Effective financial strategies can sometimes require a team of experts working together to serve your best interests. In such situations, we are the quarterback who makes sure everyone is working together to achieve the best possible results. If you have existing team members you trust, such as your CPA or attorney, we are happy to work with them, and we can also bring in our subject-matter experts as needed. Some of our strategic alliances are detailed below.
Melissa Gozukizil and her fellow financial professionals are proud to be affiliated with New York Life Insurance Company. New York Life and its wholly owned subsidiaries provide life insurance, fixed annuities, and long-term care insurance. A mutual insurance company, New York Life is one of the largest mutual life insurance companies in the United States, and holds the highest financial strength ratings currently awarded to any U.S. life insurer from all four of the major credit rating agencies: A.M. Best (A++), Fitch (AAA), Moody's Investor Service (Aaa), and Standard & Poor's (AA+). (Source: Third-Party Ratings Reports as of 9/30/2021.)
The Advanced Planning Group collectively leverages years of practical experience and disciplines in law, accounting, and financial services, in order to provide New York Life agents with unparalleled assistance in estate, business, and life insurance planning. Because the Advanced Planning Group supports agents who have a nationwide clientele, the group has insight consulting on estate and business plans at all levels of wealth across all 50 states. The Advanced Planning Group is called to action to advise on hundreds of business and estate plans each year; and that means Melissa Gozukizil can bring experience, value, and insight to your situation. The Advanced Planning Group does not provide specific legal, tax, or accounting advice. Consult with your own advisors for legal, tax and accounting advice.
NYLIFE Securities, LLC offers Registered Representatives the resources of a full-service broker/dealer together with competitive investment products and services and a discounted cost structure for clients. As a registered broker/dealer, licensed insurance agency, and wholly owned subsidiary of New York Life Insurance Company, NYLIFE Securities, LLC can help us address the needs of almost every level of investor - from the novice to the sophisticated.
Through Melissa Gozukizil's relationship with American Funds, she is able to provide expansive investment options to her clients. American Funds has been providing industry leading offerings since 1931 and is currently one of the world's largest investment management organizations.