Become a Client
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.
CONSIDER EVERYTHING
Become a Client
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.
IT’S JUST PART OF WHAT WE DO.
Fiduciary Wealth Management
Scottsdale | Phoenix
Scottsdale | Phoenix
Wealth management
designed to maximize your life.
It’s like having your own family office.
We are prepared to be your first call.
If you had a family office, this is what it might feel like.
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
Every member of our wealth management team is an Accredited Investment Fiduciary® and the firm 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 preservation, stable and rising income, capital growth and conservation, 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 0.40% for separately-managed portfolios of individual securities tailored for each account plus 0.60% to 1.35% 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.
Financial Planning Advisor
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 planning advisors.
CONSIDER EVERYTHING
Financial Planning | Wealth Management
1. We meet and interview together.
Service professionals, whether they are doctors, attorneys, accountants, or financial advisors, are all a bit like icebergs, with 10 percent of their attributes above water and visible for you to see and the remaining 90 percent of their attributes below the surface and invisible to you. Use our 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 planning and wealth management candidates.
2. We match and you engage us.
We begin each financial planning and wealth management engagement by meeting with you to create alignment and develop a clarity of purpose for our services. We will define the scope of our work and our fiduciary responsibilities to you in a written agreement with us that explains how we will help you and how we will manage your investment and retirement accounts using these unaffiliated custodians.
3. We work together.
We help you see the big picture and plan for your desired future. We collect your relevant information and documents to study and analyze while we are transferring your accounts to an unaffiliated custodian. We learn about your history and aspirations for the future, and we help you define your goals and objectives in meetings we have with you.
Click here to see how we help you develop your vision for your desired future.
4. We complete your studies and analyses.
We commit our time, talent and resources to study and analyze your situation. We complete multiple financial planning studies and analyze your retirement income and capital growth needs, your risk exposures and risk capacities, and your estate and philanthropic plans.
Click here, for a list of some of the studies and analyses we may complete for you.
5. We develop your plan and strategies.
We create liquidity, cash flow, purchasing power protection and capital growth strategies based upon your goals and objectives. Then we record and maintain your strategies in your personal investment plan.
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6. We deliver and you approve.
7. We manage your investments and the workflows.
8. We monitor and review your progress with you.
We monitor your accounts and we review your progress toward your goals and help you to stay on track in periodic financial planning and wealth management calls and meetings we have with you.
Click here to see how we help you monitor your accounts and review your progress towards your goals.
