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WHAT WE DO

# Wealth Planning & Advice

What's the purpose of your wealth? We help you uncover it, and then strategically align your resources and decisions.

## Tax Planning

Our goal is to bring smarter, faster, and more personalized tax planning to every client.

We will show you how much of your income is taxed and why, detailing income sources, AGI, deductions and more. We will reveal the repercussions of marginal rates, help you be more proficient in delineating differing percentages taxed, and tap into the origin of your refund.

- Marginal Tax Bracket Breakdown
- Capital Gains & Losses
- Modified Adjusted Gross Income (MAGI) Tiers
- Medicare Premiums
- Client Observations

Let's model personalized scenarios for every stage of your life before they arrive. Tweak future numbers to generate projections of possible dividends, deductions, and capital gains for you with various strategies like Backdoor Roths and Donor Advised Funds. Together we will witness income breakpoints that you can catch early on, like tax-efficient withdrawals, charitable giving, and rollovers.

- Range Calculator, project the impact of $1,000 increments on your income or capital gains
- Scenario Modeling, model custom scenarios from retirement plans to equity compensation
- QCD, find the age minimums and donations maximums for eligible Qualified Charitable Donations
- DAF, calibrate your contributions while grasping the mechanics and potential of a Donor Advised Fund
- Roth conversions, move money from tax-deferred accounts into tax-free growth and withdrawals—helping reduce future taxes and increase long-term after-tax wealth

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Estate planning

We help you learn the flow of assets at the end of life, including any possible estate tax ramifications. Let's replace your anxiety with the peace of mind you deserve, knowing your assets are in order.

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Equity compensation

We help you analyze, track, and model strategies for equity holdings—including employee stock options, restricted stock units, performance grants, and employee stock purchase plans.

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Social security optimization

We will show you how to maximize your Social Security income and help you confidently make big decisions, like when to start receiving benefits.

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Insurance planning & education

We will help you protect you and your family in the event of situations such as disability or death. We will evaluate your needs in different situations, educate, and identify ways to ensure your success.

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College planning

We will illustrate different scenarios so you can reduce payments and help ease the burden of student debt for you and your children.

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Tax efficient retirement

We’ll clearly illustrate a range of financial scenarios, stress tests, and cash flow projections—so you can confidently plan for the lifestyle you’ve imagined. 

WHAT WE DO

### Portfolio Management

We design portfolios and strategies that are tailored precisely to help meet your objectives. By harnessing our expertise, you will have exclusive access to investment opportunities and a carefully considered roadmap to your financial future. Entrusting your vision for your wealth to us is our greatest responsibility.

### Our Investment Strategy, Dynamic Tactical Beta Strategy

Our strategy focuses on deviating from the strategic asset allocation to take advantage of opportunities during the market cycle by adjusting the tactical asset allocation when the forces of reversion to the mean are most in our favor.

This is done primarily by increasing the portfolios beta at the beginning of the market cycle, during corrections, black swan events, and reducing it as the market cycle progresses. 

Our focus is to beat the market at the beginning of the market cycle, match the market during the later stages of the market cycle, and to have a lower drawdown when it goes down.

#### Our goal is to

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Beat the market at the beginning of the market cycle.

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Match the market during the later stages of the market cycle.

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Have a lower drawdown when it goes down.

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Asset allocation

Asset allocation is the division of a portfolio's investments among different asset classes—such as stocks, bonds, real estate (REITs), commodities, and cash—based on the investor's financial goals, risk tolerance, and time horizon. It is the most important determinant of the return variability and long-term performance of a broadly diversified portfolio that engages in limited market timing.

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Tax-Loss Harvesting

While tax-loss harvesting is not new to the industry, in recent years, technology has enabled this once paper-driven strategy to become digitized and thus more scalable and cost effective. Consequently, most advised investors can now benefit from a tax-loss harvesting program to defer or even eliminate capital gains taxes. This allows more capital to remain invested, thereby improving after-tax portfolio returns and client outcomes.

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Rebalancing

Given the importance of selecting an asset allocation, it’s also vital to maintain that allocation. As investments produce different returns over time, the portfolio likely drifts from its target allocation, acquiring new risk-and-return characteristics that may be inconsistent with your original preferences. Note that the primary goal of a rebalancing strategy is to adhere to the investor’s risk tolerance. Investments that are not rebalanced but drift with the markets have experienced higher volatility.

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Cost-effective implementation

Investment selection and cost-effective implementation is a critical component of every advisor’s tool kit and is based on simple math: gross return - costs (expense ratios, trading or frictional costs, and taxes) = net return.  As the formula states, it is not always about lowest costs, but gross returns less expenses. As such, we do not rule out active management. Over the long term, index and talent-driven active funds with higher gross returns at lower costs, have and can be expected to outperform the return of the average mutual fund in their benchmark category. So, costs matter, and superior talent with low costs matter even more.

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The Value of Behavioral Coaching in Investing

Investing often stirs emotion, making it difficult for clients to stick to long-term strategies—even when they understand sound investment principles. Emotions aren't a matter of being rational or irrational; they're simply human. Influences like media headlines and market “experts” can tempt clients to abandon well-constructed plans, often at a high cost.

This is where advisors play a critical role. Acting as behavioral coaches, we help clients stay disciplined, especially during market extremes. Providing emotional detachment—an often overlooked but vital benefit—can protect clients from making poor decisions.

Trust is key. Advisors must build strong relationships early, so we can effectively guide clients through volatile markets. By helping clients avoid chasing hot trends or fleeing during downturns, we can prevent significant wealth destruction by adding real value.

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Tax-efficient retirement strategy

The growing retiree population faces increasingly complex decisions about funding their retirement years. These critical choices now require balancing traditional income needs with broader objectives, particularly those related to legacy and estate planning.

Complicating matters is the widespread use of multiple account types, including taxable accounts, tax-deferred accounts, and tax-free accounts. When you add consequential decisions around claiming Social Security and advanced planning tactics like Roth conversions, the entire process can quickly become overwhelming, even for the most knowledgeable investors.

While the decisions have become more complex and the stakes higher than ever, the technology and strategies available to get them right have improved dramatically. Advisors who implement a comprehensive, multi-goal approach focused on Social Security optimization, strategic Roth conversions, and informed withdrawal-order strategies can significantly minimize the total taxes investors will pay over the course of retirement. 

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Total-return versus income investing

Historically, retirees holding diversified equity and fixed income investments could have easily lived off the income generated by their portfolios. Unfortunately, that is no longer the case.

Some may feel that the income strategies will reward them with a more certain return and therefore less risk. But in reality, such strategies will increase the portfolio’s risk. It will become too concentrated in certain sectors, with less tax efficiency and a higher chance of failing to provide for long-term financial goals.

BLSH Wealth Management believes in a total return approach, which considers both income and capital appreciation. This has the following potential advantages over an income-only method:

- Less risk. It allows better diversification instead of concentrating on certain securities, market segments, or industry sectors to increase yield.
- Better tax efficiency. It offers more tax-efficient asset locations (for clients who have both taxable and tax-advantaged accounts). An income approach focuses on access to income, resulting in the need to keep tax-inefficient assets in taxable accounts.
- A potentially longer lifespan for the portfolio. Designing tax-efficient total return strategies when investors require specific cash flows to meet their spending needs involves substantial analysis, experience, and transactions. To do this well is not easy and could well represent the entire value proposition of an advisory relationship.

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