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Full service retirement advice: financial, tax & legal
About Us
How we're different
Our Comprehensive Approach
Our Comprehensive Approach
Most advisory firms focus on the accumulation phase of retirement. We focus on retirement advice for the income phase of your life by working with you to develop a plan that will create a lifetime income stream in retirement that protects you from unnecessary risk, keeps up with inflation and last but not least, leaves a legacy for your family & community after you are gone.
Our Comprehensive Approach
Our Comprehensive Approach
Our Comprehensive Approach
We start by assessing your current trajectory to measure the likelihood of achieving your goals. This includes a detailed financial, tax & legal analysis.
Next, we identify any weaknesses in your current path to determine if there are opportunities as part of a retirement income plan to improve your long term outcomes. If we can help you
We start by assessing your current trajectory to measure the likelihood of achieving your goals. This includes a detailed financial, tax & legal analysis.
Next, we identify any weaknesses in your current path to determine if there are opportunities as part of a retirement income plan to improve your long term outcomes. If we can help you, we'll tell you. If we can't, we'll tell you that as well.
Why Us?
Our Comprehensive Approach
Why Us?
You are faced with a dizzying array of options these days in the financial advisory world. Who can you trust to help you achieve your goals safely?
While we are a family business, we bring together several disciplines, including financial, tax & legal, under one roof to provide all the tools that you need to achieve your goals, at a fract
You are faced with a dizzying array of options these days in the financial advisory world. Who can you trust to help you achieve your goals safely?
While we are a family business, we bring together several disciplines, including financial, tax & legal, under one roof to provide all the tools that you need to achieve your goals, at a fraction of the cost of big firms. You also have our commitment that we will provide full disclosure on the strengths & weaknesses of our recommendations, along with costs of engaging us as your advisory team, so you'll be in the position to make a fully informed decision that is in your best interests.
your CREW Chief
Neal Angel, MBA - Principal
Neal Angel, MBA, is an experienced financial advisor with a decade and a half of experience, who holds both Series 65 and South Carolina life/health insurance licenses. Neal specializes in advising families & small business owners, both retired & approaching retirement, with strategies for preserving their retirement savings, increasing their retirement income & leaving a financial legacy for their family & community. He enjoys showing families how to take advantage of established rules and ongoing changes in the law to lower taxable income, while at the same time increasing net income by up to 67%. He also enjoys teaching retirees the latest strategies for ensuring a lifetime income, safe from market volatility, which grows over time to keep up with inflation.
In addition to holding a license in insurance, Mr. Angel serves as an investment advisor representative working with CreativeOne Wealth, along with legal & tax advisors in order to best serve clients in South Carolina and beyond. He has advised thousands of families in Upstate South Carolina as a speaker on current retirement issues as well as a guest columnist for local upstate publications. He has also served as a regular lecturer on retirement income planning at Furman & Clemson University lifelong learning programs since 2013 on strategies for maximizing income while preserving financial assets in retirement.
While originally from Greensboro, NC, Neal & his family have lived in the Upstate of South Carolina since 1993. Together with his wife, they have three children aged 34, 32 & 27, and three grandchildren. His wife works as an RN at Spartanburg Regional Hospital. During their free time with the family, they enjoy horseback riding, hiking, kayaking & camping in the mountains.
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Neal Angel, MBA
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