Gaston, OR Office

C2 Private Wealth primarily serves individual and high‑net‑worth clients with an emphasis on retirement planning for near and current retirees. The firm delivers comprehensive financial planning and discretionary portfolio management, implements recommended insurance products through an affiliated insurance agency, and uses Fidelity and a third‑party platform to support account management.

C2’s investment process is built around risk‑and‑scenario analysis with particular focus on sequence‑of‑returns risk and mapping planned income distributions across accounts; allocation and trading decisions are made to align with those retirement objectives. Prospective clients are required to attend a comprehensive retirement education course, and C2 integrates tax and estate coordination into plan implementation through third‑party providers and partnerships.

The firm has a few uncommon structural features among its peers: it is affiliated with an accounting firm (C2 CPAs) and shares client financial information with that affiliate to support tax optimization, and it leverages the Retirement Education Foundation for public education, media appearances, and educational videos that the firm uses in its outreach, including testimonials. C2 recently acquired another advisory and insurance business (ASG) and discloses transitional incentives tied to that integration, reflecting an integrated service model that combines advisory, insurance, tax, and estate coordination.