Wealth Management for Executives, Airline Pilots, and Business Leaders

Successful business leaders are often frustrated by a lack of communication and attention to detail from their financial advisor. We develop a Wealth Confidence Plan™ and stay with you every step of the way so that you can focus on your expertise, confident that the details are being managed by the right team with the right advice.

Wealth Management for Business Executives

Senior executives often carry complex compensation structures, concentrated stock positions, and benefits decisions that intersect in ways that warrant coordinated review. We advise executives across industries on planning considerations that may include:

  • Net Unrealized Appreciation (NUA) analysis within 401(k)s
  • Stock and restricted stock options and grants
  • Deferred compensation election and distribution planning
  • Concentrated stock position coordination within a broader plan
  • Benefits decisions at career transitions, including severance and early retirement scenarios
  • Health savings plan utilization

Wealth Management for Airline Pilots

Airline pilots carry a planning profile that few advisors are equipped to navigate: variable income, complex defined contribution and legacy defined benefit plans, the VEBA, and benefit elections that compound across a career. At Avion Wealth, we have built deep familiarity with the retirement and benefits structures at United Airlines and Southwest Airlines, including the defined contribution plans, the decision points within frozen or terminated defined benefit plans, and the Retirement Health Account structure.

We advise senior captains, first officers, and pilot families on planning considerations that may include:

  • Smoothing variable income across the career arc to support retirement planning
  • Evaluating the annuity option versus the lump sum option for pension plans
  • Leveraging the Retirement Health Account (VEBA) within a broader plan
  • Coordinating life and disability protection alongside benefits elections
  • Navigating planning decisions at retirement, furlough, or career transition

Avion Wealth is also the publisher of The United Pilot’s Flight Plan for Wealth, a book written specifically for United pilots navigating the financial planning decisions that define their careers and retirements.

Wealth Management for Business Owners

For business owners, the most consequential planning decisions often surface around the events that define a career: a liquidity event, a generational transition, or the structural shift from operating a business to stewarding the wealth it generated. These decisions touch tax, estate, investment, and family considerations simultaneously, and the after-tax outcome of a transaction frequently turns on planning work done long before the deal closes.

We advise business owners on planning considerations that may include:

  • Pre-transaction planning for a potential business sale or liquidity event
  • Coordination of estate and gifting strategies in advance of a transaction
  • Succession planning across family or partner ownership structures
  • Concentrated business interest considerations within a broader plan
  • Post-transaction wealth coordination, including portfolio construction and tax-aware distribution planning

For executives, pilots, and business owners whose situation involves more than investments, Avion Wealth offers a complimentary Second Opinion Service focused on how your current plan may fit within a broader wealth strategy.

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