We find that the best approach to pursuing your financial goals is to take a disciplined approach that is intensely focused on you. We call it our L.I.F.E. process and its four key steps stem from understanding what is important to you in your life – and then creating a financial plan that evolves to stay aligned with your life as your goals and personal circumstances change over time.
We’ll begin by taking a guided tour of your financial life. What’s your financial situation? Why do you own the investments you own? How much risk are you comfortable with taking? What are your financial priorities?
We’ll take an inventory of your personal goals: Do you want to fund your retirement, cover education costs, maintain your quality of life, or have a plan for your heirs? We’ll then take a comprehensive look at your current investments, understand how they work together, and assess whether they are appropriate to your goals. The overall goal of this step is for us to gain a good understanding of you and what you want to accomplish.
With your goals established, we’ll determine where you are in attaining them and what’s needed to further pursue them. We’ll work with you to design a plan that allows the different pieces of your financial life to work together, taking into account not only your short- and long-term goals, but also the level of risk you’re comfortable in taking.
Our goal is to optimize the balance between risk and return by investing in an appropriate allocation of stocks, bonds and cash. As much as 90% of a portfolio’s performance can be determined by asset allocation.*
* 2006, Ibbotson Associates, Inc. Past performance is no guarantee of future results. Index sources: Stocks – Standard & Poor’s 500®, which is an unmanaged group of securities and considered to be representative of the stock market in general; Bonds – 20-year U.S. Government Bond. Asset allocation does not ensure a profit nor protect against loss.
We’ll draw from a wide range of investment products to help customize the integrated strategies your plan requires. The strength of your plan will mean little if it all falls short at execution – which is why we’ll carefully review, screen and select fund managers, funds and other investments, and identify securities and industries to include or exclude. We strive for diversificaiton at all levels, including asset type, investment style and industry.
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We’ll meet with you on a regular basis to monitor your investments, evaluate your progress, help you measure results against your objectives and make adjustments as necessary. Changes in your life can mandate changes in your investments, so we will rebalance your portfolio as your life evolves and changes occur.
There is no assurance that any investment strategy will be successful. Investing involves risk and investors may incur a profit or a loss. Past performance is not indicative of future results.
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