Your goal is within reach. Our team will see it through.
It took discipline and the right team surrounding you to make it to the pros. It will require that same discipline and another experienced business management team to maximize your wealth during and after your playing days.
Manage your finances. Guard your future.
You’ve made the journey from the playground to the pros. Now is the time to develop a strategy for making the most of the opportunities you’ve earned. We aim to turn your early success into financial independence you can enjoy throughout your career, as you move into new ventures, and as you eventually transition into retirement.
Learn more about how we can help support your goals here, in our Athlete Brochure.
Career Phase Strategies For Athletes
Here With You From Day One Through Retirement
With the insight and experience of advisors who have worked with athletes for decades, you have access to many financial strategies across your entire career, not just a moment in time. We’ll be the team that manage your finances and works to protect your future, so you can focus on living your dream.
EARLY CAREER
In your early career, we will help to define what’s important to you and your family, align your financial plan to your goals and help you establish your credit. This is a foundational, but important step, so you can begin growing your wealth and build a plan that helps to plan for life’s big achievements.
MID-AND-LATE CAREER
As your career progresses, we will help you with cash flow and budgeting, ensure you have strong tax solutions that help you sustain your wealth, and assist you with investing more actively. As you near the end of your post-playing career we will help you fund education plans for your children, begin considering your philanthropic goals and prepare for income opportunities in retirement.
POST-PLAYING CAREER
Eventually, your playing career will come to a close. Here, we help you transition into a new career phase and uncover income opportunities. We work with you to make decisions for your family legacy and how you might transition your wealth to your kids.
This is your journey, and you need a team that has navigated these unique stages with some of the biggest names in sports.
Supporting professional athletes throughout their life journey.
We understand athletes and what you’ll experience in all stages of your career, and we bring that experience to bear to help make your life successful financially and personally.
Preserve, protect, maximize
The Personal CFO of Professional & Post-Playing Career Athletes
With The Colony Group, you have an experienced team that has worked with professional and retired athletes for decades. We understand the excitement that comes with signing your first big contract, navigating family dynamics and your desire to enjoy your wealth now and long after you’ve retired from the playing field.
Preserve your wealth
We take steps now to preserve and grow your wealth so that it can support your lifestyle and your family for a lifetime.
Protect your assets
We implement protective measures that will help position your assets against potential risks and losses.
Maximize earnings
Our tax professionals apply their deep understanding of tax and estate laws to help you keep more of what you earn.
Manage Your Finances. Guard Your Future.
You’ve made the journey from the playground to the pros. Now is the time to develop a strategy for making the most of the opportunities you’ve earned. We aim to turn your early success into financial independence you can enjoy throughout your career, as you move into new ventures, and as you eventually transition into retirement.
Average 30+ Years Experience
Even the greats rely on their teammates.
The details surrounding new wealth don’t have to be a burden. Consider us your personal CFO. We have experience assisting you in key areas like cash-flow management, budgeting, bill-paying, and managing banking and lending relationships. When the time comes, we can handle the details of car leases, rental properties, home mortgages, and insurance coverages – all to make your financial life easier.
Explore Reggie’s Story.
So much changed so quickly with Reggie’s success. Now he needed a different kind of team to help him manage his sudden wealth. Read more.
Meet Some of Our Specialists
Craig S. Jones, JD, MBA
Managing Director and Chief Diversity Officer
As Managing Director for Colony’s Rocky Mountain Region, Craig has expertise managing the wealth of business owners, entrepreneurs, and professionals. Craig is also...
Ian D. Barclay, CPA, PFS
Managing Director, Senior Wealth Advisor
Nina Mitchell
Senior Wealth Advisor, Co-President, Colony Sports and Entertainment
Nina Mitchell is a Senior Wealth Advisor and Principal of The Colony Group and serves as Co-President of Colony Sports and Entertainment. She...
Paul Shapero
Senior Vice President, Business Management
As Director of Family Office Services, Paul leads a team of financial professionals who provide family office and financial management services to current...
Billy Blase, MBA, ChFC®
Senior Wealth Advisor
Billy Blase is a Senior Wealth Advisor at The Colony Group. He brings nearly 7 years of experience as a financial advisor....
Scott Morrison
Associate Wealth Advisor, Development Specialist, Colony Sports, and Entertainment
Scott is an Associate Wealth Advisor at The Colony Group, working with a team of wealth advisors to provide wealth management, investment...
Kevion Latham, CFP®
Senior Wealth Advisor
Kevion Latham is a Senior Wealth Advisor at the firm, based out of our Denver office, dedicated to serving individuals and families,...
Insights for Athletes
Let's get to work on a winning game plan for your financial future.
Our athlete advisory team has an average of 30 years’ experience working with athletes and their families. Let’s build your legacy today.