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Pelican Family Office At Pelican Family Office, we believe in the power of personalized advice and custom solutions.

We know that every family and business owner, has unique needs/goals. Our mission is to provide services that are tailored/aligned with your values/objectives.

10/23/2026

What a CPA Can Spot in an Overconcentrated Portfolio

CPAs often see something other professionals may not see in one place:

The client's full balance sheet.

That perspective can reveal when a client's financial picture is heavily dependent on one business, one market or one type of asset.

Recognizing that concentration does not require the CPA to become an investment advisor.

It may simply mean asking a useful question and knowing when another professional should become part of the conversation.

The value is not in making the investment recommendation.

It is in recognizing when the broader financial picture deserves another look.

Start the first conversation:
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10/20/2026

For Students Building a Path Their Family Has Not Walked Before

Being the first in a family to pursue a four-year college degree can mean figuring out many parts of the experience without someone at home who has already done it.

The Pelican First-Generation Scholarship offers $2,500 to an eligible first-generation undergraduate or graduate student attending an accredited U.S. college or university.

For this scholarship, first-generation means neither parent nor guardian completed a four-year bachelor’s degree.

No essay.
No minimum GPA.
No financial documents.
No application fee.

Applications close January 15, 2027.

Learn more and apply:

pelicanfirstgenscholarship.com

Please share this opportunity with a first-generation student who may qualify.

10/19/2026

Beyond Stocks and Bonds: A Broader Investment Conversation

A portfolio can contain many publicly traded investments and still depend heavily on the same public-market environment.

For business owners, that can matter because the business itself may already represent a significant concentration of wealth and risk.

Private equity, private credit, real assets and other alternatives have become part of a broader investment conversation for some investors.

That does not mean every alternative strategy is appropriate.

It does mean business owners may want to understand whether the range of options they have been shown reflects the full picture.

Sometimes the gap is not wealth.

It is access to a broader conversation.

Schedule a review:
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10/17/2026

A Buy-Sell Agreement Is Only as Current as the Business

A buy-sell agreement can be professionally drafted and still stop reflecting the business it was created for.

Ownership changes.

Business value changes.

Funding arrangements change.

The relationship between partners can change.

A document that made sense five years ago may deserve another look today.

The issue becomes especially important when valuation or funding is not clear. Partners are much more likely to agree on those questions before a difficult event than after one.

The existence of a document does not automatically mean the current situation is covered.

See where your seven nodes stand today:
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10/16/2026

When Buy-Sell Agreements Fall Out of Sync

A CPA does not need to draft legal documents to notice when something may no longer match the business.

You already see entity structures, ownership percentages and K-1s.

That can put you in a valuable position to recognize when a buy-sell agreement, trust or other legal structure deserves another look.

The issue is often not poor legal work.

It is timing.

An attorney may prepare a document at one point in the life of a business, while the CPA continues seeing the business year after year as ownership, value and circumstances change.

Recognizing that mismatch and knowing when to involve the right attorney can be an important part of a broader advisory relationship.

Ask what a Founding Partner seat looks like in your market:
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10/13/2026

A $2,500 Scholarship With a Simple Application

College students already have enough on their plates. Scholarship applications do not always need to add another long essay.

The Pelican Family Office Scholarship offers a $2,500 award for undergraduate and graduate students enrolled at an accredited U.S.-based college or university.

There is:
• no essay
• no minimum GPA
• no field-of-study requirement
• no application fee

Applications close January 15, 2027.

Students who may be eligible can review the details and apply here:

pelicanfamilyofficescholarship.com

Know a student who could use this opportunity? Please share it with them.

10/13/2026

The Tax Strategy Business Owners May Never Hear About

The IRS does not send a notice telling a business owner which planning opportunities were never explored.

That is part of what makes timing so important.

Many owners assume every available tax strategy is already being considered. But when most of the CPA relationship is concentrated around preparing and filing the return, there may simply be limited time to explore what could be done before year-end.

The strategies may exist.

The missing piece can be a standing conversation designed to surface them while there is still time to act.

Your advisors may already have much of the information.

Someone still has to bring the pieces together.

Start the conversation:
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10/10/2026

Cash Balance Plans: The Conversation That Has to Happen Before Year-End

Compliance work is becoming faster and more automated. The opportunity for CPAs is increasingly found in the conversations that happen before the filing deadline.

Cash balance plans and other tax strategies often require one thing that tax season does not provide very well: lead time.

Most firms already have the technical knowledge. The challenge is creating a recurring process that gives the CPA and client time to identify opportunities before December 31.

This is not about learning an entirely new discipline.

It is about creating space for the conversations that proactive tax planning requires.

One call. One system. No obligation.
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09/16/2026

Compliance work is being commoditized in real time. Advisory work is where CPAs still win.

Every tax season, the routine stuff gets faster and cheaper to produce. Great for clients. A real problem if your firm's value proposition stops at "we file it correctly."

This isn't CPAs becoming obsolete. It's the shift from hourly compliance billing to advisory relationships that don't vanish every May 1st.

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09/14/2026

The firms thriving in five years won't be the ones filing returns fastest.

They'll be the ones clients call first.

AI can read a P&L. It can't sit across the table and tell an owner what those numbers mean for the decision in front of them.

The real question: what are you building next to it?

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