James Mertz is a CFP-designated registered investment advisor at Focus Financial, based in Bloomington, MN, with 44 years of industry experience. James operates on a fee-only basis, meaning they do not earn commissions from product sales. Their practice areas include Estate Planning, Retirement Planning, Tax Planning. Their firm serves 14,027 clients with $6.3B in assets under management.
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Focus Financial Network offers personalized investment management services where advisors manage your investments based on your individual needs. Fees are typically charged quarterly, in advance, based on the value of your portfolio. The fee percentage is determined by your advisor and depends on factors like the type of service, account size, and complexity. FFN offers flat, linear, and tiered fee schedules. With a flat fee, your entire portfolio is billed at one percentage rate. With a linear fee schedule, the fee percentage decreases at intervals as your account value grows, and the resulting fee percentage is applied to the entire balance. With a tiered fee schedule, the asset values fall within separate tiers, and the corresponding decreasing percentage is applied to each tier.
Location
8100 Penn Ave, Suite 175, Bloomington, MN, 55431
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James is the owner of Mertz Wealth Strategies, a business entity for tax/investment purposes, and spends about a quarter of his time there. He is also a board member for the Bloomington Sister City Organization and a financial advisor at Focus Financial Network Inc, dedicating nearly full-time hours to the latter.
Employment History
Current Registrations
Osaic Wealth, INC.Broker
Focus Financial
Previous Registrations
LPL Financial LLCBroker
LPL Financial LLC
Sii Investments, INC.
Sii Investments, INC.Broker
Offerman & CompanyBroker
Ids Marketing CorporationBroker
Ids/american Express INC.Broker
State Registrations14 states
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