Melinda Askew
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Senior Financial Planner
CFP®
Building your financial future – together
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As a planner with TD Wealth Financial Planning, I am passionately committed to providing my clients a fully integrated financial plan that balances living life today with setting goals for tomorrow. I take the time to understand, not just their current financial circumstances, but also the objectives and motivations integral to it. Whether you are planning for retirement or starting a new business, I am here to help guide you every step of the way.
In my role, I focus on four key areas:
- Build net worth – Identifying investment solutions that align to my clients’ evolving needs.
- Implement tax-efficient strategies – Working with my clients to help create and structure their accounts to help reduce tax exposure while keeping income available for when it’s needed.
- Protect what matters – Leveraging the expertise of TD specialists, I help integrate strategies to protect what matters to my clients.
- Leave a legacy – Helping my clients to build a plan to effectively transfer their wealth.
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CFP®
Frequently asked questions
What does a financial planner do?
What are the steps in financial planning?
TD Wealth Financial Planning
Your priorities are important to us. We can work together towards your goals, and can help with:
Tax Planning
Work with us to assess and recommend strategies that can help to reduce your tax burden, and:
- Reduce your taxable income during your lifetime or upon passing away
- Explore income splitting strategies
- Take advantage of tax deductions and credits available to you
Retirement Planning
We can offer strategies to help you become retirement-ready by discussing questions like:
- How much income is needed for the retirement you aspire to?
- How can you save enough to fund your retirement?
- How can you reduce taxes during retirement?
- When should you start taking your government benefits?
Estate Planning
Estate planning helps ensure your wishes are carried out and is an effective way to benefit your heirs.
- Ensure you have an up-to-date Will and Power of Attorney
- Consider using executor services like a corporate executor or Power of Attorney for Property
- Transfer your wealth and help avoid any unintended consequences
4 steps to your financial roadmap for life
Our four-step process helps keep your financial plan aligned with your goals and circumstances as they change over time.
Your Financial Planning Experience
1.Initial Discovery
2.Your Financial Plan
3.Welcome to TD Wealth Financial Planning
4.Regular Review Meetings
Your Financial Planning Experience
Initial Discovery
Our discovery process focuses on understanding your priorities and goals in order to better support them.
Your Financial Plan
Once we get to know you, we will work with you to develop a personalized financial plan to help you achieve your goals.
Welcome to TD Wealth Financial Planning
Next, we put that plan into action. This phase involves an official onboarding as well as any account transfers required to begin implementing your plan.
Regular Review Meetings
To ensure your financial plan evolves as you do, we’ll regularly review your priorities with you, helping you stay on track with your goals.
Your Unique Goals
Knowing that you have a plan for tomorrow will help you concentrate on getting more out of life — today.
TD Wealth Financial Planning
Your priorities are important to us. We can work together towards your goals, and can help with:
Multi-Generational Family
You've worked hard to build your net worth and we understand how important it is to protect what you've built for generations to come. To help you navigate the myriad challenges of preserving wealth across multiple generations, we can create a plan that is tailored to your specific needs and values.
WIO: Monthly Perspectives
Every year around this time, the Wealth Investment Office reaches out to TD’s “Three Chiefs” when it comes to the financial world: Chief Economist Beata Caranci, Chief Wealth Strategist Brad Simpson, and Chief Investment Officer David Sykes. Together, they offer an invaluable pool of insights that help to frame the economy, the markets and where we go from here as investors.
Women And Investing
Women and investing Wealth is about much more than just numbers and figures. It’s about having the power to do what’s right for you and your family, the freedom to fulfill your dreams, the flexibility to invest in your business and the assurance that you’re prepared for life’s ups and downs. Our aim is to protect and grow your wealth and help you make informed decisions throughout your life.
Helping achieve what truly matters to you and your family.
Build net worth: We can help you build your net worth by developing effective strategies and investment solutions that align to your needs, even as they evolve.
Protect what matters: By leveraging the expertise of TD specialists, we can integrate strategies to help you protect what matters to you most at every life stage.
Implement tax-efficient strategies: We can work with you to help create and structure your accounts to help reduce tax exposure while keeping income available for when you need it.
Leave a legacy: Your legacy is important to us. We’ll help you create a plan that provides for your top priorities and optimizes the transfer of your wealth.
Creating a wealth plan to help meet your long- and short-term goals
That's how I can help—by working with you one-on-one to create a personalized wealth plan that's lock-step with your life events and needs.
Working together, I can also help you:
- Discover your Wealth Personality™ to determine what drives your decisions
- Identify and prioritize your short- and long-term goals
- Find the confidence to take charge of your financial future through advice and planning
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