Michael Leonetti is a CFP-designated registered investment advisor at Hightower Advisors, LLC, based in Buffalo Grove, IL, with 31 years of industry experience. Their practice areas include Estate Planning, High Net Worth, Investment Management, Medical Professionals, and 1 more. Their firm serves 56,418 clients with $160B in assets under management.
Hightower Advisors offers investment management services where fees are negotiable and can be calculated as a percentage of your portfolio. The percentage can be a flat rate, tiered based on asset levels, or tiered floating. Fees are typically deducted from your account and can be charged either in advance or after the service is provided, calculated quarterly or monthly. Some advisors may adjust fees based on significant deposits or withdrawals during the billing cycle. The firm may also household accounts for price breaks.
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I am a CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER®, Certified Fund Specialist, and Accredited Investment Fiduciary®. I graduated from St. Mary’s College in Winona, Minnesota with a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration and Economics. I founded Leonetti & Associates, Inc. in 1982 and was among the pioneers in championing fee-only planning, which has since become the standard in the industry. I am regularly named as one of the top financial advisors byBloomberg Wealth Manager, listed inMedical Economicsas one of the top 150 Financial Advisors for physicians and named as one of the top fifty Financial Advisors in the April 2008 issue ofChicago Magazine. For 11 years I wrote the quarterly financial planning column for theJournal of theAmerican Association of IndividualInvestors. My book,Retire Worry-Freewas published in 1993.