No matter your age or level of wealth, we will tailor our services to you to help determine your financial goals, offer personalized advice, and create a meaningful relationship. Together, we’ll walk through the complete process for managing your financial life and we’ll create a long-term plan that works for you. Navigating your financial life can seem confusing, but we’ll work together to make it simple and understandable.
More complexity doesn’t always equal more money.
The cost of investing matters, especially since the cost of investing has dropped dramatically over the years. If it’s been a while since you’ve reviewed your investments, you may be overpaying.
At Forefront, we stick to a method, attempting to remove investor emotions that can arise when money is involved.
Not infotainment or talking-heads. Our investments are backed by decades of research including peer-reviewed academic sources, never hunches or forecasts.
Avoid expenses and taxes, proprietary black-boxes and bad investment products.
Accumulation planning addresses an individual’s investment needs, asset allocation, and the suitability of different types of securities in light of your goals and risk tolerance. In today’s world, there are common needs and desires people seek to accomplish. To protect their ability to earn and accumulate wealth, many people choose to hold insurance, as well as maintain an emergency fund, to guard against depleting savings that are intended for other goals.
Risk management is intended to minimize financial and other losses potentially associated with risks to your assets, business, or health. Some examples of risk are personal and professional liability, business ownership, property loss, and catastrophic illness or disability. Your first line of defense is to identify your sources of risk and then to either avoid or minimize the major exposures. Your last line of defense is insurance.
Tax planning considers the tax implications of individual, investment, or business decisions, usually with the goal of minimizing tax liability. Although decisions are rarely made solely on their tax impact, you should have a working knowledge of the income or estate tax issues and costs involved.
Business planning focuses on issues specific to business owners and shareholders. For most business owners, the business is their most significant asset, and the financial success of that business has an immediate impact on the economic security of their families. Without proper planning, you may have difficulty tapping the value of your business to support your retirement, or your family may lose the value of your business at your death.
Retirement planning involves evaluating your current financial standing and creating an accumulation strategy that will help to ensure a desired retirement lifestyle. Because an individual’s retirement years can span decades, retirement planning generally dominates other financial goals. A successful plan put into place during the wealth-building lifespan should address ways to maximize growth and tax-efficient distributions, as well as how to leave retirement assets to the next generation.
Estate planning creates a master plan for the management of your property during life and the distribution of that property at death. Our process does not end with estate planning but coordinates your estate plan with your overall plans for your business, investments, insurance, and employee benefits.
For our investment management clients, we charge a tiered percentage based on the total dollars managed.
For those who are looking for help on a single issue or are simply looking for a second opinion on their existing plan and portfolio.
If you’re just getting started this option is for you. For a fee paid monthly or in a lump sum you will get a year of comprehensive financial planning.