Golden Gate Personal Financial Planning
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About
Golden Gate Personal Financial Planning works with individual and high‑net‑worth clients to provide comprehensive, goals‑based financial planning, investment advice, and investment management. Offerings include customized portfolio design, coordination with tax and estate planning, and planning for equity compensation and company benefits.
The firm implements diversified, liquid portfolios that rely heavily on no‑load mutual funds and exchange‑traded funds (frequently index funds), with occasional select alternative investments when they meet liquidity and diversification criteria. It seeks tax‑ and cost‑efficiency through limited trading and periodic rebalancing, conducts client reviews directly through the firm’s principal, and manages client accounts primarily on a discretionary basis while disclosing fiduciary responsibilities for retirement rollover advice.
What is distinctive about the firm is its billing model — it does not use a percentage‑of‑assets fee and instead employs a flat, tiered fee approach — and its concentration of discretionary assets relative to a small client roster (roughly $196 million for 33 clients). The practice also emphasizes complex planning areas such as stock grants and options, company benefits integration, concentrated real estate and business‑owner planning, and recommends institutional custodial relationships that provide the firm with expanded trading and practice‑support services.
Client services
Expertise
Fee options
Flat fees for single engagements based on service tiers; 50% deposit required on signing
Flat fee based on service tier
Minimum fee: Base Rate: $7,800/year or $1,950/quarter Fee-only: Flat rate fees based on service tiers, e.g., $7,800/year or $1,950/quarter; fees are negotiable
Main office
235 Montgomery Street, Suite 1156
San Francisco CA 94104
Advisors at this office
1
Most active in
California
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Other specialized services
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