What We Do

Through our Wealth Management Process, along with our strategic partnerships and professional network, we deliver highly-personalized, fee-based advice to help our clients preserve and enhance their wealth across generations to live a life well lived.

Who We Serve

Our clients tend to consist of the top 5% of Americans in terms of assets, who share similar personality traits such as patience, prudence, discipline and composure. They tend to be corporate executives, physicians, business professionals, as well as business owners engaged in or beginning succession planning.

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Wealth Protection

We live in a world of risks. Wealth Protection involves assessing which risks to avoid, which to accept, which to reduce, and which to transfer. After helping clients with a risk assessment, we design a specific strategy for coping effectively with each risk. We accomplish this for clients by working with our Professional Network of attorneys, CPAs and insurance specialists to grant you peace of mind.

Charitable Impact

As we age, we tend to focus more on the legacy we will leave. FHWA first listens to learn what your charitable intent is. Second, we then aim to maximize your charitable impact through working in tandem with our Professional Network. This ensures that you will fulfill your altruistic purposes and often amplifies your impact.

Heirs

Financial Harvest Wealth Advisors clients tend to be parents and grandparents who value family.  Our commitment is to help clients effectively and efficiently transfer wealth to their loved ones.
* Effectively means your wishes are adhered to in a process that produces harmony, not disagreements.
* Efficiently means transfer of ownership occurs with minimal probate fees and taxes.

Mitigating Taxes

In today's higher tax environment, the affluent know tax efficient investing and mitigation strategies are required.  Our passive investing method generates 1/6th the turnover versus the industry, which reduces capital gains and investment income surtax.  Additionally our Wealth Management Process utilizing our Professional Network allows for individualized tax mitigation strategies that integrate with your Investment Plan.

Wealth Preservation

Since our average client is already a millionaire, we employ strategies aimed appropriately as their objectives shift from growing wealth to preserving wealth. Preserving wealth means having more than enough money throughout your lifetime to protect your independence and dignity.

We help you cope effectively with the four fundamental threats to maintaining your lifestyle for 30 years of retirement - inflation, taxes, longevity and disappearing entitlements. Compared to the average equity investor*, our clients typically produce two to three times the return on their capital with 77% less expense versus the industry. Our method also reduces risk generally by 25% and reduces tax liabilities (see Mitigating Taxes).

*Dalbar Research Quantitative Analysis of Investor Behavior 2012

"While it is a tragedy that the vast majority of investors unnecessarily miss out on the market returns that are available to anyone by adopting a passive investment strategy, the really great tragedy in life is that they also miss out on the important things in life in pursuit of the "Holy Grail of Outperformance." - Larry Swedrow – "Wise Investing Made Simple"
“All the time and effort people devote to picking the right fund, the hot hand, the great manager, have in most cases, led to no advantage. Most investors would be better off in an index fund.” - Peter Lynch - Legendary Manager of Fidelity Magellan
“I believe the search for top-performing stock funds is an intellectually discredited exercise that will come to be viewed as one of the great financial follies of the late 20th century. Ignore market timers, Wall Street strategists, technical analysts, and bozo journalists who make market predictions … Admit to your therapist that you can’t beat the market.” - Jonathan Clements - Columnist, Wall Street Journal
“By day we write about ‘Six Funds to Buy NOW!’… By night, we invest in sensible index funds. Unfortunately, pro-index fund stories don’t sell magazines.” - Anonymous - Fortune Magazine Writer
“The statistical evidence proving stock index funds outperform between 80% and 90% of actively managed equity funds is so overwhelming that it takes enormously expensive advertising campaigns to obscure the truth from investors.” - The Motley Fool - Internet Advisor
“ After nearly fifty years in this business, I do not know of anybody who has done it (market timing) successfully, and consistently. I don’t even know anybody who knows anybody who has done it successfully and consistently.” - John C. Bogle, SR. - Former Chairman & Founder, The Vanguard Group
"..the best way to own common stocks is through an index fund..." - Warren Buffett, Berkshire Hathaway, Inc. 1996 Shareholder Letter
"If I have noticed anything over these sixty years on Wall Street, it is that people do not succeed in forecasting what's going to happen to the stock market." - Benjamin Graham– Legendary investor and author, Security Analysis
“I have a lot of friends who work in the securities business, and all of them just buy the stock market. I don’t know any of them who are stock pickers.” - Benjamin Stein- TV host of Win Ben Stein’s Money, SmartMoney
“When it comes down to how we are performing, we are trailing in the market’s wake. People ought to recognize that the average fund can never outperform the market in total.” - John Fossel - Former Chairman, The Oppenheimer Funds
"Most of the mutual fund investments I have are index funds..." - Charles R. Schwab, Author, Guide to Financial
"The best throw of the dice is to throw them away." -English Proverb
"...Despite all the hoopla surrounding the fund performance surveys, empirical evidence casts strong doubt on the naïve application of past performance to the selection of investment managers." - William Sharpe, et al, Investments (2nd ed.)