Advisor at HBKS Wealth Advisors — Stuart, FL
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Credentials
CFP®, Series 65, CPA, EA, PFS™
Experience Industry experience
5 years
Location
Stuart, FL 34996
HBKS Wealth Advisors
Multi-team
Michael Lofley is a financial advisor with HBKS Wealth Advisors in Stuart, Florida. He helps individuals and families make informed decisions about retirement, investments, taxes, and wealth transfer.
Michael’s background in accounting and wealth management shapes his approach to financial planning. He considers investments, taxes, retirement spending, and estate planning together, helping clients understand how decisions in one area affect the others. He particularly enjoys working with people approaching or already in retirement, as well as high-income professionals and business owners facing increasingly complex financial decisions.
His approach is straightforward: understand what matters to each client, explain the tradeoffs clearly, and build a plan around the decisions that can make a meaningful difference.
Michael is a CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER® professional, a Certified Public Accountant and Personal Financial Specialist (CPA/PFS), and an Enrolled Agent (EA) with the Internal Revenue Service. He is a member of the Financial Planning Association (FPA), American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA), Florida Institute of CPAs (FICPA), and Martin County Estate Planning Council.
He earned his Bachelor of Business Administration in Accounting from Florida Atlantic University in 2009.
Areas of focus: • Retirement planning and withdrawal strategies • Tax planning and tax-efficient investing • Investment management • Social Security and Medicare planning • Estate and wealth-transfer planning • Business-owner planning
Based on HBKS Wealth Advisors
Financial planning fixed fees typically range from $500 to $20,000; high net worth services may be charged fixed fees.
$0+: Up to 2.75% annually, tiered discounts apply but full tier breakdown not specifically detailed in brochure N/A - N/A: Fees may be negotiated or discounted based on several factors including account size, related accounts, complexity, etc.
Clients may engage HBKS representatives as registered representatives of a broker-dealer to purchase products on a commission basis; commissions vary and may include 12b-1 fees and referral fees for investment banking services.
Financial planning hourly fees typically range from $100 to $500 per hour; asset acquisition and sale consulting may also be charged hourly.
Fee-only: Financial planning fixed fees ranging from $500 to $20,000; hourly fees $100 to $500 per hour; ongoing fixed annual fees starting at $500; percentage of assets under advisement up to 2.75%
Stuart, FL
1000 SE Monterey Commons Blvd, Ste 101
Stuart FL 34996
Advisors at this office
7
Florida
5 years of industry experience
HBKS Wealth Advisors
2023 - Present • 3 years
Stuart, FL
Castle Wealth Management
2021 - 2023 • 2 years
West Palm Beach, FL
Mari Huff CPA PA
2020 - 2021 • 1 year
Stuart, FL
Flamingo Tax Consulting, LLC
2019 - Present • 7 years
Port Saint Lucie, FL
Tax Savings Professionals
2018 - 2020 • 2 years
Vero Beach, FL
Spicer Jeffries, LLP
2017 - 2018 • 1 year
Palm Beach Gardens, FL
Loden, Fraze & Associates
2016 - 2017 • 1 year
St. Petersburg, FL
Berger, Toombs, Elam, Gains & Frank CPAs
2014 - 2016 • 2 years
Fort Pierce, FL
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