Our Philosophy & Mission
a leading source of unbiased financial advice
Our mission is to offer the best advice, tools and resources available to help you meet your financial goals. Guided by three tenets – performance, service and transparency – the team is committed to delivering to you all three through conflict-free, actionable manager guidance, effective asset allocation positioning, timely economic and market perspectives and visibility into our process.
The Investment and Consulting Process
As your investment partner, we are committed to helping you accomplish your unique financial goals and objectives. After developing a thorough understanding of your risk tolerance and short- and long-term goals, we will work together to create a customized investment portfolio designed for you. In order to accomplish this, we will take you through the investment consulting process, which is designed to help us determine how to best address your financial goals and dreams. The method has four steps designed to help you easily walk through the investment process.
The first and most important step in the investment consulting process is Discovery. We will help you clearly identify your short- and long-term investing goals, tolerance for risk and wealth management needs. Perhaps you have always wanted to purchase a second home, start a new business or establish a charitable foundation. Whatever your needs may be, we can help you get there by defining your investment objectives and then customizing a portfolio designed to address your unique situation.
- What are your hopes and dreams?
- Do you have a high or low tolerance for risk?
- Do you have any specific tax considerations?
- What is your investment objective?
- What is your time horizon?
Our investment manager selection and due diligence efforts for mutual funds, money managers and alternative investment strategies is based on a strong and thorough investment discipline. Our recommendations are unbiased. As an independent firm, you can be confident we are making decisions based solely on recommending the best investment option for a specific purpose. The research process combines quantitative and qualitative screening factors and analysis that do not include or consider in any way any financial arrangements or business relationships that may or may not exist between
LPL Financial and the manager.
- Investment portfolio recommendations
- Customized asset allocation strategies
- Wealth management services
- Diversification
Your
advisor can implement your financial plan through the use of LPL Financial managed platforms or pick and choose from our spectrum of research guidance to manage the individual aspects of your portfolio themselves.
- Account opening paperwork
- Funding
Once your assets are invested, the process of monitoring and managing your portfolio begins. We will continue to review and evaluate your investment strategy to ensure it remains aligned with your goals. We will provide investment education, guidance and expertise through regular meetings and discussions. As your needs change, we will reevaluate your investment strategy and discuss alternatives.
- Quarterly performance reports
- Ongoing due diligence of investment managers
- Periodic reviews
- Investment newsletters
- Tax harvesting
- Portfolio rebalancing
