Financial Planning Definition: Financial Planning is a collaborative process that helps maximize a Client’s potential for meeting life goals through Financial Advice that integrates relevant elements of the Client’s personal and financial circumstances.
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Financial Planning Process
- Determine short-term and long-term financial goals and objectives.
- Assess current financial status.
- Evaluate goals and objectives in light of current financial status.
- Consider options going forward.
- Implement the plan.
- Review and update.
Components of Financial Planning Process
- Cash flow analysis.
- Debt reduction [if applicable]
- Risk management issues.
- List risks, determine if risks are insurable, discuss insurance coverage options, decided if the risk to insure or self-insure.
- [Does not include liability or property-casualty insurance risks.]
- List risks, determine if risks are insurable, discuss insurance coverage options, decided if the risk to insure or self-insure.
- Pre-retirement planning.
- List expected retirement age and retirement income objective.
- Determine expected sources of retirement income.
- Project sources of income’s ability to maintain long-term retirement income objectives.
- Post-retirement planning.
- Review current retirement income and expenses.
- Project possible new expenses.
- Evaluate retirement income sources ability to maintain retirement objectives.
- Evaluate the money management strategy.
- List money management objectives.
- Review current asset allocation.
- Discuss expected return and historical volatility.
- Assess the strategy’s ability to meet objectives.
- Determine estate planning objectives.
- Discuss appropriate estate planning documents.
- [Estate plan and documents should be drafted by a qualified estate planning attorney.]
- Review of beneficiary designations in light of estate planning objectives.
- Discuss appropriate estate planning documents.
- Tax Considerations
- Discuss the impact of taxes on goals and objectives.
- Consider various tax planning strategies.
- [Tax planning and preparation should be done with qualified tax planning accountant.]
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Money Management
Money management is an important part of long term financial planning. A money management strategy should take into consideration the following:
- Short-term and long-term cash and/or income needs.
- The time horizon for cash and/or income needs.
- Asset allocation options and strategies.
- The desired rate of return compared to asset allocation expected rate of return.
- Tolerance for risk or volatility compared historical risk or volatility of various asset allocations.
I do not manage money in any form. I do provide with information and analysis on your money management objectives including:
- Asset allocation options and strategies.
- Analysis of short-term and long-term cash needs in light of various asset allocation options and strategies.
- Desired return compared to the expected return.
- Acceptance of risk or volatility with current or possible asset allocation strategies.
I do not receive compensation from any investment company or a third party money manager. At the client’s request, I do provide information on various investment options including fixed annuities, variable annuities, annuities with living benefit riders, immediate annuities, mutual funds, exchanged traded funds, individual stocks, and bonds, investment managers.
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