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Carson Private Client
Your Trusted Partner for Life’s Journey. Simplifying Life, Navigating Your Future.
You’ve done the work to build wealth. And for you, freedom is all about optimizing your wealth management so you can enjoy more time, create bigger memories, and have a greater impact.
Experience the Difference a Wealth Strategist Can Make
Experience the Difference a Wealth Strategist Can Make
Retirement Planning Services
Even when there’s more than enough, exiting your business or leaving the workforce means changing your income strategy. Our knowledgeable professional retirement planners work towards developing a plan that supports the lifestyle you’ve worked so hard for.
Charitable Giving Consultants
Our Chartered Advisors in Philanthropy will work towards helping you turn your wealth into a real impact. With proactively planned, tax-efficient giving strategies, our hope is that you’ll be able to support causes you care deeply about, now and as a part of your legacy.
Estate Planning Specialists
Freedom comes from knowing that your impact will outlive you. Our trust and estate planning advisors and attorneys will work alongside you to tailor a plan to work towards ensuring your wealth makes the difference you want it to – for your children, your community,
and the world.
Business Coach
Our Certified Exit Planners will work towards ensuring that you optimize the proceeds from the business you’ve worked so hard to build. And if you’re not ready to exit, we’ll walk alongside you with business tax planning, comp and benefits, wealth accumulation models, risk mitigation and more.
Tax Professionals
For you, proactive tax planning is a non-negotiable. And it’s about more than just knowing which account to draw from when. We’ll cover every angle with business planning, corporate benefits, income planning, charitable giving and more.
Investment Management Team
The right investment strategy for you is the one that gets you to your life goals – plain and simple. We’ll make use of every appropriate option – from traditional stocks and bonds, to alternatives like private equity and art.
Financial Planning Team
Every plan starts with you, your unique vision of freedom, and the impact you want to have on the world. How we approach every facet of your financial life is determined by the plan we create together.
Banking Relationship
Wealth carries with it banking needs that are more complex than average. Carson Private Client can handle all your private banking needs, with accounts that earn market-based interest on your savings and spending accounts, plus access to lending institutions that can assist you with capital needs.
One Contact.
One Strategy.
One Optimized Life.
Your Carson Wealth Strategist will work with you to organize your complex financial life and become your one, always-accountable point of contact at the helm of your financial ecosystem. We work with you to set the strategy, then take the complexity of managing multiple financial relationships off your plate.
75%
of business owners would exit today
if their financial security were assured.
18%
of business owners have talked to someone
whom they consider an expert in exit planning.*
*Source: The BEI 2017 Business Owner Survey
How We Work Together
Assess
Deep dive to understand your complete financial ecosystem.
Protect
Ensure the long-term preservation of wealth to support your lifestyle.
Optimize
Bring every facet of your financial life into harmony with your goals.
Your Wealth Strategist is your financial coach and a conduit to a team of knowledgeable professionals aligned to your unique plan. The result? You get more of your time back and enjoy the certainty of knowing that everything is being managed the right way.
Though the strengths you possess as an entrepreneur are enviable (such as intense focus and pinpointed concentration), these qualities oftentimes don’t lend themselves to successful wealth management. Allow your wealth strategist to utilize their unique strengths to align your goals with the bigger picture – so you can focus on being the CEO of your life.
You’ve built an extraordinary life so far. Let’s figure out how you can enjoy it more.
How We Work Together
Your Wealth Strategist is your financial coach and a conduit to a team of experts aligned to your unique plan. The result? You get more of your time back and enjoy the certainty of knowing that everything is being managed the right way.
You’ve built an extraordinary life so far. Let’s figure out how you can enjoy it more.
Assess
Deep dive to understand your complete financial ecosystem.
Protect
Ensure the long-term preservation of wealth to support your lifestyle.
Optimize
Bring every facet of your financial life into harmony with your goals.
NATIONALLY RECOGNIZED
NATIONALLY RECOGNIZED
Meet Your Team
We are a team of dedicated professionals with the singular focus of taking the burden of managing a complex financial ecosystem off your shoulders.
Empowerment through Financial Strategies
It’s about more than money.
“Wealth isn’t always about money,” says Managing Partner Paul West, CFP®, CAP®, CExP. “It’s about how you feel, and how you maybe transfer your values and belief systems to your family, friends, and many of your other trusted professionals.”
Achieve empowerment through a customized strategy that considers every facet of your life.
Insights
Protecting Against Market Volatility: Strategies for Stable Investment Returns
Understanding Market Volatility and Its Effects You’ve probably heard the stock market described as “volatile” in recent years. But what does this mean for your portfolio, and how can you continue to protect and grow your assets during these times? What Is Market...
Market Commentary: Markets Rebound as Inflation Beats Expectations
Markets Give Solid Early Marks to Trump, but Not as Strong as 2016 The S&P 500 rallied 2.9% last week helped by some positive inflation news (more on that below). The move pushed the index into positive territory for the year, although still 1.6% below the...
Our 2025 Market Outlook is here!
As we look ahead to 2025, we know the scars of high inflation in 2022 and the higher interest rates that came with it are still with us. We’ve seen it in global elections, where incumbents have been rejected across the political spectrum. We’ve seen it in consumer...
Facts Vs Feelings Take 5 – Outlook 2025: Animal Spirits
In this week’s episode of Take 5, Ryan Detrick, Chief Market Strategist at Carson Group, and Sonu Varghese, VP, Global Macro Strategist at Carson Group, present their 2025 economic outlook. They foresee no recession, steady economic growth, and stock gains of 12-15%....
Market Outlook 2025: Animal Spirits
Gain key insights on the markets for the upcoming year with Ryan Detrick, Chief Market Strategist, and Sonu Varghese, VP, Global Macro Strategist. Download...
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