Business Continuity Plan Summary

Ensuring operational resilience and the continuous protection of your assets.

Sierra Crest Advisors, LLC has developed a comprehensive Business Continuity Plan (BCP) designed to effectively respond to events that significantly disrupt our business. Because the timing and impact of disasters and disruptions are unpredictable, we have designed our plan to be flexible, rapidly deployable, and heavily reliant on secure, redundant cloud infrastructure.

Our Resiliency Policy

Our firm’s policy is to respond to a Significant Business Disruption (SBD) by safeguarding employees’ lives and firm property, making a rapid financial and operational assessment, quickly recovering and resuming operations, protecting all of our firm’s books and records, and ensuring our clients can continue to transact business securely.

Direct Custodial Access During an Emergency

In the extreme event that a severe disruption prevents you from contacting Sierra Crest Advisors entirely, your assets remain secure. Sierra Crest Advisors does not take physical custody of your funds or securities. Your assets are held independently at a qualified custodian (e.g., Charles Schwab & Co., Fidelity). If you cannot reach us during an emergency, you should contact your custodian directly via their toll-free public emergency numbers or their secure website for immediate access to your funds, to enter trade orders, or to request cash disbursements.

Key Elements of Our Continuity Plan

Our comprehensive Business Continuity Plan encompasses the following critical operational safeguards:

  • Data Backup and Recovery: All vital firm data, client records, and financial blueprints are securely encrypted and backed up daily to geographically dispersed, enterprise-grade cloud servers. If our local physical hardware is compromised, no data is lost.
  • Alternate Communications: Should our primary telephone lines or email servers experience an outage, we have established redundant communication protocols, including secondary cloud-based phone routing and alternate secure email servers to maintain contact with clients and regulatory bodies.
  • Remote Operations Capabilities: Our technological infrastructure is entirely cloud-native. In the event our physical office location in Nevada becomes inaccessible due to a localized disaster (e.g., fire, severe weather, power grid failure), our advisory personnel can seamlessly and securely manage portfolios and service clients from remote, alternate locations.
  • Mission-Critical Systems: We maintain direct, redundant access to our portfolio management, trading, and reporting software to ensure that market analysis and trade execution can continue without interruption.

Varying Disruption Scenarios

Our plan accounts for disruptions of varying scope:

  • Single Building/Local Disruption: If our specific office building is affected, operations will immediately transition to remote status. We anticipate resuming standard advisory functions within a matter of hours.
  • City-Wide or Regional Disruption: If a disruption affects our broader geographic region, we will transfer operations to personnel or redundant servers outside the affected area. Communication updates will be posted to this website or sent via our alternate email systems.

Ongoing Review and Requests

Sierra Crest Advisors formally reviews, tests, and updates our Business Continuity Plan on at least an annual basis to incorporate technological advancements and address evolving systemic risks. We also train our employees annually on emergency protocols.

Request the Full Policy: The information above is a high-level summary. Current clients of Sierra Crest Advisors may request a complete, written copy of our Business Continuity Plan at any time by contacting our corporate office or emailing our compliance department.