California Retirement Planning
Blue Horizon
Financial & Insurance Services
Retirement is personal. You’ve worked hard to save and invest your money and now it’s time to optimize and protect your savings to provide for your retirement and your loved ones thereafter.
Blue Horizon Financial & Insurance Services is an independent financial services firm, specializing in helping individuals and families prepare for, plan, and live in retirement. Our approach focuses on tailored retirement planning strategies and insurance solutions to provide our clients with guaranteed lifetime income, asset protection, and achieve tax efficiencies in support of a holistic approach to their finances.
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Start Smart
Get a Clear Understanding of Your Financial Life
First, we gain a thorough understanding of your current financial situation, goals, objectives, risk tolerance, and the key considerations that should be addressed in your retirement strategy.
Six Fundamental Financial Planning Considerations
Six key financial planning considerations can impact your financial goals now and in the future. The question is not if these will affect your finances, but to what degree. We evaluate your sentiment toward each consideration and quantify the potential effects on your assets over time. This allows us to build customized strategies to help you achieve your financial objectives for retirement.
Longevity
Outliving financial assets as the result of a longer life.
Inflation
Reduction in real purchasing power as the result of increasing cost of living.
Mortality
Loss of financial assets as the result of a partner’s or spouse’s death.
Liquidity
Limited access to assets to meet life’s unexpected financial needs.
Market
Unexpected reduction in the value of financial assets at the time of withdrawal.
Taxes
Decreasing income and assets and/or the impairment of legacy assets from increasing taxes.
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Apply Discipline
A Retirement Strategy Designed for You
Next, we design a retirement strategy that actively works to help optimize your wealth and protect your finances, keeping your goals and objectives at the forefront of our planning process.
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Communicate Progress
Our Commitment to You
Lastly and continually, we work to ensure transparency of your income plan by providing visibility, proactive
outreach, and accessibility to our team throughout our working relationship.
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With almost two decades of experience in the financial Services industry. Rod has made in a point to increase knowledge in order to better service his clients with the education they deserve. Although every family and business need may differ, Rod focuses on providing valuable insight through education in order to help clients make decisions based on their personal needs. Rod’s dedication to this industry derived from a personal experience in 1992 when his mother suffered a stroke which caused a financial ruin.
Because of this personal experience it has become Rod’s passion to educate families and business owners by offering a more holistic approach to their planning needs. Rod specializes in building your trust as a client first, followed by providing the right solutions to your planning needs. Rod has extensive knowledge in Tax Diversification Strategies, Various life insurance offerings, Autunites, Roth Conversions, Individual and Group Disability, Individual and Group Health Care, Small to Large Employee Plan Benefits, Retirement Planning, Estate Planning, Keyman Insurance, Buy Sell Agreements, 401k, 457, 403B Rollovers, Company Pensions, and Debt Elimination (Giving Your Money Two Jobs!)
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Lastly and continually, we work to ensure transparency of your income plan by providing visibility, proactive outreach, and accessibility to our team throughout our working relationship.
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