Conservative Wealth Management
Your best interest is our only interest.
We are independent CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ Professionals. Since 2001, we have helped individuals, families, business owners, and retirees across more than twenty states plan with confidence.
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What We Do
Certified Financial Planner™ Professionals
Grow it. Protect it. Pass it on.
01 - Financial Planning
Grow your assets
As independent planners we are not tied to any family of funds or product line, so the allocation we build is the one we believe is right for you. Research-driven, personalized, and rebalanced on a schedule rather than on a hunch.
02 - Innovative Investments
Protect your wealth
Keeping wealth is a different discipline from building it. We design strategies around your actual obligations — income needs, concentrated positions, market exposure, and the decisions that arrive without warning.
03 - Creating Your Legacy
Create your legacy
From family protection and college funding to long-term care and estate structure, we plan for the people who come after you — so that what you built transfers the way you intended, without confusion or unnecessary cost.
The distinction that matters
Many people call themselves financial planners. Fewer are held to this standard.
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Fiduciary, not suitability
We are legally obligated to act in your best interest at all times — not merely to recommend something defensible.
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Independent by design
No proprietary funds, no house products, no sales targets from a parent company. Our recommendations answer to you.
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CFP® certified
The recognized standard for competent and ethical personal financial planning, requiring extensive training, experience, and ongoing ethical obligations.
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Custody you can verify
Your assets are held at an independent, established custodian. You receive statements directly from them and can confirm every balance yourself.
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Transparent compensation
You will know exactly how we are paid before you sign anything. If a recommendation would create a conflict, you hear about it from us first.
What working with us actually includes.
The Relationship
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Direct access to your own CFP® Professional
You work with a planner, not a call center. The person who builds your plan is the person who answers when you call.
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Personalized allocation, rebalancing, and ongoing strategy
Your portfolio is constructed for your circumstances and monitored continuously — not set once and revisited when the market makes news.
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Comprehensive planning tailored to your situation
Retirement income, education funding, insurance review, business decisions, and the complex questions that do not fit neatly into one category.
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Coordination with your accountant and attorney
We bring your existing professionals into the same conversation so your investment, tax, and legal decisions stop working against each other.
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Succession and estate planning
Advanced solutions for transferring a business or an estate, structured well before the transition rather than during it.
Our Team
Two planners. One standard.
Travis Allen
CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ · President
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Advising clients since 1996 with personalized financial strategies, Travis has guided individuals, families, business owners, and retirees in more than twenty states toward a more confident and secure financial position. He founded Wealth Strategies Group on a straightforward premise: that advice is only worth having if it is given in the client’s interest.
Mark Yates
CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™
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Advising clients and managing portfolios since 2003, Mark specializes in financial planning for business owners and professionals. His focus includes corporate benefits, 401(k) and deferred compensation plans, pensions, and comprehensive investment analysis — the details that quietly determine what an owner or executive keeps.
Live the Life You Want
Find Out If You Qualify
If you have questions about how to best secure your financial future and protect what you’ve worked so hard to achieve for yourself and your family, then schedule an appointment today with one of our Certified Financial Planner™ Professionals. We will develop a personalized plan to meet your needs and help you live the life that you want.
Disclaimer
Travis Allen served in the California Legislature from 2012-2018. As a State Legislator, he was Vice Chairman of the Banking and Finance Committee, Vice Chairman of the Jobs, Economic Development, and the Economy Committee, and the Vice Chairman of the Public Employment and Retirement Committee.
The views expressed should not be construed directly or indirectly, as an offer to buy or sell any securities or services mentioned herein. Investing is subject to risks including loss of principal invested. Past performance is not a guarantee of future results. No strategy can assure a profit nor protect against loss.
Please note that individual situations can vary. Therefore, the information should only be relied upon when coordinated with individual professional advice. Investors should be aware that investing based upon strategies or models does not assure a profit or guarantee against loss. Indexes are unmanaged and investors are not able to invest directly into any index. Indexes cannot be invested in directly, are unmanaged and do not incur management fees, costs, or expenses. Investments in real estate have various risks including possible lack of liquidity and devaluation based on adverse economic and regulatory changes.
Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards Inc. (CFP Board) owns the certification marks CFP®, CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™, CFP® (with plaque design), and CFP® (with flame design) in the U.S., which it authorizes use of by individuals who successfully complete CFP Board’s initial and ongoing certification requirements.
Travis Allen and Mark Yates are investment advisor representatives of Wealth Strategies Group, a CA Registered Investment Advisor. This website does not constitute an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to buy any security. Specific recommendations can only be based on review of a client’s individual investment portfolio and financial objectives upon request and with appropriate offering documents. Advisory services offered through Wealth Strategies Group, a CA Registered Investment Advisor. Travis Allen CA Insurance License #0B79314, Mark Yates CA Insurance License #0E38409.
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