Fee Only Financial Planners: Truly On Your Side

The experienced and Certified Fee Only financial advisors at Plancorp are dedicated to building the best plan for your financial goals.


Get in touch with Plancorp to see why our clients have trusted our certified fiduciary and evidence-based approach to enhancing our client’s lives in St. Louis for nearly 40 years.

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Industry Leading Wealth Management Services

Plancorp By the Numbers

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Trusted With Over
$
5.7
billion
in Managed Assets
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Service that Makes
98
%
of Clients Return
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Serving Clients Nationwide
44
States
from St. Louis HQ

Our Approach

  • Why Plancorp is Right for You
  • What We Offer
  • Plan Your Estate with Plancorp
  • Income Tax Planning
  • Retirement Planning
  • Insurance Planning
  • Charitable Giving
  • Equity Compensation

Why Plancorp is Right for You

  • With one eye on your total financial picture, we model a variety of scenarios to help you understand how different decisions impact each other. Our goal is to bring you peace of mind, so you can enjoy the life you've worked so hard to build. 

    • Define Life Goals: We'll meet with you to understand your current situation, concerns and goals. Your vision for the future becomes the foundation of your custom plan.
    • Develop Strategy: With a personalized roadmap, you can be confident you're on track to reach your goals—no matter what curve balls life may throw.
    • Educate Family: It's important that your family also understands the complexities of wealth. We'll help advise and educate your loved ones in an age- and situationally appropriate way.

What We Offer

Our holistic planning approach takes into account all aspects of your financial life. We'll help you understand which levers to pull, while using your investments as one of many tools to help you reach financial freedom.

That means you can spend less time worrying you're doing the right things, and more time enjoying your life and loved ones.

As a client of Plancorp, you have access to our entire group of advisors—some of whom were practicing CPAs and attorneys in past lives. A dedicated team of five will handle your core planning and investment management, but, should any nuanced needs arise, we'll pull in the right mix of talent for your specific situation.

Interested in learning more? Take two minutes to use our free financial assessment tool to get personalized recommendations on where you should focus your attention to conquer life’s biggest goals.

Plan Your Estate with Plancorp

Working with Plancorp means working with a financial life advocate who dedicates their time to providing a personalized financial planning and investment experience that’s focused on your unique goals.

Estate Planning comes with a lot of different financial decisions. Here are some of the ways we help:

  • A Financial Roadmap: Our comprehensive financial planning includes a customized roadmap to help you make smart money decisions and solidify your financial future without having to worry about potential, “what if’s?”
  • Intelligent Investments: We take the guesswork out of investing by applying a data-driven approach to help you accomplish your goals. By leveraging the latest research, our investment team seeks to optimize your investments to give you the greatest chance of success.
  • Advanced Planning: We take great pride in our ability to offer proactive advanced planning strategies. We can work with you to minimize taxes, fulfill philanthropic goals, exit or transition from your business, or plan for a multi-generational wealth transfer.

It’s never too early to think about your estate plan or build your team. If you need help finding a financial advisor, you can read more about what it’s like to work with Plancorp here.

Income Tax Planning

A paycheck is only as good as its ability to help you reach your goals.

By making tax-smart decisions and putting money in the right buckets, you can maximize your income's ability to work for you. We'll discuss your goals for your retirement, loved ones and the causes you care about to make sure you're prioritizing your financial decisions appropriately. 

Retirement Planning

Life after retirement looks different for everyone. Whether your vision is to downsize and travel the world, buy your dream home, spend more time with your family or even start a new career, it's important to know that end goal up front so you can work toward it.

We'll work with you to define what is most important to you, so we can create the right roadmap to help you get there. Then, we'll proactively monitor that plan as needed to make sure you end up where you want.

Insurance Planning

Accidents happen not only on the job but also at home – and illness can strike anyone. Our insurance planning can uncover and fix holes to create a comprehensive financial plan. 

Charitable Giving

It might shock you just how many planning strategies there are to help you reach your philanthropic goals. By understanding what's most important to you, we can help you leverage the right vehicles at the appropriate times to make the most powerful impact.

We'll also weigh options that will allow you to see your wealth working for the greater good—today.

Equity Compensation

Equity compensation can be one of the most important benefits you receive during your career. You’re not only getting a reward for your talent and hard work, you’re getting an asset that can help build long-term wealth. But the value of that benefit depends on more than just the performance of your company’s stock.

Thoughtfully managing key decisions involved with equity compensation — especially those related to taxes — can make a big difference in how much you ultimately gain.

The Plancorp Team

When you work with one person on the team, you're tapping into the collective knowledge of a team of over 70 individuals. We'll establish an financial plan in conjunction with all of your goals.

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Brian King, CFP®, C.P.A.

Chief Planning Officer

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Sara Gelsheimer, CFP®, AIF®

Senior Wealth Manager

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Derek Jess, CFP®

Senior Wealth Manager