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Posted by Optimize on October 4, 2022

Optimize Wealth Welcomes

Chris Bell and its newest office in Castlegar, British Columbia, furthering its Nationwide Expansion

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Chris Bell

Toronto, October 4, 2022 – Optimize Wealth Management announced the recent addition of Senior Relationship Manager, Chris Bell to the firm. Chris has extensive experience helping families in the Castlegar region for over thirty years.
“We are pleased to have another highly skilled and experienced professional like Chris join the Optimize team. We are confident that he will help us continue to provide a premier level of service to our clients,” said Matthew McGrath, Head of Advisory Channel and Corporate Development at Optimize Wealth.
At Optimize Wealth’s newest office in Castlegar, Chris will provide clients with a comprehensive approach to financial planning, benefiting from the support of an experienced team of licensed portfolio managers to help achieve clients’ long-term financial goals.
“I’m thrilled to be joining Optimize,” said Chris Bell. “The move ensures that my clients will benefit from robust portfolio management and a multi-family office platform from one of Canada’s leading portfolio management firms”.

About Chris Bell

Chris Bell and his family have lived in the West Kootenay’s for 30 years. Chris has a strong background in business planning and management and worked for several years as a consultant with Columbia Basin Trust’s Basin Business Advocates Program.

Chris is a strong community supporter having completed many volunteer activities spanning three decades and served on numerous boards: Community Futures Central Kootenay, Castlegar Sculpture Walk, Castlegar Rotary, Castlegar Chamber of Commerce, Castlegar Golf Club, Kootenay Gallery of Art, Castlegar Foundation, Castlegar Red Cross, Castlegar Sunfest, Castlegar Lion’s Club and the Castlegar Business Exchange.

His spouse Nancy is a mortgage broker who works closely with KFS clients and the community, their daughter Nikki lives in Vancouver where she is completing her masters degree in Clinical Counseling.

Chris and Nancy split their time between their homes in Nelson and at Red Mountain – they enjoy golfing, boating, skiing and share a love for travel!

About the Optimize Wealth Platform

Optimize Wealth is an industry-leading Full Service Wealth Management Firm which has built a very Robust Platform whereby Financial Professionals can provide their clients with a multi-family office service offering. We have in-house tax and will specialists that can prepare all of your clients’ tax returns as well as their wills. We also have Mortgage and Insurance specialists when needed and all of that augments our core Financial Planning and Portfolio Management services. We built our Platform with the belief that technology could make the financial management process simpler, more transparent, and more cost-effective for clients. It has quickly become clear to us that these services when provided alongside our in-house technology enables financial professionals to deliver significant value to their clients well above the industry norms, which empowers them to grow their business exponentially.

The financial services industry has seen a significant amount of change over the last two decades. What hasn’t changed is that ethical professionals are earnestly running wealth management practices centered on putting their clients’ interest first. Unfortunately, the growth initiatives and the seemingly endless bureaucratic and one-sided directives from many dealers have slowly put them at odds with this principle. Discover how we can work with you to break past your ceiling of complexity, simplify your business and unlock new opportunities. As your partner, we’ll help you deliver an exceptional client experience – one that not only cements client loyalty but also drives new business. 

We’ll show you how to streamline your processes, increase productivity and grow your bottom line. When you join Optimize Wealth, you become part of a team with one common goal, to help our Financial Professionals build a better business while providing your clients with expert financial advice. The major difference at Optimize Wealth is that we measure our teams’ success based on how well they help their clients achieve their goals rather than based on how much commissions or revenues they generate from their clients.

Looking to Grow Your Practice or Map Your Exit?

Whether you want to refine your client segmentation strategy, focus on niche markets, or define your own succession plan, we’re here for you. We’ll work with you to build scale in your business, implement proven growth strategies, maximize the value of your business, or map your exit plan. Through it all, we’ll help you ensure your clients continue to get the attention they deserve. Whether you are looking to grow or exit the business, we are looking for experienced financial professionals who want to make a positive impact in their clients’ financial futures at the same time as achieving their specific goals.

 

Financial professionals who want to see how they can map their exit or gain a major competitive edge from Optimize’s next generation multi-family office platform while benefiting from a premium compensation structure can schedule a Confidential Introductory Meeting through the link below.