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Musgrave Dunn & Associates

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Wealth Management


"Wealth provides the flexibility to make choices. We'll help you understand how they impact your life."

Getting to a financial strategy that accurately reflects you is a process we know well and a good place for us to begin.

Welcome to Musgrave Dunn & Associates

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"There are many questions we would like to ask you at our first meeting. In fact, we probably have many more questions than you'll have answers, but most of them can wait.

The important questions to ask yourself, and we'll discuss this together, are – 'Do you understand your financial world today and do you know what you want your life to look and feel like 5, 10, 15 years or more into the future?'

During our first meeting we plan to work with you to help answer these questions. And, when we make good progress toward the answers, you'll begin to understand the path we have helped you create to pursue your unique goals."


Travis K. Musgrave, CEPA®, CPFA™, CIMA®, CRPC
  Managing Director
  Wealth Management Advisor

Get to Know Us

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Knowledgeable, attentive and independent-minded professionals who have your best interests at heart.

We are sophisticated professionals with strong credentials and experience. As a team, and individually, we embrace continuing education and technology to stay at the very top of our profession. Members of our team have achieved advanced designations and certifications, we firmly believe our team's hard work and dedication to our profession contribute to improving your experience with the firm and your long-term investment success.

Our Philosophy
It's our commitment to see that all areas of your financial life are well integrated and working together to accomplish the things in life that matter most to you and your family.

You've worked hard, sacrificed and managed to accumulate enough wealth to feel optimistic about your future. Or perhaps you're still concerned about outliving your assets. Our goal is to help clients develop a strategy designed to make their assets last. Musgrave Dunn & Associates commits abundant resources and leverages considerable skill to prepare and help you develop personalized financial strategies that impact the control clients have over their lives.

"We believe clients appreciate the individualized service and level of integration they receive from us. Our goal is to have them feel confident about their future."

-Mila C. Chitwood, CRPC™
 Wealth Management Specialist

Who We Work With

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We work with professionals, business owners and other high-net-worth individuals and their families who have successful, complex lives, but little time or the knowledge to prepare for their financial future. One-time liquidity events, such as the sale of a professional practice, a divorce, or receipt of retirement assets, may contribute to the urgency to seek advice. 
                                                                                
In addition, we assist long-time clients, and new ones, with strategies to help them transition from the wealth accumulation phase of their life to the distribution phase. We can access specialists within Merrill to help clients in the areas of philanthropic giving and estate planning. We work closely with the specialists at Bank of America Private Bank to determine, and help you implement, effective strategies for the legacy you want to leave.

Our team is committed to helping clients through the decisions they face. Even though we have helped clients in similar situations in the past, we create customized, individually tailored strategies for each client using Merrill's Wealth Management Process. We pride ourselves on being extremely good listeners, and our broad spectrum of skills and client-centric approach offers a unique and caring perspective to your financial life.

"Our team has experience working through complex issues and that experience allows us to advise in a fiduciary fashion."

- Sarah A. Gregory, CRPC™
Relationship Manager

Offering Discretionary Portfolio Management

We'll prepare for you a detailed financial strategy that prioritizes you and your family's personal goals and objectives and allows for the unpredictability of the capital markets, your tolerance for risk, liquidity needs and time horizon. In addition, we provide the discipline and fortitude to help you stick with a long-term approach through challenging as well as prosperous times. 

Individualized based on your needs
To help you build your portfolio, we employ a long-term investment approach and the timeless principles of asset allocation to take advantage of diversification to reduce volatility. Your allocation will typically have several components, each serving a particular purpose. A portion may be allocated to help meet your retirement income needs and at least keep pace with inflation. Additional assets may be invested in a more concentrated way to pursue other important goals you want to achieve.

Leading wealth management advice and guidance
Each day, our team leverages the vast resources of our firm and Bank of America—Chief Investment Office, BofA Global Research and Global Markets and Investment Banking—to produce actionable ideas and create strategies that help clients pursue wealth. The award-winning* research, along with that of other institutions, helps us stay sharp, providing you with independent thinking when it matters most. The open investment platform we use at Merrill is one of the broadest in the industry, allowing us to leverage investment managers and strategies for your needs. We supplement those resources with our internal experience to help fulfill certain portfolio objectives.


*Asset allocation, diversification and rebalancing do not ensure a profit or protect against loss in declining markets.

*The Chief Investment Office (CIO) provides thought leadership on wealth management, investment strategy and global markets; portfolio management solutions; due diligence; and solutions oversight and data analytics. CIO viewpoints are developed for Bank of America Private Bank, a division of Bank of America, N.A., (“Bank of America”) and Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated (“MLPF&S” or “Merrill”), a registered broker-dealer, registered investment adviser and a wholly owned subsidiary of Bank of America Corporation.
 
 *Institutional Investor magazine announced BofA Global Research as one of the Top Global Research Firms in 2022 based on surveys held throughout the year. The magazine creates rankings of the top research analysts in a wide variety of specializations, drawn from the choices of portfolio managers and other investment professionals at more than 1,000 firms. BofA Global Research is research produced by BofA Securities, Inc (“BofAS”) and/or one or more of its affiliates. BofAS is a registered broker-dealer, Member SIPC, and wholly owned subsidiary of Bank of America Corporation. Learn more about the methodology at Institutional Investor. Rankings and recognition from Institutional Investor are no guarantee of future investment success and do not ensure that a current or prospective client will experience a higher level of performance results and such rankings should not be construed as an endorsement.
 

Our Process - Connecting the Pieces of Your Financial Life

We've learned that helping clients truly understand where their financial world is, relative to their goals, is a great launching point for addressing the responsibilities and demands that come with creating, growing and preserving wealth. Wealth Management Advisor Travis Musgrave and Senior Financial Advisor Tim Dunn bring a wide knowledge base and specialized experience obtained through years of advanced study and practical experience, to provide insightful and innovative ideas to the events that shape client's financial lives.

A disciplined approach
Our Wealth Management Process begins by developing a deep understanding of you and the things you value most. It asks a lot of you, but we've found that one of our strengths is to facilitate the difficult conversations that need to occur. We move through the process at a pace that allows us to make sure some of the tougher decisions reflect what you really want to achieve in life. And from experience, we know it's a process that will continue to serve you well for many years to come.

We have also found that employing "what if" scenarios and simulating their impact on your current lifestyle and retirement, help refine the decision-making process. Then, we'll use those results to help develop disciplined strategies designed to pursue your goals—whatever is most important in your life.

Leadership and commitment
We build additional knowledge about you by initiating a dialogue with your other trusted advisors. We will coordinate these strategic relationships for you and, when you deem, we'll share information about your finances to help them prepare your taxes, insurance strategies, and legal documents as needed.

Recognition

Merrill is proud of our advisors who’ve received recognition from financial industry publications or directly from Bank of America Corporation. We believe they are setting the standard for exemplary client service.

Travis K Musgrave

Barron's "Top 1,200 Financial Advisors: State-by-State" 2009-2022
Published annually in February - March. Rankings based on data as of September 30 of the prior year.

Forbes "Best-in-State Wealth Advisors" 2018-2022
Published annually Jan- April. Rankings based on data as of June 30 of prior year.

Meet the Team

Supported by the global resources of Merrill, our team is comprised of talented and experienced individuals committed to building strong client relationships based on trust and personalized service.

Staying on Track

We understand that both your life and the financial markets can change over time. By checking in to discuss changes in your life and revisiting your financial approach, our goal is to help you stay on track to achieve what's most important to you.



Reviews to help you
stay on track

We’ll meet with you to review your goals and the progress you’ve made toward reaching them. We’ll also discuss any adjustments needed to your financial approach to help you stay on course.



    Changes in your life
    and to your goals

    Your life and goals change. As these changes occur, we can update your approach to reflect them.

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      Let’s Have a Conversation

      Helping you reach your goals starts with getting to know you personally. Through understanding what matters most to you, together we can help you create a financial approach that reflects your personality. Only then can we offer an approach that is built around your life priorities and the advice you need to help you address fluctuations in the market and changes in your life. Let’s work together to help you achieve your goals.

      Why Merrill?

      As Merrill Lynch Wealth Management Advisors, we will sort through the financial complexities of your life, helping you build a customized investment approach to address your needs and pursue your goals.


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      We put you first, every day.
      Learn more about the dedicated one-on-one relationship you can have with a Merrill Lynch Wealth Management Advisor.

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      No question too big or moment too small
      For every question you have, every decision you make and every answer you need, we are with you to listen and help guide you along the many paths your life can take. Watch this video to see some questions we can address together.


      The Power of the Right Advisor®
      Working with a dedicated Merrill advisor means you get personalized investment strategies from Merrill plus access to comprehensive financial solutions only Bank of America can deliver.

      Personalized advice from a dedicated financial advisor.

      We get to know you and your family, your financial situation and what matters most to you.

      A comprehensive approach, built around your life’s priorities.

      Drawing from our experience and the best thinking of Merrill, together we will design an approach that reflects your unique needs, priorities and financial situation.

      Adjusting your investment approach as your life and the markets change.

      We will work to help you stay on track, regardless of what the markets are doing.