“In an industry where outsourcing is on the rise,
we started HarborLight so we can provide
financial planning and investment
management directly to you.”
Believe it or not, there’s no experience requirement for financial advisors. As a result, many advisors come from varied backgrounds and may not have the experience you’d expect. At big name firms, advisors might receive more training on sales than they do on actual investment theory.
At HarborLight, we’re very different. Our financial advisors have significant real world experience managing money. Even better, most of their experience was in very demanding institutional environments.
Dr. Jason Draut, CFP®, managed institutional and model portfolios for Blackrock after receiving his PhD from Harvard. He also engineered investment software for MSCI, a leading global provider of portfolio analysis tools.
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Chris Sheehy CFP®, spent years with the largest institutional broker on the NYSE Equity Options trading floor in San Francisco, and later worked at a private equity firm that invested in pre-IPO companies.
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And, we’re fee-only, fiduciary advisors, meaning we always put your interests first.
First of all, we understand how hard you’ve worked to get to where you are today. So our first rule is to help protect what you have with careful risk management and diversification.
We use modern portfolio theory and seek to minimize your expenses by selecting low-cost investment products.
Understanding your specific needs and preferences is an important step in the investment process. We build a diversified portfolio that is appropriate for you, taking risk, expected returns and costs into consideration.
Many advisors will spend time up front and then put your investments on auto-pilot for the most part. At times, this strategy seems to work fine, but it can be hazardous when market cycles change. We saw the results of that in the dot.com bust and again in 2008, when even those with advisors were overly concentrated in stocks.
That’s why we actively manage your money. We keep watch and will be in contact with you when adjustments are needed. We strive to keep your risk level always aligned with the risk you want to take, and not let your portfolio get too far off balance.
That way you can sleep better at night knowing we’re routinely monitoring your holdings.
Not all advisors provide you with independent performance reports, and if they do, many times they don’t subtract fees and expenses. So you don’t get the full picture of how well your investments are performing for you.
At HarborLight, we are committed to transparency, so we provide easy to understand performance reports that show data only after all expenses and fees have been excluded.
Rather than having to review a stack of confusing paper statements each month, you’ll have access to a secure Client Portal to track the performance of your investments. This crisp, clean personal website displays all the important data you need in an easy-to-understand format. And it’s always up to date and at your fingertips either by computer or on any mobile device.
Login to your Client PortalInvesting is only one part of the puzzle. Financial planning takes your wealth from numbers on a page to the life that you want to live. Our wealth managers are also CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ professionals, so we’re prepared to help you plan your future and achieve your goals.
Here’s what our comprehensive financial planning covers:
We use some of the best financial planning software available to help you understand your current situation and ultimately realize your goals. Planning for your financial future is an ongoing process and we update your plan as often as needed to reflect both life and economic changes.
There’s nothing worse than not feeling informed or in control of your money. At HarborLight, we understand you need to be kept up to date. That’s why we ensure you get the information and answers you need, when you need it:
And, we’re available any time for you if you have questions, either by email, phone or text.
All of our services are provided for one simple, transparent fee*.
As your wealth grows, so does your need for help. It may shift from more basic requirements to a focus on tax reduction and asset protection, for example. At HarborLight, our experienced professionals are able to help you at any phase of your life, as your wealth grows:
A financial plan that’s boring and hard to understand does little good for you and ends up collecting dust on a shelf. That’s why we use a modern approach. Instead of a 50 page document, you get a personal website that updates in real-time and provides the information you need in visual format. All explained to you in plain English.
