Richard Jackson is a CFP® professional with 14 years of industry experience, currently affiliated with Jackson & Associates, Inc. He has worked at Jackson & Associates since 2011 and also has a role at First Heartland Capital Inc. Beyond his advisory work, he is involved with Western Assurance Agency, where he serves as an agent and broker for fixed insurance products including fixed annuities, life insurance, long-term care, and disability income insurance. Jackson & Associates serves individuals, small businesses, trusts, and estates with discretionary portfolio management, financial planning, and retirement plan advisory services. The firm focuses on broadly diversified, long-term portfolios and provides fiduciary services and retirement-plan support, including vendor analysis and participant education.

Paul offers dedicated financial planning and investment consulting services. He works closely with individuals and families, employing a holistic approach that integrates wealth management with essential tax and estate planning. For institutions and Native American tribes, Paul serves as an investment consultant, providing assistance with investment policy creation, asset allocation strategies, retirement plan fiduciary oversight, and investment provider reviews. His role encompasses research, analysis, portfolio management, client service, and educational seminars. Paul holds the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) and CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ (CFP®) professional designations. He has also earned the Accredited Investment Fiduciary Analyst® (AIFA®) designation through Fi360, signifying expertise in evaluating how well investment fiduciaries meet their duties according to defined standards of care. He is a member of the CFA Institute and the CFA Society of New Mexico. Paul is also committed to his community. He is a lifetime member and 2019 graduate of Leadership New Mexico and a 2016 graduate of Leadership Albuquerque. He has previously served as Board Chair for the UNM Anderson School of Business Foundation and Finance Chair for The Full Life Foundation. Currently, Paul contributes to the Greater Albuquerque Chamber of Commerce as a board member and Chair of the Education Committee. He also serves on the board of Excellent Schools New Mexico and is an investment subcommittee member for the Presbyterian Healthcare Services board.

Amy Stangel is a CFP® with nine years of industry experience, currently serving as a financial advisor at Hanseatic Management Services Inc since 2012. She holds a Series 65 license and is based in Albuquerque, NM. Outside of her advisory role, she operates ABQSportfishing, a small outdoor recreation business. Hanseatic Management Services provides investment management, model portfolios, investment advice, and financial planning to individual, high-net-worth, and institutional clients. The firm uses a proprietary quantitative investment process to guide portfolio construction and serves a variety of clients including other RIAs through sub-advisory and model provisioning arrangements.

Brandon Kinsner is a financial advisor at Oakmont Advisory Group, LLC in Albuquerque, NM. He holds a Series 65 credential and has three years of industry experience. Prior to joining Oakmont Advisory Group, he worked at OPS BTFO, UbreakIfix, and Miracle Fulfillment. Oakmont Advisory Group provides fee-based financial planning and investment management services to individual investors, households, trusts, estates, charitable organizations, and business entities. The firm uses a combination of fundamental, technical, and cyclical analysis and incorporates third-party model signals in its investment approach.

Bernadine Sanchez is a financial advisor at Madrid Wealth Management with nine years of industry experience. She holds a Series 65 designation and has previously worked at REDW Wealth, Compound Planning, and Madrid Wealth Management. Madrid Wealth Management provides wealth management, financial planning, retirement plan consulting, and tax advisory services to individuals, employer plan sponsors, charitable organizations, and institutional clients. The firm uses a personalized investment approach combining passive and active strategies, and it is affiliated with an accounting firm to offer integrated tax and financial services.

Ronald Sklar is a financial advisor with SKG Capital Advisors, LLC in Albuquerque, NM, holding Series 63 and Series 65 licenses and bringing 39 years of industry experience. He previously worked at SSN Advisory Inc and Securities Service Network from 2009 to 2017. Outside of advisory services, he operates an insurance agency offering long-term care insurance, life insurance, and fixed annuities. SKG Capital Advisors serves individuals, including high-net-worth clients, corporations, small businesses, and retirement plans by providing discretionary portfolio management, financial planning, and pension consulting. The firm emphasizes a wrap-fee program delivery with an automated ETF-based investment platform and also offers pension-plan services and insurance solutions through licensed personnel.

Michele Haguewood is a financial advisor at Jackson & Associates, Inc. in Albuquerque, NM, holding a Series 65 designation. She has been with the firm since 2018 and was self-employed from 2008 to 2018. Michele has no prior industry experience before joining Jackson & Associates. Jackson & Associates serves individuals, small businesses, trusts, and estates by providing discretionary portfolio management, financial planning, and retirement plan advisory services. The firm focuses on broadly diversified, long-term investment strategies using ETFs, mutual funds, stocks, and bonds, and offers ERISA fiduciary services along with third-party money manager oversight.

Shawn Watts is a financial advisor at Zia Capital Investments LLC with three years of industry experience. He holds a Series 66 designation and previously served 16 years in the United States Marine Corps before transitioning to financial services roles at Mutual of Omaha and Modern Financial Asset Management. Outside of advising, Mr. Watts works as an independent insurance agent, real estate broker, and mortgage loan officer. Zia Capital Investments LLC provides discretionary portfolio management and financial planning primarily for individual clients, focusing on retirement income, tax and estate planning, and wealth accumulation. The firm employs a modern portfolio theory-based investment approach, combining passive core allocations with tactical active adjustments, and serves both retail and institutional clients.

David Hicks is a financial advisor with Oakmont Advisory Group, LLC in Albuquerque, NM, holding a Series 65 credential and 13 years of industry experience. He has been with Oakmont Advisory Group since 2013 and is also involved with Lowkey Holdings, LLC. Hicks serves on the Board of Directors of Oak Grove Classical Academy, a K-12 private Christian school in Albuquerque. Oakmont Advisory Group provides fee-based financial planning and investment management to individuals, households, trusts, estates, charitable organizations, and business entities. The firm employs a blend of fundamental, technical, and cyclical analysis and utilizes a range of strategies from long-term holdings to shorter-term trading and options.

Ralph Hicks Jr. is a financial advisor with Oakmont Advisory Group, LLC in Albuquerque, NM, holding the ChFC® designation and Series 63 and 65 licenses. He has 37 years of industry experience and has been with Oakmont Advisory Group since 2011. In addition to his advisory role, he is the managing member of Oakmont Insurance, LLC, an insurance agency he formed in 2005. Oakmont Advisory Group provides fee-based financial planning and investment management services to individual investors, households, trusts, estates, charitable organizations, and business entities. The firm employs a blend of fundamental, technical, and cyclical analysis and utilizes various strategies including long-term holdings, shorter-term trading, and options, supported by third-party model signals and platforms.

Chase Eggleston is a CFA® charterholder and holds a Series 65 license, with nine years of industry experience. He has been with Hurst Capital Management since 2014 and is based in Albuquerque, NM. Hurst Capital Management is a small advisory firm serving individual and high-net-worth clients, trusts, and retirement plans with discretionary asset management and retirement plan consulting. The firm emphasizes tailored portfolio supervision through fundamental analysis and diverse asset-allocation strategies, including ESG integration and occasional use of alternative investments.

Ann Shubert is a CFP® with 11 years of industry experience, currently serving as a financial advisor at Equita Financial Network, Inc. She has worked in various roles including at Waddell & Reed, Inc. and within insurance and financial firms such as Intentional Insurance, LLC and Intentional Finance, LLC. Equita Financial Network, Inc. is an SEC-registered advisory firm that provides comprehensive financial planning and investment management to individual and high-net-worth clients. The firm emphasizes market efficiency and strategic asset allocation, offering discretionary management and a network model that supports investment adviser representatives under independent DBAs.

Bryan Giron is a financial advisor with REDW Wealth LLC in Albuquerque, NM, holding a Series 65 designation and 12 years of industry experience. He previously worked at Better Money Decisions from 2015 to 2023 before joining REDW Wealth LLC in 2024. REDW Wealth LLC provides personalized financial planning, investment advisory, and wealth management services to a diverse client base, including individuals, pension plans, trusts, charitable organizations, Native American tribes, and government entities. The firm emphasizes strategic asset allocation with tactical adjustments, primarily using exchange-traded funds and no-load mutual funds, and operates as a fee-based advisor with coordinated tax and advisory services through its affiliation with a CPA firm.

Jason Mullins is a financial advisor at DAI Wealth, LLC with 18 years of industry experience. He holds Series 63 and Series 65 licenses and has previously worked at SCF Investment Advisors, Inc. and FSC Securities Corporation. Mullins serves on the board of Triumph Centre @ Bethel and is a financial education instructor with The Society for Financial Awareness. DAI Wealth, LLC provides discretionary and non-discretionary investment management and financial planning to a diverse client base, including individuals, pension plans, charitable organizations, and corporations. The firm utilizes multiple custodial platforms and third-party managers to tailor portfolios according to client objectives and offers ERISA fiduciary and non-fiduciary retirement plan services.

Brenton Fewox is a financial advisor at Atlas Capital Management Corp with 17 years of industry experience. He holds Series 63 and Series 65 licenses and has worked at Atlas since 2019. Outside of his advisory role, he serves as a bishop at The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, providing counseling and welfare care to members. Atlas Capital Management Corp offers discretionary portfolio management and non-discretionary consulting to individuals, families, trusts, estates, and family businesses through proprietary asset-management programs. The firm manages thousands of client accounts using an active, macro-oriented investment process driven by proprietary indicators and a suite of specialized strategies.

When I was 18, I joined the military. My service in the Air Force for five years provided me with what I’d call an unfair advantage for my work later in the financial industry. My experiences living abroad first in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia during a 1995 Desert Storm tour, then in Fusa, Japan, 1996-1999, both helped me understand life and financial planning, along with the value of a hard-earned dollar. I grew up over there, and my values are strongly rooted in the same ones belonging to my parents, both educators, but also firmly molded by my service to our country and through military discipline. As military, we were tested and challenged, and we persevered in taxing and uncomfortable conditions because we always had a plan. Living in the middle of Fort Bragg, North Carolina, our unit worked directly with the 82nd Airborne Division, specializing in parachute assault operations. As a journeyman, my responsibility was to maintain and ensure the safety of the Hercules C-130, an aircraft known to fly into the eye of a hurricane. While the 82nd stood ready to respond to crisis contingencies anywhere in the world within 18 hours, our job was to make sure they arrived at their destination. We relied heavily on formal flight, maintenance and safety plans. These experiences helped inform my subsequent financial planning career through my appreciation for a well-designed, communicated, and formally written plan. My time in the military also exposed me to certain sources of waste that to me, was not logical. My fellow soldiers were buying clothes as if they were in college. I could not understand why someone needed five pairs of new pants when, on five out of seven days, we were required to wear our military uniform. “No seas codo Jose,” my friend Mike, who was half Puerto Rican, would tell me (slang for “don’t be cheap”). This was also the case with music. My friends all loved to purchase countless CD’s from their favorite musical artists. I was not conditioned to spend money that way. Instead, I used a cassette player and recorded Saturday morning radio on KANW, 89.1, when I visited New Mexico. This was the music I grew up with and what I loved. While living abroad, no amount of clothes, CD’s or stuff could fill my heart like the oldest FM Radio station in New Mexico playing on my “Walkman” portable cassette player. While living in Japan and being single, and I had some down time and I became bored. When I say “bored,” I am reminded of my dad's response to me whenever I told him I felt that way. He would say, “Ok, let's get to work,” and in Japan, that is what I did. I found out about an opportunity to work at a club as a bar-back. Within six months, I was promoted to bartender, then lead bartender. Some nights I would pocket over $100 in tips! I also was being paid $10 per hour which was not bad back then. As a sidenote, I was bartending the night I turned 21, while my friends back home were taking birthday trips to Vegas to celebrate their 21st birthdays. I feel that I earned and saved money while having fun. I believe that money is more of a tool than a luxury, and what my Puerto Rican friend Mike didn’t know is that much of my money was going to purchase the one thing that isn’t manufactured any more except in Hawaii...I wanted land! If Mike had asked me back then, “Why are you working so hard, Jose?” my answer was clear. I always wanted to buy my own piece of land, perhaps many acres in the beautiful New Mexico landscape. While this was my goal as a child, it turned out to be a rather poor investment from a monetary standpoint, yet I was enriched by the experience and education. From that point in my 20s, I understood the discipline and dedication it took to achieve any milestone. One of my jobs after the military, while I was in graduate school, was selling life insurance. After a year, I realized that this was not for me. While I value the importance of insurance, I despised the promotion of products through unscrupulous sales tactics. This was my first indication that financial planning was broken. I worked directly for a legend in the industry who took me under his wing. I learned a lot from him, most of which I did not like. While I won awards and trips, I hated the fractured process. The financial services industry and its legends focus its sales force on selling their product, not on the process or maintenance of financial planning. Since that day, I have been focused on financial planning - the process and fiduciary responsibilities that come with it. I might add that I achieved my certification as a financial planner through arduous work since I’m challenged with dyslexia, but that has never stopped me. Before serving in the military, I grew up in a small community and was raised by a village of less than 200 individuals and two great parents who recently celebrated 52 years of marriage. They had four children of their own, and I am the youngest. My parents were challenged with the loss of my brother when “God zapped him up.” He was the second oldest, and at age 16, was struck by lightning on a baseball field while doing what he loved, playing sports with his friends. I was only 13 at the time. This introduced thoughts about life insurance that impacted me later in my professional life. Through this experience, I learned that catastrophe can happen in an instant. Also, a seed was planted that grew into my interest in risk mitigation planning. While growing up in Glorieta, New Mexico, I worked a few jobs including being a gas station attendant and in yard maintenance for an affluent family in Santa Fe. Presently, when I am not working, I enjoy spending time with my wife Jasmin who is a residential realtor and a loving mother to our three children. We struggled to have kids, with over seven miscarriages which included molar, ectopic, and several with no heartbeats. The eighth tenacious pregnancy led to our first born, a perfect baby girl. We chose to have a home water birth and it was successful. The positive momentum did not stop there. We became doubly blessed with a different type of pregnancy, a twin birth with healthy boys. I love my wife so much for enduring the challenges of motherhood. Jasmin is my biggest fan and my best friend, and she is beyond brave! Before she married me, she completed over 200 jumps from perfectly working planes, including an occasional C-130 and hot air balloons. Now that the twins are walking, life often means going out on adventure with our five fedoras hats on and our two adopted, four-legged kids Sol, Bella and Duke. We are dog lovers and have a soft spot for rescues. Our close friends have referred to us as the Fedorable Five, now with our dogs we are the “Fedorables.” Whenever I can find a little bit of free time, I love to fly fish and get out in nature. I make time weekly for riding my mountain bike despite my hatred for pesky goat thorns that ruin my best tires. If my clients were to talk about me behind my back, I would guess they would say I’m a really nice guy who listens carefully. I’m patient and persistent and I ask a lot of questions, some that made people cry in a good way. They might mention that I’m detailed but I keep things simple. They also look forward to my family newsletter. Any new client who walks in the door can expect to share the identical experience. Read Jose's blog here: https://josevsanchez.com/free-resources

Dorine Sanchez is a CFP® professional with 20 years of experience in financial advising. She has been with REDW Wealth LLC since 2015, including its predecessor firm, and holds a Series 65 license. REDW Wealth LLC offers personalized financial planning, investment advisory, and wealth management services to a diverse client base, including individuals, pension plans, trusts, charitable organizations, and government entities. The firm emphasizes strategic asset allocation using primarily exchange-traded funds and no-load mutual funds, operating as a fee-based advisor and providing coordinated tax and advisory services through its affiliation with a certified public accounting firm.

Steven Iversen is a financial advisor with Cross State Financial Group LLC in Albuquerque, NM, holding Series 63 and Series 65 designations and bringing 50 years of industry experience. He has worked at several firms including Crown Capital Securities, Foothill Securities, Next Financial Group, and Raymond James Financial Services. In addition to his advisory role, he works as an enrolled agent assisting with tax preparation and serves as an insurance agent focusing on fixed insurance, long-term care, medical, Medicare supplement, and final expense insurance. Cross State Financial Group serves individuals, charities, and retirement plans, managing approximately $188 million in discretionary assets across an eight-advisor team. The firm uses fundamental analysis and tactical asset allocation for portfolio construction and offers financial planning, discretionary portfolio management, and third-party manager oversight.

James Karberg is a CFP® and holds the Series 66 designation, with 24 years of experience in the financial services industry. He is currently with REDW Wealth LLC and has held prior roles at firms including Avantax Advisory Services and 1st Global Capital. He also engages in the sale and servicing of fixed index annuities as part of his professional activities. REDW Wealth LLC offers financial planning, investment advisory, and wealth management services to a diverse client base including individuals, pension plans, trusts, and Native American tribes. The firm emphasizes strategic asset allocation with tactical adjustments, primarily using exchange-traded funds and no-load mutual funds, and is a wholly owned subsidiary of REDW LLC, a certified public accounting firm.

Travis Flandermeyer is a financial advisor with Lakeridge Wealth Management LLC in Albuquerque, NM, holding a Series 66 designation and 18 years of industry experience. He co-founded Doctor's Financial Resource, a wealth management service tailored to medical professionals, and is also co-founder of Financial Solutions Planning and Investments. His prior experience includes roles at Cetera Advisor Networks LLC and Cetera Wealth Services, LLC. Lakeridge Wealth Management serves individuals, trusts, estates, businesses, and charitable organizations, providing discretionary investment management, financial planning, and retirement plan advisory services. The firm uses a primarily long-term, fundamentals-based investment approach with portfolios constructed mainly from ETFs and mutual funds, supported by ongoing due diligence and institutional relationships.