How Your Investment Accounts Are Held
How Your Investment Accounts Are Held
How Your Investment Accounts Are Held
Your investment accounts are held with Altruist, an independent, third-party custodian designed to support fee-only, fiduciary investment advisers.
Altruist is responsible for safeguarding client assets, maintaining account records, and providing secure online access to balances, transactions, and statements.
What does “custody” mean?
Custody refers to where your investment assets are held and safeguarded. In your case, your accounts are held with an independent custodian — not by Intentional-Growth Advisors. This means your assets remain in your name and under your control.
Intentional-Growth Advisors does not take custody of client assets.
We provide advice and oversight, while Altruist safeguards assets and maintains account records.
Client assets held at Altruist are protected by SIPC, which provides limited protection in the event of broker-dealer insolvency, subject to SIPC rules and limits. Altruist also maintains excess SIPC coverage through third-party insurers, subject to policy terms and conditions.
Altruist undergoes regular SOC 2 Type II audits conducted by an independent firm to evaluate security, availability, and confidentiality controls.