We make satisfying your wants, lifelong goals, and financial aspirations our Number One priority.

“We want our clients to feel satisfied and comfortable in knowing
that we are securing their financial future – whatever they want their
future to look like.”   — Kim Gardey, CFP®, President

A HISTORY OF EXPERIENCE

Gardey Financial Advisors, a highly respected firm founded in 1985 by Kim Gardey, has grown into a team of 18 associates including six Certified Financial Planner™ professionals who evaluate, implement, and nurture your financial future.

Our Advisors have backgrounds that include over 200 years of professional investment and financial planning experience – and additional experience in everything from brokerage firms, corporate finance and bank trust departments to higher education, insurance, and real estate. This ensures that you will receive only sound financial advice. We work closely with clients’ attorneys, tax preparers, and other professionals.

WHAT IS A REGISTERED INVESTMENT ADVISOR?

A Registered Investment Advisor is a fiduciary who has a duty of undivided loyalty to his investment advisory clients and must deal fairly and honestly with them. Any person or entity that holds itself out as an investment advisor must be registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Gardey Financial Advisors is an investment advisory firm registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission as a Registered Investment Advisor. Our Securities and Exchange Commission file number is 801-22431.

Gardey Financial Advisors is the largest registered independent investment firm in northeastern Michigan, providing investment management and comprehensive financial planning services to individuals, retirement plans and 401(k) plans. It has a staff of 20 that manages client portfolios totaling in excess of 195 million dollars. The firm provides services to clients in 21 states from its offices in Saginaw, Michigan.

GARDEY FINANCIAL ADVISORS CLIENT PROFILE

Gardey Financial Advisors’ comprehensive financial services are provided on a fee basis. We do not sell products or receive any other form of compensation. Since our advisors are not compensated by commissions, clients do not have to worry about their investments being better for their advisor’s pocketbook than for the client’s own portfolio. Gardey Financial Advisors’ compensation is structured to avoid any conflict of interest and to ensure that all recommendations are made in the best interest of the client.

Our clients include individuals, families, trusts, corporation pension plans, 401(k) plans, and non-profit organizations. Typically, the client is looking for assistance from a professional manager who understands the need for continuous long-term planning in conjunction with regularly scheduled review meetings.

In most cases, the client feels that they alone do not have the in-depth knowledge, research capabilities, time or comfort level to make a disciplined decision on their financial matters.

THE INVESTMENT COMMITTEE

With Jon Gardey as chairman, the Investment Committee evaluates specific investments, establishes investment strategies and philosophies, and monitors the economy and current financial markets. The committee meetings are a forum for the discussion of any investment-related topic. Specific duties and responsibilities of the committee include:

• Establishing diversification criteria for the growth and risk reduction portfolios.

• Monitoring and selecting the specific investments used by Gardey Financial Advisors within a framework of size and style diversification set by the committee.

• Evaluating and setting criteria for a wide variety of items including the life expectancy and return assumptions used for retirement projections, as well as setting the criteria for appropriately utilizing losses to the taxpayer’s advantage.

• Monitoring the market and economic situation and evaluating how the current and possible future market and economic environments may impact client investments.

• Acting as a devil’s advocate in regard to specific investments and investment strategies. All current and proposed investments and investment strategies must satisfy the scrutiny of the members of the committee.

• Establishing and monitoring investment guidelines used in portfolio construction (for example, the mix between Michigan and non-Michigan municipal bonds for a resident of Michigan, or the specific criteria to determine whether to include U.S. Treasuries or municipal bonds as the individual issues in a portfolio).

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Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards, Inc. owns the certification marks CFP®, CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ and CFP (with flame logo)® in the U.S., which it awards to individuals who successfully complete CFP Board’s initial and onging certification requirements.