SHOPE & ASSOCIATES IS UNIQUE;  WE ARE AN INDEPENDENTLY OWNED WEALTH ADVISORY FIRM WITH A HIGH LEVEL OF WALL STREET SOPHISTICATION YET THE INTIMACY OF A BOUTIQUE.  WE CREATE INNOVATIVE WEALTH MANAGEMENT SOLUTIONS FOR SELECT FAMILIES, OFFERING ACCESS TO A FULL COMPLIMENT OF ASSET CLASSES AND INVESTMENT ALTERNATIVES.  WE ACT IN MULTIPLE ROLES FOR THE CLIENTS WE SERVE - ADVISOR, STRATEGIST, CONSULTANT AND FINANCIAL CONFIDANT.

Your Plan to Achieve True Wealth

The very nature that you're viewing this page is a good indication that you're thinking about your future. You understand the power and the importance of creating, implementing and following a plan.  After all, hasn't it contributed to your success?

We think you'll find yourself in good hands with us.  You see, planning is at the core of what we do.  It's the blueprint, the roadmap, the schematic devised for making or doing something or achieving an end.  It implies mental formulation and sometimes graphic representation.  To design a plan often suggests a particular pattern and some degree of achieved order or harmony.  To plot a plan implies a laying out in clearly distinguished sections with attention to their relations and proportions.  To produce a schematic stresses calculation of the end in view. To project often stresses imaginative scope and vision.  Ok.  Maybe we got a little carried away.

We like to think of your role in our relationship as the CEO of your family’s wealth. In many ways, you'll find our team acts in a CFO (Chief Financial Officer) capacity for you and your family.  In this regard, we not only find ourselves honored and privileged, we take our mandate very seriously.  Through this process we'll assist you in five distinct areas of your lives:

• Financial Guidance

• Legacy Implementation

• Estate Coordination

• Retirement income planning and cash flow

• Tax planning strategies both during life and at death

To address these needs, we have created a unique approach using a platform of 13 Wealth Management Issues. The “13 Wealth Management Issues” define our wealth planning process, and to help ensure that your entire wealth plan is reviewed, managed, and integrated. Together with you, we'll review and discuss each issue and make recommendations where gaps or shortfalls arise. When our review is complete and the recommended changes have been implemented, we record, track and revisit these issues to help ensure they are always up-to-date.  Yeah, we find it pretty revolutionary ourselves!  We think you'll find it empowers you with a sense of control and knowledge.

The 13 Wealth Management Issues

1. Investments (Asset Allocation and Diversification)

2. Insurance (Overall insurance plan - Life, Disability and Liability)

3. Liabilities (Ensure appropriate and cost effective)

4. IRA/Qualified Plan (Investments and Distributions - both during life and at death)

5. Stock Options (Exercise plan/Taxation/Concentration issues)

6. Business Succession Planning

7. Durable Power of Attorney (Who is it?/Continuity within estate plan)

8. Gifting to Descendents (Tax efficiency and control)

9. Charitable Gifting While Alive (Control issues)

10. Titling of Assets

11. Trustee or Executor (Who is it?/Continuity within estate plan)

12. Wealth Transfer at Death (Tax efficiency and control)

13. Charitable Intent at Death (Tax efficiency and control)

Note:

*Asset allocation and diversification do not guarantee against loss or ensure a profit; they are methods used to help manage risk.