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Per Furmark

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Wealth Management

We seek to deliver a comprehensive approach to managing wealth, assisting clients to discern and quantify their financial priorities while striving to ensure every strategy is properly grounded in the understanding of their financial or personal objectives. 

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Per Furmark and his colleagues seek to deliver a comprehensive approach to managing wealth, working with clients to discern and quantify their financial priorities while striving to ensure every strategy is properly grounded in the understanding of a client’s financial or personal objectives.  Access to the thought leadership and investment insights of Merrill Lynch Wealth Management, the banking services of Bank of America, combined with the capabilities and experience of his colleagues, enable him to address the many diverse aspects of his clients’ financial lives. He is driven to deliver excellent service and support clients in the pursuit of their unique goals.


The approach to wealth management is consultative and holistic, exploring an investor’s complete financial situation, preferences and goals in advance of identifying strategies designed to support the pursuit of a client’s individual objectives.  Discussions can cover a wide range of topics including retirement income, insurance protection, education finance, estate planning services, philanthropic strategies in addition to investments.

 
Prior to joining Merrill Lynch Wealth Management, Mr. Furmark spent his career working with sophisticated investors and their consultants in the private banking and institutional marketplaces while employed by investment managers Fidelity Investments Institutional Services, Franklin Templeton Institutional and Putnam Investments. Today he devotes his energies to serving individual clients and their families, as well as catering to the diverse needs of entrepreneurs and business professionals.
 

Mr. Furmark has been part of the financial services industry since 1986 and joined Merrill Lynch Wealth Management in 2013.  Per Furmark is a Senior Portfolio Advisor who can help clients pursue their objectives by managing on a discretionary basis custom investment strategies, selecting from a wide range of Merrill model portfolios and third-party investment strategies.

 
Per lives in Rowayton, CT and is a graduate of Dartmouth College where he earned a B.A. in English.

 

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    Dartmouth College

    Northfield Mount Hermon School

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

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Where do we begin? It starts with you.

At Merrill Lynch Wealth Management, your financial advisor focuses on the things you care about most- family, goals and priorities - even as they change over the years.

Understanding Your Life

Welcome

My mission is to understand you and your priorities. To take the time, to ask relevant questions and to listen carefully, then to understand, in great detail, exactly where your wealth stands today, and where you'd like it to be tomorrow. I help you design, implement and regularly review a customized wealth management strategy that helps you and your family pursue your personal financial goals while managing investment risk. My wealth management approach is about using wealth to help turn goals into reality.

Philosophy

It is important that you take positive steps toward your financial future, and that means getting more than just investment advice. I take the time to get to know you and your family, your financial situation and what matters most to you. Using one-on-one collarboration as a foundation, I can work with you to build your own personalized financial strategy.

Approach

An effective approach to wealth management requires working closely with you to help identify and define your goals. The process begins by understanding what matters most to you. We help create a financial strategy to pursue your goals that reflects your investment style and is built around your life plan.

Whether you are focused on growing, preserving or transferring wealth the team is committed to helping you address your financial goals at every stage of your life.

Understanding your goals and priorities

Your life and goals change. We have tools to help you keep track of these changes so they can be reflected in your financial approach.

Capabilities

It is important to know exactly where you are with your finances, where you plan to go, and how much you may need to help get you there. Drawing on Merrill’s investing insights and with access to Bank of America’s credit and lending solutions, we can offer you a comprehensive, personalized plan to help you pursue your goals. We will provide transparency on what you’re paying for and what you’re getting, as well as potential opportunities and risks. Understanding that life needs and market conditions can change, we will meet with you, as necessary, to help make sure your strategy remains on track to pursue your goals and adjust your approach for the journey ahead, as needed.

The broad investing resources of Merrill provide you with access to potential strategies for income management, education funding, retirement income planning, and guidance for executives with concentrated stock positions. In addition to traditional and alternative investments and wealth transfer solutions through Merrill, you have access to estate planning services from Bank of America. As your single point of contact we can connect with key professionals in your life, working closely with your outside advisors, such as attorneys, accountants and elder care specialists.

DISCLOSURE: Some or all alternative investments may not be appropriate for certain investors. Certain alternative investments carry significant risk and are not subject to the same regulatory oversight as mutual funds and other appropriate investments. For these reasons, access to alternative investments may be limited to investors who are designated as sophisticated, high-net-worth investors.

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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