We will coordinate the activities of all your financial, tax, insurance and legal professionals on your behalf so that they work in concert, ensuring you get the best advice from each.
You may have more accounts with more institutions than is necessary to achieve your goals. We will consolidate your financial affairs, reducing the complexity, so you can easily understand it all.
We will address any gaps in your planning and take care of whatever important tasks need to get done so that your financial house is in perfect order.
We will create a clear, actionable plan that will simplify your life, so you can focus on more important things than managing your money.
We will hold your experts accountable to give you the best advice for your financial situation, and we will hold you accountable to do your part by implementing their recommendations.
Tim Keating is the President and oversees all investment counseling.
Tabitha Aspling is the Operations Director and responsible for client service.
Stephanie Keating is the Marketing Director.
In the realm of real-world, lifetime investment success, defined properly as the achievement of one’s financial goals, there are three—and only three—determinants that truly matter: financial planning, asset allocation and behavior. Behavior dwarfs the other two by orders of magnitude.
There are two types of financial risk. “Shallow risk” describes a loss of real capital from which the investor recovers relatively quickly, whereas “deep risk” involves a permanent loss of real capital. Somewhat counterintuitively, owning bonds is an example of the latter. Why?
Apart from the superior real return of equities over bonds, there’s one more feature that distinguishes equities from all other asset classes: It’s the only one that monetizes the value of human ingenuity—a resource not limited to the United States.
