Goals-based planning

We believe that even the most formidable wealth goals can best be achieved through a well-coordinated, well-implemented plan. Our process begins with meaningful conversations that help us focus on what’s really important to you. You articulate your goals and we’ll help you figure out the steps for achieving them. As your life and needs change, we will revisit and update your plan ensuring it evolves with you and your family over time. Our planning conversations focus on:

• Trusts and wealth transfer strategies
• Estate plan flowcharts
• Tax planning
• Cash flow modeling
• Insurance planning and coverage analysis
• Employee benefits review
• Education planning
• Succession planning and family wealth conversations

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Financial planning fact sheet

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Liquidity
0 - 3 years

To help maintain your lifestyle

• Entertainment and travel
• Taxes
• Purchasing a home

Longevity
4 years – lifetime

To help improve your lifestyle

• Retirement
• Healthcare and long-term care expenses
• Second home

Legacy
Now – beyond your lifetime

To help improve the lives of others

• Giving to family
• Philanthropy
• Wealth transfer over generations

Asset allocation
Your personalized financial plan is critical to our process as it helps inform your custom asset allocation. The plan we create together enables us to understand your long- and short-term goals, your appetite for risk and provides an integrated view of your wealth.

Managing risk
By listening and aligning with your objectives, we focus on strategies that allow for sensible growth and help mitigate risk. As we implement your investment strategy, we communicate regularly and track performance, rebalancing and making adjustments for life changes and economic conditions.

Open architecture
We make investment decisions objectively and deliberately, without any conflicts of interest. We consider all investment vehicles as potential tools for building a customized investment portfolio using a disciplined product selection process.

My Total Picture®
By using our proprietary “My Total Picture” technology, we can provide you a consolidated report on all of your assets—those held at UBS and others held away.

Industry-leading wealth management research
By drawing upon our investment analysis and the thought leadership and market insight of our Chief Investment Office, we help ensure are clients are receiving the firm‘s best strategic and tactical allocation guidance.

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Liquidity. Longevity. Legacy. A purpose-driven approach to wealth management

Get a clearer view of your wealth. My Total Picture

We collaborate with you on what you want to achieve with your strategic giving, including creating a philanthropic vision that aligns with your core values and beliefs. We can also help you align your philanthropy with your other financial strategies so that charitable aspirations aren’t fulfilled at the expense of other important objectives. Especially in this economic environment, smart giving requires the same carefully constructed strategic thinking that you apply to the rest of your finances.

UBS Philanthropy Compass

The UBS Philanthropy Compass was designed to take you step by step through the key questions that will shape your philanthropy. It guides you through questions intended to trigger and structure thinking, whether you are new to the field or a seasoned philanthropist reviewing previous assumptions, to help you find your very own answers.

Global Philanthropists Community

A private, invitation-only network of UHNW philanthropists to foster collaboration and share knowledge and best practices.

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Maximize your impact. UBS Philanthropy Services

DAFs and private foundations: Choosing an appropriate vehicle to drive philanthropy

The value of a Family Office Consultant (FOC)
Keith Mericka and Leslie Lauer are among a select group of Private Wealth Advisors who have earned the Family Office Consultant designation. They have undergone rigorous training to strengthen their knowledge and proficiency to help manage the investment, business, passion and legacy needs of sophisticated, ultra-high net worth clients and their families. Keith and Leslie understand the complexities of intergenerational wealth and the challenges faced by exceptional clients. Through our partnership with the Family Office Solutions Group, a team of more than 20 specialists with unusually deep and broad experience in disciples that go well beyond wealth management, we align our client's specific needs with the best of UBS' insight and expertise.

Family Office Compass

The Family Office Compass is intended to be a practical guide for families setting up their own dedicated family office. The Compass takes the reader through a structured process and prompts their thinking about their family’s needs and how their family office should be set up to meet these needs. Readers will also find examples of how other families have designed their family offices.

Building a Family Office

Authored by our business partners in Advanced Planning, this piece provides an overall view on family offices including proper definition, history, scope, types, and single family office evolution and structuring.

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A story for the generations: UBS Family Office Services Group

A partner for your life vision
The UBS Family Office Solutions Group brings an integrated approach to address entire life needs.