Your Financial Planning and Investment Consultant Owes You Expert, Unbiased Guidance

Rely on independent and scientific financial planning and investment management.

Genuine financial knowledge requires proven facts.

I will provide objective and comprehensive financial planning advice with a solid scientific basis. I am a completely independent, fee only financial planner, financial consultant, and investment planner. I provide scientifically-based, personal financial, investment, money, and retirement services to individuals. I work for you -- not for the financial investment industry.

Get a checkup from an expert financial consultant, guide, and adviser who:

• Takes the time necessary to understand your situation in comprehensive detail
• Provides thorough, personalized, and specific lifecycle action plans, including:

• lifetime income, expense, and savings planning,
• risk profiling and asset allocation,
• cost-efficient and tax-efficient cash, bond, and equity investment recommendations
• financial risk exposure analysis

• Puts you at the center of decisions with VeriPlan, a sophisticated and fully automated personal financial planning tool that projects the financial impacts of the choices you want to make over your lifetime.

I base my advisory practice on financial planning and investing knowledge gained through:

• education at Stanford University (MBA), Brandeis University (MA), and M.I.T. (BS)
• twenty-five years of corporate and start-up management experience in corporate development, finance, business development, and marketing
• extensive study of scientific finance research papers that provide useful information about which strategies to follow or to ignore.

I am committed to the financial education of my clients and strongly believe that educated individual investors make much better personal financial planning decisions across their lifetimes and for retirement. 

You and I will work together to analyze your financial affairs cooperatively. Your personal financial and investment plan will be designed for cost-efficiency and time-efficiency. Once established, your financial plan should require minimal tuning over time. As your financial services and investment consultant, I will act as your consumer advocate. I can help you to shop for the lowest cost financial products that are consistent with your financial plan.

My financial and retirement planning services will be valuable and cost-effective to you. My financial consultant fees will be reasonable, clearly understood, and determined in advance. Your personal financial planning interests are paramount, and I will never have any third party compensation conflict-of-interest with the financial industry. I will not accept any third party sales commissions or other third party payments of any kind. 

Larry Russell
Managing Director
Lawrence Russell and Company
Pasadena, California

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See also:

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My Value to You -- Personalized Scientific Financial Planning Services

Background of Author

Motivation of author and his individual investor education efforts

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• Questions to ask, when hiring an advisor – Part 3, Services and references

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Regulation of Financial Advisors:

• Regulation of financial planners and investment advisors -- Introduction
• Checking the backgrounds of individual securities brokers and advisors who sell investments
• On-line information explaining the licenses of financial planners, investment advisors, and insurance representatives
• Online information about registered securities broker-dealers and investment advisory firms
• Finding state regulators of securities brokers, investment advisors, insurance agents, and insurance brokers
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• Widely recognized private financial and investment advisor certifications
• Governmental and self-regulation of the securities industry

Advisor Fraud

• Avoiding financial planning and investment advisor frauds and scams – Overview
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• Avoiding advisor frauds and scams – The “Never-do” list, Part 3

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