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What do you enjoy most about wealth management?
Developing relationships with clients and helping them make prudent financial decisions.
What's the biggest challenge?
Helping clients look forward and focus on the long-term, especially in tough markets.
What do you love most about being part of Aspiriant?
The people. We have countless people across the country that I enjoy spending time with and would also trust to handle my family's finances if anything happened to me.
What professional accomplishments are you most proud of?
Helping build the Deloitte investment practice. Leading our people through the transition to our long-term home at Aspiriant.
What do you love to do outside of work?
Basketball, bicycling, travel, cooking, food and wine.
What personal accomplishments are you most proud of?
Marrying my beautiful wife Susan and adopting my son Bo and daughter Cate from Korea.
Bio
Michael has been providing investment and wealth management services since 1998. Michael works with corporate executives and partners of professional services firms who are planning for (and active in) retirement. He is a partner at Aspiriant and the practice leader of the New York office.
Prior to Aspiriant’s acquisition of Deloitte Investment Advisors in 2010, Michael worked at Deloitte as a Director. He began his career in wealth management at Deloitte & Touche in 1998 after working for eight years as a high school teacher and basketball coach in the New York City public schools.
Michael earned a B.S. from Cornell University and a M.S. from Baruch College. He is a Certified Financial Planner™ professional (CFP®), a Certified Investment Management Analyst (CIMA®) and a member of the Financial Planning Association (FPA) and the Investment & Wealth Institute (IWI).
Michael and his wife Susan live in Brooklyn with their son Bo and daughter Cate. In his free time, he enjoys cooking, movies, bicycling, and basketball. He is an avid basketball fan and follows all of the local teams.
