Howell has been in the financial planning business for over 30 years serving the financial needs of individuals and businesses. 

After 10 years in Atlanta, he and his family moved to the Lake Oconee area and created Piedmont Financial Partners, specializing in working with high net worth individuals and businesses. He has been able to build a reputation of providing valuable advice and thoughtful service to his clients. He brings a very personalized touch to each client that he works with and considers each one unique in their needs and goals.
When not advising clients, he enjoys the outdoors and traveling with his family.

I offer total financial needs analysis through a network of experienced professionals with expertise in:
- Advisory services
- Retirement analysis and programs
- Estate strategies
- Employee benefit and retention services
- Business continuation strategies
- Trust services

I provide an analysis of your current financial situation and help you:
- Identify financial goals and concerns
- Illustrate what is being done to reach your goals and deal with concerns
- Identify gaps, if present, and offer solutions to fill them

I offer a broad portfolio of individual insurance protection, asset accumulation strategies, and financial products and services for high net work families, businesses, and institutions.

I am licensed to sell insurance in: FL, GA, IL, MA, MD, MO, MS, NY, SC & TN

I am licensed to sell securities in: AL, CO, FL, IL, MD, MS, SC & TN

About Piedmont Financial Partners

At Piedmont Financial Partners, we’re here to help you pursue your overall financial goals and guide you through the complexities of planning for your retirement. Using our client-centered approach, we seek to help you design a framework for your retirement savings that will evolve with you over the years.

We are specialists in providing a structured and customized financial plan. Our years of experience—combined with a highly personalized level of service—allow us to design unique strategies that can help you:

-Define your goals

-Maximize your savings

-Manage your assets

-Track and monitor your plan

At Piedmont Financial Partners, this is our specialty. Let us focus on your financial planning—so you can spend your time doing what you enjoy, both now and in the future.

Advisory Services Provided:

Financial Planning, Portfolio Management, Retirement Planning, 401K Rollovers, Wealth Management, Money Management, Risk Management, Education Funding and Planning, Financial Advice & Consulting, Financial Planning for Individuals, Financial Planning for Businesses, Investment Advice & Management, Estate Planning & Trusts, Insurance Products & Annuities

I build and implement personalized financial plans by getting to know my clients really well. By having thoughtful conversations, using detailed data gathering, and being curious, I learn their true goals and concerns and provide an easy to understand set of solutions for them. My wife Erin and I have been married since 2008, and we have two children. In my free time I am with my family, coach youth sports, play tennis year-round and dirt-bike with friends.

About Edelman Financial Engines, LLC

Since 1986, Edelman Financial Engines has been committed to always acting in the best interest of our clients. We were founded on the belief that all American investors - not just the wealthy - deserve access to personalized, comprehensive financial planning and investment advice. Today, we are America's top independent financial planning and investment advisor, recognized by both InvestmentNews¹ and Barron's², with 180+ planner offices across the country and entrusted by more than 1.1 million clients to manage more than $200 billion in assets. Our unique approach to serving clients combines our advanced methodology and proprietary technology with the attention of a dedicated personal financial planner. Every client's situation and goals are unique, and the powerful fusion of high-tech and high-touch allows Edelman Financial Engines to deliver the personal plan and financial confidence that everyone deserves. ¹Ranking and status for 2017. For independence methodology and ranking, see InvestmentNews Center (http://data.investmentnews.com/ria/); ²The Top 40 Independent Advisory Firm Ranking issued by Barron's is qualitative and quantitative, including assets managed, the size and experience of teams, and the regulatory records of the advisers and firms. Firms elect to participate, but do not pay to be included in the ranking. Investor returns/experience are not considered. 2018 ranking refers to Edelman Financial Services (EFS), which combined its advisory business in its entirety with Financial Engines Advisors L.L.C. (FEA) in November 2018. For the same survey, FEA received a precombination ranking of twelfth.

I'm passionate about working with families to develop strategies to help accomplish their financial and retirement goals. I enjoy getting to know people and hearing their unique stories. Away from work, I enjoy spending time with my wife and following our four kids and their activities.

About Edelman Financial Engines, LLC

Since 1986, Edelman Financial Engines has been committed to always acting in the best interest of our clients. We were founded on the belief that all American investors - not just the wealthy - deserve access to personalized, comprehensive financial planning and investment advice. Today, we are America's top independent financial planning and investment advisor, recognized by both InvestmentNews¹ and Barron's², with 180+ planner offices across the country and entrusted by more than 1.1 million clients to manage more than $200 billion in assets. Our unique approach to serving clients combines our advanced methodology and proprietary technology with the attention of a dedicated personal financial planner. Every client's situation and goals are unique, and the powerful fusion of high-tech and high-touch allows Edelman Financial Engines to deliver the personal plan and financial confidence that everyone deserves. ¹Ranking and status for 2017. For independence methodology and ranking, see InvestmentNews Center (http://data.investmentnews.com/ria/); ²The Top 40 Independent Advisory Firm Ranking issued by Barron's is qualitative and quantitative, including assets managed, the size and experience of teams, and the regulatory records of the advisers and firms. Firms elect to participate, but do not pay to be included in the ranking. Investor returns/experience are not considered. 2018 ranking refers to Edelman Financial Services (EFS), which combined its advisory business in its entirety with Financial Engines Advisors L.L.C. (FEA) in November 2018. For the same survey, FEA received a precombination ranking of twelfth.

I've been in the financial services industry since 2012, and a financial planner since 2014. My passion is to help my clients with comprehensive planning that guides them to reach their long-term financial goals. Aside from work, I keep busy with my wife, son, daughter, and three dogs. In my rare spare time, you can find me hiking or skiing or cheering on my home team, the Cincinnati Reds.

About Edelman Financial Engines, LLC

Since 1986, Edelman Financial Engines has been committed to always acting in the best interest of our clients. We were founded on the belief that all American investors - not just the wealthy - deserve access to personalized, comprehensive financial planning and investment advice. Today, we are America's top independent financial planning and investment advisor, recognized by both InvestmentNews¹ and Barron's², with 180+ planner offices across the country and entrusted by more than 1.1 million clients to manage more than $200 billion in assets. Our unique approach to serving clients combines our advanced methodology and proprietary technology with the attention of a dedicated personal financial planner. Every client's situation and goals are unique, and the powerful fusion of high-tech and high-touch allows Edelman Financial Engines to deliver the personal plan and financial confidence that everyone deserves. ¹Ranking and status for 2017. For independence methodology and ranking, see InvestmentNews Center (http://data.investmentnews.com/ria/); ²The Top 40 Independent Advisory Firm Ranking issued by Barron's is qualitative and quantitative, including assets managed, the size and experience of teams, and the regulatory records of the advisers and firms. Firms elect to participate, but do not pay to be included in the ranking. Investor returns/experience are not considered. 2018 ranking refers to Edelman Financial Services (EFS), which combined its advisory business in its entirety with Financial Engines Advisors L.L.C. (FEA) in November 2018. For the same survey, FEA received a precombination ranking of twelfth.

After 20 years in numerous leadership positions in both public and private companies, I decided to use my experience and desire to positively impact people's lives in a more personal way. It started with the birth of my first child, which drove home the importance of planning for the future. That key life event, along with watching one of my family members struggling due to poor financial decisions, made me realize how important financial planning is and how it can affect people's lives both positively and negatively. I saw a real need to provide unbiased client-first advice in a world full of self-serving sales people offering products and services that were not always in the client's best interest. I specialize in assisting executives and business owners, with an emphasis on the unique needs and challenges that women and professional athletes face in today's world. Prior to joining Integrated Financial Group, I was a Partner, COO and Head of the Financial Planning Department at another Atlanta-based firm. I also worked at Morgan Stanley Wealth Management Services as a Financial Advisor. On the personal front, I've been blessed to have the ability to visit the world. Seeing how other societies live provides me important perspective around the concept of not just living to work but rather to use work and the income it creates to live the life that we want. I am not working with my clients, I spend time as a partner, mentor and father.

About Integrated Financial Group

As a national media recognized LPL Financial Advisor and Partner in one of the largest financial planning consortiums in Atlanta, Kevin and his team focus his extensive planning strategies around pursuing his clients' goals and dreams for themselves and their families before and during retirement. He specializes in assisting people who find themselves in a life event that is financially impacting their lives such as divorce, death of a spouse, pending retirement, inheritance, stock option grants and employment contracts. We work often with women who are dealing with challenges in their lives, as well as the unique needs of sports and entertainment professionals. Specialties: Retirement Planning, Investments, Estate Planning, Business Development, Executive Compensation, Risk Management.

Advisory Services Provided:

Financial Advice & Consulting

WHY USE PERSONAL CAPITAL

Free Financial Tools

Get a 360-degree view of your money and see all your accounts in one place, including your investments. And go deeper with our planning and analytics tools.

• See if your portfolio is truly diversified with Investment Checkup™
• Get your Retirement Readiness Score™ in minutes
• Spot hidden fees with the Fee Analyzer™

The tools are yours with no obligation. Setting up your dashboard will make your discussion with an Advisor -- whether ours or a competitor's -- more productive.

Personalized Advice

Our team of licensed fiduciary advisors understands that every investor is unique. With the dynamic tools used by both you and your advisor we are able to identify and alert you to opportunities so you can act on them.

Customized Strategy

Customization begins by learning about your entire financial situation and goals. From there, we'll determine how much growth you need to reach those goals. Once we're clear on every facet of your financial life, we design a portfolio that reflects your risk and return profile.

Identify Hidden Fees

You could be losing hundreds of thousands of dollars in hidden fees in your mutual fund, investing, and retirement accounts. Discover any hidden investment fees you weren't aware of.

Invest in a Sustainable Future

Our Socially Responsible Personal Strategy (SRI) is a way for you to support and invest in companies more proactively managing environmental, social, and corporate governance related issues, also known as ESG.

Transparent Fees

We charge one all-inclusive management fee at a fraction of the cost of traditional financial institutions. There are no hidden fees, no trailing fees and no trade commissions.

Personal Capital is owned by Empower Retirement, the second largest retirement services company in the US, with $709 billion in assets and 9.4 million participants as of 9/30/2020

About Personal Capital Advisors Corporation

Personal Capital provides a unique combination of personalized human advice and free, innovative technology. We have local presences nationwide and fully remote capabilities with clients in all 50 states and $15bn in assets as of 11/30/2020. Join the 2.7 million people who track over $980bn with our free tools, including our Retirement Planner, Investment Checkup™, and Fee Analyzer™. Personal Capital Advisors Corporation ("PCAC") compensates WiserAdvisor ("Company") for new leads. ("Company") is not an investment client of PCAC.

Advisory Services Provided:

Portfolio Management, Wealth Management

I've been a financial planner since 2009, and I've always been most happy when serving others. My personal and professional experiences provide me with a deeper understanding of how to best help my clients achieve their financial goals. In my spare time, I enjoy working out, watching movies and playing video games and spending time with my two grandsons. I'm also fluent in Spanish.

About Edelman Financial Engines, LLC

Since 1986, Edelman Financial Engines has been committed to always acting in the best interest of our clients. We were founded on the belief that all American investors - not just the wealthy - deserve access to personalized, comprehensive financial planning and investment advice. Today, we are America's top independent financial planning and investment advisor, recognized by both InvestmentNews¹ and Barron's², with 180+ planner offices across the country and entrusted by more than 1.1 million clients to manage more than $200 billion in assets. Our unique approach to serving clients combines our advanced methodology and proprietary technology with the attention of a dedicated personal financial planner. Every client's situation and goals are unique, and the powerful fusion of high-tech and high-touch allows Edelman Financial Engines to deliver the personal plan and financial confidence that everyone deserves. ¹Ranking and status for 2017. For independence methodology and ranking, see InvestmentNews Center (http://data.investmentnews.com/ria/); ²The Top 40 Independent Advisory Firm Ranking issued by Barron's is qualitative and quantitative, including assets managed, the size and experience of teams, and the regulatory records of the advisers and firms. Firms elect to participate, but do not pay to be included in the ranking. Investor returns/experience are not considered. 2018 ranking refers to Edelman Financial Services (EFS), which combined its advisory business in its entirety with Financial Engines Advisors L.L.C. (FEA) in November 2018. For the same survey, FEA received a precombination ranking of twelfth.