Our Investment Process

An investment process designed to help you reach your goals.

You are more than a portfolio and our approach provides you and your family with a tailored plan that includes a custom portfolio to help address your individual objectives.

We start by listening to you, and work to build an informed and informative relationship with ongoing communication to ensure we stay on track as your life goals evolve.

Smith Crouse Griffith Wealth Management Group of Wells Fargo Advisors process:
Step-By-Step Process Chart: 1. Discover, 2. Propose,  3. Implement, 4. Track
1. Discover
To offer exceptional SERVICE, we:
  • Discuss what matters most to you
  • Develop an understanding of your current financial situation
  • Understand and help define your future goals
2. Propose
We promote ACCOUNTABILITY by combining our experience and leveraging our qualified resources to:

  • Interpret and analyze your financial situation, liabilities, risks and goals
  • Identify potential future challenges and plan for navigating around them
  • Present the proposed plans and strategies we believe can help you build, manage and preserve wealth to help achieve your goals
  • Ensure we are aligned with you, with a goal of understanding your challenges and your goals
3. Implement
Proactive and effective management requires LEADERSHIP to:
  • Establish priorities for action
  • Execute your plans and implement strategies designed to help maximize opportunities and mitigate risk
  • Coordinate our expert team to collaborate with your defined partners to help ensure key decisions are made in concert to help keep you on track to your goals
4. Track
To earn your TRUST over time, we:
  • Meet with you to review your progress toward your goals
  • Adjust plans and strategies as necessary to reflect changes to your personal situation or the evolving economic and financial environments
  • Remain easily accessible to perform all requested services consistently and responsibly, whenever you need us
  • Guide you through every step of the long-term investment process, including challenging conversations about wealth transfer and legacy

Guiding Principles

  • Customized portfolios

  • Active market participation

  • Rapid response

  • Time-tested principles with modern techniques

  • Cost-effective strategies

  • Strategic and tactical asset allocations

  • Alternative investments

  • Qualified and collaborative resource team

Wells Fargo and Company and its Affiliates do not provide tax or legal advice. This communication cannot be relied upon to avoid tax penalties. Please consult your tax and legal advisors to determine how this information may apply to your own situation. Whether any planned tax result is realized by you depends on the specific facts of your own situation at the time your tax return is filed. Alternative investments carry specific investor qualifications, which can include high income and net-worth requirements, as well as relatively high investment minimums. Available to pre-qualified investors only.