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Financial Advisor Chicago

Our wealth managers and financial planners are fee based and independent. This allows us to eliminate potential conflicts of interest. We provide objective financial guidance based strictly on the needs, values, objectives, and goals of each client.

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Financial Planning & Wealth Management

Our Registered Investment Advisor Representatives and Certified Financial Planners™ utilize a holistic approach to investment management and retirement planning.

With a goal of planning today for a more secure tomorrow.

Managing your financial life involves more than choosing investments. It requires thoughtful planning, informed decisions, and a strategy that evolves as your life changes. Comprehensive wealth management is designed to bring every aspect of your financial picture together into one coordinated plan.

  • Investment Management
  • Wealth Management
  • Tax Planning
  • Estate Planning
  • Financial Planning
  • Retirement Planning
  • Insurance Planning
  • High Net Worth Individuals

Our Commitment to You

Our financial planning and wealth management team is committed to ensuring that everything we do is in the best interest of our clients. The special relationship of trust, confidence, and responsibility that comes with being an experienced fiduciary can help you feel confident that your financial advisor is truly looking out for you.

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Scott Krase

Scott utilizes a holistic approach to investment management and retirement planning. This allows him to eliminate potential conflicts of interest that may arise when a firm or advisor is owned by a parent company or who offers proprietary, product-based investment solutions. Scott provides objective, unbiased financial guidance based strictly on the needs, values, objectives, and goals of each client.

His blog has been featured on FoxBusiness.com, Yahoo Finance, CNBC, ETFtrends.com, Nasdaq.com, and more. He hopes to bring a little Common Sense to a Complicated Financial Landscape.

In addition to his work with Connor & Gallagher, he is a public speaker and financial educator for various corporations and conferences. Scott gives back to the community by acting as a mentor and coach for the Entrepreneur Program.

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Rick Brown

Rick is dedicated to helping individuals and families make confident financial decisions through comprehensive, personalized planning. With nearly two decades of experience working for two of the largest national investment firms, Rick brings deep expertise in helping clients through the many stages of their financial lives. Throughout his career, Rick has worked closely with retirees, pre-retirees, and high-net-worth families to develop customized financial plans focused on retirement readiness, tax-efficient income distribution, investment management, and long-term financial security. His experience as a national RIA provided the opportunity to advise clients across a wide range of financial situations including estate planning, tax strategy, charitable strategies, and portfolio management.

As a CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER® professional, Rick is committed to acting in his clients’ best interests and believes financial planning should provide clarity, confidence, and peace of mind. Rick is passionate about simplifying complex financial decisions and helping clients build a retirement they can enjoy with confidence.

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We’re Here to Help With Every Step of Your Financial Journey

From Retirement Planning to Investment Management, we'll help guide you on your financial journey. We will help you better understand your own risk tolerance and design a customized solution with your financial goals in mind.

Investment Management

We have a consultative process and individualized method to helping clients achieve their financial goals. This approach focuses on the client, their family and what matters most now and in the future. We believe every investor deserves a customized investment strategy and we strive to implement a portfolio best suited to help you reach your financial goals.

Risk Management

We believe in understanding each client’s personal appetite for risk in regards to their investments. It is then through careful portfolio construction, cutting-edge technology, and transparency that we strive to create an environment where your investments are consistently monitored and you are kept you informed at all times.

Retirement Planning

We review your current portfolio and sources of income in retirement to design a plan that can help you can reach your retirement and income goals. We design a plan geared toward stability, potential growth, and preservation of principle throughout retirement all while maintaining a level of flexibility in order to accommodate a client’s changing needs.

Tax Planning Strategies

Tax planning strategies are very important when it comes to preserving wealth. It’s integral to passing your wealth to heirs and minimize your tax bill. Tax planning strategies are an integral component to our investment process.

Trust & Estate Strategies

Proper estate planning strategies are essential when trying to ensure that your wealth passes to your loved ones according to your wishes. By putting together a life planning continuum, we help clients throughout the various stages of their lives. We help guide you in creating a strategy designed to pass your assets smoothly.

Life Insurance and Annuities

We can help clients use life insurance and annuities as part of a comprehensive financial plan, providing protection for loved ones, tax-advantaged planning opportunities, and reliable income strategies for retirement.

Long-Term Care Planning

As you age, you can feel better knowing there are steps you can take to help ensure that your wishes, both medical and financial, are carried out the way you desire. Advance care planning entails discussing your wishes, completing legal documents and a selecting a health care decision maker.

Insurance Planning

Insurance planning is a critical component of a comprehensive wealth management strategy. We help clients assess potential risks, identify coverage gaps, and implement insurance solutions that protect their income, assets, family, and long-term financial goals.

Who we help

Individuals

Whether you are just a beginner investor or you are preparing for retirement, our financial professionals can help you navigate your options.

Families

When it comes to saving for your kids’ college education or trying to determine an estate planning strategy, our professionals can help.

Businesses

As a business owner or executive, we can help you navigate choosing investments and retirement plans for your firm and employees.

Our Process

In order to establish your investment plan we use a specific process.

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Gather

To formulate a plan aiming to achieve your financial goals we first need to understand your current financial position. At this initial stage of your investment plan we gather and review all of your important financial statements.

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Customize

After we've got a good understanding of your financials, we'll discuss your time horizon and goals. We then put together a customized portfolio to preserve your wealth and potentially grow your assets based on your risk tolerance.

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Implement

Technology and communication is ever changing and so are your lives. We implement your investment plan by telling and showing you what will happen and when.

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Monitor and Manage

In order for your long and short term strategies to stay on the proper path we regularly review the performance of your portfolio. We stay in regular communication to ensure we're incorporating any new life events or changes to your goals.

FAQs

Frequently Asked Questions

Financial planning is the process of creating a personalized roadmap for your financial future. It helps you organize your investments, retirement savings, tax strategies, insurance coverage, estate plans, and cash flow to ensure all aspects of your financial life are working toward your goals.

Wealth management is a comprehensive approach that combines financial planning, investment management, retirement planning, risk management, tax strategies, and estate planning into one coordinated strategy designed to help you grow, protect, and transfer your wealth.

Investment management focuses primarily on managing your portfolio. Wealth management takes a broader approach by integrating investments with retirement planning, tax planning, risk management, insurance strategies, estate planning, and other financial decisions.

Many people have investments but lack a cohesive financial plan. A financial advisor can help ensure your investments align with your long-term goals, retirement needs, risk tolerance, tax situation, and estate objectives.

We work with individuals, families, business owners, professionals, and retirees who want guidance navigating important financial decisions and creating a comprehensive strategy for the future.

We begin by learning about your goals, priorities, financial situation, and risk tolerance. From there, we develop personalized recommendations and implement a strategy designed specifically for your needs and objectives.

Our planning process may include:

  • Retirement planning

  • Investment management

  • Tax planning strategies

  • Estate planning guidance

  • Insurance planning

  • Education funding strategies

  • Cash flow and budgeting analysis

  • Social Security planning

  • Long-term care considerations

As a fiduciary advisor, we are committed to acting in our clients' best interests and providing recommendations designed to support their financial goals.

We recommend reviewing your financial plan regularly and whenever significant life events occur, such as marriage, retirement, career changes, inheritance, selling a business, or the birth of a child.

The best time to start is now. Whether retirement is decades away or just around the corner, having a strategy in place can help maximize savings opportunities and improve long-term financial outcomes.

Yes. We help clients create retirement income plans designed to provide sustainable income, address market volatility, manage taxes, and help reduce the risk of outliving their savings.

We incorporate tax-aware planning strategies into the financial planning process to help clients make informed decisions regarding investments, retirement distributions, charitable giving, and other financial matters.

Not at all. Financial planning can benefit individuals and families at many stages of life. We believe everyone deserves access to professional guidance and a plan for achieving their financial goals.

We focus on comprehensive planning rather than one-size-fits-all solutions. Our team takes the time to understand your goals, coordinate all aspects of your financial life, and provide ongoing guidance as your needs evolve.

Getting started is simple. Schedule an introductory conversation with our team, and we'll discuss your goals, answer your questions, and determine the best path forward for your financial future.

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