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CONSIDER EVERYTHING

Wealth Management Professionals

It is a privilege that very few people, if any, will get in their lives to be entrusted with guiding you financially and helping you look after your financial well-being.

Our career wealth management professionals have been working together as a team for more than 75 years collectively to serve each client with a passion for excellence, intellectual honesty, integrity and leadership. We are educated, trained, and experienced for this work.

IT’S JUST PART OF WHAT WE DO.

Fiduciary Wealth Management
Scottsdale | Phoenix

Wealth management
designed to maximize your life.

Intellectual honesty, integrity and leadership.

Our team has been cultivating excellence together collectively for more than 75 years.

CONSIDER EVERYTHING

Wealth Management Professionals

It is a privilege that very few people, if any, will get in their lives to be entrusted with guiding you financially and helping you look after your financial well-being.

Our career wealth management professionals have been working together as a team for 75 years collectively to serve each client with a passion for excellence, intellectual honesty, integrity and leadership.

We are educated, trained, invested and experienced for this work.

It's just part of what we do.

Our team has been working together collectively for more than 75 years.

Wealth Management Professionals | We are engaged stakeholders.

Wealth Management
Is not Product Guidance

During the past 30 years, access to financial markets has been successfully democratized with the help of technology and the internet. Anyone can now open an account at a variety of discount and retail brokerage firms and gain access to well-constructed, low-cost investment products coupled with product guidance and account service help. But call-center employees offering product guidance and account service help is not the same as wealth management professionals solving the complex and deeply nuanced problems we all have with preserving, protecting, growing and transferring our wealth.

Wealth Management
is Multi-Disciplinary

The enduring truth of wealth management is that successfully preserving, protecting, growing and transferring wealth is a multi-disciplinary challenge of continual problem-solving. Like so many other aspects of modern life and career fields, wealth management has become much more complex. The complexity requires the advanced education and training, deeper experience, and lifelong career commitments of wealth management professionals.

Wealth Management
Helps Solve Problems

When you research and interview wealth management professionals, you are looking for someone who is prepared and capable of helping you solve complex and nuanced problems. Naturally then, your search and selection process should focus on finding the talent and resources you’ll need to solve your current and anticipated problems. Start by identifying the subject areas of the problems you want addressed now and in the future.

Wealth Management Requires
Breadth and Depth-of-Field

The wealth management body of knowledge covers more than 100 subject matter areas, each discipline of which represents an extensive body of knowledge and can easily develop into a career path of its own. As a result, managing wealth becomes a multi-disciplinary endeavor. Look for wealth management professionals whose education, professional training and experience combines breadth and depth-of-field.

Wealth Management Requires
Integrity and Commitment

There are markers for integrity and commitment. Career wealth management professionals will subject themselves to the highest legal standards of fiduciary client care and adhere to professional codes of ethics that create career jeopardy for acts of bad faith. Look for the standards to which they are willing to adhere. Look for wealth management professionals who adhere to these standards of professional conduct

CFA Institute | Code of Ethics and Standards of Conduct

CFP Board | Code of Ethics and Standards of Conduct 

American Bankers Association | Code of Ethics

Wealth Management Requires
Competency

Managing wealth is an advanced-level game that requires competent wealth management professionals.

A-level wealth management professionals will frequently hold advanced degrees and be independently board-certified in three or more of the 10 allied disciplines of wealth management and have core competencies that rate at least a Level 6 on nearly every topic in our Professional Knowledge and Practice Experience Rating Exercise in our Selecting a Wealth Management Professional guide (see pages 6 – 17).

10 Allied Disciplines of Wealth Management
1.    Financial Planning (CFP®, ChFC®, PFS®)
2.    Life Underwriting (CLU®)
3.    Investment Management Consulting (CIMA®, CPWA®)
4.    Tax Planning (MTax)
5.    Investment Management (CFA®)
6.    Retirement Planning (RICP®, RMA®)
7.    Trust and Estate Planning (AEP®, CTFA)
8.    Philanthropic Planning (CAP®)
9.    Accounting (CPA)
10.  Law (JD)