The Colony Group

Core Offerings

Your Family Office Business Management

Select Client Specializations

Business Owners Executives Professionals Entertainers & Athletes Institutions – OCIO Solutions

Your Family Office

The Colony Group is reimagining the “family office” for clients. Once only available to the wealthiest families, you now have access to our collection of distinct, selective family office services—all in one place and delivered by a coordinated team of financial specialists.

Business Management

Entertainers, athletes, executives, business owners, family enterprises, and non-profit organizations choose The Colony Group to manage the accounting and financial details that come with their great achievements. Explore a rich array of business management services to help keep you on track and in control of your business and personal finances.

Business Owners

Business Transition Planning
From deal structure to transaction value to post-sale lifestyle and family legacy, we have the advice and resources you need.
Business Management
Business owners know what it takes to run their business, and they choose The Colony Group as their financial engine.

Executives

Executives – corporate, private company, or venture capital – face unique challenges. The Colony Group’s deep understanding of how to navigate these complexities helps you maximize income and the joy it can bring you.

Maximizing the Rewards
Our team brings years of experience in helping you achieve financial independence. We have answers across equity compensation, investment strategies, risk management, estate and tax planning, legacy planning, and lifestyle enrichment.

Professionals

For over 30 years, we have helped attorneys, physicians, and other accomplished professionals gain control over their finances with the goal to create lasting wealth.

Attorneys, Physicians & Other Professionals

Entertainers & Athletes

Entertainers
- Business Management
  Our Business Management team specializes in business management, tour accounting and budgeting, royalties and publishing, and tax planning for some of the biggest names in entertainment. Beyond financial concerns, we are your advocate and find solutions for even the most obscure moments that arise in your life.
Athletes
- Career Phase Strategies & Business Management
  Coming into sudden wealth can be overwhelming. Our advisors work with athletes and their families, helping to define your values and building sound financial plans to achieve your goals. From rookies to veteran players and life after the whistle, we manage the details for you along your journey.

Institutions – OCIO Solutions

Core Offerings

Your Family Office Business Management

Select Client Specializations

Business Owners Executives Professionals Entertainers & Athletes Institutions – OCIO Solutions

Your Family Office

The Colony Group is reimagining the “family office” for clients. Once only available to the wealthiest families, you now have access to our collection of distinct, selective family office services—all in one place and delivered by a coordinated team of financial specialists.

Business Management

Entertainers, athletes, executives, business owners, family enterprises, and non-profit organizations choose The Colony Group to manage the accounting and financial details that come with their great achievements. Explore a rich array of business management services to help keep you on track and in control of your business and personal finances.

Business Owners

Business Transition Planning
From deal structure to transaction value to post-sale lifestyle and family legacy, we have the advice and resources you need.
Business Management
Business owners know what it takes to run their business, and they choose The Colony Group as their financial engine.

Executives

Executives – corporate, private company, or venture capital – face unique challenges. The Colony Group’s deep understanding of how to navigate these complexities helps you maximize income and the joy it can bring you.

Maximizing the Rewards
Our team brings years of experience in helping you achieve financial independence. We have answers across equity compensation, investment strategies, risk management, estate and tax planning, legacy planning, and lifestyle enrichment.

Professionals

For over 30 years, we have helped attorneys, physicians, and other accomplished professionals gain control over their finances with the goal to create lasting wealth.

Attorneys, Physicians & Other Professionals

Entertainers & Athletes

Entertainers
- Business Management
  Our Business Management team specializes in business management, tour accounting and budgeting, royalties and publishing, and tax planning for some of the biggest names in entertainment. Beyond financial concerns, we are your advocate and find solutions for even the most obscure moments that arise in your life.
Athletes
- Career Phase Strategies & Business Management
  Coming into sudden wealth can be overwhelming. Our advisors work with athletes and their families, helping to define your values and building sound financial plans to achieve your goals. From rookies to veteran players and life after the whistle, we manage the details for you along your journey.

Institutions – OCIO Solutions

Rick Macdonald MBA, CFA, CFP®

Senior Wealth Advisor

Boston, MA

Focus Areas

Investment Strategies
Multi-Generational Planning

Private Strategies
Asset Allocation
Portfolio Management

Client Specialty

Professionals
Retirees
multi-generation families

Recognitions

Recipient of the FIVE STAR Wealth Manager Award in Boston Magazine (2016 – 2024)

Community

Acton Boxborough Youth Soccer, President

As a Senior Wealth Advisor and a Principal of The Colony Group, Rick brings over 15 years of experience in financial planning for high net worth clients on investments, retirement, education funding, insurance, taxes, and estate planning. He is a CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER^™ practitioner, holds the Chartered Financial Analyst^® designation, and is a member of the Boston Security Analysts Society.

Rick spent three years as an adjunct professor in the Financial Planning Program at Boston University. He has lectured about personal finance at local universities, including Boston University and Harvard Law School.

Rick has been quoted in publications including Money Magazine, the Boston Business Journal, the San Diego Business Journal, the Jewish Advocate, and the Boston Metro and has been a guest on Bob McCormick’s Money 101 show on KNX news radio in Los Angeles. He was included in Boston Magazine‘s list of “Five Star Wealth Managers” in 2010, 2011, and 2016-2020*.

Previously, Rick was part of the team at Mintz Levin Financial Advisors. He graduated, summa cum laude, from the University of Massachusetts with a BA in Economics and received both his MBA and his MS in Finance from Boston College.

Disclosures:

Five Star Professional criteria: Credentialed as an IAR, FINRA-registered rep, a CPA, or a licensed attorney; at least five years in the financial services industry; favorable regulatory and complaint history review; meeting firm’s review standards; accepting new clients; one and five-year retention rates; assets administered; number of households served; and education and professional designations. Advisors awarded: nine Wealth Advisors for 2015; nineteen Wealth Advisors for 2016; twenty-two Wealth Advisors for 2017; and twenty-two Wealth Advisors for 2018, 2019, and twenty Wealth Advisors in 2020.

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