Achieving your financial goals takes careful planning, consideration, and execution. This process enables you to clarify your priorities so you can focus on achieving your objectives. To attain your goals, you need to know where you are today, where you want to go, how you are going to get there, and what you are prepared to do to make sure you reach your goals.

BMO Nesbitt Burns Advisors use a state-of-the-art financial planning tool to help you achieve your financial goals. Whether your situation is simple, or more complex, this tool provides the analytical engine to create a customized financial plan. Best of all, the plan is easy to understand.


Some of the unique features include:

  • The full financial spectrum (investment, tax, estate, education, insurance, and more) to develop a truly integrated plan.
  • The ability to view side-by-side comparisons of potential strategies to give you a clearer picture of your options.


Most of all, this tool allows our team to ensure that you receive a realistic and understandable view of your goals, and most importantly, the options of how to get you to where you want to go.



Your Financial Plan

A financial plan provides you with a comprehensive assessment of your financial situation and helps you determine if your existing investment strategy is in line with your goals. Your plan includes a review of your:

 

  • Current financial position: Your financial position is a combination of your net worth (assets, minus liabilities) and your annual cash flow (income, less expenses and savings). This information provides an overview of the financial resources currently available to meet your goals.

 

  • Investment planning: A successful investment strategy begins with asset allocation. A review of the asset mix for each of your investments, registered and locked-in accounts is completed and then compared to what is being recommended for accounts with investment objectives similar to yours.

 

  • Education planning: By analyzing the expected costs and setting up a savings strategy, you can help ensure that your children get the education they deserve.

 

  • Major purchase planning: If you have a major purchase on the horizon, such as a dream vacation, new vehicle or a vacation property, your existing savings strategy is compared to the future purchase cost to determine whether your current strategy will allow you to meet your goal.

 

  • Retirement planning: Combined sources of retirement income are measured against retirement goals to ensure you can maintain your desired lifestyle throughout retirement.

 

  • Estate planning: A summary of your estate’s distributable assets and obligations is provided, (e.g., income taxes, probate costs and debts) including an overview of the income needs of the surviving spouse and if more capital is needed to support the survivor’s lifestyle.