Personal
I enjoy spending time with family and friends, especially taking nature walks or trips to the park with my daughter and watching her explore the world around her.
Professional
Michael has been in the financial services industry for over 20 years and holds a FINRA Series 6 & 63 license, as well as Life, Accident, and Health Insurance licenses.
He started his career in his father’s insurance agency, J.F. Canning & Associates. He spent 13 years selling life, health, disability, property, casualty insurance, and fixed annuities with their firm. He transitioned into the securities industry in 2015 as an internal wholesaler on the annuity sales desk with Prudential.
Michael decided to make the transition to Northwestern Mutual to grow a balanced practice in the Connecticut area. Now, Michael is able to leverage his skills and knowledge of insurance coupled with his securities licenses to create tailored financial strategies for his clients.
He works with individuals, families, and business owners utilizing an integrated comprehensive approach to planning. Each client is unique and Michael believes that the education he provides allows his clients to pass good habits down from generation to generation. A process-driven person, Michael teaches his clients a strategy during the wealth accumulation and distribution phases of a financial life cycle. Protecting for today, tomorrow, and beyond their time.
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
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.
