The Retirement Optimization Group, LLC
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About
The Retirement Optimization Group provides financial consulting, estate-planning support, and educational seminars primarily to individual and high-net-worth clients. Rather than directly managing client portfolios, the firm refers clients to third‑party money managers, assists with onboarding and ongoing liaison services, and delivers financial planning reports and tools such as a Generational Vault, Social Security Maximization Report, Color of Money Risk Analysis, Morningstar portfolio analysis, and a Retirement Compass Report.
Investment guidance is implemented through recommended third‑party managers (clients engage those managers under separate contracts), and TROG does not exercise discretionary trading authority over client accounts. The firm discloses that it receives referral fees and an ongoing portion of advisory fees from those managers and that clients are billed under the third‑party manager’s fee schedule rather than by TROG on a percentage‑of‑assets basis.
Distinctive features include an affiliation with insurance activities (the firm’s principal conducts insurance sales through a separate business) and the regular offering of free, educational seminars and workshops for the public. TROG also provides limited‑scope estate planning support using the Estate Guru platform (while not providing legal advice or document drafting) and maintains a formal referral and incentive arrangement with Gradient Investments as one of its primary third‑party managers.
Client services
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Fee options
$900 for Estate Planning Support Services (non-negotiable)
$0+: 1.75% annually (Custom Indexing - Strategic Portfolio; total annual fee; includes GI fee 0.75% + TROG fee 1.00%) $0+: 1.60% annually (Strategic Portfolio; total annual fee; includes GI fee 0.60% + TROG fee 1.00%) $0+: 1.75% annually (Tactical Portfolio; total annual fee; includes GI fee 0.75% + TROG fee 1.00%) $0+: 1.60% annually (Custom Indexing - Allocation Portfolio; total annual fee; includes GI fee 0.60% + TROG fee 1.00%) $0+: 1.60% annually (Allocation & Defined Outcome Portfolio; total annual fee; includes GI fee 0.60% + TROG fee 1.00%) $0+: 1.50% annually (Private Wealth Portfolio; total annual fee; includes GI fee 0.50% + TROG fee 1.00%) $0+: 1.00% annually (Preservation Portfolio; total annual fee; includes GI fee 0.40% + TROG fee 0.60%) $0+: $300 flat fee (Client Directed Accounts; no TROG fee)
Main office
1888 Kalakaua Ave, Suite C312
Honolulu HI 96815
Advisors at this office
1
Most active in
Alaska · Arizona · Colorado · Hawaii · Maryland · Texas
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