The TM Group
About our clients:
- The Financially Fortunate: Whether you're preserving and growing multi-generational wealth or navigating complex family dynamics, we offer sophisticated strategies tailored to your unique circumstances.
- Business Owners: You’re proud of the business you’ve built. We'll provide you the strategic guidance necessary to achieve your business objectives and secure your personal financial future.
- Retirement Plan Sponsors: You carry significant responsibilities as a plan fiduciary, but you don't have to navigate them alone. We are specially designated retirement plan advisors, who will collaborate with you to create tailored retirement plans and financial wellness programs, design strategies to help retain key employees, and fulfil your and your business' fiduciary obligations.
- The Corporate Executive: You’re navigating the complexities that accompany a corporate executive compensation structure. From managing concentrated stock positions to guidance on stock compensation, we understand the complexities of executive wealth and will help you maximize your hard-earned compensation throughout your career and beyond.
- Impactful Institutions and Families: In your pursuit of purpose, you deserve a financial resource who can transform assets into meaningful impact. We collaborate with institutions, philanthropic individuals and families, and investors committed to aligning their portfolios with their values.
Common Scenarios
For Individuals and Families:
- Customized financial planning with a CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ professional
- Retirement, education, and legacy planning
- Tax-efficient investing strategies
- Trust and estate planning services
- Customized credit solutions
For Business Owners:
- Planning for sale, IPO, or generational transfer of a company, succession planning
- Corporate treasury services
- Commercial and investment banking services through Bank of America
Retirement Plan Sponsors:
- Advisory services for defined contribution and defined benefit plan fiduciaries
- Access to 3(21) and 3(38) fiduciary investment management services
- Employee financial wellness and education
- Executive compensation programs, including non-qualified deferred compensation and stock option plans
For Corporate Executives:
- Guidance on stock compensation
- Managing concentrated stock positions
Institutions, Philanthropists, and Impact Investors
- Values-aligned and sustainable investing
- Institutional portfolio management
- Philanthropic strategies
- Institutional consulting
- Donor Advised Funds
Get Started
Click the contact us button to schedule a 30-minute introductory meeting. We’ll get to know each other and chat about your vision, goals, and challenges. Our high-touch service and collaborative approach make wealth management effortless, ensuring a plan that delivers results. Trust us to handle the details, freeing up your time for what truly matters.
Our motto: work hard and do the right thing. Each with their own unique strengths, team founders Jeff Thomas and Brian Mizoguchi have built a distinctive practice focused on service, deep relationships with clients, and technical excellence:
Jeff Thomas CFP®, CSRIC™ is a native New Yorker, CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER, and Chartered SRI Counselor with more than a decade of experience helping clients achieve their financial goals. Jeff will get to know you and understand what is important to you. This knowledge will allow him to constantly translate goals into specific financial solutions to get you there.
Brian Mizoguchi CEPA®, CPFA®,**CSRIC®**is a Senior Financial Advisor and Portfolio Manager. Brian's focus is on complex client needs. He helps business owners as a Certified Exit Planning Advisor, a Certified Plan Fiduciary Advisor, and a Retirement Accredited Financial Advisor specially designated by Merrill to work with 401k plan sponsors. Brian is a frequent collaborator with Bank of America's commercial and investment banking teams, covering venture backed growth companies and middle market businesses. Additionally, Brian is a leader in the world of sustainable and impact investing. He is the chairman of the Impact Capital Forum, a thought leadership focused nonprofit based in New York. He also has served as a program mentor for the Wharton Total Imapct Poprtfolio Challenge and on the leadership committee for Bank of America's My Environment program.
CEPA®, CPFA®, CSRIC®
Bringing fresh perspectives to your financial life
The financial decisions you make today can help determine the future you build for yourself and your family. Carving a clear path forward starts with connecting your life and finances. A Merrill advisor provides access to the investing insights of Merrill and banking capabilities of Bank of America to help you make informed decisions as you pursue your goals.
