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Creveling & Creveling Private Wealth Advisory
1. Creveling & Creveling Private Wealth Advisory
Creveling & Creveling is a fee-only private wealth advisory firm specializing in helping expatriates living in Thailand and
throughout Southeast Asia build and preserve their wealth. Through our unique, integrated consulting approach, we are
dedicated to helping our clients cut through the financial intricacies of expatriate life, make better decisions with their money,
and take the steps necessary to provide a more secure future.
About Creveling & Creveling
As long-time Thai residents and financial professionals, we understand the financial
challenges faced by many expatriates—the lack of clear and complete information,
conflicting tax jurisdictions, currency issues, confusing local and home country regulations,
and international marriages—among a myriad of other issues.
We know it can be difficult to find unbiased advice that incorporates both the local and
global perspective required by most expats and that truly addresses the range of financial
planning and investment issues they face. Our goal is to serve as your private wealth
advisor guiding you through the various facets of your financial life to help you make better
financial decisions, increase your household wealth and create a more secure future.
Wealth Advisory and Financial Planning Services
At Creveling & Creveling, our goal is to help you make smart financial and investment decisions year after year. Our detailed
wealth advisory service encompasses a thorough initial review and ongoing support covering all of the following relevant
areas and more:
• Initial financial review • Dual-nationality marriage • Estate planning
considerations
• Customized global portfolio • LTF / RMF, provident funds,
design • College funding strategies and Thai investments
• Currency decisions • Executive compensation • Net unrealized appreciation
maximization analysis
• 401(k), 403(b), IRAs, and
corporate pension plans • Stock option / RSU analysis • Lump sum vs. annuity
decisions
• Tax and fee minimization • Home and investment property
purchase analysis • Pre-retirement decision
• Retirement / goal funding
making and structuring
strategies • Buy / rent decisions
• Insurance needs • Tax planning
3 Sukhumvit Soi 30, Khlong Toey, Bangkok 10110 | Tel: +66 2 661-2716 | crevelingandcreveling.com
2. Creveling & Creveling Advantages
At Creveling & Creveling, we provide a unique, personalized wealth advisory service rarely found in Southeast Asia. Beyond
the specific value obtained from ongoing financial planning and investment advice, our holistic approach provides clients a
myriad of benefits that set us apart from typical U.S. and offshore advisors.
Holistic Wealth Advisory Services
• Specializing in financial planning and investment advice for expatriates
• Extensive discovery process serves as foundation for advice
• Customized advice only—no product sales
• Incorporates special tax rules for U.S. expatriates
• Custom portfolio design
• Globally oriented investment advice including local market products
• Investment advice integrated with ongoing, extensive financial
planning support
Highest Level of Regulation, Education & Transparency
• Transparent fee-only compensation
• Voluntarily regulated by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
• Licensed by the Thai Ministry of Finance and regulated by the Thai SEC
• Legally responsible as fiduciaries to act in our clients’ best interest
• All advisors hold the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation - a post-graduate
level investment designation
Personal Service & International Professional
Customized Solutions Network
• Personalized attention and ongoing support • Institutional relationships with leading custodians in
both the U.S. and offshore markets
• Customized financial planning and investment
advice for each unique situation • Memberships with top industry organizations and
associations
• Low client-to-advisor ratio
• Collaboration with our clients’ other advisors
3 Sukhumvit Soi 30, Khlong Toey, Bangkok 10110 | Tel: +66 2 661-2716 | crevelingandcreveling.com
3. Compare Creveling & Creveling With Others
Creveling & Creveling U.S. Brokerages Offshore Brokers/Advisors
Financial Advisory
Specializes in financial planning
advice for expatriates
Comprehensive planning used
as foundation for advice
Customized advice vs. product sales
Integrates special tax rules
for U.S. expatriates
Investment Advisory
Custom portfolio design
Designed for expats
Recommends custodians and products
appropriate for U.S. clients
Recommends custodians and products
appropriate for non-U.S. clients
Incorporates local market products
Integrated with comprehensive
financial planning
Compensation Structure
Transparent fee-only compensation
Conflicts of interest removed
Service
Personalized ongoing attention
Low client-to-advisor ratio (<25:1)
Collaboration with client’s other advisors
Regulatory Oversight
Advisor regulated in Thailand
Advisor regulated by U.S. SEC or
other regulatory authority
Advisor holds recognized
professional qualifications
Advisor held to a fiduciary standard
Yes Partially Generally No
When you’re ready, we welcome the opportunity to help you get the most from your international life.
3 Sukhumvit Soi 30, Khlong Toey, Bangkok 10110 | Tel: +66 2 661-2716 | crevelingandcreveling.com
4. Our Approach
At Creveling & Creveling, we provide an integrated approach to your financial planning and investment needs. Our belief
is that the financial decisions that go into wealth accumulation and preservation need to be considered holistically. This is
especially true for many expatriates who face complex tax, regulatory, and practical situations when managing their finances.
We believe that financial decision making and the management of your financial affairs is not a one-time event. Wealth is only
created by continuously making smart financial and investment decisions as your career and life evolve.
Our Process
Wealth is created through the compounding of sound financial and investment decisions over a lifetime. It is not created with
an intermittent focus on your affairs or with the type of cursory financial advice received incident to the sale of a financial
product or investment scheme. That is why we have designed a unique, consultative approach to providing Southeast Asia’s
expatriate community with the type of ongoing professional support they need to achieve their financial goals as they pursue
their lives abroad. Our aim is to provide you with the specialized, professional advice you need throughout your life so you
can make the smart financial and investment decisions required to help you reach your goals.
We do not sell financial products or receive compensation from any product or service provider. This allows us to focus
on working solely in your best interest to deliver cost and tax-efficient, customized solutions to meet your unique financial
planning and investment needs.
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Financial planning is an
ongoing process, not a
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the compounded value
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decisions over time.
Make Adjustments Monitor
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Strategies
3 Sukhumvit Soi 30, Khlong Toey, Bangkok 10110 | Tel: +66 2 661-2716 | crevelingandcreveling.com
5. Wealth Advisory Services
Investment Advisory Retirement Planning
• Customized Global Portfolios
• Retirement Structuring for
• Advice on all Accounts—IRAs, Retirees
401(k)s, Taxable
• Considerations for Retirees in
• Integrates Assets Across Multiple
Tax Jurisdictions
Financial Decision Thailand
• Optimal Distribution Strategies
• Tax and Fee-Efficient Investing Making
• Social Security Decisions
• Concentrated Stock Position • Buy vs. Rent Decisions
• Annuity Analysis and
Evaluation • Analysis of Investment Property Considerations
• Stock, Bond, Currency Decisions • Analysis of Mortgage/Financing • Retirement Cash Flow Modeling
• Assessment of Risk Capacity and Options
• Feasibility and Scenario Analysis
Tolerance • Second Opinions on Investments
• Required Minimum Distributions
• Performance Tracking and • IRA/Roth IRA Rollover Analysis
Reporting • Pension Maximization
• Facilitation of Goal Setting
• Reverse Mortgage Evaluation
• Consumption Decisions
• Determination of Maximum
Withdrawal Rates
Tax Planning
• Tax Minimization Strategies
• Effective Utilization of IRAs,
401(k)s,403(b), etc.
• Effective Utilization of Thai Risk Management
Provident Funds, LTFs, RMFs • Life Insurance
• Tax Minimization Strategies for • Disability Insurance
U.S. Citizens Married to Non-US
• Long-Term Care Insurance
Citizens Client • Mitigation of Currency Risk
• Tax Minimization Strategies for
U.S. Expats (Incorporating PFIC/ • Mitigation of Longevity Risk for
CFC Rules) Retirees
• Tax-Efficient Distribution • Hedging Strategies
Strategies for Retirees
Financial Executive Compensation
Management Planning
• Budget Development
• Maximization of Employment
• Offshore Custodian Selection and Education Planning Benefits
Account Consolidation
• Determination of College Funding • Stock Option vs. Restricted Stock
• Integration with Other Advisors Decisions
Requirements
(Tax, Legal, Insurance)
• Calculation of Savings Targets • Stock Option Planning and
• Simplification of Financial Optimization
Situation • Tax-Efficient Funding Strategies
• Warrant Analysis and
• Financial Decision Making • Best 529 Plans for U.S. Expats
Optimization
Support • Asset Allocation and Fund
• Net Unrealized Appreciation
• Implementation Support and Selection
Analysis
Accountability
• Lump Sum vs. Annuity Decisions
• Financial Education
3 Sukhumvit Soi 30, Khlong Toey, Bangkok 10110 | Tel: +66 2 661-2716 | crevelingandcreveling.com