Your Financial Plan

We don’t like to think about worst-case scenarios; however, at the very least we should try to prepare ourselves for them in some fundamental way.

If you’re involved in an accident that leaves you disabled or worse, takes your life, who will be notified? How will others contact the key people in your life? What is the appropriate course of action for personal documents containing important information?

The Estate Directory is designed to help you identify and locate important people in your life as well as to organize critical personal information to be used at a time when it will be needed the most.

The benefit of this type of planning is enormous. It ensures that neither key people nor aspects of critical information will be overlooked.

As the old adage states, those who fail to plan, plan to fail. When it comes to your finances and securing your future, there may not be better advice to keep in mind.

When would you like to retire? How much will you need to save to retire comfortably at your preferred age? How will you account for growing inflation through the years?

The chances are, you’ve thought about these questions before, and perhaps, you’ve even answered them with some rough estimates, which is an excellent start.

The Wealth Management section helps you take these abstract concepts and turn them into tangible, realistic, yet accurate goals.

Planning for your financial aspirations and retirement years is easier than you think and will help give you more financial confidence through your life journey.

Many people buy insurance policies based solely on arbitrary, one-size-fits-all numbers. My approach to insurance is very pragmatic: get only what you need. Nothing more. Nothing less.

To determine your insurance needs, I use a series of questions designed to clarify the spending needs when an event is triggered. Do you want to pay off your mortgage in the event of your death? What about funding your children’s education needs? Or providing your surviving spouse with an independent income so he or she is able to focus time on raising young children? We explore these types of questions to build your plan and to determine just how much insurance you really require.

The benefit in planning your insurance needs today is that the people required to contribute to the plan are already here. No one is left trying to make the best decision on your behalf when it’s already too late and during a time a grieving. Having a plan set out today gives survivors a roadmap — a guide that ensures they know exactly what you want to accomplish with your insurance policy and how.

This section of your financial plan contains all the reference information that survivors will need, regardless of how involved they were in creating your plan.

Below are some of the items it covers:

• Portfolio summaries.
• Details for each individual investment.
• Business agreements and details about corporate and trust holdings.
• Any other Important Assets, which can include:
  • Titles to properties, including recreation and revenue properties.
  • Information about any collections.
  • Vehicles.
  • Appraisals for family heirlooms, etc.