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Mission | Money | Meaning

Guiding service members and their families to financial clarity and peace

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Guiding service members and their families to financial clarity and peace.

Mission | Money | Meaning

Ideal Formynder Clients

I serve both individuals and families who've spent a career serving their country and are starting to think about what’s next. Whether military retirement is still a few years out or already in the rearview, I’m ready to help you find and achieve the purpose you are looking for.

You might be:

  • 3–5 years from military retirement and starting to plan ahead

  • Mid-military career, but thinking ahead with intention

  • Closer to transition and looking for clarity and momentum

  • Recently retired and ready to explore new opportunities

Military family, financial planning, wealth
Military family, financial planning

Common questions of future clients:

  • What kind of salary is needed addition to a military pension?

  • How do my military benefits help my family if I am gone?

  • What does work-optional now look like?

  • How are taxes likely to change?

  • What should I do with my TSP?

  • Should I elect for the Survivor Benefit Plan?

  • How can I coordinate my military benefits with my encore career benefits?

  • How can I coordinate my military benefits with my spouses benefits?

  • How can I best use or pass down my education benefits?

  • What if I want to start my own business?

The mission’s not over, it’s just changing. Are you ready?

Our Services

Military financial planning

I help you define your ideal life, building a dynamic plan that changes when your life does. I walk alongside to help you implement, answer your questions, and get you to your goals. I help you know your risk, but you are in the investment driver seat.

Wealth management, investment management

This service includes everything in Operational Financial Planning, however, now I provide management services for any investment accounts that are outside employer retirement plans. This service is ideal for new investors or anyone interested in delegating investment management.

Faith-based Financial planning

A different approach to financial planning through the lens of faith. Focused on biblical principles, such as intentional investing and generosity, faith-based planning is an integrated service available to any of our service offerings.

About
Formynder Wealth Management, LLC

At Formynder Wealth Management, LLC, we know what it means to serve - the founder is a retired Marine. At our firm, we are 100% fiduciary and fee-only, meaning your best interests are always our top priority—never commissions or sales goals. We are dedicated to providing the exceptional financial planning and investment management services you would expect from a service member. Our focus is on you: building a plan for the life you want to live and adapting with you through every stage of change.

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