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Financial Planning

Financial Planning That Turns Vision Into Action

Most people have financial goals. Far fewer have a plan specific enough to achieve them. Lido’s advanced wealth planning bridges that gap, setting executives, business owners, and multigenerational families on a clear path from where they are to where they want to be.

What Is Financial Planning?

Financial planning is the process of aligning your resources, priorities, and longer-term goals. It evaluates your current financial circumstances, articulates your objectives, and maps a path from where you are to where you want to go.

  • How much do I need to retire?
  • How much can I leave to my children or to charity without jeopardizing my lifestyle?
  • How can I maximize value before selling my business?
  • How will divorce change the way I invest?
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  • Short and Long-Term Goal Setting

    Defining what you want to accomplish in the near-term (e.g., buying a beachfront vacation home) and over the decades ahead (e.g., retiring there).

  • Cash Flow Analysis

    Evaluating income and expenses to help ensure your lifestyle and savings trajectories support your objectives.

  • Asset Management

    Aligning your investment strategy with your growth targets while managing downside risk.

  • Tax Planning

    Identifying opportunities to reduce tax impacts that could impede your progress.

  • Trust and Estate Planning

    Structuring the transfer of wealth in accordance with your wishes and legacy goals.

  • Insurance and Risk Management

    Helping protect assets against life’s unforeseen events.

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Why Planning Matters

Financial planning is the difference between ideas (“retire comfortably”) and specific, quantifiable goals (“retire at age 67 with at least $10 million in savings”). Just as important, it provides a framework for every financial decision you make, helping ensure each choice aligns with your highest priorities. That, in turn, brings peace of mind.

How We Work with You

Here’s how your Lido advisor works with you to build your personal, actionable financial plan:

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Assessment

We begin by getting to know your full financial picture from your assets, liabilities, income, and spending to your long-term aspirations: retirement on your terms, a legacy for children or charity, or all the above. We incorporate your projected pension and retirement income, current and anticipated expenses, and target retirement date to build a plan as detailed and individual as the life you lead.

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Strategy

Our detailed analysis forms the basis for actionable strategies across investment, taxes, cash flow, and legacy planning. We think through the “what-ifs,” including career changes, health challenges, economic downturns, and other unforeseen events. We then pressure-test your plan by running simulations across various scenarios and estimating its probability of success.

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Recommendations

Finally, we will share specific recommendations to consider, such as Roth conversions, insurance, pension distributions, and giving strategies. A sound plan also provides a clear roadmap for investment execution, informing how much liquidity and illiquidity you can tolerate, how much risk to incorporate in your portfolio, and the exposures you’re willing to take on to reach your objectives.

Informed decisions start with understanding the ‘why’ behind the plan.”

Yianni Haralambous

Director, Head of Advanced Wealth Planning

Frequently Asked Questions

What is comprehensive financial planning?

Comprehensive financial planning is an integrated approach that evaluates every major dimension of your financial life, including cash flow, investments, tax strategy, risk management, estate planning, and charitable giving, within a single coordinated framework. Rather than treating each area in isolation, the goal is to ensure that every financial decision reinforces the others: that your investment strategy reflects your tax situation, your estate plan aligns with your legacy intentions, and your charitable giving is structured to maximize both impact and tax efficiency. The result is a plan that moves with you, adapting as your income, family, and priorities evolve.

Who benefits most from advanced wealth planning?

Advanced wealth planning delivers the greatest value to business owners preparing for a liquidity event or exit, executives and professionals managing concentrated equity positions, and families navigating multiple income sources or significant tax exposure. It is equally powerful for those with legacy goals, whether to transfer wealth to the next generation, fund charitable causes, or structure an estate to minimize transfer taxes. If your financial life involves complexity, timing, or scale, a coordinated planning process can meaningfully improve outcomes.

How often should a financial plan be updated?

Financial planning is an ongoing process, not a one-time exercise. Most clients benefit from a formal review at least annually, with additional updates following major life or financial events such as a business sale, liquidity event, retirement, inheritance, or significant market changes. Lido continuously monitors client plans and recommends adjustments when conditions change.

What makes Lido’s financial planning approach different?

Lido One integrates investment management, tax strategy, estate planning, and advanced financial planning into a unified approach rather than treating each as a separate discipline.

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Brennan Fontana

Senior Vice President, Advisor-Client Matchmaking

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Lido One is a single, integrated platform combining all of the outlined services, but not all the services are provided by Lido Advisors, LLC (“Lido”).  Lido does not provide legal or tax advice or trustee services. Lido’s affiliates, including, but not limited to, Lido Tax, LLC (“L-Tax”), Enterprise Trust & Investment Company, Enterprise Trust Company (“Enterprise Trust”) and affiliated third-party legal professionals will, upon request, provide formal legal, tax, and/or trustee services for Lido’s client under separate agreement. Prospects and clients are urged to seek the advice of their own independent counsel or tax professional should such services be required.