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Find Your Road to Financial Freedom

Find Your Road to Financial Freedom

Planning With a Purpose

Do you ever consider if you are getting the best financial advice? Are you receiving advice focused on solving your known (and unknown) problems? Are you on the road to living your fullest life? Here is the problem -- planning doesn’t cover every stage of a family’s financial journey. Most guidance stays in a “single lane” of focus ignoring the complexities of a person’s unique financial situation. At MFA, we understand you need more (and deserve more) while working towards achieving your dreams. You need an expert with a personal touch that pays attention to every detail and has the experience to solve your most complex problems. 

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What We Do

Investment Management: Our approach to protecting our clients' capital is focused on providing consistency of returns and downside risk management by taking a more expansive view of diversification. This requires diversifying not only by asset class but also by strategy. It also often includes non publicly traded investments to provide returns not correlated with the stock and bond markets for added diversification. 
Retirement and Financial Planning: This lane is sparsely traveled. That's because it is a little more challenging. It involves creating your financial plan and doing “what if” scenarios. Figuring out if you can buy that house in Naples. This lane we are super passionate about.  It doesn't matter how much or how little money you have. Everybody needs a plan. You wouldn't fly from California to New York without a flight plan.
Tax Management and Retirement Distribution Planning: This is a very lonely lane. Very few advisors are in this lane because it is difficult and it is not scalable. But we do it and we are passionate about it because of its importance. We can work directly with your Accountant to review your recent tax returns and identify potential savings or restructuring opportunities, giving you proactive ideas to save money in the future. We specialize in developing phased strategies to tax efficiently take distributions from tax deferred accounts like IRAs and 401(k)s.

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Your Partner for Financial Independence

The end goal of complete Wealth Management Oversight (WMO) is to make your life better by freeing you up to focus on your family, career, health, charitable pursuits and the things that provide meaning to your life.

 

Financial freedom and financial peace isn’t just about money. It’s about finding your "why" and aligning your resources to pursue it. Meridian Financial Advisory helps you define that "why" and create a financial plan that lets you live out your unique vision of freedom.

Meridian Financial Advisory is a Registered Investment Advisor (RIA) in South Carolina founded by its Managing Principal, Joshua Henry. Meridian operates in a fiduciary capacity with a legal obligation to always put its clients interests first (unlike broker-dealers). As an independent fee based investment advisor, Meridian is completely free to choose the investments and give the advice it believes are best suited to meet the needs of its clients during each life stage. This eliminates a major conflict of interest that is common in the financial industry.

About Joshua

Joshua's passion is in educating and empowering clients and their families to take control of their future, which is why he focuses on assisting individuals and their families, and advises them in all areas, including investment management, insurance solutions, tax planning, retirement planning, and estate planning.  Joshua also specializes in providing investment and wealth management advice to high net worth individuals and families, and small business owners, who have unique and complex needs.

Joshua is a CFP® and CIMA® professional. Joshua holds a Series 65 license as an Investment Advisor Representative. He also holds his Life & Health Insurance licenses in multiple states. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science from Cedarville University and a Master of Business Administration degree with a concentration in Corporate Finance from Salve Regina University. The courses for the Corporate Finance concentration were taken from the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University (where he was at the top of his class). The Investment Management Theory & Practice coursework for his Certified Investment Management Analyst® certification was taken at the Yale School of Management.

Plan Smartly

The CFP® certification which Joshua holds is a voluntary certification; no federal or state law or regulation requires financial planners to hold CFP® certification. It is recognized in the United States and a number of other countries for its (1) high standard of professional education; (2) stringent code of conduct and standards of practice; and (3) ethical requirements that govern professional engagements with clients.

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Invest Smartly

The Certified Investment Management Analyst® (CIMA®) certification which Joshua also holds is the peak international, technical portfolio construction program for investment consultants, analysts, financial advisors and wealth management professionals. CIMA® certification continues to be the highest level of advanced investment education for client-facing advisors.

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Contact us for a free strategy session,

where we first learn about you!

DISCOVERY. 

The Path to Success starts with getting to know you, including what is important to you and your objectives. We want to understand your needs, concerns and dreams.

Analysing the Numbers

MUTUALLY DEFINE SCOPE OF ENGAGEMENT. GATHER DATA. ANALYSIS, DEVELOP RECOMMENDATIONS, THEN PRESENT FINANCIAL PLAN. 

A Comprehensive Approach: Each area of Wealth Management has a dramatic impact on the other areas. 

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IMPLEMENT, MONITOR, REVIEW, RE-BALANCE, & RE-CALIBRATE.

Expert Guidance: When life throws you curve balls, we work with you to make course corrections.

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our 
philosophy

1. Clients come first.
2. Clients' values are the beginning point for everything we do.
3. Every area of one's financial life impacts the others. Thus, it is imperative each of these components be brought together to develop a coordinated solution.

CONTACT US

6578 Wellington Drive
Murrells Inlet, South Carolina 29576
USA

Phone: (843) 212-6828

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Meridian Financial Advisory LLC is a Registered Investment Advisor. The Advisor does not attempt to furnish personalized investment advice or services through this website.

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