Financial planning
A living plan for retirement, education, and the milestones in between — cash flow, goals, and the trade-offs made visible so you can decide with confidence.
Independent, fee-only wealth management
We are a fiduciary advisory firm helping families plan, invest, and protect what they have built — with clear advice, a single transparent fee, and no products of our own to sell.
$2.4B
Assets advised
18
Years fiduciary
310+
Families served
0
Proprietary products
Who we are
We are an independent registered investment adviser. We hold no products, earn no commissions, and are paid only by our clients — so the advice you receive is the advice we would follow ourselves.
We founded this firm in 2007 out of a simple conviction: financial advice should be worth paying for on its own, not a wrapper around a product someone is trying to sell. Most of the industry is still built the other way around. Advisers are compensated when you buy, so the incentive quietly bends toward action, complexity, and cost. We removed that conflict entirely. We are fee-only fiduciaries, which means we are legally bound to put your interests ahead of our own, and we are paid the same whether you act or wait.
That independence changes the whole conversation. When there is nothing to sell, the only thing left to do is understand your life — the business you are building, the children you are educating, the parents you are helping, the day you would like to stop working — and design a plan that quietly serves all of it at once. Planning, investing, estate, and tax are not four separate errands here. They are one continuous strategy, reviewed as your life changes, so no decision is ever made in isolation from the rest.
We are also deliberately selective. We keep the number of families we serve small enough that your adviser knows your name, your goals, and the reasoning behind every position you hold. You will not be handed off to a call center or rotated between junior staff. The person who writes your plan is the person who answers when you call with a question the market just raised. If you want a partner for the decades ahead rather than a product for this quarter, we should talk.
Bring your current strategy to a complimentary review — we'll stress-test it together, no obligation.
Client outcomes
Every engagement below began the same way — a long conversation, a full picture of the household, and a plan built to survive markets, taxes, and time.
Financial Planning · 2025Retired physicians, mid-fifties
A two-doctor household with strong income, scattered accounts, and no clear answer to the one question that mattered: can we stop working?
12 to 3
Accounts consolidated
94%
Plan success rate
Set
Retirement date
Tax Strategy · 2025Manufacturing founders
Owners preparing to sell a family business faced a capital-gains bill large enough to reshape their retirement.
$1.9M
Tax saved
Yes
Trust funded
On track
Timeline
Investment Management · 2024Tech executive, early forties
A high earner with a volatile, concentrated equity position needed a portfolio that could weather both markets and nerves.
−68%
Single-stock risk
100%
Drawdown held
Full
Recovery captured
Financial Planning · 2024Sandwich-generation couple
A couple supporting both college-bound children and aging parents needed a plan that served everyone without sacrificing their own retirement.
3 of 3
Goals funded
2 yrs
Retirement delay
Closed
Coverage gaps
Estate & Legacy · 2024Multi-generational family
A family with significant assets wanted their wealth to reach the next generation with clarity, privacy, and minimal friction.
−41%
Estate tax
Minimized
Probate assets
Yes
Heirs briefed
Investment Management · 2023Widowed client, sixties
After an unexpected inheritance and life change, a client needed to convert a large, sudden sum into dependable lifetime income.
Steady
Monthly income
Preserved
Principal
18 mo
Cash reserve
What we do
Most families come to us for one of these and stay for all four. Because they live under one roof, no decision is ever made without the others in view.
A living plan for retirement, education, and the milestones in between — cash flow, goals, and the trade-offs made visible so you can decide with confidence.
Globally diversified, low-cost portfolios built to your risk and time horizon — rebalanced with discipline, never traded on headlines or hunches.
Wills, trusts, beneficiaries, and gifting coordinated with your attorney so your wealth passes the way you intend, with as little friction and tax as the law allows.
Asset location, tax-loss harvesting, Roth conversions, and withdrawal sequencing — the quiet decisions that compound into real dollars kept over a lifetime.
What we believe
We are legally bound to put you first, in writing, on every recommendation. No commissions, no proprietary funds, no incentive that competes with your interests.
You see exactly what you pay on a single page. No load funds, no hidden trailing commissions, no surprise invoices. Advice you can price is advice you can trust.
We don't time markets or chase the story of the moment. We build durable plans and let disciplined, low-cost investing do the quiet work over decades.
In their words
We'd rather let the families we work with do the talking. Here is a little of what they have told us over the years.
For fifteen years we managed our own investments and worried constantly. Their plan gave us a number we could trust and the confidence to finally retire on our own terms. We sleep better than we have in a decade.
When we sold the business, the tax exposure was staggering. Their team coordinated with our attorney and CPA and structured the sale in a way that kept far more of what we had built inside the family.
What sets them apart is that they are fiduciaries in fact, not just in name. Every recommendation is explained, every fee is on one page, and nothing is ever sold to us. It feels like advice, not a pitch.
Request a no-obligation consultation. We reply to every enquiry within two business days, and the first conversation is always ours to earn.