Our approach to financial advice

At Dalton Financial Partners, you won’t get a ‘cookie cutter’ or ‘one size fits all’ approach to advice. Our clients are unique and therefore require a financial plan that has been tailored for their specific situation. We cover a wide range of strategies and work with other professionals to provide advice that covers all aspects of your financial life.

Comprehensive

Considers all areas of your financial life.

Personal

Focused on building strong long-term relationships.

Execution Focused

Great planning fails without consistent execution.

Core Strategies

  • We help you take control of your finances by assisting you in understanding your income and expenses, and providing effective ways to restructure loans to boost cash flow and minimise tax. With our expert guidance, we help you create a financial plan that supports tax-effective wealth accumulation and points you in the right direction to securing your financial future.

  • At Dalton Financial Partners, we believe that superannuation plays an important role in building wealth and enhancing your retirement. Superannuation is the simplest and lowest tax path to wealth creation. We review superannuation arrangements (including SMSFs), and can prepare tailored superannuation and investment strategies to help you maximise your retirement savings and reach your financial independence.  

  • We help clients understand investments and find the right investment for them. We build diversified investment portfolios to suit your needs and encourage tax-effective wealth accumulation. Whether you’re looking to invest in individual shares or prefer a professionally managed portfolio, we tailor solutions to align with your specific situation, financial goals and risk appetite. Our strategic approach ensures that you make informed investment decisions to grow and protect your nest egg.

  • We understand the uncertainty that clients are faced with as they approach retirement and transition out of the workforce. We help you understand what a comfortable retirement is to you, how much you need to reach your ideal retirement, and help create tailored strategies to secure that retirement. We support you to ensure a smooth transition from the workforce, maximising your retirement savings and creating passive income for life. We help you with any uncertainty faced and provide you peace of mind that you are well placed for a comfortable retirement, so you can focus on the important things like enjoying your retirement and making memories with family and loved ones.

  • Protecting your financial future is essential in ensuring that you reach your financial independence and that your family is protected in any event. We help review and analyse the risks in your financial situation so we can provide you with tailored Life and Income Insurance solutions. This safeguards your loved ones and your path to financial independence in case things don’t go to plan.

  • A strong Estate Plan is vital to ensure that your hard-earned wealth stays within the family and is passed on to your preferred beneficiaries while minimizing death tax. We have experienced many complex scenarios and can assist you in preparing asset protection strategies and creating a strong estate plan to protect your assets and financial legacy.

Other strategies we cover

  • Dalton Financial Partners provides strategic advice on property investment to help you build wealth through real estate. Whether you're purchasing your first investment property or expanding your portfolio, we help you understand the strategic aspects of property investing, such as long-term considerations, ownership and suitability of different properties.

  • We support Business Owners in understanding how business plans tie in with personal financial plans and wealth. Being a business owner ourselves (not a corporate), we understand business issues. We can provide guidance in business and succession planning and how to use a small business for maximum wealth creation. We often collaborate with accountants to provide a comprehensive solution for tax and wealth creation for business owners.

  • We understand complex companies and trust structures and the important role they play in optimising tax outcomes, building wealth, and enhancing asset protection. Along with a tax specialist, we can assist you structuring investments through these arrangements and tailor our approach to ensure that investment strategies align with your situation and financial goals.

  • We assist clients in maximising their investment potential through borrowing strategies. These complex strategies require expert guidance, which we can provide to support you in leveraging debt effectively to enhance tax effective wealth accumulation while managing the associated risks.

  • We provide expert advice on employee share schemes and salary packaging options to help maximise financial benefits while minimising tax. We ensure that you understand and optimise these opportunities to enhance your overall financial position.

  • You may be faced with a difficult situation that requires you to negotiate with professionals and third parties, which can be challenging, particularly if encountering this situation for the first time. We have encountered may scenarios and have the experience and expertise to assist with difficult discussions and negotiations. We provide professional support by either providing guidance or representing and negotiating on your behalf to secure the best financial outcomes for you and to protect your interests.

  • Collaboration is important to provide a strong financial plan. We work closely with accountants, mortgage providers and lawyers to deliver comprehensive financial solutions. We can function as your principal adviser and collaborate with other professionals on your behalf.

  • Navigating Social Security entitlements and Aged Care is complex. We provide expert guidance to simplify this process and help ensure that your or your loved ones are well placed in retirement and getting the support that is needed.

Our Process and Fees

Phase one - Initial Contact

Initial phone consultations are required so we can understand your situation and goals to determine if we are the right people to help you. If appropriate, we will book you in for a complimentary initial meeting. The meeting runs for approximately 40 minutes. In this meeting we will discuss your current situation and goals in further detail and then present our service offering and how we may be able to help you. There is no charge if you decide not to proceed beyond this meeting.

Phase two - Strategy meeting

The next step is the strategy meeting. This involves reviewing items such as your cash flow, current investments, insurance, and estate planning. Information will be requested before the meeting (statements, policies, MyGov info etc) and you will also complete a risk tolerance assessment. The strategy meeting runs for 90 minutes in which we will present a range of financial planning recommendations for your consideration. You will get a copy of these recommendations after the meeting. Strategy meetings range from $1800 plus GST to $3000 plus GST depending on complexity.

Please note that the strategy meeting does not include product recommendations or any implementation support. It is strategy only advice. If you wish to receive specific product recommendations, ongoing support and implementation, you can elect to become a comprehensive service client. A quote for comprehensive service will be provided in the meeting and fees paid for the strategy meeting can be credited toward the comprehensive service offering.

Phase three - Comprehensive & ongoing service

Comprehensive and ongoing advice suits clients who wish to receive personalised product recommendations, ongoing guidance and full implementation support. They wish to have their financial future ‘project managed’.

For this service, Dalton FP charges a fixed fee* which covers all interactions, advice, strategy, meetings, documentation, and implementation. This fee is based on factors such as the complexity of your situation, the areas of advice and the expertise required. Our typical service engagement is 12 months (renewable), but we may offer shorter engagements for clients with simpler situations that do not require ongoing advice. Fees are normally collected via a combination of upfront payment and monthly direct debit. The proportion of fees allocated to superannuation advice can be charged to your super fund in most cases.

*In regard to life & disability insurance strategies, our preference is to charge you a combination of a fixed fee (included in your annual fee) and product commissions to cover the cost of this advice and implementation. However, clients can elect to have commissions removed and pay a higher fixed fee instead.

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