Steven Michael Durk
Professional Summary
STEVEN MICHAEL DURK, who also goes by Steven M Durk, is a registered financial advisor currently at HIGHTOWER ADVISORS, LLC located in San Ramon, California. STEVEN is registered as an IAR (Investment Advisor Representative) and started their career in finance in 2006. STEVEN has worked at 4 firms and has passed the Series 65, Series 63, SIE, Series 7, Series 10 and Series 9 exams.
At a Glance
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Fiduciary Standard
Fee Structure
Account Minimum
Active Clients
Biography
Steven Durk serves as a director at Frontier Investment Management Company, based in the California Bay Area. Mr. Durk brings 17 years of financial services experience to the firm. Prior to joining Frontier, Mr. Durk worked as a director of the income solutions team at Charles Schwab conducting educational seminars on income investing strategies. Mr. Durk has capital markets experience working with active bond management and portfolio construction activities. Mr. Durk was recognized as a...
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Steven M Durk
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Contact Information
Direct
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Website
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Years of Experience
20 years in the financial services industry
Current & Past Employments
Current
Past
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Contact Information
Main Address
200 W. Madison St. Suite 2500, Chicago, IL 60606Phone Number
(312) 962-3800# of Employees
1,983SEC notice filing (53 States and Territories)
Registered to provide investment advisory services in 53 US states and territories.
Documents
Regulatory Assets Under Management
Total Number of Accounts
220,222AUM (Assets Under Management)
$198,577,009,283Accountant Surprise Examination Report
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HIGHTOWER ADVISORS, LLC — Registered Investment Advisory firm
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Hightower Advisors, LLC (“HTA”, “we”, or “us”) is an investment adviser registered with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Brokerage and investment advisory services differ and it is important to understand the differences. Free and simple tools are available to research firms and financial professionals at investor.gov/CRS, which also provides educational materials about broker dealers, investment advisers, and investing.
We generally charge an asset-based fee (a percentage of the assets in your accounts) on quarterly or monthly basis. The more assets you have under our management, the more you will pay to us in fees; we therefore have an incentive to encourage you to increase the assets in your account to increase our fees. Other ways we may calculate and charge fees include hourly fees, flat fees, a retainer, and/or service fees. We charge our fee whether your account is profitable or not and even if we did not buy or sell assets in your account. Fees vary depending on the type of services provided and the amount of assets we manage for you, and are negotiable.
Fees paid to us for an account within our wrap program include our advisory fees in addition to one or more of: (i) brokerage commissions, (ii) custodial fees, (iii) certain periodic reporting or (iv) management fees paid to affiliated or third-party managers. As a result, wrap fees for these accounts are typically higher than the non-wrap advisory fees.
In addition to fees paid to us, you will incur costs related to the investments in your account such as the fees and expenses charged to investors by mutual funds, variable annuities, exchange traded funds, alternative investments, and other types of securities; depending on your account setup and activities occurring in your account, you may also incur investment platform administration fees, management fees for services provided by an affiliated or third-party manager, custodian fees, account maintenance fees, transaction costs, and other related fees and expenses.
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.
For additional information about our fees and other costs associated with investing, please see Items 5, 10, and 14 of our Brochure and Items 4 and 9 of our Wrap Fee Program Brochure.
Questions to ask your Professional:
- 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?
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. Here are some examples to help you understand what this means.
Some of our affiliates serve as investment managers for certain investment products and earn a management fee for those services. We therefore have a financial incentive to recommend these proprietary products over third-party products.
We may invest or recommend investing your assets with affiliated managers that provide asset management services for an additional fee. The ability to earn additional fees for an affiliated manager creates an incentive for us to invest or recommend investing client assets with these affiliated managers and thus presents a conflict of interest.
Certain of our financial advisors are (i) licensed to sell insurance, and (ii) registered to offer you brokerage services with Hightower Securities, LLC, an affiliated broker dealer. In both instances, you would pay a commission for these services and your financial advisor could receive a portion of that commission, which presents a conflict of interest.
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- How might your conflicts of interest affect me, and how will you address them?
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