PROCESS

How We Work

Your Personal CFO.
Four Steps to Financial Architecture.

Most advisors sell products. We build plans. As a fee-based fiduciary, Davies Wealth Management operates as your Personal CFO — diagnosing, designing, implementing, and continuously optimizing your financial architecture.

Fee-Based

Fiduciary Model

30+

Years of Experience

SEC

Registered RIA

The Planning Process

From Audit to Ongoing Optimization

A structured four-phase engagement built for complexity — not cookie-cutter portfolios.

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Step One

Fiduciary Audit

Before building anything, we examine what already exists. We evaluate your current portfolio to surface hidden fees, misaligned incentives, and structural risks that most advisors either miss or ignore — because they benefit from them.

Hidden fee analysis

Risk gap assessment

Structural baseline

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Step Two

Architecture

We construct institutional-caliber strategies using Separately Managed Accounts (SMAs) and Unified Managed Accounts (UMAs) — the same tools used by pension funds and endowments. Every structure is customized for your specific timeline, whether that’s an executive compensation event or an athlete’s compressed earning window.

SMAs & UMAs

Executive comp planning

Career-timeline strategy

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Step Three

Implementation

Wealth management doesn’t exist in isolation. Our team coordinates execution with your legal and tax professionals, synchronizing investments with estate planning, business succession, and tax-minimization strategies. Nothing is siloed. Everything connects.

Legal coordination

Tax-synchronized investing

Estate integration

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Step Four

Optimization

Financial plans that don’t evolve become liabilities. We provide ongoing fiduciary management through periodic rebalancing, proactive tax-loss harvesting, and strategic adjustments responding to life transitions — career changes, inheritance events, market dislocations, and retirement horizons.

Ongoing rebalancing

Tax-loss harvesting

Life-event response

The Fee-Based Fiduciary Difference

Legally Required to Put
Your Interests First.

The fee-based fiduciary model means our compensation is transparent and our advice is objective. We earn fees for the plans we build and manage — not hidden commissions for steering you toward products that pad a broker’s bonus.

The fee-based structure also allows us to offer a full spectrum of wealth solutions — including insurance and annuity products where appropriate — while maintaining our fiduciary obligation to you throughout. Advice always comes before product.

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90%

of “financial advisors” operate as brokers — legally permitted to recommend products that pay them, not products that serve you.

10%

are registered as fiduciaries. Davies Wealth Management is in this minority — by design, since 2009.

Source: FINRA Regulatory Notice guidance on broker-dealer suitability standard vs. RIA fiduciary standard.

Built For Complexity

Who We Serve

Executives & Professionals

Complex Compensation. Institutional Planning.

RSUs, stock options, deferred comp, and concentrated positions require a dedicated strategy — not a one-size-fits-all portfolio. We specialize in navigating executive-level complexity.

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Pre-Retirees

The Decade Before Retirement Is the Most Important.

Sequence-of-returns risk, tax-bracket optimization, and Social Security timing decisions made in the 5–10 years before retirement have an outsized impact on lifetime income. We build that transition deliberately.

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Professional Athletes

Peak Earning Windows Require Precision.

Athletic careers are compressed. The financial decisions made during peak years determine everything after. We build structures designed for the reality of a career that spans 8–15 years, not 40.

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Ready to Start

Begin with a
No-Cost Fiduciary Audit.

We’ll review your current financial structure, identify what’s costing you, and show you what a Davies plan would look like. No obligation. No product pitch.

Davies Wealth Management is an SEC-registered investment adviser. Registration does not imply a certain level of skill or training. The information on this page is for general educational purposes and does not constitute investment advice. Past performance is not indicative of future results. All investments involve risk, including possible loss of principal. Please review our Form ADV and disclosures before engaging our services.  |  684 SE Monterey Road, Stuart, FL 34994  |  (772) 210-4031  |  DaviesWealthManagement@TDWealth.Net

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Thomas Davies, CFS®
Davies Wealth Management · Stuart, FL
Fiduciary
Davies Wealth Management · Fee-Based Fiduciary · 772-210-4031 · Not investment advice