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Our Comprehensive Planning Process:

We believe that everyone deserves to truly have their money working for them.  As your fiduciary, we leave no stone unturned in the pursuit of helping you grow your money, control taxes, and stay a step ahead of major goals and milestones - leaving you with the most meaningful and insulated wealth possible.

STEP #1

Free Introductory Meeting to Get Acquainted

We will spend time getting to know each other to make sure we are a good fit.  While there are many ubiquitous elements to wealth management, everyone's situation is ultimately different.

STEP #2

Getting Organized & Gaining Clarity

What prompted you to take this next step? What do you want to accomplish? What does “success” look like to you?  If you’re like most people, you have a bunch of accounts, forms, and info scattered around in different places. We’ll pull your info together to get organized and provide a clearer picture of your current situation. 

STEP #3

Learning & Aligning

We'll spend time educating you on economic, investment, and tax topics and put the academic concepts into your own personal context.  Once we have the context of your financial needs organized we'll align on the hierarchy of advice points and what to implement first.

STEP #4

The Planning & Implementation Phase

We will take all that we have discussed and build your unique, tangible documented plan. With a solid framework in mind we will pick specific action steps that we can begin taking. To help make the process manageable only a few tasks are chosen at a given time, and we will implement action items and communicate often as we go.

STEP #5

Staying Accountable & Staying Proactive

As we take care of action items, we will replace them with new items, helping to keep the process moving forward. Life will change. Whether you are transitioning jobs, getting married or divorced, having a baby, retiring, selling a business, gifting or donating wealth, we need to be prepared to make adjustments along the way. These adjustments ARE the financial planning process. A calculated collaboration to produce results for you.

Professional Growth

Grow your wealth in line with your risk tolerance and timeframes for goals.

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Keep more of what you earn by understanding how you can control taxes.

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Build your wealth to last a lifetime by having proactive and meaningful planning conversations.

Investment Philosophies

Invest With Purpose:


Are you accumulating money to spend later?  Are you preserving your money while taking income?  What is the reason you are willing to take risk with your money?  Always know what you own, and why you own it.  

Understand risk management and business cycles: 

What are the trade-offs you should know when deciding what to do with your money?  What money can afford more or less risk given your timeframes or flexibility?  Checks and balances with investing, as in life, are important.

Keep quality high and costs low:

Is all index all the time the right approach?  Why is the fiduciary process so meaningful?  We take our fiduciary obligation to be productive to our stakeholders incredibly seriously, and every element of our process has meaning.

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Personalized Conversations

The better we know you, the better we guide you.  Being independent allows us to spend the time to truly get to know our clients and keep their money a step ahead:

Institutional Access

Independent investment advisors choose large financial companies as asset custodians and technology platforms, we choose Charles Schwab because of their history of strength support: 

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What's on your mind and how can we serve?

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