Castling Financial Planning, Ltd.
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About
Castling Financial Planning, Ltd. is a solo, independent adviser that serves individual clients—primarily middle‑class households—with hourly, fee‑only financial planning and investment advice. The firm provides investment guidance on mutual funds, ETFs, individual stocks, U.S. Treasury securities, certificates of deposit, variable annuities, covered‑call strategies and real‑estate considerations, and also produces research reports and software tools for clients.
The firm’s investment process is presented as evidence‑based and data‑driven, relying on statistical and rolling‑period analysis through a proprietary Asset Allocation Database (AADB) that the brochure reports has run more than 30 billion portfolio calculations to help identify asset allocations and estimate probabilities of reaching a client’s Required Rate of Return. Advice is delivered on a non‑discretionary, as‑needed basis and incorporates an iterative, three‑dimensional risk assessment that quantifies likely drawdowns (including a two‑standard‑deviation loss) before recommending portfolios.
Compared with many independent peers, CastlingFP is notable for explicitly avoiding percentage‑of‑AUM fees and for documenting historical rolling‑period performance metrics from its AADB to support recommendations, practices that are uncommon among solo advisers. The firm also emphasizes written, client‑specific research and virtual education (teleconferences and online meetings), and maintains a strict independence policy—no product sales, no third‑party compensation, no custody of client assets, and no discretionary trading authority.
Client services
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Fee options
$995 for a twenty (20) billable hour block usable within 12 months; $129 for up to three (3) billable hours of telephone, email, and virtual meeting only planning and advisory services.
$75 per billable hour for financial planning and investment advisory services.
Fee-only: $75 per billable hour for financial planning and investment advisory services; $995 for a twenty (20) billable hour block usable within 12 months; $129 for up to three (3) billable hours of telephone, email, and virtual meeting only planning and advisory services.
Main office
Hoffman Estates IL
Advisors at this office
1
Most active in
Illinois
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