Take Control of Your Financial Future
The pace and complexity of managing modern life may leave some people unprepared to manage their finances. If you’re feeling less than confident about your future, having a well-prepared financial plan can help put you in control.
To manage your income and expenses effectively throughout your lifetime, consider partnering with your financial advisor, who has the experience to help you create a plan that strategically addresses your unique goals and needs.
Why People Say "Yes" to Financial Planning
Financial planning pulls together all your finances and organizes them to help make management easy and effective. The more you understand and better manage your wealth, the more prepared you are for your goals and dreams and unexpected events.
Our comprehensive financial planning can provide solutions that are customized to your objectives and capable you to pursue your financial goals and aspirations.
Creating a financial plan will help you:
- Understand your finances from a holistic point of view.
- Create integrated strategies that take all your financial actives into account.
- Identify long-term goals and the steps needed to pursue them.
- Track your progress and make adjustments as you experience new life events.
What Your Financial Plan Should Include
The key to creating a successful financial plan is ensuring it covers your current and future financial needs. To determine your particular needs, spend time with your financial advisor considering your options, defining your goals, and evaluating your resources.
The following are some common areas to consider when planning your financial future:
Cash flow: Cash flow is a cornerstone in developing a comprehensive financial plan. Identifying what your spending habits are now will help us identify what your cash flow needs in retirement will be. Failing to have a clear picture of your bills and expenses can dramatically reduce your ability to meet your financial objectives.
Savings: Fundamental to building a secure, manageable future is saving for the unexpected as well as the expected. Saving is easier if you “pay yourself first” and build automatic savings into your budget.
Risk management: Risk can take many forms: illness, accident, liability, and natural disasters, to name a few. Failing to manage risk properly can jeopardize your financial future. That’s why smart financial planning evaluates the various levels and types of insurance you carry to make sure they’re aligned with your overall goals and needs. In many cases, insurance can also be used effectively as an alternative revenue stream and a hedge against inflation and riskier types of investments. Life insurance policies contain exclusions, limitations, and reductions of benefits, and terms for keeping them in force. Your financial advisor can provide you with costs and complete details.
Education funding: The costs of education for children and grandchildren can be staggering and are seemingly always on the rise. Education is often one of the largest expenses families incur. Arm yourself with current information about the variety of proactive educational savings vehicles that can help you plan your funding goals while managing exposure to big surprises or long-term debt.
Retirement planning: Social Security benefits, employer-sponsored plans, and personal retirement savings including investments, IRAs, and annuities typically combine to comprise retirement income for most Americans. Deciding which retirement choices will serve you best can be daunting, but your financial advisor can guide you to the options that will help support and enhance your overall investment and tax strategies.
Estate planning: Your legacy is in your hands. Only through diligent monitoring can you be assured your assets will be transferred effectively and according to your wishes to the people and charities you care about most. Establishing trusts, regularly reviewing your legal documents and beneficiary designations, and examining tax implications for survivors are vital to establishing a plan that provides you and your loved ones with greater confidence and security.
Benefits of the Modular Planning
You may only want strategies to accomplish a specific goal or want to focus on your financial concerns. Addressing all of your financial goals and objectives at once may seem intimidating or unnecessary for your circumstances.
- Modular planning services provide a specific financial problem-solving and consulting in areas that are somewhat different than the services offered through traditional, comprehensive financial planning.
- With modular planning, you get essential guidance, practical recommendations, and a strategy for your most important goals in retirement planning, educational planning, Insurance needs analysis, major purchase analysis, or goal planning, etc.
- This planning is a flexible and affordable option if you are seeking sound financial guidance with simplified deliverable reports.
Modular planning services can help you stay on track with a disciplined approach to your goals, as well as help you keep pace with changes in your personal financial situation and needs.
WealthVision Integration for Planning Your Financial Future
We’ll then use the WealthVision platform to integrate your financial plan into a robust personal financial website. Its powerful engine can generate comprehensive financial planning analytics --- calculating cash flow projections, modeling “what-if” scenarios, and generating alerts when adjustments may need to be made. You’ll have access to budget tools, reports, educational materials, and storage for personal documents in one convenient and secure location.
Your Personal Financial Website
The WealthVision client portal is designed to provide you with the robust features you need to stay connected to your finances, goals, and important documents.
Your secure personal website is available via desktop or mobile, and it allows you to track your progress against the goals set by you and your financial advisor. And, perhaps most importantly, you never have to worry about your information being shared with online advertisers and other service providers.
Your client portal provides you with:
- Tracking of all net worth with asset and liability balances updated daily.
- Alerts to keep you aware of significant transactions and changes in balance.
- Investment analysis on all of your investment assets.
- Secure storage of the information most important to you, including wills, tax returns, medical histories, and more
- A budget tool to track and prioritize your spending
- Reports on net worth, cash flow, asset allocation, and more.
Our comprehensive security measures include password protection, Secure Socket Layer encryption, firewalls, intrusion detection, audits, inspections, and more. With each measure in place, you can be confident that your important information is safe and secure.
Getting Started
Are you planning your financial future?
You can create a financial plan for retirement, education, spending, and more by using our goals-based financial planning solution. Get a snapshot of where you are and where you want to be.
Once your plan has been created, we will review it regularly to help you stay on track toward your goals.