Fee-only financial advisors,
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All advisors
Browse every canonical advisor record in the graph.
All firms
Fee-only RIAs, by fee model, location, and specialty.
Specialties
17 taxonomies: from equity comp to divorce planning.
Locations
US and Canada — region and metro canonical pages.
Lists
Structured, citation-backed list artifacts from stored query recipes.
Guides
Editorial guides on choosing an advisor, specialty depth, and the graph.
Featured specialties
- Equity compensation RSUs, ISOs, NSOs, ESPP, 83(b), and concentrated stock strategy.
- Crypto & digital assets Tax, custody, and planning for advisors who actually understand the space.
- Cross-border (US / Canada) Dual-citizen, moving, or working across the US–Canada border.
- Physicians & residents The long training runway, malpractice, PSLF, and late-career catchup.
- Founders (pre-exit) Pre-IPO and M&A planning for founders and early employees.
- Flat-fee planning Comprehensive planning at a fixed, annual price.
- Retirement planning Income, withdrawal strategy, Social Security, and sequence risk.
- Retirement with concentrated positions Drawing down income when most of your net worth is one stock.
Featured lists
- Fee-only advisors in Ontario Ontario-based and Ontario-serving fee-only advisors, including dedicated cross-border practitioners. 114 advisors
- Fee-only advisors for high earners Fee-only advisors whose canonical records indicate dedicated work with high-earning households on tax-aware planning, equity-comp coordination, and long-horizon wealth-building. 109 advisors
- Retirement planning specialists Fee-only advisors whose canonical record centers on comprehensive retirement planning — accumulation, drawdown, Social Security, and Medicare. 109 advisors
- Fee-only advisors for founders Founder-specialty, fee-only advisors across the US and Canada — pre-exit planning, equity structure, and post-liquidity integration. 107 advisors
- Fee-only advisors for small business owners Advisors who serve owner-operators on entity structure, owner-comp strategy, retirement-plan sponsorship, and succession planning. 107 advisors
- Fee-only advisors for pre-retirees Fee-only advisors specializing in the five-to-ten-year runway before retirement — drawdown modeling, Roth conversion windows, pre-Medicare bridging. 106 advisors
- Fee-only advisors for early-career professionals Advisors who actively serve early-career professionals — building foundations under significant debt, equity-comp basics, and the first decade of household compounding. 95 advisors
- Fee-only advisors for executives Fee-only advisors who specialize in executive compensation — base, bonus, RSUs, deferred comp, 10b5-1 plans, and severance. 93 advisors
Locations
United States
- Alabama — 6 metros tracked
- Alaska — 2 metros tracked
- Arizona — 6 metros tracked
- Arkansas — 4 metros tracked
- California — 3 metros tracked
- Colorado — 2 metros tracked
- Connecticut — 6 metros tracked
- Delaware — 5 metros tracked
Canada
- Alberta — 2 metros tracked
- British Columbia — 1 metros tracked
- Manitoba — 2 metros tracked
- Newfoundland and Labrador — 1 metros tracked
- Nova Scotia — 2 metros tracked
- Ontario — 2 metros tracked
- Quebec — 1 metros tracked
- Saskatchewan — 2 metros tracked
- Yukon — 1 metros tracked
Guides
- How to choose a fee-only financial advisor A practical guide to evaluating fee-only advisors — what to verify, what to ask, and how to tell a specialty claim from a marketing claim.
- What 'crypto expertise' should actually mean in a financial advisor Most advisors now reference crypto somewhere on their site. Very few have working depth. Here's what to look for — and what to discount.
- Cross-border advisor discovery: how it differs between Canada and the US Finding a cross-border advisor looks different on either side of the border. A short guide to what's actually different and what to look for.
About the data
Wellspent's discovery layer publishes canonical records for fee-only financial advisors in the US and Canada. Every record cites its sources. Ordering on public surfaces reflects fit to the query, not paid priority. See the full methodology and data model for the machine-readable definition.
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