Integrated Wealth Planning and Management
Advanced Financial Strategies is a boutique integrated wealth planning and management firm for a select group of individuals and families. We bring simplicity to the complex task of coordinating your core values, life vision and financial goals into a customized, comprehensive, and actionable plan. We help guide you through the maze of life.
Advanced Financial Strategies
As an independent, fee-based advisor, Advanced Financial Strategies views every client relationship as a partnership. Our team includes: CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ professionals, Accredited Estate Planner® professionals, Accredited Tax Advisor® professionals, Enrolled Agents, insurance professionals, and real estate professionals. We are objective, transparent, and forward thinking as we assist you in creating and growing wealth, protecting and preserving capital, and arranging your financial life to minimize your taxes. Our clients include highly compensated executives, affluent business owners, as well as high net worth individuals and families. The guiding principle at Advanced Financial Strategies is, for whatever a person sows, this they will also reap. We are committed to being a good steward of your family’s wealth.
Comprehensive, Customized Advice
Our mission is to understand your needs, provide you with the most practical and comprehensive advice, render the highest level of service to you with integrity, and assist you in making your financial goals and life vision a reality.
Objective and Independent
We are not owned by an investment or commercial bank. This enables us to maintain absolute objectivity by not offering any proprietary products or affiliation with third-party products. We are not obligated to anyone except our clients and tailor our advice to your unique situation without any bias.
Advisor Experience
Our founder has been in the financial services business since 1986, and each of our advisors have over 25 years of industry experience. Our combined years of experience enables us to help our clients navigate a prudent path through their journey in life. We have committed to a client-centric advisory firm that values teamwork and collaborates with tax and legal counsel to meet our clients’ needs.
Integrated Services
Financial Planning
Financial planning is the process of determining whether and how an individual can meet life goals through the proper management of financial resources. This is an ongoing process to help make sensible decisions about money that are consistent with our client’s core values and enable them to achieve their financial goals and objectives in life.
Business Planning
We take an integrated approach to our client’s business vision by collaborating with them, as well as with their legal, tax, and other professional counsel, to translate that vision into a well-coordinated, actionable plan to help their business succeed.
Estate Planning
Estate planning is a process that allows an individual to specify who will manage their estate, who receives their money, how they receive it, and when they receive it. Failure to plan ahead would result in a default to state law in determining the ultimate disposition of an estate. We work with our clients, their families, and collaborate with their legal and tax counsel, to develop a comprehensive framework that will ease the estate planning process and make sure their wishes are carried out.
Asset Management
Investing is the process of deploying capital through a variety of vehicles that convert a client’s hard-earned money into financial independence. We consult with each client on an initial and ongoing basis to determine their risk tolerance, investment time horizon, liquidity constraints and other factors relevant to the management of their portfolio(s). We customize our investment management services to meet their needs and seek to ensure that their portfolio(s) are managed in a manner aligned with their goals and objectives.
Risk Management and Insurance Services
Our risk management and insurance services protect your assets by identifying, reducing and mitigating risk. We facilitate the risk transfer process by providing insurance coverage to alleviate financial loss from unexpected events that can jeopardize your financial security and way of life. However, insurance coverage is a balancing process of needs relative to cost. We review each client’s coverage needs and collaborate with other professional counsel to determine if there are any insurance gaps or unnecessary coverage. We are here to guide our clients through the decision-making process of risk management and strive to help them protect all they have worked hard to build.
Our Management Team
Pierre N. Ngo, CFP®, AEP®, ATA®, EA
President & Founder
Pierre is the founder of Advanced Financial Strategies, Inc. Mr. Ngo is primarily responsible for the firm’s overall practice and all aspects of AFS Investment Management and Research. His multidisciplinary approach and understanding of interrelationships among components that build a client’s net worth help him develop strategies that add value to the client’s overall financial position.
He works in a team approach with the client’s attorneys, accountants, and other professional advisors to design and implement plans that will best meet the client’s needs and objectives. Mr. Ngo works with the high-net-worth client, using sophisticated financial planning, estate planning, tax planning, and business planning strategies.
Pierre Ngo is the President and Chief Compliance Officer of AFS, and is a CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ practitioner, an Accredited Estate Planner, an Accredited Tax Advisor, and an Enrolled Agent with the IRS. Mr. Ngo is a graduate of the College for Financial Planning and as well as the University of California, Irvine Extension. He received his Personal Financial Planner designation from the University of California, Irvine Extension and he received his CFP® certification from Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards Inc. He obtained his Certified Fund Specialist certification from the Institute of Business & Finance, his Accredited Tax Advisor certification from the Accreditation Council for Accountancy & Taxation, Inc., and his Accredited Estate Planner accreditation from the National Association of Estate Planners & Councils. Mr. Ngo is a licensed Insurance and Real Estate Broker, and, as an individual, is a registered representative with Capital Synergy Partners a FINRA member broker. Mr. Ngo is also a member of the Financial Planning Association, the National Association of Estate Planners & Councils, and the Orange Coast Estate Planning Council. Mr. Ngo was the sole proprietor of Advanced Financial Strategies until January 1997, when he incorporated AFS. Mr. Ngo has held his current positions with AFS since January 1997.
Jonathon V. Nguyen, CFP®, AEP®, CMFC®
Senior Wealth Advisor
Jonathon is responsible for preparing comprehensive financial and estate plans for clients and works on all aspects of AFS Investment Management and Research. He also monitors plans for revision and modifications. He works in a team approach with the client’s attorneys, accountants, and other professional advisors to design and implement plans that will best meet the client’s needs and objectives.
Jonathon V. Nguyen is a CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ practitioner since 2002, an Accredited Estate Planner, a CHARTERED MUTUAL FUND COUNSELOR ℠ designee, and an Insurance and Real Estate Licensee. Mr. Nguyen is a graduate of the College for Financial Planning and California State University, Long Beach with a Bachelor’s degree in Finance. Mr. Nguyen received his CFP® certification from Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards Inc., received his CHARTERED MUTUAL FUND COUNSELOR℠ designation from the College for Financial Planning, he received his Personal Financial Planner certification from the University of California, Irvine Extension, and his Accredited Estate Planner accreditation from the National Association of Estate Planners & Councils. He is also a member of the Orange Coast Estate Planning Council, and the National Association of Estate Planners & Councils. AFS has employed Mr. Nguyen since 1993.
Patricia Vasquez, CFP®, AEP®, CMFC®
Senior Wealth Advisor and Operations Manager
Patricia oversees our office support team. She is also responsible for preparing comprehensive financial and estate plans for clients. She also works on all aspects of AFS investment management and research. She assists our business clients in structuring their group insurance and benefits for their companies. She monitors plans and collaborates with our clients on revisions and modifications. She works in a team approach with the clients’ attorneys, accountants, and other professional advisors to design and implement plans that will best meet the clients’ needs and objectives. Patricia Vasquez is a graduate of the College for Financial Planning and the University of California, Irvine with a designation of Personal Financial Planner. She is a CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ practitioner since 2006. She has been granted an Accredited Estate Planner designation by the National Associations of Estate Planners & Councils. She is also a CHARTERED MUTUAL FUND COUNSELOR℠ designee and licensed in insurance. She is a member of the Orange County Estate Planning Council and has been with the firm since 1994.
Colette Sadlier, MBA, CIMA®
Portfolio Strategist
Colette Sadlier is a Portfolio Strategist at Advanced Financial Strategies, where she supports the firm’s investment strategy through comprehensive research and portfolio management. She conducts due diligence across a broad range of investment vehicles, including mutual funds, ETFs, and private placements, applying macroeconomic, cyclical, fundamental, and technical analysis to inform tactical asset allocation decisions. Ms. Sadlier contributes to the firm’s investment commentary and asset allocation updates and supports portfolio rebalancing, trade execution, and private placement subscriptions, ensuring accurate and efficient implementation of investment decisions.
She holds the Certified Investment Management Analyst® (CIMA®) designation, administered by the Investments & Wealth Institute (IWI), and completed the program through the Yale School of Management. She also holds the Series 65 license. She also serves on the Associate Board of Project Youth OCBF, a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping at-risk youth in Orange County succeed in school and lead healthy, drug-free lives.
Ms. Sadlier graduated cum laude from Chapman University with a double major in Business Administration (Marketing emphasis) and Broadcast Journalism and Documentary. She later earned her Master of Business Administration (MBA) with a concentration in Finance from Pepperdine University. Ms. Sadlier has been with the firm since 2021.
