My Commitment

Retirement planning shouldn’t be intimidating

I’m dedicated to making it a simple and enjoyable experience to plan for your future. The Results Based Financial Planning process is an incredibly powerful, yet simple approach that gives you a complete understanding of your current retirement trajectory.

Are you on track for the next phase of your life?

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My Story

I’m a Sewickley, PA based financial advisor with Benchmark Financial Network.

The Wealth Confidential blog is about building wealth, markets, politics, economics, media, culture and finance.

I’ll use statistics, stories, satire, memes, anecdotes, pop culture references, sarcasm, fact, fantasy, and any other device necessary to get my points across.What you won’t see on here is giving free individual financial advice or telling anyone what stocks to invest in.

What I will do on this site is provide you with a running commentary of my market-related insights and thoughts as events unfold. I’ll direct you to other interesting content around the web. I’ll challenge common held perceptions, give you ideas about growing your wealth, help to accomplish more of your life goals, and maybe even on occasion make you laugh.