Westmark Wealth Management is a comprehensive financial planning firm specializing in tax-efficient strategies designed for physicians to grow and utilize insurance to protect their wealth. Westmark was founded out of a desire to create a comprehensive financial planning experience to meet the unique needs of physicians from residency to retirement. Physicians face many financial challenges: high asset protection needs, a limited amount of time after training to achieve their financial goals, high tax liabilities, and large student loan balances to name a few. With over 25 years of combined experience in working with physicians to achieve their financial goals, our firm’s founding partners work with financial, tax and legal professionals to develop goals-based financial plans and implement strategies to reach our clients’ financial goals in the most efficient and comprehensive way possible. The professionals at Westmark Wealth Management are fee-based, fully independent and held to a fiduciary standard. Independence is the cornerstone of any advisory relationship. In meeting with a professional about something as personal as finances, it is important to know that the person you’re meeting with is your advocate, not your salesperson. Furthermore, a financial advisor held to a fiduciary standard is legally required to act in the client’s best financial interest, not their own, and requires disclosure of how the financial advisor is to be compensated. The founding partners at Westmark are perennial qualifiers of The Million Dollar Roundtable, an organization that recognizes the top 3% of financial advisors worldwide. They have also been featured in Medical Economics and recently received the 2013 Wealth Manager Award from Five Star Professional.