Wealth planning

Every moving part, planned together.

We provide comprehensive wealth planning that is tailored, tax-conscious, and strategically aligned with your goals: personal financial planning, investment management, group retirement plans, and estate strategy.

28+Years of fiduciary experience
2007Established
Fee-basedIndependent fiduciary
2Offices: Illinois & Tennessee

Who we serve

Built for those with something meaningful to preserve.

Business owners planning a transition, sale, or succession.

Affluent families coordinating estate, tax, and legacy strategy across generations.

Professionals and executives with concentrated stock or pre-retirement complexity.

Personal Financial Planning

Personal financial planning

A long-term partnership built around your life.

Our financial planning clients are successful professionals, entrepreneurs, and business owners who desire a genuine long-term partnership with a financial advisor. Not a once-a-year check-in.

We begin by understanding your full financial picture: business, personal, and generational. Every step of our process is customized to your benefit. There are no cookie-cutter solutions.

Whether you’re navigating a business transition, planning for retirement, or managing sudden liquidity, we coordinate every piece into one integrated strategy.

What’s included

Investment Management

Investment management

Customized portfolios built around your risk, your timeline, your goals.

We build customized portfolios using each client's risk tolerance, time horizon, and personal needs, creating a mix of investments intended to grow and generate sustainable income.

We don't run a model portfolio and fit clients into it. We build around your specific tax situation, concentrated positions, and liquidity needs. Where appropriate and for eligible clients, we offer access to alternative investment solutions beyond traditional markets.

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Group Retirement Plans

Group retirement plans

Preparing your valued employees for a successful retirement.

We consult with businesses of various sizes, from small family-owned companies to mid-sized organizations, to design and manage group retirement plans tailored to their workforce and goals.

A well-designed retirement plan is one of the most effective tools for attracting and retaining talent. We help business owners select the right plan structure, manage fiduciary responsibilities, and help their employees work toward a more secure retirement.

Our approach focuses on plan design, investment menu selection, employee education, and ongoing compliance support.

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Estate and Legacy Planning

Estate & legacy planning

Wealth that holds together across generations.

At Ftacek Financial Services, we work with affluent families, business owners, and philanthropists to design estate strategies that go beyond documents and asset lists. Our integrated approach considers family dynamics, tax implications, long-term stewardship, and charitable intent.

Tennessee’s trust laws are among the most favorable in the country. Dynasty trusts, directed trusts, and decanting provisions available here create planning opportunities that don’t exist in most other states.

We work alongside your estate attorney, not as a replacement, ensuring the financial plan, legal structure, and family conversation all point in the same direction.

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Business Succession

Business succession & exit

The years before a sale matter most.

Selling or transitioning your business is the most consequential financial event most owners will face — and the outcome is largely decided long before the negotiation.

We partner with owners across Illinois and Tennessee years in advance, coordinating equity structure, exit timing, tax mitigation, and your post-liquidity plan alongside your M&A attorney and CPA — so the result reflects what you’ve built.

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