Newman, Dignan & Sheerar Providence, Rhode Island A private wealth practice · Est. 1993
Find your pattern
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Midlife requires
delight*.

Stop carrying your decisions alone. You need an empathetic, capable professional mind.

Find your pattern

*Delight: the sudden return of aliveness inside midlife shaped by responsibility, exhaustion, grief, and care.

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What this is, and why it's worth your time

If this is you

You are the one holding it all

Your parents need help.
Your kids still need you.
Your career asks more than ever.
And the decisions that affect everyone land on you.

Usually all at once. You do not need another lecture about the market. You need an empathetic, capable professional mind.

  • One advisor who knows your whole life, not just your accounts.
  • We start with the life, then build the money around it.
  • Independent, so the advice answers to you.

Five minutes. No cost.

What is quietly driving your money?

Most of what we want, we never chose. We absorbed it, from people we watched long ago.

Find your pattern

A five-minute behavioral audit that uncovers the hidden patterns shaping your financial decisions.

No cost. No email to start.

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The work, as it actually happens

What lands on my desk
Aging parents
The decisions that don't fit on a spreadsheet. The ones nobody wants to be first to bring up.
Children, in motion
College, weddings, first homes. Real costs, arriving while the runway gets shorter.
Retirement, soon
When the math becomes the smaller question and identity becomes the larger one.
Portfolio design
Designed around your life, not assembled from parts. The difference matters more than it sounds.
Tax & estate
Coordinated with everything else. Nothing handled in a silo.
A single relationship
One advisor. Ongoing. For as long as it serves the work.

What you stop carrying alone

What gets lighter

The noise.

You stop waking up to twenty priorities competing for your attention. There is a way to think about things one season at a time.

The conversations.

With parents. With children. With one another. They become easier to begin when there is finally a plan gentle enough to hold real life.

The future.

Not because uncertainty disappears. Because you stop facing it without perspective, or someone to help you carry it.

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The work, step by step

How this actually goes
01

See clearly.

Start with the life, not the portfolio. Name what the money is for, and which wants are even yours.

02

Build intentionally.

Design the plan and the portfolio around that life, on purpose. Not optimized. Tended.

03

Act calmly.

Move with a steady hand, so the decisions get easier over time.

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The quiz may surface one of these

The eight, named carefully
Each one is a story about where your wants came from. The last is the belief that none of this applies to you.
The Legacyi
The Rivalii
The Provideriii
The Mirroriv
The Ghostv
The Expertvi
The Scapegoatvii
The Romanticviii
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A little about who's writing this

About Parker
Fifteen years at Capital Group
Founder of an independent advisory practice
MBA, Drucker School of Management
CIMA®, Carnegie Mellon University
Serving families across Rhode Island and New England
He lives in Jamestown with his wife Erin and their five children.
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About Erik
Erik S. Manchester, CFP®, is an Investment Consultant at NDS. He came to the firm in 2014 from Morgan Stanley Wealth Management, where he managed portfolios for individuals, family trusts, endowments, and retirement plans.
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Before financial services, he was an account manager for a specialized manufacturing company in North Kingstown serving the offshore and military industries. He is a graduate of the College of Business at Florida State University with a degree in finance, and an Eagle Scout.
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Erik lives in North Attleboro, Massachusetts with his wife Kerri and their three children.
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A short note, sent each week

A letter, on Mondays
One thing worth noticing. One thing worth doing. About five minutes to read. No selling, ever.
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Some short films, made slowly

Things we keep noticing
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The 4am List

i. — a short film
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The Dark Night of the Soul

ii. — a short film
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The Retirement Cliff

iii. — a short film
the rest of them, here