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Natalie Smailes

Natalie R. Smailes
Senior Vice President Managing Director of Client Development

Wake Forest

Wake Forest, NC 27587

Natalie.Smailes@Truist.com

Phone 919-326-3124

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About me

Background

Natalie Smailes joined Truist Wealth in 2015 and is a Senior Vice President and the Managing Director of Strategic Client Development within the Center for Family Legacy. Natalie works with the Center for Family Legacy team to deliver the full breadth of Governance and Education to new Truist Wealth clients. Natalie introduces clients to the Center for Family Legacy’s proprietary tools and processes specifically designed to help families increase their chances of sustaining wealth over generations. Natalie works alongside GenSpring’s wealth advisors as they help clients identify wealth objectives and develop appropriate methods for governing their shared assets.

In addition to this role, Natalie is the lead coordinator of the Truist Wealth Reserve offering. Natalie works across the firm to educate partners about the delivery of family meetings and the education programs, working with the Center for Legacy governance and education teams to manage and implement the effort.

Prior to joining the Center for Family Legacy, Natalie worked as a wealth advisor and financial consultant for Truist for three years. In addition, Natalie has spent 27 years in wealth management with First Citizens Bank and First Union Bank. Her roles involved working with high net worth families, addressing their needs for financial planning, insurance, investment management, estate planning and banking.

Education

Bachelor of Economics
Furman University 1984 1988

Personal Interests

Natalie served as the Secretary and President of the North Carolina Community Foundation for Wake County for ten years. In her tenure, she worked to develop the Board as well as to develop a greater presence for the foundation within the community by increasing Board Membership three-fold, and establishing an annual fundraising event.

Natalie is a graduate in Economics from Furman University. She is mother to Jake and Josh, grandmother to Kuba, and a native Ohioan, currently residing in Wake Forest North Carolina.

Specialties

  • Cash-flow forecasting, business planning, asset accumulation strategies, savings and tax planning, executive compensation, retirement distributions

  • A full range of premium banking options, including credit cards, personal and business lending, mortgages, home equity lines of credit, luxury and estate lending, and more

  • Innovative, customized risk management strategies and solutions in partnership with McGriff and Truist Life Insurance Services, designed to protect every facet of your assets and income.

  • Wills; trust, estate, gift, wealth transfer, and generation-skipping tax planning; estate administration and settlement; and more

  • Philanthropic strategies, charitable structure evaluation, private foundations and grant management, donor advised funds

  • Trust formation and planning strategies, corporate trustee and executor services, trust administration and management, successor and irrevocable life insurance trustee, Delaware and dynasty trusts

  • Exclusive educational events, whitepapers, articles, podcasts, legacy planning, next-generation education

  • Market strategy insights, strategic and tactical asset allocation guidance, open-architecture investing platform, long-term investment strategies, alternative investments, private equity and debt offerings, and more

  • Educating family members with significant wealth to confidently manage their financial lives

  • Guiding families with significant wealth to work together to develop strategies for sustaining wealth over time

Accomplishments

Performance Excellence Award
Truist 2020
The Truist Performance Excellence Award is awarded to advisors to formally recognize the exceptional contributions of teammates who consistently go above and beyond to deliver on our Purpose, our Brand, our Performance Promise, and revenue.

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