Person-To-Person
- Monitors changes in your life and family situation
- Proactively keeps in touch with you
- Serves as a human glossary of financial terms such as beta, P/E ratio, and Sharpe ratio
- Provides referrals to other professionals, such as accountants and attorneys
- Shares the experience of dozens of our clients who have faced circumstances similar to yours
- Helps with the continuity of your family’s financial plan through generations
- Facilitates the transfer of investments from individual names to trust, or from an owner through to beneficiaries
- Keeps you on track
- Identifies your savings shortfalls
- Develops and monitors a strategy for debt reduction
- Is a wise sounding board for ideas you are considering
- Is honest with you
Taxes
Suggests alternatives to lower your taxes during retirement
Reviews your tax returns with an eye to possible savings in the future
Stays up to date on tax law changes
Helps you reduce your taxes
Repositions investments to take full advantage of tax law provisions
Works with your tax and legal advisors to help you meet your financial goals
LPL Financial does not provide tax advice. Clients should consult with their personal tax advisors regarding the tax consequences of investing.
Investments
Develops a personalized asset allocation for you, so you can pursue the highest rate of return for a given level of risk tolerance
Stays up to date on changes in the investment world
Monitors your investments
Reviews your investments in your company 401(k) or 403(b) plans
Reviews your existing IRAs
Helps convert your investments to lifetime income
Refers you to banking establishments for loan and trust alternatives
Suggests alternatives to help increase your income during retirement
Records and researches your cost basis on securities
Provides you with objective and independent investment research
Provides you with personal investment analysis
Determines the risk level of your existing portfolio
Helps you consolidate and simplify your investments
Can provide you with technical, fundamental, and quantitative investment analysis
Provides introductions to money managers
Shows you how to access your statements and other information online
Financial Planning
- Guides you to think about areas of your financial life you may not have considered
- Formalizes your goals and puts them in writing
- Helps you prioritize your financial opportunities
- Studies possible alternatives that could meet your goals
- Prepares you a financial plan and/or an investment policy statement
- Suggests creative alternatives that you may not have considered including the best way to claim Social Security
- Reviews and recommends life insurance policies to protect your family
- Assists you in setting up a company retirement plan
- Assists in preparing an estate plan
- Reviews your children’s custodial accounts and 529 plans
- Helps determine your Individual Retirement Account (IRA) required minimum distribution
- Provides reminders abut key financial planning data
- Checks with you before the end of the year to identify any last minute financial planning
- Guides you on ways to fund health care in retirement
