Posted by Optimize on June 23, 2022
Optimize Wealth Welcomes
Jim MacLean and its newest office in London, Ontario, furthering its Nationwide Expansion
Toronto, June 23, 2022 – Optimize Wealth Management announced the recent addition of Senior Financial Planner, Jim MacLean to the firm. Jim has extensive experience helping families in the London region for over forty years.
“We are pleased to have another highly skilled and experienced planner like Jim 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 London, Jim 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 Jim MacLean. “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 Jim MacLean
As a native Londoner, Jim began his career after attending University of Waterloo and Western University with Northern Life in 1977 which eventually became Standard Life. Jim went on to win the prestigious Michael Best Award for proficiency and professional dedication to his clients.
Jim began his financial services firm known as Annuity Quotations in 1981 and eventually his career evolved over time to the present day full service brokerage with IPC Securities Corporation due to the firm acquiring YourCFO Advisory Group.
A past president of Life Underwriters of London, and past member of the Estate Planners of London,. He holds designations as Chartered Life Underwriter (CLU), Chartered Financial Consultant (ChFc) and Chartered Financial Planner (CFP®).
An avid golfer and 30 year member of the Highland Country Club as well as The Plantation in Venice, Florida and Pinehurst in North Carolina. Jim is married to Kathy since 1978 and has two adult children, Lauren and Josh. Josh has worked alongside with Jim since early 2010 and is a full partner in the firm MacLean Spinney Investment Group.
About the Optimize Wealth Platform
Optimize Wealth is an industry-leading Full Service Wealth Management Firm which has built a very Robust Advisor Platform whereby Advisors 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 Advisor 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 advisors and financial planners alike 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 advisors 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 Advisors build a better business while providing your clients with expert financial advice. The major difference at Optimize Wealth is that we measure our Financial Advisors’ 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 advisor compensation structure can find out more by scheduling a Confidential Introductory Meeting.