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Kenneth Chavis IV is a senior wealth manager at LourdMurray, a $6 billion wealth management firm based in Los Angeles. Kenneth provides comprehensive financial planning, investment management and tax planning services to business owners, equity compensated executives, engineers, medical doctors and entertainers, with a focus on preserving and growing their wealth with tax efficiency. Kenneth serves clients as a fee-only fiduciary.
Kenneth's career in the wealth management industry spans nearly a decade. In prior roles he served clients as a financial advisor in Portland, Oregon, and a senior financial planner in Scottsdale, Arizona. In prior roles, Kenneth provided comprehensive wealth planning, retirement planning, tax planning and investment management to corporate executives, business owners and engineers receiving stock compensation at many Fortune 100 companies on the West Coast, including Intel, Microsoft, Nike, Alphabet (formerly Google), Apple and Amazon.
Kenneth has won multiple awards, including the Investopedia Top 100 Financial Advisor in 2022 and 50 Under 50 by the Association of African-American Financial Advisors in 2021 and 2020, which recognizes the most outstanding and influential Black and African American financial professionals in the country.
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Kenneth is a CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ professional, holds a Certificate in Financial Planning from Boston University and earned a Bachelor of Science in Business Economics from Hawaii Pacific University, where he graduated summa cum laude.
Kenneth is a member of the Financial Planning Association and an advisory member of the Association of African American Financial Advisors.
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