We believe that our clients’ best financial lives begin with good planning, enhanced by the better advice and service we can deliver as an independent firm. Independence means we are conflict-free, offering objective advice, supported by a fee-based arrangement. We are no longer limited to discussing only investments that are held at one specific bank, as we are now able to advise our clients on their entire investment portfolio including 401ks and other accounts no matter where they are held. Because we have the freedom to work in an open architecture environment, we have unconstrained access to products and services sourced from a complete range of providers, including industry leading companies as well as specialist boutiques.

* Auric Capital Partners is a DBA of Sanctuary Securities, Inc. and Sanctuary Advisors, LLC; however, we own 100% of our independent firm. To provide our clients with the services we offer, we are Registered Representatives of Sanctuary Securities Inc. (Member FINRA, SIPC) and Investment Advisor Representatives of Sanctuary Advisors, LLC, an SEC Registered Investment Adviser.

First and foremost, you will benefit from the collaborative approach we take in helping you identify your values and pursue your goals and dreams.

Access to a Broader Marketplace: Because we’re independent and own our own firm, we work in an “open architecture” environment, which means that we can access best-in-class products and services, including banking and lending solutions, from a wide variety of resource partners.

Robust Planning Solutions: We use advanced planning software from eMoney, a new opportunity for many of our clients. This tool has robust capabilities that will allow you, and our team, to view, in real time, your complete financial picture, including assets held at other firms. eMoney also has a secure, user-friendly “Vault” which enables you to safely store important documents, such as trusts, wills, tax filings, insurance documents, titles, etc. You will be able to choose to share the uploaded documents with our team, in cases where it is helpful for us to have access to them.

Exceptional Client Service: With your best interests as our only agenda, our team is free to focus exclusively on addressing your individual service needs.

Your day-to-day experience with us will not change. However, an important decision underlying the launch of Auric Capital Partners is our selection of BNY Mellon | Pershing as our custodian. Serving more than seven million investor accounts worldwide, Pershing is owned by BNY Mellon, which is the longest standing operating bank in the U.S., surpassing 235 years. Though our name and logo have changed, our commitment to you is amplified by our ability to act in your best interest without corporate policies that could compromise our actions. Your account holdings (with a few minor exceptions) and fees will remain unchanged. The transfer of your accounts to BNY Mellon | Pershing will not create a taxable event (again, with few, minor exceptions).

While we would have enjoyed the opportunity to share our plans with you in advance, legal considerations and contractual restrictions prevented us from doing so. We are committed to respecting and abiding by those covenants as investment professionals, even though it was personally challenging to not have the ability to speak with you beforehand. We hope you can appreciate the situation we were in.

We are able to leverage the technology, tools, and standardized processes available through Sanctuary Wealth that help maximize scalability and manage risk so that we can reinvest time where it matters most—with clients like you. By partnering with Sanctuary, we can deliver operational excellence, maintain a strong culture of compliance, and offer a robust cybersecurity program, which will safeguard the information clients entrust to our guidance. Sanctuary also empowers its partner firms with access to a vibrant community of like-minded, elite independent financial advisors. The advisors in this peer group share best practices and we can tap into our community’s intellectual capital to deliver more specialized expertise – and investment opportunities – to the clients of Auric Capital Partners.

The safety and security of your assets is of critical importance to us. With that in mind, and after a rigorous due diligence process, we selected BNY Mellon | Pershing as our custodian based on their infrastructure, research, technology, and service capabilities. We are incredibly impressed with the measures they take to protect client assets, and we are reassured by their strength, size, and reputation in the industry. With over $47 trillion in assets under custody and/or administration. BNY Mellon is the largest custodian in the world by a significant margin. Pershing is an industry leader providing clearing and custody services in 65 global markets, with execution services in over 60 markets globally and facilitating the trading and conversion of 50 currencies.

The core strategies we use to manage your assets will not change, and of course, our investment management solutions are always specifically tailored to your risk parameters, timeline, and long-term objectives. What will improve, however, are certain capabilities, including our enhanced interactive financial planning, as well as broader access to more investment products and strategies, created by working in an “open architecture” environment, as described in Question 2.

Wherever your mortgage is now, keep it there. If you want a new mortgage, we can help source a new competitive rate. As an independent firm, we now have the freedom to pursue loans and lines of credit for our clients, identifying the best terms and rates for each situation.

You’re under no obligation to move your banking accounts as part of this transition. However, as we are now an independent team, we have the ability to go out in the marketplace on your behalf to identify comparable or better options than your current situation. We can advise you on what is the best banking relationship solution specifically for your needs – whether with a local, regional or national bank.