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Don P. Martone, CFP®️, CPWA®️, ChFC®️, CLU®️

Tax Smart Wealth System for Seasoned Plastics Industry Professionals

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Merrill Lynch Don P. Martone, CFP®️, CPWA®️, ChFC®️, CLU®️
The Woodlands, TX

Serving Clients Nationwide

Tax Smart Wealth System for Seasoned Plastics Industry Professionals

281-882-4818

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Areas of Focus

  • Alternative Investments
  • Estate Planning
  • Insurance
  • Setting Up Retirement Accounts
  • Taxes

About Me

Hi, I'm Don Martone. I help seasoned plastics industry professionals live their best legacies. Each initial conversation begins with a sincere desire to create a new friendship. I start with introductions, identify goals and objectives, review potential financial planning options and end with an opportunity for last-minute questions and answers.

No sales pitches, jargon or intimidation, just an honest conversation about how we serve our plastics industry clients to the best of our abilities. We then determine together if we are an ideal fit to move on to the next step, or agree to part as friends. Initial discovery meetings are always complimentary and without obligation.

✅ WHAT MAKES ME UNIQUE: I understand plastics industry professionals having worked in the industry for 27 years. As a financial professional now, I go far beyond mere investment management and deliver a tax-smart approach to wealth accumulation, distribution and transfer. I teach our affluent clients that transferring the right values, skills, sense of responsibility and purpose to the next generation is as necessary to creating a successful legacy as the dollars left behind. I also coordinate with other client advisors, including CPA’s and attorneys to help ensure more of those dollars are left to family, faith and philanthropy and less to the IRS.

Professional certificates from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, Rice University and Yale School of Management demonstrate that I spend considerable time honing my own skills to help my clients get better at growing, preserving, leveraging and transferring their wealth.

✅ MY TEAM: I am supported by a fantastic Wealth Management Client Associate, Shae Drake, as well as numerous experts, advanced technology and outside professional partnerships to help ensure financial assets are preserved and hard at work.

✅ MY WHY: Raised in a family where money was always tight, I inherited a strong work ethic from my Italian immigrant father and learned how to invest at an early age to help relieve money anxieties at home. Early childhood experiences like these forged my passion to help others achieve their own financial goals, balance competing priorities, stay on course and enjoy fulfilling and healthy lives.

✅ ON A PERSONAL NOTE: I live in Spring, TX, with my wife, Rhonda, a certified registered nurse anesthetist, and our award-winning Samoyed 'children'. I spend my free time being with my family, playing golf, reading, volunteering within my community, working out with weights, enjoying my guitars, and riding my sport bike around town.

➡️ READY TO TALK?: CALL 281-882-4818 or EMAIL me at don.martone@ml.com; VISIT me online at www.fa.ml.com/don-martone or FOLLOW me on LinkedIn.

I hold the General Securities Representative (Series 7) and Uniform Combined State Law Examination (Series 66) FINRA registrations; Life, Accident & Health Insurance Agent; securities registered and insurance licensed in multiple states; CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ Practitioner.

Professional Designations

  • CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ Professional
  • Certified Private Wealth Advisor (CPWA)
  • Chartered Financial Consultant (ChFC)
  • Chartered Life Underwriter (CLU)

Primary Location

1780 Hughes Landing Blvd, The Woodlands, TX 77380

Meeting Options

  • Video Conference
  • In-Person
  • Phone
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Compensation Methods

  • Commissions
  • Percentage of Assets Managed

What to expect in the first meeting

Please contact me to schedule a complimentary introductory call. We'll get to know each other and I'll listen to understand your unique circumstances so we can determine the best way to proceed. I look forward to speaking with you.

Offers Investment Management

Yes

About our Firm

Founded in 1914, Merrill is one of the largest wealth management businesses in the world. Merrill financial advisors combine financial knowledge and experience with a deep understanding of their clients’ needs to help their clients pursue the lives they want.

With a deep commitment to placing their clients' interests first, Merrill financial advisors draw upon the investment insights of Merrill and the banking insights of Bank of America to unlock opportunities tailored to their clients’ needs in many areas of their financial lives.

The strategies our financial advisors offer go beyond investment management to include college savings strategies, retirement planning, eldercare, philanthropy, estate planning services, small business services, and access to cash management & banking strategies.

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Education

University of Calgary, Masters of Business Administration, MBA | McMaster University, Bachelor's Degree, Chemical Engineering

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Hobbies and Interests

  • Cycling
  • Family
  • Golf
  • Music
  • Reading
  • Volunteering
  • Working Out

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Who We Serve

  • Baby Boomers
  • Corporate Executives
  • Dual Income Family
  • Gen X

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