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Donald Ray Haas, ChFC, CLU,
CFP®, RFC, RFG, MSFS
Education
Financial Gerontologist, Widener University 2003
Chartered Financial Consultant, American College 1982
Master of Science in Financial Services, American College 1980
Chartered Life Underwriter, American College 1970
Master of Education, Wayne State University 1956
Bachelor of Music, University of Michigan 1953
Certifications
Certified Financial Planner® Certficant 1995
Licenses
Registered Principal, National Association of
Securities Dealers 1989
Insurance Counselor 1971
Registered Representative (NASD) 1967
Insurance Agent 1956
Registrations
Registered Investment Advisor 1983
Registered Financial Consultant 2002
Registered Financial Gerontologist 2003
Associations
Financial & Estate Planning Council
National Association of Insurance & Financial Advisors
Financial Planning Association
International Association of Registered Financial Consultants
Society of Financial Service Professionals
Bio
He is the author of a client newsletter, Money Monitor
(published monthly) and is the author of two books, Financial
Planning for the Baby Boomer Client and Money
Forever. Mr. Haas was listed as one of the 300 Best
Financial Advisors in America, in Worth magazine.
Mr. Haas served on the National Board of Directors
of the Society of Financial Service Professionals from 1991 to 1993,
and served as the 1985-86 president of the Detroit Chapter. He
currently serves on the Board of Advisors for the American Institute of
Financial Gerontology. He is a 30-year Member of the Million Dollar
Round Table and has been a National Quality Award for 33 years. He has
been an adjunct instructor in Financial Planning at Lawrence
Technological University and served on the practice standards board of
the CFP® Board of Practice Standards.
Don was a speaker at the 1986, 1990, and 2003
Million Dollar Round Table meetings and he has spoken before many NAIFA
Chapters, Society Chapters, Estate Planning Councils and the Financial
Planning Association. He was a speaker at the 1989 and 1998 Society of
Financial Service Professionals (SFSP) Keeping Current clinics. He was
a moderator for the May 1990 and September 1999, and a speaker for the
September 2000, Video Teleconferences. Mr. Haas has also spoken for the
1991, 1992, 1996, 1997, 1999, 2005, and 2007 National Conference of the
Society FSP. He addressed the College for Financial Planning National
Conference in 1999 and was the Keynote speaker for the 1998 and 2002
IARFC Cruise/Conference. Don is the 2001 recipient of the Loren Dunton
Award. Dunton is known as the father of financial planning. He was
inducted into the 'Michigan Insurance Hall of Fame 2002.'
He is a columnist for NAIFA’s Advisor
Today magazine. In 2000, he also produced and presented a
series of regional one-day workshops for the Society FSP on making the
transition to financial planning.
After graduation from the University of Michigan,
he joined the trumpet section of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, a
position he held for twenty years. During most of those years, he
developed his financial planning career and, since retiring from the
DSO in 1973, he has devoted his full time to that area. He is a
resident of Birmingham, Michigan.
Securities are offered through Haas Financial
Products, Inc., Investment Advisory Service through Haas Financial
Services Inc.
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