Investment Management Services

As part of your your overall financial plan you may need to implement various investment accounts. We can help you setup and fund your new accounts. Our philosophy is to generally have one goal per account.  For example we like to have separate accounts for retirements savings and college savings. So that we can make an appropriate recommendation for you we need to learn a little about you.  We may have gathered some information if we have done some planning for you but in general we will ask you about your:

• Life Goals
  
• Financial Goals
  
• Targeted Goal Amount
• Time frame
  
• Risk Tolerance
  
• Family
  
• Other Assets and Liabilities
  
• Your Income and Expenses
  
• Investment Amount
  
• Your Investment Experience
  
• Additional Information 
  

We may have come out with a plan for your goal / account in the planning process.  If not we will do that as part of opening an account to help us monitor over time if you are tracking toward your goal.  During the startup of the investment management phase we will come up with a recommendation for the structure of your account such as:

• Individual
  
• Joint
  
• IRA
  
• Roth IRA
  
• Trust
  
• Etc
  

We will also come up with the investments to be included in the account as well as the recommend allocation of these investments such as:

• Individual US Stocks
  
• Individual Foreign Stocks
  
• Individual Municipal Bonds
  
• Individual Corporate Bonds
  
• ETFs
  
• Mutual Funds
  
• Etc.
  

There are other services that go into setting up and managing investment accounts.  Thsee services involved might include:

• Risk Assessment
  
• Passive vs Active
  
• Asset Allocation
  
• Asset Selection
  
• Tax Location
  
• Trading
  
• Rebalancing
  
• Rollovers
  
• Contributions
  
• RMDs
  
• Distributions
  
• Cost Basis Analysis
  
• Tax Reporting
  
• Annual Review
  
• Ongoing Monitoring
  
• Custodian Setup
  
• Online vs paper statements
• Performance Reporting
• Advisory vs Brokerage
  
• Insurance Options