Onboarding Process

Yes, our process begins with you filling out our Get To Know You form as a basis for our first conversation. Once we receive your submission, we’ll follow up by setting an initial phone call to help us get acquainted and clarify expectations of what you are looking for in an advisor and how we may be able to help.

From this phone call, if we mutually decide to move forward, the next step is a 90-minute meeting to discuss in depth who you are, where you are, and where you want to be. Through our unique planning exercise, we’ll identify and set priorities to your goals and concerns and identify how we may help.

After this meeting, we’ll talk again over the phone within 48 hours to recap our discovery meeting, answer any questions you may have, and discuss if we mutually feel we are a good fit in starting an advisor-client relationship.

You’ll be working with a team of advisory professionals who are experienced, credentialed, and understand that technical expertise means little unless you achieve the goals for which your wealth was built.

Thus, you can expect us to engage in proactive communication to understand how changes in your life may need to change your plan or your investment strategy. One of the ways we’ll do that is through scheduled reviews. These touchpoints not only provide a time for updates and answering questions, but also establish a rhythm in continuing to help you navigate the various planning points and transitions in your life.

In addition to our expertise in financial planning and wealth management, we also offer social engagements, document shredding, educational webinars, a travel club, charitable programs, and more.

We’re unique in the fact that many of us are CFP® professionals helping plan your life, and are also wealth managers who have discretionary authority to manage the money. We do it all for you so that you don’t have extra layers of costs and fees.

Our fee-based compensation model directly ties us to the growth and success of your portfolio, not to the sale of products or the cost of investment outsourcing. Fees are deducted quarterly in advance and are based on the aggregated total value of your household’s advisory account(s). As part of our discovery meeting, we’ll discuss our tiered fee schedule so you know in advance how we are compensated before we ever decide to work together. If deemed appropriate and in our client’s best interests, we also provide commissioned brokerage services.

In a fee-based account, clients pay a quarterly fee, based on the level of assets in the account, for the services of a financial advisor as part of an advisory relationship. In deciding to pay a fee rather than commissions, clients should understand that the fee may be higher than a commission alternative during periods of lower trading. Advisory fees are in addition to the internal expenses charged by mutual funds and other investment company securities. To the extent that clients intend to hold these securities, the internal expenses should be included when evaluating the costs of a fee-based account. Clients should periodically re-evaluate whether the use of an asset-based fee continues to be appropriate in servicing their needs. A list of additional considerations, as well as the fee schedule, is available in the firm’s Form ADV Part 2 as well as the client agreement.