Life-Changing Events
Where there is change, there is also opportunity. For the optimal long-term solution, you must address both the personal and financial sides of change.
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We help you achieve peace in the present moment and confidence about the future by addressing both the personal and the technical sides of money management, insurance and investments.
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Obtain unbiased, straightforward and trustworthy guidance from a team that includes CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNERS™ and Certified Financial Transitionists™, practitioners trained in the art and science of transition.
Learn MoreBe Certain about Your Financial Decisions Even During Uncertain Times
Life-changing events are pivot points that come with their own unique set of circumstances, challenges and opportunities. Making financial decisions in the midst of life-changing events can have long-term consequences. Those consequences can be both financial and personal and your mindset towards change has a large impact on the outcome. Kirsch & Associates helps you to identify when to sit with the uncertainties and the unknown, and when to move forward and make decisions. When you are equipped with confidence and a sense of purpose, life’s pivot points can create more than just transitions. They can be transformations.
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