This 7-page guide will teach you unique strategies to manage your concentrated wealth.

Dave Alison is an accomplished financial, tax, and investment advisor with a passion to help individuals achieve financial freedom. His professional capabilities to engineer advanced financial, tax, investment, insurance and estate planning needs into one holistic plan led him to found Alison Wealth Management, which serves clients across the United States.

To validate his commitment to furthering his education and competency in the advice he provides, Dave has earned a Bachelor of Science in Finance, the CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ designation, Enrolled Agent, Certified Financial Fiduciary® designation, Series 65 - Uniform Investment Adviser Law Examination, as well as the Life, Health, and Variable Annuity licenses.

In addition to Alison Wealth Management, Dave is the founding partner of a financial services company with a vision to help financial advisors across the United States deliver a better financial planning & investment experience to their clients. Under his leadership over the last 9 years, that company has grown into a highly respected enterprise of companies including an SEC Registered Investment Advisor Firm managing over $900,000,000 of client assets, an institutional asset management firm, a financial planning coaching and training organization, and an insurance agency supporting hundreds of financial planners across the United States.  

Dave currently serves as a mentor and trainer to hundreds of financial planners, CPAs and estate planning attorneys as well as a frequent speaker at industry conferences through the United States. 

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Alison Wealth Management was founded by nationally recognized advisor Dave Alison, CFP®, EA with the philosophy to make clients’ financial lives easier through integrated holistic financial planning.  

Dave has become a thought-leader, speaker, and industry trainer on holistic financial planning including specializations in the coordination of taxation and financial planning, equity compensation such as NQSOs, ISOs, RSUs, Founder's Stock, and ESPPs, and retirement income distribution planning.

The focus at Alison Wealth Management is to deliver comprehensive holistic tax & financial planning catered to the unique needs of  our clients.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

For many of our clients that have been granted stock in these companies, a new financial planning challenge has been created, managing concentrated stock risk.

Today the top five S&P 500 companies — Apple, Amazon.com, Google, Microsoft and Facebook — combined are worth $4.095 trillion versus $4.092 trillion for the bottom 282 companies.

The gains have been extraordinary over the past five years, with Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Microsoft and Google growing from $1.2 trillion to over $4 trillion.

Concerned About Stock Concentration?

Dave Alison

CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ & ENROLLED AGENT

Alison Wealth Management
530 Lytton Ave, Fl 2
Palo Alto, CA 94301

In 1965, AT&T Inc. and General Motors Co. alone represented 14.5% of the S&P 500. What is different today, however, is that all the big players are tech names.

While this might seem mind-boggling, this sort of concentration is normal.