Kenneth L Hume
Financial Representative
Personal
Ken Hume and his wife, Kathy reside in Danbury, CT. They have one son, Mike, who graduated from Canterbury School in 1999 and Georgetown University in 2003. Mike is currently the National Sports Assignment Editor for The Washington Post. Mike and his spouse, Kristin, reside in Northern Virginia and are the parents of Sophia Kathleen who was born in 2015. Her grandparents think she is the cutest baby ever.
When Ken Hume isn't in the office you can usually find him on the links. He enjoys playing golf, especially in Naples, FL and the highlight of his golfing career was playing The Old Course in St. Andrews, Scotland with his son.
Professional
Ken Hume received a BS in Marketing from Northeastern University and an MBA from Miami University. Ken was a product manager at International Paper and then a Marketing Director at Pirelli Tire Corporation before he decided to follow in his father-in-law's footsteps and pursue a career in the life insurance industry.
For over 30 years, Ken Hume has been affiliated with Northwestern Mutual Financial Network, a company with over 25 years on Fortune's Most Admired Company list.
Ken Hume found a side benefit to being his own boss, was it allowed him to spend 10 years coaching his son's baseball teams. Even today, his son Mike writes about the special bond between father, son and baseball.
Ken Hume started his career at Northwestern Mutual specializing in the medical market, but now he specializes in Executive Benefits.
Ken Hume consults with companies of all sizes across the nation to develop cost effective Executive Benefit plans for client companies. Based upon the strategic objectives of the company, he works to identify solutions that will build shareholder value by attracting, retaining and rewarding senior executives. Ken has over 30 years of experience in providing creative and innovative Executive Benefit solutions for corporations and financial institutions. In addition to consulting with corporations, Ken also conducts seminars on Executive Benefit planning for professional groups.
Associations and Memberships
- Western CT Estate and Tax Planning Council
- NAIFA – National Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors
- EBPS – Ken Hume is the Director of Business and Estate Planning for The Bender Financial Group
Education
- Northeastern University – Marketing (Bachelor of Science)
- Miami University – Marketing (Master of Business Administration)
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
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.
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.
