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Personalized Financial Confidence

Principled Agency

About

Principled Agency

Work with a partner who will provide an investment experience tailored to you.

Money is personal, and we believe investors deserve a partner that will guide them with a customized investment experience tailored to their financial needs and objectives.

Our discipline is built on the foundation of holistic planning and how investment and insurance strategies can work in concert to help mitigate six fundamental financial planning considerations* with the purpose of helping our clients work to achieve their financial goals.

Empowering Your Retirement

Meet The Team

Joseph Bean

Founder / CEO

Joe is a licensed Insurance Broker & Investment Advisor Representative located in Central Maine.  A graduate of the University of Maine, and a lifelong business owner, he previously founded, built, and sold a successful landscape company and has since been fully enveloped in the world of insurance and investing. 

Joe is the oldest of four brothers and values time with his closeknit family (especially numerous nieces and nephews!).  A lifelong learner, he's a podcast junkie, reader, sports fan, and lover of comedy.

Joe has a passion for getting to know clients', listening to their needs, educating, and helping them implement strategies that best help to Grow & Protect their wealth. 

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Our Financial Solutions

Our three-step planning process works to help identify and implement suitable financial strategies for helping our clients meet their needs and achieve their goals and objectives for retirement.

Click on a step below to learn more.

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Start Smart

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Apply Discipline

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Communicate Progress

Wealth Management

Our goal is to create income that lasts. We help build real-life, sustainable income plans for our clients that take all factors into account. Retirement shouldn't be spent worrying about whether your money is going to last.

It's supposed to be your time, focused on you and doing the things you enjoy with the people you love.

Retirement Savings Optimization

Retirement savings optimization involves a holistic strategy that balances aggressive saving during your working years with smart, tax-efficient withdrawal strategies in retirement.

Key steps include maximizing tax-advantaged accounts, diversifying investments, and strategically managing Social Security benefits.

Tax Planning

Benjamin Franklin said, "In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes" – We can't control the first, but we can help you reduce the second.

Our clients enjoy a comprehensive review of their tax return, tax projections combined with proactive planning, tax reduction strategies, etc.

Social Security Optimization

Social Security optimization is about strategically timing when you claim benefits and coordinating with other income to maximize your lifetime payments.

Don't leave money on the table. The decision of when to claim Social Security is complex and can significantly impact your retirement income. Common advice often oversimplifies this crucial choice.

Income Planning

Through our retirement planning process, we will review your current income situation and show you your potential income in retirement. We'll work with you to create a sustainable income that will last for your life. We'll help you understand your social security options and maximize the benefits for your situation.

If you have a pension, we will guide you through the options available and help you make the right choice. We'll help prepare you for other considerations such as a premature death of a spouse, inflation or taxation.

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We know the importance of education and accessibility in today's world. That's why Principled Agency isn't about high-pressure seminars—we provide knowledge through digital education platforms. We believe an informed client is an empowered client, and we focus on educating, not selling. Stay up to date with our latest insights! Subscribe to the Principled Agency newsletter.

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    Our Guides and Blog

    Financial Educational Literature

    Tips to Help Avoid Market Panic
    How to Plan and Help Protect Your Savings

    Market swings can shake your confidence, but they don't have to derail your future. This guide explores how to stay level-headed through volatility, why staying the course often wins out over making hastey decisions, and how to protect yourself from the hidden danger of "sequence of returns" risk. In retirement, calm beats chaos.

    The Social Security Guide
    Optimizing Social Security In Today's World

    Claiming Social Security at the wrong time could cost you tens of thousands over your retirement—and you may not even realize it. This guide shows how the right strategy can unlock more income, more security, and greater confidence in your financial future. Make sure you get what you've earned!

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    Our Video Library

    What's a Risk Score?

    Risk tolerance is an investor's ability to remain invested during downward market cycles in exchange for a potential return.

    It's important that investors understand their risk tolerance so that they can help guide the design of their investment strategy. This approach looks to balance the investor's desire for returns goals with their ability to stay confident and invested throughout market cycles.

    To help investors understand their risk threshold we deploy a proprietary algorithm rooted in the well-known Value at Risk (VaR) measurement that helps us quantify their sentiment toward financial uncertainty, specifically their emotional tolerance with respect to the magnitude and speed of potential investment loss. This Analysis provides them with a VaR Score that can help determine if their existing portfolio aligns with their risk tolerance.

    Risk-Tolerance

    Intelligent, Disciplined Investing
    with AssetLock

    AssetLock is Simplicity Wealth's proprietary, investment portfolio monitoring service that delivers personalized communications to advisors and investors in a secure environment.

    This technology keeps investors informed about the progression of their portfolio in accordance with their risk tolerance determined by the investor's household portfolio VaR Score.

    AssetLock® is tracking software used to monitor the performance of a client's household portfolio and predetermine the amount of downside the client is willing to tolerate. The AssetLock Threshold is the maximum percentage of the downside the investor is willing to accept inside the portfolio as determined by Simplicity's proprietary risk scoring algorithm, which is based on a Risk Tolerance Questionnaire and Value at Risk (VaR) Analysis of the household and model portfolio(s). It is NOT an actual stop order and will NOT automatically sell the individual securities in the household portfolio.

    Contact Principled Agency

    At Principled Agency , we believe strong financial planning is built on relationships. We take the time to understand your goals, concerns, and family dynamics—because financial planning isn't just about numbers, it's about life. Our team is committed to providing consistent, personalized guidance, ensuring you have a dedicated advisor who understands your long-term financial journey.

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    At Principled Agency , we don't just manage money.
    We empower your retirement.

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