As a physician, we know your time is valuable. Accordingly, we make it simple and easy for you to establish an advisory relationship with Forme.
We lift the burden and obstacles of managing your assets from the start. All we need from you is your statements uploaded to your secure digital vault for the accounts you want transferred. Your concierge will gather required additional information from you over the phone at a time of your convenience in just minutes and will complete the new account paperwork for your electronic signature. Simply docusign and your assets will be transferred in kind to Forme’s custodian, Fidelity.
Your concierge and advisory team are committed to delivering you a white glove experience. Additionally, your information at Forme is accessible any time through our digital experience. We are confident that you will find working with Forme to be efficient and effortless for you resulting in a delightful and engaging experience.
We do not have a stated minimum asset level. However, we do charge a minimum annual fee of $2400 per year for practicing physicians to access our full array of services.
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Our investment philosophy first focuses on your financial goals as a physician, then creates tailor made strategies factoring in your preferences, financial and tax circumstances, income, personal balance sheet, goals and aspirations. Added to that, we believe that there are core tenets, and a solid approach to managing your personal returns that is thoughtful, intentional, technically sound, and responds to the varying conditions in financial markets. These core tenets include our approach to asset allocation, manager selection, portfolio construction, asset class selection, capital market assumptions, rebalancing, manager research, active and passive management, tax-smart investing, ESG, and alternative investments. In each of these areas, we believe that “alpha” – the ability to identify opportunities and influence enhanced outcomes – can be created through a disciplined, evidence-based approach focusing on the areas that can be controlled and appropriately managing risk in areas that can’t be explicitly controlled.
Keeping investment costs low is a prudent strategy to help physicians reach the financial outcomes they desire. Markets are not controllable or predictable. However, investment expenses are a known factor. Minimizing these costs increases the probability of investment success. This well-researched fact has contributed to the popularity of passive investing, including the use of index mutual funds and ETFs. We believe that direct indexing is the next evolution of low-cost investing. At Forme, we are able to create bespoke portfolios using direct indexing with pricing that is competitive with passively managed mutual funds and ETFs.
Forme integrates seven tax-efficient strategies throughout the year when managing taxable portfolios for our physician clients. These strategies are managed using advanced technology to minimize your taxes and include: integration of legacy holdings, tax transition, tax loss harvesting, capital gains budget, minimize short-term gains, and tax-smart vehicle selection. In concert, these strategies help optimize a portfolio’s tax efficiency, allowing physicians to keep more of what they earn.
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