Alex Manuel Icaza
Financial Advisor
Meet Alex Icaza
Hello! As for a little introduction on myself, I am a Mexican American, raised in the Bay Area and come from a very small immediate family. I definitely did not come from a family who had attained a high level of financial literacy, and was in a position like many people of color to not know how to attain any form of generational wealth. Due to this, I had decided to work in a field focused on helping individuals similar to myself, or more specifically, people of color or first-generation professionals to become more well-rounded with personal finance.
Through my college years at Centre College, I had worked as the director of a non-profit called The After School Program, which was a tutoring and mentoring program for English Language Learners (ELL). Through this work, I had grown to be more interested in social work, and its intersectionality to my own personal interest. This experience as a whole pushed me to follow two of my passions; personal finance, and financial literacy.
Now working as a financial representative with Northwestern Mutual I am able to closely align the two things I am most passionate about and be able to help my community through holistic and comprehensive financial planning.
Lending a hand in my community.
As part of Northwestern Mutual, I'm proud to help accelerate the search for better childhood cancer treatments while supporting families undergoing treatment, and survivors from late effects. Here are some of the organizations we partner with:
Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation for Childhood Cancer (ALSF)
ALSF funds cancer research, raises awareness, and supports the families of children with cancer. Since 2012, Northwestern Mutual, its employees, and financial professionals like me have donated more than $20 million to support ALSF and fund over 400,000 research hours.
Beads of Courage
Beads of Courage is an art-in-medicine program that helps kids with cancer tell their unique treatment story through colorful beads that are symbols of their courage.
How Northwestern Mutual helps you live the life you want.
When people feel better about their money, good things happen—they become more confident and feel more secure. For more than 160 years, Northwestern Mutual has helped people achieve the financial flexibility they need to live more and worry less.
Being a mutual company means Northwestern Mutual reports to its clients, not Wall Street. They don't believe in chasing fads or taking undue risk for short-term gains. Instead, they take a long-term approach—both in the way we help people plan to reach their goals, and in the way they do business. This has served their clients (and mine) well through all kinds of economic ups and downs, including wars, recessions, even the recent pandemic.
It's why I'm happy to be part of a company that's in it for the long-haul and prioritizes clients over profit.
