Experience the Difference of
Proactive Wealth Management

Tax-Efficient · Integrated · Built for Generations

"Altenn Wealth designs sophisticated, tax-aware strategies that integrate your investments, real estate decisions, career income, and generational planning into one coordinated system. Through a high-touch advisory approach, we help reduce complexity, improve after-tax outcomes, and support your family's long-term objectives."

Our Approach

Independent. Fiduciary. Strategically Coordinated.

Complex wealth requires more than isolated recommendations. We analyze how investments, taxes, estate structures, and financial decisions interact to build strategies designed for long-term outcomes. 

Integrated

Your investments, taxes, estate structures, and entities work together as a coordinated system, amplifying the compounding impact of each financial decision.

Optimized

Every move is guided by an after-tax perspective, helping reduce inefficiencies and improve long-term growth across all accounts.

Resilient

Your strategy adapts as life changes, providing clarity and stability through transitions, milestones, and generational shifts.
Professional Affiliations
CFP® Certified Financial Planner certification logo
CFA Institute logoCFA Society Los Angeles logoNAPFA (National Association of Personal Financial Advisors) logoInstitute for Divorce Financial Analysts (IDFA) logo
Who We Serve

Altenn Wealth serves high-earning professionals and families whose financial lives have grown complex. Whether you are navigating a liquidity event, a concentrated position, or a major life transition, we coordinate planning, investments, and tax strategy around your specific situation.

High Net Worth Families

Multi-generational wealth requiring custom portfolio architectures, strategic asset location, and tax-aware transition strategies to maximize after-tax compounding and seamlessly steward family wealth across generations.

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High Net Worth Families

High Net Worth Families

Executives & Equity-Compensated Professionals

Leaders with concentrated stock positions, NSOs, ISOs, or RSUs who need disciplined diversification pathways, tax-aware liquidation strategies, and AMT exposure management.

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Executives & Equity-Compensated Professionals

Executives & Equity-Compensated Professionals

Business Owners & Entrepreneurs

Founders and owners managing capital-intensive transitions, requiring pre-liquidity portfolio structuring, tax-efficient capital gains management, and tax-smart proceeds reinvestment.

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Business Owners & Entrepreneurs

Business Owners & Entrepreneurs

Physicians & Healthcare Practice Owners

Medical professionals balancing peak earning years, specialized practice plans, cash balance pensions, and tax-efficient asset placement in taxable vs. tax-deferred buckets.

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Physicians & Healthcare Practice Owners

Physicians & Healthcare Practice Owners

High-Income Professionals in Peak Earning Years

High earners subject to top federal and state brackets requiring tax-efficient overlay strategies, systematic tax-loss harvesting, and custom direct indexing to maximize after-tax returns.

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High-Income Professionals in Peak Earning Years

High-Income Professionals in Peak Earning Years

Pre-Retirees & High-Net-Worth Retirees

Investors shifting from accumulation to decumulation who need tax-smart withdrawal sequencing, strategic Roth conversions, and capital gain-managed rebalancing during distribution.

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Pre-Retirees & High-Net-Worth Retirees

Pre-Retirees & High-Net-Worth Retirees

Engagement Process

How We Work

Our process is designed to build a complete understanding of your financial life before recommendations are made. Every phase builds on the last, allowing us to create strategies that are coordinated, tax-efficient, and built to evolve over time.

1. Initial Consultation
Understanding Your Goals

We begin with an introductory conversation to understand your objectives, current financial situation, and the challenges you want to solve. We discuss your priorities, explain our approach, and determine whether our expertise aligns with your needs. If we believe another professional would better serve your situation, we will let you know.

2. Comprehensive Review
Building Your Financial Blueprint

Next, we perform a detailed review of the key pieces of your financial life. This may include tax returns, investment portfolios, retirement accounts, estate documents, equity compensation, business interests, insurance coverage, and cash flow. Rather than evaluating each area independently, we identify how they interact and where opportunities exist to improve tax efficiency, reduce risk, and strengthen long-term outcomes.

3. Strategy Design
Your Integrated Wealth Plan

Using our analysis, we develop a comprehensive wealth strategy tailored to your circumstances. Depending on your needs, this may include investment management, multi-year tax planning, retirement income strategies, estate planning coordination, charitable giving strategies, business succession planning, and equity compensation planning. Every recommendation is designed to work together as part of a single, integrated strategy—not as isolated financial decisions.

4. Lifelong Partnership
Lifespan Financial Planning

We do lifespan financial planning. Your financial strategy should evolve as your life, family, career, and wealth change. Rather than reacting after major events occur, we proactively anticipate them—whether it's retirement, the sale of a business, equity compensation decisions, a growing family, charitable giving, or changes in tax law. We meet regularly to review your progress, refine your strategy, and identify new planning opportunities before they become urgent. As circumstances change, your plan adapts with them, ensuring every financial decision continues to support your long-term goals.

The right time to plan is before you need to.

Whatever's ahead, the earlier we start, the more room we have to work with. Let's talk about where you stand.
• Fee-only fiduciary advice
• Coordinated with your CPA & attorney
• No cost, no obligation first call
Testimonials
I’ve tried working with financial advisors over the past few years, interviewing different firms, but I wasn’t convinced of their expertise or how much time they would dedicate to me, so I never moved forward with anyone.
I’ve known Hilal for a long time, and as soon as I heard she had become a wealth manager and financial advisor, I was genuinely excited and reached out. I knew that with her strong economics and finance background and impeccable work ethic, she would do an excellent job. I’m very glad I did—she has been extremely thorough and highly knowledgeable in her approach. Just as importantly, she takes the time to educate me throughout our meetings, clearly explaining the reasoning behind each recommendation so I can understand the strategy and feel confident in the decisions we’re making.
We’re redesigning my very risky, tech-heavy portfolio while also taking tax-saving strategies into consideration, and it’s a huge relief to stop carrying the burden of managing it on my own and place it in Hilal’s professional, meticulous hands. We’ve only just started the process, and I’m looking forward to her guidance on our other investments, such as real estate.
A. Y.
Software Engineer, Fintech
Katerina and her team are both strong and reassuring. I do not have a financial background, but I am an entrepreneur and a single mother. There's a tremendous amount of guesswork that goes into my decisions, and she helps me make much more informed choices, starting with budget and planning. Women like to plan, and we're good at that, but I needed a lot of help understanding near and long-term expenses, and with her assistance, I was able to focus on my daughter and the other pressing issues of my day to day. She is constantly offering support as my life changes and my daughter's needs change. Her personal and professional background makes her such a unique planner, both a mother and a financial executive.
Anonymous Client
Entrepreneur & Single Mother
We have worked with a few financial advisors over the years, but never felt like any of them truly took the time to understand our full situation before recommending a strategy. Working with Hilal has been a completely different experience.
What stands out most is how thorough she is. She doesn't rush to a recommendation - she takes the time to walk through the details of our finances, lays out multiple options, and explains the tradeoffs of each so we can make a decision that actually fits our situation, not a one-size-fits-all plan. That approach has paid off: our portfolio has seen strong growth since we started working together.
What we didn't expect was how much value she'd add beyond investing. She's helped teach our kids financial literacy and actually walked them through managing their own stocks, which has been an incredible gift at their age. She's also been a kind of life coach for our family - helping us think through life insurance, estate planning, and generally looking out for us, well beyond the scope of typical financial advising.
We came in looking for someone to manage our investments. What we found was a genuine partner who's invested in our family's financial future in every sense. We can't recommend Hilal highly enough.
Anonymous Client
Family
Please Note: Limitations. This testimonial reflects the experience of an actual Altenn Wealth client. Altenn Wealth did not pay or offer compensation for it. Results and experiences vary by client, so this testimonial shouldn't be viewed as an endorsement by any other client, or as a guarantee that Altenn Wealth can achieve similar results or satisfaction for anyone else.

Insights

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The "1031 Exchange" for Stock Portfolios: Tax-Deferred Diversification for Concentrated Positions

How exchange funds and Section 351 ETF conversions let investors diversify concentrated stock positions while deferring capital gains taxes.
Hilal Yilmaz, PhD, CFA
July 15, 2026
Concentrated Stock Positions: 5 Tax-Efficient Strategies to Reduce Risk Without Sacrificing Wealth

Concentrated Stock Positions: 5 Tax-Efficient Strategies to Reduce Risk Without Sacrificing Wealth

Five tax-efficient strategies for investors with concentrated equity positions — from systematic selling and exchange funds to charitable trusts, hedging, and direct indexing.
Hilal Yilmaz, PhD, CFA
July 9, 2026
Box Spread Borrowing: A More Efficient Way to Access Liquidity Without Selling Investments

Box Spread Borrowing: A More Efficient Way to Access Liquidity Without Selling Investments

Box spread borrowing lets investors access fixed-rate liquidity through the capital markets rather than a traditional lender — without selling appreciated investments or triggering capital gains taxes.
Hilal Yilmaz, PhD, CFA
July 1, 2026

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