Doctors Eyes Only

Vestia Partner and President, Brad Quick CEPA® and Vestia Partner and Chief Growth Officer Kameron Helmuth CFP® ChFc® recently attended the Foundation for Physician Advancement course in Charlotte. While there, Kameron and Brad were able to speak with multiple doctors who contributed to the information in the Financial Pain Points for Orthopedic Surgeons. 

An online survey was offered to all course participants in a recent Industry Course to gauge what topics would be presumed as the most critical financial pain points for Orthopedic Surgeons. 26 surgeons participated from varying institutions, subspecialties, and career status. Three questions were asked:

1.     When do you go into practice? 

2.     How would you rate your financial knowledge?

3.     What do you feel are the most common financial pain points among Orthopedic Surgeons today? 

In this episode of the Doctor’s Eyes Only Podcast, Kameron and Brad have a conversation about the most recent course for Foundation for Physician Advancement in Charlotte in which they talk about the process of gathering information by way of an online survey. After gathering all of the results, Brad and Kameron then created a white paper titled Building a Successful Practice - Charlotte 2024, Financial Pain Points for Orthopedic Surgeons, and delivered it to those that took the survey. To read the white paper and the results click the link below.

https://www.vestiaadvisors.com/building-a-successful-practice-charlotte-2024/

Investment advisory services offered through Vestia Personal Wealth Advisors, Vestia Retirement Plan Consultants, and Vestia Advisors, LLC. Securities offered through Ausdal Financial Partners, Inc., 5187 Utica Ridge Rd, Davenport, IA. 52807 (563)326-2064. Member FINRA/SIPC. Vestia Personal Wealth Advisors, Vestia Retirement Plan Consultants, Vestia Advisors, LLC, and Ausdal Financial Partners, Inc. are independently owned and operated.

This material is intended for informational purposes only. It should not be construed as legal or tax advice and is not intended to replace the advice of a qualified attorney or tax advisor.  This information is not an offer or a solicitation to buy or sell securities.  The information contained may have been compiled from third-party sources and is believed to be reliable.

Did you know that business owners actually pay taxes differently than most other individuals do? And most doctors have a stream of income or can easily have a stream of income that qualifies them to be taxed at least partially as business owners? If you're getting income that doesn't have taxes withheld, that's called 1099 income. That money comes in, it has not yet been taxed. It's your responsibility to pay the taxes to the government. It's not taken out for you. Because that comes in on the Schedule C on your tax return, your accountant will fill in a bunch of boxes with business expenses. Then what's left after those business expenses is what you end up paying taxes on as a business owner on that business income. In this episode of the Doctors Eyes Only Podcast, we talk about the different ways doctors can potentially take advantage of tax strategies to enhance their current investment plan. 

We are not accountants. As a Financial Advisor, we do often work closely with accountants to help with client tax strategy, but we are not accountants. So any of these tax specific topics talked about in this podcast, we will defer to the expertise of your accountant and recommend that you run any of these things by your accountant before you make a final decision. 

Investment advisory services offered through Vestia Personal Wealth Advisors, Vestia Retirement Plan Consultants, and Vestia Advisors, LLC. Securities offered through Ausdal Financial Partners, Inc., 5187 Utica Ridge Rd, Davenport, IA. 52807 (563)326-2064. Member FINRA/SIPC. Vestia Personal Wealth Advisors, Vestia Retirement Plan Consultants, Vestia Advisors, LLC, and Ausdal Financial Partners, Inc. are independently owned and operated.

This material is intended for informational purposes only. It should not be construed as legal or tax advice and is not intended to replace the advice of a qualified attorney or tax advisor.  This information is not an offer or a solicitation to buy or sell securities.  The information contained may have been compiled from third-party sources and is believed to be reliable.

Hello everyone, welcome to another episode of the Doctors Eyes Only podcast, and today we're going to talk about what we at Vestia call Wealth That Matters®.

In this episode, CEO and Partner Lauren Oschman talks about how Vestia strives to discover what matters to physician clients that is about more than money. Growing up in a household with a dad who worked long hours with no days off as an Interventional Cardiologist, Lauren understands the sacrifices that doctors make for their patients and the sacrifices their families make as well. Often times, doctors get in the mode of providing for their families and building an investment portfolio for that one day they can comfortably retire. When the thought arises of how much is needed to accomplish this, the answer is usually “more”. 

As Lauren mentions in the episode, “Because I think for a lot of doctors, a lot of you are listening, you're very achievement oriented, you're very used to the answer being more, right? How much is enough? More. That's how you get to be where you're at, being a very accomplished physician. So one of our goals as we're onboarding new clients, as we're helping craft financial strategies, is to listen to all of these things that you want and to help you figure out how to get the most out of life today and also take care of your future self.”

This is a very different view from a Financial Advisory perspective in which Lauren gives examples through stories about clients she has had conversations with where she didn’t recommend they invest more money and instead encouraged them to take that extra vacation to capitalize on the time when their kids are young. Lauren also talks about her own personal situation, being a mother of three young children and finding ways to be intentional with her time with her daughters and allowing them to hold her accountable to giving them the time they need. Enjoy the episode and thank you for listening to the Doctors Eyes Only Podcast!

Investment advisory services offered through Vestia Personal Wealth Advisors, Vestia Retirement Plan Consultants, and Vestia Advisors, LLC. Securities offered through Ausdal Financial Partners, Inc., 5187 Utica Ridge Rd, Davenport, IA. 52807 (563)326-2064. Member FINRA/SIPC. Vestia Personal Wealth Advisors, Vestia Retirement Plan Consultants, Vestia Advisors, LLC, and Ausdal Financial Partners, Inc. are independently owned and operated.

This material is intended for informational purposes only. It should not be construed as legal or tax advice and is not intended to replace the advice of a qualified attorney or tax advisor.  This information is not an offer or a solicitation to buy or sell securities.  The information contained may have been compiled from third-party sources and is believed to be reliable.

In this episode of the Doctor’s Eyes Only Podcast, brought to you by Vestia Personal Wealth Advisors, Partner and CEO Lauren Oschman talks about the benefits, drawbacks, and qualifications for a Backdoor Roth IRA.

Lauren Oschman - I always go back to a story, so I actually work with a father and a daughter. The father is a retired physician, his daughter is currently a practicing physician who's working on accumulating her wealth and saving for her own retirement. So I started working with her father when he was on the precipice of retirement. He came to me, referred by his daughter, who had been a client of mine for a long time, and he said, Lauren, I've always done my investments myself and I would just love for you to be able to tell me, can I retire? 

I started going through all of his accounts, and he had done a really really great job saving. He had been in a private practice, he had a lot of money put away in pre -taxed vehicles, so money that had never been taxed. And then anything he couldn't get into a pre -tax vehicle that wasn't a part of his spending plan, he was putting into a brokerage account. He never funded anything in the Roth bucket, right? 

So we can kind of think about money in three buckets from a tax perspective, pre -tax, taxable, that would be your brokerage, and then tax -free, which would be your Roth IRA, under all of the current tax laws. He didn't have anything in the Roth bucket. He had saved really really well, so I was able to tell him that based on all of the calculations that I ran, it looked like he was in a good position to be able to retire. The big question mark, the thing that I could not assure him .. was that pre -tax money.. I don't know what's going to happen to tax rates over the next 20 years. Tax rates are not fixed. We could end up with new people making decisions in Congress. We could have new tax laws passed, and tax rates could actually go up. So he had the vast majority, probably 80% of his money, was in accounts that were subject to taxes as he takes his withdrawals. 

A lot of these conversations about IRAs, Roth IRAs, the sequence of transactions to do the Backdoor Roth IRA does involve tax strategy and tax reporting. I am not an Accountant, I am a Financial Advisor, so please, any decision that you're going to make that is going to involve tax reporting, please run these things by your accountant to make sure that you have all of the information before you make decisions based on what makes sense for your situation. 

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Investment advisory services offered through Vestia Personal Wealth Advisors, Vestia Retirement Plan Consultants, and Vestia Advisors, LLC. Securities offered through Ausdal Financial Partners, Inc., 5187 Utica Ridge Rd, Davenport, IA. 52807 (563)326-2064. Member FINRA/SIPC. Vestia Personal Wealth Advisors, Vestia Retirement Plan Consultants, Vestia Advisors, LLC, and Ausdal Financial Partners, Inc. are independently owned and operated.