Five Star award winner Edward Bao Jr

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Edward Bao Jr

CFP^®, AIF^®

Senior Wealth Advisor

Smallwood Wealth Management

199 Broad St

Red Bank, NJ 7701

Office: 800-797-1000

edwardb@smallwoodwealth.com
www.smallwoodwealth.com

Professional Approach

Edward Bao, Jr. is a Senior Wealth Advisor at Smallwood Wealth Management. Ed specializes in creating financial plans to help reduce risks and act as your macro-manager. By taking a holistic approach to how decisions are made in the plan, he can better understand the ripple effect these decisions have on other parts of the plan. His overall objective is to try to produce a more predictable outcome before and during retirement. He understands the many complexities everyone faces and works with a wide array of individuals, including medical professionals, small business owners, and Wall Street executives, to attain a complete understanding of their financial and personal needs to help overcome the factors that produce pressure on their wealth. His objective is to provide his clients a process of repositioning assets to help decrease risk and to have a more versatile plan.

Due to his years of experience, clients trust Ed and feel comfortable going to him with questions and for reassurance. He prides himself in creating top-to-bottom comprehensive plans for each individual client.

WHY SMALLWOOD

Our clients choose Smallwood Wealth because they have reached a level of financial success that they know they need assistance in managing. They want a big picture approach to wealth management, looking at all the aspects of their plan.

OUR JOB

Current financial circumstances are unique to each individual. Our collaborative approach organizes your financial assets and strategy to help you make sense of what you own; and more importantly, how financial pressure can impact your wealth and its potential.

THE GOAL

Our goal is to help you develop financial strategies that attempt to reduce risk and taxes, accumulate more wealth, enhance retirement income, and pass more assets on to your family. Our focus is completely on you and your financial goals.

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This award was issued on 12/1/19 by Five Star Professional (FSP) for the time period 03/1/2019 through 10/16/2019. Fee paid for use of marketing materials. Self-completed questionnaire was used for rating. This rating is not related to the quality of the investment advice and based solely on the disclosed criteria. 6210 New Jersey-area wealth managers were considered for the award; 480 (8% of candidates) were named 2020 Five Star Wealth Managers. The following prior year statistics use this format: YEAR: # Considered, # Winners, % of candidates, Issued Date, Research Period. 2019: 6097, 477, 8%, 12/1/18, 3/21/18 - 10/12/18; 2018: 4383, 415, 9%, 12/1/17, 2/21/17 - 10/12/17; 2017: 3868, 664, 17%, 11/1/16, 2/25/16 - 10/7/16; 2016: 4143, 626, 15%, 11/1/15, 4/15/15 - 10/16/15; 2015: 5063, 672, 13%, 12/1/14, 4/15/14 - 10/16/14; 2014: 3315, 646, 19%, 12/1/13, 4/15/13 - 10/16/13; 2013: 4049, 733, 18%, 12/1/12, 4/15/12 - 10/16/12; 2012: 1312, 400, 30%, 11/1/11, 4/15/11 - 10/16/11.

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Wealth managers do not pay a fee to be considered or placed on the final list of Five Star Wealth Managers. The award is based on 10 objective criteria. Eligibility criteria-required: 1. Credentialed as a registered investment adviser (RIA) or a registered investment adviser representative; 2. Actively licensed as a RIA or as a principal of a registered investment adviser firm for a minimum of 5 years; 3. Favorable regulatory and complaint history review (As defined by FSP, the wealth manager has not; A. Been subject to a regulatory action that resulted in a license being suspended or revoked, or payment of a fine; B. Had more than a total of three settled or pending complaints filed against them and/or a total of five settled, pending, dismissed or denied complaints with any regulatory authority or FSP's consumer complaint process. Unfavorable feedback may have been discovered through a check of complaints registered with a regulatory authority or complaints registered through FSP's consumer complaint process; feedback may not be representative of any one client's experience; C. Individually contributed to a financial settlement of a customer complaint; D. Filed for personal bankruptcy within the past 11 years; E. Been terminated from a financial services firm within the past 11 years; F. Been convicted of a felony); 4. Fulfilled their firm review based on internal standards; 5. Accepting new clients. Evaluation criteria-considered: 6. One-year client retention rate; 7. Five-year client retention rate; 8. Non-institutional discretionary and/or non-discretionary client assets administered; 9. Number of client households served; 10. Education and professional designations. FSP does not evaluate quality of services provided to clients. The award is not indicative of the wealth manager's future performance . Wealth Managers may or may not use discretion in their practice and therefore may not manage their clients' assets. The inclusion of a wealth manager on the Five Star Wealth Manager list should not be construed as an endorsement of the wealth manager by FSP or this publication. Working with a Five Star Wealth Manager or any wealth manager is no guarantee as to future investment success, nor is there any guarantee that the selected wealth managers will be awarded this accomplishment by FSP in the future. Visit www.fivestarprofessional.com.