Top Financial Advisors in Nebraska

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CWM provides a range of wealth management services as well as tax preparation offerings through Carson Wealth Tax Planning. And despite its short track record, the firm has accumulated a significant number of clients and assets under management (AUM). 

Most of this firm's clients are non-high-net-worth individuals. However, it extends its services to pension and profit-sharing plans, insurance companies and businesses. Investment minimums vary depending on what kind of investment strategy you enroll in. These minimums range from $5,000 to $250,000.

This is a fee-based firm, which means some on-staff advisors can earn commissions when they sell certain insurance products or securities. While this creates a potential conflict of interest, the firm is bound by fiduciary duty to act in clients' best interests.

The team includes those who hold the Certified Financial Planner™ (CFP®), certified fund specialist (CFS) and a chartered financial consultant (ChFC) designations. 

CWM utilizes various model portfolios and separately managed accounts based on certain strategies. These include long-term purchases, short-term purchases, frequent trading and more. Therefore, the firm can build a portfolio around your goals and needs rather than pairing you with predetermined investment strategies.

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Bridges Investment Management (BIM) is a fee-only advisory firm in Omaha. It mainly serves individuals, including high-net-worth individuals. However, it also extends its business to corporate profit-sharing plans, banks, thrift companies and charitable organizations. 

To open an account with BIM, you don’t need a set minimum investment. However, the firm does impose minimum fees depending on what type of services you receive. The firm specializes in portfolio management. 

Advisory certifications at the firm include Certified Financial Planner™ (CFP®), certified public accountant (CPA), certified trust and fiduciary advisor (CTFA) and chartered financial analyst (CFA). 

BIM generally begins their investment management process by having an initial meeting to understand your risk tolerance, financial situation and investment objectives. It would use this information to draft an Investment Policy Statement that would outline your asset allocation among other factors. 

The firm would create and monitor your portfolio while making tactical changes when needed. For the most part, however, the firm’s investment philosophy relies on long-term strategies. So it tends to hold onto securities for more than a year. But it will utilize short-term strategies if deemed necessary.

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Mutual Advisors caters to a diverse clientele including institutional investors, individuals, high net worth individuals, trusts and estates and qualified purchasers. The firm offers a comprehensive suite of services tailored to meet the financial needs of both individuals and businesses. These services include investment planning, retirement planning, estate planning, charitable planning and education planning. 

The firm employs a comprehensive investment approach that includes diversification across various asset classes, investment styles, market sizes, sectors and geographical areas.

Mutual integrates both passive and active management strategies to optimize client portfolios. Client portfolios are tailored considering several key factors including their investment goals, time frames, risk appetites, tax implications, desired asset allocations and any special needs or restrictions they might have.

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Avior Wealth Management is a fee-based firm that has been registered with the SEC as an advisor since 2008. The firm's products help those who are looking for investments, retirement services, cash management, education planning, survivor and asset protection, estate plan coordination and tax plan coordination.

The firm also works with those who are individuals, high-net-worth individuals as well as pension plans, banks, charitable organizations and thrift institutions. The firm is legally found by a fiduciary duty to act in client's best interest.

There's no minimum account required to worth with Avior Wealth Management.

The firm's financial planning objectives involve six steps that range from establishing a relationship with clients and gathering client data to fit their needs, to analyzing client information so that the firm can present quality recommendations and strategies to help clients achieve their goals.

The firm's investing strategy utilizes fundamental analysis, which is a method of evaluating a company or security by attempting to measure its intrinsic value.

According to the firm, "In other words, an analyst tries to determine its true value by looking at all aspects of the business, including both tangible factors (e.g., machinery, buildings, land, etc.) and intangible factors (e.g., patents, trademarks, “brand” names, etc.). Fundamental analysis also involves examining related economic factors (e.g., overall economy and industry conditions, etc.), financial factors (e.g., company debt, interest rates, management salaries and bonuses, etc.), qualitative factors (e.g., management expertise, industry cycles, labor relations, etc.), and quantitative factors (e.g., debt-to-equity and price-to-equity ratios)."

Walnut Private Equity Partners is up next on our list, as fee-only firm. Walnut Private Equity Partners only works with high-net-worth individuals, since it provides financial planning and portfolio management for family offices and trusts.

The firm has an minimum investment amount $1,000,000 and the firm has an annual fee of $7,000.

The firm's investment strategy is utilizing the method of fundamental analysis to measure each securities intrinsic value by examining related economic, financial and other qualitative and quantitative factors. This method attempts to study all there is to know that can affect a security's value, including macroeconomic factors.

According to the firm, "While a quantitative approach is possible, fundamental analysis usually entails a qualitative assessment of how market forces interact with one another in their impact on the investment in question."

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Pittenger & Anderson, which is based in the state capital of Lincoln, is a fee-only registered investment advisor that serves about 700 clients. Most of those clients are individuals, with nearly 200 being high-net-worth individuals. While the firm's fee schedule is based on each client's account balance, it also charges a flat fee for financial planning services.

There is a account balance minimum of $250,000 in investable assets. Fees range from 0.375% for accounts of $50,000,001 to 1% for "Custom" accounts of $1 million or less and 0.75% for mutual fund, exchange-traded fund (ETF) and retirement accounts. 

Other fees may apply. For example, an ETF portfolio with a 75% stock and 25% bond allocation will have an all-in cost (P&A's fee + fund expenses + trading commissions) of around 0.93% per year. An individual stock and bond account will have an all-in cost of roughly 1.05% per year. 

The firm's methods of analysis includes fundamental analysis, technical analysis, quantitative analysis, asset allocation, mutual fund/ETF analysis and risks of all forms of analysis.

When managing client's accounts, the firm will a variety of strategies (not specifically all at once) that include long-term purchases, short-term trading, option writing or margin transactions. These strategies are put in place once the clients match the firm's investment policy criterion, objectives and risk tolerance.  

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Lutz Financial is a fee-based firm that works with individuals, high-net-worth individuals, retirement plans, charitable organizations and businesses.

While the firm has several Certified Financial Planners™ (CFPs®) on its team, there are some advisors who may earn commissions from selling specific financial products, which could create a conflict of interest. However, the firm has a fiduciary duty that requires it to act in every clients' best interest.

There's no minimum investment required to open an account with the firm.

According to the firm, "Lutz Financial primarily recommends or uses various mutual funds (including the mutual funds sponsored by Dimensional Fund Advisors(“DFA”)), individual bonds, exchange-traded funds (“ETFs”), in managing client accounts, based on the investment objectives of each client."

When it comes to utilizing methods to show historical and present data in order to project future results, the firm uses fundamental analysis. When implementing investment strategies for clients, the firm uses long-term purchases (securities held at least for one year) and short-term purchases (securities sold within a year).

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McMill CPAs & Advisors, which is based in the small northeastern Nebraska town of Norfolk, is a fee-only firm. The firm's clients are individuals, high-net-worth individuals, pension and profit-sharing plans, trusts, estates and charitable organizations, corporations or other business entities and state and municipal governments.

McMill does not set an account minimum to accept clients. Its fees, which are subject to negotation, depend on account balances. For accounts up to $49,999 the fee is 1.75%. That percentage then drops incrementally to 0.50% for accounts of $5 million or more.

Together the firm offers a range of services, including portfolio management, financial planning, wealth management, estate planning and tax planning. 

The firm's advice is based upon long-term investment strategies that incorporate the principles of modern portfolio theory. Its investment approach is firmly rooted in the belief that markets are “efficient” and that investors’ returns are determined principally by asset allocation decisions, not market timing or stock picking.

Therefore, McMill develops diversified portfolios principally through the use of passively managed, asset class mutual funds that are available only to institutional investors and clients of a network of carefully selected investment advisors.

Clients are given the ability to impose restrictions on the accounts McMill manages for them, including specific investment selections and sectors. The firm works with each client on a one-on-one basis through interviews and questionnaires to determine the client’s investment objectives and suitability information.

Once a portfolio has been formed, McMill renders advice on a regular basis regarding equity securities, (including exchange-listed securities and securities traded over-the-counter), variable annuities, corporate debt securities (other than commercial paper), certificates of deposit, municipal securities, investment company securities, and United States government securities. The firm generally does not recommend that clients invest in options and futures programs.

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Private Wealth Asset Management is a fee-based firm that specializes in helping investment management and other services to individuals, family offices, trusts, estates, non-profit organizations and other types of business entities. The firm does not require a minimum asset requirement to work with its advisors. 

The firm manages more than $1.8 billion in assets under management (AUM) across its 20-plus advisors. 

The firm uses a variety of analysis methods when incorporating a variety of investment strategies. Its advisors analyze a variety of risk management methods to determine the right strategy for each individual client so that the assets chosen match the client's long-term goals. These include general market risks, common stock risk and portfolio turnover risk. 

America First Investment Advisors, L.L.C. (AFIA) works with individuals, employee benefit plans, trusts, estates, charitable organizations, corporations and other business entities. 

AFIA is a fee-only firm. It does not accept commissions on securities transactions or sell other financial products. While this minimizes conflicts of interest, the firm acknowledges that its asset-based fee structure creates an incentive to increase account size, and it discloses rollover recommendations as a potential conflict.

The advisory team includes professionals who have obtained the Certified Financial Planner™ (CFP®) and chartered financial analyst (CFA) designations. Advisors are required to act as fiduciaries, placing client interests ahead of their own at all times.

The firm provides discretionary portfolio management services, meaning it has authority to make investment decisions on behalf of clients. AFIA also offers financial planning advice upon request, typically covering retirement and other major life events.

When constructing portfolios, AFIA primarily invests client assets in individual stocks, fixed income securities and money-market funds, supplemented by exchange-traded funds (ETFs) to provide diversification and cost efficiency. 

Advisors apply a disciplined equity philosophy that seeks strong, well-managed businesses trading below intrinsic value. They review balance sheets, cash flow, market niches and management quality to identify attractive opportunities. Portfolios typically hold 15 to 25 stock positions when fully invested, though cash equivalents may be used while building positions or during periods of caution.