Simplified Retirement
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About
Simplified Retirement provides retirement-focused financial planning to individuals and families, with services primarily geared toward educators. The firm prepares comprehensive plans, makes specific recommendations, and offers periodic follow-up, but it does not provide discretionary portfolio management.
The firm’s investment guidance emphasizes low-cost, passive options — typically no-load index funds and target retirement funds — and a buy-and-hold approach informed by Modern Portfolio Theory and related academic frameworks. Recommendations are tailored to clients’ goals, time horizon, and risk tolerance, while clients retain responsibility for implementing and monitoring investment decisions.
Distinctively, the practice is a very small, solo operation whose principal also works as a public school psychologist, and the firm reports no client assets under management and does not use percentage-of-assets (AUM) fee billing. Simplified Retirement also does not take custody of client assets or accept trading discretion, focusing its service model on plan development and client education rather than ongoing asset administration.
Client services
Expertise
Occupation focus
Fee options
$250 flat fee for financial plan delivery; $250 semi-annual fee for ongoing consultation
Fee-only: $250 flat fee upon delivery of financial plan; $250 every six months for ongoing consultation services; fees negotiable based on complexity and scope
Main office
Charlottesville VA
Advisors at this office
1
Most active in
Virginia
Also doing business as
Schiedel, Kevin Christopher · Simplified Retirement
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