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Malibu, CA

Structure

Fee-Only Fiduciary

Approach

Human First

Investments

Open Architecture

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Who We Serve
Family CFO
Without us With Kanan
Architecture & Curation

Strategy. Stewardship. Access.

The strategy of designing your wealth as a system. The stewardship of executing it for decades. The access to the people, structures, and opportunities that shouldn’t be commoditized.

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Wealth Planning

Cash flow, retirement modeling, concentration and liquidity analysis, and scenario work for the decisions you haven’t made yet. The map before the journey — and continually redrawn.

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What You Receive
Personal financial plan & roadmap
Cash flow analysis & budgeting
Retirement income projections
Risk assessment & insurance review
Scenario modeling & stress testing
Goal tracking dashboard
Annual plan refresh & review

Investment Management

Open-architecture portfolios, disciplined asset allocation, tax-loss harvesting, and access to alternatives and private markets where they fit. Built around the life the portfolio is meant to support.

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What You Receive
Custom portfolio construction
Ongoing tax-loss harvesting
Alternative investment access
24/7 portfolio surveillance
Quarterly performance reporting
Rebalancing & drift management

Tax Strategy

Proactive planning integrated with your investments, your business, and your estate. Multi-entity and multi-state complexity, handled in conversation with your CPA — or in-house where it makes sense.

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What You Receive
Year-round proactive tax planning
Individual & entity tax preparation
Multi-state tax coordination
Estimated tax payment scheduling
Charitable giving optimization
Stock option & RSU tax strategy
Roth conversion analysis

Estate & Continuity

Wealth transfer, trust design, charitable vehicles, and succession planning. Continuity is the word we keep returning to — both material and immaterial.

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What You Receive
Estate plan review & coordination
Trust design & administration
Wealth transfer strategy
Beneficiary planning
Business succession planning
Attorney & CPA coordination
Annual estate plan check-up

Philanthropic Advisory

Giving that reflects your values and holds up to scrutiny — donor-advised funds, private foundations, charitable trusts, and impact frameworks when you want them.

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What You Receive
Philanthropic mission statement
Donor-advised fund management
Private foundation support
Charitable trust structures
Impact measurement reporting
Tax-efficient giving strategy
Next-gen philanthropy education
No BS

The questions you’re actually asking.

We’ve sat on both sides of the table. We know what keeps you up at night. Here’s how we’d answer if we were sitting across from you right now — no scripts, no pitch deck.

Ask them three things: Do they coordinate with your CPA before year-end, or just collect documents in January? Do they model scenarios proactively, or just rebalance? Do they have access to proprietary funds or insurance products they earn commission on?

Most advisors are competent. Very few are proactive orchestrators. That's the gap. We don't wait for you to call us with a problem — we call you before it becomes one.

Index funds are great — and we use them. The 1% isn't for stock picking. It's for orchestrating your entire financial life: tax strategy with your CPA, entity structuring for the business sale you're planning, real estate, alternatives, insurance, estate — all connected.

Most advisors charge 1% to rebalance a portfolio quarterly. We charge it to be the integrator for your entire financial life. If your situation is simple enough for Vanguard at 0.3%, we'll tell you that on the first call.

e'll tell you that on the first call.

What you're actually paying for
15%
Portfolio Mgmt
30%
Tax Strategy
25%
Advisor Coordination
20%
Estate & Entity
10%
Behavioral Coaching

We're fee-only. Zero commissions. No proprietary funds. No insurance kickbacks. We'll walk you through exactly how we're compensated and every potential conflict.

If we recommend something, it's because you need it. That's the legal definition of a fiduciary, and breaking it means we lose our license. It's not a marketing term for us — it's a legal obligation with teeth.

Fiduciary Standard

Fee-only · No commissions · No proprietary products

Your CPA files last year's taxes. Your attorney drafts documents. Neither is watching your investments daily, modeling retirement scenarios, or asking whether that charitable gift actually makes sense with your estate plan.

We don't replace them — we orchestrate them. When tax planning, investment strategy, and estate structure actually talk to each other, that's when real value happens. We're the quarterback your financial team has been missing.

Before Kanan vs. After

Before

CPA → you → Attorney → you → Advisor → you → Insurance → you

You're the bottleneck.

After

CPA ↔ Kanan ↔ Attorney ↔ Insurance ↔ You

One call. Everything coordinated.

No. And anyone who tells you they can consistently is lying or lucky. After fees, over 90% of active managers underperform the S&P 500 over a 15-year period. We won't pretend otherwise.

What we can do is make sure you're not leaving 2–3% per year on the table through tax inefficiency, poor rebalancing, emotional panic-selling, or having your estate structured wrong. That's real, measurable value captured over time — and the benefits compound over decades. Academic research in this area refers to it as “advisor's alpha” — value generated by behavior coaching, tax efficiency, and disciplined rebalancing, not by stock selection.

having your estate structured wrong. That's real, measurable alpha — and it compounds for decades.

Where your real returns leak
~1.0%
Tax drag (no harvesting)
~1.5%
Behavioral mistakes
~0.5%
Poor rebalancing
~0.7%
Wrong account placement

Source: Vanguard Advisor's Alpha study, 2023

We show up. Not with a panicked email or a generic market update — with a specific rebalancing plan for your portfolio, a tax-loss harvesting opportunity, and a reminder of exactly why your plan was built to survive this.

The most expensive mistake in investing is selling at the bottom. Our job is to make sure your life doesn't change because the market did. That means positioning before the crash, not reacting during it.

Nothing about your plan is automated in a way that takes you out of the conversation. Your advisor is. Our software handles the tedious parts — monitoring thousands of tax-loss harvesting windows, scanning your allocations around the clock, running scenario models that would take a human team weeks.

the clock, running scenario models that would take a human team weeks.

It means your advisor spends time on you — not spreadsheets. We built the firm this way from day one, not as an afterthought bolted onto a 40-year-old platform. If someone can't explain exactly what their technology does for you, run.

Software handles the noise. Humans handle you.

Software Does

24/7 monitoring · Tax-loss scanning · Drift detection · Scenario modeling · Alert triage

Your Advisor Does

Life planning · Family meetings · CPA calls · Estate design · Being there at 10pm

Fiduciary Standard Fee-Only Fiduciary Schwab Custodian CFP® Certified CPA Credentialed

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