Significant Wealth Changes the Questions You Need to Ask.

What Don't You Know That You Should Know?

Specialized wealth management for executives and professionals, business owners and entrepreneurs facing complex decisions about equity, liquidity and what comes next.

Building significant wealth can create opportunities you never expected — and questions you may not know to ask.

When much of your wealth has been created through stock options, RSUs, concentrated company stock or an approaching liquidity event, managing the investments are only part of the picture.

At Paffendorf Wealth Management Group, we help you understand how the pieces work together. We look beyond your investment portfolio to help you make informed decisions about equity compensation, concentrated stock, taxes, retirement, estate considerations, business interests, and long-term goals.

The objective is simple: understand what you have, know your choices, and build a plan for what comes next.
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Planning Before the Decision Becomes Urgent

Some financial decisions can be made at any time. Others cannot.

Vesting schedules, exercise dates, trading windows, tax considerations, a company sale, retirement, or a change in employment can all affect the choices available to you.

Our approach begins by looking ahead — identifying decisions that may be coming, understanding the choices available, and coordinating those decisions with your larger financial life.

Executives & Professionals

Managing Equity Compensation

We help connect your equity compensation to your broader wealth management plan.

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Business Owners

Planning for an Exit

We help you prepare for a future sale or transition while considering your business, family, personal wealth, and life after the transaction.

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Private Company Professionals

Preparing for a Liquidity Event

We help you prepare before the acquisition, merger, or IPO and plan for the financial decisions that may follow.

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Sophisticated Planning. Straightforward Explanations.

Equity compensation and advanced wealth planning can become highly technical. We believe the explanation shouldn't be. We help you understand what you own, the choices available to you and the potential tradeoffs so you can make more informed decisions about your wealth.
Our Approach to Wealth Management

Is Your Wealth Plan Answering the Right Questions?

  • Do I understand the real value of my stock options?
  • Which grants should I consider exercising first?
  • What happens to my equity compensation if I retire or change companies?
  • Am I too dependent on the stock of one company?

  • How could the sale of my company affect my personal wealth?
  • What should I be doing before my company goes public?
  • How should my estate plan change as my wealth grows?

The right questions can uncover planning opportunities that might otherwise be missed.

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