Our Mission

The Harris Allison Buxbaum Group is a highly skilled team of professionals you can trust to help you achieve your long-term financial well-being. Our holistic approach to wealth management puts client needs at the center of everything we do. We provide "big picture" thinking and innovative solutions designed to help clients attain their definition of success. We believe our role goes beyond portfolio management and extends to providing solutions that can give you greater freedom to pursue the things in life you enjoy.

Clients at various stages in their lives trust us to help them find ways to pursue their financial and life goals, including:

• The retirement lifestyle they envision
• Affording the best education possible for their children and grandchildren
• Tax-efficient wealth transfer to the next generation
• Establishment of their legacy through family foundations and philanthropy
• Diversifying and monetizing business interests
• Effective strategies for managing concentrated equity holdings

Establish Objectives

Our holistic approach to wealth management starts with getting a clear understanding of where you are currently, your concerns and your aspirations. We follow a disciplined wealth management process to develop a blueprint for a customized financial strategy designed to build and protect your wealth.

Through years of training and practical experience, we have become very good listeners. We use this skill to understand the challenges you face and to get a complete picture of the things you value most and their priorities in your life. If you are uncertain about your objectives, we will help you define them by asking challenging questions.

We understand that you need to balance multiple goals simultaneously and we will help you to prioritize your choices to reflect what you want to achieve in life.

Set Strategy

We will work with you to build an investment strategy and asset allocation that allows the different pieces of your financial life to work together, taking into consideration not only your various goals, but also the levels of risk you are prepared to take to reach them.

You have worked hard, sacrificed and managed to accumulate enough wealth to reach a point in your life where being confident about your future matters. To solidify and build that confidence, we initially emphasize strategies designed to preserve wealth, minimize taxes and sustain retirement income at the level you need to maintain your lifestyle.

Implement Solutions

The strength of your strategy will mean little if it falls short at execution. We combine our portfolio management experience with Merrill Lynch's extensive network of specialists to offer the right solutions at the right time.

We utilize our group's personal discretionary portfolio management in conjunction with Merrill Lynch's open investment platform. This flexibility provides us with the autonomy to customize investment solutions in accordance with your goals and investment objectives. The resources we provide include:

Merrill Lynch Personal Investment Advisory^® Program (Merrill Lynch PIA): Our team manages proprietary equity and balanced portfolios under the Merrill Lynch PIA program. This program is reserved for specially qualified Financial Advisors and allows our team the ability to build and manage independent proprietary portfolios with client consent.

Managed Solutions: Through Merrill Lynch's Managed Solutions group, our team has access to a large universe of "best-in-class" independent portfolio managers from around the world.

These resources provide us with both autonomy and extensive flexibility to individualize your portfolio according to the target asset allocation developed for you.

BofA Merrill Lynch Global Research provides an exceptional source and constant flow of investment ideas and information. Through our team's ongoing due diligence, investment and risk management skills, market acumen and independent thinking, we funnel this research information into actionable strategies.

Review Progress

Trusting us with your wealth is a huge commitment on your part, and we dedicate abundant resources to providing exceptional service. We will maintain consistent contact with you, listening to your concerns and addressing any questions that may arise. We will also conduct a regular, periodic review of performance to help you measure your investment results against your objectives. In addition to monitoring your investments and asset allocation on an ongoing basis, we believe in instituting disciplined rebalancing to align your portfolio with your current needs.

Estate Planning Services

We access the deep resources of Merrill Lynch and routinely coordinate our efforts with your other professional advisors (tax and estate attorneys and CPAs) to help your estate plan become seamless, efficient and up-to-date. We can recommend trusts, charitable gifting strategies, life insurance and other sophisticated strategies to help you effectuate your estate plan. In helping you formulate your estate planning goals, some of the questions we may ask will include:

• What do you want your legacy to be?
• Do you have wealth you want to pass along to your family, favorite charities or others?
• What are the future needs of your spouse, your children, your extended family?
• How can you structure, or re-structure, your financial assets to be a more efficient pool of assets for your estate?
• How can we translate your estate plan and goals into a financial strategy?

Trust and Philanthropic Services

Our group assists clients with trust management and philanthropic planning by utilizing specialists from Merrill Lynch Trust Company and the Merrill Lynch Center for Philanthropy and Nonprofit Management, who are trained to help address specific financial needs.

By leveraging and working with the local Seattle office of Merrill Lynch Trust Company, we can help clients develop, establish and administer:

• A full range of personal trusts, including family and marital trusts, dynasty and highly specialized trusts
• Philanthropic strategies including charitable trusts, foundations and donor-advised solutions.
• Trusteed IRAs and Roth IRAs for the management of retirement wealth.
• Dedicated estate administration that is skilled in trust and estate settlement.

Concentrated Stock Holdings

The prudent management of a concentrated stock holding can be critical to preserving and growing your wealth. We will work with you to compare strategies and develop a sound approach for managing your holding based upon your risk tolerance, your expectation for future growth, investment time horizon and tax considerations.

Strategies we can employ may include the following:

• Creating liquidity through open market sales, collar plus loan or securities-based lending
• Hedging through zero-premium collar, put option or pre-paid forward contract
• Diversifying through exchange funds, family foundations or charitable trusts
• Wealth transfer through charitable and non-charitable trust planning or grantor retained annuity trusts

Family Office Services

We have access to an expansive set of investment, administrative and advisory solutions that focus on your family, including multiple generations of your family, such as:

• Intergenerational transfer strategy development
• Special asset acquisition analysis
• Family partnership/LLC advisory services
• Bill pay and household accounts management
• Income tax efficiency and compliance
• Risk management planning, including insurance coverage reviews
• Coordination with third-party professional advisors and experts

Meet our team

• York Harris
• Managing Director - Investments
• Financial Advisor
• Portfolio Manager, Merrill Lynch PIA^™ Program

• Andrew Allison, CIMA^®
• Vice President
• Wealth Management Advisor
• Portfolio Manager, Merrill Lynch PIA^™ Program

• Jay Buxbaum
• First Vice President - Investments
• Financial Advisor
• Portfolio Manager, Merrill Lynch PIA^™ Program

• Michelle Sfanos, CFM, CRPC^®
• Senior Associate

• Ann Boberg, CRPC^®
• Senior Associate

• Michelle Ann Scoggins
• Registered Client Associate

• Mikah McCudden
• Registered Client Associate