Whether you're saving to put your kids through college or working towards financial independence in retirement, it's essential to know how all the aspects of your financial life are connected to help you stay on track. How you handle your finances often needs to evolve with you through each stage of your life and can get more complicated as you accumulate wealth. At Willis Johnson & Associates, our proactive and comprehensive approach to wealth management means that you can be ready for wherever life takes you next.
Juggling your finances alongside a successful career can add unnecessary stress and confusion to an already-busy lifestyle. We understand the importance of finding the right advisor for you and your family to simplify your financial picture. Before becoming a client, we offer a complimentary first meeting where we'll learn about you, your financial concerns, and where you want your wealth to take you.
1-on-1 with an advisor to learn about you, your family, and your goals while offering you an introduction to our firm's services
Your advisor performs an employee benefits analysis, investment review, and tax return assessment to uncover missed opportunities.
Your advisor offers actionable recommendations and strategies to help you reach your goals whether you decide to work with us or not.
The goals of initial meetings are to discover if our firm can offer you value in your financial scenario and enable you to get to know us and our areas of expertise. Our advisors take a consultative approach to understand you, your goals, and what opportunities may be available to you. By our second meeting with you, an advisor will walk through the following steps to see what strategies and recommendations to recommend to help you reach your financial goals.
Walking you through your 401(k) portal, executive compensation package, and the various elections available to you by your company allows an advisor to offer recommendations on how you can optimize them going forward.
Discussing tailored tax strategies with an advisor to see the tax planning opportunities available for you to take advantage of, gain clear insight into which tax obstacles you may face, and understand how we can help.
Understanding your approach to investing, openness to risk, and current asset allocation can help advisors identify gaps and develop a tailored investment strategy to help you reach your goals.
Choosing to partner with us isn't something we take for granted. We aim to give our clients peace of mind from day one, knowing that a team of financial experts is in their corner and invested in their success.
Monitoring finances and staying on top of the tax law changes or market shifts can be exhausting. Our team makes it simpler for you by managing everything on your behalf so you don't have to try to juggle all the moving pieces on your own.
We don't charge extra fees if you want to check-in with your advisor. We encourage you to do so as changes arise in your life or the markets so we can keep you informed.
Twice a year, we do an intensive walkthrough of your accounts to see how you're aligning with your goals, discuss market activity, and outline what strategies we're leveraging to achieve your goals.
Tax management is a crucial part of accumulating wealth. As part of our holistic approach to financial planning, we include tax return preparation and filing for our clients.
When it comes to growing your wealth, investments and taxes are only a small piece of the equation. Working with an advisor who can bring all your financial details together into a tailored plan for you can be the difference in achieving your goals or compromising them down the road. To ensure our clients' finances work together to reach their full potential, Willis Johnson & Associates' advisors explore and offer guidance on the services below.
As a WJA client, you have a team of experts monitoring and working on your account to ensure seamless and continual optimization. Our team brings a wealth of experience and specializations in various fields of expertise. An example of the key members in every client's dedicated team are:
Manages your overarching financial plan & strategies
Your designated contact for day-to-day updates and coordinating action items
Oversees and manages investment accounts & strategy
Administers all action items within your plan to ensure timely withdrawals, transfers of assets, and RMDs
Collaborates with advisors for tax-efficient strategies within your accounts
We partner with Fidelity as a third-party custodian for accounts so you can see your funds at any time.
With us, you don't have to worry about our recommendations coming with commissions or product sales. It's just great advice in your best interest 100% of the time.
We prepare and file your tax returns as part of our tax planning to ensure the strategies we implement are tax-efficient.
We know the ins-and-outs of your employee benefits, so you can make elections that help you build your wealth and make sure you're not leaving any money on the table.
Household Assets Under Management | Annual Fee as % of Assets |
Up to $500,000* | 1.20% |
$500,000.01 to $3,000,000 | 0.90% |
$3,000,000.01 to $5,000,000 | 0.85% |
$5,000,000.01 to $10,000,000 | 0.65% |
$10,000,000.01 to $20,000,000 | 0.45% |
$20,000,000.01 and up | 0.40% |
Fees are calculated through a weighted formula using the assets under management (AUM) ranges listed above. Clients whose AUM’s are within multiple ranges will be charged no more than 1.20% of their total AUM with the exception of clients under $750,000 who will be billed a minimum fee of $2,063 per quarter. Clients who began engagement with the firm prior to May 2022 may be grandfathered into a previous fee schedule.