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Posted by Optimize on August 24, 2022

Optimize Wealth Welcomes

Larry Verniest and its newest office in Calgary, Alberta, furthering its Nationwide Expansion

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Larry Verniest

Toronto, August 24, 2022 – Optimize Wealth Management announced the recent addition of Senior Relationship Manager, Larry Verniest to the firm. Larry has extensive experience helping families in the Calgary region for over twenty years.

“Larry brings a lot of experience and deep connections in the area to our team at Optimize. We are confident that he will have a major impact and are excited to see what we will achieve together.” said Matthew McGrath, Head of Advisory Channel and Corporate Development at Optimize Wealth.

At Optimize Wealth’s newest office in Calgary, Larry 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.

Larry Verniest spoke to how he is “Thrilled for the opportunity to expand his clients’ access to ‘pension style’ asset classes and working closely with portfolio managers from one of Canada's leading portfolio management firms.”

About Larry Verniest 

About Larry

Larry Verniest grew up in southern Manitoba graduating with a degree in agricultural economics from the University of Manitoba. After working in sales and sales management in the agricultural industry, Larry started building his Calgary based financial planning practice in 2001. He built his business with holistic independent advice.

Larry works with individuals, families and small businesses to help them achieve their financial goals. Larry strives to have an integrated approach, pulling together all the pieces and developing a holistic plan.

Larry, along with his wife Rosa, reside in Calgary. Larry enjoys travel, the mountains, golf and hockey. As both offence and defense are important in hockey, so too are offence and defense in financial planning. Planning and saving for the future as well as protecting oneself from unexpected health challenges are both building blocks of a good financial plan.

About 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.