Damian Jude Dering

Drew Feldman is the founder of WideFrame Wealth in Los Angeles, serving nationwide. He is an Accredited Portfolio Management Advisor™ and holds a Series 65 designation. Flat fee, fee only.

Fred Kettler is a mindful, holistic financial coach and independent financial professional serving Miami, Florida and Southern California, with nearly four decades of experience helping individuals, families, and business owners gain greater clarity, confidence, and peace of mind around their financial lives. Since beginning his career in 1987, Fred has focused on helping clients think beyond products, market returns, or isolated financial decisions. His planning approach is built around four key areas: cash-flow awareness, income and family protection, broadly diversified long-term investing, and retirement income planning. Fred’s work is centered on helping clients better understand where they are today, where they want to go, and how to build a more thoughtful roadmap for the future. His process emphasizes education, stewardship, long-term discipline, and creating dependable income strategies designed to support clients through every stage of life, especially as they approach or move through retirement. Rather than focusing solely on assets under management, Fred helps clients explore the bigger picture: how their savings, investments, insurance, income sources, and retirement goals can work together more effectively. His goal is to help people make more confident decisions, protect what matters most, and move forward with greater financial peace of mind. Fred Kettler is associated with Kettler Financial and has served clients for many years through a personal, relationship-driven planning process. His work is especially suited for individuals and families seeking a thoughtful financial chat, a clearer retirement income strategy, and a more holistic approach to long-term financial wellbeing.

Joo Hong Kim is a financial advisor at Solomon Investment Consulting, Inc. in Los Angeles, CA, with 25 years of industry experience. He has held roles at the Asian Pacific American Dispute Resolution Center and the Pacific Business Exchange Golf Club. Kim holds Series 63 and Series 65 licenses. Solomon Investment Consulting is a fee-only, single-advisor registered investment adviser serving individuals, high-net-worth clients, and businesses. The firm manages approximately $27.8 million across about ten client relationships, offering discretionary and non-discretionary portfolio management and financial planning based on valuation and fundamental analysis, with a performance-based fee option available to qualified clients.

Linda Walker is a Certified Financial Planner® with 45 years of experience in the financial services industry. She has operated her independent advisory firm, Linda A. Walker, CFP, since 1996 and has also been affiliated with LPL Financial since 1991. Her practice includes some involvement with long-term care insurance in coordination with a colleague approved by LPL. Her firm provides financial planning and investment advice to individuals, trusts, and corporations, generally on an hourly or fixed-fee basis. The advisory work focuses on budget analysis, retirement, education, and tax projections, emphasizing asset allocation modeling with client-directed rebalancing and consultative advice rather than discretionary management or custody of client assets.

Max Pashman is a CFP® professional with eight years of experience in financial advising. He is the principal of Pashman Financial LLC, an independent advisory firm, and has held roles at firms including Nectarine and Origin Financial. Outside of his advisory work, he is involved with Nectarine Financial Inc. as a financial planner. Pashman Financial LLC serves individual and high-net-worth clients with tailored investment management and a range of financial planning services. The firm primarily employs a passive investment approach using model portfolios, index funds, ETFs, and separately managed accounts, and also provides retirement plan consulting and financial education seminars.

Dominic Waechter is a financial advisor at MDW Capital Management Corp. in Los Angeles, holding a Series 65 designation with three years of industry experience. He has worked at Hammelman Capital Management LLC and currently maintains roles in accounting at DLD Accountancy, LLP, and in real estate brokerage and property management. In addition to his advisory work, Waechter is a licensed life insurance agent. MDW Capital Management Corp serves individual and high-net-worth clients through a single-advisor practice that oversees approximately $12.5 million in assets. The firm employs a referral and oversight model, matching clients with third-party discretionary managers and monitoring those externally managed portfolios without directly trading client accounts.