Financial Advisors
Rankings and Ratings

01 FINANCIAL ADVICE AND GUIDANCE

• Family Financial Discussions
• Personal Wealth Education
• Wealth Management Plan
• Saving and Investment Plan
• Exit and Retirement Plan
• Special Needs Plan
• Incapacity Plan
• Trust, Estate and Legacy Plan
• Charitable Giving Plan

01FINANCIAL ADVICE AND GUIDANCE

We combine intellectual capital with critical thinking and detailed analyses across the 10 allied disciplines of wealth management to create whole-system thinking and integrated strategies that address your needs.

This is complex work with a multitude of variables that can produce opposite results. It’s a workspace in multiple dimensions. We are educated, trained and experienced for this work.

We manage the support systems and processes across
100 tailored personal wealth management workflows.

02 LIFE AND RETIREMENT PLANNING

•   Vision and Desired Calendar
•   Asset/Liability Study
•   Purchasing Power Loss Exposure Study
•   Income Stability Study
•   Income Shortfall Analysis
•   Critical Path Study
•   Distribution and Tax Optimization Study
•   Long-Term Care Cost Coverage Analysis
•   Social Security/Medicare Gap Analysis

02 LIFE AND RETIREMENT PLANNING

We prepare informative studies that help you see if your assets and investment strategies are on track to successfully support your dreams and desires and sustain you without an earned income for as many as 30 to 40 years in retirement.

As you approach retirement, we help you see beyond this hard-earned moment in time, spot hidden risks, map a path and contribute our experience and resources to help you reach your goals.

03 FINANCIAL RISK MANAGEMENT

•  Risk Identification
•  Risk Assessment
•  Risk Quantification
•  Risk Treatment
•  Insurance Coverage Requirements
•  Policy Review
•  Coverage Gap Analysis
•  Policy Recommendation

03 FINANCIAL RISK MANAGEMENT

We help you understand your current level of risk exposures and help identify personalized solutions that seek to help protect the risk-exposed areas of your financial life.

We review how your assets are titled to maximize your protection in the event of a lawsuit or other claims.

We help coordinate your business and personal insurance with your employer-provided benefits to help avoid any gaps or overlaps in coverage and help integrate your insurance policies with your estate plan.

04 CASH FLOW MANAGEMENT

• Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
• Taxable, Tax-Deferred and Tax-Free Savings Rates
• Income Stability Study
• Borrowing and Debt Rate
• Uninsured Risk Exposure Rate
• Equity Investment Rate
• Tax Efficiency Rate
• Cash Liquidity Rate
• Critical Path Rate

04CASH FLOW MANAGEMENT

We help you budget and manage expenses to reduce debt, increase savings, improve your long-term investment compounding rate, and fund your important life goals.

We offer a responsive and operational framework to help you meet less predictable, hard-to-monitor short-term expenses while meeting ongoing financial commitments and tracking to your short-term, intermediate and long-term objectives.

05 CASH AND LIQUIDITY MANAGEMENT

• Proprietary Cash Flow Bridge
• Bank Connectivity
• Cash Visibility
• Cash Positioning
• Optimized Liquidity
• Improved Yield on Excess Cash
• Individual U.S. Treasury Security Portfolio
• Multi-Bank FDIC Insured Portfolio

05 CASH AND LIQUIDITY MANAGEMENT

Cash management is a key component of liquidity management. It includes the efficient management of your cash flow, investments and cash reserves in order to achieve your overall financial objectives.

As inflation remains high with high interest rates, we help you deploy your cash flow and cash positions to earn higher interest rates.

Liquidity and cash management also involve managing the risk of short-term financing and making sure cash is available when needed.

06 TAX PLANNING AND STRATEGY

• Asset Location Review
• Transaction Character Review
• Transaction Structure and Timing Review
• Inter-Generational Time-Horizon Tax Review
• Tax Jurisdiction Review
• Scenario Tax Forecasts
• Prohibited Transaction Review
• Asset Protection Review

06 TAX PLANNING AND STRATEGY

Tax-planning and strategy may offer opportunities to minimize and optimize your tax expenses. The time for tax planning and strategy development occurs at the beginning, not at the completion of an investment or tax year.

We provide guidance focused to your unique situation and help you exercise care to engage in tax planning that is flexible enough to help you respond to changing market conditions, tax law changes and unexpected outcomes.

07 INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT

• Asset/Liability Study
• Risk Willingness and Capacity Studies
• Written Investment Guidelines
• Diversification Intelligence Analysis
• Risk Budget Analysis
• Tailored Individual Security Portfolios
• Tax-Sensitive Portfolio Management
• Progress Reporting Analysis
• Investment Behavior Coaching

07 INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT

What makes plans work is saving and capital growth. The playing field is arrayed with no shortage of obstacles that conspire to impair both saving and capital growth.

Whatever or whoever the conspirators are, capital growth is paramount. Forces outside and within your control must be well-managed.

We tailor and manage your investment operations to help reduce unforced errors and mistakes and compound your long-term, after-tax returns.

08 WEALTH MANAGEMENT TEAM

• Whole-System Subject Matter Expertise
• Multi-Dimensional Client Wealth Portrait^TM
• Accelerated Team Learning
• Creative Outside-the-Box Solutions
• Improved Process Productivity
• Integrated Workflow Implementation
• Activated Wealth Management Plan

08 WEALTH MANAGEMENT TEAM

In each role, we contribute differently as you look to us with different needs at different times. Most often, we contribute simultaneously across all capacities in differing degrees.

As leaders, we provide motivation and direction. As counselors, we help remove barriers. As advisors, we provide technical advice. And as managers, we carry out process.

Taken together, we are always working to position you in places of greater potentials.

09 TRUST AND ESTATE PLANNING

• Legacy, Meaning and Impact
• Aspirational Wealth Transfer
• Intention/Alignment Strategy
• Communication and Education
• Stakeholder Alignment and Collaboration
• Life Estate Plan
• Fiduciary Safeguards
• Tactical Reviews and Analyses
• Wealth Transfer Taxes

09 TRUST AND ESTATE PLANNING

We help you recognize that planning for the retention and transfer of your wealth is far more than numbers on a balance sheet and minimizing estate transfer taxes.

Your wealth also comprises your family and its health, education, life’s experiences, knowledge, relationships, mental and physical fitness, values and spirituality.

We help you express the conscience and wishes for what you have and leave behind and the constitution of privileges and responsibilities to guide all concerned.

10 PHILANTHROPIC AND LEGACY PLANNING

• Philanthropic Discussions
• Family Financial Philosophy Blueprint
• Strategies and Planning for Lifetime Giving
• Strategies and Planning for Legacy Giving
• Tax Optimization and Structural Design
• Donor-Advised Funds and Family Foundations
• Family Charitable Trusts and Annuities
• Philanthropic Investment Management

10 PHILANTHROPIC AND LEGACY PLANNING

We help you explore the motivations and develop and articulate the benefits, framework, discipline and communication of contributions you wish to make to communities that extend beyond your family.

We help you discover, establish and affirm the values, beliefs, attitudes, preferences and priorities for your contributions to your chosen communities. Then we help you with the ongoing management and administration of your philanthropic assets and endeavors.