What you can expect

At The Staley Dunn Wealth Management Group, each of us brings distinctive strengths and skills to the table. Whether you’re an accomplished business owner, a rising executive in a fast-growing company, or approaching a well-deserved retirement, we put our heads together on your behalf – and put a premium on communicating clearly, with full transparency.

Regardless of your age, stage, or financial circumstance, you can expect that we will:

• Be straightforward, sincere, and at all times, honest. If what you envision is not likely attainable, we will tell you. Conversely, if your objectives are quite easily within reach, we will outline what you likely can afford going forward – as long as you follow a carefully prescribed financial strategy.

 • “Address your goals and look for holes” in your financial picture. Perhaps long-term care, life, key man, or other forms of insurance can help safeguard your wealth. In some cases, updating your beneficiaries is all that’s needed.

 • Follow a disciplined investment process that utilizes internal and external research, along with the firm’s due diligence. Specifically, we aim to translate your goals, liquidity needs, risk tolerance and timeline into a cohesive and flexible investment strategy. As “asset-agnostic” investors with a healthy respect for investors with concentrated positions, we may suggest that your portfolio include a mix of equities, tax-free bonds, ETFs, and separately managed money to pursue steady growth and tax efficiency.

• Offer you access to credit and lending solutions from Bank of America, N.A.

• Align our efforts with those of your CPA and attorney to build tax-minimization and estate planning strategies. Our ages also allow us to work more easily with multiple generations of your family – a tremendous advantage when having heartfelt discussions with key stakeholders.

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Our Wealth of Experience

At The Staley Dunn Wealth Management Group, it’s easy to say, “We’ve been there, done that.”

 

However, it’s more meaningful to explain that clients can benefit from our extensive knowledge, team effort, and deep appreciation for market dynamics and each client’s view of wealth and the world.

 

Ours is a holistic approach that we tailor to help you avoid the mistakes made by countless investors and other successful individuals. In fact, we find that, given the opportunity, many intelligent people will deviate from a carefully crafted, agreed-upon strategy.



To help ensure that clients are better equipped to attain financial goals that hold meaning in their lives, we make it our business to keep clients informed, disciplined, and on track. The referrals we’ve long received to clients’ friends, colleagues and family members tell us they’re pleased with our performance and theirs.


Additionally, we look “beyond the obvious.” Yes, risk-managed investing is a key reason clients come to us. Still, the vast majority asks us to organize and optimize disparate pieces of their financial puzzle. That requires our ability to analyze what may be missing, as well as what is. Perhaps, a client’s improved use of credit could enhance the cash flow of their business. Or a type of trust or insurance may prove advantageous. Often, what’s needed is a simple updating of beneficiaries on important documents.

 

In other cases, we introduce mechanisms such as 10b5-1 plans to executives and board members, as well as cash balance plans and other defined benefit plans to owners of private businesses.

 

Ultimately, we believe that clients deserve the full acumen and attention of a seasoned wealth management team – one like ours that is fully committed to optimizing the quality of a client’s lifestyle and legacy.

Our Impressive Clientele

At The Staley Dunn Wealth Management Group, we work closely and collaboratively with a highly educated and deserving clientele. Most are referred from another client or come to us when facing a critical financial decision.

Specifically, we assist established business owners (some with multiple enterprises), biotech and technology executives, medical professionals, engineers, sales professionals, current and former members of the military, people with rental properties and others with “lives and money in constant motion.” We also bring a special level of care and consideration to retired clients, those recently widowed and divorced, and generations of their families in 22 states.

While distinct in their talents and visions, a typical client has successfully accumulated assets but lacks a thoughtful financial strategy that connects the dots in their lives with those in their financial picture. By taking a holistic approach in which we favor casual conversations over formal ones, we can understand what drives each client, their experience with wealth and investing, and perhaps with a previous advisor.

Among the questions we may ask: “How can we increase your financial strength, enhance your outlook, and give you less to worry about? What do you see for your family five, 15 and 25 years from now? How can we help you create a legacy, fund a child’s education, think about a succession plan, look toward your comfortable retirement, or all four?”

Just as we ask you questions, we hope you feel free to do the same. We believe that the dozens of trusted client relationships we’ve cultivated are based on mutual respect and the value we provide.