Michael Rossi, CFA, CFP®

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Intelligent Capitalworks Michael Rossi, CFA, CFP®
Scottsdale, AZ

Serving Clients Nationwide

Fiduciary Wealth Management. Become a Better CEO of Your Wealth. We can help.

Areas of Focus

  • Budgeting
  • Exit Planning
  • Financial Life Planning
  • High Net Worth
  • Inherited Wealth
  • Investment Management
  • Multi-Generational Wealth
  • Owning a Business
  • Retirement Planning
  • Special Needs Planning
  • Taxes

About Michael Rossi, CFA, CFP®

Michael Rossi provides wealth management and planning advice and counsel to all the firm’s clients and develops all client retirement planning, investment management and estate planning analytics and strategies. He manages the firm’s equity investment research, equity dividend growth strategy, portfolio performance analytics and manages all client individual equity portfolios. He serves on the wealth management team for all client engagements and is a member of the firm’s Operating, Investment Management and Risk Committees.

Michael holds multiple postgraduate degrees and is board-certified with professional certificates in investment management, financial planning, estate planning, trust advisory and fiduciary services.

Michael joined the firm in 2021 after completing an undergraduate degree in chemical engineering with a minor in business and two summer internships with British Petroleum, one in Prudoe Bay, Alaska and the other in Chicago. While completing his undergraduate degree, he also lived in Seoul, Korea for two years, becoming fluent in Korean.

Michael is a member of the CFA Institute, National Association of Personal Financial Advisors, the Financial Planning Association, the Academy of Special Needs Planners and the Central Arizona Estate Planning Council and is FINRA Series 65 licensed.

Michael serves on the Board of Directors for Ronald McDonald House Charities® of Central and Northern Arizona, a residential hospitality housing providing a “home-away-from-home” for families traveling to the Valley for medical care for their children.

Michael lives in the Valley with his wife raising their family where he and his wife are active in their church.

“While I enjoyed the analytical rigor of my undergraduate degree in chemical engineering, I truly enjoy the opportunities to connect and integrate world events with the capital markets and the goals people have for their financial lives much more. It is very gratifying for me to help our clients become and remain financially independent.” - Michael Rossi

Professional Designations

  • Accredited Investment Fiduciary (AIF)
  • CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER ®
  • Certified Investment Management Analyst (CIMA)
  • Certified Trust and Fiduciary Advisor (CTFA)
  • Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA)
  • Chartered Financial Consultant (ChFC)

Affiliations

  • Academy of Special Needs Planners (ASNP)
  • CFA Institute
  • Financial Planning Association
  • National Association of Personal Financial Advisors

Primary Location

16427 N Scottsdale Rd, Suite 350 Scottsdale, AZ 85254

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Meeting Options

  • Video Conference
  • In-Person
  • Phone

Compensation Methods

  • Fee Only
  • Percentage of Assets Managed

What to expect in the first meeting

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Offers Investment Management

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About Intelligent Capitalworks

Intelligent Capitalworks is a premier investment management and wealth management services firm dedicated to serving a select number of families and individuals with advanced full-service wealth management needs. We are an independent, 100% employee-owned firm.

Our Mission: Create Value

Our mission is to create value for you by helping you create the plans to protect, conserve, grow, and transfer your family and individual wealth and the disciplined investment and wealth management strategies to support your plans. We dedicate our actions and resources to working on the front lines every day helping you manage your wealth and the related processes and tasks that help you stay the course.

Our Most Important Rankings

It’s not about the firm and how big it is. It’s about long-term client success. One client at a time.

Many large investment and advisory firms lead with and promote the billions of assets they have under management as a core strength to close new business and drive the growth and value of their firms.

We don’t share that obsession.

We designed and built Intelligent Capitalworks to cultivate core professional advisor strengths to better serve families and individuals and help them accomplish more. We are committed to better, deeper, more focused and more present relationships.

As of January 31, 2025, our average client tenure is 16+ years, and we have worked for over 25 years for 34% of our clients, including relationships established prior to the formation of Intelligent Capitalworks in 2005.

What We Do

▪️ We position you as the CEO of your wealth. It’s your wealth, so we position you as the highest-ranking member of your wealth management team, responsible for setting the agenda and delegating responsibilities to C-Suite professionals. The best CEOs recruit and hire proven, accomplished C-Suite professionals.

▪️ Our C-Suite professionals join your team. We are professionals whose titles begin with C, meaning the “chiefs” who get things done. This is the group of people with the most important roles to help you as CEO. We have decades of deep experience advising wealthy families with complex financial needs.

▪️ Together, we focus on your desired results. We help you get your capital working intelligently for you.

What Distinguishes Us

We do the work.

Spend a short time on our website and this will become apparent. This is what doing wealth management looks like. There’s a big difference between saying and doing. Ask yourself, are my advisors really doing this for me? If they are, you’d know it.

We built our firm to be able to provide a select number of families and individuals with a dedicated wealth management team with the intellectual capital, resources and capabilities to help them more successfully manage many disciplines and dimensions of their wealth.

Education

Northern Arizona University-The W. A. Franke College of Business, Bachelor of Science in Business Administration

Languages

  • English
  • Korean

Hobbies and Interests

  • Church
  • Family

Who We Serve

  • Attorneys
  • Baby Boomers
  • Business Owners
  • Corporate Executives
  • Dentists
  • Dual Income Family
  • Engineers
  • Entrepreneurs
  • Families
  • Gen X
  • Individuals
  • Intergenerational Families
  • Living in Retirement
  • Physicians
  • Private Foundations & Organizations
  • Special Needs
  • Veterans

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