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Our Process

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Shared Vision, Shared Values

You have individual experiences, unique hopes and dreams – and that calls for a unique and disciplined values-based approach to financial planning. Applying our differentiated discovery process, we help you navigate your unique needs to achieve your goals. We start by looking at your entire financial picture to break down what you need to do to meet your goals and prepare for the unexpected, taking into consideration all your financial obligations. After we fully visualize your financial future, we develop a robust financial strategy to help you realize your goals.

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Wealth Planning for your Life Plans

Your financial success requires adherence to a process that is not based on emotion or today's headlines. We begin by ensuring your financial independence, family legacy, and social capital solutions are in place so that wealth optimization can become the primary focus. Using a wide range of investment and protection strategies, we build tailored plans designed to address your unique needs and situation. We believe solid planning requires specialized expertise and a team approach. As a member of the Private Client Group at Northwestern Mutual, we combine deep credentials and access to advanced solutions with our signature level of service for laser-focused execution.

WE BELIEVE IN...

You’ll have the benefit of expert investment strategies built specifically around your needs and goals, as well as access to a range of diversified investment options.

  1. Recommending an asset allocation that is strategically positioned to help you achieve your goals.
  2. Mitigating risk through diversification, using both asset allocation and investment selection.
  3. Applying a consistent investment process through various market cycles and investment environments with periodic rebalancing.
  4. Benchmarking to ensure client portfolios continue to match client needs and objectives over time.
  5. Opportunistic investing to produce an incremental return, reduce risk, or both, leveraging the advanced intelligence and personalized investment services of Northwestern Mutual.
  6. Applying tax and cost efficiency strategies.

Protecting and Growing Your Investment Portfolio

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A consolidated and thoughtfully developed long-term investment strategy is the best way to ensure progress toward your goals. We identify and consolidate your investments to ensure that you are positioned appropriately for your risk tolerance, recommend asset allocation strategies to align your investments with your broader financial goals and monitor strategies to maintain a clear focus on your short, intermediate, and long-term financial goals.

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Planning for Every Generation

Generational wealth management is often as important to you as effective wealth management during your accumulation phase. We help you pass wealth on to the next generation in a protected manner and work across the generations of your family, even before members have wealth of their own. Our approach is customized and unique to each family, listening to goals and addressing individual objectives. Family values are at the core of our plans so that family wealth can be transferred efficiently and effectively from one generation to the next.