📌Financial Goals Setting

  • Explore, clarify, prioritize your short-term, mid-term, and long-term goals.

  • Track your progress to each goals.

  • Review and update your goals periodically.

📌Cash Flow and Debt Management

  • Track and analyze your income, expenses, and savings.

  • Set emergency funds.

  • Compare and analyze your current debts and new debts (e.g. mortgage, student loans).

  • Improve, and monitor your credit scores.

  • Optimize your credit card benefits.

  • Buy VS. Lease a car.

  • Buy VS. Rent a home.

 

📌 Investment Planning

  • Help you understand all investment options and vehicles available to you.

  • Create your risk profile by evaluating your risk tolerance, risk capacity, and the amount of risk you need to take to achieve your goals.

  • Explain our investment philosophy.

  • Review and analyze your current investments (e.g. 401k, real estate, private investments, investments outside the U.S.).

  • Create the Investment Policy Statement(IPS) to set savings and investment plans for your goals.

  • Review and analyze any new investment offerings you receive.

  • Keep you updated with new investment options and research that may benefit you.

  • Monitor, review, and update your investments periodically from risk, return, and tax perspective based on your goals.

📌Financial Independence/Retirement Planning

  • Estimate your Social Security and Medicare benefits.

  • Help you understand all tax-advantaged retirement accounts available to you and identify any missing opportunities.

  • Estimate how much do you need in order to be financial independent.

  • Estimate when can you reach financial independence based on your current financial situation.

  • Adjust your savings, investment, career, and family plans accordingly.

  • Track, review, and update your plan periodically.

 

📌Tax Planning

  • Review your last three-years of tax returns to identify any mistakes or missing opportunities.

  • Identify any potential tax savings opportunities currently and in the future.

  • Identify any potential tax reporting problems currently and in the future.

  • Optimize tax consequences for future moves.

  • Keep you updated with tax law changes that may affect you.

📌Employee Benefits Optimization

  • Analyze and optimize the benefits available to you at work (e.g. health insurance, disability insurance, life insurance, 401k, HSAs, FSAs, RSUs, ESPPs, Stock Options).

  • Compare different job offers/compensation packages.

  • Review and update your benefits selection every year or at a life changing event.

 

📌Risk Management & Insurance Planning

  • Identify potential risks you are currently facing.

  • Review and analyze your current insurance coverage (e.g. health insurance, life insurance, disability insurance, long-term care insurance, homeowner/renters insurance, auto insurance, liability insurance)

  • Identify any potential insurance gaps or cost savings opportunities.

  • Compare and analyze new insurance offers.

  • Review and update your insurance coverage periodically.

📌Estate Planning

  • Explain common estate planning mistakes.

  • Review your estate planning documents, title on all your assets, beneficiary designations on all your accounts.

  • Identify any gaps, opportunities, and make sure everything is up-to-date.

  • Review everything periodically and update it accordingly.

 

📌Business Planning

  • Analyze and determine entity types.

  • Review and identify cost savings opportunities. (e.g. tax deductions, tax credits, retirement plans, group employee benefits).

  • Keep you updated with tax law changes that may affect your business.

📌COLLEGE Planning

  • Estimate potential college costs.

  • Help you understand all tax-advantaged college funding accounts available to you and identify any missing opportunities.

  • Analyze financial aid and merit-based scholarships.

  • Analyze student loan options.