Experience, intellectual capital and dedicated personal service to help you meet your life goals
Our Story and Services
As your Financial Advisors, we can help you define and strive to meet your goals by delivering a vast array of resources to you in the way that is most appropriate for how you invest and what you want to achieve. Working together we can help you to preserve and grow your wealth. You’ll have access to some of the world’s most seasoned and respected investment professionals, a premier trading and execution platform and a full spectrum of investment choices.
Here is a list of what is needed and what will be discussed during our first Meeting. This list assumes a joint household, however, everything holds true for a single person.
Helpful: 1. Approximate earnings in 2022 2. Approximate contributions to retirement plans in 2022 as well as any company/state match 3. Approximate spending in 2022. How much do you spend each month or annually. 4. Breakdown of assets: a. How much and where are retirement plans or IRA's? b. How much and where are non-retirement plan assets? c. Will anyone be collecting a pension and if so, how much? 5. Social security statement as well as your social security payments.
Optional: 1. If you already have a detailed retirement plan, please provide it. 2. Your most recent tax return.
Your Ideas: 1. Your goals, hopes, and dreams 2. Your risk tolerance levels. 3. What you would like your legacy to be.
Our wealth management strategy is centered around you, your family, and your profession - where you are now and where you want to be in the future. We provide the structure to help you get there. See our process below:
1. Discovery Process
Where we invest the time to learn about you and your family, your assets and liabilities, and your risk exposures, which enables us to formulate strategies and customize the relationship to your needs.
2. Formulation of Tax, Trust and Estate Strategy
Working with your tax and legal advisors, we help analyze your income and estate tax circumstances to identify and tailor planning techniques that may be used to address your objectives.
3. Creation of Customized Strategic Asset Allocation
Your customized asset allocation reflects risk, opportunities and taxation across multiple entities, while integrating your investing and estate plans.
4. Implementation of a Customized Wealth Strategy
After comprehensive due diligence and analysis of expected results across multiple market scenarios, strategies are chosen from our expansive investment platform.
5. Integration of Tactical Asset Allocation
Short-term adjustments that seek to capitalize on temporary market distortions. Before making adjustments, we analyze the impact of taxes and trading costs on potential returns.
6. Ongoing Assessment
In coordination with your other advisors, we can conduct ongoing reviews and comprehensive reporting to ensure that your strategy adapts to changing financial and family needs.
Foundations and Endowments
We work extensively with foundations and endowments by providing fiduciary advice and guidance. Our services include:
Assistance in the Development or Evaluation of Investment Policy
- Evaluation of investment managers on Global Investment Manager Analysis platforms - Published manager reports
Execution Services - (Included with Asset-Based Fee Arrangement only)
- No commissions on stock transactions effected through Morgan Stanley, LLC Consulting Group trading desk - No markups or markdowns on bond transactions effected through Morgan Stanley, LLC Consulting Group trading desk
In The Press
Forbes Best-In-State
2022 Forbes Best-in-State Wealth Advisors - Michael Colacci 2021 Forbes Best-in-State Wealth Advisors - Michael Colacci 2020 Forbes Best-in-State Wealth Advisors - Michael Colacci 2019 Forbes Best-in-State Wealth Advisors - Michael Colacci
"2019-2022 Forbes Best-In- State Wealth Advisors Source: Forbes.com (Awarded 2019-2022). Data compiled by SHOOK Research LLC based 12-month time period concluding in June of year prior to the issuance of the award."
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