Robert Downes is a Certified Financial Fiduciary residing in Norther Illinois. His specialty is tax reduction and retirement planning with no loss exposure and no fees. 

Since 1989 he has provided knowledgeable and compassionate service to business owners and their families throughout the country. 

Robert's team consists of CPAs, Actuaries, Attorneys, CFPs, and RIAs who are all skilled technicians in their arenas of expertise. Protecting the client's best interest is our focus, with no shortcuts. 

He enjoys walking, resistance training, watching old movies, playing backgammon with his incredibly competitive wife of 30+ years, spending time with his grandson, and helping people with their addiction issues. 

We believe goals become irrelevant if you do not carefully plan, execute and remain focused until completion. 

Coll us and tell us your goals, passions and struggles. We will help you to plan your work, work your plan, and reap the harvest. 

Experience protection from dying too soon and living too long. 

About The Iter-Silva Financial Group and Philip J. Eickhoff

Empowering Clients to Add Clarity and Control to Their Income and Legacy Planning

Philip Eickhoff and his team at The Iter-Silva Financial Group provide education-based, empowering financial planning solutions for individual clients and closely-held entities.  We serve families, small-business owners, professional practices and executives in matters of business continuity, business succession, and compensation planning, as well as personal financial and legacy planning needs including income and distribution planning and wealth management across the wealth lifecycle. 

Philip graduated from Reed College, Portland, Oregon and received his graduate degree from Princeton University.  Early in his career Philip joined a boutique Estate Planning Firm in Southern California where he helped educate clients and design, implement and manage high-net worth wealth planning strategies.  That initial step led to twenty-five plus years providing client-focused planning solutions in the Financial Services and Securities Industry.  Across those years Philip also developed and operates a settlement planning practice, Summit Settlement Group, Int’l, that works with attorneys and their clients to help address the specific needs of financial planning within and beyond the litigation process. 

Philip and his wife, Anne, have been together for over 30 years, partners supporting and nurturing each other with humor and insight.  They and their three children lived on a small farm/ranch in Montana’s Bitterroot Valley before moving to Brussels, Belgium for 6 years.  Home is now south central Wisconsin, where they enjoy the grace and beauty of deciduous forests, kettle moraines, and the astounding delights of being grandparents.  Philip is a lifetime soccer fan, a retired high school soccer referee, recreational cyclist, and delights in being a lifelong student with varied and disparate intellectual curiosities. As well, he nurturing his skills in drawing and creative writing. 

The Iter-Silva Financial Group is the service and educational center for our Holistic Financial Practice.  Our goals are simple and vital: be of sterling character, be transparent, educate first and empower, provide exemplary service, know and understand each client, exceed customer expectations and be accountable to the highest ethical codes for professional conduct and action.  Through education and strategic consultation we empower clients to add clarity and control to their Financial and Legacy Planning, and help guide them along their path to better financial futures, and better nights’ sleeps. 

I love a good story and I became a financial advisor because I want to tell great stories.  I want to tell great stories about dream retirements, kids going to college, farms successfully transitioning to the next generation, businesses standing the test of time because of critical succession planning, families leaving a lasting financial legacy and so much more. 

I served 7 years in the US Army, training and deploying in diverse and challenging environments.  Many of those environments were crucial in shaping the man I am today.  Although I left the service in 2004, the Army’s core values are continuously top of mind for me.  As a financial advisor, those values are a part of our everyday life: loyalty, duty, respect, selfless service, honor, integrity, and personal courage.

I live in McFarland with my wife, Angie and my son, AJ and we love our fluffy English Cream Golden Retriever, JoJo.  We love a good adventure because they make the best stories and honestly, I can’t wait to hear yours and help you write the next chapters.