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Hey there, I'm Derek Brawner, a financial advisor with a passion for helping clients achieve their financial goals. With extensive experience in wealth management and risk protection, I specialize in providing personalized financial strategies tailored to my clients' unique needs.

Together with my wife Shelby, we're dedicated to helping individuals and families navigate their financial futures with confidence and clarity.

I address the needs of farming, agribusiness, and rural communities. Our firm is committed to fostering long-term relationships built on trust, integrity, and a shared commitment to financial success.

If you're seeking personalized financial guidance tailored to your specific goals and aspirations, I'd love to chat. Let's connect and explore how we can work together to create a brighter financial future for you and your loved ones.

Take Control of Your Finances

Given my background and passions, I have specialized in helping individuals reach their financial goals by offering a free, personalized, comprehensive financial plan that allows you to:

  • Leverage our nationally recognized proprietary planning software paired with our team of professional analysts to ensure you are saving adequately towards major purchases and retirement
  • Know that your family is taken care of if they were to lose you
  • Leave a legacy to those you care about

Taking care of these pillars of personal finance helps my clients take control of their finances and live comfortably knowing their financial goals are within reach and their families are taken care of if something should happen to them.

Everyone has different perspectives and goals for life. There isn’t a cookie-cutter approach to financial planning so let me provide you with your free, personalized plan to ensure you are taking the appropriate steps to achieving your financial goals.

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.

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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.

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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.

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