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What to Expect

Personalized Service and a High-Quality Experience

At Kendall Capital, we understand how important it is to feel confident that you’ve made a good decision.  For us, that means not only addressing your current needs and helping you visualize achieving your goals through our financial planning process, but also providing you ongoing support for when life throws you a curveball or even a cannonball.  We have the experience to make the most daunting tasks seem easy and will educate you on investment and wealth management strategies along the way.

  1. Typically takes 1-1.5 hours virtually or in person.
  2. If married, we request both spouses are present.
  3. Expect to meet with a Relationship Manager (CFP®)  and a Portfolio Manager (CFA)
  4. Complete a brief data gathering form and return prior to the meeting. This allows us to tailor our meeting to make it most productive for you.
  5. Provide statements in advance, if you wish, via our Secure Email portal.
  6. After our meeting, you’ll know all about how Kendall Capital serves clients and will feel no pressure to hire us. In fact, we encourage our prospective clients to interview two to three advisory firms when making this important decision.

For most clients, we embark on the financial planning process together with the account analysis process as we learn about all of your assets. This can be enlightening – and even surprising – as assets might be uncovered you didn’t realize you had.

  1. Provide statements or tax forms so we may review the ownership of assets.
  2. Consolidate “like monies” from various sources – whether we’re consolidating all your stray 401ks into your current 401k or rolling over retirement funds into IRAs, even making calls or completing forms to get it done.
  3. If you have multiple non-retirement accounts, we can help you consolidate those whether they’re at brokerage firms, mutual fund companies or stock held directly. Put an end to multiple 1099s at tax time!
  4. While we’re at it, we’ll be discussing your goals so we can analyze your current financial picture and develop a plan that offers you a few possible scenarios.
  5. Within a few weeks, you’ll feel like you’ve conquered many stumbling blocks and start seeing your whole financial picture.

We understand change is hard and for some, these weeks of moving monies around and possibly learning how to do things a little different than you did before can make you nervous. But when we meet again to review your first statement, you’ll feel relieved to see all of the assets that we’ll manage in one statement.  Our statements can include your current retirement plans, too, if you would like to hire us to manage those. Best of all, you’ll see our fee structure is clear and transparent so you’ll always know how much you’re paying Kendall Capital.

  1. Review statement and address any remaining account forms or calls to consolidate.
  2. Address your statement preferences whether paperless or via mail.
  3. Enroll in the Kendall Capital Client Portal so you can view your accounts in between quarterly statements.
  4. Enjoy the fact that from now on, not only will you have a concise picture of what you own but you’ll also now see the performance of your investments for years to come. Many investment firms only show gains and losses, they do not easily show your personal investment performance over a long time frame.

You can count on prompt personal service when you call our office whether it’s a quick request for funds or a more in-depth conversation about a job opportunity. If we don’t have the answers, we’ll refer you to someone who can help.

  1. Review meetings – We’ll schedule review meetings, based on your needs.
  2. Financial Plan update – We will periodically check-in to see if our clients are on target.  If there is a significant change or new goal, we will update their plan, as well.
  3. Getting it Done – We don’t just talk about wealth management, we make it easy for you to take advantage of tax and estate planning strategies throughout the year. Whether it’s combining your Required Minimum Distributions (RMDs) with Qualified Charitable Distributions (QCDs) or coordinating with your CPA how much Roth Conversion should be done this year, we’ll give you peace of mind and take the burden off your shoulders.

Crafting the Steps You Can Take Next

With the knowledge we gather at this meeting, we outline the steps you could take next. If you decide to work with us as your fiduciary, we’ll begin crafting your personal financial strategy. We create your strategy using targeted proven approaches unique to your needs.

Your strategy that will inform everything from investment management to estate planning – and we can continually revisit it and adjust it at each major step of your life.

Our goal is to give you peace of mind that your financial future is in sound hands so you can enjoy life.

Frequently Asked Questions

Our household minimum is $500,000 in Assets Under Management – meaning the combined value of accounts which we manage should be over $500,000. This includes taxable accounts, IRAs, Roth IRAs, 529 plans and even your employer-sponsored retirement plans like 401(k)s and 403(b)s. We generally charge 1% on the first $2,000,000 in assets we manage for clients. The fee decreases on assets between $2- and $5,000,000 and continues to decrease from there. This fee is calculated and billed on a quarterly basis.

Fee-only means that the fee you pay for our financial planning advice, client service and ongoing investment management is our only compensation. We do not receive any form of payment for recommending a particular stock, bond or mutual fund. We also do not sell products to receive commissions. Our fees are easy to understand and printed on every quarterly statement for you to see clearly. The fee is based on the amount of assets you ask us to manage (AUM), and also includes ongoing financial planning advice as your needs evolve. As members of NAPFA (National Association of Personal Financial Advisors), we believe this is the most transparent and objective method available.

Fee-based means that your advisor may charge you a fee based on the assets you ask them to manage (AUM), but they may also receive compensation through their brokerage firms, preferred mutual fund families, and/or insurance companies when recommending an annuity or insurance product.

No. At Kendall Capital, our CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ professionals have decades of experience providing clients with financial plans and have seen that they are more likely to get put into action with our help. They often include techniques that require investment account access in order to ensure they’re constructed properly. We also know that strategies can become more or less important if there are changes in the tax laws or the clients’ goals have changed.

Kendall Capital can help you manage investments in 401(k), 403(b) and other workplace plans. We incorporate your retirement plan investments into a larger strategy with your other assets. As an independent fee-only firm, Kendall Capital has capabilities to look at the full picture from an investment perspective as part of our financial planning service. Many advisors will not help you with these accounts, but we’ve decided to offer it as a service as part of our commitment to working in your best interest.

No, we do not prepare tax returns or draft legal documents, but we do address potential pitfalls or opportunities around these areas of your life. We also recommend our clients to accountants and estate planning attorneys we trust.

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301.838.9110

2000 Tower Oaks Boulevard, Suite 240
Rockville, MD 20852

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