For generations, the ultra-wealthy had exclusive access to something most advisors couldn’t offer: a coordinated team of attorneys, CPAs, investment managers, and estate planners working from a single strategy built around one family’s goals. Our virtual family office (VFO) delivers the same benefit to families in Wichita and across the country, but without the $250M+ minimum often required by traditional single-family offices.

Whether you’re navigating a liquidity event, managing a family business, or building a multigenerational wealth plan, our VFO model gives you institutional-grade advisory services tailored to your financial life.

Not sure if a VFO is right for you? It depends on the complexity of your situation. We’ll help you decide. No commitment required.

Coordinated wealth management across every area of your financial life

A virtual family office isn’t a single product – it’s a model. At Gentry, we serve as the central coordinator of your financial world, managing relationships and strategy across legal, tax, investment, and estate domains. Here’s what that looks like in practice.

Our VFO Advantages

Comprehensive professional support

You gain access to a network of specialists who work together under your family’s unified financial strategy – not in silos.

  • Coordinated planning with CPAs, attorneys, banks, insurance companies, and providers of soft services (travel, bill pay, home construction, etc.)
  • Income and tax planning
  • Marital and family business concerns
  • Business succession planning
  • Estate planning and wealth transfer
  • Charitable and gift planning
  • Business acquisitions and sales

Exclusive wealth management services

Our VFO clients access capabilities typically reserved for the wealthiest single-family offices.

  • Company stock-option and equity compensation analysis
  • Pre-IPO access for accredited investors
  • Personal financial statements
  • Asset protection planning
  • Portfolio and business stress testing
  • Business valuations
  • 1031 exchange services
  • Concierge medicine solutions
  • Annual tax and legal strategy meeting

Financial solutions for families

We synchronize your financial infrastructure around your family’s specific needs – not a template.

  • Private banking and custom lending solutions
  • Securities-based lending
  • Discretionary investment management
  • Comprehensive wealth planning
  • Portfolio analysis and tax loss harvesting
  • Private equity and alternative investments
  • Charitable tax planning and philanthropic strategy
  • Estate, tax, and legacy planning

How our virtual family office works

We start with a comprehensive review of your financial world – assets, liabilities, business interests, family dynamics, and long-term goals. We go beyond the numbers to understand the life you’ve built and what you want to protect.

As your family office, we serve as a single point of coordination across all advisors and specialists. One relationship. One strategy. Full accountability.

Complex financial structures require clear communication. We explain strategies and decisions in straightforward terms so you can make confident, informed choices.

Whom we serve

Our virtual family office model is designed for:

  • Business owners approaching or navigating a liquidity event
  • Executives managing equity compensation and concentrated positions
  • Families with multigenerational wealth planning needs
  • High-net-worth individuals with complex estate or tax situations
  • Professionals seeking a single, coordinated wealth management relationship

If your financial life has moved beyond what a traditional wealth manager can handle, a virtual family office may be the right structure.

Peace of mind starts here

Significant wealth brings significant complexity. Our job is to anticipate it, manage it, and give you the confidence that every piece of your financial life is working together – for you and the generations that follow.

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Common questions about business planning

What is a virtual family office and how is it different from a traditional family office?

A traditional single-family office is a dedicated team of financial, legal, and administrative professionals employed exclusively by one ultra-wealthy family – typically requiring $50 million or more in investable assets to justify the overhead.

A virtual family office delivers the same coordinated, multi-disciplinary wealth management model without the cost of building a dedicated in-house operation. At Gentry Private Wealth, we serve as the central coordinator of your financial world – managing the relationships and strategy across your investment management, estate planning, tax planning, legal counsel, insurance, and business interests – all working from a unified plan built around your family’s specific goals. The result is institutional-grade advisory services that were previously accessible only to the wealthiest families, delivered efficiently and without the $50M+ minimum.

Who is a virtual family office designed for?

A virtual family office is the right structure when your financial life has grown beyond what a traditional wealth manager can handle in a single relationship. That typically means business owners navigating or approaching a liquidity event, executives managing equity compensation and concentrated

stock positions, families with multi-generational wealth planning needs, or individuals with complex estate, tax, and charitable planning situations that require multiple specialists working in coordination. If you’re currently managing separate relationships with an investment advisor, a CPA, an estate attorney, and an insurance agent – and none of them are talking to each other – a virtual family office replaces that fragmented structure with a single, accountable point of coordination.

What services are included in a virtual family office relationship?

A Gentry virtual family office engagement covers the full spectrum of complex wealth management – not a predefined menu of products. On the professional coordination side, that includes managing relationships with your CPA, attorney, insurance advisors, and banking contacts, along

with income and tax planning, business succession planning, estate and wealth transfer planning, and charitable giving strategy. On the investment and wealth management side, it includes discretionary investment management, portfolio stress testing, asset protection planning, business valuations, private equity and alternative investment access, and tax loss harvesting. For families with more specialized needs, it also extends to personal financial statements, company stock and equity compensation analysis, pre-IPO access for accredited investors, 1031 exchange services, concierge medicine solutions, and personal and family security planning. The common thread is that everything works together under one unified strategy.

How does the virtual family office process work?

The engagement starts with a comprehensive discovery process – a deep review of your assets, liabilities, business interests, family dynamics, income sources, and long-term goals. We go beyond the numbers to understand the life you’ve built and what you want to protect and create. From there, Gentry serves as your

financial concierge – a single point of coordination across all advisors and specialists, accountable for making sure the strategy holds together and that nothing is falling through the cracks between your attorney, your CPA, and your investment accounts. Ongoing communication is a core commitment: complex financial structures require plain-language explanations, and our job is to make sure you can make confident, informed decisions.

Is a virtual family office worth it if I already have an attorney, CPA, and investment advisor?

Having those advisors in place is a starting point – but the question is whether they’re coordinating with each other around a unified strategy for your family, or operating in silos and occasionally exchanging documents. In most cases it’s the latter, and the

gaps between those relationships are where planning mistakes happen: a retirement account with an outdated beneficiary designation, an investment strategy that’s creating an estate tax problem no one flagged, a trust that was drafted correctly but never funded. A virtual family office doesn’t replace your existing advisors – it sits above them as the strategic coordinator, ensuring the full picture is coherent, current, and actually executing against your goals. For families at the level of complexity where a VFO makes sense, the cost of not coordinating consistently exceeds the cost of the relationship.

Peace of mind starts here

No matter who you are, achieving significant wealth naturally comes with elevated risks and financial complexities. Let’s identify and overcome them.

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