3. One day Alice came to a fork in the road
And saw a Cheshire cat in a tree.
“Which road do I take?” she asked.
“Where do you want to go?” was his response.
“I don’t know,” Alice answered.
“Then,” said the cat, “it doesn’t matter.” - Lewis Carroll
4. Mission, Vision, Values & Goals
Above
WHY
The Planning Horizon
Below
HOW
Strategies, Tactics and Tools
5. You Must Stay
Above the Line Long Enough for
Your Plan to Emerge
… Because
The Planning Horizon
A great answer to the wrong
question, may be interesting...
but it’s useless, expensive and time
wasting!
6. Albert Einstein
“If I had one hour to save
the world I would spend
fifty-five minutes defining
the problem and only five
minutes finding the
solution!”
7.
8. Individuals face many
dilemmas in the planning
process.
Me Family
Family Charity
Charity Me
Family Family
Charity Charity
Me Spouse
Me Myself
14. Average life expectancy
by the year 2025
89.9
86.9 87.8
Source: US Department of Health, Health, United States 2008.
85.8 85
82.2 80.4
75.2
Age
47 47
Men Women
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15. What’s your number?
Financial Financial Financial
Dependence Independence Transcendence
$ Excess
Family Legacy
Deficit
Social Capital
Legacy
Accumulate Protect Transfer
Birth
17. Questions to consider
What are you passionate about?
What makes you, you?
What keeps you up at night?
Where do you want to make an impact?
If you could change one thing in the world – what would it be?
What does social capital mean to you?
18. Warren Buffett
Parents should leave children
“enough money so they would
feel they could do anything, but
not so much that they could do
nothing.”
20. Without being clear on your values, how can
you know if you're even planning for the
right things?
21. Stress Test
Does the strategy allow
you to ...
… retain sufficient resources to protect
your financial security and maintain
your desired lifestyle?
… transfer what you have, to whom you
want, when you want, the way you
want?
… direct your social capital in a manner
consistent with your personal values?
24. C
The Virtual Planning Team
O
Investment
R Core Team
E
T Legal Client Tax
E
A
M Risk
Strategy Teams
CA Business
Expert or Specialist
Legal Virtual Team Resources Fiduciary
Philan-
Investment Real
Insurance thropy
Estate
25. Professional bias
Insurance
Lawyer People see the
world not as
it is, but
as they are.
Accountant
Investment
29. Who is your Coach?
Discovery Gap
Management Management
Information
Management
Talent
Management
COACH
Project
Management Communication
Knowledge Management
Budget
Management
Management
30. Allison Maher, CA, CFP, TEP
Family Wealth Coach Planning
www.familywealthcoach.ca
Notas del editor
By show of hands – how many of you have given a presentation to 100 people? Ok thank you – by a show of hands how many of you have shared intimate details of your life with 100 people? So I am taking a bit of risk here…..and I know that we all have a bit of a story….wanted to share my story and why we are so passionate about values based financial planning…I am going to pretend its just us “girls here” today.
I know a lot of you will be able to relate to this story……Trudy uses the term “life life’s us”. Before I had children, I had a bucket list of things I wanted to do….running marathon and I was very busy non parent……I know that a lot of you can relate to this, I am sure……Before I ran the marathon, went in for my annual physical no problem…..as soon as the marathon is over, I said right….lets try to get pregnant….very goal oriented person……want to start trying to have kids…..and literally did…. well I came back to a voicemail saying that the lab tests from physical had shown had odd test ….I know a lot of you have had this experience, so you know your heart just stops……the long and short of the story is that my world changed on a dime…. I needed to get to 26 weeks, every 6 weeks they would look at this tumour and see if it changed….held my breadth……because one of the risks of the surgery and even biopsying it to confirm if it was malignant or benign was a potential hysterectomy. Two lessons I learned very quickly: Time is an incredibly valuable commodity, and that I needed a framework to make difficult decisions. This is the reason we wrote the book and this is the reason we do what we doSo we have worked very hard to create a new way of financial planning …... Today I am going to give you some tools to help you get the most of your time and your financial resources. TO BE THE MOST IMPACTUL WITH WHAT YOU HAVE. We are going to teach you how to think more strategically first, and begin with the end in mind.
Alice in wonderland one of my favorite books…..how do you know which financial strategies or tools to employ if you aren’t clear about where you want to go. Another way of saying this is to “Begin with the end in mind”
In our planning world there are three main roads that Alice can choose from…..FI, FL, SC……does everyone know what I mean by social capital? It can be philanthropy, but it can also mean generosity….default its taxes.Which road to go down?
Every strategy tactic or tool can fit into three realms……some overlap. For example life insurance……investments would too, but would suggest that each realm have its own investment portfolio statement.
Financial independence means different things to different people…..it is more of an art than a science…need to try to understand a families burn rate…..take a very conservative approach
Financial Independence is the foundation of all of our planning.
My own personal experience – a tool with family, What does legacy mean to you? Ask the audience. Have a hand planted in the audience….legacy means giving my children skills to fish on their own, making on impact in my community,
Core Value Exercise????
What do your kids need to flourish?
The advisor watches and waits for a reaction -- sometimes good, sometimes BAD. Invariably, most people end up with their head exploding as a result of the complexity and confusion.Sometimes this takes place in a single meeting and sometimes over the course of months or even years. Your advisor keeps running through a sequence of strategies, all designed to resolve an assumed problem. I’m sure every one of us has gone through this at one time or another, considering multiple strategies only to become more and more confused. Often times, we are barraged by multiple advisors with different strategies and different objectives, all tools that have been designed to solve problems that we have not yet clearly defined.
Advisors often mistake confusion with the need for additional information.
Different degrees of trust required – don’t have to have a deep relationship with everyone of our advisors. Teller at the bank -
Suggest you ask one of your financial advisors to step up and play the role of coach – may do I by default…but in my experience the best way is to be deliberate about it.
CALL TO ACTION::Ask yourself why before how?What is your place of most potential- is it FI, FL or SC? Harness your resources, your team and your time around it.Thank you – just wanted to say if any of you would like to pursue this line of thinking, we brought about 40 books here today….you are welcome to have one, and if you would like to make a donation to WINK, it is not a requirement, but we are grateful if you would like to….