ARGOS CAPITAL PARTNERS, LLC


ACAP registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) as an investment adviser in 2008. Black Swan Investments, LLC is the principal owner of ACAP. As of December 31, 2019 the Company advised approximately $798 million on a non-discretionary or consulting basis, on behalf of 556 accounts and managed $125 million on a discretionary basis in 3 accounts. ACAP provides financial planning and investment advisory services to ultra-high net worth individuals and their related trusts, partnerships and charitable accounts. ACAP also provides investment advisory services to a pension plan client. ACAP provides individualized investment advice, due diligence, and recommendations on asset allocation, exchange traded funds (“ETFs”), third-party managers, mutual funds, and individual investment securities (e.g. stocks, bonds, options, direct investments in real estate and private companies). Clients may impose restrictions on investing in certain securities or types of securities. Additionally, ACAP will review and make recommendations on other outside managers and investments that the clients have retained. As part of this process ACAP may retain the services of outside consultants to assist with the due diligence and review process. Services of ACAP may also include, but are not limited to, the following:

 An investment policy statement that covers one’s risk tolerance and liquidity needs  Ongoing monitoring, due diligence, asset allocation, and additional review of investment portfolios  Retirement sufficiency analysis  Aggregate investment reporting through an independent third party (Private Client Resources or another appropriate vendor)  Biennial or quarterly contact with investment meetings

ACAP’s primary investment recommendation is its passive index investing approach. ACAP also conducts due diligence and makes recommendations on third-party advisers to clients. These opportunities may provide a wide range of investments including traditional equity investing, fixed income portfolios, as well as alternative strategies, such as hedge funds and private equity funds. Clients should review the disclosure documents of recommended investment managers for information on each manager’s investment selection, analysis methods, and sources of information and investment strategies. ACAP also conducts due diligence and provides recommendations on individual alternative investments, such as mezzanine loans, real estate investments, and operating companies.

ACAP will at times advise clients upon investing assets directly in privately offered investments such as private operating companies and real estate offerings (“Privately Offered Investments”). Such investments may be sourced by ACAP or its clients. ACAP will not recommend that the client make such an investment unless they are eligible to do so. To be eligible to invest in a Privately Offered Investment, a client must meet all the requirements under state and federal security laws to be eligible to invest in a privately offered security. For example, depending on the investment, the client may be required to meet the definition of “accredited investor” as defined in rule 501(a) of Regulation D. If a client sources a potential investment, and that client elects to fund the entirety of that investment, ACAP will not recommend such investment to any other client. However, ACAP may need to make an investment allocation decision in the event that: it determines that a potential investment it has sourced may be appropriate for certain clients; or a client that has sourced its own investment elects not to fund the entirety of that investment and ACAP determines that the remainder of the investment may be appropriate for certain other clients. In such a situation, ACAP’s allocation of these investments will be based on the following factors. 1. Liquidity – does the client have sufficient liquidity to make the investment? 2. Time horizon/Structure issues – can the client withstand the lack of liquidity over the expected time horizon of the investment? 3. Returns sought/Risk tolerance – considerations include: a. Is the client comfortable investing in direct investments? b. Underlying risk of investment, and c. Diversity of other assets held by the client 4. Ability to make a decision - can the client make an investment decision with respect to the investment in the required time frame? 5. Size of investment - is the recommended size of investment appropriate relative to the client’s net worth? 6. Taxes - when assessing the potential return on the investment, ACAP will consider the tax impact to the client. Prior to November 2018, if a client elected to make an investment in a Privately Offered Investment, such client typically made the investment directly. Starting in November 2018, if a client elects to make a Privately Offered Investment, the client may be required to make such investment via Argos Fund, LLC (the “Argos Fund”). The Argos Fund is a limited liability company, for which ACAP acts as investment adviser on a discretionary basis. Although clients retain discretion as to if and when to make a Privately Offered Investment, once the investment is made via the Argos Fund, ACAP has investment discretion over the invested assets until such time that the investment is liquidated.

Starting in November 2018, ACAP also began advising Argos Opportunity Fund 19, LLC (the “Opportunity Fund”), and starting in October 2019, ACAP began advising the Argos Co-Invest Fund, LLC (“the Co-Invest Fund”). The Opportunity Fund and Co-Invest Fund were both created to invest alongside the Argos Fund.

Notwithstanding, but subject to, ACAP’s processes for allocating Privately Offered Investments among clients as discussed above, ACAP intends to allocate no more than a combined 25% of each Privately Offered Investment opportunity collectively to the Opportunity Fund and/or Co-Invest Fund. Exceptions may apply in the case of client-sourced deals where the client is able to make the entirety of the sourced investment without the use of additional capital.

Generally, the Opportunity Fund has an ongoing mandate to invest in Privately Offered Investment opportunities identified during its investment period (which ends on December 31, 2020 (the “Investment Period”)) whereas the Co-Invest Fund exists to allow third-party investors to make one-off investments in individual Privately Offered Investment opportunities, if and when the Opportunity Fund does not itself have sufficient capacity to do so or when the investment is deemed to be suboptimal for the Opportunity Fund investors based on diversification effects or other asset management considerations. Occasionally, ACAP may allocate the entirety of an investment to the Opportunity Fund or Co- Invest Fund if such investment is less than $5 million and such investment does not meet the minimum invested capital requirements of applicable advisory clients. As the Opportunity Fund currently has investors that are ACAP personnel and/or accounts over which such personnel could be deemed to have a beneficial ownership, this could result in ACAP personnel indirectly investing (via the Opportunity Fund) in opportunities in which ACAP clients do not invest. please register to get more info

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Assets
Pooled Investment Vehicles $125,584,968
Discretionary $125,584,968
Non-Discretionary $798,717,184
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