Ted Feight, CFP® is a fee-only Certified Financial Planner™, NAPFA Registered Financial Advisor, asset, financial, life and wealth manager. Ted is currently the Chair and Past President of the National Association of Personal Financial Advisors (NAPFA) Midwest board of directors and a Director on the National Board of Directors for the National Association of Personal Financial Advisors (NAPFA). He is a past Chairperson and past President of the Financial Planning Association (FPA) of Michigan, and past President of the Michigan Association of Divorce Professionals. Over the last 36 years, Ted has helped hundreds of business owners, individuals, families, retirees, widows, widowers and divorced clients fulfill their dreams and build a better and often new life.
Ted believes that his greatest accomplishments have been helping his clients and friends grow within their families, their jobs and their communities; while helping them use their financial assets to reach their financial goals.
Ted is the owner of Creative Financial Design and a Life Member of the National Registry of Who’s Who in America and the World, in Finance and Industry.
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-B.S. Western Michigan University
-Certified Financial Planner™, College of Financial Planning, Denver, CO, 1989
-NAPFA-Registered Financial Advisor
-Certified Divorce Financial Analyst Quantum Institute for Professional Divorce Planning
-Member, Financial Planning Association
-Past Member Institute of Certified Financial Planners
-Past Member Quantum Institute for Professional Divorce Planning
-Past Member International Association of Divorce Professionals
-Owner Creative Financial Design (A Registered Investment Advisor doing asset management, total financial planning, including divorce planning) |
-Entered financial planning business in July 1973, trained with three companies before starting his own firm in 1980
-Life Member of the National Registry of Who’s Who in America, in Finance, in Industry and the World
-Recipient of hundreds of industrial awards
-Current Member of NAPFA Mid-West Board of Directors
-Past Chairman, 2005 and past President, 2004, of Financial Planning Association of Michigan
-Past Treasurer of Board of Directors of Commemorative Bucks of Michigan
-Past President of Board of Directors for Michigan Association of Divorce Professionals
-Past member of Advisory Council and a six-member Peer Review Board to handle complaints about violations of Code of Ethics for The College for Divorce Specialists
-Past member of Board of Directors for the Western Michigan University Computer Department, Adoption Cradle and South Lansing Holt Rotary
-Ghost writer for other financial planners.
-Featured in articles, as a speaker, on radio and television on four continents. He has been quoted and featured in The Wall Street Journal, Wall Street Journal’s Smartmoney.com, Wall Street Journal’s WSJ Blogs, Business Week, Dow Jones Newsletter, Advisors Perspective, Bloomberg.com, Detroit News, Detroit Free Press, Financial Advisor Magazine, Financial Planning Magazine, IndexUniverse.com, International Business Times, Investment News, Lansing State Journal, Los Angeles Times, Michigan Association of Financial Planners, Mid-Michigan International Association of Financial Planners, Mortgage Guide, Morning Star, Mutual Fund News, National Association of Personal Financial Advisors’ NAPFA Advisor, Peru’s Peruvia News, Pink Magazine, Research Magazine, San Diego Daily Transcript, Seattle Times, SmartMoney.com, Washington Post, WBBM News Radio 780, WLNS TV 6 News, WLAJ 3 News, Yahoo Finance. |
-Married 1969 to Kathleen; four sons: Brian, Jay, Richard and James; with six grandchildren: Cherie Ann, Chad, Logan, Morgan, Tyler and Isabella.
-Military service from 1967 to 1968, served in the 101st Airborne in Vietnam, he was awarded The Combat Infantry Badge, two Bronze Stars, The Air Medal, The Army Commendation Medal, a Presidential Unit Citation, The Parachutist Badge, National Defense Service Medal, Vietnam Service Medal and Vietnam Campaign Medal W/Device.
-Hobbies: Cars, computers, golf, hunting, magic, martial arts, travel, powerlifting. In Powerlifting currently: 13 World Championships – 14 National Championships – 18 World Records in the USAPL, AAPF, APF, AWPC, SPF and WABDL.
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