Our team of CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ professionals is knowledgeable, reliable and passionate about empowering our clients and their relationship with money. We bring a diverse set of talents and areas of focus. We use a collaborative approach in caring for our client families, meeting weekly to discuss what’s happening in their lives and finding ways where our individual strengths can most benefit their unique situation. This way, our clients get the best of us all.
Larry loves to explain difficult concepts simply. He is often collaborating with clients on their business transitions, estate planning aims and investment decisions.
Brenna has a knack for helping clients develop tangible steps to meet their goals. Her focus is proactive tax planning, goal funding and long term forecasting.
Katherine encourages clients to ask, “What if?” She helps to answer questions around cash flow organization, retirement planning and risk assessment.
They prefer to spend life focusing on their families and careers, rather than sorting through the increasingly difficult and complex world of personal finance. They entrust us to be a part of their team.
We are proud to work with our clients across decades and generations. It’s not uncommon for our conference room to fill with two or three generations, all collaborating, all on the same page.
We are privileged to serve clients from all backgrounds, but a large portion of them fall into one of the three P’s: physicians, professors and public employees. In addition, we serve a number of small business and farm owners and quite a few retirees.
We work every day to earn and maintain the trust of the clients we are privileged to serve. We actively seek ways to make their lives better and genuinely enjoy helping.
They recognize the value of their time – and our expertise. In our work together, we strive to create clarity through customized planning and empowerment through ongoing education.
We genuinely enjoy and respect our client families. We look forward to seeing them and go out of our way to find opportunities to make their lives easier.
For those of you with a charitable heart over 70.5, you might have donated to your favorite charity directly from your IRA last year. This gifting strategy, technically called a Qualified Charitable Distribution (QCD), has increased in popularity over the…
For the fourth time, our firm is thrilled to partner with Collier Law and Willamette Valley Hospice to bring Women’s Worth. This 2-hour seminar has been created by and for women. Why is this important? Here are a few unsettling…
As CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ professionals, we are intimately familiar with the term ‘fiduciary.’ It means to put the best interests of others (in our case, our clients) above all else. It’s hard to imagine a job with more fiduciary responsibility…
At the start of every new year, our team sets aside a day to gather offsite. Yesterday, we celebrated the accomplishments of our firm and staff, analyzed the missed opportunities and set goals for the year ahead. Here are some…
Not necessarily in the immediate future—although the probabilities of one have moved higher in recent months—but at some point, yes. Based on a rough survey of indicators put forth by various sources, the odds of one happening in the next…
The longest government shutdown in U.S. history ended after 35 days on January 25, 2019. A temporary appropriations bill extended funding for shuttered federal agencies to February 15, 2019, while a bipartisan committee negotiates a new spending bill for the…
The FOMC unanimously decided on no policy action upon the conclusion of their January meeting, which was as expected. The formal statement noted continued strength in the labor market and economic activity rising at a ‘solid’ rate (downgraded from December’s…
We had a wonderful time yesterday, welcoming a group of over 60 people to join us for our seminar, “Providing Financial Wisdom Leadership and Planning in Tumultuous Times.” 99% of those who RSVPed attended, which made for lively conversation and questions throughout. David…
Unfortunately, data breaches are a part of our high-tech world. Today, we learned of a new one. Touted by many technology outlets as the “Mother of All Breaches,” the “Collection #1” breach announced today exposed 2.6 billion email addresses and…
Medicare premiums, deductibles, and coinsurance amounts change annually. Here’s a look at some of the costs that will apply in 2019 if you’re enrolled in Original Medicare (Part A and Part B). Medicare Part B Premiums According to the Centers…
In the final quarter of 2018, interest rate and growth fears, along with geopolitical events, sparked volatility in the financial markets and reversed many of the outsize stock gains notched earlier in the year. The S&P 500 posted a loss…
It is times like these that test the most stalwart of investors. As you have probably noticed this last quarter was tough for investors of all stripes. Despite being a decade old, this has been the most “unloved” bull market…
When we tell people that we’re CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER® professionals during times of market volatility, we get empathetic looks, paired with comments similar to, “Boy, that must be tough right now. Are your clients calling you in a panic?” This…
