Our Services
Know What You Can Spend. Have a Plan for When Things Change.
You've worked hard to build your financial resources. Now comes an equally important question: How can you use them to support the life you want?
At Cibao Wealth Management, we help you develop a personalized income strategy that connects your investments and other financial resources to your spending needs, goals, and circumstances.
Knowing how much you can spend is about more than covering your monthly expenses.
Can you afford to make a major purchase? Take that expensive trip you've been considering? Make a significant gift to someone you love? And how might those decisions affect your financial future?
Our guardrails-based approach helps answer these questions by establishing a recommended spending level and guidelines for when adjustments may be appropriate.
As markets rise or fall, major expenses arise, or your circumstances change, we help you understand whether your spending can increase or needs to decrease—and by how much.
Whether you're approaching retirement, pursuing financial independence earlier in life, or transitioning from business ownership, your income strategy provides practical guidance for making financial decisions with greater clarity and confidence.
And when your financial life spans the United States and Dominican Republic, we consider how those decisions fit within your broader financial circumstances across both countries.
Comprehensive Financial Planning Across Borders
Your financial life is interconnected. Your financial plan should be, too.
When your life spans the United States and Dominican Republic, financial decisions rarely stand alone. Buying a home can affect your retirement income. Tax obligations can influence investment and withdrawal decisions. Owning property or spending time in another country can introduce new estate planning and insurance considerations.
We bring these decisions together into one coordinated financial strategy.
Our comprehensive planning approach includes:
Retirement & Cash Flow Planning
Retiring in the Dominican Republic, dividing your time between countries, or pursuing financial independence earlier in life involves more than determining a spending amount. We help coordinate your income sources, Social Security decisions, retirement account withdrawals, anticipated expenses, and major financial commitments so your cash flow strategy reflects the realities of your life across borders.
Cross-Border Tax Planning
When your financial life spans the United States and Dominican Republic, understanding how both tax systems affect your decisions is essential.
We help you navigate cross-border tax considerations, identify opportunities for tax-efficient planning, and coordinate decisions involving retirement income, investments, business interests, and real estate.
The goal is to help you meet your obligations while keeping more of your hard-earned wealth available to support your lifestyle and long-term financial goals.
Dominican Republic Real Estate Planning
A property purchase can be one of the largest financial commitments you'll make. We help you evaluate how to fund the purchase, what resources will remain afterward, and how ongoing ownership expenses may affect your income strategy and long-term financial goals.
Estate & Legacy Planning
Owning assets in two countries can complicate how wealth passes to the people and causes you care about. We help identify estate planning considerations involving property ownership, beneficiaries, and inheritance across jurisdictions, coordinating with qualified legal professionals when appropriate.
Insurance & Risk Management
Moving abroad or dividing your time between countries can change your exposure to financial risks. We help assess how insurance coverage, healthcare expenses, liability, and unexpected events could affect your financial independence and the people who depend on you.
Business-Owner Planning
Your business and personal finances are closely connected. Whether you're operating a business, preparing for a transition, or considering how business wealth can support your financial independence, we help coordinate cash flow, investments, tax considerations, and long-term personal goals.
Investment Planning
Your portfolio should reflect more than your risk tolerance. We help align your investments with your income needs, major financial commitments, liquidity requirements, and the realities of maintaining financial interests across borders.
Rather than treating these as separate financial decisions, we consider how they affect one another—and how they collectively support the life you're working toward.
Investment & Wealth Management
Your investments should support your life—not the other way around.
A well-designed investment strategy begins with understanding what your money needs to accomplish.
At Cibao Wealth Management, we manage investments in coordination with your financial plan, income needs, and long-term goals. Whether you're accumulating wealth, preparing for retirement, or drawing income from your portfolio, your investment strategy should reflect the role those assets play in your financial life.
Our approach considers portfolio diversification, risk management, tax efficiency, liquidity needs, and the timing of withdrawals. For clients whose lives span the United States and Dominican Republic, we also consider how cross-border financial circumstances may influence investment and distribution decisions.
As markets change and your circumstances evolve, we revisit your financial plan, monitor your income strategy, and evaluate whether adjustments are appropriate. Your spending guardrails help provide a disciplined framework for making those decisions rather than reacting to short-term market movements.
The goal is to keep your investments, income strategy, and broader financial decisions working together—so you can pursue the life you envision with greater clarity and confidence.
Working Together
Financial guidance that fits the decisions you're making.
Ongoing Comprehensive Financial Planning & Wealth Management
For clients seeking a coordinated financial strategy and a long-term advisory relationship, we provide comprehensive financial planning and investment management that evolve with their lives.
As a fee-only fiduciary financial advisory firm, Cibao Wealth Management provides advice guided by our obligation to act in our clients' best interests. Our recommendations are built around your goals, financial circumstances, and the life you're working toward—not commissions from selling financial products.
We begin by understanding your goals, financial resources, income needs, and circumstances across the United States and Dominican Republic. From there, we develop a personalized financial plan, establish an income strategy where appropriate, and coordinate investment management with your broader financial objectives.
As your life changes, we continue monitoring your plan, reviewing your spending guidelines, and helping you navigate important financial decisions.
This ongoing relationship is designed for individuals and families who value having a financial adviser who understands both their long-term goals and the complexities of their cross-border financial lives.
Focused Cross-Border Financial Planning Consultations
Not every financial decision requires an ongoing advisory relationship.
For individuals facing a specific financial question involving the United States and Dominican Republic, we also offer focused planning engagements tailored to the decision at hand.
These consultations may address how to fund a Dominican Republic real estate purchase, evaluate the financial implications of relocating between countries, or assess a particular cross-border retirement income decision.
The scope of each engagement is defined in advance, allowing us to concentrate on the financial considerations most relevant to your situation.
Whether you need ongoing guidance or help navigating a particular decision, our goal is to provide thoughtful, objective advice that helps you move forward with greater clarity.
Let's Talk About Your Financial Future
Whether you're preparing for retirement, pursuing financial independence, managing wealth across borders, or considering a significant financial decision, we're here to help you understand your options and develop a strategy aligned with your goals.