ADV Part 3

Introduction

Forefront Wealth Partners, LLC (“FWP”) is an Investment Adviser pending registration with the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”). We feel it is important for you to understand how advisory and brokerage services and fees differ to determine which type of account or service is right for you. There are free and simple tools available to research firms and financial professionals at www.investor.gov/crs, which also provides educational materials about investment advisers, broker-dealers, and investing.

What investment services and advice can you provide me?

As an investment adviser, FWP offers investment advisory services to retail investors which includes investment management services and financial planning. If we are providing investment management services to you, we will develop a personal investment policy or an investment plan with an asset allocation target for you and create and manage a portfolio based on that policy and allocation target. During our data-gathering process, we help determine your individual objectives, time horizons, risk tolerance, and liquidity needs. We may also review and discuss your prior investment history, as well as family composition and background. We will regularly monitor your investments on an ongoing basis, as part of our standard services. Please refer to Item 4 of our Form ADV Part 2A for further information.

We manage accounts on a discretionary basis, which means we do not need to call you when buying or selling investments in your account. You will sign an investment management agreement and limited power of attorney giving us this authority. This agreement will remain in place until you or we terminate our relationship. We also manage accounts on a non-discretionary basis, which means that you make the ultimate decision regarding buying or selling investments in your account. Please refer to Item 16 of our Form ADV Part 2A for further information. We do not limit our advice and services to proprietary products or a limited menu of products or investments. We do not have a minimum account size requirement. Please refer to Item 7 of our Form ADV Part 2A for further information.

Questions to Ask Us:

  • 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?

What fees will I pay?

Fees and costs affect the value of your account over time and vary depending on certain factors and are negotiable. Please ask our representative to give you personalized information on the fees and costs you will pay. We charge an ongoing asset-based fee up to 1.75% annually, paid monthly, in advance. The amount of your account assets affects our advisory fee; the more assets you have in your account(s), the more you will pay us. This gives us an incentive to increase those assets to increase our fee. However, if you are on our tiered fee schedule, as your assets increase in your account(s), your fee percentage for each tier of assets decreases. For financial planning, we charge a fixed fee. The broker-dealer (“custodian”) that holds your assets can charge you a transaction fee when we buy or sell an investment for you. These transaction fees are in addition to our advisory fee. You could also pay fees charged by the custodian for certain investments and maintaining your account. Some investments, such as mutual funds and exchange traded funds charge additional fees that will reduce the value of your investments over time. 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. Please refer to Item 5 of our Form ADV Part 2A for further information.

Question to Ask Us:

  • Help me understand how these fees and costs might affect my investments. If I give you $10,000 to invest, how much will go to fees and costs, and how much will be invested for me?

What are your legal obligations to me when acting as my investment adviser? How else does your firm make money and what conflicts of interest do you have?

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. FWP’s revenue is from the advisory fees we collect from our clients’ accounts each month. We have an incentive to increase the value of investments we manage which could bias our advice. We might be in favor of keeping money in your managed portfolio rather than recommending that you pay off debt or make investments that we do not manage. Our standard advice, however, will be that mortgages or other debt that carries an interest rate higher than the safe fixed-income investments in your portfolio should be paid down or avoided.

Question to Ask Us:

  • How might your conflicts of interest affect me, and how will you address them?

How do your financial professionals make money?

Our financial professionals are paid a fixed salary. They also receive on a quarterly basis a portion of the advisory fees that FWP collects from the accounts each financial professional manages. This compensation structure creates an incentive for our financial professionals to recommend that you increase the size of your account with us. Some also receive commissions from the sale of insurance products, which can impact their recommendations to you.

Do you or your financial professionals have legal or disciplinary history?

Yes. Visit www.investor.gov/crs for a free and simple search tool to research our firm and our financial professionals.

Questions to Ask Us:

  • As a financial professional, do you have any disciplinary history? For what type of conduct?

Additional Information

You can find additional information about our investment advisory services on the SEC’s website www.adviserinfo.sec.gov by searching CRD #308521. You may also contact our firm at 512-617-1984 to request a current copy of our Form ADV Part 2 or up-to-date Form ADV Part 3 – this relationship summary.

Questions to Ask Us:

  • Who is my primary contact person?

  • Is he or she a representative of an investment adviser or a broker-dealer?

  • Who can I talk to if I have concerns about how this person is treating me?

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Contact.

📞 (865) 465-9811
📥 jay@chalkmoney.com
📍 Knoxville, TN 37923