Ric Edelman is one of the nation’s most acclaimed financial advisors. He and his firm have won more than 60 financial, business, community and philanthropic awards, and his commitment to teaching consumers about personal finance has established him as one of the most popular financial professionals in America.

Barron’s has twice (2004 and 2005) ranked Ric among America’s 100 top financial advisors. In 2004, Ric was inducted into the Financial Advisor Hall of Fame, ranked the #1 advisor in the nation by Research Magazine for his focus on the individual client and ranked #42 on Registered Rep magazine’s list of “America’s Top 50 Advisors”.1 Earlier in his career, Ric has earned three Awards of Excellence by Royal Alliance Associates,2 been named Ace Advisor of the Year by Ticker Magazine, named Financial Planner of the Year three times by World Invest Corporation, and named one of the D.C. area’s top financial professionals by Washingtonian magazine.

Ric was named Entrepreneur of the Year for Washington, D.C. by Ernst and Young in 2001. Edelman Financial Services LLC was named Business of the Year by the Fairfax, Va. Chamber of Commerce in 1994, and earned the Blue Chip Enterprise Award from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in 2000. Inc. magazine three times named the firm the fastest-growing privately-held financial planning firm in the country,3 and in 2004, Bloomberg Wealth Manager ranked EFS among the largest independent financial planning and investment management firms in the nation,4 with $2.7 billion in client assets under management.

Ric Edelman is a #1 New York Times bestselling author. His five books on personal finance include Ordinary People, Extraordinary Wealth, The New Rules of Money, Discover the Wealth Within You, What You Need to Do Now, and the personal finance classic, The Truth About Money, which was named Book of the Year by Small Press magazine. Collectively, his books have sold more than one million copies, been translated into several languages, and have educated countless people worldwide.

Winner of the A.I.R. Award for Best Talk Show Host in 1993, Ric continues to host weekly radio and television shows in Washington, D.C. He is a nationally syndicated newspaper columnist, publishes a monthly newsletter and has built one of the most comprehensive free educational resources on personal finance online at RicEdelman.com. He also is the author of a variety of video and audio educational systems that help people achieve their financial goals.

For nine years, Ric taught personal finance at Georgetown University. He is a state- and AICPA-approved instructor for continuing professional education. He also is a member of the NASD Board of Arbitrators.

Ric has been featured in numerous articles, has appeared on hundreds of radio stations and every major television network, and has been quoted by dozens of newspapers and magazines. He has testified before Congress and was a delegate to the 1998, 2002 and 2006 National Summits on Retirement Savings. Ric is a sought-after speaker, widely acknowledged as one of the most entertaining and informative experts in his field.

Ric received an honorary doctorate from Rowan University and in 2002, the university named the school’s new planetarium “The Ric and Jean Edelman Planetarium” in their honor. In 2003, Ric was named to the Honorable Order of the Kentucky Colonels.

Ric is chairman of the board of the United Way of the National Capital Area, and also serves on the board of The Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Washington, D.C., and its Foundation. Ric is a full partner of the American Savings Education Council and the Jump$tart Coalition for Personal Financial Literacy. He is a former board member of Junior Achievement of the National Capital Area and served for three years on the Grants Committee of the Foundation for Financial Planning, where he remains a major donor. Ric and Jean Edelman founded the Edelman Nursing Career Development Center at INOVA Hospital Foundation and the Edelman Planetarium at Rowan University. They also actively support HEROES Inc., Make-a-Wish Foundation, The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, and many other charities.

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