SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 12, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Yeske Buie was selected as the winner of the 2015 Trailblazer IMPACT Award™, part of Schwab's IMPACT Awards® program created to recognize excellence in the business of independent financial advice. The Trailblazer IMPACT Award honors a firm for its dedication to helping the industry as a whole reach new heights through focused initiatives or the passionate commitment to service excellence. The award was selected by a judging panel of industry experts and presented to Yeske Buie at IMPACT® 2015 in Boston, MA on November 12th. The entire Yeske Buie team was in attendance for the prestigious ceremony.
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"I'm very proud that our firm is being recognized in this way," said Yeske Buie managing director, Dave Yeske, "and I'm also tremendously proud of our talented team members without whom this would not have been possible."
Yeske Buie is a leading wealth management firm providing financial planning and asset management to over 200 clients around the world. The firm's founders and principals, Dr. Dave Yeske, CFP® and Elissa Buie, CFP®, have almost 60 years of combined experience practicing financial planning and leading the profession. The firm is known nationally for its volunteer service and the Principals' leadership in the profession and their writing and presentations on topics such as Evidence-Based Financial Planning® and Policy-Based Financial Planning. Their philosophy of Live Big® and Creative Strategies – Grounded Wisdom® form the pillars for their company vision and strategy and contribute to their primary focus of delivering an exquisite experience to their Clients. Internally, the firm has a culture of excellence, learning, team work, constant improvement and fun.
Yeske Buie's Financial Planning Resident Program, Give Big philosophy, and ambitious technology strategy are among the reasons why Yeske Buie earned this award. Yeske Buie's innovative Financial Planning Resident program, fashioned after a Medical Residency at a teaching hospital, equips aspiring financial planners with three years of hands-on guidance and foundational training necessary to qualify to be a CFP® licensee. In return, the firm gains additional capacity and helps contribute to the pipeline of new planners entering the financial planning profession adequately prepared to work with Clients. Additionally, one of Yeske Buie's defined core values is a commitment to sharing their time, their intellect, and their resources; they call this philosophy, Give Big. The Give Big philosophy encompasses community service, domestic and international speaking engagements, high-level involvement in professional associations, educational engagement, and more. Yeske Buie has incorporated these activities into a culture and a lifestyle that they embody both as individuals and as a team. Finally, Yeske Buie continuously seeks technologies that will leverage internal processes and external communication and will contribute to their primary focus of delivering an exquisite experience to their Clients. They have adopted many technology platforms to achieve these goals including their Client Private Page® which streamlines internal report generation while maximizing the frequency and quality of client reporting. These are just some of the initiatives that defined Yeske Buie as a pioneer in the industry.
As part of the Trailblazer IMPACT Award, Charles Schwab & Co., Inc. will make a $15,000 donation on behalf of Yeske Buie to the Foundation for Financial Planning, an organization devoted to providing pro bono financial planning services to the underserved. Yeske Buie has a strong involvement with the Foundation; in addition to serving many years on the Board of Trustees, Elissa Buie also served a two year term as Chair of the Foundation, and the Yeske Buie Financial Planning Team makes regular donations to the organization.
Yeske Buie and its employees are independent of and are not employees or agents of Charles Schwab & Co., Inc. ("Schwab"). Schwab does not prepare, verify or endorse information distributed by Yeske Buie. The Trailblazer IMPACT Award™, part of Schwab's IMPACT Awards® program, is not an endorsement, testimonial endorsement, recommendation or referral to Yeske Buie with respect to its investment advisory and other services.
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