Stocks fell again last week as some early September weakness played out, though not before a nice bounce on Friday to end the week. It was a news-heavy week across the board. Speaking of Friday, it was a somber day, as we mourned the nearly 3,000 people lost 25 years...
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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.
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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
8 Tax Planning Considerations Every Pre-Retiree Should Know
For many people, retirement brings many advantages—more free time, fewer responsibilities, and more time for family and hobbies. Unfortunately, taxes can remain a constant burden even after you’ve left the workforce. Working with your financial advisor to develop a...
Market Commentary: A Hot Economy Meets a Reluctant Fed
Stocks were flat last week, but the S&P 500 continues to hold above its June peak. This level is a logical area of support. The 50-day moving average, which is just below this area, provides additional support. For now, we’d expect these two areas of support...
The Glass Half Full: Are We Doomed with Higher Interest Rates? (Ep. 26)
In this week’s The Glass Half Full, Carson Group’s Ryan Detrick, Chief Market Strategist, and Sonu Varghese, Chief Macro Strategist (recording from LaGuardia Airport on a delayed flight), tackle the question on everyone’s mind: Are higher interest...
7 Wealth Planning Mistakes Affluent Families in Franklin Lakes, NJ, Make (And How to Avoid Them)
Small Oversights Today Can Become Expensive Problems Tomorrow Growing your wealth is an achievement. Protecting it, and making sure it benefits the people and causes you care about, is a different challenge entirely. Many affluent families in Franklin Lakes, Bergen...
Market Commentary: A Strong August Sets Stocks Up for a Better September Than Feared
With a day to go, the S&P 500 is up a very impressive 3% during the historically weak month of August. That’s the good news. The bad news? September is around the corner, and some of the worst months ever have taken place during this month. Another Solid Week The...





