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The Retirement Compass Process

Our process is designed to help our clients achieve simplicity and confidence during their retirement years. It’s focused on

5 key areas of your current financial life.

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Income planning

Our goal is to help ensure your expenses can be paid month-to-month with reliability and predictability for the rest of your life. This typically includes:

  • Social Security Maximization

  • Income & Expense Analysis

  • Inflation Plan

  • Spousal Plan

  • Longevity Protection

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Investment planning

Once your income plan is established, we will create an investment plan for the remaining assets that you do not need to draw from month-to-month. This typically includes:

  • Assessing your Risk Tolerance

    Adjusting your portfolio to reduce fees

  • Volatility Control

  • Evaluate ways to reduce risk while still working towards your goals

  • Comprehensive Institutional Money Management

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Tax planning

Any comprehensive Retirement Plan should include a strategy for decreasing tax liabilities. This typically includes:

  • Assessing the taxable nature of your current holdings

  • Possible I.R.A. Planning

  • Strategizing ways to include tax-deferred or tax-free money in your plan

    Strategize which tax category to draw income from first to potentially reduce the tax burden

  • Discussing ways to leverage your qualified money to leave tax-free dollars to your beneficiaries

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Healthcare planning

We will create a plan to help you address rising healthcare costs with a minimum of expense, including:

  • Looking at all aspects of Medicare, Parts A, B and D

    Analyzing options for a Long-Term Care Plan

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Legacy planning

It is important to ensure your hard-earned assets go to your beneficiaries in the most tax-efficient manner. By working collaboratively with a qualified Estate Planning Attorney, our goal will be to help you:

  • Maximize your estate and income tax planning opportunities

  • Protect any assets in trust and ensure they are distributed to your beneficiaries probate-free

  • Prevent your IRA and qualified accounts from becoming fully taxable to your beneficiaries upon your death

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