Our Partners
Charles Schwab Custodial Services
- Minimal fees: Schwab’s Schwab One Custodial Account has no maintenance fees, no commissions for online stock and exchange-traded Funds (ETFs), and no minimum opening deposit required.
- Industry experience: Schwab has been in the industry for a long time and has more assets under management than any other custodian.
- Community: Schwab offers a learning community of over 15,000 firms
- Strong customer support: Schwab offers 24/7 service and support.
Dimensional Fund Advisors Mutual Funds
- Accessible only through an approved financial advisor
- Provides tax-advantaged no-load funds
- Value and small-cap tilt strategies, along with strategic trading, based on Nobel-prize research by E. Fama and K. French
- Outperform comparable no-load mutual funds by about 1% in most asset classes over the past 20 years.
XY Planning Network (XYPN)
- Network of fee-only financial advisors
- CFP® certification
- Fee-only, no sales commissions, fiduciaries
- Virtual Services not limited by location
- Referrals for financial professionals through the cumulative experience of hundreds of independent advisors
- Networking and educational resource knowledge base
- XYPN’s “Find Your Fee-Only Advisor” search portal.
National Association of Personal Financial Advisors (NAPFA)
- A network of advisors who meet extremely high standards:
- Requires double the ongoing continuing education (CE) coursework of CFP®certificants (60 hours every 2 years, instead of 30 hours)
- CFP® certification
- Fee-only, meaning advisors receive compensation solely from the client — no broker commissions, rebates, awards, finder’s fees, bonuses, “fee-offset” arrangements, 12b-1 fees, insurance rebates, wrap fee arrangements or other compensation from the sale of financial products.
- Fiduciary — legally bound to put clients’ best interests first, at all times
- Free of disciplinary and legal events, which can be certified by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (www.finra.org)
- A broad range of member resources
- Network opportunities and resource groups with highly skilled financial advisors
- Extensive CE courses in subjects such as tax strategies, retirement, estate, financial planning, ethics, financial planning, insurance, accounting, economics, strategic thinking, and technology
- NAPFA’s highly recommended “Find-an-Advisor” search portal