The focus of the Minor Private Wealth Management Group of Wells Fargo Advisors is to utilize a true team approach to help create tailored portfolios using cash alternatives, equities, and fixed income. Our team consists primarily of Ben Minor and William Minor, Private Wealth Financial Advisors, Jeff Perdoch, Financial Advisor; Grant Minor, Private Wealth Financial Consultant; Debra Hawkins, Senior Registered Client Associate, Jennifer Lawrence, Senior Client Associate. We work together to provide tailored investment planning solutions with a focus on long-term outcomes. The business originated with Grant Minor, who began his career four decades years ago with Goldman Sachs.
Our team’s mission is to improve the financial well-being of our clients with a focus on prudent risk management to accomplish investment goals. We believe in flexibility and seek to provide engagement, visibility, and consistency throughout changing markets and evolving client needs.
Our team’s primary goal is to reduce volatility and protect investment capital. We believe that our process helps us to hedge our portfolios in bad markets. Our unofficial mantra is: Rule number 1. Don’t lose the money. Rule number 2. Don’t forget rule number 1, yet seek to provide a good return.
We work with both families and individuals. Most commonly, our clients have built or inherited significant wealth as entrepreneurs, business owners, or through family wealth transfer.
We strive to treat every client family like we would our own and we leave no rock unturned when a client needs help.
We work hard to offer a broad range of advice on topics like investment education, business valuation, generational wealth transfer strategies, investment planning and estate planning strategies, retirement planning, and providing access to lending products and services through Wells Fargo affiliates. We believe that our team’s resources and capabilities enable us to find innovative strategies for issues we believe of any complexity.
We believe that multigenerational planning is a vital component of excellent investment services. Our team is skilled in thinking “like-to-like” with multigenerational clients. Families pass goals and values between generations, and our goal is to extend this concept by facilitating the passing of investment knowledge and decision-making capabilities.
We know there is not a monopoly on good ideas from one generation to the next. Intergenerational communication can be difficult, particularly on topics such as technology or money. We believe that our team enables communication among different generations by leveraging our team members, each respectively in the generation of baby boomer, generation X, and millennial. Our collaborative approach allows us to break down barriers and provide tailored solutions for each individual client, taking into consideration their individual needs and circumstances. We find this help to be most beneficial for the family as a whole.
We believe that our experience and attention as investors, rather than manager selectors, is a key differentiator. We work to conduct independent research on securities and actively hedge portfolios. We do not outsource investment management into firm products or externally through third-party wholesalers. We strive to build portfolios tailored and monitored for each client’s needs.
We really like the commitment Wells Fargo Advisors is making to its ultra-high-net-worth U.S. client base. Our business is U.S.-focused and we feel better aligning with an institution that has its roots and commitments to the U.S.
We believe honesty, transparency, communication and work ethic. Wealth management teams must be committed and professional students as markets, planning techniques, and client circumstances evolve.
We believe in a proactive approach that includes lots of communication and portfolio management. We don’t believe in simply “riding” the market. Our investment philosophy typically involves hedging strategies designed to help reduce portfolio volatility and finding opportunities to upgrade portfolios when dislocations occur. Simply put, our goal is to outperform in bad markets and to help preserve wealth.
Our biographies and team information are available at www.minorpwmgroup.com
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