What's Your Story?
You want your life to count. For your family, for your community, and for the causes you will leave behind when you step away from the business or the work you built. A good plan should give you that confidence.
If yours still feels like something is missing, you are not wrong. This is where you find out what it is.
Your plan, people, and community
You have built real wealth, and most of it may be hard to reach. It sits in a business, in real estate, or in a retirement account that taxes you on the way out. You want to use it without losing control of it, and without handing more than you should to taxes.
You also know the real risks are not only in the market. Health events, lawsuits, a divorce, or a claim against the business can undo years of work. Your plan should account for all of it, not just your rate of return.
Retirement Income & Asset Protection
Asset Distribution Specialists
You have assets that are hard to tap without a tax hit or a forced sale: a large IRA, appreciated stock, a business or appreciated real estate. This work involves deciding how and when to draw from them, so you have income through the years between retirement and when Social Security and required withdrawals begin. The aim is to free your stuck assets while you keep control.
Investing & Growing Wealth
Time-based Investing
Keats Group acts as your family’s chief financial officer, coordinating with the firm's asset manager, AdvisorShare Wealth Management, a registered investment advisor and fiduciary. Your portfolio is built around your time horizon and loss tolerance, not a one-size model. The goal is a steady foundation you understand, not a bet you have to watch.
Estate & Trust Planning
Wealth Transfer, Generational Income Planning
You want what you leave behind to reach the people you choose, with as little lost to tax and friction as possible. Trust structures, matched to your family, can protect assets, create tax leverage, and ease the income and inheritance questions that come with passing wealth on. This is where your plan looks past your own lifetime.
Business Exit Planning & Transaction Assistance
Business Succession Specialists
Selling or stepping away from your business may be the biggest financial event of your life, and the one you have prepared for least. This connects the pieces: valuation, deal structure, taxes, the buyer market, terms, financing, and the personal side of letting go. A succession readiness questionnaire is a simple place to start.
What do our clients say?
Clients trust us for our expertise, insight, professionalism, and dedication to adding value and always acting in their interests.
Dr. William D.
"What began as a collaboration rooted in planning and financial expertise evolved into a trusted friendship and a highly valued coaching relationship—for me personally and for our broader team. Rex consistently brings thoughtful ideas and insights, but more importantly, he has a rare ability to see the people challenges behind the business problems."
Dr. William D.
Andy B.
"We were advised by Keats Group and Rexford Cattanach on planning and executing the sale of the business I started 35 years ago to my key division managers. The sale involved more complexities around valuation, financing, tax planning, and contract continuation than I could have known. We could not have done it without Rexford’s leadership and ability to manage the personalities and advisors involved. The post-sale outcomes have been positive."
Dr. John H.
"Rex Cattanach is a high-quality person and his knowledge and insight into my business planning proved invaluable. I would highly recommend Rex to anyone looking to plan their business exit. In meetings with my wife and me, his confidence helped us through what could have been a difficult transition. It was easy thanks to Rex."
Rexford Cattanach, Managing Member
PRIVATE CLIENT and BUSINESS ADVISORY SERVICES
Soon after finishing college, an investment broker called to pitch me a stock. The story behind the company’s growth plans sounded good, and I thought I did a reasonable job of vetting his advice by reading the analysts’ reports and recent company news.
After that I didn’t pay much attention. But one day I ran across news the company was on the ropes. The stock became worthless, and I parted ways with the broker.
It was my first experience with ‘market-makers,’ broker-dealers masquerading as stockbrokers and not fiduciary advisors. When our business advisory firm expanded into private client services, we made a promise we would solve real-life financial planning problems by making connections between investing, income, plan flexibility, and risk management. That’s our value promise. We solve income distribution and asset protection problems for people with stuck assets ─ IRAs, 401k, other pre-tax retirement plans, real estate, a business. Our comprehensive planning process provides tax planning not once, but every year.
The investment choices or process our clients had previously been shown makes it hard or impossible to connect why recommendations were made, the advice seems canned, offers branded mutual funds, or does not justify the advisor’s fees more often than not.
I am a fiduciary, independent financial advisor, and have led more than 100 business transitions and valuations; completed advanced training in IRA success planning with the premier U.S. educational firm; part of a deep team with specialists in time-based investment planning, certified Roth IRA conversion specialists; former director, finance committee member and compensation committee chair of Lakeview Health System, a corporate member of Minnesota-based HealthPartners Health System; a 21-year tutor to K-12 at-risk children.
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How Can We Help?
We meet you where you are.
According to Patricia Ryan Madson, Professor of improvisational theatre at Standford (to standing-room classes for twenty years), you're holding a box. You open it; what's inside? If you believe there is something in the box, let's go find it. We believe there is, and we can help you discover it. You cannot get a second opinion from the person who gave you the first one. We want you to win by living the best story you can with your life.
