Newburyport Office
50 Water Street
The Tannery Mall, Mill #1
Newburyport, MA. 01950
Phone: 978-463-8771
Fax: 978-463-8774

Wakefield Office
599 North Ave #6
Wakefield, MA. 01880
Phone: 781-246-8771
info@resolutefinancial.com

 

 
 

The Total Financial Plan

What do you receive from The Total Financial Plan?

The combination of advice, and our support to implement the plan to achieve your goals!

Financial planning and Asset management are not one-time events, so we manage them together as integrated processes at Resolute Financial. The passage of time causes all financial and investment plans to be periodically revised. Our goal is to keep your plans relevant and updated, saving you time and money. Investment management has a cost, but the difference is that we add continuous financial planning services and implementation support to provide true value as follows:

Financial Planning Services

Life events will affect any financial plan and require continuing discussions together. Updating your plan is part of The Total Financial Plan program so there are no additional charges for our services. We stand ready to support you as you encounter life events, and we provide insight into areas that are complex and not well understood, such as:

  1. Cash flow changes with the resulting tax implications
    Job changes / benefits changes
    Refinancing a home or investment property
    Financing education expenses
    Family changes (births, divorce, death/bequests)
    Unexpected medical costs
    Managing Retirement cash flow
    Tax code revisions affecting your deductions and payments.
  2. Asset changes
    Buying or selling a home or investment property
    Buying or selling a business (ask us about financing approaches)
    Stock options
    Retirement funding, IRA rollovers, pension distributions
    Advisory services prior to purchasing annuities or insurance
    Inheritances
  3. Estate and Insurance issues
    Moving or relocating to a different state
    Updating homeowners insurance / umbrella insurance
    Auto insurance coverage – young drivers
    Disability and long term care insurance
    Beneficiary changes
    Life insurance: Evaluating needs, reviewing policies
    Trusts – Income, distributions, grantor considerations

Asset Management Services

Investing is a long-term process which involves a systematic approach. Our philosophy is to create a portfolio that matches your risk tolerance, revising the portfolio when it is appropriate, and not attempting to catch last year’s great investment. Furthermore, we help you establish your core positions and re-balance them per your investment time horizon, minimizing bad timing which is the most common problem for individual investors.

Our process involves:

  1. Asset Class Selection: We review market conditions, to identify those that have become excessively risky. In a simple example, the current yield curve gives us data for selecting asset classes within Fixed Income/Bond categories.
  2. Client needs or changes: Have income needs changed? Cash flow changes? Have there been changes affecting the need for tax-exempt vs. taxable investments?
  3. Worldwide Market Review: Equity, Bond, Currencies, and Commodities. Data compilations from many primary sources are used for this review. We appraise asset class correlation data, noting that the values change over time.
  4. Investment Selection: What changes should be made to the portfolio? Has the asset class performance caused a need to re-balance the portfolio? What will be the tax impact for capital gains and losses? Have the selections satisfied our fiduciary measurements?
  5. Post-Review issues: We provide ongoing asset management so you can reap the benefit of our expertise.

We put your interests first™