Barson Financial Planning
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About
Barson Financial Planning provides investment management and comprehensive financial planning to individuals (including high-net-worth clients), profit-sharing plans, charitable organizations, and businesses. The firm reports managing roughly $47.8 million across about 40 client relationships and delivers written financial plans and ongoing portfolio supervision.
The firm primarily constructs passive, low‑cost portfolios using index mutual funds and ETFs, but also employs fundamental, technical, cyclical, and charting analyses when performing investment analysis as part of its planning process. Barson Financial Planning assists clients in developing investment policy statements, recommends and onboards third‑party outside managers, and monitors those managers’ holdings and strategies (currently MTG, LLC dba Betterment Securities).
Distinctive features include the combination of a predominantly passive asset‑construction approach with the use of technical/cyclical methods and the formal outsourcing of portfolio management to an automated outside manager, a mix that is less common among peers. The firm executes client trades on an individual basis rather than using aggregated block trading, and the principal holds CFP certification and an insurance license (the brochure discloses the license is not used for product sales).
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Fee options
One-time financial planning fee ranging from $500 to $5,000; ongoing financial planning fees of $100 to $1,000 per period (monthly, quarterly or semi-annually)
$0 - $500,000: 1.00% $500,000 - $1,000,000: 0.90% $1,000,000 - $3,000,000: 0.80% $3,000,001+: 0.60%
Main office
San Mateo CA
Advisors at this office
1
Most active in
California
Also doing business as
Barson Financial Planning · Barson Financial Planning, LLC
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