FINANCIAL PLANNING

Financial planning is the foundation of your financial success. It all begins here.

We help you explore your lifestyle goals and dreams and provide you with a plan to meet them.

We help you to understand your financial strengths and weaknesses by creating income and expense documents, so you have a clear understanding of your cash flow.

Your cash flow is the key to wealth financial independence. We show you how to save by helping you align your present choices and future lifestyle with your desired financial success. It’s not always easy, but it is certainly possible.

We help you prioritize and make the right decisions, keeping in mind your values and what is important to you.

RETIREMENT PLANNING

Retirement is not an event. It’s a phase in life. 

We help you understand your retirement plans, options, pensions and other retirement savings. We help you prioritize and then we analyze multiple outcomes to create the most tax efficient strategy to meet your goals.

Through our advanced planning process we analyze your current and future finances – assets, income, expenses, and help you get on track to where you need to be. 

The process will help us to determine the best use of your financial resources. 

We help you make your retirement plan decisions and help you to maximize your savings. 

ESTATE PLANNING

We help you plan to meet your personal and family needs by reviewing your existing documents and agreements. 

We help you understand the roles of your trustees and executors and beneficiaries. We make sure your plan aligns with your personal wishes in life as well as your wishes for your legacy.

We help you create an efficient transfer of wealth by identifying the impact of current asset ownership, and ensuring your assets are titled as detailed in legal documents.

We advise you on charitable and gifting strategies, helping you meet your legacy wishes

INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT

Your investment strategy is essential to meeting your financial goals. Remaining invested during market fluctuations can be difficult if your portfolio is not aligned with your psychological risk tolerance.

We help you overcome this ‘behavior gap’ by integrating your risk tolerance with your short, medium, and longer term goals.

Our portfolios are well-diversified using low cost and no-load investments. Our preferred investment choices for our portfolios are low-cost mutual funds, exchange traded funds, and individual bonds, as appropriate.

We are fee-only; we do not receive commissions from the investments we select for you

LIFE TRANSITIONS

Unexpected financial changes due to divorce or death of a loved one can create a block in your life, preventing you from moving forward.

Life changes require meaningful conversations and thoughtful actions to help you plan for the new normal in your life.

Unexpected wealth requires a carefully planned strategy to ensure the assets are allocated to meet your current goals and invested for your long-term objectives.

We act as your thinking partner and your guide to help prepare you to take action. As you progress through each step, we will guide you in all aspects that affect your financial life and your new life.

We assist in creating a team of specialists to assess, guide and implement recommendations to create peace of mind.

TAX PLANNING

Your tax return is your financial x-ray; it provides insight into your financial life.

We review two years of tax returns to help us recommend tax efficient strategies going forward. We work with you and your accountants and help you to prepare your tax documents.

We evaluate the tax impact of financial life decisions such as asset sales, gifts, and transfers. We then recommend resourceful strategies which consider both current and future tax implications.

While an “unusually uncertain” economic outlook creates significant challenges in planning for financial security for our clients, it also provides opportunities to implement tax-advantaged investment strategies that may mitigate risk and/or enhance after-tax returns. Such proven products and services which First Down Financial supports include:

• LRP Plus
• Defined Benefit Plans
• Captive Insurance Compensation
• SEPs
• SOLAR Plans
• ROTH IRAs
• Annuities
• Guaranteed Retirement Plans
• Legacy Planning