Posted by Optimize on May 10, 2022
Optimize Wealth Welcomes
Doug Ransom and its newest office in Victoria, British Columbia, furthering its Nationwide Expansion
Toronto, May 10, 2022 – Optimize Wealth Management announced the recent addition of Senior Financial Planner, Doug Ransom to the firm. Doug has extensive experience helping families in the Victoria region for over thirty years.
“We are pleased to have another highly skilled and experienced planner like Doug 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 Victoria, Doug 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 Doug Ransom. “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 Doug Ransom
Doug developed an interest in investing and personal finances from an early age. Prior to entering the financial services industry in 2006, Doug enjoyed a successful career in the technology sector.
Doug has increasingly developed a passion for helping others with their investments, financial and estate planning. He’s gone on to achieve professional designations including the Certified Financial Planner (CFP®) and Chartered Investment Manager (CIM)®.
Doug’s holistic goals-based planning approach is designed to uncover your financial goals and develop solutions to achieve them. Doug aligned himself with Optimize Wealth Management in 2022 because of the benefits of the Optimize portfolio management process in helping clients achieve their investment goals.
Risk management and estate planning are an important component of holistic financial planning. Life and Critical Illness insurance are offered through Island Choice Insurance Brokers.
Doug lives in the Victoria, BC area with his wife Lisa and son Calvin. Away from the business he enjoys hiking, cycling, fair-weather kayaking, and keeping fit at the gym. A new hobby for Doug is motorcycling, Doug just acquired his motorcycle license at age 54.
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.