Our Process
A Deliberate Process from Discovery to Ongoing Review
Every engagement begins with understanding your goals, circumstances, priorities, and concerns. Services and recommendations are then tailored to the agreed scope.
Steps
Step 1: Discovery
Step 3: Information gathering
Step 2: Scope and agreement
Discuss your financial situation, goals, current advisers, and the decisions you are trying to make. Determine whether Foothills Investments appears to be an appropriate fit.
Step 2: Scope and agreement
Step 3: Information gathering
Step 2: Scope and agreement
Define the services, responsibilities, expected deliverables, fees, conflicts, and duration. Review the advisory agreement and applicable Form ADV disclosures.
Step 3: Information gathering
Step 3: Information gathering
Step 4: Analysis and recommendations
Collect relevant financial statements, account information, tax information, estate documents, insurance information, business information, and other supporting materials.
Step 4: Analysis and recommendations
Step 4: Analysis and recommendations
Step 4: Analysis and recommendations
Evaluate your financial circumstances, investments, objectives, risk tolerance, time horizon, and planning alternatives. Present written recommendations where included in the engagement.
Step 5: Implementation
Step 4: Analysis and recommendations
Step 6: Monitoring and review
Decide which recommendations to implement. Implementation remains the client’s decision unless Foothills Investments has been separately engaged for discretionary investment management.
Step 6: Monitoring and review
Step 4: Analysis and recommendations
Step 6: Monitoring and review
For ongoing relationships, monitor progress and review accounts and planning assumptions. Formal investment-account reviews are conducted at least annually, with additional reviews as appropriate.
Planning-engagement timing
Written financial plans are generally expected to be completed within six months after the advisory agreement is signed, provided the client supplies requested information promptly.
Financial-planning engagements generally terminate on the 12-month anniversary unless the parties enter into a new or continuing agreement.
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