Smart planning starts with asking the right questions, as well as understanding your financial needs and goals. Only then will we provide comprehensive wealth management advice and help connect all the pieces of your financial life into a cohesive plan for the future. It's not our practice, for example, to discuss education funding without considering its impact on your retirement. Nor does it make sense to talk about an investment plan without first discovering what the investments need to pay for, i.e., a second home, a business start-up, a child's first down payment. You don't separate your finances from your life; as your Financial Advisors, we won't either.
You've worked hard to build your wealth for retirement. We can work with you to develop a plan so your wealth works just as hard - to help you get the most out of life after retirement.
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See Investing and Market Insights for the May On the Markets from the Global Investment Committee featuring
• "Here We Go Again?" After strengthening earlier in the year, US economic data has begun to weaken. We saw this "growth scare" in 2010 and 2011, and in both cases, equity markets pulled back. Is this pattern going to repeat?
• "Seek Return of Capital via Dividends and Buybacks" In our view, return of capital remains an important theme in the US equity market. That means investors should seek companies that return capital to shareholders by raising dividends and/or buying their shares.
• "Q&A: Running With the Recession Forecast" Lakshman Achuthan, chief operations officer of the Economic Cycle Research Institute, speaks with Charles Reinhard, Morgan Stanley Smith Barney's deputy chief investment officer, about the economic indicators behind the forecast.
Plus, look for more on European equities, Treasury bonds, corporate bonds and municipal bonds.






