Kenneth Basel is a CFP® with 11 years of industry experience, currently serving as the sole advisor at Stepping Stone Advisors, LLC since 2018. He previously worked at Charles Schwab & Co., Inc. and concurrently holds a position as a Personal Financial Counselor with the Department of Defense/Office of the Secretary of Defense. Stepping Stone Advisors is a single-advisor firm providing comprehensive financial planning and customized investment management to individuals, families, and high-net-worth clients. The firm emphasizes holistic planning and utilizes a blend of passive management and various analytical methods to guide investment decisions, delivering services through written plans and subscription-based engagements without accepting custody of client assets.

Thomas Hardy is a CFP® professional with 15 years of experience in financial advising. He has led Hardy Financial Planning since 2007 and has served as an Adjunct Professor of Finance at Cleary University since 2004, where he teaches courses in Finance, Investing, and Financial Planning. Hardy Financial Planning is an independent firm serving individuals, trusts, estates, and business entities with fee-only financial planning, investment advisory, and consulting services. The firm offers tailored portfolio management that incorporates both fundamental and technical analysis, including options strategies, and provides retirement-plan consulting for employers.

Staying on top of your personal finances can be daunting. I get it. Like everyone else, you have a family, a career, and a half dozen hobbies to which you’d love to devote more time. That’s great! Those are all important things, and you shouldn’t feel guilty about devoting time to those areas of life. But let’s be honest, it’s easy for your finances to get pushed to the background. Who really wants to spend their very limited free time writing out a budget, much less a five-year plan or a list of life goals! Do you feel that even if you had a spare moment to contemplate your financial well-being, you wouldn’t even know where to begin? Perfect! That’s where I come in. I want to help you de-mystify your finances. I want to help you get organized. It IS possible to be at peace with your finances. You don’t have to feel like you’re continuously playing catch-up. Let’s roll up our sleeves together and get started! Why? Because you DO have goals and dreams– and those dreams deserve a fighting chance! Together we’ll use a systematic and comprehensive approach to develop a plan that is completely tailored to you, to your life, and your needs. At Bespoke Planning, my standard of success is simple: to provide a bespoke planning experience that is tailored to each individual client. I’m not a mass market kind of guy. If you’re looking for a mass market experience, or you’re simply looking for an “investment guy,” I’m not it. As a financial planner, I truly love helping clients work through their most difficult financial issues so that they can achieve their goals and live their best life. My wife may think I’m crazy because I spend my free time reading through tax guides and countless blog posts on personal finance– but hey, I love what I do. I feel truly blessed to have found a career about which I am so passionate. I get to see people realize their dreams, mostly by helping them with a lot of the nerdy, nitty-gritty stuff that normal people find to be, quite frankly, super boring. Although the process can be challenging at times, I believe that the results will be richly rewarding! I want to hear you describe your vision of a meaningful life.

Artur Engler Pinto is a financial advisor at Engler Financial with Series 63 and Series 65 licenses and one year of industry experience. His prior roles include positions at Prostatis Financial Advisors Group and Kelly Services. Engler Financial LLC, established in 2026, provides portfolio management and financial planning services to individuals, high-net-worth clients, and businesses, combining fundamental analysis with modern portfolio theory and offering discretionary management across a range of investment types.

David Peters is a financial advisor with Alliance Advisors Wealth Management LLC, holding Series 63 and Series 65 licenses and 28 years of industry experience. He has worked at several firms, including Royal Alliance and Capital Asset Advisory Services, before joining his current firm in 2018. In addition to his advisory role, Mr. Peters is a licensed insurance agent and directs an affiliated insurance business. Alliance Advisors Wealth Management provides discretionary investment management and financial planning services to individual and institutional clients. The firm uses a combination of fundamental and technical analysis and incorporates options strategies for hedging and income, with risk management integrated into portfolio construction and ongoing account reviews.

Antonio Stokes is the principal of Antonio Stokes Advisors and holds a Series 66 designation with 14 years of industry experience. His work history includes roles at Avantax Wealth Management and Goldstar Mortgage Financial. Outside of financial advising, he is the owner of Michigan Golf Tour Inc. and teaches golf at Southfield Christian School. Antonio Stokes Advisors provides asset management, financial planning, and retirement plan advisory services to individuals, high-net-worth clients, trusts, estates, charitable organizations, and business entities. The firm employs a combination of fundamental, technical, charting, and cyclical analysis to tailor investment programs, with a focus on both discretionary and non-discretionary portfolio management and pension/ERISA plan services.

Brian Middaugh is a financial advisor at Sea Suite Financial LLC with three years of industry experience. He holds the Series 65 and Series 66 designations. Prior to founding Sea Suite Financial in 2025, he worked at Edward Jones and held roles with Wayne County and Wayne County Healthy Communities. Outside of finance, Middaugh owns an art business focused on creating pieces using lasers and wood. Sea Suite Financial provides wealth management and financial planning to individuals, high-net-worth clients, trusts, estates, businesses, and non-profit organizations. The firm uses a short-term focused approach with low-cost mutual funds and ETFs, individual securities, and may incorporate unaffiliated Independent Managers while overseeing due diligence. Its client base uniquely includes institutional clients alongside individual investors.

Michael Rudy is a CFP® and Series 63-registered financial advisor with 15 years of experience. He has operated Wolakota Financial Advisors since 2006 in Ypsilanti, MI. In addition to financial planning and tax preparation, Rudy provides psychoanalytic psychotherapy focused on money-related issues, a practice he has maintained since 1976. Wolakota Financial Advisors serves individual clients with personal portfolio management and comprehensive financial planning, incorporating fundamental analysis and asset-allocation strategies that consider age, net worth, income, and tax factors. The firm operates as a fee-only, single-advisor practice and offers additional services including tax preparation and psychological counseling.

Richard Griffin Jr. is the principal of Rickstar Financial, LLC, a firm he has been affiliated with since 2014. He holds Series 63 and Series 65 licenses and has 29 years of experience in the financial industry. His career includes roles at NewBridge Securities Corporation, Nfsg Corporation, Osaic FA, Inc., and Merrill. In addition to advisory services, he is licensed to sell insurance products. Rickstar Financial, LLC provides portfolio management services to individuals, high-net-worth clients, charitable organizations, and business entities. The firm employs a multi-method investment approach, including charting, cyclical, fundamental, and technical analysis, and uses long-term trading and margin transactions, while documenting client risk profiles through investment policy statements.

Andrew Chong is a financial advisor at MGC Capital with a Series 65 designation and three years of industry experience. Prior to his current role, he was involved with his own professional dentistry corporation and spent four years at the University of Michigan. MGC Capital is an independent advisory firm that provides portfolio management and investment advisory services to individuals, high-net-worth clients, and business entities. The firm employs a variety of analytical methods and option strategies to tailor portfolios according to each client’s investment policy statement and risk profile.

Pia Bennett is a financial advisor with Select Financial Services Group, Inc. in Ann Arbor, MI. She holds Series 63 and Series 65 designations and has 29 years of industry experience. She has worked at Select Financial Services Group since 2003 and at Commonwealth Equity Services, Inc. since 1999. Outside of her advisory role, she is co-owner of BluePath, LLC, a private entity unrelated to investment activities. Select Financial Services Group, Inc. is a single-advisor independent firm providing comprehensive financial planning to retail and high-net-worth individuals, trusts, estates, charitable organizations, and business entities. The firm focuses on planning services and does not manage client accounts or hold custody of assets, instead using fundamental and technical analysis along with third-party research to support recommendations.

Stephen Braun is a financial advisor at Liberty Financial Planning, Inc. in Canton, MI, with 16 years of industry experience. He holds a Series 65 designation and has been with Liberty Financial Planning since 2002. Outside of his advisory work, he is involved in public speaking through Liberty Family Resources, LLC, where he schedules and delivers presentations. Liberty Financial Planning serves individuals and families seeking objective, fee-only financial advice, focusing on written financial plans and ongoing consulting engagements. The firm emphasizes an asset-allocation approach using low-cost index funds and maintains client control over asset implementation without discretionary trading authority or percentage-based fees.

Christopher Robbins is a financial advisor with Grand Street Wealth Management, LLC in Ann Arbor, MI. He holds a Series 65 designation and has 13 years of industry experience. Robbins has been with Grand Street Wealth Management since 2012 and concurrently works as a pilot for Delta Airlines. Grand Street Wealth Management is a solo independent advisory firm serving individuals and charitable organizations with discretionary wealth management and comprehensive financial planning. The firm follows an investment approach based on peer-reviewed academic research, focusing on long-term holdings and diversified portfolios constructed from documented Investment Policy Statements.

Shawn Mueller is the principal of Mueller Asset Management in Southfield, MI, holding a Series 66 license with 14 years of industry experience. His prior roles include positions at AE Wealth Management, J.W. Cole Advisors, Kelly Capital Partners, J.P. Morgan Securities, Wells Fargo Advisors, PNC Wealth Management, and Merrill. He is also involved in insurance and annuity sales through Mueller Retirement Planning. Mueller Asset Management provides discretionary and non-discretionary portfolio management services primarily to individual and high-net-worth clients, managing approximately $45 million in assets. The firm utilizes a combination of fundamental, quantitative, technical, and modern portfolio theory analyses to create diversified portfolios, typically working with mutual funds, equities, fixed income, ETFs, and other securities.

Corey Wangler is a Series 65 licensed financial advisor at Paragon Investing, LLC with seven years of industry experience. His prior roles include positions at Sunpointe, LLC, where he served on the investment committee, and Mercer Investment Consulting, LLC. Paragon Investing provides investment advisory and financial planning services to individuals, high-net-worth clients, other investment advisers, and businesses. The firm tailors advice based on client objectives and employs a range of investment strategies, including asset allocation, fundamental and technical analysis, and the use of both liquid and restricted-access funds.

Jeffrey Imber is a Series 65-licensed financial advisor with over 16 years of industry experience. He is the principal of Imber Financial Group, LLC in Ann Arbor, MI, and has been involved with his family trust-owned firm since 2009. He also manages Imber Tax Advisory Group, LLC and conducts insurance and advisory services under the dba Imber Wealth Advisors, Inc. Imber Financial Group, LLC provides investment advisory and financial planning services to individuals, high-net-worth households, charitable organizations, and participants in employer-sponsored retirement plans. The firm manages portfolios using third-party platforms and may engage outside money managers, employing fundamental analysis and modern portfolio theory with both long- and short-term strategies.

Phillip Putney is a financial advisor with AFS Wealth Management, LLC, holding the PFS™ designation and Series 63 license, with 16 years of industry experience. He previously worked at Brookstone Capital Management LLC for two years before joining AFS Wealth Management in 2017. Outside of his advisory role, he owns and operates several non-investment businesses, including a certified public accounting firm and tax planning services. AFS Wealth Management serves individual and high-net-worth clients, as well as trusts, estates, and small businesses, providing discretionary portfolio management and financial planning. The firm integrates investment advisory services with affiliated tax and insurance businesses, constructing individualized portfolios using a combination of asset allocation and various analytical approaches.

Breann Mulligan is a financial advisor at Coriander Financial Group LLC with Series 65 registration and one year of industry experience. Prior to joining Coriander Financial Group, she held roles in the beauty and fitness industries. Outside of financial advising, she is affiliated with businesses including London Beauty and Lily Grace. Coriander Financial Group LLC is an independent investment adviser serving individuals, high-net-worth individuals, and trusts with wealth management, financial planning, portfolio management, and tax strategy services. The firm constructs customized long-term portfolios combining passive index ETFs and actively managed securities, offering discretionary management and an integrated tax-strategy practice.

Vikas Arora is a financial advisor at Kava Financial LLC with a Series 65 designation and one year of experience in advisory services. Prior to his current role, he has worked at General Motors since 2016. Kava Financial LLC provides discretionary portfolio management and financial planning services to individuals and high-net-worth clients, emphasizing documented client goals and a diversified investment process that incorporates multiple analysis methods and both long- and short-term strategies. The firm offers educational seminars and requires clients to use Fidelity Brokerage Services LLC as custodian.

Scott Wiard is a financial advisor with Horizons Planning Corporation in Ann Arbor, MI, holding Series 63 and Series 65 licenses and over 31 years of industry experience. He has been with Horizons Planning Corporation since 1988 and serves as its president and sole owner. Outside of his advisory role, he is involved in commercial property management through a partnership unrelated to investment activities. Horizons Planning Corporation advises individuals, including high-net-worth clients, as well as pension plans, trusts, charitable organizations, and corporations. The firm manages approximately $70 million in client assets and offers services including investment management through its Financial Coaching & Wealth Management program and a proprietary market-timing strategy called Strategic Journal Transfers, alongside financial planning, insurance, and tax consulting.