Comprehensive Financial Planning & Retirement Planning

STOP ROWING.
START SAILING.

Are you rowing your way into retirement—or sailing toward it?
Philip T. Purpura, CFP® VP & Senior Wealth Manager Bridge Wealth Strategies, a dba of Mayflower Advisors Comprehensive Financial Planning for Retirement, Wealth & Legacy
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Philip T. Purpura, CFP®

VP & Senior Wealth Manager
Bridge Wealth Strategies, a dba of Mayflower Advisors

For more than 30 years, Philip has helped individuals, families, retirees, pre-retirees and Federal employees navigate important financial decisions with greater clarity and purpose.

As a CFP® professional, the focus goes beyond the portfolio to coordinate retirement income, investments, taxes, Social Security, estate planning and risk management.

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A More Complete Approach

Financial planning should start with your life—not just your investments.

The goal is to understand where you are, what you're working toward and how the different parts of your financial life can work together.

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What We Do

Comprehensive Financial Planning

Retirement planning, investment management, tax planning, estate and legacy planning, Social Security and retirement benefits, and insurance and risk management.

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Who We Help

People Planning for What Comes Next

Individuals, families, pre-retirees, retirees and particularly Federal employees who want greater clarity and direction for their financial future.

Comprehensive Financial Planning

Your financial life is more than your investment portfolio.

These areas are connected. The purpose of a comprehensive financial plan is to bring them together around your life, your retirement and the legacy you want to create.

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Retirement Planning

Build a strategy around retirement income, timing, lifestyle and the financial future you want to create.

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Investment Management

Align your investments with your goals, time horizon, retirement plan and tolerance for risk.

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Tax Planning

Consider how today's financial decisions may affect taxes throughout retirement and beyond.

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Estate & Legacy Planning

Coordinate your financial plan with the people, family and causes that matter most.

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Social Security & Retirement Benefits

Make informed decisions about benefits that may contribute to your retirement income.

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Insurance & Risk Management

Identify and manage risks that could disrupt your retirement and broader financial plan.

Our Approach

A financial plan gives your retirement a course and direction.

Many people spend their working years saving and accumulating money without necessarily having a coordinated plan for where they are going.

Retirement decisions do not happen in isolation. Investments affect income. Income affects taxes. Taxes can affect your estate. Insurance helps protect what you've built.

Comprehensive planning brings those pieces together so you're not simply accumulating—you have a clearer idea of where you're going and how you plan to get there.

A Clear Course Forward

Stop Rowing. Start Sailing.

01 — Understand Your priorities, financial picture and retirement goals.
02 — Coordinate Bring retirement, investments, taxes, benefits, estate and risk management together.
03 — Plan Build a strategy around your life—not simply your portfolio.
04 — Navigate Review and adjust your plan as circumstances change.
Federal Employees

Your Federal Benefits Are the Foundation of Your Retirement. Make Sure They Work Together.

Federal benefits can play a major role in retirement, but they are one part of your overall financial plan—not the entire plan.

The goal is to coordinate those benefits with retirement income, investments, taxes, insurance and estate and legacy planning.

FERS / CSRS TSP FEHB FEGLI Social Security Medicare Survivor Benefits Retirement Income
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Federal Benefits Analysis

See how the pieces of your Federal retirement may work together.

A Federal Benefits Analysis can help provide greater clarity around your benefits, retirement income and the decisions that may affect your broader financial plan.

Who We Help

Planning for the people behind the numbers.

Every financial plan begins with understanding the person, family and goals it is designed to serve.

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Individuals & Families

Coordinate today's financial decisions with the future you're working to create.

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Pre-Retirees

Prepare for the transition from earning and accumulating to living from your wealth.

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Retirees

Coordinate income, investments, taxes and legacy decisions throughout retirement.

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Federal Employees

Integrate Federal benefits into your broader retirement and financial plan.

Retirement Resources

Education for Better Financial Decisions.

Explore educational insights around retirement, estate planning and important financial decisions.

NOT Just For Millionaires And Billionaires

21st Century Trust Funding Method

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Let's Talk

Your financial plan should reflect the life you're planning for.

Whether you're preparing for retirement, already retired, navigating Federal benefits or simply trying to bring the different areas of your financial life together, the first step is a conversation.

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Tell us a little about what you'd like help with, and we'll be in touch.

Your Next Step

Ready to Stop Rowing and Start Sailing?

Understand where you are today, where you want to go and how the different pieces of your financial life can work together to help you get there.

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Mission Statement

Our mission is to create a firm like no other in the industry. Working together with the clients and our multidisciplinary team approach of specialists, we will create an elevated client experience. Families and small businesses are demanding ever-increasing assistance with support and guidance for smart estate and financial planning for building wealth.

Continuous training and support for company management and employees, combined with the strictest standards of protocols, ethics, and integrity will be expected and implemented.

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Contact Info

  • 516-652-8561

  • 68 S. Service Road, Melville, NY 11747

68 S Service Rd, Melville, NY 11747, USA

Mayflower Financial Advisors, LLC (dba Mayflower Advisors, "Mayflower") is an SEC registered investment adviser with its principal place of business in Boston, Massachusetts. Securities offered by Registered Representatives through Private Client Services, Member FINRA/SIPC. Advisory products and services offered by Investment Advisory Representatives through Mayflower Advisors, a Registered Investment Advisor. Private Client Services and Mayflower Advisors are unaffiliated entities. A copy of Mayflower's current written disclosure statement as set forth on Form ADV, discussing Mayflower's business operations, services and fees is available upon written request or by visiting the SEC's website at http://www.adviserinfo.sec.gov. Member FINRA (https://www.finra.org) / SIPC (https://www.sipc.org). Obtain more information about our firm and its financial professionals at FINRA's BrokerCheck: https://brokercheck.finra.org.

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Bridge Wealth Strategies Inc. is not affiliated with the US Government. The materials presented on this website are intended as an educational overview and are not intended to provide specific advice to individuals without further consultation.

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