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John Foster

Advisor at John Hancock Personal Financial Services, LLC — Boston, MA Berkeley St

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Credentials

Series 65, Series 63

Experience

1 year

Location

Boston, MA 02116

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John Hancock Personal Financial Services, LLC

Multi-team

Total advisors

63

Across 28 offices

Clients per advisor

565 Very High

Avg AUM per client

$61,762 Very Low

HNW client ratio

1% Very Low

About

John Foster is a financial advisor with John Hancock Personal Financial Services, LLC in Boston, MA, holding Series 63 and Series 65 credentials and having one year of industry experience. Prior to his current role, he worked at Manulife John Hancock Brokerage Services LLC and John Hancock. He also serves as a retirement consultant for JHRPS Education Retirement Consultant, providing educational information to participants in qualified retirement plans. John Hancock Personal Financial Services, LLC offers financial planning and consultative services to individuals, trusts, estates, non-profits, and business entities, delivering written plans and recommendations through a technology-assisted service model. The firm serves both non‑high‑net‑worth and high‑net‑worth clients and operates an Emergency Savings program with no advisory fee.

Client services

Based on John Hancock Personal Financial Services, LLC

Financial planning Portfolio management Educational seminars or workshops

Expertise

Based on John Hancock Personal Financial Services, LLC

General retirement planning General estate planning guidance College savings (529s, UTMA, etc.) Life insurance needs analysis

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Fee options

Fixed

Flat fee for financial plans; deposit up to $1,200 or 50% of total fee (whichever is less) may be required before plan delivery

Project-based

Up to $250 per hour for financial planning and consultative services

Location

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Boston, MA Berkeley St

200 Berkeley St

Boston MA 02116

Advisors at this office

35

Most active in

Massachusetts

Work history

1 year of industry experience

Manulife John Hancock Brokerage Services LLC

2024 - Present • 2 years

Boston, MA

John Hancock

2023 - Present • 3 years

Boston, MA

Clean Juice

2023 - 2023 • 1 year

Tampa, FL

Back40 Restaurant

2021 - 2021 • 1 year

North Kingstown, RI

Tampa Pizza Company

2021 - 2021 • 1 year

Tampa, FL

University of Tampa

2019 - 2023 • 4 years

Tampa, FL

T's Restaurant Group

2018 - 2021 • 3 years

Narragansett, RI

East Greenwich High School

2016 - 2019 • 3 years

East Greenwich, RI

Disclosures

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Business activities & affiliations

Kevin F

CFP®, CFT-I™, CPA

Dover, MA

Walk You To Wealth

Kevin Feig is a CFP®, CPA, CFT™, professional affiliated with Walk You To Wealth in Dover, MA, with over 20 years of industry experience including executive-level roles at Fidelity Investments and digital asset firms such as Coinbase and Kraken. He currently serves as an Adjunct Professor of Financial Planning at Columbia and Regis Colleges. Walk You To Wealth provides financial coaching and comprehensive planning to individuals and families, including portfolio management and money-mindset coaching for a flat monthly fee.

Passive / index investing College savings (529s, UTMA, etc.) General retirement planning General tax planning Roth conversion strategy Self-Employed Executive Spending planning aligned with values ('Die with Zero') Financial coaching / therapy Behavioral coaching / decision support
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Melisa D

Series 65

Waltham, MA

Beacon Pointe Advisors, LLC

Melisa Dobraca Iacono is a financial advisor at Beacon Pointe Advisors, LLC with four years of industry experience. She holds a Series 65 designation and has worked at Beacon Pointe Advisors and its affiliated entities since 2018, as well as at Windrose Advisors, LLC from 2014 to 2018. Beacon Pointe Advisors provides investment advisory and consulting services to a diverse client base, including individuals, institutions, and charitable organizations. The firm employs a manager-focused investment approach, utilizing proprietary due-diligence processes and a mix of active and passive strategies across various third-party platforms.

Wealth management Private / alternative investments ESG / Sustainable investing Tax-loss harvesting
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Charles N

CFP®, Series 66

Boston, MA

Cetera

Charles Norfleet Jr. is a CFP® professional with eight years of industry experience, currently affiliated with Cetera. His career includes roles at McAdam LLC, Purshe Kaplan Sterling Investments, Andrews & Cole, and Norfleet Advisory, which he owns and operates. Outside of advisory work, he provides insurance services including life, health, disability, annuities, and long-term care products. Cetera Investment Advisers serves a diverse client base including individual, high-net-worth, institutional, and retirement-plan clients through a large network of independent advisors. The firm offers a range of portfolio management, financial planning, and fiduciary solutions supported by a combination of advisor-managed accounts, firm-sponsored model portfolios, and third-party managed strategies.

Wealth management Tax-loss harvesting Retirement plans for business owners (SEP, solo 401k) Charitable giving & philanthropy Founder/Business Owner Executive Retired HENRY (High Earners, Not Rich Yet) Approaching retirement

Thomas H

CFA®, Series 63, Series 66

Boston, MA

Appleton Partners, Inc.

Thomas Hagstrom is a CFA® charterholder with 30 years of industry experience. He is currently with Appleton Partners, Inc. in Boston, MA, and previously worked at Charles Schwab Investment Advisory and Charles Schwab. He is an Army Veteran and involved in Veteran's affairs. Appleton Partners, Inc. provides discretionary portfolio management and wealth planning for individuals, trusts, charitable organizations, and institutional clients. The firm employs fundamental, relative-value, and technical analysis across fixed income and equity strategies, tailoring portfolios to client objectives with ongoing monitoring and quarterly appraisals.

Tax-loss harvesting Income planning General retirement planning Roth conversion strategy Founder/Business Owner Retired Military & Veterans Educators, Teachers, and Academics Established Professionals Approaching retirement
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Benjamin D

Series 65

Boston, MA

First Step Financial

Benjamin Doernberg is a financial advisor at First Step Financial in Boston, MA, holding a Series 65 designation with one year of industry experience. Prior to founding First Step Financial, he worked with Never Again Action and Escape the Room Boston. First Step Financial provides financial planning and advisory services to individual and high-net-worth clients through one-off plans, ad-hoc hourly engagements, and an ongoing subscription option, focusing on modern portfolio theory and broad index mutual funds and ETFs. The firm does not custody or trade client accounts and uses a pricing model based on subscription and hourly fees rather than asset-based charges.

College savings (529s, UTMA, etc.) Life insurance needs analysis Long-term care insurance Disability insurance Cash flow / budgeting

Matthew H

CFP®, CFA®, Series 65, Series 63

Braintree, MA

Dreamfield Planning Group, LLC

I began my career in the financial services industry nearly ten years ago. Prior to founding Dreamfield Planning Group, I served as an associate wealth management advisor at Sconset Wealth Management—an advisory practice nested in the downtown Boston office of Northwestern Mutual—where I developed financial plans and managed investment assets. In a preceding role in the same office, I led an internal business unit providing investment consulting services to multiple financial advisors representing more than $200 million of assets under management (AUM). Previous to that, I served as an associate financial advisor at a Foxborough, Massachusetts financial planning practice and as a research analyst at a Cambridge, Massachusetts public policy research firm. I hold a Bachelor of Arts in History from Hendrix College and a Master of Public Policy from Georgetown University. I am both a CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ and a CFA Charterholder. I have lived for many years in Milton, Massachusetts with my wife Allie and our son Ben. In my spare time, I enjoy travel, reading, playing guitar, and taking long walks with the family dog, Louie.

Wealth management Active portfolio management General retirement planning Mid-Career Professionals Baby Boomers (Born 1946-1964)
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