“We help you fulfill your dreams and live your best life without Financial Stress.”
Kathy Mimms has been recognized as among the best financial advisors within the State by Forbes, thanks to great clients like you!
She has achieved great success as a Northwestern Mutual Advisor and has been instrumental in helping her clients fulfill their dreams and live their best life while reaching their financial goals.
Kathy provides trusted advice that brings deep knowledge and experience to all aspects of financial planning and wealth management. She leads a proactive team that’s committed to having an impact and making a real difference in the lives of our clients by providing value-added services, highly personalized attention, and solutions customized for our client’s unique objectives.
Kathy designs highly personalized, customized, and comprehensive financial plans that are ideal for them, their families, and their business.
Our client’s fully integrated plans are developed with detailed attention to wealth maximization and tax efficiency, and include skilled estate planning, tax strategies, retirement planning, and risk-mitigation tailored to the client’s unique needs and goals.
Credentials that Set Our Practice Apart
Prior to Northwestern Mutual, Kathy worked in the investment industry, including Top Wall Street firms, for 20 + years. She brings top of industry education and credentials which sets the bar high for quality and excellence for her clients. Not all financial Advisors are certified.
Kathy has both her CFP®, CFA®, as well as her MBA.
CFA®: Chartered Financial Analyst® is a globally recognized professional designation offered by the CFA Institute, an organization that measures and certifies the competence and integrity of financial analysts. Candidates are required to pass three levels of exams covering areas such as accounting, economics, ethics, money management, and security analysis. The CFA charter is one of the most respected designations in finance and is widely considered to be the gold standard in the field of investment analysis. (Investopedia)
CFP®, Certified Financial Planner™ designation is only awarded by the Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards, Inc to individuals who meet its stringent education, examination, experience, and Ethics requirements.
We are Fiduciaries, First and Foremost
That means we hold ourselves to a high standard of care, accountability, and transparency, striving to act in your best interest. As fiduciaries, we have a client-focused approach that has one overriding purpose—to ensure your financial well-being, focusing on your needs and interests.
Areas of Expertise
- Financial Planning: Identify values, motivations, and sensitivities to determine appropriate financial goals and strategies to achieve them
- Investment Management: Maximize asset efficiency using a disciplined and coordinated approach that removes emotion and speculation from the decision process
- Insurance Planning: Implement relevant risk management strategies to protect you and your family
- Group Benefits: Provide education around your group Life Insurance/Long Term Disability programs
- Retirement Planning: Identify savings targets and options to give you peace of mind around your retirement plan
- Tax Efficient Planning: Maximize tax efficiency in wealth accumulation and income distribution
- Income Distribution Strategies: Optimize draw-down strategies to ensure your income needs are met throughout retirement
- Estate & Legacy Planning: Maximize wealth transfers across different scenarios and work with centers of influence (including attorneys, CPAs, etc.) to ensure sound estate plan design
Professional Background
Education
University of Texas (McCombs School of Business) - Finance (MBA)
University of Texas - English (BA)
Awards and Recognition
- Forbes Best of State 2024
- Million Dollar Round Table Qualifying Member 2013, 2016-2021
- MDRT is the premier association of financial professionals. MDRT status designation is granted for one year and members must apply every year to continue their affiliation with the MDRT
- National Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors Quality Award 2012-2015, 2018
- Award recognizing commitment to excellence in service to clients and industry
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.
Forbes Best-in-State Top Financial Security Professionals list (July 2024), Research and ranking provided by SHOOK Research, LLC. Based upon data as of 12/31/2023. Northwestern Mutual (NM) and its advisors do not pay for placement on 3rd party rating or ranking lists. NM and its advisors do, however, pay marketing fees to these organizations to promote the rating or ranking(s). Rankings and recognitions are no guarantee of future investment success.