Financial Advisory Network

Financial Advisory Network is a small, independent registered investment adviser that serves individual investors and institutional clients such as pension plans, trusts, estates and charitable organizations, working with roughly 34 clients under a single-advisor model. The firm offers individualized portfolio management, full-service written financial planning, consulting, and ongoing communications including a client newsletter.

The firm develops client strategies through in-depth personal interviews and tailors portfolios to clients’ goals, using methods that include charting, fundamental, cyclical and technical analysis and a mix of long- and short-term trading (including margin where appropriate). Implementation is client-directed: the firm does not accept discretionary authority to select brokers, and custodial services are available through Schwab Institutional while clients are responsible for directing brokerage.

Noteworthy features relative to peers include the provision of educational seminars and a newsletter, both offered free of charge to current and prospective clients—seminars are relatively uncommon among independent advisers. The principal is a long‑standing CFP professional who also operates as a licensed insurance agent (allocating about 20% of time to insurance activities and receiving customary commissions for insurance sales), and the firm reported no assets under management as of its most recent update despite offering AUM-based portfolio management services.