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A Personalized Plan for Your Success


We work with driven, successful people who want greater clarity about their finances. They have abundant resources at their disposal, but they’re unsure if they’re on the best path to their goals. We come alongside them, help them understand their situation and opportunities, and create a comprehensive plan to optimize their wealth. Through this process, they gain clear direction for their financial decisions, and peace of mind that allows them to enjoy each season of life.

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Estate Planning

A well-engineered estate conservation plan can help minimize tax liability and ensure that loved ones are protected. We will work with you and your advisors to assess the impact of state and federal taxes on your estate and suggest strategies to help minimize those taxes while meeting your family’s needs. We do not provide tax advice. Please consult with your own advisors for tax advice.


Asset Protection

There are numerous financial strategies and retirement income strategies that can help you accumulate assets for the future, protect your business and personal assets from liabilities, and safeguard asset transfer to children and grandchildren. We can help you figure out what the right course of action is for your specific situation and objectives.


Charitable Planning

Charitable giving allows you to support the organizations and causes that matter to you, while often providing immediate income streams and reducing your tax burden. Numerous charitable giving strategies exist, and we can help you design and execute a charitable giving strategy that is in alignment with your personal and philanthropic goals. Please seek tax advice from your own tax advisors.


Disability and Extended Care Needs

To execute a sound retirement strategy, asset and income protection are a must. Designing a strategy that accounts for costs for extended periods of care and disability insurance can help create the necessary balance in a portfolio to ensure stability and protection of assets.


401(k) and IRA Rollovers

When you leave a job or retire, you have a decision to make regarding your 401(k) money. While leaving those assets in the former employer's plan is an option, a rollover can be a consideration. Working with your tax advisor, we can help you determine the right course of action for you. This may include: leaving the funds in your existing plan, if permitted, rolling them into your new employer's plan, if one is available and rollovers are permitted, rolling them over to an Individual Retirement Account (IRA), or taking a cash distribution. Each choice offers advantages and disadvantages, depending on your specific needs, personal circumstances and the retirement plans, such as the desired investment options and services, applicable fees, expenses, and withdrawal options, as well as the required minimum distributions (RMDs) and tax treatment of the applicable options.

We do not offer tax advice. Please consult your tax advisor regarding your personal situation.


Wealth Management

Through Eagle Strategies LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of New York Life Insurance Company, you can work with us to guide you in planning for tomorrow’s needs today while preserving your current cash flow. Based on your goals, financial situation, risk tolerance, and investment time horizon, together we can formulate an investment solution to help you achieve all of your short- and long-term wealth management needs. Eagle Strategies incorporates a wide range of thoroughly vetted third-party investment managers who bring specialized expertise in separately managed stock and bond portfolios, and mutual funds, while providing access to third-party wealth management programs. Every investment manager on the platform undergoes a rigorous due diligence process and is monitored closely to ensure they continue to meet our exacting standards. We are, and continue to be committed, to building enduring relationships that help you achieve your financial goals.


Financial Planning

Every successful journey starts with a roadmap.  You have dreams for yourself, your family, and perhaps a family business.  Whether your focus is on protection planning, preparing for retirement, funding higher education, caring for aging parents or a special needs child, transitioning a business, or creating a legacy for your heirs or the charitable causes you care about—a solid plan is the first step in any financial endeavor. Through Eagle Strategies LLC, we provide personalized financial planning services that take our clients’ overall financial circumstances into consideration. We employ a simple yet effective multi-step planning process to design and deliver a plan based on our clients’ needs and personal preferences.  We work diligently with each client to identify and prioritize their goals, explore options, establish effective strategies, construct and execute a plan. Eagle Strategies also regularly assesses the performance of each financial plan and makes adjustments as needed---providing a truly personalized and nimble approach to financial planning.


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Business Services


Executive Benefits

The success of most businesses is tied in to the talent, passion, and work ethics of their key executives. Executive benefit packages can help you attract, motivate, and retain high-caliber employees and keep your company healthy and stable. We can help you with funding non-qualified plans, supplemental employee retirement plans, split dollar arrangements, and more.


Succession Planning

Succession planning allows owners to retire from their business within their own time frame, while preparing for the company to be transferred to family members, key employees, an outside party, or even a charity. This must be done in a way that achieves personal financial security, maintains harmony, and achieves maximum value for the business. We can provide financial strategies for succession planning.


Key Person Insurance

Key person life insurance offers a death benefit that helps indemnify an employer for the loss of one of its most important assets—the key person. This can help assure continuity of the business for employees, customers, and creditors, and protects against losses in sales, momentum, and credit. It can also be used to assist with recruiting and developing a replacement for the deceased employee.


Funding Buy-Sell Agreements

A buy-sell agreement is a legally binding agreement between co-owners of a business that governs the situation if a co-owner dies or leaves the business, whether by force or by choice. A funded cross-purchase buy-sell plan utilizes life insurance to help ensure that the arrangement is properly funded so that there will be money if the event occurs due to the death of an owner.


Funding Deferred Compensation

Deferred compensation is a written agreement between an employer and an employee in which the employee chooses to have part of his or her compensation withheld by the company, invested on their behalf, and distributed to them at a predetermined point in the future. Deferred compensation can be used as a flexible way to attract and incentivize key employees. We can provide funding strategies for deferred compensation.


First protect what matters most.
Then build toward financial success.


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Our Location


2639 Fruitville Road, Suite 200
Sarasota, FL 34237

Operational Hours
Monday–Thursday, 9–5
and Fridays, 9–4

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Phone: (941) 365-6381
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Disclosure

Curtis Eskew Jr is an agent licensed to sell insurance through New York Life Insurance Company and may be licensed with various other independent unaffiliated insurance companies in the states of AZ, CA (CA Insurance License #0B29173), CO, FL, GA, IL, IN, KY, MD, MO, NC, NH, NY, OH, SC, TX, and VA. No insurance business may be conducted outside the states referenced.

As a New York Life Agent, Curtis Eskew Jr is licensed and authorized to offer insurance in California, but Eskew Financial Group may not be. For additional information on California licensure status, please click here.

Curtis Eskew Jr is a Registered Representative of and offers securities products & services through NYLIFE Securities LLC, Member FINRA/SIPC, a licensed insurance agency, and a wholly-owned subsidiary of New York Life Insurance Company, 2639 Fruitville Rd Ste 200, Sarasota, FL, 34237, 941-365-6381. In this regard, this communication is strictly intended for individuals residing in the states of AZ, CA, CO, FL, GA, IN, KY, MA, NC, NH, NY, OH, SC, TN, TX, and VA. No offers may be made or accepted from any resident outside the specific states referenced.

Curtis Eskew Jr is also a Financial Adviser with Eagle Strategies LLC, a Registered Investment Adviser, and a wholly-owned subsidiary of New York Life Insurance Company, offering advisory services in the states of AZ, CA, CO, FL, GA, IN, KY, MA, NC, NH, NY, OH, SC, TN, TX, and VA. As such, these services are strictly intended for individuals residing in the states referenced.

Curtis Eskew Jr is a Member Agent of The Nautilus Group®, a service of New York Life Insurance Company.

Eskew Financial Group is not owned or operated by NYLIFE Securities LLC or its affiliates.

Neither Eskew Financial Group nor its associates are in the business of offering tax, legal, or accounting advice. Please consult your own tax, legal, or accounting professional before making any decisions.

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