2024 Best in StateWealth Advisors ranking was issued by Forbes on 04/07/2024 for the period covering 04/07/2024-04/07/2025. The ranking was developed by Shook Research based on in-person, virtual, and telephone due diligence meetings to measure best practices, client retention, industry experience, credentials, review of compliance records, firm nominations; and quantitative criteria, such as assets under management and revenue generated for their firms. Investment performance is not a criterion because client objectives and risk tolerances vary, and advisors rarely have audited performance reports. SHOOK’s research and rankings provide opinions intended to help investors choose the right financial advisor and are not indicative of future performance or representative of any one client’s experience. Past performance is not an
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This award was issued on 01/01/2024 by Five Star Professional (FSP) for the time period 04/10/2023 through 10/31/2023. Fee paid for use of marketing materials. Self-completed questionnaire was used for rating. This rating is not related to the quality of the investment advice and based solely on the disclosed criteria. 1,897 Kansas City-area wealth managers were considered for the award;136 (7% of candidates) were named 2024 Five Star Wealth Managers.
Wealth managers do not pay a fee to be considered or placed on the final list of Five Star WealthManagers. The award is based on 10 objective criteria. Eligibility criteria -required: 1. Credentialed as a registered investment adviser (RIA) or a registered investment adviser representative; 2. Actively licensed as a RIA or as a principal of a registered investment adviser firm for a minimum of 5 years; 3. Favorable regulatory and complaint history review (As defined by FSP, the wealth manager has not; A. Been subject to a regulatory action that resulted in a license being suspended or revoked, or payment of a fine; B. Had more than a total of three settled or pending complaints filed against them and/or a total of five settled, pending, dismissed, or denied complaints with any regulatory authority or FSP's consumer complaint process. Unfavorable feed back may have been discovered through a check of complaints registered with a regulatory authority or complaints registered through FSP's consumer complaint process; feedback may not be representative of any one client's experience; C. Individually contributed to a financial settlement of a customer complaint; D. Filed for personal bankruptcy within the past 11 years; E. Beenterminated from a financial services firm within the past 11 years; F. Been convicted of a felony); 4. Fulfilled their firm review based on internal standards; 5. Accepting new clients. Evaluation criteria - considered: 6. One-year client retention rate; 7. Five-year client retention rate; 8. non-institutional discretionary and/or non-discretionary client assets administered; 9. Number of client households served; 10. Education and professional designations. FSP does not evaluate quality of services provided to clients. The award is not indicative of the wealth manager's future performance. Wealth managers may or may not use discretion in their practice and therefore may not manage their clients' assets. The inclusion of a wealth manager on the Five Star Wealth Manager list should not be construed as an endorsement of the wealth manager by FSP or this publication. Working with a Five Star Wealth Manager or any wealth manager is no guarantee as to future investment success, nor is there any guaranteethat the selected wealth managers will be awarded this accomplishment by FSP in the future. Visit www.fivestarprofessional.com. CRN202701-5694757
Combined Experience
Combined Client Assets**
The Integrated Wealth Solutions Team
A Specialization in High Net Worth Clients
Greg has spent his career serving business owners, executives, doctors, attorneys and surviving spouses. He understands your particular set of challenges, such as how to plan around the vesting schedules of equity compensation or how to gain tax benefits from charitable planning.
A Smaller Firm with Personalized Attention
Integrated Wealth Solutions is not a large financial corporation. Greg and his expert team devote greater resources to a smaller client list. This allows you access to the personalized attention needed to integrated your many assets and help grow your high-wealth portfolio
Customized Solutions
Larger financial firms are often only able to offer one-size-fits-all solutions, but your goals are not one-size-fits-all. They're unique, which is why you've been successful. Success requires detailed care and the ability to reinvent and strategize. Greg Harvey designs customized wealth management opportunities for each individual client
A Goal-Oriented Outlook
As an affluent professional, you will likely have a goal-oriented outlook on life, and keep your eye on the prize. Greg and his team share your vision for meeting life's challenges head-on and concentrating on developing innovative investment strategies that consistently yield results.
An In-House Compliance Department
The entire staff at Integrated Wealth Solutions is dedicated to ensuring compliance with all federal and state laws, rules and regulations surrounding investments and estate planning. Each member of Greg's team is committed to integrity in their role every day. The proof is in their resulting excellent record of compliance.
An Unsurpassed Focus on Equity Compensation Planning
Many executive-level clients have non-cash compensation assets in their portfolios, such as company stock and equity options. Greg has set the bar in the field of equity compensation planning and focuses on how to design strategies to help develop the growth potential of these assets, including concentrated stock or non-qualified stock.
Meet the Team
Greg Harvey, AIF®
Principal
• Investment Specialist
• Financial Advisor
• Over 28 Years of Industry Experience
• Holds Bachelor of Science, Business with an Emphasis in Finance from Emporia State University
• Forbes Best-In-State Wealth Advisor - 2020 - 2024*
• 11-time Five Star Wealth Manager Award Recipient, 2012, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, and 2024**
• Top 5 Investment Advisor Representative with MML Investor Services, LLC 2013-2022
Jon Ingalls, CPFA
Director of 401(k) Department &
Wealth Management Advisor
• Over 27 years of Financial Services experience
• Holds Bachelor of Arts in Business Management from Emporia State University
• Retirement Plan Specialist & Certified Plan Fiduciary Advisor
• FINRA Series 7 Registered
Rebecca Taylor
Director of Investment Operations
- Over 10 years of Financial Services experience
- Holds a Business Administration Degree from University of Kansas
Scot Michels
Investment Coordinator
• Over 40 Years of Industry Experience
• Holds Bachelor of Management from Webster University
• Portfolio Implementation and Administration
• FINRA Series 7 Registered
John Kinker
Investment Coordinator
- Over 20 Years of Insurance and Financial Industry Experience
- Holds BA from University of Missouri
- FINRA Series 7 Registered
Kelia Sjoberg
Insurance Coordinator
- Over 10 years in the Customer Service and Administration Field
- Over 4 years assisting Synergy Wealth Solutions Agents with MMLIS Insurance & Annuity Products
Matt Dieker
Wealth Management Advisor
- Holds Bachelor of Finance from The University of Kansas
- FINRA Series 7 Registered
Tammy Fillion
Director of First Impressions
- Over 10 years of expertise in the financial industry
- Deep understanding of the inner workings of an advisory firm
- Providing top-notch support and ensuring smooth operations
Wealth Management
You have a busy professional career. There's a lot of responsibility and can leave you with little time to care for your own financial health. Over the years, your assets may become scattered across many different accounts, making them difficult to effectively manage. This is called a "financial junk drawer," i.e. a disorganized portfolio of miscellaneous investments that are not optimized to develop into their full potential. If this sounds familiar, you may need an integrated wealth management strategy tailored to meet your comprehensive financial goals. Regardless of which investment phase you are focused on, Greg can help devise the appropriate investment strategy for you, whether you're in the accumulation phase, still furthering your executive-level career, or you're enjoying your retirement. He can also advise you on the distribution of your estate, giving you and your family financial confidence.
WEALTH MANAGEMENT SOLUTIONS TO HELP YOU GROW YOUR ASSETS:
Equity Compensation Planning (ECP)
Equity Compensation is a non-cash payment that represents ownership in a business, such as restricted stock or performance shares. Many executives receive equity compensation, which has its own unique set of rules and tax laws. Equity compensation planning can be notoriously difficult, leaving clients with unanswered questions such as: "What should I do if I'm still within the vesting period?" or "How can I lower my stock's level of risk?" Greg specializes in ECP and can help you diversify out of that asset concentration in a tax-efficient way to help to lower your risk and grow your wealth. Using a managed money approach, he can advise you on how to help optimize your equity compensation assets including incentive stock options (ISOs), non-qualified stock options (NQSQs), or restriction stock unites (RSUs).
Charitable Gift Planning
One of the greatest joys of being successful is the ability to use your assets to help make the world a better place. With charitable gift planning, you can invest your money to potentially produce higher returns which can then be donated to charity, supporting the causes you love not only throughout your lifetime, but also after you're gone. Greg's charitable gift planning strategies are designed to fit your personal interests and goals for benefiting NGOs while helping to maximize potential tax benefits.
Social Security Analysis
In the flurry of balancing so many other financial priorities, people overlook the need to optimize their Social Security benefits. Through an analysis of your Social Security benefits, Greg can help provide information on when and how to collect retiree, spousal survivor, divorcee, parent, child or disability benefits.
Integrated Asset Allocation
Asset allocation is on of the most important decisions you can make. It's a wealth investment strategy that seeks to mitigate risk and increase returns by allocating a portfolio's assets according to an individual's specific long-term goals. Integral to effectively managing your money, Greg can shift your asset allocations depending on market conditions to help generate more consistent returns with less overall portfolio risk.
Asset allocation does not guarantee a profit or protect against loss in declining markets. There is no guarantee that a diversified portfolio will outperform a non-diversified portfolio or that diversification among asset classes will reduce risk.
Estate Planning
Another important decision you need to make is what to do with your assets after you die. Knowing the fruit of your life's work will be secure when you are gone can be a great relief, allowing you to enjoy your hard work well into retirement without worry. Greg can advise you on how to plan for your estate while minimizing gift, estate, generation-skipping transfer, and income taxes. And, he can help you with distribution planning, i.e. what happens to your assets after both you and your spouse are deceased.
Estate planning services are provided working in conjunction with your Estate Planning Attorney, Tax Attorney and/or CPA. Consult them for specific advice on legal and tax matters.
Having a written financial plan that is reviewed and updated regularly is one of the best strategies for reaching financial success.
We work with our clients to help them set measurable goals, create a plan of action for reaching those goals, evaluate and make smart financial decisions, and maintain good financial habits along the way.
*Financial plan recommendations can be implemented by Greg Harvey. Implementation of specific products or services may result in commissions or fees outside of the financial plan fee. Periodic reviews of your financial plan may require a new planning agreement and result in additional fees.
