Kurt L. Kidder
Financial Representative|J.D.
Professional
Kurt Kidder is one of the founding members of the Estate Strategies Group. He has been involved with estate and business planning since 1986.
Kurt provides expert advice to high net worth individuals, families and business owners in estate planning and business succession strategies. Kurt also assists both private and public companies in designing benefits for their highly compensated key executives.
His specialties include estate planning, business succession strategies, executive benefits and comprehensive wealth planning.
Kurt was associated with the firm of Ernst & Young from 1986-1990. While there he provided estate and income tax planning advice to closely held business owners and executives of large public corporations.
Kurt is a featured speaker to professional organizations on these topics, as well as a Continuing Legal Education lecturer to attorneys in both Illinois and New York.
Education & Degrees
- University of Connecticut 1983- Accounting, Cum Laude
- John Marshall Law School 1986- Juris Doctor
Professional Certifications/Designations
- Certified Financial Planner™ (CFP®)
- Chartered Financial Consultant (ChFC®)
Professional Affiliations
- Chicago Estate Planning Council
- National Committee on Planned Giving
- Association of Advanced Life Underwriters
- National Association of Estate Planners and Councils
Kurt and his wife, Emman, reside in Chicago, Illinois.
Years of Experience
Representing Northwestern Mutual since 1990.
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.
CARC
Kurt was a Board Member with Envision, formerly CARC (Chicago Association for Retarded Citizens), for over 20 years having served as Board President for 3 of those years. Envision provides quality services to people with developmental disabilities and other special needs that promote choice, independence and community integration. Kurt has been recognized for his service to Envision by Northwestern Mutual as a three time Community Service Award Winner.
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.
