Services
Wealth Management
A personalized wealth management strategy is necessary to sustain and grow your long-term wealth, meet your financial goals and align your comfort with market risks along the way

Wealth Management
Our wealth management services go above and beyond what you might expect from a financial services provider. Northwestern Mutual Wealth Management Company offers:
Investment advisory services, designed to:
- Provide high-quality investment services and products.
- Build and monitor diversified portfolios.
- Develop objective, personalized plans.
- Focus on long-term results.
Trust services and partnerships, designed to:
- Provide continuity of stewardship that can last multiple generations.
- Preserve family harmony when carrying out your intentions.
- Carry out detailed record-keeping and accounting.
- Calculate taxes and file returns.
Northwestern Mutual Wealth Management Company serves as trustee on Irrevocable Life Insurance Trusts. In addition, through our Trust Alliance Program, we partner with nationally-recognized trust administration firms that offer a broad range of services to revocable trusts, charitable trusts, endowments and foundations.
Online access to your account, so you can review:
- Comprehensive monthly statements.
- Performance reporting.
- Account access on a secure website.
- Current account balances on your investment holdings.
- Detailed transaction records on all accounts.
Investment Solutions
Our long-term approach to investing and wide range of options can help meet your unique financial needs—giving you the edge you and your family need to enjoy your wealth today, and for generations to come.

Investment Solutions
Our long-term approach to investing and wide range of options can help meet your unique financial needs—giving you the edge you and your family need to enjoy your wealth today, and for generations to come.
With more ways to invest than ever before, it can be hard to make sure your money is working its hardest for you. That's where we come in. We’ll provide investment expertise based on our time-tested philosophy, disciplined process, research-based insights, and proprietary capital market assumptions.
When you’re ready for more sophisticated wealth management, you'll have access to a variety of options there too, including investment advisory services, tax-smart strategies, trust services, and specialized products.
Brokerage services
Build your ideal portfolio with a range of investment vehicles—no matter what goals you have. If it's time to roll over a retirement account, find a unique lending solution, save for a child’s education, or arrange for charitable giving, we’ll figure out your options and help you figure out how to get it done.
Investment advisory programs
When you’re looking for more hands-on investment advice and ongoing portfolio oversight, we’ll carefully select one of our Advisory Programs (curated by our Wealth Management Investment Team) that best fits your investment goals. Along with monitoring market conditions and your investments, we’ll be ready to adjust your portfolio as needed should your goals or priorities shift.
Fee-Based Financial Planning
When you want a financial plan built with your goals and interests put above all else, it’s a good time to engage one of our fee-based financial advisors.

Fee-Based Financial Planning
When you want a financial plan built with your goals and interests put above all else, it’s a good time to engage one of our fee-based financial advisors.
We’ll be transparent about what our planning services will, and will not include, so you’ll know exactly what you’re getting upfront. And when it comes to the cost of our services, we’ll let you know upfront about that, too.
Under this fee structure, your advisor will act as a fiduciary, so they have a legal and moral responsibility to place your interests first. They’ll work with you to understand your unique circumstances and provide expert guidance in the creation of your personalized financial plan.
If it makes sense for you, your advisor’s role can go beyond planning to help you find the best insurance products, brokerage, advisory and/or private client platform solutions to put your plan into action.
Making smart decisions about your wealth, whether you want to grow it, protect it or both, starts with a broader perspective and sound thinking. Here’s our unique way of thinking when it comes to helping you make important financial decisions.
Reach your new level of financial confidence
We approach financial planning differently. Not only can we help you grow your money, but also help protect everything you’ve worked so hard for—so your finances can take you further.

The planning process consists of four quadrants or phases, each one representing one planning cycle: Discovery, Creative Solutions, Strategy Deployment, and Results Management.
- Protection strategies
- Wealth accumulation
- Managing tax strategies
- Optimizing retirement
- Leaving a legacy
- Charitable planning
Generational Planning
For many parents, their top priority is making sure their children (or grandchildren) are set up for success.

Generational Planning
For many parents, their top priority is making sure their children (or grandchildren) are set up for success. From saving for your kids’ education to passing your wealth on in a meaningful way, we can help you plan for it.
When thinking about providing for the next generations of your family, we’ll create a strategy that will give you the flexibility and control to hand down your wealth (during your lifetime, after, or both) in a way you see fit. We start by helping you develop a plan or purpose for your assets, then we’ll determine what types of assets to allocate, to who and when, and how best to transfer them. Here are some important questions to consider:
- If you’re contributing to a college fund, are there other types of accounts for additional assets you should be considering?
- How would you help contribute to your child’s wedding, first-home purchase, or annual gifts?
- What are the different ways you can manage the impact of income or estate taxes?
- Do you want to maintain any control or place limits over how the money is used?
Charitable Giving
Now more than ever, people are putting their money where their values are. As part of your financial plan, charitable giving can help support the causes and organizations that are important to you, while maximizing tax efficiencies.

Charitable Giving
Planning for charitable giving
Now more than ever, people are putting their money where their values are. As part of your financial plan, charitable giving can help support the causes and organizations that are important to you, while maximizing tax efficiencies and defining your legacy.
There are many ways to give back. Our experienced team will work with you and your family to help identify philanthropic goals and develop your charitable giving strategy, which could include some of these options:
Cash: Transfer directly to the charity(ies) of your choice
Stock: Donate shares of stock you own
Other kinds of property: Donate items such as clothing, computers, cars, even life insurance
Donor-Advised Fund: A charitable investment account that offers flexible and efficient ways to manage donating to charities
Private Foundation: A charitable organization funded primarily by a single donor or small group of donors
Charities in your estate planning: Create a legacy of giving by including your favorite charity in your will or trust
Charitable Trusts: Transfer assets out of the estate with the goal of using them for charity
No matter if you’re just starting to craft your philanthropic vision or need help with more complex giving strategies, we have the expertise to help you make an impact.
Estate Planning
Having a plan for your estate—your home, your wealth, your possessions—means you can leave the legacy you want, whether that’s to help your family, a charitable cause, or an institution.

Estate Planning
Having a plan for your estate—your home, your wealth, your possessions—means you can leave the legacy you want, whether that’s to help your family, a charitable cause, or an institution.
Many people associate estate planning with having a will. While the transfer of your assets is an important part of estate planning, a will is just one aspect of a broader plan designed to make sure your wishes are known, honored, and carried out as efficiently as possible when you're no longer able to articulate them. We work with a team of estate planning experts to help you develop an estate strategy that can help:
- Reduce or eliminate gift, estate, and inheritance taxes for your heirs
- Protect your estate from mismanagement or from claims of creditors or ex-spouses
- Leave the legacy you want, such as paying for your grandchildren’s education or giving to your favorite charitable causes
In addition to the expertise our team can offer, you'll want to work with an estate planning attorney to establish:
- Healthcare directives (also known as living wills) that specify the extent to which you want health care professionals to treat you if you become ill or incapacitated
- Powers of attorney that grant people you trust the legal authority to act on your behalf in case of sudden accident or illness
- A healthcare power of attorney enables your agent to make healthcare decisions on your behalf
- A financial power of attorney allows your agent to do things like pay bills, access accounts, and possibly make gifts
- A will or possibly a living trust to make sure your assets are transferred according to your wishes or even name a legal guardian for children under the age of 18
- The Northwestern Mutual Wealth Management Company (NMWMC) can serve as trustee of Irrevocable Life Insurance Trusts. In addition, through the Trust Alliance Program, NMWMC can partner with nationally-recognized trust administration firms that offer a broad range of services such as revocable trusts, charitable trusts, endowments, and foundations.
Retirement Planning
No matter what you see yourself doing, the places you picture yourself exploring, or when you want to start doing them, we’ll create the right plan to help you retire the way you want.

Retirement Planning
No matter what you see yourself doing, the places you picture yourself exploring, or when you want to start doing them, we’ll create the right plan to help you retire the way you want.
It’s likely your aspirations for retirement will require solutions that go beyond a 401(k) or IRAs, social security, or if you’re a business owner, the sale of your company. We start by understanding your vision, goals, and situation before making any recommendations. Then, we’ll create a comprehensive plan with the right strategies for investments, annuities, and insurance—each one designed to help maximize your assets, provide income efficiently, and protect you from the unexpected.
Our advisors are also experienced in managing many types of assets and aligning all your other financial relationships to help make sure that the dreams you have for retirement can be reached, when you want to reach them.
Special Needs Planning
Caring for a loved one with special needs can present unique challenges.

Special Needs Planning
Caring for a loved one with special needs can present unique challenges. Our Chartered Special Needs Consultants (ChSNC®) will work with you, and equally important, other special needs experts, to create a comprehensive plan that can help your loved one with special needs and your family have the highest possible quality of life.
For families with a loved one who has special needs, financial planning is a necessity. We know you want to do what is best for a loved one with special needs, but your best intentions could inadvertently prevent them from accessing vital funding and programs. That’s why it’s important to work with an experienced team to help you navigate the complexities that come with special needs care. Our financial advisors are skilled in assembling the right experts, including those in law, social services, and more, to help you with:
- Estate planning
- Special needs trusts
- Life insurance
- Tax deductions
- Healthcare issues
- Medicaid complexities
With our guidance, you’ll be empowered to make informed decisions, take appropriate actions, and help provide the quality of life for your family that you want.