Areas of Expertise

Here are my areas of expertise, which I will use to provide you with customized recommendations that will help you plan for your financial future.

• Business Planning
  No business can be successful without a long-range plan. Business owners have special needs. I can help you anticipate those needs and help you develop a plan that will accomplish your specific financial objectives, including Business Succession, Business Continuation, Executive Benefits and Compensation, Employee Benefits, Risk Management and Personal Planning.
• Estate Planning
  You work your whole life to build your estate. You should have control over what happens to it upon your death. Building a lasting legacy takes more than simply accumulating a large portfolio. You need a solution that remains flexible enough to allow you to maintain maximum control of your assets and enjoy them during your lifetime while you prepare for the efficient transfer of those assets after you die.
• Financial Planning
  Long-term financial success doesn't happen by chance. Each area of your financial life can have an impact—positive or negative—on your other goals. Understanding these interrelationships is important as you deal with ongoing economic issues. Financial planning is a life-long process that assists you and your family in taking control of your financial future. By setting financial goals, developing strategies, and monitoring the progress on a regular basis, the likelihood of achieving your results is greatly increased.
• Retirement Planning
  Perhaps one of the greatest financial challenges you will face in your lifetime is preparing adequately for your retirement. I will help you create a plan that will assess your current financial situation, determine the retirement lifestyle for your future, review the many options available, and put solutions in place to help ensure you achieve the retirement of your dreams.
• Trust Services
  Trust services is a natural progression for people who have accumulated significant assets and now need help preserving and growing their wealth, as well as planning how to distribute it to loved ones and organizations. I will work to understand your complex financial goals and will recommend the appropriate wealth management, trust and estate planning solutions to help you achieve them.
• Business Succession
  What will happen to your business when you retire, or if you become permanently disabled or die? What's the value of your business, and how much is each owner's share worth? As a business owner, you know how many years you have invested in your business. Wanting it to continue is natural. Because I specialize in business succession planning, I can help you answer these and other questions. Together we can develop a plan to help ensure a smooth transfer of your business.
• Charitable Giving
  A charitable giving program benefits both donors and charities. Donors gain tax advantages and the satisfaction of knowing that their act of generosity will have a significant impact. Let me work with you to quantify what portion of your assets is available for charitable causes after taking into account your needs and your family's needs.
• Comprehensive Financial Planning
  Long-term financial success doesn't happen by chance. Each area of your financial life can have an impact—positive or negative—on your other goals. Understanding these interrelationships is important as you deal with ongoing economic issues. Comprehensive financial planning is a life-long process that assists you and your family in taking control of your financial future. By setting financial goals, developing strategies, and monitoring the progress on a regular basis, the likelihood of achieving your results is greatly increased.
• Values Based Planning
  Values based planning is a process that helps you identify your mission, vision, values and goals and ranks them in order of priority and establishes a course of action to reach those objectives. The plan will be tailor-made for you and will include a personalized report that may include a strategy to protect your assets and income, recommendations to help you achieve your objectives, and wealth distribution strategies designed to pass your estate on to future generations.

Before you agree to receive financial planning services, please see complete information and disclosures in The Disclosure Brochure and review the terms of the Northwestern Mutual Wealth Management Company Planning Engagement Agreement. These may be obtained from your Wealth Management Advisor.

In addition to providing advisory services, as a member of the Northwestern Mutual Financial Network I can also offer access to the following products and services:

• Special Needs Planning
  Planning for a dependent with special needs can be complicated. It is recommended that you work with a team of experts – including an attorney, a financial professional and a social service professional. As a key member to the special needs team, I provide solutions for families with special needs.