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Financial Planning | Investment Management
Retirement Planning | Estate Planning

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Financial Planning

We combine thorough financial planning with customized investing to help you identify and achieve your most important life goals.

Customized Planning

Our detailed planning process allows us to completely understand each client's personal and financial situation, objectives, comfort level with risk and time horizon for achieving goals. This understanding allows us to:

  • Create customized investment portfolios
  • Help minimize tax liabilities inside and outside of client portfolios
  • Advise clients on estate planning with the assistance of our expert partners
  • Advise on tax-efficient, impactful philanthropic strategies.
  • Analyze existing risk mitigation and insurance strategies.
  • Review existing debt and liability structures to determine if better options can be utilized.

Advice that Serves You

The guidance that results from our planning process is based on the sole criteria of helping you meet your goals. Are you focused on retiring comfortably, selling or exiting a business or leaving a lasting legacy? We always recommend the most appropriate , most cost-efficient advice and solutions—and never those that don't help you reach your objectives.

Seeing the Big Picture

We recognize that no client's financial life is one-dimensional. Using our deep expertise in investing, tax management, risk mitigation and other areas, we coordinate all the elements of your financial life in order to help you reach your bottom-line goals and achieve peace of mind.
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Investment Management

Successful investment management starts with discipline. It is the cornerstone of your financial future. We manage your assets as if they were our own. We work to achieve our clients' goals through appropriate growth and income but also focus on risk and all of the competing forces that can impact a portfolio over time. Through extensive research, focused risk modeling and management, our portfolios are designed to help clients achieve their long-term goals.
  • Custom Portfolios
  • Science, Not Guesswork
  • Expertise Matters
  • Discipline and Flexibility
  • Long-Term Focus
  • Limited Taxes
We focus on income and asset distribution strategies to enable you to enjoy your life of financial independence. We want you to have the lifestyle you want and worked so hard to achieve.
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Retirement Planning

Financing retirement has become increasingly complex and can cause anxiety, especially for those who plan to access their retirement assets in the next several years and beyond. An array of investment options, combined with fluctuating interest and inflation rates and other variables, make it difficult to determine how much you will need, where you should invest, and to whom to turn for assistance.

The complex tax and legislative environment surrounding retirement planning only compounds the confusion. With qualified plans, such as IRAs, pensions, profit sharing, and 401(k) plans, the timing and amount of withdrawals are critical to avoid additional tax penalties. If you have accumulated significant qualified plan assets, you may face additional problems, such as the "Double Tax Dilemma," where the government can tax these assets twice.

CochranMickels Retirement Specialist, LLC., has experience with almost half of our clients in the distribution phase. We understand the challenges facing families preparing for retirement and those already in retirement.

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Estate Planning

Part of living confidently in the present is knowing that your wishes will be carried out in the future. We help to create estate plans that will protect and efficiently transfer your wealth while conveying your wishes for your loved ones and your own care.

Proper estate planning allows you to transfer your wealth according to your wishes while minimizing unnecessary taxes and expenses. Our goal is to ensure you have taken prudent steps to reduce your tax liabilities and to help to create the most effective means to finance any future tax liabilities.

Philanthropic Planning

Philanthropic planning offers a strategic way for you to connect to causes that you and your family feel passionate about. We offer creative solutions to accomplish your philanthropic goals without interrupting your family's financial plan and stability.

Gifting

An important component to any estate plan is gifting, which allows you to reduce the size of your taxable estate by strategically transferring the wealth. Gifting enables you to take advantage of the substantial tax advantages available through lifetime gifts. Thoughtful use of these gifts through the use of planning vehicles such as trusts and life insurance can help maximize the value created for future generations.

We work with all of your professionals to help you with...

  • Wills
  • Trusts and Trust accounts
  • Power of attorney
  • Account beneficiaries
  • Beneficiary accounts
  • Gifting assets
  • Business exit and succession strategies
  • Philanthropic mission and vision
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