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Retirement Planning

Retirement Is More Than an Investment Portfolio

Your financial life should work together.

Retirement brings important decisions about your investments, income, taxes, Social Security, healthcare, estate and the legacy you want to leave behind.

We help bring those pieces together into one coordinated financial plan designed around your life, your goals and the people who matter most to you.

Will Your Financial Plan Work for the Rest of Your Life?

Do I have enough to retire?
How much can we comfortably spend?
Could we be paying more in taxes than necessary?
What happens if something happens to one of us?
When should we take Social Security?
How do we leave the legacy we want?

These decisions are connected. That's why we believe retirement planning should begin with the whole picture.

One Coordinated Approach to Your Financial Life

Your financial decisions don't happen in isolation. We bring the major areas of your financial life together into one coordinated strategy.

Retirement Income Planning


Turn the assets you've accumulated into an income strategy designed to support the lifestyle you want throughout retirement.

Social Security Planning


Evaluate Social Security as part of your overall retirement income and tax strategy.

Lifetime Tax Planning


Look beyond this year's tax return to identify strategies that may help manage taxes throughout retirement and potentially for your heirs.

Estate & Legacy Planning


Coordinate financial and estate-planning decisions around what you want your wealth to accomplish during your lifetime and after you're gone.

Investment Management


Build and manage your portfolio around your goals, income needs, time horizon and tolerance for risk.

Healthcare & Long-term Care Planning


Consider healthcare expenses, Medicare, long-term care concerns and other risks that could affect your retirement.

You Shouldn't Have to Coordinate Everything Yourself

Investments → Income → Taxes → Medicare → Estate → Family

Your financial decisions are connected. A decision in one area can create consequences in another. That's why we look beyond individual accounts or investments and consider how the pieces of your financial life work together.

Our job is to help you see how all the pieces fit together.

Who We Work With

We primarily work with individuals and couples who are approaching retirement or already retired and have accumulated meaningful savings and investments.

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Many of our clients have $500,000 or more in investable assets and have reached a point where their financial decisions are becoming more interconnected.

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They aren't simply looking for someone to manage investments.

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They want an advisor who can help bring their investments, income, taxes, healthcare and estate planning together.

A Planning Process Built Around You

1.

Understand


We begin by learning about you—your finances, family, concerns, priorities and what you want retirement to look like.

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Analyze

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We evaluate the different pieces of your financial life and identify opportunities, risks and decisions that deserve attention.

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Build Your Plan

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We develop a coordinated strategy around the areas that matter most to your situation.

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Implement

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We help put the recommendations into action and coordinate with your other professionals when appropriate.

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Monitor & Adjust

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Life changes. Markets change. Tax laws change. Your financial plan should change with them.

Planning isn't a one-time event. It's an ongoing relationship.

The Goal Isn't Just Retirement. It's Living Well in Retirement.

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You've spent decades building your financial life. The purpose of planning isn't simply to accumulate more—it's to help you use what you've built to live the life you want.

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That may mean traveling, spending more time with family, supporting causes you care about, helping children or grandchildren, or simply knowing you have a plan for the years ahead.

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Your money should support your life—not the other way around. 

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Are You Ready to See How the Pieces Fit Together?

A retirement conversation is an opportunity to talk about where you are today, what you want the years ahead to look like, and how the pieces of your financial life fit together.

No obligation. No pressure. Just a conversation about what matters to you.

Are You a Business Owner or 401(k) Plan Sponsor?

Sound Benefits Consulting also works with employers to help improve the effectiveness of their retirement plans and the retirement outcomes of their employees.

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