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Financial Planning Reading List

The Pasadena Financial Planner has written extensively about personal financial planning and investment management on a variety of websites. When I work with clients to develop their customized lifetime financial and investment plans, they often ask what they should read to improve their financial literacy.
This article provides a list of recommended reading from among the [...]

Your Family Financial Planning

10 Financial Planning Steps in the Right Direction
Families need an objective financial planning process. In addition, they need to be in control — whether or not they have a family financial planning consultant. With a well-designed and personal financial plan, you can optimize your financial affairs over your lifetime. You can greatly reduce the waste [...]

Your Family Financial Planning Process

<<< Go Back to Part 1 (Steps 1 to 5) — Family Financial Planning Pasadena
To find an in depth article for each step, just click on the “Pasadena Financial Planners Sitemap” link at the top of this page and look for the articles numbered from 6 to 10. Also, you can reach us by using [...]

Personal Investment Strategy

Step 6 of 10 Personal Financial Planning Steps in the Right Direction
This is one of the “10 Steps in the Right Direction” that make up The Pasadena Financial Planner’s personal financial planning and personal investment management process. For a summary of these ten steps, see “Your Family Financial Planning.” To find an in-depth article for [...]

Investment Asset Allocation

Step 5 of 10 Personal Financial Planning Steps in the Right Direction
This is one of the “10 Steps in the Right Direction” that make up The Pasadena Financial Planner’s personal financial planning and personal investment management process. For a summary of these ten steps, see Your Family Financial Planning. To find an in depth article [...]

Financial Planning Tools

10 Personal Financial Planning Steps in the Right Direction
This is one of the “10 Steps in the Right Direction” that make up the Pasadena Financial Planner’s personal financial planning and personal investment management process. For a summary of these ten steps, see “Your Family Financial Planning.” To find an in depth article for each step, [...]

Your Personal Financial Planning Skills

10 Personal Financial Planning Steps in the Right Direction
This is one of the “10 Steps in the Right Direction” that make up The Pasadena Financial Planner’s personal financial planning and personal investment management process. For a summary of these ten steps, see Your Family Financial Planning. To find an in depth article for each step, [...]

Fee Only Financial Planner for Those Who Are Not (Yet) Fabulously Rich

Most investment planning services firms focus on the interests of the wealthy, while the financial services industry and full service brokers hide fees within excessively costly and supposedly “free” financial products sold to the affluent middle and upper middle class
Using hundreds of thousands of what the securities industry calls “producer” employees, the brokerage industry sells [...]

Pasadena Financial Planner Background

Comprehensive financial planning advice informed by extensive business experience
<<< Pasadena Financial Planner Background Part 1: Pasadena Financial Planning
Receiving my Stanford MBA in 1982, I moved a few miles south to begin my corporate career in Silicon Valley. For most of my twenty-five plus years after Stanford, I have managed strategic business and corporate initiatives for [...]

Find the Best Independent Financial Planner

Get help from an independent financial planner and fee only investment advisor who will:

Take the time necessary to understand your family’s personal financial and retirement planning situation in comprehensive detail
Provide thorough, personalized, and specific financial action plans
Put you at the center of decisions using a sophisticated and fully automated personal financial planning tool that projects [...]