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COMPREHENSIVE PLANNING PROCESS


HiPac Financial follows a meticulous process, designed to assess your situation, goals, and level of risk tolerance. Once understood, we can make appropriate recommendations to meet your needs. Everyone is different and HiPac Financial will adjust our approach to suit you, but in general, we utilize the following process to help those we are privileged enough to serve.


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Step 1: Review

Review your individual situation and personal objectives. Everyone’s financial situation is unique. Understanding a client’s background information and financial goals are vital. HiPac Financial can provide more precise recommendations once we get to know you. As a result, we will take some time to discuss your hopes, dreams and objectives; the things that really matter to you. This is the basis of the first meeting with all our clients.


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Step 2: Analyze

Analyze and review your needs. After getting to know you, we will work with you to identify and prioritize your objectives, and then help establish benchmark targets. This is necessary in a world of unlimited choices. People often fail to achieve their objectives because they try to accomplish too much at once, or they don’t attach specific deadlines to their goals. By breaking down your aspirations into specific objectives, you can look at available resources and decide which goals are realistic, which need to be adjusted, scaled down, or simply abandoned.


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Step 3: Develop

Develop and implement a strategy to help you achieve your goals. Based on our conversations and analysis, HiPac Financial can create and recommend the steps it will take to help you achieve your financial goals.


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Step 4: Coordinate

Coordinate your financial activities. HiPac Financial regularly coordinates insurance and financial activities for clients with the other members of their team including financial, tax and legal advisers. We will happily do the same for you.


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Step 5: Implement

Implement your strategy. HiPac Financial will work closely with you and your other third-party professionals to set your plans into motion, getting you another step closer to your financial goals.


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Step 6: Monitor

Monitor the status and progress of your strategy. Planning is not a one-shot deal. Strategies need to be adjusted as your life and the economy changes. We will work with you to help keep your program on track with your changing needs.


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Kristi Chun, Jeffrey Kao, Derek Tenn, and Robert Hsu are agents licensed to sell insurance through New York Life Insurance Company and may be licensed with various other independent unaffiliated insurance companies in select jurisdictions. Insurance products and services may be offered only in jurisdictions where the agents are properly licensed. State license numbers shown where specifically required. Additional jurisdictions available upon request.
Kristi Chun (CA Insurance License #0L74431).
Jeffrey Kao (AR Insurance License #8884373) (CA Insurance License #0G77429).
Derek Tenn (CA Insurance License #0F40726).
Robert Hsu (CA Insurance License #0L88308).

As a New York Life Agent, Kristi Chun is licensed and authorized to offer insurance in California, but HIPAC FINANCIAL may not be. For additional information on California licensure status, please click here.

As a New York Life Agent, Jeffrey Kao is licensed and authorized to offer insurance in California and Arkansas, but HIPAC FINANCIAL may not be. For additional information on licensure status, please click here for California and/or click here for Arkansas.

As a New York Life Agent, Derek Tenn is licensed and authorized to offer insurance in California, but HIPAC FINANCIAL may not be. For additional information on California licensure status, please click here.

As a New York Life Agent, Robert Hsu is licensed and authorized to offer insurance in California, but HIPAC FINANCIAL may not be. For additional information on California licensure status, please click here.

The following individuals are Registered Representatives of and offer securities products & services through NYLIFE Securities LLC, Member FINRA/SIPC, a licensed insurance agency, and a wholly-owned subsidiary of New York Life Insurance Company:
Kristi Chun, 733 Bishop St Ste 2200/2150, Honolulu, HI 96813, 808-529-6311.
Jeffrey Kao, 733 Bishop St Ste 2200/2150, Honolulu, HI 96813.
Derek Tenn, 733 Bishop St Ste 2200, Honolulu, HI 96813.
Robert Hsu, 733 Bishop St Ste 2200, Honolulu, HI 96813.

Kristi Chun, Jeffrey Kao, Derek Tenn, and Robert Hsu are also Financial Advisers with Eagle Strategies LLC, a Registered Investment Adviser, and a wholly-owned subsidiary of New York Life Insurance Company. Advisory services are offered only in jurisdictions where the financial advisers and Eagle Strategies LLC are properly registered.

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