Personalized Process
Step One: Data Collection
- Income Statements
- Investments Statements
- Estate Documents
- Debt Summaries
- Private Investments
- Social Security Statements
- Insurance Documents
Step Two: Comprehensive Cash Flow Analysis
- Gross Income (Salaried, Bonus, ESOP, Pension, Social Security, Real Estate, Business Income, Private Investments)
- Paycheck Withholdings
- Fixed Expenses
- Discretionary Expenses
- Retirement Savings
- Debt Payoff
- NET Monthly Income/Deficit
- Funding Efficient Saving Order
- Emergency Savings, Education, Taxable, IRA’s, HSA, Employee Stock
- Maximize Tax Efficient Distribution Strategy
*Our Goal is to formalize a plan for Savings (employees), Distribution (retirees), and Wealth Transfer (Next Generation)
Step Three: Tailored Comprehensive Financial Blueprint
- Goal Analysis (Family, Retirement, Spending, Education, Travel, Savings, Wealth Transfer, Homes, Weddings.)
- Life Organization & Simplification of Financial Affairs
- Family Education
- Large Purchase Analysis
- Executive Compensation Planning and Tax Projections
- Business Owner Exit & Succession Planning
- Tax Strategies (Proactive tax avoidance, Tax Return Review and Preparation Letter for CPA, asset location, Realized G/L Projections, Roth Conversion)
- Retirement Planning (Social Security Analysis, Medicare/ Medicaid Analysis, tax-efficient retirement distribution, Retirement Account Analysis, LTC Planning)
- Estate Strategies (Annual Beneficiary Review, Multi-generational planning, Trustee and Executor Education, Estate Tax Avoidance, Intrafamily Gifting and Lending Analysis, Detailed education of components of estate plan and simplification, ongoing estate analysis, Trust services through partners)
- Charitable Giving (Charitable Gifting strategies, tax savings analysis utilizing different gifting strategies)
- Insurance (Medicare supplemental insurance, insurance price comparisons, Advanced Life Insurance Strategies for estate tax avoidance and business owners)
- Banking ( Cash Management, Securities Based Lending Analysis)
- Family Meetings to coordinate Wealth Transfer and Educate
- Emergency Savings, Education, Taxable, IRA’s, HSA, Employee Stock
- Maximize Tax Efficient Distribution Strategy
*Our Goal is to formalize a plan for Savings (employees), Distribution (retirees), and Wealth Transfer (Next Generation)
Step Four: Coordinate with Other Professionals
- Access to in house experts to assist reviewing your estate, insurance, tax, Medicare, and longevity documents and plan
- Arrange collaborative phone calls with experts to streamline and establish a clear connection between our objectives and your strategy
- Coordinate joint meetings to make sure everyone is on the same page and in agreement on proposed plan
- Communication between your Plaza team and your professional to simplify the initial document gathering process, list of assets, proposed strategy analysis, and organization
*Client performance number needed to achieve their goals - personalized benchmark
Step Five: Investment
Management
- Customize client's risk need to match Client Tailored Performance Measure from the Plan
- Tax Optimized Investment Solutions
- Frequent Tax Loss Harvesting Analysis
- Concentrated Stock Position Analysis
- Access To Private Alternative Investments
- Monthly Market and Economic Updates
- Access To Market-Linked Alternatives
- On-going Portfolio Review and Education
Step Six: Proactive Management and Maintenance
- Track annual required minimum distributions (RMD) to make sure they are sent out on an annualized basis
- Portfolio rebalancing and as client's financial goals and risk change
- Proactive communication with your accountant and estate attorney to make necessary updates to your plans regarding tax changes, charitabale gifting strategies, wealth transfer ideas, etc.
- On-going tax management within all taxable investment accounts, so there are no surprises at the end of the year- work within a tax budget
- Tax bracket management and tracking to make sure we are using up brackets in years with lower income
- Family meetings to keep everyone up to speed on the wealth transfer, expectations, education of inherited accounts, and family involvement
- 24 hour response time promise
- Scheduling link available for last minute discussion items that arise
- Offer educational resources and insights to keep clients informed about financial best practices and market trends
- Liquidity planning to ensure clients have adequate access to cash when needed while maintaining long-term investment objectives
- Maintain open and proactive communication with clients to address concerns, answer questions, and keep them informed.
- Implement strategies to protect clients' assets from unexpected events or market downturns.
- Provide clients with regular monthly, detailed financial reports and updates on the status of their portfolios.
*Client performance number needed to achieve their goals - personalized benchmark