Kyle Fitzgerald
Financial Advisor|RICP®
Personal
I am naturally wild at heart. I love to travel, the outdoors, trying new foods, etc. I have set a goal to visit all 63 national parks prior to retirement. 4 down, 59 to go!
Kane the aussiedoodle came into my life at the beginning of July, 2019. Some of his favorite activities are swimming, hiking and yoga - yes yoga! Kane loves playing with other dogs, kids, and just about anyone who will give him attention. Mans best friend indeed!
I am an active member of New Life Church in central Arkansas. God called me to go on one of the most humbling and eye-opening missions that I could ever imagine. In Cuba, our missions consisted of physical labor building churches and spreading the living word! To sum up this trip, the Lord and the Cubans taught me more than I truly could ever offer. We are beyond blessed In the United States - even the hard days. I am often guilty of overlooking the small and common things we have in abundance here, like air conditioning, clean water, food, etc. I am forever grateful for this experience!
Community Connections is a 501 c3 non-profit organization dedicated to improving the lives of children with special needs and their families. Many children with developmental and intellectual disabilities live in a cycle of school and therapy with little opportunity for extra-curricular activity. At the same time, their families often lack education and a support network. Community Connections was established in 2007 because many children with special needs did not have the opportunity to play sports and participate in the arts like their siblings and peers. From this need, Community Connections was created with the goal of helping families address various health, developmental, and social needs by offering comprehensive programs and services not currently available in our communities.
Professional
The RICP® is the nation’s leading credential for building integrated and comprehensive retirement income plans. A key focus is understanding, choosing, and executing a sustainable retirement income strategy from available resources—whether that means using systematic withdrawals from a portfolio, building a retirement income floor with bonds or annuities, or using a bucket strategy.
The program, developed by more than 45 of the nation’s top financial retirement advisors, provides RICP® credential holders with best practices in areas including:
- Social Security claiming
- Evaluating and addressing risks faced in retirement financial planning
- Choosing distributions from employer sponsored retirement financial plans
- Medicare and other health insurance choices
- Planning for long-term care needs
- Choosing appropriate housing
- Retirement income tax and legacy planning
The American College of Financial Services is the premier educational institution dedicated to the development of financial services professionals. Graduates and designees of The American College of Financial Services have studied, passed rigorous exams, and proven that they not only have the technical knowledge to serve their clients, but have sworn to practice ethically and in the best interest of the people they serve.
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.
New Life Church
New Life Chruch's mission is to reach our friends and family with the life-giving message of Jesus, to see them become fully devoted followers of Christ.
Community Connections
Community Connections is a 501 c3 non-profit organization dedicated to improving the lives of children with special needs and their families.
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.
