Hi, I'm Gary Pia. I am an experienced independent, fee-only, CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER® professional and I can show you how to retire comfortably and confidently. I can show you how to protect and grow your nest egg to create an income that will buy everything you need for a lifetime.
Real financial advice does two things. It removes the financial stresses and concerns you have, but don’t want. It guides you to the financial outcomes you want, but don’t have. It has to do with your money, but it’s really about what you want from your life.
Real financial advice creates clarity so you can make confident decisions.
I make that happen by asking lots of questions and listening until you’re sure I’ve heard you. I explain things clearly by translating “finance” into “human.”
I strive to act impeccably. I own my mistakes. I solve problems and provide solutions by surrounding myself with subject matter experts who share my passion for service. I am in a perpetual state of personal and professional development.
Since 1989 I have helped hundreds of clients just like you take the fear out of investing, increase their probability of a secure and comfortable retirement, transfer their wealth, and to take care of their aging loved ones.
I have acted in plays, conducted pit orchestras, sung in bands, and served on non-profit boards. I was elected to three terms as City Treasurer of South Pasadena, California.
I am a husband, son, father, and grandfather.
Professional Designations
CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER ®
Affiliations
Financial Planning Association
Primary Location
177 E. Colorado Blvd. 2nd Floor Pasadena, CA 91105
Click the 'Book Intro Call' button above to schedule a free discovery call. We'll get to know each other and I'll listen to understand your unique circumstances so we can determine the best way to proceed. I look forward to speaking with you.
Offers Investment Management
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About Mission Street Wealth Planning
Mission Street Wealth helps you build and protect your future with clear, objective planning that keeps confusion away.
✔️ More than 30 years of helping families secure their future.
Since 1989 Mission Street Wealth has been guiding investors with reliable retirement planning. Grounded in academic research and informed by a sense of healthy historical optimism , Mission Street Wealth serves clients by designing strategies built around every need, priority, and dream.
There’s simply too much noise pollution today. Talking heads on TV and Online pundits with time to fill and ratings to chase tell us what they’ve been paid to tell us by large financial institutions. Advisors and salespeople who are supposed to be on their clients’ side are instead too often only interested in their own financial advantage.
You deserve clear, independent advice that you can count on. Mission Street Wealth is here for you, offering complete planning services that cover everything that’s important to you.
✔️ Our only goal? Your success.
Financial advisor in the Greater Los Angeles area based in Pasadena, California.
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