At Whelan Financial, we provide more than investment advice. Our goal is to ensure you have the time, attention, and analytics necessary to make confident and informed financial decisions.
No two financial circumstances are the same. We are here to be your partners in financial planning, whatever your goals may be. In addition to your quarterly meetings, we are available for any intermittent needs. We invest time in client relationships so that we can make sure your financial investments are supporting your financial goals.
Your financial decisions today shape your tomorrow. As your trusted advisor, we are committed to offering clarity, ensuring you grasp the complete landscape of your financial journey.
After we establish the client relationship, we gather the necessary data to construct a detailed financial plan. We then customize the investment portfolio to meet individual needs and objectives. During our quarterly meetings, we compare your current financial situation to that of our projection and make recommendations for next steps.
Whelan Financial manages portfolios and executes trades while strongly considering tax efficiency. We work with your accountant and attempt to minimize unnecessary taxes and tax consequences. We also implement strategies such as direct indexing, location optimization, tax loss harvesting, capital gains avoidance, and Roth IRA conversions.
In order to seamlessly implement recommendations, we can work directly with your CPA and estate planning attorney to ensure quality and consistency of advice. Because we establish a relationship with other professionals on your team, we are able to work with one another around critical planning points. This includes:
As CFP® professionals it is our job to balance your short-term financial needs with your long-term financial goals. In order to advise you in this way, we construct complex financial plans that bring all of the component parts of your finances together in an analysis. This data is not just important to the financial advice Whelan Financial gives, but also provides pivotal financial context for our client’s other professionals.
This is precisely why we implemented Service 360. This service brings together, in one room, our clients and their professional team—namely their financial planner, CPA, and estate planning attorney. Service 360 is more than just a meeting—it is an opportunity to ensure that your entire financial team is on the same page regarding your financial well-being.
We are here to help you navigate the complexities and eliminate the confusion about your social security. Even the most basic question, like when to claim your benefit, calls for careful consideration. Maximizing your social security income, however, may require a more complicated approach. Whelan Financial will help you avoid making costly mistakes by providing strategies to maximize your social security benefit.
Whelan Financial customizes portfolios to meet your unique financial needs. The Whelan Financial Investment Committee is responsible for the development of the investment philosophy and strategy. We design our investment approach according to your individual objectives, then implement a disciplined, long-term asset allocation strategy using high-quality, low-cost, no-load mutual funds and ETFs. Our long–term investment objective is to obtain the portfolio’s risk–adjusted return versus its benchmark net of fees. The method and investments approved for use in our clients’ portfolios are then subject to our ongoing monitoring and critique.
Direct indexing is an investment strategy that allows investors to own individual stocks that closely replicate a specific market index, such as the S&P 500, as opposed to owning the index via a mutual fund or an Exchange-Traded Fund (ETF). This strategy is valuable in that it allows us to further customize client investment portfolios to:
Whelan Financial helps individuals and companies identify their short-term cash needs and pairs them with appropriate treasury bill exposures. The intent is to invest money that would otherwise earn very little into risk-free treasuries to maximize yield, while still meeting cash needs.