Pricing Groups

Pricing group terms and conditions

A: Pricing group basics

Pricing Groups: Program fees on Edward Jones fee-based accounts are calculated based on the value of the assets you hold in those accounts. Fee-based accounts include advisory accounts (Edward Jones Guided Portfolios®) and managed accounts (e.g., Edward Jones Portfolio Program®, MyCompass by Edward Jones™ Model Portfolios), but not traditional brokerage accounts. Program fee rates are tiered, meaning that as the value of your accounts increases, your effective fee rate is reduced. To extend the benefit of this reduction in fees, Edward Jones can group your accounts with the accounts of other eligible clients at your Edward Jones branch to form a Pricing Group. The total value of the assets of accounts within a Pricing Group will be used to determine the effective fee rate charged to each account in that Pricing Group. Each account in a Pricing Group is separately billed based at that rate for the value of its assets under care. 

There are two types of Pricing Groups:

• Relationship Pricing Groups
• Historic Pricing Groups

If you hold more than one fee-based account at the same Edward Jones branch, Edward Jones will automatically calculate each of your accounts' program fee rate using their combined value. Accordingly, when you join a Pricing Group, all of your accounts will be included in that Pricing Group even if the accounts are created after you join. If you leave a Pricing Group, all of your accounts will be removed. Joint fee-based accounts will be grouped with the accounts of the primary accountholder. If you are the primary owner of a joint account, you are responsible for getting consent from the other owners to include or remove the joint account in the Pricing Group. You are the primary accountholder of a joint account if your name is listed first on that account's statements. You may only be in a single Pricing Group.

Privacy: The grouping of accounts may enable members of a Pricing Group to infer the existence of other group members' accounts and give an indication to group members of the total value of the accounts in the Pricing Group. By agreeing to be in a Pricing Group, you consent to the disclosure of this information. The Edward Jones Client Information Privacy Notice is available from your Edward Jones financial advisor. It has additional information about how we collect, use, disclose, and protect your personal information.

B: Types of pricing groups

Relationship pricing groups: If you agree to be in a Relationship Group with other Edward Jones clients, Edward Jones will create a Pricing Group consisting of the members of that group whose account(s) are at the same Edward Jones branch (a "Relationship Pricing Group"). Upon creation of a Relationship Group, clients may request that they are not placed in a Relationship Pricing Group with other members of their Relationship Group. 
Even though Relationship Groups are usually created at the same time as Relationship Pricing Groups, they are separate groups. Relationship Groups are groups of accounts that clients voluntarily create linking their own accounts to the accounts of other clients for the purpose of planning and establishing financial goals. You will know if you are in a Relationship Group because you would have agreed to it with your Edward Jones financial advisor, received confirmation of your Relationship Group at the time it was created, and your regular account statements will list the other accounts in your Relationship Group and their owners. If you are in a Historic Pricing Group, joining a Relationship Pricing Group will remove you from that Historic Pricing Group.

Historic pricing groups: If you were in a Pricing Group which was created because you shared your last name with other members of that group before June 13, 2025, (a "Historic Pricing Group") you will continue to be in that group until you or all of the other members of the group leave that group or join a different Pricing Group. New members cannot be added to Historic Pricing Groups. Once someone leaves a Historic Pricing Group, they cannot be re-admitted.

C: Additional terms for all pricing groups

Removal from a pricing group: When you join a new Pricing Group you will be automatically withdrawn from any existing Pricing Group. You will be removed from a Relationship Pricing Group if you are no longer a member of the qualifying Relationship Group. You may also withdraw from a Pricing Group by providing your Investment Advisor with written notice. Edward Jones will remove you from a Pricing Group as soon as practicable following receipt of that notice. Removing yourself from a Pricing Group may result in a change to the combined market value of the Pricing Group and the program fee rate for each remaining account in that Pricing Group.

Government entities: Government entities are eligible for Historic Pricing Groups and Relationship Pricing Groups. Government entities can only form a Relationship Pricing Group with other government entities that are in their Relationship Group. To be eligible for a Relationship Pricing Group each government entity in the group must be held at the same Edward Jones branch and use the same tax ID number for tax reporting. Government entities cannot be grouped with individual persons or non-government entities.

Eligible and excluded clients: Individual, joint, informal trust, sole proprietorship, guardianship, committeeship, TFSA, and registered retirement accounts are all eligible to be in a Pricing Group. A corporate, association, partnership, or formal living trust account in a Relationship Group can only be included in a Relationship Pricing Group if it is in a Relationship Group with a beneficial owner of that entity who is eligible to be in that Pricing Group. Other account types, including, but not limited to, formal testamentary trust and investment club accounts, are excluded from Pricing Groups.

Please contact your Edward Jones financial advisor if you have questions about Pricing Groups.