Christopher W Brown
Wealth Management Advisor|ChFC®, CLU®, RICP®
My Mission
My mission is to help my clients attain financial security for their families and businesses. Because you cannot predict the future, I will help you prepare for the best- and worst-case scenarios and create a long-term relationship based on quality service and integrity.
Personal
Chris resides in Canton, Ohio with his wife, Liz, and two daughters, Amelia and Savannah. He enjoys golfing, reading, attending sporting events, and boating with his family in his spare time.
Chris is a board member of Akron Children's Hospital's Emerging Leaders board where he serves as an advocate and raises funds for the hospital.
Professional Designations
Chris Brown has earned several professional designations including:
The Chartered Financial Consultant (ChFC) program provides the most current and comprehensive financial planning education by combining the key financial planning fundamentals, with practical applications to put those theories to work. With content in the curriculum that addresses topics such as: behavioral finance, special needs planning, small business planning, financial planning for clients in the LGBT community, financial planning for divorce complexities and more, ChFC® designees are trained to masterfully handle a wide variety of modern financial topics.
The Chartered Life Underwriter (CLU) is the premier designation for insurance professionals. Launched in 1927, the Chartered Life Underwriter (CLU®) is the insurance profession's oldest standard of excellence. Today, it continues to be the credential for practitioners who desire to provide their clients with the security of life insurance and risk management. Since its inception, tens of thousands of financial services professionals have obtained this prestigious designation. With particular emphasis placed on ethics and commitment to clients, the CLU® has earned a distinguished reputation backed by security and stewardship.
The Retirement Income Certified Professional® (RICP®) A properly planned retirement can be the difference between years of hardship and years of relaxation. As a retirement income planner, it’s my responsibility to provide my clients with the guidance needed to make fruitful decisions that can support you and your families in the long run.
Offered exclusively through The American College, the RICP® designation involves completing three in-depth courses covering the full retirement planning process.
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.
Here are my areas of expertise
Retirement Planning & Income Strategies
Financial Planning
Estate Planning
Multigenerational Planning
Insurance Protection Strategies
Education Planning & Funding
Wealth Management
Charitable 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.
