Wealth Management for Executives Whose Complexity Has Outgrown the Usual Plan

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Whether you sit in a public company C-suite or a senior role at a scaling private firm, your financial life probably no longer fits the standard financial plan. Compensation arrives in layers, trading windows open and close on their own schedule, and tax, family, and career decisions now intersect.

Our team works with executives whose complexity has started to live in their heads. We help you move from spreadsheets and reminders to a coordinated system that connects compensation, tax, portfolios, lending, and estate planning. The goal is simple: a plan that keeps pace with your role instead of lagging behind it.

The white papers you just downloaded walk through the issues in detail. This is the work behind them. We translate plan documents and equity terms into plain English, build an executive calendar that matches real life, and design a diversification and liquidity roadmap that respects both your company and your family.

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Closing the Coordination Gap for Executives

When compensation grows faster than planning, blind spots appear. This is where we step in. We connect equity plans, tax, portfolios, lending, and estate work so you are not the only person keeping the whole system in your head.

Salary, bonus, RSUs, PSUs, DSUs, and options all follow their own tax and timing rules. We translate plan documents into plain English, build a single view of your awards, and map vesting, exercises, and payouts against cash flow so tax bills and liquidity needs do not collide.

Income, pension, and equity all tied to one ticker is not diversification. We build a diversification roadmap that respects your role and insider rules, puts caps on employer exposure, and creates a reserve so tax and spending are not funded from the same concentrated position.

New titles and changed responsibilities often come with new grants, new vesting schedules, and new post termination windows. We track each grant in days, not generalities, and line up funding and lending so you can act if the clock starts earlier than expected.

Liquidity tends to arrive in short, board controlled windows. We build a playbook before the memo lands so you already know how much to exercise, how much to sell, and what the after tax result looks like, instead of trying to decide all of that inside a ten day tender.

Accountants, lawyers, and portfolio managers all do important work, but they rarely see the full picture in motion. We coordinate across those lanes, build an executive tax calendar, and design estate and charitable strategies that respect both current rules and your longer term plans.

A good test of a real plan is whether a spouse could explain it in a few minutes if they had to. We organize documents, clarify beneficiary designations, and create a simple map so family members and executors are not left with a plan that only exists in your memory.

Executive Equity Compensation Analysis

Most executives see award values and tax slips. We show the full picture, what each grant is worth after Canadian tax, how vesting stacks up year by year, and what it all means for your personal plan.

Executive equity grant inventory screen

See Every Grant in One Place

We import your RSUs, PSUs, DSUs, options, and ESPP into one inventory so you are not piecing it together from plan brochures and old emails. Each grant is set up with dates, quantities, and vesting terms.

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Inventory Every Grant

One list for all awards and their key terms.

2

Map Income and Tax Over Time

Year by year income, tax, and net proceeds.

3

Clarify How CRA Sees It

Treatment by award type and option deduction.

4

See the Whole Portfolio at Once

Dashboard view of value, tax, and risk.

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We reserve this analysis for executives and professionals who want their equity to support a broader financial strategy, not just show up as a surprise on the T4.

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Your Personal Family Office

We bring together the investment, planning, and administrative expertise of a full family office; integrated through one advisory team and coordinated with your accountant, lawyer, and other advisors.

INVEST
  • Public Equity and Fixed Income Portfolios
  • Access to Alternative Investments
  • Disciplined Portfolio Construction
  • Lending Solutions via BMO Private Banking
  • Institution Research and Due Diligence
PLAN
  • Dedicated Advisory Team For Your Family
  • Cash Flow and Retirement Modelling
  • Estate and Succession Planning Support
  • Insurance and Risk Management Integration
  • Specialized Transition Planning Expertise
COORDINATE
  • Collaboration with Your Advisors
  • Tax Strategy Aligned Planning
  • Philanthropic and Foundation Guidance
  • Proactive Account Administration
  • Continuity Planning for Next-Generation

Our Insights

Each stage of an executive career brings different planning challenges.

These white papers highlight the real triggers that drive our work with corporate leaders and high-growth professionals

Corporate Executives

How to turn layered compensation, salary, bonus, RSUs, and options, into a coordinated wealth strategy that protects both career and family.

Executives at Scaling Companies

When equity is building faster than structure, this guide explains how to balance liquidity, governance, and family planning in high-growth environments

Our Team

Debbie Bongard

Debbie Bongard

Senior Portfolio Manager &
Senior Wealth Advisor

CIM, FCSI

Christopher Bowlby

Christopher Bowlby

Portfolio Manager

CFA, CFP

Mark Parent

Mark Parent

Portfolio Manager

CIM, FCSI

Our Private Wealth Partners

Margarete Cacheino

Margarete Cacheino

Private Banker
BMO Private Wealth

 

Adam Carter

Adam Carter

Vice President, Business Advisory
& Transition Planning
BMO Private Wealth

CPA, CA, CBV, FEA

Husayn Sidi

Husayn Sidi

Managing Director
BMO Family Office

 

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