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As you envision your life, we help you illustrate potential futures with studies, scenarios and financial plans that help you visualize the chapters of your journey into your future. Pictures help everyone to see.

Part of the vision for your life will also be what your life will look like when you stop working for money. Perhaps you are preparing to retire from your career, have recently retired or are preparing to sell your business or have sold your business. We help you develop and maximize your vision for what lies ahead.

IT’S JUST PART OF WHAT WE DO.

Fiduciary Wealth Management
Scottsdale | Phoenix

Family Wealth Plan | How we create value for you.

Desired Calendar and
Retirement Vision

We help you develop the vision and calendar you desire for your life, both before and after you stop working for money, chart the plan to help get you there and the liberty to complete the transition. We help free you from the financial mechanics of life and retirement planning to enable you to focus on the freedom to set the agenda, content and cadence of your life.

Asset/Liability
Studies

We prepare studies to help you determine appropriate investment and retirement asset balances that will have a high degree of probability to successfully meet your future living expenses throughout retirement for you and other family members who will count on you for financial support and help. The studies help inform you of your required rates of return, risk capacity and the types of investments you’ll need to make.

Purchasing Power
Loss Exposure Studies

We prepare studies that help you account for likely increases in your cost of living throughout retirement. Not everyone is exposed to the same types of expenses, and purchasing power loss attributable to inflation can be very different across family households. We help you consider adjustments to your investment and retirement accounts you may need to undertake to address the purchasing power losses that may affect you.

Income Stability
Studies

Replacement of earned income is the key issue in retirement planning and the stability of your income sources in retirement helps you sleep well at night. We prepare studies that help you see the balance between stable and variable sources of your retirement income to help you target the associated positive and negative impacts to the forecasts of your future investment and retirement account balances.

Income
Shortfall Analyses

We prepare studies of various investment strategies you can undertake to help successfully fund your future expenses throughout retirement and enable you to see the probabilities of success of the various strategies. We prepare these studies to help account for an unknowable future in which hundreds of different economic and market return scenarios may unfold and adversely affect your standard of living.

Critical Path
Studies

We prepare forecast studies of ranges of possible future financial outcomes based upon your investment and retirement account balances and various levels of spending by you to help you see and appreciate the sensitivities your investment returns and your levels of spending have on the sustainability of your retirement plan. We help identify the worst possibilities of the critical paths of running out of money and help you adjust.

Distribution
and Tax Optimization Studies

We review how you manage your wealth to help you avoid the errors, penalties, excise taxes and even disqualification and loss of status that may occur from unintentionally and inadvertently engaging in improper personal, qualified plan and private trust financial transactions that are prohibited in the U.S. Tax Code.

Long-Term Care
Cost Coverage Analyses

We review your wishes for the type of long-term care you desire when you begin to become unable to complete basic activities of daily living and review the costs of the type of long-term care you desire and your options to fund those expenses. We incorporate these costs into your asset/liability and retirement planning studies we complete for you.

Social Security/Medicare
Gap Analyses

We help you optimize your claiming strategy for your Social Security and pension benefits, and review and help you optimize your health care insurance coverage options available from your private insurance, employer, military service record, Medicare and Medicare supplement insurance. We incorporate these benefits and costs into your asset/liability and retirement planning studies we complete for you.

CONSIDER EVERYTHING

Guidance, Advice and Counsel

01

Planning and managing personal wealth can be a complex business endeavor requiring professionals with both depth and breadth of field, dedicated resources and specialized tools. We serve as a dedicated advisor to help meet our clients’ wealth management needs in deeper, more focused and more helpful relationships. We are prepared to be your first call.

It's just part of what we do.

CONSIDER EVERYTHING

Planning for Success

02

Plans describe your achievements in advance. Protecting, conserving, growing and transferring your wealth all require studies, scenario analyses and financial plans to increase the probabilities of your success. Whether you’re building or selling your business, experiencing success in your career, planning to retire or have already retired, we help you plan to create greater success.

It's just part of what we do.

CONSIDER EVERYTHING

Risk Management

03

Risk and insurance touches every aspect of personal and business life. Risks to your life, health, property, livelihood and ability to work, profession, personal data . . . life is full of risks. Insurance helps keep you whole when bad things occasionally happen. We don’t sell insurance. We help develop, organize and manage your risk matrix and protection strategies.

It's just part of what we do.

CONSIDER EVERYTHING

Cash Flow Management

04

You will either need to save from the money you earn, the money you inherit, or possibly both, and invest to replace your earned income. Some of us will be fortunate enough to inherit, but most of us will need to save from the money we earn and invest it for the day when we wish to stop working or are no longer able to work. We help you track and manage your expenses and achieve your saving goals.

It's just part of what we do.

CONSIDER EVERYTHING

Cash and Liquidity Management

05

Active cash management and credit facilities support stable and healthy cash flow management. We help you maintain control over lumpy or mismatched timing of cash flows, unexpected cash flow reductions or losses, or the headwinds of unexpected or increased expenditures. We help you manage cash and liquidity to meet your financial obligations and improve your financial efficiency.

It's just part of what we do.

CONSIDER EVERYTHING

Tax Planning and Strategy

06

The number of tax regimes we are all faced with is mind-boggling. We help address the computational complexity of multiple layers of taxation. We help you consider how to best structure the investments you make and your exit strategy before you commit capital. We help you improve your asset location strategies to minimize your tax costs and improve your overall tax efficiency and effectiveness.

It's just part of what we do.

CONSIDER EVERYTHING

Investment Management

07

If you don't get this right, nothing else matters. Precious few plans will succeed without saving and long-term, after-tax compounding of your investment returns. We help position your investments and accounts to benefit from after-tax, risk-managed, long-term wealth compounding. We tailor and manage separate accounts of individual securities diversified for each client.

It's just part of what we do.

CONSIDER EVERYTHING

Client Advisor Team Development

08

No one feels fully prepared when stepping into the endeavor of becoming the CEO of their wealth for the first time. It is a workspace of multiple disciplines in multiple dimensions. We are C-Suite professionals purpose-focused to help you gain the benefits from working with a professional inter-disciplinary wealth management team. We are educated, trained and experienced for this work.

It's just part of what we do.

CONSIDER EVERYTHING

Trust and Estate Planning

09

Planning for the protection of you and your family in all phases of your life and the successful transfer of your estate helps contribute to the legacy of your life’s work. Without a plan, you expose you and your family to unnecessary risks and forfeit protections and opportunities for more desirable outcomes. We help you express and protect your wishes and protect you and your family from less desirable outcomes.

It's just part of what we do.

CONSIDER EVERYTHING

Philanthropic and Legacy Planning

10

Philanthropic and legacy planning helps enable you to expand your estate planning effort with a mosaic of values, meaning, guidance, purpose and responsibility for your posterity and matters that are of lasting importance to you. We help you plan and express your philanthropic intent while minimizing administrative complexity. We help you manage your philanthropic investments and commitments.

It's just part of what we do.

CONSIDER EVERYTHING

Guidance,
Advice and Counsel

01

Planning and managing personal wealth can be a complex business endeavor requiring professionals with both depth and breadth of field, dedicated resources and specialized tools. We serve as a dedicated advisor to help meet our clients’ wealth management needs in deeper, more focused and more helpful relationships. We are prepared to be your first call.

Planning for Success

02

Plans describe your achievements in advance. Protecting, conserving, growing and transferring your wealth all require studies, scenario analyses and financial plans to increase the probabilities of your success. Whether you’re building or selling your business, experiencing success in your career, planning to retire or have already retired, we help you plan to create greater success.

Risk Management

03

Risk and insurance touches every aspect of personal and business life. Risks to your life, health, property, livelihood and ability to work, profession, personal data . . . life is full of risks. Insurance helps keep you whole when bad things occasionally happen. We don’t sell insurance. We help develop, organize and manage your risk matrix and protection strategies.

Cash Flow Management

04

You will either need to save from the money you earn, the money you inherit, or possibly both, and invest to replace your earned income. Some of us will be fortunate enough to inherit, but most of us will need to save from the money we earn and invest it for the day when we wish to stop working or are no longer able to work. We help you track and manage your expenses and achieve your saving goals.

Cash and Liquidity
Management

05

Active cash management and credit facilities support stable and healthy cash flow management. We help you maintain control over lumpy or mismatched timing of cash flows, unexpected cash flow reductions or losses, or the headwinds of unexpected or increased expenditures. We help you manage cash and liquidity to meet your financial obligations and improve your financial efficiency.

Tax Planning
and Strategy

06

The number of tax regimes we are all faced with is mind-boggling. We help address the computational complexity of multiple layers of taxation. We help you consider how to best structure the investments you make and your exit strategy before you commit capital. We help you improve your asset location strategies to minimize your tax costs and improve your overall tax efficiency and effectiveness.

Investment
Management

07

If you don't get this right, nothing else matters. Precious few plans will succeed without saving and long-term, after-tax compounding of your investment returns. We help position your investments and accounts to benefit from after-tax, risk-managed, long-term wealth compounding. We tailor and manage separate accounts of individual securities diversified for each client.

Client Advisor
Team Development

08

No one feels fully prepared when stepping into the endeavor of becoming the CEO of their wealth for the first time. It is a workspace of multiple disciplines in multiple dimensions. We are C-Suite professionals purpose-focused to help you gain the benefits from working with a professional inter-disciplinary wealth management team. We are educated, trained and experienced for this work.

Trust and Estate
Planning

09

Planning for the protection of you and your family in all phases of your life and the successful transfer of your estate helps contribute to the legacy of your life’s work. Without a plan, you expose you and your family to unnecessary risks and forfeit protections and opportunities for more desirable outcomes. We help you express and protect your wishes and protect you and your family from less desirable outcomes.

Philanthropic and
Legacy Planning

10

Philanthropic and legacy planning helps enable you to expand your estate planning effort with a mosaic of values, meaning, guidance, purpose and responsibility for your posterity and matters that are of lasting importance to you. We help you plan and express your philanthropic intent while minimizing administrative complexity. We help you manage your philanthropic investments and commitments.

It's just part of what we do.

INTER-DISCIPLINARY TEAM

How We Do It

We position you as the CEO for your capital.

It’s your capital, so we position you as the highest-ranking member of your wealth management team, responsible for setting the agenda and delegating responsibilities to C-Suite professionals.

The best CEOs recruit and hire proven, accomplished C-Suite professionals.

Our C-Suite professionals join your team.

We are professionals whose titles begin with C, meaning the “chiefs” who get things done.
This is the group of people with the most important roles to help you as CEO.
We have decades of deep experience advising wealthy families with complex financial needs.

Together, we focus on your desired results.

We help you get your capital working intelligently for you.