Wright Hudak Zabel Group

Who We Work With

**Company Founders, Private Business Owners \& Entrepreneurs** When you have built your own business, your personal finances and the life of your company are closely intertwined. You may be thinking about how to invest in your company's growth while also deciding how best to use your personal assets. Helping ensure the future of your business likely involves employee benefits, retirement plans and succession planning. Helping secure your family's legacy could entail wealth transfer strategies, trusts and philanthropy. Whatever your specific needs, we at Merrill Private Wealth Management can help entrepreneurs and business owners balance their personal financial lives with their life's work. We are dedicated in providing the experience and resources to help support your ongoing success. **Corporate Executives** We understand the complexities that come with your executive position and the extreme demands on your time. We can help you develop a customized strategy that your finances and compensation require. We can help with risk management strategies for your concentrated stock position while navigating complex SEC rules, trading restrictions and reporting requirements. If you've just been promoted and would like help evaluating your new compensation plan, or if you're looking to develop a long\-term financial strategy for you and your family — designed to enable you to live life as you want it, with reliable access to cash — we can help simplify your financial life, as well as develop new strategies as your career and goals evolve. **Technology Entrepreneur** As a technology entrepreneur, you focus relentlessly on what's next. Yet as you look ahead to each new venture or cutting\-edge innovation, it's important to maintain the financial foundation that helps power your success and helps you take advantage of potential opportunities as they arise. We have experience helping entrepreneurs and business owners balance their personal lives with their life's work. We understand the challenges you face every day, whether managing your newly achieved success or gaining access to the liquidity you need as seed capital or for personal expenses. We are dedicated in providing the experience and resources to help support your ongoing success. **Intergenerational Family Wealth** As a family that spans multiple generations, you have needs that go beyond preserving assets, tax minimization strategies and designating heirs. Your goals also likely include passing on values and helping the rising generation become effective stewards. We can help with personalized wealth transfer strategies, family wealth education and developing and implementing philanthropic visions. In working with you to create an approach that reflects your family's intentions and helps ensure your assets are distributed according to your wishes, we proceed in a manner that recognizes the complexities of your life challenges and the unique nature of your goals. Our extensive experience working with other families of significant wealth helps us to see and share best practices to help you achieve them. **Family Offices** As private wealth advisors with Merrill Private Wealth Management, we work with prominent families to help them manage the ongoing complexities they face. Our deep experience with family offices enables us to tailor a range of services to help meet your specific needs. We can provide access to Merrill for investment and wealth management strategies, and to Bank of America for governance, asset custody and administration, as well as assisting in the financial education of younger family members. In working with you to create and implement plans reflecting your specific intentions, our goal is to help your family enterprise succeed, and that your knowledge and values are passed along to the next generation. Together, we will focus on strategies that recognize the unique nature of your family's mission, history and goals.

Core Services

Often, prospective clients are referred to us after a liquidity event occurs or when a milestone event is anticipated. Our core services include guiding clients in portfolio construction, tactical reallocation and rebalancing. We take into account specific wealth objectives, your time horizon, tolerance for risk, income and liquidity needs, tax sensitivities and our assessment of opportunities in the capital markets. We know that tax efficiency is a key to investment returns and growing your wealth in the short and long term. Among the services we offer through access to Merrill specialists are: * Post\-event wealth structuring strategies * Pre\-merger and acquisition and pre\-initial public offering strategies * Concentrated stock, diversification and monetization strategies * Portfolio construction, reviews and tax minimization strategies ~*\*Merrill, its affiliates, and financial advisors do not provide legal, tax, or accounting advice. You should consult your legal and/or tax advisors before making any financial decisions.*~

Our Mission

Our primary investment objective is to grow portfolio assets over time, while preserving capital and minimizing risk. We build on more than 50 years of collective financial services experience and a deep knowledge of the capital markets to guide a select group of clients in making strategic investment decisions.Our collective experience gives us extensive insight into the dimensions of managing your net worth, investing prudently and preserving your wealth for future generations. As Merrill private wealth advisors, we combine the individual attention and independent advice and guidance you would expect from a financial services boutique with the global resources and technological capabilities of one of the largest wealth management firms in the U.S.

Thoughtful Questions and Careful Listening

This process is designed to guide clients in articulating their most cherished goals and deepest concerns—not only in the financial realm, but in their lives. We ask searching questions like these: * What do you want to accomplish with your wealth? * What are your life goals and priorities? * How do you envision your family in five, 10 or 20 years? * Do you want to plan for the transfer of wealth to the next generation or leave a legacy of values, beliefs and life lessons? Through careful listening, we can help clients to tailor highly customized, proactive wealth management strategies that align with their individual goals and needs.

A Commitment to Service

Merrill Private Wealth Management is committed to providing a select group of clients with highly personalized one\-on\-one service. When you work with us, our knowledgeable, rigorously trained private wealth advisors will gain a deep understanding of your goals, help you develop a multigenerational wealth strategy, and help you update your strategy as needed. We are committed to providing you access to the investment insights of Merrill and the banking convenience of Bank of America, and Merrill will continue to invest in client tools and new technology to enhance your overall experience as you and your private wealth advisor pursue what's most important to you.

Insight

**Insight** In a life with significant wealth, the financial decisions you make can often have a cascading effect — impacting you, your family, your business and even the greater community. We understand the nuances of these challenges and can help give you the insight you need to navigate important conversations and make more informed decisions. * Access [information and ideas](https://www.pbig.ml.com/latest\-thinking/research\-insights.html) to help you pursue your goals * Tap into the knowledge of specialists who work closely with your Merrill Private Wealth advisor

Simplicity

**Simplicity** Wealth should liberate you, freeing you to pursue passions and interests. Managing the ever\-increasing complexity of your financial life, however, can quickly become all\-consuming. At Merrill, we work to help transform the way you interact with your wealth by distilling that complexity into clear findings and thoughtful guidance, grounded in a personalized plan. What's more, as a Merrill Private Wealth Management client, you have access to a [full range of solutions and services](https://www.pbig.ml.com/solutions.html) designed to help you address the challenges and opportunities significant wealth can bring.

Perspective

**Perspective** Considerable wealth requires a much longer\-term vision — a commitment to maintaining your wealth throughout your lifetime and for generations to come. We're familiar with the demands that kind of time horizon puts on your needs. With our diverse knowledge and experience, we can help safeguard you against reactionary thinking while identifying opportunities in the future. Plus, as a client, you have access to our dedicated Private Wealth Services, including: * [Merrill Center for Family Wealth](https://www.pbig.ml.com/solutions/merrill\-center\-for\-family\-wealth.html)^®^ * [Strategic Wealth Advisory Group](https://www.pbig.ml.com/solutions/strategic\-wealth\-advisory\-group.html) * [Family Office Services](https://www.pbig.ml.com/solutions/family\-office.html)

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