Certified Financial Planner (Cfp®)
CurrentFourThought Private Wealth is an independent Registered Investment Advisor practice with more than 50 years of experience in financial and investment planning. Headquartered on Florida’s Gulf Coast, we serve clients throughout the U.S.We have chosen to be an independent registered investment advisor (RIA) because it holds us to the highest legal standards of client care. We must make all decisions with your best interests in mind. We are also highly transparent with our fees, processes, and everything that matters to you. We believe this is the only viable way to operate as financial planners in today’s world.Our purpose is to help affluent individuals, families, and business owners aim high and eliminate the stress that can come with life’s uncertainties so that they can pursue their passions and purposes. We use a highly disciplined approach and are guided by values and principles that have never failed us or our clients.FourThought Private Wealth was founded in 1968 when Sam Pinkerton opened an A.G. Edwards office in Venice, Florida. He was later joined in the business by his son Scott, who, along with his team, has helped people in Florida and beyond for more than 30 years answer the critical question, “Am I going to be okay?”Our business was renamed FourThought in January 2020 to reflect better the firm’s focus on planning and thinking ahead. The word FourThought was selected to express guidance and planning, with the word “four” acknowledging our four financial planning principles, four core values, and four-part formula for success:1. Hire people with talent and purpose and give them the best training available.2. Equip them with best-in-class planning tools grounded in today’s markets and foundational truths of human behavior.3. Through in-depth, personal conversation, work with clients to identify blind spots in their lives.4. Build plans that address those blind spots and help them know if they will be okay.