Archive - May 2013

Brian Frederick is a financial planner who focuses his practice on being a trusted advisor to successful Generation X professionals, helping them align their financial affairs with the lives they want for themselves and their families. He believes that financial advice should be provided by someone who isn’t compensated by sales commissions and that the advice be holistic in nature - not just looking at your investment portfolio or selling you an insurance policy. He’s also discovered that most practitioners who meet these requirements primarily serve clients who are ‘older’ and ‘richer’.
Brian has been interested in money and financial matters since watching Richie Rich cartoons as a young boy. Over the years, his understanding of building wealth has become more realistic – first by going to the public library with his father, a retired university economics professor, to read investment periodicals; and then later by his riding his small Roth IRA up during Internet Bubble, only to have it come crashing down when the bubble burst.
Brian started his career by working as a commissioned stockbroker – something he describes as being a used-car salesman when he really wanted to be a mechanic. He then moved into several customer-facing credit and collection roles before ultimately becoming a non-commissioned financial advisor. For the five years prior to starting Stillwater, Brian worked for the investment and financial advice division of auto insurance giant USAA.
Brian is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of Nebraska – Lincoln. He also graduated from the University of Nebraska Law College where he was awarded an academic scholarship. He has been a CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ professional (CFP®) since 2006; is a Chartered Financial Consultant (ChFC), having completed extensive education in professional financial planning; has earned the Chartered Life Underwriter (CLU) which is the highest-level designation available in the life insurance profession; and is a Certified Wealth Strategist ® (CWS®) which focuses on the practical advice related to the thirteen common issues that high net worth individuals face. He is an inactive member of the Nebraska and Arizona bar associations.
Brian lives in Scottsdale, Arizona with his wife and two young sons. Outside of work and family, his passions include Kansas City Royals baseball, driving his Corvette, and cooking barbeque on his Big Green Egg.