Description of Advisory Firm
Tax Efficient Asset Management Solution, Inc.’s registration was granted by the U.S. Securities and Exchange
Commission on April 23, 2008. Timothy Lee Voorhees (CRD Number 856280) is President of the firm. Mr.
Voorhees owns fifty (50%) percent and Evan Pan, owns fifty (50%) percent of the equity of the firm. The
firm is not publicly owned or traded. There are no indirect owners of the firm or intermediaries who have
any ownership interest in the firm. The firm manages each client’s portfolio on an individualized basis. Clients
may impose restrictions. The firm does not sponsor any wrap programs. As of December 31, 2023 the firm
managed assets on a discretionary basis in the amount of $96,511,873 and $2,409,915 on a non-discretionary
basis.
Tax-Efficient Asset Management Solution, Inc. (“TEAMS”) serves wealthy individual and corporate clients
by offering a variety of deliverables and services to help clients manage assets tax efficiently. Experienced
TEAMS professionals use propriety software to develop comprehensive financial and estate planning
illustrations. These plans provide flowcharts illustrating various entities, such as revocable living trusts, LLCs,
and irrevocable trusts, that hold stocks, bonds, and other securities that need professional management.
Asset Management professionals affiliated with TEAMS illustrate asset management techniques that reduce
or eliminate taxes, increase transfers to children, enhance charitable giving goals, or achieve other personal
and financial goals. TEAMS illustrations typically show how to reduce income, capital gains, estate, gift,
GST, and/or AMT taxes related to investment strategies.
TEAMS planners typically deliver seven types of services to wealthy clients. Each service corresponds to a
different deliverable. Our advisers follow a process that begins as the Counselor clarifies how the client
wants to generate retirement income, transfer wealth to children and/or business associates, give more to
charity, or achieve any of more than 50 other goals. The counselor helps the client explore new vistas and
then summarizes the goals in a Family Wealth Statement. After goals have been clarified, the Analyst
reviews how the current asset management strategies and planning techniques fail to achieve the goals. The
analyst produces a Financial Checkup with a report card showing specifically which goals the client fails to
achieve. The analyst also collaborates with a Planner to summarize the benefits and costs of planning a case
that will achieve all of the client’s goals with optimizing financial and legal strategies. Quantified benefits and
costs are summarized in a Value Proposition Letter. If the client agrees to proceed with planning, the
planner works with the Advisor Coordinator, Binder Publisher, and Licensed Implementer(s) to
develop and implement a tactical or comprehensive Family Wealth Blueprint® for helping the client realize
his or her dreams. Then, once per quarter or once per year, the Evaluator/Educator meets with the client
to review the plan and educate the clients on ways that the plan could be updated in light of changing goals,
tax laws, or market conditions.
TEAMS professionals may deliver their services throughout two or more phases. Phase 1 of the process
typically begins with a discovery session. Phase 1 can be completed in just an hour or two if the client has
clarity about his or her goals and his or her current situation. In most cases, however, client’s welcome
assistance in clarifying their goals during a family retreat that culminates with production of a Family Wealth
Statement. Many clients also appreciate having their current plans analyzed to see how the current plan fails
to achieve goals clarified in the Family Wealth Statement. The current plan is analyzed in a document known
as a Financial Checkup. The Financial Checkup typically includes a variety of graphics to illustrate
opportunities inherent in current asset management strategies.
Phase 1 culminates with a Value Proposition Letter (“VPL”), which sets the stage for the second phase. The
planning team adapts the VPL to the client’s needs. If the client just wants to reduce taxes or manage money
more tax efficiently, the planning professionals immediately discuss a relatively simple tactical plan or
investment policy statement. If the client wants a more comprehensive process, the planning team discusses
a process that produces a comprehensive Family Wealth Blueprint, which illustrates an optimal combination
of strategies for minimizing taxes, increasing transfers to heirs, enhancing charitable giving potential,
optimizing portfolios, or achieving other personal and financial goals.
Benefits of the planning process:
Clients Can Control 100% of Their Wealth
Eliminate estate and/or gift taxes
Reduce or eliminate income taxes
Protect assets from creditors
Pass the full value of an estate to heirs
Clients Can Move from Success to Significance
Make charitable gifts instead of paying taxes
Involve family members in benefiting the community
Align financial and legal plans with personal values
Clients Can Integrate Advanced and Proprietary Tools into a Comprehensive Plan
Apply creative and cutting-edge ideas not widely available
Illustrate all ideas with one color flow chart and integrated cash flows statement
Clients Can Assemble a Highly Skilled Planning Team
Engage nationally known attorneys through a simple process
Benefit from the national reputation and depth of experience of advisers who specialize in
preparing strategic plans
Clients Can Obtain a Full-Color Plan Illustrating All of the Proposed Tools
Receive comprehensive client presentations that illustrate and integrate the effect of all proposed
strategies
on cash flow, income taxes, charitable giving, estate taxes and wealth distribution
View attractive and easy-to-follow graphs, tables, and text reports
Maintain financial and estate information in a format that can be updated easily during quarterly or
annual reviews
Selection of Other Advisers
The Tax Efficient Asset Management Solution, Inc. (“TEAMS”) managers will maintain sub-advisory
relationships with Pan Global Advisers, LLC (“Pan Global”), an affiliated investment adviser, and other
Registered Investment Advisers to develop Investment Policy Statements for the tax efficient optimization
of portfolio returns. Each Investment Policy Statement (“IPS”) considers the tax consequence of
accumulating and distributing assets from each portfolio maintained for each trust and/or corporation owned
and/or controlled by clients of TEAMS and its affiliated RIAs. Investment Policy Statements will include
cash flow projections for each portfolio. IPS analytical reports will analyze expected cash inflows and
outflows for each independent portfolio and for integrated portfolios under different rate of return scenarios.
In cases where the tax exposure of asset management decisions is too large, the TEAMS managers will work
with Million Voorhees Ziebold LLP DBA Family Office Law tax attorneys to recommend alternative tax
planning techniques that can reduce the tax consequences of optimizing portfolios. The TEAMS managers
will have no discretionary authority over managed funds; however, they will have discretion to recommend
the addition or deletion of securities when creating and updating Investment Policy Statements. Portfolios
depicted in the IPS will be custodied at various custodial institutions.
Portfolio optimization, in addition to producing many non-tax benefits, can help generate tax-efficient asset
management returns in at least ten ways. Portfolio optimization professionals can: 1) review account
statements to confirm that the correct trusts own each account in order to keep assets outside of the taxable
estate, 2) apply trust accounting principles to accumulate and distribute trust assets tax-efficiently, 3) confirm
the accuracy of tax basis and market value numbers shown on the balance sheet, 4) determine that cash
withdrawn from accounts for lifestyle needs will be taxed at the most favorable rates, 5) evaluate whether
assets not kept liquid for lifestyle needs are invested tax efficiently in longer-return assets, 6) estimate which
rates of return to assume when designing tax minimization tools, 7) clarify whether asset management fees
are tax deductible, 8) identify unnecessary taxes on portfolio rebalancing transactions, 9) integrate tax-
efficient investments into portfolios, and 10) gather data to graph projected after-tax inheritance for heirs
under different return/risk assumptions.
TEAMS drafts investment policy statements and provides active management of fiduciary issues while
delegating asset management decisions to third party asset managers. To supplement the investment policy
statements, TEAMS develops Education Policy Statements (“EPSs”) for retirement plan trustees. The EPS
documents clarify how TEAMS staff members provide training meetings, personalized consultations for plan
participants, and fiduciary coaching. The fiduciary coaching reviews investment, administrative, and
procedural issues relative to industry norms. Fiduciary coaching also involves the daily monitoring of relevant
fiduciary cases, statutes, and news items. The personalized coaching involves monitoring each participant’s
investment portfolio to generate daily alerts when investment performance deviates from reasonable age-
based and asset-based standards. The daily portfolio monitoring reports guide updates to the training and
fiduciary coaching process.
While all financials are pooled on the tax returns, there are differences in the asset management strategies
and case management assignments of TEAMS. TEAMS currently assumes responsibility for overseeing all
drafting of investment policy statements when clients engage for investment policy statements that include
provisions for improving returns through tax planning and estate planning for high net worth families.
TEAMS uses an active management process executed with support from Pan Global Advisers, a sub-advisor
of TEAMS. TEAMS provides fiduciary coaching services to trustees of irrevocable trusts and qualified plans
as part of the active management of legal and investment risks. TEAMS also provides financial planning
services according to terms of financial planning retainers signed by clients.
Investment Management Services
TEAMS currently has two tiers of services. For the lower tiered services, the above mentioned summarizes
those services that would be provided. The higher tiered services and fees would be associated with the level
of work that would be expected of us to work with the designated third party CPA firms and tax coordination
preparation services and the resulting additional work. These investment management services associated
with the higher tier fees are due to the additional level of work, specializations and coordination needed by
the client. This could include new investments models and strategies, requiring additional time and resources.
Real Estate Investment Management
TEAMS may advise clients on collateralized real estate investment through trust deed investments with the
assistance of 1) Mountain West Debt Fund (“MWDF”), a real estate finance company, 2) Greenlake, LLC, a
real estate finance company; or 3) M360 ADVISORS, LLC (“M360”), a sponsor of limited partnerships
investing in private debt. The scope of the service includes identifying and acquiring on behalf of client’s real
estate-related investments and subsequently managing such assets/portfolios.