FAQs
- What should the customer know about your pricing (e.g., discounts, fees)?
We are a fee based advisory firm. Our fees begin at 1%/yr of assets you entrust us to invest. In other words. If you invested $100, we would charge $1 per year. If your investment grew to $200, we would now charge $2 per year. This was, we have a vested interest in seeing your assets grow. With every family we perform a cost/value analysis of fees. We endeavor to provide families with a fee structure that fits their situation. Every family receives a report of our estimated annual fees.
- What is your typical process for working with a new customer?
First, we like to chat on the phone and address immediate questions. In the event we decide a meeting is the best place to start, we sit down in the office or chat via the internet. We discuss your experience with investing, your feelings on the market, and any concerns that you may have. We take our time reviewing goals and review the tools you are using to accomplish those goals. Most importantly, we have a chance to learn how you communicate. I find this is the most important part of our process. My goal is for you to understand what I am doing. This empowers you to guide me toward investments that fit you are comfortable with. Finally, we sit down, review our findings, and, together, we determine the best course of action to follow.
- What education and/or training do you have that relates to your work?
I have been licensed since 2007 and am constantly attending classes to improve my knowledge base. I have a number of investment licenses (series 7 and 65) and I have a Life and Health license. I also have a marriage license ... HAHA! I maintain these licenses in an effort to be as transparent as possible. This also allows me to select from the largest set of tools. No two families are identical, hence we may need different tools for each job. My father once told me, "No tool is useful for all jobs, but every tool is useful for its job."