A complete list of active advisors currently associated with Golden Gate Personal Financial Planning

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Golden Gate Personal Financial Planning works with individual and high‑net‑worth clients to provide comprehensive, goals‑based financial planning, investment advice, and investment management. Offerings include customized portfolio design, coordination with tax and estate planning, and planning for equity compensation and company benefits. The firm implements diversified, liquid portfolios that rely heavily on no‑load mutual funds and exchange‑traded funds (frequently index funds), with occasional select alternative investments when they meet liquidity and diversification criteria. It seeks tax‑ and cost‑efficiency through limited trading and periodic rebalancing, conducts client reviews directly through the firm’s principal, and manages client accounts primarily on a discretionary basis while disclosing fiduciary responsibilities for retirement rollover advice. What is distinctive about the firm is its billing model — it does not use a percentage‑of‑assets fee and instead employs a flat, tiered fee approach — and its concentration of discretionary assets relative to a small client roster (roughly $196 million for 33 clients). The practice also emphasizes complex planning areas such as stock grants and options, company benefits integration, concentrated real estate and business‑owner planning, and recommends institutional custodial relationships that provide the firm with expanded trading and practice‑support services.

To learn more about the advisors currently working at Golden Gate Personal Financial Planning, click on their names below to view their profiles, or click here to see them all on a map. Or, if you tell us about your needs, Warmer can help you find the best advisor for you.

Name
Location
Years of experience
Sara Ellefsen profile photo Sara Ellefsen
San Francisco, CA
21
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