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Our mission is to provide you with the most effective, unbiased investment and financial planning advice available.
Empirical was created for the sole purpose of providing financial guidance to individuals, families, non-profit organizations, and company retirement plans. Our goal is to take the accumulated wisdom of the past several decades of academic research, years of hands-on experience, and advanced education to help investors grow and protect their wealth.
Rather than just another Financial Advisor, we at Empirical strive to be your Personal Financial Advocate, working to help you make consistently smart financial choices. We accomplish this by weighing each financial decision within the context of your overall financial plan. This strategy is simple, yet profound: the greater the number of prudent financial choices you make, the more quickly you will get to where you want to go.
History
Established in 1999.
Your Retirement Advantage was created for the sole purpose of providing financial guidance to individuals, families, non-profit organizations, and company retirement plans. Our goal is to take the accumulated wisdom of the past several decades of academic research, years of hands-on experience, and advanced education to help investors grow and protect their wealth.
Meet the Business Owner
Ethan B.
Business Owner
Ethan is a principal of Seattle based financial advisory firm Empirical Wealth Management. He works directly with individuals and families enabling them to make the most of retirement through innovative tax strategies, customized portfolio management, social security optimization, pension analysis, and retirement planning.
Rather than just another «financial advisor,» Ethan describes his primary role as that of a trusted «Personal Financial Advocate» who weighs the impact of each financial decision within the unique context of each clients overall financial plan.
Ethan is a Northwest native who graduated from Washington State University with a Bachelor’s Degree in finance. He is a Certified Financial Planner® with a Masters Degree in Financial Planning and has been in the financial industry since 1998.
Ethan lives in the Seward Park neighborhood of Seattle with his wife Corie and his two children Carsen and True.