Jason Kohut
Signet Financial Management, LLC

Financial Services

We help clients think through their most pressing investment-related issues and build portfolio solutions for any market environment. In developing your investment strategy, we start with an in-depth process of discovering who you are, what your priorities are, and what you want to achieve. Then we apply our skill and experience to manage investment solutions that best fit your unique needs.

We offer a range of investment resources and services to help you reach you goals: Individual stock portfolios, individual bond portfolios, comprehensive portfolio management, ongoing investment monitoring, asset allocation, hedging strategies, risk management, income strategies, tax planning, and periodic portfolio reviews.

Achieving your retirement goals takes disciplined saving, spending, and investing. Our team of experts work with you to stay on track to live the retirement you want: We will develop a clear picture of your current financial situation.

We help you decide when to retire.

We show the income your nest egg could provide compared to your needs and goals.

We can implement strategies designed to generate income, manage risk, and protect against inflation. We will continuously monitor your plan, making adjustments as markets and your circumstances change.

The primary purpose of insurance is to provide economic protection against losses that may be incurred due to an event happening such as death, illness, or accident. This type of protection is provided through an insurance policy, which is simply a device used by companies to accumulate funds to have enough reserves to meet these uncertain losses. At Signet we will take you through a forensic review of your insurance policies to assess your insurance needs from a coverage and cost perspective. We have partnered with Sheridan Wealth Advisors.

Estate Planning includes but is not limited to the establishment and updating of wills, trusts, insurance, long term care, beneficiary designations, Powers of Appointment, and gifting. With the ever-changing tax law, healthcare overhaul and other dynamic issues at play, it is increasingly vital to consult experts in each of these spaces to ensure one's wealth is properly shielded from unnecessary tax burdens.

As fee-based fiduciaries, we will work with you to identify your risks and needs in order to try to align you with just the right professionals to get them resolved. We will also work with your existing team of CPAs, Attorneys and others as needed, to prioritize your comfort and financial well-being.

We believe we can add real value for clients by managing the potential drag, or reduction of return, caused by taxes. We engage investors in discussions about providing a more complete plan and how their taxable assets may benefit form a tax-managed approach. Some key considerations include:

The importance of knowing your tax cost basis prior to making any sells in your account

Asset location, or how to allocate assets between taxable and tax-advantaged accounts. This can add incremental benefits to after-tax total returns, which can have a powerful compounding effect over the long run.

How tax law changes can affect you, including but not limited to:

The Opportunity cost of executing certain tax strategies and plans

The Time Value of Money and how future inflation can affect decisions made today

The likelihood that you may be in a lower or higher tax bracket later in life

The possibility of tax basis step-up if an equity is never sold

At Signet Financial Management, we consider these and many more potential tax-related matters before making any changes to your portfolio. In fact, we evaluate each and every position in your portfolio prior to making any decisions on sells or purchases, in seeking to ensure that you are not hit with a tax bill that you don't expect at the end of the year.

Acting in a fiduciary capacity, we work with you to design an investment strategy that is integrated with all aspects of your financial life. We invest using a consistent, structured process coupled with strong research and risk management and active portfolio management. You can count on us for expert advice and counseling at every juncture of your financial life, with personal attention and professional results.

What's Our Edge?

Institutional Approach - We bring an sophisticated, institutional framework to individual investors.

Unbiased - We are independent.

Factor Investing - We use a proprietary, quantitative stock ranking system to evaluate investments across an extensive group of factors, including value, size, quality, momentum, and safety. We build portfolios to favor stocks with the optimal combination of these factors, and may tilt portfolios towards certain factors deemed more attractive in the current environment.

Fixed Income - We manage portfolios of individual bonds to help manage risk and generate income.

Options - We may use options to enhance the risk-adjusted total return potential of our portfolios.

Flexibility - We may adjust asset class exposure to avoid undue risk, and attempt to take advantage of attractive areas of the markets.

We believe our clients should only accept as much risk as necessary to achieve their financial goals. We design portfolios for more than the pursuit of returns - eliminating undue risk is an equally important objective.

Because risk is a necessary part of investing, it is essential to manage those risks and find the right balance between risk and expected return for each client. We offer a comprehensive risk assessment to help clients identify, understand, and quantify sources of risk. We ensure that the assumption of risk is intentional and consistent with your investment objectives.

As independent financial advisers, we are obligated to recognize your unique goals, family situation, and financial resources and help you orchestrate the best possible balance between all your competing needs. Our goal is to keep you well informed and the provide you easy access to investment and financial planning that can best meet your needs.