Pleasanton, CA Office
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Buck Wealth Strategies, LLC
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Buck Wealth Strategies serves individuals (including high-net-worth clients), trusts, and employer-sponsored retirement plans with discretionary investment management, comprehensive financial planning, and retirement plan advisory and consulting services. The firm also offers participant investment advice and coordinates with clients’ other advisors on estate, tax, and insurance matters.
Investment decisions are driven by a top‑down macro approach that emphasizes tactical asset allocation, sector rotation and a relative growth/value framework, with portfolios built from equities, ETFs, mutual funds, fixed income, and select alternative exposures. The firm integrates third‑party financial‑planning tools that quantify client risk on a detailed scale and, where appropriate, engages third‑party money managers or AE Wealth Management as a TAMP to implement model strategies.
Buck Wealth Strategies is notable among peers for its explicit use of options strategies (including covered calls, puts and spreads) and for its routine selection of outside money managers/TAMPs to implement portfolios. The firm’s broader corporate footprint — including affiliated insurance and accounting businesses, dually registered adviser representatives (broker‑dealer and insurance activities), and arrangements that can lead to standing third‑party payment or bill‑pay authority — creates a more integrated service model and attendant conflict‑of‑interest considerations than many peers.
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Location
4725 First St., Ste 215
Pleasanton CA 94566
Advisors at this office
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Advisors at this office
Kevin S
CFP®, Series 63
Pleasantan, CA
Buck Wealth Strategies, LLC
Kevin Shelton is a CFP® with 31 years of industry experience, currently serving as a financial advisor at Buck Wealth Strategies, LLC. His prior roles include positions at Fidelity Brokerage Services LLC and The Prudential Insurance Company of America. He holds the Series 63 designation. Buck Wealth Strategies serves individuals, trusts, and employer-sponsored retirement plans with discretionary investment management, comprehensive financial planning, and retirement plan advisory services. The firm employs a top-down macro investment approach with tactical asset allocation and sector rotation, utilizing equities, ETFs, mutual funds, fixed income, and select alternatives, and integrates third-party financial-planning tools and money managers.
Mark A
Series 65
Pleasanton, CA
Buck Wealth Strategies, LLC
Mark Arola is a financial advisor at Buck Wealth Strategies, LLC with 10 years of industry experience. He holds a Series 65 designation and has worked previously at AE Wealth Management, LLC, J.W. Cole Advisors, Inc., and Global Financial Private Capital, LLC. Outside of his advisory role, he is the owner and president of Stoneridge Marketing Group. Buck Wealth Strategies serves individuals, trusts, and employer-sponsored retirement plans with discretionary investment management and comprehensive financial planning. The firm employs a top-down macro approach emphasizing tactical asset allocation and routinely incorporates options strategies and third-party money managers in portfolio construction.
Joseph M
Series 66
Pleasanton, CA
Buck Wealth Strategies, LLC
Joseph Manglona is a financial advisor with Buck Wealth Strategies, LLC in Pleasanton, CA, holding a Series 66 license and two years of industry experience. His prior roles include positions at Madison Avenue Securities and Thrivent Financial. Buck Wealth Strategies serves individuals, trusts, and employer-sponsored retirement plans with discretionary investment management, comprehensive financial planning, and retirement plan advisory services. The firm employs a top-down macro investment approach, incorporates third-party financial-planning tools, and is notable for its use of options strategies and selection of outside money managers to implement portfolios.
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