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David has been directly advising clients as a financial planner for 25 years. David joined Gateway Financial Advisors, Inc. and became affiliated with Cambridge Investment Research, Inc. as a Registered Representative and Investment Advisor Representative in 2014 in order to be able to offer completely independent advice to his clients.

David has been a Certified Financial Planner^™ practitioner since 2004. He earned the Chartered Life Underwriter^® designation in 2005 and the Chartered Financial Consultant^® designation in 2010, both through the American College of Bryn Mawr, PA. Recently, David completed additional training in 2020 to become a Chartered Socially Responsible Investing Counselor (CSRIC^®) to better serve the needs of my clients desiring to incorporate their values in their portfolios with sustainable, responsible, and impact investments. David is a member of the Financial Planning Association and the Northern California Planned Giving Council.

David is a graduate of UCLA with a B.A. in Political Science, and also holds a M.A. and M.Phil. in Politics from NYU, where he pursued and published doctoral research on the causes and impact of the social investing movement.

David specializes in helping successful professionals review their current tax and investment situations to plan for retirement and help efficiently transfer their assets to their children, grandchildren and charitable beneficiaries.

Helping others get the objective information they need to make sense of their options, designing a roadmap that reflects the specific concerns he hears from his clients, and supporting them to make tough but educated decisions to help gain control over their financial lives has been David's mission since he began his career in financial planning in 2000.

As a CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER^™ professional, David develops comprehensive financial planning strategies to help address client goals, and then help clients implement those strategies, often in coordination with clients' other professional advisors.

To learn more about David's fee based financial planning process, call to set up a complimentary initial consultation.

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David Roggenkamp has been in the investment advisory business for 31 years. His practice is focused on investment management for individuals and small businesses, including retirement plans.

David also provides fee-based consulting guidance on retirement plan investments, education, fiduciary obligations for various types of trusts and qualified plans. He holds FINRA Series 7, 63 securities registrations through Commonwealth Financial Network^® and is a certified Chartered Financial Consultant (ChfC).

David was appointed Chartered Financial Consultant^® (ChFC^®) in 2000 from the American College in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. The ChFC certification is a nationally recognized accreditation, demonstrating proficiency eight key areas of practice: investment analysis, capital markets, retirement planning, financial planning, investment risk management and succession planning for business owners and professionals, income tax law, and estate planning. The certification is a recognized standard for investment proficiency and fiduciary ethics in financial planning.David is involved in on-going education to affirm his ChFC certification as well as broker/dealer and regulatory agency education requirements. His immediate prior affiliations include: John Hancock Inc., Transamerica Investment Advisors Inc. David is a 1987 graduate of Kenyon College.

David works and lives in Marin County, California, and has resided with his family in the San Francisco Bay area since 1988. References furnished upon request.

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