Estate & Trust Planning
A well-crafted estate plan is a cornerstone of comprehensive financial planning, offering a range of invaluable benefits to individuals and their loved ones.
At its core, estate planning goes beyond the distribution of assets after one’s passing and minimizing tax liabilities – it provides a framework to safeguard your legacy and help ensure your wishes are upheld. With a meticulously designed estate plan, you gain the assurance that comes from knowing your financial affairs are in order, no matter the circumstances. By collaborating with the team at Williams Asset Management, we will tailor a plan that aligns with your unique goals and values.
Your Life.
Well Planned.
Safeguarding wealth
for future generations
Mitigate the tax burden
on your estate
Create a legacy that
mirrors your values
Build a Lasting Legacy
Articulate Your Values
Most of us want to pass on more than just our wealth to the next generation. Perhaps you’re looking to create a lasting legacy that will ease the financial worries of your children and grandchildren. Maybe you want to add greater structure and gain more impact from your charitable efforts. Or possibly you’re seeking to ensure the continued care of a loved one with special needs. Our job is to understand what’s important to you.
Develop a Unique Plan
We help you turn your intentions into a well-structured estate plan that can preserve a larger portion of your wealth for future generations. Strategies can include, wills, trusts, powers of attorney, and living wills, among various other legal instruments. These tools help ensure that your beneficiaries are taken care of and minimize potential conflicts that might arise in the absence of a plan. Our team will proactively review your priorities and stay abreast of current estate laws to take advantage of tax-mitigation strategies.
Collaborate With a Team of Experts
We work cohesively with you, your beneficiaries, attorneys, accountants, trust companies, and our advanced planning team to implement solutions and develop an actionable plan. As your financial advisor, we understand the role of each professional and will help coordinate the intersection of legal documentation, beneficiaries and distributions, asset protection, probate avoidance and privacy, family dynamics, and philanthropy.
Shape Lives and Futures
Your wealth provides an opportunity not only to live life fully, but also to profoundly impact the lives of others. In essence, a robust estate plan empowers you to leave behind a legacy that reflects your values, secures your loved ones’ futures, and contributes to the greater good.
I’ve been a client of Williams Asset Management for five years. Brian McKinney, my financial advisor, is knowledgeable, pleasant, and very kind. He considers my current and future financial needs and risk tolerance, and provides personalized advice that I can understand. Brian answers my questions promptly and makes helpful suggestions that add value. I trust him and feel respected. The same is true of all the other staff with whom I’ve interacted. WAM exists to provide clients with financial planning and management, of course, but it is clear to me that customer service is a top priority. I actually enjoy going to my semi-annual check-in meetings because I always learn something. I highly recommend WAM.
My mother was a client of Williams Asset, relying on them to manage her assets in her retirement. She always had good experiences with them. When she passed away, she was able to pass on her estate to my brothers and me. Since receiving my inheritance, I have followed in her footsteps and used Williams Asset to manage my family’s assets as I prepare for my own retirement. Their holistic approach to creating a plan that takes into account all aspects my financial wellbeing has helped give me confidence to look forward to a retirement date that makes sense for me and that should allow for a retirement lifestyle that I can be happy with. My advisors, Tom Watson and John O’Callaghan, have demonstrated great savvy in their financial planning advice. I’m grateful to have found a team that has shown such a great ability to listen to my needs and goals and translate that information into a plan that works for my family and me.
As I approached 35 years as a corporate executive, I was searching for the ideal solution to my family’s financial planning needs—an independent firm that wasn’t tied to large financial institutions, yet had access to sophisticated financial tools and resources. At the same time, I wanted a team small enough to provide personalized guidance and truly understand my goals.
I found exactly that with Williams Asset Management. Their team has consistently provided attentive, customized service and developed financial strategies tailored to my unique objectives. I have been extremely pleased with the level of care, expertise, and responsiveness they offer.
Whether I have a significant financial question, a smaller concern, or simply need advice, I can easily connect with their team and receive thoughtful, timely support. Their commitment to personalized service has made them a trusted partner in helping me achieve my financial goals.
The work you do matters and makes a difference to your clients. We’ve been fortunate to have a long relationship with WAM that has guided us through multiple relocations, the passing of parents, retirement (re-wirement), and college. Thanks for what you and the WAM team does.
I learned a lot about the process of planning for our future and our financial plan was professionally presented. I could see where our assets and income will come from to finance our retirement and what important actions need to be taken for the plan to be a success.
Gary and the WAM team went beyond offering investment advice by truly getting to know our family. This friendship truly enabled the WAM team to personalize our navigation through our working years and now into retirement. Consequently, we have met and exceeded our financial goals, we are living our best dreams, and we are secure in our vision for our latter years. Thank you, Gary and WAM!
We didn’t have all of the pieces put together in a clear picture until our engagement. Now we have a clear plan and a path to success.
Brian, Matt and the entire team were very patient and responsive. I feel like they really took the time to know me, my priorities, and my goals. This is exactly the type of relationship with a financial advising team that I was hoping to build.
Switching to Williams Asset Management was truly one of the best moves we’ve ever made. For 5 years prior to the change our retirement accounts had remained flat, but within just one year of joining WAM we saw dramatic improvement. While performance has been excellent, what really sets them apart is their proactive, personal communication. We never have to wonder where we stand; they are always one step ahead, keeping us informed and confident. Now, more than a decade later, the peace of mind that comes from knowing our retirement is secure allows us to enjoy life rather than worry about the markets. If you feel like your financial plan is just spinning its wheels, we can’t recommend this team highly enough.
We have been with Williams Asset Management for approximately 20 years. We are mostly conservative and feel the regular reviews of our accounts is critical in managing our assets. From our viewpoint, this has been an excellent choice in achieving our financial goals.
I have been your client for 22 years now, and you have never let me down. I can attribute our very comfortable retirement to you, your very talented associates, your wise advice, and your skillful stewardship of our portfolios. It is so gratifying to see the success and impressive growth of your firm — you maintained that personal touch and feeling of mishpacha. You are the best.
We have been clients of Williams Asset Management since 2007, through many life stages. Gary and his team have always been knowledgeable, attentive, diligent and acted in our best interest. We highly recommend the Williams team for investors looking for an experienced fiduciary.
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