John Solon Patterson CLU^®, CFP^®

Making Wise Money Choices

We help people within 10 years of retirement make wise money choices.  We use a highly disciplined and structured approach that consists of the following five steps:

1. Establish Priorities – We help you identify your purpose, vision, mission, and values (i.e., who you are and where you want to be).
    
2. Create Clarity – By understanding where you are relative to where you want to be, we create a financial plan that identifies the gaps and issues that need to be addressed. This is where clarity is achieved.
    
3. Make Decisions – Only after clarity is achieved, do we develop and present solutions for your consideration. You are now in a position to make informed decisions.
    
4. Achieve Results – Implement the selected solutions to help achieve the desired results.
    
5. Ensure Confidence – We monitor the implemented results and the financial plan on a quarterly basis. This assures your plan has the stability and continuity to help stand the test of time.
    

Our practice is built on trust and the following principles and values:

1. Honesty - We hold ourselves to the highest level of professional integrity, and the foundation of integrity is honesty. At the heart of this commitment is a promise to always put the best long term interests of the client ahead of our interests. We promise to fully educate our clients about all the options available to them so that they can take our recommendations and make good decisions that will positively impact their lives.
    
2. Reliability - Our clients must be able to rely on us to do at least what we say we will do. If we say we will be somewhere, we will be there. If our clients ask us to call them back at a certain time, we will. We will always be considerate of our clients' and prospects' time and schedules. Our goal is that our clients can outsource their financial planning to us with confidence thereby saving themselves substantial time, which is money.
    
3. Confidentiality - We commit to a very high level of confidentiality concerning clients’ personal, medical, and financial information. Outside of our staff, no other person or company will have access to confidential information unless the client has granted us permission to share that information for a business or planning purpose.

Northwestern Mutual receives "best possible ratings"

The four major ratings agencies, Standard & Poor’s, A.M. Best, Moody’s, and Fitch, have each confirmed the company’s insurance financial strength ratings. We take great pride, especially in these economic times, in providing our clients the consistent financial strength that has been our signature for over 150 years.

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Managing Your Money In A Downturn

Northwestern Mutual was recently featured in The New York Times Wealth Matters column, "Never Mind Your 401(k). How’s Your Insurance?" about the importance of managing risk in the current economic environment, and strategies that the wealthy use to manage not only their money but their overall well-being. Northwestern Mutual Executive Vice President Greg Oberland comments about how people should be rethinking and managing their insurance needs in a downturn. Read the article (PDF).