Ben Rasanen
Growth and Development Director|CFP®, CLU®
Personal
Ben began his career as an advisor in 2007 in Fredericksburg, Virginia. After three years, he moved back to Minnesota to join Northwestern Mutual, Twin Cities. He currently resides in Waconia, Minnesota with his wife of fourteen years, Laura, their three children Oliver, Rio and Eleanor, and their Labradoodle, Haddie.
In his free time, Ben enjoys attending sporting events such as Twins and Vikings games, spending time with extended family, taking his children to breakfast every Wednesday before school, attending the children's sporting activities, traveling and volunteering with his church.
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.

Waconia Community Education
Waconia Community Education offers enrichment, recreational, academic, and family support and service activities to residents of all ages of Waconia and surrounding areas. Ben has volunteered his time as a coach for many of their sports programs such as soccer, basketball and football where he is able to make a positive impact on not only his own children, but all of the children participating.
Westwood Community Church
Located in Chanhassen, Minnesota, Westwood Community Church is a faith-focused community that experiences the love of Christ together and shares that love with others in the greater community and throughout the world. Along with his family, Ben regularly attends and actively participates in being an active member of his church.
Harbor Light Center
The Harbor Light Center, located in Minneapolis, is a safe place for people to find stability and healing within their lives. As Minnesota's largest homeless adult outreach facility, the center offers a vast range of basic needs to anyone without discrimination. Ben enjoys volunteering his time to helping those in need whenever he has the opportunity.
Feed My Starving Children
Feed My Starving Children is a Christian, nonprofit organization dedicated to ending hunger across the globe. The organization has various locations across the country where you volunteer to pack nutritious meals for children around the world. Ben enjoys volunteering with both Northwestern Mutual colleagues and his own family to hand-pack meals which are then sent to FMSC food partners around the world to feed children and save lives.
Here are my areas of expertise
Financial Planning
Insurance Protection Strategies
Life Insurance Strategies
Retirement Planning & Income Strategies
Education Planning & Funding
Disability Planning
Multigenerational Planning
Estate Planning
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.
