When you plan with us, you’ll have an experienced advisor leading a dedicated team with a diverse range of financial expertise. Our plans are tailored to you from a wide range of financial options and strategies designed to help you achieve the goals you have now, and later on.

We will also work closely with any other financial relationships you have—streamlining things for you and giving you a trusted point person to oversee all aspects of your wealth management.

We believe that the strongest financial plan begins with the priorities you have for your life. That’s why we start by understanding your values, goals, and where you stand financially today before making any recommendations.

Our comprehensive approach will help you and your family enjoy your wealth for generations. When you work with our financial advisors, you can be confident that you’ll have:

• Someone who’ll listen to you, identify with your situation, and understand what you want to accomplish
• A partner who can help see blind spots others can’t or haven’t considered
• An expert in advanced investment and risk management strategies
• A trusted specialist who can create a flexible financial strategy that will help leverage opportunities for your life now, and down the road

Our long-term approach to investing and wide range of options can help meet your unique financial needs—giving you the edge you and your family need to enjoy your wealth today, and for generations to come.

With more ways to invest than ever before, it can be hard to make sure your money is working its hardest for you. That's where we come in. We’ll provide investment expertise based on our time-tested philosophy, disciplined process, research-based insights, and proprietary capital market assumptions.

When you’re ready for more sophisticated wealth management, you'll have access to a variety of options there too, including investment advisory services, tax-smart strategies, trust services, and specialized products.

Brokerage services 

Build your ideal portfolio with a range of investment vehicles—no matter what goals you have. If it's time to roll over a retirement account, find a unique lending solution, save for a child’s education, or arrange for charitable giving, we’ll figure out your options and help you figure out how to get it done.

Investment advisory programs 

When you’re looking for more hands-on investment advice and ongoing portfolio oversight, we’ll carefully select one of our Advisory Programs (curated by our Wealth Management Investment Team) that best fits your investment goals. Along with monitoring market conditions and your investments, we’ll be ready to adjust your portfolio as needed should your goals or priorities shift.

Our wealth management services go above and beyond what you might expect from a financial services provider. Northwestern Mutual Wealth Management Company offers:

Investment advisory services, designed to:

• Provide high-quality investment services and products.
• Build and monitor diversified portfolios.
• Develop objective, personalized plans.
• Focus on long-term results.

Trust services and partnerships, designed to:

• Provide continuity of stewardship that can last multiple generations.
• Preserve family harmony when carrying out your intentions.
• Carry out detailed record-keeping and accounting.
• Calculate taxes and file returns.

Northwestern Mutual Wealth Management Company serves as trustee on Irrevocable Life Insurance Trusts. In addition, through our Trust Alliance Program, we partner with nationally-recognized trust administration firms that offer a broad range of services to revocable trusts, charitable trusts, endowments and foundations.

Online access to your account, so you can review:

• Comprehensive monthly statements.
• Performance reporting.
• Account access on a secure website.
• Current account balances on your investment holdings.
• Detailed transaction records on all accounts.

While providing the protection you need, our solutions play a key part in your financial plan, giving you more financial flexibility throughout your life. We’ll listen to what's important for you to do today and down the road, and evaluate which type of coverage, and amount, could help you reach your goals.

You work hard to give your loved ones every advantage. The right life insurance can make sure that you leave a legacy for loved ones and help maintain their standard of living when you’re no longer here.

Our evaluations are based on your goals, priorities, and the role life insurance will play in your financial plan. From protection that lasts for a set amount of time (term life) or a lifetime (permanent life), we have a solution. And with permanent life, you also get financial benefits that you can use while you’re living, including:

• Financial flexibility for emergencies and opportunities
• A cash accumulation that grows over time and can be used for anything
• A tax-advantaged way (via a cash accumulation) to help grow your wealth

If you’re a business owner, offering life insurance as part of a comprehensive benefits package can help to recruit and retain valuable employees and help them feel financially secure while contributing to the success of your business.

Life insurance can also minimize the financial impact felt by the passing of a key contributor to your business. Its cash accumulation (or cash value) can be used to cover the potential loss of business or to recruit a successor.

Help protect your earning power and keep your goals on track if an unexpected injury or illness prevents you from working. No matter the type of job or career you have (or business you own), we have options that can give you more choice and more control.

Your ability to earn a living is likely the most important financial asset you have. Having a plan ready to go should you experience a disability, can help you rest easier knowing that your goals, big and small, can keep moving forward.

Individuals – While you focus on getting better, your goals like leaving a legacy or saving for a second home can still stay on track when you have a plan.

Physicians and Dentists – With a plan, you’re not just protecting your income, you’re protecting the investment you've made in your career.

Business owners and employers – A plan can help keep your business running if you or another key employee becomes too sick or injured to do their job, and by enhancing your benefits package with a plan you can help protect your employees, too.

Having a long-term care plan in place will give you (or a loved one) choice and control over where and how to receive care should it be needed. Plus, a plan will let your loved ones know your wishes and lessen the burden of the physical and emotional strains that can come with the need for long-term care.

Someday, you or a loved one may need ongoing help with day-to-day tasks like bathing, eating, or getting dressed. The cost of care is often underestimated and might not be covered by health insurance or Medicare. Long-term care planning can help you manage the assets that you’ve worked so hard for, so your family focus on offering love and support.

Alternative investments can be tangible assets like precious metals, art, or wine, but are usually financial assets like private equity, private credit, hedge funds, or private real estate.

They can be a powerful tool to help achieve greater portfolio diversification, add protection in falling markets, cut down on volatility, and have the potential to generate higher yields over the long term.

Northwestern Mutual offers a variety of alternative investment products, including interval funds, hedge funds, private credit funds, private equity funds, private real estate funds, and opportunity zone funds.

However, because alternative investments tend to carry a high level of risk and low liquidity, they aren’t right for everyone. Let’s talk about if they make sense for your investment strategy.

Products and services referenced are offered and sold only by appropriately appointed and licensed entities and financial advisors and professionals. Not all products and services are available in all states and not all Northwestern Mutual financial advisors offer alternative investments.

Make sure the business that you’ve worked hard building will continue to move forward once you’ve decided to step back.

Whether it's a few years from now or decades away, there will come a day when you’ll want to step back from your business. Succession planning will chart a course to move your business forward after you leave. And having a plan in place can also give your business a competitive edge while you’re still calling the shots—employees, clients, and suppliers will have greater confidence in the stability of your business.

Our team of experts can help you develop a strong succession plan by helping you:

Set your goals: We start with what you want for your business and yourself after you step away. If you’re not sure what that might be, it’s ok. We’re experts in helping people discover their goals—big and small.

Build your plan: A recent survey¹ found that the top concern of business owners is who will take the reins when they leave. We’ll help you identify the right successor and create a personalized plan based on what you want.

Evaluate your risk: Life is unpredictable, and everything can change overnight. We can design risk management strategies that will help account for the unexpected such as if you become disabled, pass away, or get divorced.

Value your business: Many business owners don’t understand how much their business is truly worth. We have access to proprietary technology with patented algorithms that take the guesswork out of business valuation.

Review your plan: Our advisors will be your trusted partner at every step of the process and provide you with expert advice should your personal or business goals shift today, or down the road.

 

¹ Northwestern Mutual/Forbes Insight Survey 2021

Planning for charitable giving

Now more than ever, people are putting their money where their values are. As part of your financial plan, charitable giving can help support the causes and organizations that are important to you, while maximizing tax efficiencies and defining your legacy.

There are many ways to give back. Our experienced team will work with you and your family to help identify philanthropic goals and develop your charitable giving strategy, which could include some of these options:

Cash: Transfer directly to the charity(ies) of your choice

Stock: Donate shares of stock you own

Other kinds of property: Donate items such as clothing, computers, cars, even life insurance

Donor-Advised Fund: A charitable investment account that offers flexible and efficient ways to manage donating to charities

Private Foundation: A charitable organization funded primarily by a single donor or small group of donors

Charities in your estate planning: Create a legacy of giving by including your favorite charity in your will or trust

Charitable Trusts: Transfer assets out of the estate with the goal of using them for charity

No matter if you’re just starting to craft your philanthropic vision or need help with more complex giving strategies, we have the expertise to help you make an impact.