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As financial advisors and wealth managers, it is a special honor to receive the trust of others to advise them financially and manage their wealth. It is a substantial responsibility that we approach with great care and respect.

If you are considering establishing a long-term wealth advisory and wealth management relationship, we welcome the opportunity to sit down with you to learn about you and your needs and consider how we may be able to help you.

Become A Client

It’s like having
your own family office.

We are prepared to be your first call.

Achieving Your Goals and Objectives | How we underwrite new relationships.

Relationship Underwriting

We meet with prospective clients to learn about their needs, hopes and desires to understand the scope and complexities in a potential engagement. We want to ensure we can create and deliver appreciable and transformative value and excel in the engagement. We underwrite and commit our firm capital and resources to long-term client relationships with mutually desirable relationship qualities.

Relationship Qualities

Our firm is purpose-built to help us focus our time,  talents, efforts and resources where we can create the best results and do the greatest good. We look for and work hard to offer these personal qualities in all our client relationships ‒ candor, honesty, respect, commitment, reason, mutual care, collaboration, team play, direction and motivation. We value the principle of win-win.

Relationship Profile

Our services, advanced skillsets and firm resources support client relationships for individuals and families who are seeking to accumulate $10 million or more at retirement. We offer our investment management and wealth advisory services for investable assets starting at $5 million across all accounts, including investment, trust, business, retirement and philanthropic accounts. 

Engagement Profile

We bring deep experience and core competencies that match up well with families and individuals who seek breadth and depth-of-field, skill, competence, care, creative vision and sound execution from wealth management professionals who are in it for the long-haul. To protect our availability of time and resources to our long-term clients, we do not offer our services for projects or partial engagements.

Client Profile

We position each of our clients as the CEO of the family or individual engagement and evaluate the roles we will fill as the C-Suite professionals on the team, so we are thoughtful about each client with whom we will be engaged. Our clients, who are our CEOs, all have this in common ‒ they appreciate and allow us to provide leadership, counsel, advice and management as circumstances necessitate.

Client Requirements

We require clients to be available to respond to our requests for documents, calls and meetings and we require clients to maintain professionally-prepared tax returns and legal documents. We require clients to be proficient with email, scanning and electronic document signature and allow us to collaborate with their other advisors ‒ CPAs, attorneys, insurance professionals, actuaries, trustees, etc.

Firm Profile

We provide a skilled and prepared leadership team that combines critical thinking with studies and analyses to help unmask and avoid the camouflaging distractions, classic pitfalls and less obvious risks that trap that many families and individuals and prevent them from focusing on what needs to get done to stay on plan and accomplish their goals.

Fiduciary Profile

Each Chief Client Wealth Officer is an Accredited Investment Fiduciary® and Intelligent Capitalworks is CEFEX Certified to a Global Fiduciary Standard by annual examination. We only offer our services as investment fiduciaries. We do not offer brokerage services. We only use qualified account custodians for client accounts.

Regulatory Profile

Our firm is registered with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) as a Registered Investment Adviser with authority to conduct business nationally. We currently serve clients in 13 states plus the District of Columbia. We are regulated by the SEC, U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).

Services Profile

We serve as a dedicated wealth advisor to help meet our clients’ wealth management needs in deeper, more focused and more helpful relationships. We offer more than 100 “time and resource” intensive professional services to help address the continuous and complex wealth management needs of our clients.

Investment Profile

We manage well-diversified long-term investment portfolios of individual securities in separately-managed accounts tailored for each client. We invest for a combination of capital conservation, stable and rising income, capital growth, managed volatility, tax efficiency and cost control.

Due Diligence

We vet prospective clients just as assiduously as we are vetted by prospective clients. We think just as carefully about committing our family’s capital to a potential engagement as prospective clients think about entrusting their family capital to us. It’s equally important for us to determine that each client is a good fit for us and our other clients.

Interview Guide

Use our proprietary interview guide, Selecting a Wealth Management Professional, in your advisor search process as you conduct your personal due diligence and dig deeper with more targeted questions during your interview with us and other financial advisors.

Professional Fee

Our annual professional services fee is 0.50% for separately-managed portfolios of individual securities tailored for each account plus 0.50% to 1.25% for more than 100 additional wealth advisory and management workflows we provide, depending on the scope of engagement and the demand for our time and firm resources.  Learn more.

Contact Us

To speak with a Managing Director or schedule a meeting with us, please contact Monique Pressley at (480) 248-2223. We welcome the opportunity to sit down with you and learn about how we may be able to help you.