FINANCIAL ADVICE FOR A LIFE IN MOTION™
Gatien Strategic Wealth Management was born out of the desire to find a BETTER way to help clients improve and organize their financial lives into an easy-to-understand format. Because one of the few guarantees in life is change, we have developed and refined a process called Life in Motion®. This process integrates wealth management with risk and debt management, tax planning, and philanthropy. Our goal is to take all the pieces of your financial puzzle and put them in place. Each plan and puzzle is unique. Our process is designed to ensure that you never outgrow our process, you grow into it, allowing us to adapt your plan and continue guiding you as your life unfolds and your needs evolve.
WEALTH MANAGEMENT
We create personalized investment strategies designed to grow and maintain wealth
RISK MANAGEMENT
Our guidance includes strategies for protecting you and your family against the unexpected
LEGACY PLANNING
Once your own needs are determined to be secure, your attention can turn to how best to pass assets on to your loved ones
CHARITABLE GIVING
Many of the families we work with have causes they care deeply about and we love to help facilitate charitable giving
Who We Serve
Our team specializes in meeting the needs of successful families and top-of-their-field professionals who, among other things, aspire to a work-optional lifestyle. Our decades in the business constantly reminds us of the fluid and dynamic nature of the journey to financial independence. It is with this philosophy in mind that we are able to use our Life in Motion® process to craft individual plans for each of our clients uniquely designed to be adaptable to changing needs and circumstances.
Retirees
Retirees want to fully enjoy the flexibility and freedom that retirement can bring, but are also concerned about being prepared for future medical costs, long-term care and whatever unexpected expenses may arise. Because they are no longer working, they are often concerned about the potential negative impact of market volatility.
We help our retired clients make balanced decisions by discussing desired spending plans and having open conversations about the trade-offs between different types of risk and reward. Our cash flow reserve account cushions them from the emotional and financial negative impact of market volatility and we help them build unexpected expenses into their plan.
Pre-Retirees
Pre-retirees have a lot of questions as they think about a work optional lifestyle. How long should they work? How much can they spend? How much should they save? They’ve spent years accumulating assets for retirement but are uncertain about how to turn that nest egg into income when they are no longer working.
We help our clients preparing for retirement understand what their assets can provide by analyzing where they are now, where they want to be, and what adjustments might be needed to get them there. Our decades of helping clients into and all the way through retirement allow us to prepare for the uneven cash flow needs retirement often brings.
Young Professionals
Young professionals need help balancing all of their competing goals against a finite set of resources – kids, house, college, retirement, helping aging parents.
We help our young professional clients by providing a big-picture perspective – all the way through to retirement – as well as prioritization and accountability. While no one can know what the future holds, our process is designed to adjust to changing demands on resources, changing incomes through career paths and changing visions of what the future might bring.
Learn more about our Life In Motion process
Because one of the few guarantees in life is change, our process is designed to ensure that our clients never outgrow our process, they grow into it, as their lives unfold and needs evolve.
Schedule a consultation
Do you want to know if you’re on track for a work-optional lifestyle? Our first step is an introductory meeting where we discuss your financial and lifestyle goals and what you expect from the financial planning process. We review what you need to know about us, our practice and our approach to financial planning. From there, we decide if we are a good fit to work together. In our experience, this is the foundation of a solid long-term relationship.
Facing a Critical Life Event?
Retirement, marriage, the loss of a loved one, the sale of a business…Critical Financial Events are sometimes predictable and sometimes random or unexpected. Your life will have its own pattern. We’re here to help you through it all.