An empowered approach

Our goals-based wealth planning approach is designed to ultimately help you achieve your vision and live empowered. Working together, we identify strategies to help grow your wealth, fund your lifestyle today and tomorrow, protect what's important to you and create your legacy.

Our approach features four financial pillars to help guide you through your life stages:

Accumulate wealthAccumulate and grow your wealth

Working toward tomorrow, define your goals, plan, save and invest. Review your finances regularly. Build and maintain an emergency fund of at least six months of expenses.

As you approach retirement, take advantage of catch-up contributions and align investments to offset inflation.

In your encore years, review and understand the probable outcome of your wealth plan and consider consolidating accounts to simplify your financial life.

Fund your lifestyleFund your lifestyle

In the early stages, avoid or eliminate unproductive debt. Fund but defer health savings account spending until retirement.

Approaching retirement, create a retirement plan for your paycheck as well as a budget for your expenses.

In your later years, plan for your distributions and manage your spending to cover your needs.

Protect what's importantProtect what's important to you

At first, evaluate and consider your options for various types of insurance, ranging from health, disability, life and long-term care insurance.

Closer to retirement, re-evaluate your insurance needs and use credit strategically.

Enroll in Medicare at 65 and claim Social Security at 70. Avoid selling assets in down markets. Discuss your care wishes with your loved ones.

Create your legacyCreate your legacy

Establish a will, power of attorney, health care directive and revocable trust. Check your beneficiary designations. Consider a charitable giving plan that aligns with your values.

Near retirement, revisit your estate planning documents and beneficiary designations. Have plans for housing and care needs.

After retiring, check that your estate plan aligns with your wishes. Understand your estate and gift tax thresholds.

It all starts and ends with you

Contact us today to learn more about our wealth management approach and how we can help you achieve your goals.

RBC Echelon distinctive wealth solutions

Through RBC Echelon, we provide business owners, corporate executives and wealthy families customized strategies and bespoke solutions to grow, preserve and make an impact with their wealth over generations. It's where your wealth takes you that matters, and RBC Echelon understands that being wealthy is only the beginning.

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Create a legacy that passes on your wealth and values

A significant wealth transfer is underway as baby boomers pass on their accumulated wealth to younger family members. By 2048 an estimated $124 trillion* is set to change hands in the U.S.

As wealth changes hands from one generation to another, RBC Wealth Management is positioned to help families plan and communicate so the transition is about money and values for an impactful, long-term legacy.

When it comes to a wealth transfer mindset, RBC Wealth Management learned from conducting a 2024 survey that individuals, regardless of age, similarly prioritize family harmony and family values. Perhaps surprisingly, a generation gap did not exist between baby boomers, millennials and Gen Xers.

Our wealth transfer survey also found that the keys to successful wealth transition are trust and communication, heir preparedness and alignment of family values around wealth. To help you, we created a new wealth transfer insights guidebook. Access the guide now to get started.