The Smarter Way to Build... and Transition Into Retirement
In just a few minutes, employees and small-business owners can discover:
- Whether your retirement savings and investments are on track
- Potential financial risks and opportunities you may be overlooking
- The smartest next step based on your situation
A short assessment to help identify your next step.
For over a decade, we've helped working professionals and small-business owners navigate financial uncertainty, career transitions, investment decisions, and the road toward retirement.
This isn't generic advice.
Whether you've spent your career building retirement savings through an employer or growing an HVAC, roofing, generator, electrical, plumbing, hospitality, or membership-based business, our structured assessment helps you evaluate where you stand and identify your next step.
Most People Focus on the Wrong Thing
Most people approaching retirement focus on one question: Have I saved enough?
But retirement readiness involves more than the size of your 401(k), IRA, or investment portfolio.
For employees approaching retirement, it's about turning decades of hard work and savings into a sustainable retirement strategy.
For small-business owners, it's also about building personal wealth beyond the business and preparing for the day they step away.
The real question isn't just how much you've accumulated. It's whether your investments, retirement timeline, and financial goals work together.
Do you have a strategy that adapts as your life changes?
Whether you're building wealth, facing a career or business transition, or preparing for retirement, your approach may need to evolve.
Where Are You on Your Journey?
- Building retirement savings
- Approaching retirement
- Facing a career or business transition
- Preparing to leave the workforce
Your Career. Your Business. Your Retirement.
Whether you've built your financial future through a career or your own business, retirement deserves a strategy.
For Employees Preparing for Retirement
You've worked hard, contributed to your 401(k), IRA, or other retirement accounts, and accumulated savings over the years.
Now it's time to evaluate whether your investments, retirement timeline, and future income needs are aligned.
Especially relevant for individuals in their late 40s, 50s, and early 60s.
For Small-Business Owners
You've built your business. Now build your retirement.
Whether you operate an HVAC company, roofing business, generator installation company, electrical or plumbing firm, brewery, restaurant, society, club, league, or subscription-based business, you've invested years in building something valuable.
But are you building sufficient retirement savings outside your business?
Explore how your personal investments, retirement savings, and future business transition may fit together.
The Fourth Leg of Retirement
What if your retirement could include an income stream you help create?
Traditional retirement planning often emphasizes Social Security, employer pensions, and personal savings and investments. These remain important financial resources.
But another opportunity may exist: creating supplemental income through memberships, subscriptions, specialized communities, and joint ventures.
Social Security
A potential foundation of retirement income based on eligibility and claiming decisions.
Pensions
Employer or other pension benefits, where available, that may provide retirement income.
Savings & Investments
Retirement accounts and personal investments accumulated throughout your working years.
Income You Create
Potential supplemental income from memberships, subscriptions, clubs, societies, and joint ventures.
Memberships. Subscriptions. Joint Ventures.
You may have spent decades developing experience, relationships, skills, and specialized knowledge.
Those assets may create opportunities to develop a recurring-revenue business, even as you transition away from traditional full-time employment.
For Employees
Turn your professional expertise, interests, hobbies, or relationships into a specialized community, society, club, league, educational membership, or subscription business.
Explore whether an entrepreneurial income stream could complement your retirement savings.
For Business Owners
Existing customers may present opportunities for ongoing relationships through service memberships, maintenance plans, loyalty programs, specialized clubs, and subscriptions.
This may be relevant to HVAC, roofing, generators, electrical, plumbing, breweries, hospitality, and other service businesses.
For Joint Venture Partners
You don't necessarily need to build everything from scratch.
Consider partnering with established businesses that already have customers, facilities, products, or expertise, but have not yet developed the potential of membership and subscription-oriented revenue.
What If the Opportunity Is Already Sitting Inside an Existing Business?
Imagine a generator company offering ongoing maintenance memberships, a roofing contractor developing a home-protection program, or a brewery building a private membership community.
A joint venture might allow one partner to contribute customers and operational expertise while another contributes marketing, technology, membership development, or management capabilities.
The opportunity isn't simply to generate more sales. It's to explore building a recurring-revenue asset that may support your future.
Your Experience May Be More Valuable Than You Realize.
The Fourth Leg is about exploring additional financial options, not necessarily creating another full-time job. The right opportunity should fit your interests, capabilities, resources, and retirement goals.
Explore My Retirement Readiness →The Fourth Leg is an entrepreneurial concept, not a guaranteed retirement income strategy or investment product. Memberships, subscriptions, and joint ventures involve financial, operational, and legal risks and may require ongoing time, capital, and management.
What Can Your Assessment Help You Discover?
- How your retirement savings compare with your goals
- Whether your investment strategy fits your timeline
- Potential financial risks worth reviewing
- The smartest next step based on your situation
Results are preliminary, educational, and based on the information you provide. The assessment does not constitute personalized investment advice.
Your Path Forward, Based on Your Answers
Your assessment can help identify investment considerations and potential next steps relevant to your circumstances.
Build Your Foundation
For employees and business owners who want to strengthen their retirement savings and establish a disciplined, long-term investment approach.
Explore your investment timeline, risk tolerance, and opportunities to build wealth for the future.
Optimize What You've Built
For individuals who have accumulated investments and want to evaluate how their portfolio fits their approaching retirement.
Explore portfolio positioning, investment risk, retirement income considerations, and long-term financial objectives.
Investment options and advisory services are subject to individual circumstances, eligibility, and applicable regulatory requirements.
Take the First Step Toward Greater Clarity
Whether you've spent decades building a career or growing a business, your retirement deserves more than guesswork.
Start My Assessment Now →Insight Changes Everything
Retirement may be closer than you think. The decisions you make today can influence your financial future.
Discover where you stand and what to consider next.
Start My Assessment →Educational assessment. No obligation to engage an investment adviser.