intended response to the proxy solicitation. If the client
consents to ReMY’s intended response or fails to respond to the notice within a reasonable time
specified in the notice, ReMY will vote the proxy as described in the notice. If the client objects in
writing to ReMY’s intended response, ReMY will vote the proxy as the client directs.
A client can obtain a copy of ReMY’s proxy voting policy and a record of votes cast by ReMY on
behalf of that client by contacting ReMY.
Item 18.
Financial Information
This Item is not applicable, because ReMY is not required to report financial information.
Item 19.
Requirements for State-Registered Advisers
All of the information required by this Item is disclosed elsewhere in ReMY’s Form ADV.
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Privacy Policy
ReMY and the investment limited partnerships for which it serves as investment Advisor:
• collect non-public personal information about their clients and investors from the following
sources:
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Information a client gives us on applications or other written communication and
during telephone and in person meetings when the Client applies to open an account
or receive investment advice or in connection with a partnership investment (which
information consists of the Client’s identification and contact information, age,
occupation, home address, email address, telephone number, financial information
and goals, asset, income and expense profiles, risk tolerance, tax identification
numbers, and such additional financial information as we need to provide our services
to such Client);
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Information generated by a client’s or investor’s other service providers, such as
brokerage and custodians, to service client or investor accounts (such as trade tickets,
account statements, tax information reports, trade confirmations, confirmations of
contributions and withdrawals and similar account information); and
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Information the information given to us by potential clients who meet with us to learn
more about our firm and our services (this includes basic contact information, basic
financial information, such as the person’s age, occupation, family obligations,
qualifications as an investor and his or her investable assets);
• do not disclose any non-public personal information about their clients or investors or former
clients or investors to anyone, except as permitted by law;
•
restrict access to non-public personal information about their clients and investors to their
employees who need to know that information to provide services to clients; and
• maintain physical, electronic and procedural safeguards that comply with federal standards to
guard clients’ and investors’ personal information.
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