Personal Financial Specialists
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About
Personal Financial Specialists primarily serves retirement plans and plan participants, along with IRA and money-management clients, providing plan communication, administrative services and investment advice tailored to participant needs. The firm assists with initial fund selection, ongoing participant education and administrative support for qualified retirement plans in addition to offering account access and reporting for IRA and money-management clients.
The firm’s investment approach is largely non-discretionary: recommendations are typically limited to mutual funds and ETFs available through Charles Schwab’s no-transaction-fee lists (with a preference for funds rated 4– or 5‑star by Morningstar) and are guided by a primary-market-trend framework intended to keep clients invested during uptrends and more defensive during downtrends. Personal Financial Specialists combines technical and fundamental analysis, does not engage in day trading, and generally does not assume discretionary control of individual stock positions.
Noteworthy operational features include that the principal is also a registered representative and registered principal with LPL Financial and may execute commissionable transactions separate from advisory fees, while advisory accounts are placed with Charles Schwab. The firm emphasizes pension-consulting and participant-level services (including multiple pricing options that allocate plan administration costs among participants), does not take custody of client funds, and generally delegates proxy voting to clients.
Client services
Expertise
Occupation focus
Fee options
For some retirement plan clients, out-of-pocket cost limited to $375 per year under certain pricing options
$0+: Up to 1% annually for Money Management clients, negotiable $0+: .25% annually for IRA clients
Separate and standard compensation received as registered representative for executing security transactions; commissions may be charged by broker/dealer but not combined with advisory fees
Account minimum: $150,000 to $200,000 (if client wishes to trade individual securities) Fee-only: 0.25% per year for IRA clients; up to 1% per year for money management clients, negotiable; retirement plan fees negotiated with plan trustees, typically $375 per year out-of-pocket for plan participants under certain options
Main office
14 Ridgedale Ave, Suite 125
Cedar Knolls NJ 07927
Advisors at this office
1
Most active in
New Jersey
Also doing business as
Bauman, Noonan And Associates · Noonan, Francis Terrence · Personal Financial Specialists
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