Financial Planning Process
Achieving financial success is a logical, methodical, and multi-step process
Our Financial Planning Process will take you through 5 steps that will help you put aside emotions and focus in on creating a strategic plan to help you meet your Financial Goals.
The work you put in with us will help establish rhythms and perspective for your Financial Picture.
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Goals
We begin by learning more about you. We want to know where you see yourself in the next year, 5 years, 20 years and beyond.
Are you buying a home? Planning a trip? Planning for college expenses? Dreaming of retirement? Caring for aging parents? Have a dream to start a second career?
All of these items are specific to you. We want to understand what makes you tick.
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Financial Status
Our next step explores your current Financial Status.
We will need to work together gathering and analyzing how your income, expenses, assets, and liabilities all fit together.
We do this to have a comprehensive framework of your cash flow, tax considerations and net worth.
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Master Investment Plan
The Master Investment Plan (MIP) is the blueprint for your Financial Planning. This plan will blend together two core pieces in investing:
PRELIMINARY TIME FRAMES + RISK TOLERANCES
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ALLOCATION + DIVERSIFICATION PLANNING.
While these pieces will not ensure a profit or protect against a loss, it does help create a balance plan to help weather the volatility of the market.
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Investment Selection
If the Master Investment Plan is the blueprint, then this next step is picking out the materials.
With the parameters in places from the the previous steps, your Financial Advisor will specifically pick investment options that meet the agreed upon Master Investment Plan.
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Review
By taking the time to regularly review your MIP together, we can observe how the plan is working; as well as, evaluate any adjustments that need to be made along the way.