Investment Management
Your savings and investments play a major role in the Advanced Wealth Planning process. Our role is to provide you sound, quality advice when it comes to how you invest and monitor the funds you have set aside to reach your financial goals.
Our Approach to Investment Management
Successful investing begins with a disciplined process, not simply selecting investments. Every client relationship starts with understanding what matters most to you: your goals, priorities, financial resources, investment time horizon, and comfort with risk. Those conversations provide the foundation for every investment decision that follows.
There is no single "best" investment strategy, only the strategy that is best aligned with your goals, time horizon, tax situation, and comfort with risk. We believe successful investing isn't measured by short-term performance, but by consistently making disciplined decisions that support your long-term plan.
Together, we develop a personalized Investment Policy Statement (IPS) which is a written roadmap that transforms your investment strategy from a collection of investments into a disciplined, purpose-driven plan. Your IPS aligns your investment strategy with your long-term objectives and serves as the framework for ongoing portfolio management, helping ensure decisions remain focused on your goals rather than short-term market emotions. As your life evolves, your IPS evolves with you through regular reviews and thoughtful updates.
Our investment process is designed to provide clarity, consistency, and accountability at every stage:
Understand Your Goals – Learn what is most important to you and your family's financial future.
Define Risk & Time Horizon – Evaluate your comfort with investment risk and the time available to achieve your objectives.
Develop Your Investment Policy Statement – Create a personalized written framework that guides investment decisions and establishes a long-term strategy.
Design & Implement Your Portfolio – Build a diversified portfolio aligned with your IPS and financial objectives.
Monitor, Rebalance & Review – Regularly review your progress, rebalance when appropriate, and update your strategy as your life and goals change.
Our goal is simple: to provide a thoughtful investment process that helps bring clarity, confidence, and discipline to every investment decision. Rather than reacting to short-term market movements, we remain focused on the long-term strategy designed to help you achieve your financial goals.
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“The stock market is a device to transfer money from the impatient to the patient.”
Areas of Investment Management
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Portfolio Construction & Management
Building diversified portfolios designed around your goals, time horizon, and tolerance for risk.
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Seperately Managed Accounts
Expanding portfolio capabilities through specialized professional managers when appropriate for your investment objectives.
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Alternatives & Non-Conventional Traded Securities
Expanding investment opportunities through specialized strategies when appropriate for your objectives.
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Tax Aware Investing
Managing investments with a strong focus on tax efficiency and long-term after-tax outcomes.
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Cash Management
Managing liquidity needs while keeping your broader investment strategy working efficiently.
Portfolio Construction & Management
Every investment portfolio should reflect the unique goals, time horizon, and financial circumstances of the investor, not simply current market conditions. Our portfolio construction process begins by understanding your objectives and developing an investment strategy aligned with your comprehensive wealth plan.
Using a disciplined approach to asset allocation, diversification, and ongoing portfolio management, we design investment portfolios with a high degree of customization, utilizing traditional securities such as exchange-traded funds, individul stocks, bonds and mutual funds, intended to balance risk and opportunity while remaining focused on your long-term objectives. As markets and life circumstances evolve, portfolios are regularly reviewed and adjusted to help ensure they remain aligned with your investment strategy.
Seperately Managed Accounts
Every client's investment strategy is unique, and there is no single investment solution that's appropriate for every situation. While many portfolios are designed and managed directly by The Leyens Group, there are circumstances where incorporating a Separately Managed Account (SMA) can provide additional value.
SMAs offer access to specialized institutional investment managers with expertise in specific asset classes, investment styles, or tax-sensitive strategies. When appropriate, they can complement a portfolio by providing additional diversification, specialized research, or access to investment disciplines that support your overall investment objectives.
The decision to utilize an SMA is never based on convenience or a standardized approach. It is made only when there is a belief it enhances the investment strategy and better serves your long-term goals.
Alternatives & Non-Convential Traded Securities
Traditional investments remain the foundation of most investment portfolios. However, certain market environments and planning objectives may warrant incorporating specialized investment strategies that provide additional diversification or address unique client needs.
Depending on your circumstances, solutions such as buffered ETFs, structured notes, alternative investments, or other specialized strategies as examples may complement a traditional portfolio. Every recommendation is carefully evaluated and implemented only when it aligns with your Investment Policy Statement, overall financial objectives, and tolerance for risk.
Tax-Aware Investing
Investment success is measured not only by returns, but by how much of those returns you ultimately keep. For taxable investment accounts, tax-aware investing is an ongoing discipline that considers the impact of capital gains, dividend income, interest income, asset location, and withdrawal strategies.
Rather than treating taxes as an afterthought, we incorporate tax efficiency into the investment management process whenever appropriate. Working alongside your CPA and other professional advisors, we strive to build investment strategies that complement your broader financial plan while helping improve long-term after-tax results.
Cash Management
Cash plays an important role within a well-constructed investment strategy. Whether providing for regular income needs, upcoming purchases, planned distributions, or simply maintaining appropriate reserves, we believe liquidity should be managed with the same thoughtfulness as the rest of your portfolio.
Our approach considers both how much cash should be readily available and where that cash should be held. We seek to balance accessibility, stability, and competitive yields while avoiding unnecessary amounts of capital sitting idle.
Thoughtful cash management can also help preserve the integrity of a long-term investment strategy. By anticipating liquidity needs and maintaining appropriate reserves, clients may be less likely to sell investments at an unfavorable time simply to raise cash, particularly during periods of market volatility.
