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Lacas Advisory Group

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Address 1969 Upper Water Street, Tower Two Suite 1801 Halifax NS, B3J 3R7
Telephone Number (902) 420-8212
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Our Process

Our Belief

Personalized Financial Planning: Every client has their own unique situation and goals and will benefit greatly from a personal financial plan and investment that achieve those goals in the most tax efficient way possible.

Strong Relationships: We believe our clients are at their best when they are fully informed. We are committed to consistent client communication and service, making ourselves as accessible as possible.

Disciplined Process: We believe a disciplined process provides the best opportunity for investment success. We place great emphasis on our process in order to achieve optimum results for our clients. Every client has an investment policy statement that will guide us through the process.

Our Values

Organization: We will help bring order to your financial life, by assisting you in getting your financial house in order - at both the "macro" level of investments, insurance, and taxes, and the "micro" level of household cash flow.

Accountability: We will help you follow through on financial commitments, by working with you to prioritize your goals and show you the steps.

Objectivity: We bring insight from the outside to help you avoid emotionally driven decisions in important money matters, by being available to consult with you at key moments of decision-making and managing and disclosing any of our own potential conflicts of interest.

Proactivity: We work with you to anticipate your life transitions and to be financially prepared for them, by regularly assessing any potential life transitions that might be coming, and creating an action plan to manage them ahead of time.

Education: We will explore what specific knowledge is needed to succeed in your situation, by first thoroughly understanding your situation, then providing the resources to facilitate your decisions, and explaining the options and risks associated with each choice.

Partnership: We attempt to help you achieve the best life possible, working in concert with you, not just for you. This means taking the time to clearly understand your background, needs and objectives, walking collaboratively with you, and offering transparency around our own costs and fees.

What This Looks Like, Day to Day

Monthly:

  • Performance Review
  • Strategy Review
  • Discussions with Investment Managers
  • Position Review

Quarterly:

  • Market Commentary
  • Performance Review
  • Manager Meetings
  • Asset Allocation Monitoring

Annually:

  • Investment Manager Meeting
  • Performance Review
  • Manager Due Diligence Meeting
 

Wealth Enhancement Strategy

It is our belief that every client has unique goals and that their investments are a means to reaching those end goals. Our Wealth Enhancement Strategy starts with a needs analysis and works its way through risk management, proper asset allocation, tax planning and more to make sure that you have the most robust plan possible to achieve your unique goals.

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KEY BENEFITS

1. Robust Investment Plan

Our experienced team has almost 100 years of combined industry experience and access to
a network of industry professionals who can help with any planning needs. We
create a thoughtfully constructed investment plan to best match your risk profile
with your return needs. Each client family also receives a unique investment policy
statement that will guide you through the plan.

 

2. Diversified Portfolio

We build a diversified portfolio including multiple asset classes and investments.
A well-structured, diversified portfolio can hold up better during periods of market
stress. The key is staying disciplined and rebalancing the portfolio. This is where we
can help. Our ongoing comprehensive investment research process will ensure that only
high-quality investments and investment managers are retained for your portfolio.

 

3. Improved Tax Efficiency

There are a number of strategies we look at to improve your investment
portfolio's tax efficiency. Through use of our tax management sleeve, we use multiple
tools to help increase tax efficiency.


4. Reporting and Discipline

We schedule periodic, regular check points with our
clients to discuss the current state of their portfolio, investment returns and whether
any changes to the allocation or investments are warranted. Comprehensive
reporting is performed on a quarterly basis. We communicate when the
portfolio should be rebalanced, or when there might be embedded risks that
should be mitigated.

 
 
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