George has been a financial professional for over 31 years having served as a Financial Planner for Merrill Lynch, UBS Financial Services and Wells Fargo Investments. He’s obtained his Series 7, Series 24, SIE, Series 66, and Series 63 held through LPL Financial.
George founded Target Retirement Services in 2008 with the vision of removing restraints that large companies and banks placed on their advisors, directly limiting the growth of clients’ portfolios. He aims to provide specialized financial assistance that aligns with his values and the clients’. Maintaining a strong sense of family, community and a solid professional foundation are integral to George’s practice. Through his education, experience and professional affiliations, George has fostered a practical approach to offering financial services and advice to his clients.
With Guided Wealth Portfolios, we aim to provide you with a diversified portfolio that matches your risk preferences and helps you toward your unique financial goals.
1) What’s your goal?
You’ll choose from three primary goal options:
2) What’s your investment horizon?
3) What’s your risk tolerance?
Access portfolios designed by LPL Research to help clients invest through a digital portal customized to your practice.
Models starting at $10,000
Exchange-traded funds
Your financial portfolio is more than just a collection of different investments—it’s a resource you depend on to help fund the goals you have in life. Personal Wealth Portfolios help simplify the complex process of investment management. We will work with you to create a unique portfolio that helps address your changing needs over time. This highly customizable program combines innovative investment strategies, portfolio customization, and ongoing management features—along with professional investment managers—in one account. So whether you are building, preserving, or transferring wealth, your Personal Wealth Portfolios account can be as individual as you are.
Investment strategies reflecting your needs We’ll create an asset allocation strategy suited to your unique financial situation. As your financial profile changes, your Personal Wealth Portfolios account can be customized to reflect your investment needs throughout your life. Diversified portfolios within one account Personal Wealth Portfolios offer a powerful combination of separate account managers, mutual funds, and exchange-traded products, allowing you to diversify and customize your portfolio to address your financial objectives. LPL Research provides research and recommended portfolio managers, enabling us to make confident and informed decisions on your behalf. Sophisticated portfolio management features From tailored tax management strategies to automatic rebalancing,* you have access to portfolio management features that help keep your investments on track.
*Rebalancing may involve tax consequences.
High-net-worth platform
Minimum: $250,000
Mutual funds, exchange-traded funds and SMAs
The optimum market portfolio provides investment strategies that are designed to help you pursue your goals by managing risk, offering services by professional money managers, and providing objective investment research.
Made up of a diverse series of mutual funds, the portfolios feature 10 or more money managers who are typically employed by institutional investors—large organizations that make multimillion- dollar investments. In one comprehensive approach, the Optimum Market Portfolios give you access to professional money management at a low entry point, as well as asset allocation models that feature depth, personalization and intelligence.
Access mutual fund wrap portfolios featuring more than 10 industry-leading money managers.
Minimum: $10,000
Mutual funds
Model Wealth Portfolios, a centrally managed fee-based platform available through LPL Financial, provides access to portfolios constructed by LPL Financial Research and other portfolio strategists. Portfolios on the platform use either mutual funds or exchange-traded products (ETPs), including exchange-traded funds (ETFs), exchange-traded notes (ETNs), or closed- end funds (CEFs), or a combination thereof.
Model Wealth Portfolios is an investment platform that offers portfolios from a variety of professional money managers, each of whom provides a specialized philosophy, process, and market outlook.
Access models from 15+ institutional money managers or design your own models while outsourcing trading.
Models starting at $10,000
Mutual funds, exchange-traded products
What does financial independence mean to you? A comfortable retirement? Starting your own business? Leaving a legacy? Having the means to travel and explore? Whatever your goals, we want to help you reach them.
A solid investment strategy can help you pursue financial independence. But to be truly effective, any investment strategy must be customized to your unique situation. We use the Strategic Asset Management investment platform to build a strategy designed just for you, keeping your specific financial situation and goals in mind. You define financial independence. We want to help you make it happen.
Create customized portfolios and wrap multiple investment types in one account.
Minimum: $25,000
Mutual funds, exchange-traded funds, stocks, bonds, unified investment trusts, alternative investments, and VBVAs
You may have a variety of investment goals that range from capital preservation to accumulation Wealth-Preservation to accumulation to wealth-transfer issues to tax considerations. There may even be specific types or groups of securities you prefer to use in your investment strategy. Because your goals are exclusive to you, you need an exclusive strategy.
Access hundreds of separately managed accounts from a variety of institutional managers.
Potential Benefits of Separate Accounts
