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Coordination
The seams between your investment advisor, your insurance agent, your CPA, and your estate attorney are where real money disappears. Most of our best writing lives here because most of the work we do lives here.
Your advisor presented three paths and asked you to choose. That's not expertise. That's a liability transfer. The decision and its accountability became yours.
Your wealth manager's October harvest was right. An uncoordinated insurance move in November turned $12,000 in carryforward into a $35,000 gap. Both advisors did their jobs.
Your Q4 moves happened when they happened. Whether the harvest, the gift, and the conversion reinforced or canceled each other, you'll find out in April.
No advisor in this audit made an error. The $537,000 in combined failures lives entirely in the space between them, not inside any one desk.
Your advisors each made the right call. They just didn't know what the others were doing. For one household, that gap cost $35,000.