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As a boutique planning firm that is intent on staying small, our advisors limit the number of ongoing financial planning clients to ensure the highest degree of service.

How We Work

Free Consultation
Let’s schedule some time to chat about you, your needs, and the ways that wHealth may be able to help!
Financial Wellness Review
A 2-4 hour meeting where we dissect the most granular details of your household finances and provide our recommendations.
Ongoing Financial Planning
Full implementation, proactive planning, and ongoing monitoring of your financial life.
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Ongoing Financial Planning: What you can expect

Getting Started

We recognize everyone’s life, financial situation, and priorities are different. In all cases, we start with you.

What you can expect in the first SIX months of working together:

US:

⦁ Let us get to know the real you.
⦁ Your fears/concerns
⦁ Your personal aspirations
⦁ Your professional ambitions
⦁ What makes you tick and what ticks you off
⦁ The vision for your “ideal” life

YOU:

⦁ Relax!
⦁ Be open, honest, and engaged.

US:

⦁ Get aligned on the most pressing priorities and plan of action.
⦁ Provide you with an itemized list of information needed.
⦁ Help facilitate linking accounts and uploading information to our financial planning portal.
⦁ Provide guidance for consolidating and/or transitioning accounts.
⦁ Discuss investment education, evidence-based investing, and behavioral finance.
⦁ Create draft of Investment Policy Statement.

YOU:

⦁ Link your financial accounts to our client portal.
⦁ Retrieve and upload statements to your client portal.
⦁ Complete endogenous risk and traditional risk tolerance assessment.
⦁ Review/approve wHealth Advisors Investment Policy Statement.

US:

⦁ Provide an organized to-do list.
⦁ Identify immediate, mid-term, and long-term priorities.
⦁ Make introductions to experts when appropriate.

YOU:

⦁ Be willing to work collaboratively.
⦁ Let us know the best days/times and preferred communication methods (virtual meeting, phone call, email etc.)
⦁ Get stuff done, together.

US:

⦁ Position you to live the best life possible with the money you have.
⦁ Proactively let you know if/when any action is needed.
⦁ Have three structured meetings (see below) per year to stay ahead of any obstacles/opportunities.

YOU:

⦁ Keep us abreast of life transitions.
⦁ Reflect on your progress.
⦁ Call/email/text us as needed.

THREE Meetings a year

All clients have three annual meetings. Additionally, clients also have unlimited access to their advisor, as needed.

⦁ Review and finalize previous year tax return, together.
⦁ Confirm all contributions, credits, and deductions are accounted for and optimized.
⦁ Review current year tax planning considerations, strategies, and opportunities.

⦁ Current year tax projection and tax planning
⦁ Net worth + asset allocation
⦁ Portfolio rebalancing
⦁ Periodic investing/disbursement planning
⦁ Cash flow analysis
⦁ Education Planning
⦁ Insurance reviews: Life, disability, long-term care
⦁ Property & Casualty check-ups
⦁ Estate Planning and beneficiary reviews
⦁ Debt analysis (mortgage/student loan/credit card)
⦁ Review employee benefits
⦁ Retirement + Social Security planning
⦁ Real estate: sell / rent / refi analysis
⦁ Business consulting
⦁ Stock option/ISO, RSU, PSU, ESPP planning

⦁ Accountability check-in to ensure any remaining to-dos are completed prior to 12/31
⦁ Portfolio rebalancing
⦁ Tax-loss harvesting
⦁ Roth conversion and backdoor Roth analysis
⦁ Donor Advised Fund setup + charitable gifting
⦁ Employee benefits + open enrollment elections
⦁ IRA RMD withdrawals
⦁ End-of-year net worth review
⦁ Review upcoming transitions and/or personal / professional goals for the year ahead

6 Key Value Propositions for Clients Seeking a Better
“Return on Life” – What we do for you

Organization

We will help bring order to your financial life, by assisting you in getting your financial house in order (at both the “macro” level of investments, insurance, estate, taxes, etc., and also the “micro” level of household cash flow).

Accountability
We will help you follow through on financial commitments, by working with you to prioritize your goals, show you the steps you need to take, and regularly review your progress towards achieving them.
Objectivity

We bring insight from the outside to help you avoid emotionally driven decisions in important money matters, by being available to consult with you at key moments of decision-making, doing the research necessary to ensure you have all the information, and managing and disclosing any of our own potential conflicts of interest.

Proactivity
We work with you to anticipate your life transitions and to be financially prepared for them, by regularly assessing any potential life transitions that might be coming, and creating the action plan necessary to address and manage them ahead of time.

Education

We will explore what specific knowledge will be needed to succeed in your situation, by first thoroughly understanding your situation, then providing the necessary resources to facilitate your decisions, and explaining the options and risks associated with each choice.

Partnership

We attempt to help you achieve the best life possible but will work in concert with you, not just for you, to make this possible, by taking the time to clearly understand your background, philosophy, needs and objectives, work collaboratively with you and on your behalf (with your permission), and offer transparency around our own costs and compensation.

“When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.”
– Paulo Coelho

Author

  • Dennis McNamara, CFP®, CHFC®, AIF®, CSLP®

    Today, as co-founder of wHealth Advisors, I find immense fulfillment in knowing that we use our platform as a force for good. As a firm, we’re founded on the industry’s highest standards for ethics and transparency while also offering pro-bono services to those in need. Financially, we donate a portion of our gross revenue annually to qualified 501(c)3 organizations (which are nominated + voted on by our clients). Personally, though, I find the greatest satisfaction in helping my clients gain financial peace of mind through prudent money management. Prudent money management is like a positive feedback loop: when we are no longer burdened by finances, other dimensions of our lives also tend to improve. As we continue to grow we realize that as important as money is, those other dimensions of life are equally (if not more!) important. As modern philosopher Naval Ravikant reminds us: “The three big ones in life are wealth, health, and happiness. We pursue them in that order, but their importance is reverse. A calm mind, a fit body, and a house full of love. These things cannot be bought.” My life’s mission has been dedicated to helping others use money to close the gap between who they are today and the best version of themselves that awaits ahead. I am excited to meet you and look forward to the opportunity of working together on your journey to financial independence! Designations: - Certified Financial Planner™ - Chartered Financial Consultant® - Accredited Investment Fiduciary® - Certified Student Loan Professional® Featured in: - Forbes - U.S. News & World Report - Financial Advisor Magazine Outside of wHealth Advisors: - Educating myself more on: Stoicism, permaculture, climate justice, systemic racism, health & longevity science - Happiest when: outdoors with wife, Arabelle, and son, Manny - Stays active with: strength training, functional range conditioning, hiking, cycling, surfing, and yoga - Financially splurges on: Single-origin coffee