Dusty Jentz
Financial Advisor
Focusing on helping people grow wealth and financial security one conversation at a time
Personal
Dusty grew up on a beef farm in a small town in Wisconsin where his family raised show cattle along with many other species of livestock. This is where he developed his passion of giving back to others. Being a part of organizations such as the FFA, 4-H and many sporting events has allowed Dusty to utilize his skillsets around compassion, competition and work ethic. Through his extracurricular activities Dusty was able to identify his passion of helping others and seeing other people succeed.
Dusty married his college sweetheart, Carli, in September 2017. They met at Luther College where Dusty spent his freshman and sophomore years. For the remainder of his academic career, Dusty attended Iowa State University where he completed his Bachelor of Arts in Communications and continued his athletic career on the ISU wrestling team. Dusty and Carli have started their family together by adopting their dogs, Cane, a seven-year-old Pitbull and Landry, a one-year-old Dalmatian.
Professional
Dusty joined Northwestern Mutual as a college intern in 2016 while attending Iowa State University and has been located in the Twin Cities for two years. Dusty chose to build his financial planning practice at Northwestern Mutual because it allows him to get out into many communities around the United States and be able to make an impact on people’s lives, not only financially but also personally. Dusty enjoys working with individuals who are early in their working careers because he is able to help them grow personally and financially as individuals and then help them grow personally and financially when they start to build their own families.
Dusty also enjoys working with:
- Young families
- Individuals with small closely held businesses
- Farmers
Years of Experience
Representing Northwestern Mutual since 2016.
Education
- Iowa State University - Communications - Minor in Speech (Bachelor of Arts)
- Iowa State University - Leadership and Management (Certificate)
Lending a hand in my community.
As part of Northwestern Mutual, I'm proud to help accelerate the search for better childhood cancer treatments while supporting families undergoing treatment, and survivors from late effects. Here are some of the organizations we partner with:
Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation for Childhood Cancer (ALSF)
ALSF funds cancer research, raises awareness, and supports the families of children with cancer. Since 2012, Northwestern Mutual, its employees, and financial professionals like me have donated more than $20 million to support ALSF and fund over 400,000 research hours.
Beads of Courage
Beads of Courage is an art-in-medicine program that helps kids with cancer tell their unique treatment story through colorful beads that are symbols of their courage.
Here are my areas of expertise
Financial Planning
Insurance Protection Strategies
Life Insurance Strategies
Retirement Planning & Income Strategies
Education Planning & Funding
Disability Planning
Multigenerational Planning
Estate Planning
How Northwestern Mutual helps you live the life you want.
When people feel better about their money, good things happen—they become more confident and feel more secure. For more than 160 years, Northwestern Mutual has helped people achieve the financial flexibility they need to live more and worry less.
Being a mutual company means Northwestern Mutual reports to its clients, not Wall Street. They don't believe in chasing fads or taking undue risk for short-term gains. Instead, they take a long-term approach—both in the way we help people plan to reach their goals, and in the way they do business. This has served their clients (and mine) well through all kinds of economic ups and downs, including wars, recessions, even the recent pandemic.
It's why I'm happy to be part of a company that's in it for the long-haul and prioritizes clients over profit.
