Our leadership team is dedicated to creating a strong community and entrepreneurial environment for investment consultants to serve their clients on their terms. We’ve served clients ourselves, and guided investment consultants in practice management and investment product selection for decades.
Michael Pugh, AIF®
Principal and Owner
I’ve always loved watching investment consultants make plans for their clients, whether those plans are for helping their children, assisting their parents, or living out their dreams. This is the same approach I take, when I work with our investment consultants. I want to make sure there is a plan in place to support their business.
Listening. As my career continued to evolve, I took on various positions in the realm of management or sales. Moving into these roles, my initial instinct was to show how I could make you, platforms, or systems better versus listening to the other person present the situation first. As I learned to talk less and listen more, this helped to create a more conducive environment for problem-solving, planning, etc.
First and foremost is making sure our investment consultants are getting everything they need to be successful. Specifically, a focus is working with our offices to make sure that there is a succession plan in place, in case something should happen, so that their business, spouse, and clients are taken care of and protected.
The Pugh Family (Mike, Ashley, Jackson, & Keri)
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Keri I. Pugh, AIF®, CFP®
Owner
2020 Five Star Wealth Manager Award Winner*
It is so gratifying to have the privilege of being a trusted advisor to my clients and of being able to work in that capacity, while also having the flexibility to be there for my husband and children. It is a challenging balance to be a working mother, but I enjoy the fullness of my life!
It is truly a wondrous experience to see a plan that you have worked on with a client begin to unfold for them. It is gratifying to know that, because of my efforts, knowledge, and care, a client has sought a goal like sending a child to college without student loans or has pursued a dream like traveling extensively in retirement on an income stream that our team created and implemented.
I am detail-oriented person, so I have developed many of our team’s processes in an effort to ensure a top-notch client experience in both planning and service. I believe this attention to detail makes clients comfortable and confident that I am looking out for their best interests to the best of my abilities.
The Pugh Family (Mike, Ashley, Jackson, & Keri)
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*Award based on 10 objective criteria associated with providing quality services to clients such as credentials, experience and assets under management among other factors. Wealth managers do not pay a fee to be considered or placed on the final list of 2019 Five Star Wealth Managers.