Goals & Analysis

At Prospera, we understand that what is most important to you needs to be most important to us.  We make it our business to know your goals and provide a fully analyzed plan of action for achieving them.  Here are some examples of common goals and how we work to meet them: 

Create, grow, and protect wealth

  • Analyze cash flow
  • Determine specific financial goals
  • Discuss appropriate investments designed for different goals (emergency reserves, college, retirement, special needs)
  • Analyze overall investment portfolios (asset allocation appropriateness and diversification)
  • Evaluate tax efficiency of the plan
  • Analyze overall insurance plans (life, disability, long-term care, liability insurance)
    • Evaluate adequacy
    • Examine appropriateness
    • Evaluate cost effectiveness 

Coordinated distribution of wealth

  • Qualified Plans and IRAs
    • Evaluate investment allocation
    • Evaluate distributions during life and at death
  • Family Owned Business
    • Evaluate succession plan
    • Evaluate concentrated assets
  • Wills and Trusts*
    • Evaluate existing documents
    • Durable Power of Attorney
    • Health Care Power of Attorney
    • Successor trustee
  • Gifting to Children and Grandchildren
    • Evaluate tax efficiency
    • Examine control issues
  • Charitable Gifting
    • Examine history of gifting
    • Future plans for gifting
  • Titling of Assets
                Examine how assets are owned
  • Executor/Trustee*
                Identify and examine potential problems
  • Distribution to Family at Death
    • Evaluate tax efficiency
    • Examine control and management issues of trust assets
  • Charitable Inclinations at Death
    • Evaluate tax efficiency
    • Examine control and management issues of trust assets

 

 

*Neither the Securities America nor Prospera companies provide legal advice, but the Advisors at Prospera can offer general information about these documents and issues from a financial planning perspective and can coordinate efforts with your legal counsel.