Metlife Veteran Creates Financial Planning Firm

From FuturesPlanned, LLC: Twenty-five-year financial services veteran, Stuart Hawkins, announced today the launch of FuturesPlanned, LLC, a wealth management and financial planning firm with an emphasis on guiding families with children or dependents with special physical, cognitive, and emotional needs. Hawkins brings not only decades of top industry financial planning experience to the new practice, but 27 years as a parent caring for a child with special needs.

“In 2005, my oldest daughter was born with hydrocephalus. Three years later, my wife and I learned she had developed a brain tumor, which lead to long-term brain injury,” said Hawkins. “It’s difficult as a parent going through that kind of experience to look past the immediate day-to-day needs of simply caring for your child. But these are the families who need careful, experienced financial planning the most. They need an advocate in their corner who is helping them look further down the road.”

With decades in the insurance and wealth management field, Hawkins’ career spans positions with Mutual of Omaha, New England Financial and MetLife, counseling clients on Healthcare, Business & Employee benefits and Wealth Management. While at MetLife in 2005, Hawkins added Special Needs Planning to his practice.

“My extensive training with MetLife Center for Special Needs Planning and my unique journey as a parent have resulted in a dedication to assisting other parents with similar challenges,” added Hawkins. “I formed FuturesPlanned in order to provide a more flexible, independent platform to better serve clients in every area they need.”

FuturesPlanned services encompass the following:

Special Needs Planning

• Special Needs Trusts
• Protecting Government Benefit Eligibility
• Guardianship and Conservatorship
• New ABLE Act
• SSI, SSDI, Medicaid
• Financial Planning and Funding Options
• Letters of Intent

Wealth Management

• Wealth Management & Distribution Strategies
• Investment Management/Advisory Services
• Mutual Funds
• 529 College Savings Plans
• IRA/Roth IRA
• Deferred Annuities
• Immediate Annuities
• Estate Planning Strategies
• Life Insurance/Risk Management

Business & Employee Benefits

• Group Insurance Benefits
• Retirement Planning Strategies
• Business Planning Strategies

FuturesPlanned, LLC is located at 15 N. Main St, Ste. 101, W. Hartford, CT 06107. For more information, visitwww.futuresplanned.com or call 860-313-1447.

Photo courtesy of FuturesPlanned