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The Age Five Family Office™

A family office experience for high-income W-2 families with young children, coordinating your finances so you may keep more of what you earn and raise kids who know how to handle it.

Built for families earning $750k–$3M before they have $50M in net worth.

We work with families at

The Bright Advisers innovation

For many families, sophisticated tax work, advanced investment planning, and family governance only show up at eight or nine figures. We built one system that brings all three together.

Tax Management

Your team of advisors coordinates your tax strategy across W-2 income, RSUs, concentrated stock, retirement accounts, and real estate.

Investment Planning

We build an investment strategy from your family values, then manage your portfolio to protect what matters most. Every portfolio is individually constructed.

Private Education

Our team of specialists educates your children and prepares your family for future wealth across generations. We turn your key financial decisions into entries in your FamilyKnowledge® Library.

Family office coordination — without the minimum.

We believe high-income families with young children deserve the same level of coordination that $50M+ families get.
  • Every portfolio is constructed from scratch and driven by your unique financial plan.
  • We use individual equities to reduce unnecessary fees and provide complete customization of your portfolio.
  • Our investment strategies are built on scientific research and leverage factor-based investing and smart beta techniques.
  • Every portfolio can be optimized for any asset a client already owns (public or private).
  • Every portfolio is recalibrated dynamically according to your plan’s evolutions.
  • Family values and vision alignment
  • FamilyKnowledge® Library documentation
  • Age Five Wealth Education plan for children
  • Quarterly family governance meetings
  • Decision Memos for every major choice
  • Concentrated stock hedging and diversification
  • Individually constructed portfolio across all accounts
  • Tax-efficient asset location
  • 529 education funding plan
  • Insurance planning
  • RSU and equity compensation tax planning
  • Multi-year tax projections by our CPAs
  • Roth conversion strategies
  • Coordinated tax-loss harvesting
  • Tax preparation, filing, and prior year audit
  • Guardianship designations
  • Estate plan review and updates
  • Trust drafting and funding
  • Beneficiary designations and review
  • Generational wealth transfer strategies
  • Mega Backdoor Roth and Backdoor Roth IRA
  • Deferred compensation planning
  • 401k and HSA optimization
  • Open enrollment and benefits coordination
  • Retirement income projections
  • Family giving philosophy
  • Charitable giving strategies
  • Donor advised funds
  • Tax-efficient giving coordination
  • Family service and stewardship education
  • Cash flow and distributions
  • Entity structure and formation
  • Continuation planning
  • Exit and succession strategies
  • Key employee compensation

No risk scores. No model portfolios. No investment products.​

Your wealth plan acts as the foundation, supported by our scientific investment strategies. We combine the power of smart beta, factor investing, and hedging strategies to intricately construct a hyper-personalized portfolio to maximize your wealth outcomes.

Diversified Premia

This is our flagship equity strategy which provides exposure to U.S. large cap equity, seeking to combine the benefits of smart beta and factor investing techniques.​

Opportunity Strategy

This investment strategy focuses on dynamic growth factors such as innovation and momentum, while following the same methodologies as Diversified Premia.​

Quality Strategy

This investment strategy focuses on a set of robust value attributes such as high profitability, high payout, and low volatility, while following the same methodologies as Diversified Premia.​

Tactical Portfolio

This investment strategy leverages alternative asset classes that are stores of value and represent safe havens during market sell-offs or may become widely accepted stores of value.​

No platform fees. No trading fees. No commissions.

Bright Advisers’ innovative in-house technology has rendered expensive mutual funds, ETFs, TAMPs, and other common investment products functionally obsolete. The result is significantly more efficient investment portfolios and higher probabilities of achieving your plan.

Our technology connects your family wealth to your children.

Every strategy, meeting, and decision captured in one place. As your family grows, so does the story your children will one day read.
  • See your wealth across all accounts
  • Collaborate with your advisor between meetings
  • Build your FamilyKnowledge® Library over time

See if the Age Five Family Office fits your family.

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