Advisor at Tamalpais Asset Management
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Firm
Tamalpais Asset Management
Location
La Conner, WA
Credentials
Series 66
Industry experience
25 years
Wayne Best is a financial advisor at Tamalpais Asset Management with 24 years of industry experience. He holds a Series 66 designation and has worked at Marin Wealth Advisors, LaSalle St. Investment Advisors, and other firms before joining Tamalpais. He is also the owner of Align Financial Services, which is compensated based on assets under management at Tamalpais. Tamalpais Asset Management is a team-based, SEC-registered investment adviser serving individuals, high-net-worth clients, trusts, endowments, qualified retirement plan sponsors, and business entities. The firm emphasizes passive investing through DFA mutual funds and ETFs within a process informed by modern portfolio theory, while also employing longer-term trading and tailored portfolio management.
Based on Tamalpais Asset Management
$0 - $2,000,000: 1.00% $2,000,001 - $5,000,000: 0.75% $5,000,001+: 0.50%
Michael Bristow, a principal, is licensed to accept commissions for sale of investment products to clients; commissions are not primary source of compensation and advisory fees are not reduced to offset commissions.
La Conner, WA
California · Washington
Tamalpais Asset Management, Llc
2025 - Present (1 year)
Align Financial Services
2024 - Present (2 years)
Self Employed
2015 - 2023 (8 years)
Marin Wealth Advisors, LLC
2013 - 2025 (12 years)
LaSalle St. Investment Advisors, L.L.C.
2013 - 2019 (6 years)
Lasalle St. Securities, L.L.C.
2013 - 2019 (6 years)
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CFP®
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I began investing with my first mutual fund purchase in 1983. I've continued studying investments and financial planning ever since, becoming a member of the American Association of Individual Investors in 1984. I earned the Associate of Science in Electronics, from Gavilan College in 1986, the Bachelor of Science in Business Administration (cum laude) at Chapman University in 1995, Master of Business Administration at Columbia College of Missouri in 2002. I completed Boston University’s Online Program for Financial Planners in 2006, and most recently earned the Master of Science in Finance & Economics at West Texas A&M University in 2024. I began formally helping others reach their financial goals in 1991, as the Command Financial Specialist aboard USS Dixon (AS 37), as part of the US Navy’s then-new Personal Financial Management program. I served in the same position at Afloat Training Group in Yokosuka, Japan. After completing a Navy career, I worked at Bank of America, first in Northwest Dealer Banking, and was soon promoted to Investment Specialist in Retirement Services. I enjoy helping others apply principles of financial management to their personal situations and teach courses in: Personal Financial Planning; Business Finance; Principles of Real Estate; Investments; and Micro and Macro Economics for Columbia College in Oak Harbor and Marysville. I also taught Personal Finance & Investments for Skagit Valley College from 2004 through 2016. Penn Cove Financial, LLC was established in 2005 and began offering Financial Planning & Investment Management services to the public in March 2006.
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