Investments built around your financial plan.
Financial Planning
Should you retire earlier? Can you afford a vacation home?
Is it time to exercise stock options?
How much can you spend? Should you refinance, gift assets, or delay Social Security?
Is your estate plan, insurance coverage, and tax planning optimized?
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Using sophisticated financial modeling, we will evaluate decisions before they're made, allowing you to understand the long-term implications of different choices.
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We will help clients organize assets, liabilities, income, spending, savings, and liquidity into a cohesive framework that supports both today's lifestyle and tomorrow's goals.
This often includes debt strategies, cash reserve planning, major purchase analysis, education funding, executive compensation planning, and ongoing financial decision-making.
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Your attorney, CPA, insurance professionals, and other advisors each bring important expertise. Our role will be to help coordinate those conversations so every recommendation works together as part of one comprehensive strategy.
Because the best financial decisions rarely happen in isolation.
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We will coordinate with your estate planning attorney to help ensure beneficiary designations, account ownership, trust funding, gifting strategies, and your broader financial plan remain aligned as your circumstances evolve.
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We will evaluate your existing insurance coverage—including life, disability, umbrella liability, and long-term care considerations—to identify potential gaps and help ensure your protection evolves alongside your wealth and responsibilities.
When specialized expertise is needed, we coordinate with trusted insurance professionals while remaining independent from product sales.
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While we don't prepare tax returns, we will work closely with your CPA to identify planning opportunities throughout the year. Together, we evaluate strategies such as Roth conversions, charitable giving, tax-efficient withdrawal sequencing, capital gains planning, stock compensation decisions, and business-related tax considerations.
Our goal is to help ensure tax planning becomes an ongoing conversation—not just something that happens every April.
Investment Management
Sound portfolios are grounded in decades of academic research and data rather than speculation, market forecasts, or the latest headlines.
Our role is to help you capture the returns that markets have historically provided while minimizing unnecessary costs, complexity, and behavioral mistakes.
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Rather than attempting to predict which stocks, sectors, or managers will outperform next, we plan to build broadly diversified portfolios using low-cost index and factor-based strategies.
Where appropriate, portfolios will incorporate evidence-based factors—including value, smaller companies, and high-profitability businesses—that have historically been associated with higher expected long-term returns.
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We plan to invest across thousands of companies throughout both developed and emerging markets, providing broad exposure to the global economy while reducing home-country bias. Diversification across regions, industries, and asset classes helps create a more resilient portfolio over time.
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Our portfolios will primarily utilize low-cost exchange-traded funds (ETFs), providing broad market exposure with transparency, daily liquidity, and significantly lower expenses than many actively managed strategies. Keeping costs low will allow more of your investment returns to remain invested and compounding for your future.
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Rather than reacting emotionally to market volatility, we will follow a disciplined rebalancing process that systematically restores portfolios to their intended allocation. This approach helps manage risk, maintain alignment with your long-term strategy, and encourages the discipline of buying relatively undervalued assets and trimming those that have appreciated.
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For clients who wish to align their investments with their personal beliefs, we will offer values-based and impact investing solutions.
Whether your priorities include environmental sustainability, social responsibility, faith-based investing, or other personal considerations, we will build portfolios that reflect what matters most—without sacrificing the importance of thoughtful diversification and sound investment principles.
“The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others”
Modern efficiency should benefit you.
LUCID IS BUILT FOR TODAY'S WORLD
Technology has transformed nearly every profession over the past decade. Financial advice should be no different.
Modern technology allows us to deliver exceptional advice and investment management options, more efficiently.
In today’s world, you should be the beneficiary of technology’s enhanced service offerings and cost efficiencies due to better design.
THIS IS WHAT A MODERN FEE STRUCTURE LOOKS LIKE
Flat Fee Financial Planning
$5,800 flat fee*
Efficient Investment Management
0.35% AUM
Cost savings remain invested, helping compound your family's long-term wealth over time.
*The fee may be higher if you are a business owner, have a complex legal estate, own private or illiquid investments, own multiple rental properties or otherwise have a lot of complexity in your financial life. We will quote you the final fee after having an introductory call.

