Financial Life Planning And
Investment Management Topics

Financial Life Planning & Transition Life Planning

  • Discovery / clarification of mission, vision, and values

  • Identifying life goals and objectives

  • Neuropsychology of change

  • Sorting through priorities to know where to start

  • Thinking partner and accountability partner

  • Clarification of questions and concerns

  • Human capital / career planning

  • Net worth review, estimate of assets & liabilities

  • Education funding

  • Social Security planning

  • Financial Health

  • Coordination with other professionals

  • Compensation plans and employee benefits

  • Buying vs renting a home

  • Buying vs leasing a car

  • Advanced planning techniques and strategies

Cash Flow Planning/Budgeting

  • Balance sheet / net worth statement

  • Debt management / student loans

  • Cash flow management / budgeting

  • Automatic saving

Investment Planning/Retirement & Financial Independance

  • Review of investment objectives and time horizon

  • Review of investment philosophy and strategy

  • Retirement income needs

  • Personalized allocation

  • Investment portfolio analysis

  • Individual portfolio reviews

  • Contribution and distribution planning

  • Market insights and commentary

  • Review of risk profile, investment objectives, and performance as needed

  • Tracking wealth management progress

  • Consolidation and simplification

  • Non-standard investments

  • Separately managed stock portfolios

  • Environmental, Social, and Governance issues

  • Asset classes, asset allocation and diversification

  • Performance, risk, and return

  • Fee review

Tax Planning

  • Tax-sensitive investment management

  • Asset location

  • Deferred compensation

  • Income tax situation review

  • Required minimum distributions

  • Conversions, rollovers, and recharacterizations

Risk Management

  • Life

  • Health

  • Disability

  • Long term care

  • Home, renters, auto

  • Liability and umbrella

  • Business insurance

  • Mortgage insurance

  • Directors and officers

  • Identity theft

  • Travel

  • Strategies

Healthcare Planning

  • Healthcare costs during retirement

  • Medicare / Medicaid

  • Eldercare planning

Estate Planning and Wealth Transfer

  • Getting things organized for surviving loved ones

  • Final arrangements planning / pre-planning

  • Beneficiaries

  • Wills

  • Palliative care / Hospice

  • Forms of ownership / property titling

  • Trusts

  • Personal representatives, agents, advance directives, agency documents

  • Organ donation / donating body to science

  • Digital property

  • Charitable Giving

  • Inter-/intra-generational wealth transfer/ giving

  • Non-traditional relationships

  • Family meeting / communication

  • Estimate of estate value and settlement costs