OUR Advisory FEES
(SUBSCRIPTION MODEL)
CRG is happy to present a tiered subscription fee model for our Total Wealth Advisory services. This structure is designed to align advisory engagement levels with client complexity, life stage, and financial goals — ensuring transparency, scalability, and enduring client relationships.
Under this model, clients subscribe to one of three defined service tiers — Bronze, Gold, or Platinum — each offering a progressively deeper level of financial planning, investment management, and strategic coordination. The structure emphasizes predictable pricing, clearly defined deliverables, and the flexibility for clients to adjust their service level as their needs evolve.
Why Tiered Subscriptions?
The wealth management landscape is shifting toward transparency, personalization, and flexibility. Traditional asset-based fees often fail to reflect the true scope of planning and advisory work required for modern households. Our tiered subscription fee model addresses these challenges by:
- Enhancing Clarity: Clients understand exactly what services they receive and when, supported by a documented annual service calendar.
- Promoting Flexibility: Clients can move between tiers as their financial complexity, family dynamics, or business interests evolve.
- Encouraging Longevity: A structured progression path fosters long-term relationships, allowing clients to “graduate” through tiers as their wealth and planning needs grow.
- Aligning Value with Cost: Each tier’s pricing corresponds to tangible, incremental value — ensuring fairness and reinforcing client trust.
The tiered subscription fee model represents a modern evolution in wealth advisory — one that balances transparency, value, and flexibility. By offering clients a clear, scalable framework for financial partnership, CRG strengthens trust, deepens engagement, and positions itself as a forward-thinking leader in holistic household wealth management.
Progression and Flexibility
Clients retain the ability to progress or regress between tiers at their discretion, subject to a short notice period. This flexibility ensures that advisory services remain aligned with each household’s evolving circumstances — whether due to career changes, liquidity events, business transitions, or shifting family priorities.
Each transition is managed seamlessly, with the client’s service calendar and deliverables updated accordingly. This adaptability not only enhances client satisfaction but also reinforces the firm’s commitment to personalized, responsive service.
Transparency – Predictability – Flexibility
BRONZE
Foundational Plan- Holistic financial planning & strategy
- Comprehensive financial plan development and ongoing updates
- Cash flow and budgeting analysis
- Goal-based financial projections (retirement, education, home purchase, etc.)
- Debt management and liability optimization
- Annual financial plan review and recalibration
- Investment management
- Strategic asset allocation based on goals, risk tolerance, and time horizon
- Investment policy statement (IPS) creation and adherence
- Portfolio construction and diversification across asset classes in public markets
- Quarterly performance monitoring and rebalancing
- Retirement & income planning
- Retirement readiness analysis and income replacement modeling
- Social Security and pension optimization
- Withdrawal sequencing and tax-efficient income planning
- Longevity and healthcare cost projections
- Ongoing monitoring of retirement sustainability metrics
- Risk management & insurance planning
- Basic risk assessment and coverage analysis
- Life, disability, and long-term care insurance evaluation
- Integration of insurance strategies into the broader financial plan
- Annual policy review and benchmarking
- Tax advisory & compliance
- Annual tax strategy review and planning
- Coordination with CPA or tax advisor for implementation
- Tax-efficient withdrawal and distribution strategies (retirement accounts, trusts, etc.)
- Estimated tax payment guidance
- End-of-year tax planning checklist and deliverables
- Individual federal & state tax filings
- Estate & legacy planning
- Estate plan development, review and coordination with estate attorney
- Will, trust, and beneficiary designation analysis
- Coordination of legal documents (POA, healthcare directives, etc.)
GOLD
Growth Plan- Holistic financial planning & strategy
- Everything in BRONZE, Plus…
- Ongoing tracking and optimization
- Integrated with credit and tax planning
- Semi-annual financial plan review and recalibration
- Investment management
- Everything in BRONZE, Plus…
- Customized portfolio strategy
- Personalized IPS
- Tax-loss harvesting & asset location
- Optional access to private markets
- Retirement & income planning
- Everything in BRONZE, Plus…
- Detailed scenario modeling
- Personalized claiming strategy
- Tax-optimized withdrawal sequencing
- Risk management & insurance planning
- Everything in BRONZE, Plus…
- Comprehensive policy analysis
- Semi-annual policy review and benchmarking
- Coordination with insurance providers
- Tax advisory & compliance
- Everything in BRONZE, Plus…
- Comprehensive tax planning
- Charitable giving tax planning
- Roth conversion and tax bracket management
- End-of-year tax planning checklist and deliverables
- Individual & business federal & state tax filings
- Estate & legacy planning
- Everything in BRONZE, Plus…
- Comprehensive review with attorney coordination
- Semi-annual beneficiary designation reviews
- Trust and wealth transfer strategies
Platinum
Legacy Plan- Holistic financial planning & strategy
- Everything in GOLD, Plus…
- Dynamic plan with quarterly updates
- Integrated with business and estate planning
- Multi-generational and legacy modeling
- Quarterly financial plan review and recalibration
- Investment management
- Everything in GOLD, Plus…
- Bespoke, multi-account household strategy
- Advanced IPS
- Ongoing / tactical portfolio rebalancing
- Full access to private markets
- Retirement & income planning
- Everything in GOLD, Plus…
- Multi-generational income strategy
- Integrated with tax and estate plan
- Advanced tax-optimized sequencing
- Ongoing monitoring and coordination
- Risk management & insurance planning
- Everything in GOLD, Plus…
- Integrated with estate and business planning
- Concierge renewal and claims support
- Advanced risk mitigation strategy
- Ongoing policy reviews
- Tax advisory & compliance
- Everything in GOLD, Plus…
- Ongoing coordination with external advisors
- Integrated philanthropic planning
- Estate & legacy planning
- Everything in GOLD, Plus…
- Advanced multi-generational planning
- Advanced estate tax and gifting strategies
- Comprehensive strategy and implementation
- Family mission, education, and meeting facilitation
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