Vital Investment Management
Portland Head Light on the rocky Maine coast at Cape Elizabeth

Wealth management

Personally tailored planning and investment management.

Clients come to Vital for useful financial planning and portfolios built around their lives. Savings, retirement, taxes, investment management, and estate planning live in one relationship. If you own a business, that work is in the room too.

Core wealth management

Planning, investing, and the estate plan.

The household, in one view

Comprehensive Financial Planning

Connect savings, retirement, taxes, cash flow, and the next decade into one plan you can actually use.

Who it is for. Individuals and families who want more than a portfolio review: people who need the retirement date, the tax bill, college, and everyday cash to live in the same plan.

One coordinated plan for what you earn, what you save, what you will need, and how to get there.

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Personally tailored portfolios

Investment Management

Personally tailored investment advice and implementation for each of your portfolios.

Who it is for. Individuals and families who want a fiduciary to manage investments with the same seriousness they bring to the rest of their financial life.

A portfolio built around your time horizon, taxes, and the life you are trying to fund, not a model off the shelf.

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Led with Cindy Bragdon

Estate Planning

Name who decides, protect what you have built, and make sure documents work when a family actually needs them.

Who it is for. Individuals and families who need more than a will in a drawer, including those with children, aging parents, charitable goals, or a business that would stall without them.

A funded, followable estate plan: wills, trusts, beneficiaries, and the conversations families usually postpone.

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For business owners

When the company is part of the plan.

Treasury, cash, and a future sale or succession sit beside the household plan, not in a separate silo. Owners who want a practice built around the company first can visit Dillon Goodman's site at vimsmallbusiness.com.

For business owners

Treasury & Cash Management

Get the cash inside the business working as hard as you do, without starving operations or leaving excess idle.

Who it is for. Owners who feel cash-rich one month and stretched the next, or who have meaningful reserves sitting in an operating account with no policy behind them.

Operating cash, reserves, and short-term decisions that finally have a system.

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For business owners

Business Transition, Sale & Exit Planning

Prepare the company, and your personal finances, for a sale, succession, or a slower role, on your timeline.

Who it is for. Owners who know they will not run this forever, even if the sale, gift, or handoff is still years away.

A realistic path from “someday” to a transition you can live with.

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If more than one of these is true, start with a discovery call.

A discovery call with Rusty is confidential, fiduciary, and pressure-free. Bring the mess. That is the point.

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