Serving families across Southwest Florida

Wealth planning for this generation and the next.

Independent wealth management and family office services for households with complex finances that deserve a high-quality, high-touch and high-tech approach.

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Common challenges

What complex wealth tends to hide.

The more you’ve built, the more decisions interact. These are the issues we see families miss most often.

Complex wealth deserves more
than average advice.

Three commitments shape every relationship we take on.

Independent advice.

The typical approach

Recommendations that can be shaped by proprietary funds, sales targets or commissions.

At WealthGen Advisors

Unbiased, fiduciary and commission-free. We’re paid by our clients, with no proprietary products to place and no sales quota behind a recommendation.

Rigorous analysis.

The typical approach

Planning handed off to a home office or a software template, with the advisor relaying the result.

At WealthGen Advisors

We do the work ourselves. Sophisticated cases get on-site CFP® and CFA® expertise, and every recommendation is modelled against your taxes, cash needs and estate plan, with the reasoning written down.

Customized strategies.

The typical approach

Model portfolios and off-the-shelf plans applied to whoever walks in the door.

At WealthGen Advisors

Cookie-cutter advice belongs back on the shelf. Your strategy is built from the ground up: detailed cash-flow planning, clear goals, a portfolio built around what you already own, and coordination with your tax, estate and legal advisors.

Led by a credentialed team.

Meet the team

Designations and degrees across our team

  • Chartered Financial Analyst. Awarded by CFA Institute after three exams in investment analysis, portfolio management and ethics.
  • CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ professional. Certified by CFP Board for education, exam, experience and ethics, including a fiduciary duty when giving financial advice.
  • Accredited Investment Fiduciary. Focused on fiduciary standards for managing investment decisions.
  • Accredited Wealth Management Advisor. From the College for Financial Planning, covering the needs of affluent households.
  • Chartered Retirement Planning Counselor. From the College for Financial Planning, focused on retirement income planning.
  • Certified Wealth Strategist. Covers wealth strategy for high-net-worth individuals and families.
  • Investment Adviser Certified Compliance Professional. Covers the compliance program of a registered investment adviser.
  • The Certified Investment Management Analyst program from the Investments & Wealth Institute, taught with Yale School of Management.
  • A graduate degree in personal financial planning.
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Credentials and memberships

  • CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ certification
  • NAPFA
  • Fee-Only Network member
  • Financial Planning Association
  • Investments and Wealth Institute
  • Sarasota Chamber of Commerce

What wealth planning truly covers.

Most people think wealth planning means picking investments. In practice, your advisory team should be advising on all of this.

Comprehensive wealth planning

Each of these areas affects the others. Your dedicated team advises on every one of them and coordinates them in one plan.

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Investment management

  • Portfolio analysis
  • Asset allocation design and rebalancing
  • Risk tolerance and performance analysis
  • Tax-loss optimization strategies
  • Monitoring and ongoing management

Retirement and cash flow planning

  • Cash flow analysis and budgeting
  • Income optimization
  • Recreating the paycheck
  • Retirement plan check-up
  • Company 401(k) review and analysis

Tax planning

  • Investment tax-mitigation strategies
  • Investment income tax analysis
  • Low basis tax management strategy
  • Estate distribution scenario analysis
  • Roth and IRA conversions

Estate planning

  • Estate review and analysis
  • Document storage and planning
  • Beneficiary reviews
  • Charitable planning
  • Estate distribution strategies

401(k) plan services

Plan design, fee benchmarking and shared fiduciary responsibility as a 3(21) or 3(38) fiduciary.

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What happens when you reach out.

It starts with a free 15-minute call with our founder. We listen first, and if we’re not the right fit, we’ll tell you. If you go ahead, five conversations come before a single dollar moves.

  1. Start hereIntro call15 minutes, free
  2. 01QuestionnaireAbout 15 minutes
  3. 02Data gatheringAbout 1 hour
  4. 03Plan collaborationAbout 1 hour
  5. 04ImplementationAbout 1 hour
  6. 05Plan reviewOngoing

What better planning decisions can be worth.

Feel financially secure

64% with an advisor
29% without an advisor

Believe they’ll be financially prepared to retire

75% with an advisor
45% without an advisor
Northwestern Mutual 2024 Planning & Progress Study, Harris Poll, 4,588 U.S. adults

22.6%

more retirement income, in risk-adjusted terms, estimated from better planning decisions in Morningstar’s model. Roughly equivalent to a 1.59% higher annual return.

Morningstar, “Alpha, Beta, and Now…Gamma,” Blanchett and Kaplan, 2013

The financial-security figures are self-reported survey responses, not results. The Morningstar figure is a simulated, model-based estimate for a hypothetical retiree, not the performance of any WealthGen Advisors client or strategy. Neither shows that working with an advisor causes better outcomes or predicts any individual’s results. WealthGen Advisors isn’t affiliated with these studies.

How we’re paid, and why it matters.

We’re an independent, fee-only firm held to a fiduciary standard. Here’s what that means for you, and where to read the details.

Fiduciary on every engagement

We’re required to act in your best interest in everything we recommend.

Fee-only

We’re paid by our clients, not through commissions or product sales.

Independent custodian

Your assets are held by an independent custodian, not by WealthGen Advisors.

Fees disclosed up front

Our fee schedule is published, and our Form ADV describes our fees and conflicts of interest.

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Bring the plan you already have. We’ll tell you what’s working, what’s exposed and whether you need us at all. The first consultation is free.

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Questions people ask us first.

Still have one we haven’t answered? Ask it on a 15-minute intro call.

WealthGen Advisors is an independent, fee-only firm. We don’t offer proprietary funds or earn commissions, so our compensation doesn’t depend on which products you choose. Every fee arrangement has trade-offs, including ours: an asset-based fee rises as the assets we manage grow. We describe our fees and conflicts of interest in our Form ADV. Firms are structured in different ways, and it’s always worth asking any advisor how they’re paid.

Through a disclosed advisory fee, never commissions. Our full fee schedule is published on our services page.

An independent custodian holds your assets. WealthGen Advisors provides advice on them but doesn’t hold them.

Retirees, business owners and multigenerational families across Southwest Florida. Our family office services are built for households with complex finances that deserve a high-quality, high-touch and high-tech approach, delivered at a low cost.

No. The intro call is a conversation, not a sales pitch, and we don’t sell products or earn commissions. If we’re not the right fit, we’ll say so.

Downtown Sarasota: 1239 N Gulfstream Ave, Sarasota, FL 34236. Lakewood Ranch: 8130 Lakewood Main Street, Ste 103, Lakewood Ranch, FL 34202.

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