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FFG Retirement Counseling

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Client AUM

$216,470,615

Clients

156

Advisors

2

of 5 employees

About

FFG Retirement Counseling provides wealth management and financial planning to individuals, high‑net‑worth clients, trusts, and estates, and offers discretionary portfolio management and retirement‑account advice as a fiduciary under ERISA/IRC rules. The firm reports managing approximately $216,470,615 in discretionary assets across about 156 client relationships and primarily charges percentage‑of‑AUM fees.

The firm’s investment approach is primarily long‑term and typically emphasizes low‑cost, diversified mutual funds and ETFs while using individual stocks or bonds when needed; it employs fundamental, technical, and cyclical analysis and may rebalance or trade more actively for tax‑loss/gain harvesting or to meet client cash needs. FFG also uses trademarked, time‑horizon models (Secure Lifetime Investment Model “SLIM” and “Survive & Thrive” from Trailhead Systems) to organize assets into buckets and to set systematic reallocation and gain‑harvest parameters.

One of the firm’s uncommon features is that it sponsors a wrap fee program that bundles securities transaction costs into its asset‑based advisory fee, which the brochure notes can affect trading economics and create incentives to limit turnover or favor securities without transaction charges. The brochure also discloses an institutional custodial relationship (Charles Schwab) and the resulting economic benefits and potential conflicts tied to custody and execution recommendations.

Client services

Financial planning Portfolio management

Expertise

General retirement planning Income planning Retirement withdrawal strategies

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Fee options

Fixed

Standalone financial planning services with fixed annual fees up to $10,000

Percentage

$0 - $499,999: 1.30% $500,000 - $999,999: 1.05% $1,000,000 - $1,999,999: 0.85% $2,000,000+: 0.75%

Other

Account minimum: $500,000 (minimum relationship size, may be waived at Advisor's discretion) Fee-only: Wealth management fees based on tiered AUM schedule; Financial planning offered as fixed fees up to $10,000

Main office

5975 South Quebec Street, Suite 130

Centennial CO 80111

Advisors at this office

2

Most active in

Arizona · Colorado

Also doing business as

Ffg Retirement Advisors LLC · Ffg Retirement Counseling · Ffg Retirement, Inc.

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Advisors at this firm

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Blake B

CFP®, Series 63

Centennial, CO

FFG Retirement Counseling

Blake Barnett is a CFP® with 16 years of industry experience, currently serving at FFG Retirement Counseling. He has worked at the firm and its related entities since 2018, with prior roles at Calton & Associates, Inc. and Smart Money Group, LLC. Outside of financial advising, he is a partner in a roofing and water mitigation contracting business. FFG Retirement Counseling provides wealth management and financial planning to individuals, high-net-worth clients, trusts, and estates, offering discretionary portfolio management and retirement-account advice under ERISA/IRC fiduciary rules. The firm employs a primarily long-term investment approach emphasizing low-cost, diversified mutual funds and ETFs, supplemented by individual securities when appropriate, and uses trademarked models to organize assets and manage systematic reallocation and tax strategies.

General retirement planning Income planning Retirement withdrawal strategies
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Sean O

CFP®, Series 63

Centennial, CO

FFG Retirement Counseling

Sean O'Reilly is a CFP® professional with 26 years of experience in the financial advisory industry. He is currently with FFG Retirement Counseling, where he has worked since 2018, and also serves as Chief Operating Officer and partner at Gormagus, LLC dba Trailhead Systems, a firm that creates processes and systems for financial advisors. His prior experience includes roles at Calton & Associates, Smart Money Group, Vessel Consultants, and Foos Financial. FFG Retirement Counseling provides wealth management and financial planning services to individuals, high-net-worth clients, trusts, and estates. The firm emphasizes a primarily long-term investment approach using low-cost, diversified mutual funds and ETFs, along with individual securities when appropriate, and employs proprietary time-horizon models developed through Trailhead Systems to guide asset allocation and portfolio management.

General retirement planning Income planning Retirement withdrawal strategies
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