Join us for a free financial and economic update to get 2019 off to a great start.
Tuesday, Jan. 22, 2019
Doors 3:30 pm | Event 4–6 pm
Illahe Hills Country Club
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.
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