— Financial services —
Investment management, tax planning, retirement income, insurance, and estate planning, built into one Retirement Blueprint by Lindahl Lucas, a forty-year veteran financial advisor serving Los Angeles, Santa Clarita, and Ventura Counties.
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In a sentence
Avinci Wealth Management is a fee-based, founder-led financial advisory firm in Valencia, California, that coordinates five financial disciplines (investment management, tax planning, retirement income, insurance, and estate planning) into one integrated Retirement Blueprint for pre-retirees and retirees across Los Angeles, Santa Clarita, and Ventura Counties.
— What is coordinated financial planning —
Most people who type "find a financial advisor near me," "retirement planning near me," or "wealth management near me" into Google are looking for a single answer to a much bigger question. They have an investment account in one place, a 401(k) statement from a previous employer in another, a Social Security estimate they downloaded once and never opened again, an insurance policy from years ago, and an estate plan that may or may not still reflect their wishes. Each piece was set up in isolation. Nobody is looking at the whole picture.
Coordinated financial planning is the practice of pulling those pieces into a single, unified strategy. Investments inform tax planning. Tax planning shapes retirement income timing. Income timing affects estate decisions. Insurance protects against the gaps in all of the above. When one discipline changes, the others adjust. That is what coordination means in practice, and that is what most retirement plans are missing.
Lindahl Lucas founded Avinci Wealth Management to build that coordination directly into the planning process. Forty years in financial services, securities-licensed since 2005, insurance-licensed since 1987, operating as a fee-based fiduciary advisor with custody at Charles Schwab. The firm serves households across the Santa Clarita Valley, the Conejo Valley, and the Westside of Los Angeles. The work is the same regardless of where the household lives: integrate the five disciplines, identify the gaps, build one plan that holds together for the next thirty to fifty years.
— The five pillars —
The Retirement Blueprint methodology is built on five service pillars. Each pillar is a discipline in its own right. Each one is also designed to be reviewed against the other four before any recommendation leaves the planning room. This is the structural difference between a coordinated retirement plan and a stack of disconnected accounts.
01 · Investment management
Discretionary portfolio management on a fee-based schedule, with custody at Charles Schwab. Portfolios are constructed for risk-adjusted returns over multi-decade time horizons, with sequence-of-returns risk explicitly modeled at the household level. No model accounts. Each portfolio is rebalanced tactically and reviewed against the household's broader plan rather than against a benchmark in isolation.
Read more →02 · Tax planning
Proprietary Protected IRA Roth Conversion methodology designed to fill the tax bracket valley between retirement and the start of required minimum distributions. Roth conversion strategies and broader tax mitigation strategies are modeled through Income Lab across the full lifetime tax picture, with IRMAA, Social Security taxation, and RMD planning accounted for in coordination with the client's CPA.
Read more →03 · Retirement income
Retirement income planning through Income Lab projections out thirty to fifty years, accounting for Social Security claiming timing, pension elections, sequence of returns risk, and withdrawal order across taxable, tax-deferred, and tax-free accounts. The output answers the questions every retiree is asking: When can I retire? Do I have enough to retire? How long will the money last? What happens if the market drops at the wrong moment?
Read more →04 · Estate planning
The estate documents themselves are produced through a white-label estate platform. The differentiator is what happens after the documents are signed. Avinci handles the trust funding in-house and walks every client through exactly how to fund a trust: paperwork prepared, envelopes addressed, hard copies kept, digital copies uploaded to a secure client portal. The trust ends up funded and the plan actually works on the day it is needed.
Read more →05 · Insurance and annuities
Fixed and fixed-indexed annuities for protected retirement income. Life insurance for estate-tax mitigation and legacy planning. Long-term care strategies that account for the funding math, not just the policy structure. Every product is evaluated against the other four pillars before placement. Insurance and annuity solutions are offered through Avinci's affiliate, Lucas Insurance Services, with all compensation disclosed in writing before any product is placed.
Read more →— Why coordination beats specialization —
Most financial advisors in the Santa Clarita Valley specialize in one thing. The investment-only advisor manages portfolios but does not touch tax planning. The annuity-focused advisor sells protected-income products but does not coordinate them with the rest of the balance sheet. The estate attorney drafts the trust but rarely funds it. The CPA files the return but is not in the room when the Roth conversion gets sized.
The result for the household is fragmentation. The Roth conversion that looked clean on paper triggers an IRMAA surcharge two years later. The annuity that promised income gets purchased outside of a tax wrapper that would have made it more efficient. The trust that was supposed to bypass probate sits unfunded, because nobody followed up after the documents were signed. For anyone searching "financial advisor near me," "retirement planning near me," or "wealth manager near me," fragmentation is the single most important question to ask before signing on with any firm: who is coordinating the disciplines, and how is that coordination documented?
Siloed advisor
Investments, or insurance, or estate documents. The other pillars sit with other professionals who may never meet each other.
Robo-platform
Efficient at portfolio construction. Silent on Roth conversion timing, trust funding, Social Security strategy, and the human questions retirement raises.
Avinci
Every recommendation is reviewed against the four other disciplines before it leaves the planning room. Investments check against tax. Tax checks against income. Income checks against insurance. Insurance checks against the estate plan.
— The trust funding gap —
70 to 80%
Of revocable trusts in the wild are never properly funded
A household meets with an attorney, signs a revocable living trust, pays the legal fee, and walks out with a binder. The trust is real. The trust is properly drafted. But the assets are still titled in the client's individual name, not in the trust's name. When that client passes away, the trust does nothing, because the trust owns nothing. This is what trust funding actually means, and it is the step most estate plans skip.
Avinci closes this gap in-house. Once the estate documents are signed, the firm walks every household through how to fund a trust correctly: funding paperwork prepared, the custodian and the relevant institutions coordinated, documents mailed on the client's behalf, a hard copy filed, a digital copy scanned and uploaded to a secure client portal. The trust ends up funded. The plan actually works on the day it is needed.
— Common questions —
Search "financial advisor Santa Clarita" or "wealth management Valencia CA" and review each advisor's credentials, methodology, and fee structure. Look for clear fiduciary status, a documented written planning process, and disclosed compensation. Avinci Wealth Management is headquartered in Valencia and serves households across Santa Clarita, Newhall, Canyon Country, Stevenson Ranch, Castaic, Saugus, Woodland Hills, Calabasas, Thousand Oaks, Westlake Village, and Simi Valley.
Five disciplines, coordinated as one strategy. Investment management. Tax planning, Roth conversion strategies, and broader tax mitigation strategies. Retirement income planning with sequence-of-returns risk modeled. Estate planning and trust funding. Insurance and annuity analysis. The Avinci Retirement Blueprint pulls all five into a single working document and updates it as the household's situation changes.
A fee-based fiduciary advisor charges a stated fee, typically a percentage of assets under management, and is compensated directly by the client. A commission-based advisor earns a commission from the products they sell, which can create incentives that may not align with the client's interests. Avinci charges an advisory fee on managed accounts. Insurance and annuity solutions, when appropriate for the plan, are offered through an affiliate, with all compensation disclosed in writing before any product is placed.
A retirement income plan projects every dollar of expected income and every dollar of expected expense across the next thirty to fifty years, layered with tax exposure, Social Security timing, and sequence-of-returns scenarios. Avinci uses Income Lab to produce this projection as part of the Retirement Blueprint. The output shows year-by-year whether your money lasts, what changes if markets drop, and the earliest realistic retirement date the math supports.
Yes. The firm is a Registered Investment Adviser in California, Arizona, Illinois, Texas, and Nevada, and supports remote planning relationships across those states by video conference. Office locations include Valencia, Woodland Hills, Beverly Hills, and Marina Del Rey.
A revocable living trust only works if the assets inside it actually carry the trust's name on the title. Most trusts are never funded after the documents are signed. Avinci handles the funding paperwork, mailing, and recordkeeping directly, so every client gets walked through exactly how to fund a trust and the trust ends up in place and functional, not just drafted. This is the most underdiscussed problem in estate planning, and the one Avinci is structured to solve.
A no-cost Retirement Blueprint Strategy Session. Thirty minutes. The agenda is to understand the household's current situation, identify the coordination gaps, and decide together whether a full Retirement Blueprint engagement makes sense. There is no presentation, no product pitch, and no obligation to continue.
— Continue exploring —
— The methodology
Walk through the four-step methodology Avinci uses to build coordinated retirement plans, the proprietary system at the spine of every household engagement.
Read more →— The founder
Forty years in financial services, securities-licensed since 2005, insurance-licensed since 1987, All-American decathlete, founder of Avinci Wealth Management.
Read more →— Ideas
Roth conversion timing, sequence-of-returns risk, IRMAA, trust funding, Social Security strategy, and the questions retirees are actually asking.
Read more →— The first step —
A no-cost, thirty-minute Retirement Blueprint Strategy Session with Lindahl Lucas. No presentation. No product pitch. The fastest way to see whether the pieces of your retirement plan are working together, or whether they are sitting in separate drawers.
Avinci Wealth Management is a Registered Investment Adviser. Lindahl Lucas, CRD #327780. Avinci is registered in California, Arizona, Illinois, Texas, and Nevada. Insurance and annuity solutions are offered through our affiliate, Lucas Insurance Services. Compensation arrangements are disclosed in writing before any product is placed. Information on this page is for educational purposes and is not individualized investment, tax, or legal advice. Past performance does not guarantee future results. See full disclosures and Form ADV.
