Dreher Financial Partners

Dreher Financial Partners advises retirees and individuals planning for retirement, offering discretionary investment management and financial planning services tailored to clients’ income and spending needs. The firm works with individual and joint accounts, trusts and retirement accounts, and provides written investment strategies and ongoing portfolio oversight on a fee-only basis.

The firm’s investment process centers on fundamental security analysis supplemented by diversification and macroeconomic assessment, translating a client’s financial profile into a risk profile and asset-allocation plan. Portfolios are implemented mainly with individual stocks, bonds and no-load mutual funds, supported by the firm’s proprietary research and quarterly client reports, with formal account reviews at least annually.

Compared with many peers, the firm combines its individual-retirement focus with advisory services for participant-directed employer retirement plans and nonprofit endowments, and it routinely conducts detailed cash-flow analyses for retirement decisions (including participation in client family meetings) at no additional charge. It also emphasizes direct security selection (including individual bonds and high-dividend equities) and shares firm research with clients, while declining to vote client proxies so clients receive and retain proxy materials directly.