Financial Pyramid
Financial Position
- Cash reserve levels
- Cash reserve strategies
- Debt management
- Cash Flow Management
- Net worth
- Discretionary Income
- Expected large inflow/outflow
- Lines of credit
Risk Management
- Life Insurance
- Disability Income Insurance options
- Long term care
- Umbrella liability
- Deductibles vs. Cash Reserves
- Policy status
- Policy loans
- Beneficiary
- Special Needs
- Property and Casualty (Home and Auto)
Wealth Accumulation
- Asset allocation
- Education Planning
- Lump sum accumulation
- Options/restricted stock/non qualified deferred
- Ongoing investment fees
- Risk tolerance
- Tax implications
- Cost Basis
- Diversification strategies
- Dollar cost averaging
- Market Timing
Tax Planning
- Tax reductions
- Tax deferral
- Tax avoidance
- Futures taxes dues
- Withholding
- Tax diversification
- Qualified investments
- Non-qualified investments
- Effects of liquidation
- Filing status
- Business ownership
- Non traditional ownership
Retirement Planning
- Minimum distributions
- Pre-retirement strategies
- 401Ks
- IRA
- Medicare/Medigap
- Social security
- Roth conversions
- Income streams
- Health care
- Tax transitions
- Risk tolerance
- Timing issues
Estate Planning
- Estate balancing
- Capital transfer
- Asset ownership
- Trusts
- Wills
- Trust funding
- IRD
- Succession planning
- Special needs dependents
- Minor children
- Generation skipping
- Short term life expectancies
- Estate liquidity
Any discussion of taxes is for general information purposes only, does not purport to be complete or cover every situation, and should not be construed as legal, tax or accounting advice. Clients should confer with their qualified legal, tax and accounting advisors as appropriate. Estate Planning services are provided working in conjunction with your Estate Planning Attorney, Tax Attorney and/or CPA. Consult them for specific advice on legal and tax matters.