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With strategic cash management, high-net-worth individuals can determine appropriate liquidity, optimize returns on cash holdings, and position resources to capitalize on opportunities or navigate disruptions.
When you’re managing substantial assets, cash decisions become more nuanced than choosing between checking and savings accounts.
Many high-net-worth individuals keep too much in low-yielding accounts out of caution, letting their purchasing power erode. Others maintain insufficient liquidity and find themselves forced to sell appreciated assets at inopportune moments, triggering unnecessary taxes or locking in losses.
Strategic cash management brings intentionality to these decisions, helping you structure liquidity in ways that serve both security and opportunity.
When your cash strategy aligns with your complete financial picture, you gain better protection and flexibility. For individuals with complex financial lives spanning immediate expenses, planned capital commitments, and emergency reserves, a single cash account often doesn’t serve all purposes equally well. Strategic cash management helps you:
Strategic cash management addresses multiple dimensions of liquidity planning.
When converting investments to cash, the order in which you liquidate holdings affects your tax liability. We identify the most tax-efficient sources of cash based on cost basis, holding periods, and loss-harvesting opportunities.
We help you evaluate options—from high-yield savings and money market funds to Treasury bills and CDs—balancing yield, liquidity, and government backing for your specific needs.
For clients with access to securities-based lending or lines of credit, we help evaluate when borrowing makes sense versus using cash, weighing interest costs and how leverage affects your overall risk profile.
Our approach incorporates your expected cash flows—bonuses, distributions, RMDs—so you can restore target allocations through incoming cash rather than triggering unnecessary capital gains.
Strategic cash management sits at the intersection of investment strategy, tax planning, and risk management—areas where technical knowledge and experience with complex situations matter. The BPM Wealth Management team has experience in…
What this means for you: Advisors who understand how cash strategy connects to your investment goals, tax situation, and risk tolerance, and who can help you structure liquidity in ways that promote security and flexibility as your financial life evolves.
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Securities through Valmark Securities, Inc., member FINRA, SIPC. Investment Advisory services are offered through BPM Wealth Advisors, LLC and/or Valmark Advisers, Inc. a SEC Registered Investment Advisor, with address of 130 Springside Drive, Suite 300 Akron, Ohio 44333-2431, and telephone number +1 (800) 765-5201. BPM LLP and BPM Wealth Advisors, LLC are entities separate from Valmark Securities, Inc. and Valmark Advisers, Inc. Form CRS Link

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