Financial Life Planning

We care about our clients and have been down this path ourselves. We’ll help you find the smarter path forward.

Financial Freedom Starts with a Plan

Smarter Bear Difference

A Proven Approach

We begin every client relationship by working with you to understand what’s important to you. We’ll analyze your goals and current circumstances and come up with a plan that is right for you. This personal approach ensures that we can provide planning and investment guidance that really matches your objectives, life goals and risk tolerance.

Planning Futures

We're here to help people with complex financial situations create plans and investment strategies to best meet their long-term financial goals. Have questions about investments, taxes, retirement, and/or estate planning? One of our founders would be glad to help.

Why Us?

We are fee-only financial fiduciary advisors who didn't grow up in the financial services industry. We bring a different perspective to helping our clients plan for the future. We've spent a career helping to build some of the most successful companies in America. We couldn't find the kind of advice that we and our peers needed for complex personal and family financial decisions, so we set out to build it ourselves.

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Health Savings Accounts

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