Investment Management

Your portfolio has a job.
We manage it around the life it needs to support.

Growth still matters. But your investments may also need to provide income, maintain liquidity, manage risk, navigate taxes, and remain flexible as your life changes.

How Planning and Investing Work Together

The plan defines what the money needs to do.
The portfolio is built around those decisions.

Investment decisions do not happen separately from the rest of your financial life. How much you need, when you need it, where it comes from, the taxes involved, and how much flexibility you want to preserve all influence how the portfolio should be structured.

When financial planning and investment management are both part of the relationship, they can move forward together. Account opening, transfers, and investment implementation can begin while the planning engagement is underway.

Financial Planning

What does your wealth need to support?

Define income, spending, taxes, timing, risk, flexibility, and the decisions ahead.

Investment Management

What does the portfolio need to do?

Build and manage the portfolio around those needs, then keep it aligned as markets and life change.

As Wealth Begins Supporting Life

Growth still matters.
It is simply no longer the only job.

While Building Wealth

How do I grow it?

As Wealth Supports More of Life

The portfolio has more to accomplish.

GrowthIncomeLiquidityTaxesRiskFlexibility

The goal is not to stop growing wealth. It is to coordinate growth with the other jobs the money now needs to perform.

Investment Decisions Do Not Stay Inside the Portfolio

One investment decision
can change several others.

Selling a concentrated position may affect taxes. Raising cash may change portfolio risk. Taking income from one account instead of another may change future tax flexibility. Holding more liquidity may reduce short term market dependence while changing how much remains invested for growth.

Starting DecisionInvestment Decision
IncomeTaxesLiquidityRiskFuture Options

The question is not simply, “Is this a good investment?” It is, “What does this decision change?”

How We Manage

We do not begin with what to buy.
We begin with what the money needs to do.

Different money can have different jobs. Before deciding what belongs in a portfolio, we start with what the money needs to accomplish, when it may be needed, and what other financial decisions it needs to support.

01Define the job

What does this money need to support?

02Time & liquidity

When might it be needed and how accessible must it remain?

03Align risk

How much uncertainty can this part of the portfolio reasonably carry?

04Build

Structure the investments around the job.

05Coordinate

Consider taxes, account type, income needs, and the rest of the financial plan.

06Monitor & adjust

Revisit as markets and life change.

The tool follows the need. Complexity has to earn its place.
What Ongoing Management Actually Means

The portfolio's job can change
because your life changes.

Markets change. Cash needs change. Taxes change. Retirement, compensation, a business event, or a decision elsewhere in the financial plan can change what the portfolio needs to support. Ongoing management means continually reconnecting the investments to that job.

Risk & driftHas market movement changed the allocation or the risk you are carrying?
Liquidity & WithdrawalsWhen money is needed, where should it come from and how does that decision affect the rest of the portfolio?
Tax & Account CoordinationAre investments held in the appropriate accounts, and could gains, losses, distributions, or changing tax circumstances create an opportunity to improve how the portfolio is managed?
ConcentrationHas one holding become too important to the outcome?
Planning changesHas something elsewhere in your financial life changed the portfolio's job?
MarketsHas something materially changed, or is maintaining discipline still appropriate?
Sometimes the right investment decision is to change the portfolio. Sometimes the right decision is to leave it alone.
If You Already Have a Portfolio

Moving investments does not mean
starting over.

We begin by understanding what you already own before deciding what, if anything, should change. Existing holdings are reviewed before changes are made. Where appropriate, assets may transfer in kind, and tax consequences, concentration, liquidity needs, and portfolio fit are considered before implementation decisions are made.

1Review what you own
2Open the appropriate accounts
3Initiate transfers
4Evaluate assets as they arrive
5Implement deliberately
Important

Financial planning can continue while the investment transition is underway. Planning and investment implementation are distinct, but they can proceed in parallel.

The Investment Relationship

Know what to expect
before assets move.

Minimum

$500,000 in managed assets

Investment management relationships generally begin at $500,000 in assets managed by Longevity Wealth Strategies.

Investment Management Fee

Based on assets managed

Your applicable AUM rate is reviewed during the Wealthspan Review or engagement discussion before accounts are opened or assets are transferred.

Accounts

Maintained on the LPL platform

Securities and investment advisory services are offered through LPL Enterprise (LPLE), an affiliate of LPL Financial. Additional entity information appears in the compliance-approved disclosures below.

Investment Philosophy

Management explains what we do.
Philosophy explains why.

Our investment philosophy explains the principles behind portfolio construction, risk, diversification, taxes, long term participation, and the role of complexity.

Explore our Investment Philosophy
Questions Before You Move Assets

The practical questions
should have clear answers.

A Place to Orient, Not Decide

See whether your portfolio is doing
the jobs your financial life requires.

Start with a 45 minute Wealthspan Review. See how your investments fit with the rest of your financial life and where greater coordination may be needed. No fee. No preparation required. No commitment to transfer assets.

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