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Not only does my advisor focus on you when he meets with you, it's as if he has no other clients.
— Joanne D., client of Symphony Financial, Private Client Group firm
Every great financial plan should begin with the plans you have for your life. So we start by understanding your vision, values, and evolving goals before recommending anything. We then design a comprehensive plan that combines advanced investment and risk management strategies, allowing you to plan even more confidently for your future.
Our Private Client Services investment advisory solution gives you access to exclusive wealth management and specialized portfolios that help build, protect and manage wealth. You and your Northwestern Mutual advisor will work with a seasoned team that specializes in handling the unique needs that come with more wealth, including consolidating existing investment accounts, distributing wealth to your loved ones, and maximizing the tax efficiency of your portfolio.
Working with our Private Client Group gives you exclusive access to Northwestern Mutual products, solutions, and planning experts to help enhance your tax efficiency. Our disciplined approach sheds light on how informed tax decisions can help reduce the impact to you and your legacy.
Building an enduring legacy comes from working with an enduring firm. Our Private Client Group firms build teams to plan with all generations of your family, even before they have wealth of their own. Through our multigenerational planning, we'll help you protect and preserve what you've worked so hard for.
Significant wealth often brings additional complexities for ultra-high-net-worth individuals and families. Northwestern Mutual Family Office Services can help bring every dimension of your financial life into one coordinated strategy built around your goals, your priorities and your long-term vision.
The Northwestern Mutual Family Office Services team coordinates and works in concert with a dedicated team of specialists on your behalf. Together, they help give you a more connected view of your wealth. This can help you make decisions with greater confidence and help preserve, grow and transfer what you've built with intention—today and for generations to come.
Top 10 ranked investment service
We're one of the top U.S. Independent Broker-Dealers.1
$404B client retail investment assets held or under management by Northwestern Mutual Wealth Management.
In client retail investment assets held or under management by Northwestern Mutual Wealth Management.2
AAA financial strength rating
A++, Aa1, AA+—we've earned the highest available financial strength ratings awarded to any U.S. life insurer from all four major rating agencies.3,4
When major market movements happen, our Wealth Management Investment Team is called upon by national news and media outlets to provide their expertise. Our Private Client Group advisors work with them, including our Chief Investment Strategist, Brent Schutte, to bring their insights and philosophy into your portfolio.







