Top financial advisors working with young professionals in Mississippi

Anthony Bond is a financial advisor with Primerica Advisors, holding Series 63 and Series 65 licenses and bringing 24 years of industry experience. He has been with Primerica Advisors since 2002 and has served with the Diamondhead Fire Department since 2014. Outside of his advisory role, he operates Tony Bond & Associates, LLC, a non-investment related business in Kiln, Mississippi. Primerica Advisors offers discretionary asset management through its Lifetime Investment Program, providing model-delivery strategies and discretionary separately managed account options primarily to individual and high-net-worth clients. The firm employs a curated third-party asset manager approach and uses a tiered wrap-fee structure.

Marcus Kincaid is a financial advisor with VOYA Financial Advisors, Inc. in Louisville, MS, holding Series 63 and Series 65 licenses and with 27 years of industry experience. He has worked at VOYA Financial Advisors since 2014 and previously held positions at Voya Financial Partners, LLC, Ballew Advisors Inc, and Valic Financial Advisors. Outside of his advisory work, Kincaid serves on the board of directors for the Winston County Medical Foundation and provides high school football game updates as a broadcaster for WLSM. VOYA Financial Advisors, Inc. is an enterprise-scale advisory and broker-dealer affiliate of Voya Financial that serves individuals, pension plans, charitable organizations, and corporate clients through a broad range of financial planning and portfolio management services. The firm employs both discretionary and non-discretionary management approaches and integrates in-house and third-party strategies using technology-enabled tools to implement client recommendations.

Thomas Booker is a financial advisor with First Command Advisory Services in Meridian, MS, holding a Series 66 designation and three years of industry experience. His prior work includes positions at Woodstock Furniture and Wal-Mart. First Command Advisory Services is an SEC-registered investment adviser serving individuals, corporate, and charitable clients, with a particular focus on active-duty service members and their families. The firm provides financial planning and multiple wrap-fee asset management programs managed through a centralized Investment Management Team.

Gene Yates is a financial advisor at Abridge Partners, LLC with 26 years of industry experience. He holds Series 63 and Series 65 licenses and has been with Abridge Partners since 2007. Yates is also licensed in life and health insurance. Abridge Partners primarily serves high-net-worth individuals, their trusts, estates, and retirement accounts, as well as charitable organizations and corporate entities. The firm offers financial planning, consulting, and investment management through a combination of fundamental analysis, strategic asset allocation, and core-satellite portfolio construction, often utilizing third-party sub-advisers and model platforms.

Suzie Sawyer is a financial advisor with LPL Financial, holding Series 63 and Series 65 designations and bringing 35 years of industry experience. Her prior roles include 20 years at Stifel Independent Advisors and earlier positions at STIFEL and Merrill. Sawyer also serves as a FINRA arbitrator. LPL Financial is a national broker-dealer and SEC-registered investment adviser that provides a wide range of advisory and brokerage services to individuals, retirement plan participants, banks, trust companies, and other institutions through a large network of investment adviser representatives.

Donald Harris is a financial advisor at Beaird Harris with 29 years of industry experience. He holds the Series 63 and Series 65 designations and has been with Beaird Harris Wealth Management, Inc. since 1996, as well as Beaird Harris & Co P.C. since 1989. Outside of his advisory role, he serves as a managing officer and trustee for several trusts and management companies. Beaird Harris Wealth Management, LLC is a fee-only, SEC-registered investment adviser serving individuals, high net worth clients, trusts, estates, charitable organizations, pension plans, and business entities. The firm employs Modern Portfolio Theory with diversified asset-class exposure primarily through low-cost mutual funds and ETFs, and it offers alternative investments and tax-managed strategies.

Katie Strother is a CFP® and holds a Series 65 license with 11 years of experience in the financial industry. She has worked at Curi Capital since 2022 and previously spent seven years at Park Ridge Asset Management. Outside of her advisory role, she serves as a nursery room leader at Peace Church and is the head coach for the varsity girls soccer team at Wilson Christian Academy. Curi Capital provides wealth management, investment management, retirement plan consulting, and family office services to individuals, high-net-worth clients, and institutional clients. The firm employs a long-term, fundamentally driven investment approach across a range of portfolio management strategies and client types.

Jill Raderstorf is a financial advisor at Aptus Financial, LLC with two years of industry experience. She holds a Series 65 designation and previously worked at Hamilton Capital, LLC and Fifth Third Bank. Outside of her advisory role, she serves as an unpaid advisor to Accelerating Angels, a venture investment firm focused on high-growth, women-owned businesses, where she assists with building due diligence processes. Aptus Financial provides flat-fee financial planning and advisory services to individuals, trusts, charitable organizations, and employer-sponsored defined-contribution plans. The firm emphasizes financial planning over discretionary portfolio management, supporting clients with passive, long-term indexing strategies, structured educational programs, and subscription-based ongoing support.

We’re built for families! We focus on bridging generations to connect families and their finances. As Baby Boomers, you created more wealth than any generation before you. Now in your retirement years, the economic expansion that aided your careers doesn’t feel as robust. You worry about your savings lasting a lengthy life expectancy. You also worry that your children and grandchildren will be the first generation to not have it better than the generation before them. Our goal is to solve both problems. Our structure allows us to provide the same great advice whether you have a lifetime of savings or you are just starting out. That means we can work with multiple generations, and where appropriate, find opportunities to coordinate across generations while maintaining privacy and independence. I am a millennial myself with over a decade of experience helping retirees with personal finances. That combination of youth and experience gives me an advantage over many of the advisors out there. My youth, to retirees, means I am likely to be around for the entirety of your retirement. All those plans you made with your advisor, will be executed by the advisor that helped you plan them. If that includes an inheritance, good news because I want to work with your heirs too! To a younger generation, you get an advisor you can relate to who doesn’t treat your problems as less significant because you don’t have the same level of assets. Just because I’m young, doesn’t mean I’m green! I was previously the Practicing Partner of a wealth management firm focused solely on retirees. As the lead portfolio manager, I oversaw almost $500 million in client portfolios. That experience means I’ve guided and advised clients through every stage of a successful retirement. It also means I know what a successful retirement looks like. As I’ve always said, best laid plans begin with the end in mind, so my experience serves just as well early in your journey to financial independence. I started my own firm because I saw an increasing need to reconnect families and their finances. Grandparents are providing child care, children are providing elderly care, and everyone is chipping in to pay for education. As much as ever families need each other, and our program is specifically designed to be prepared when they do.

Michael Grinnell is a financial advisor with Merrill, holding Series 63 and Series 65 licenses and bringing 47 years of industry experience. He has worked at Merrill since 1978 and has been affiliated with Bank of America since 2009. Merrill serves a diverse client base including individuals, retirement plans, corporations, and institutional clients, offering managed account programs, third-party manager selection, discretionary portfolio management, and brokerage execution services. The firm leverages a broad range of program strategies and integrates closely with Bank of America affiliates to support trading, lending, and capital markets activities.