John Ripley, CF2

About John Ripley

As professionals, we share a common passion for helping individuals and families plan for a secure financial future. Our highest priority is to create personalized solutions that provide our clients with predictable, reliable, and sustainable income that is secure and durable throughout our clients’ entire lifetimes. Influenced by leading experts and the industry’s most educated minds, we’re determined to serve others to the highest fiduciary standards, consistently placing our client’s best interests ahead of our own.
Our team has been serving clients for several decades combined, and we are honored to experience the joy of helping people improve their lives. We have a standard of care, excellence, and kindness that our entire team lives by every day. As a fiduciary firm that continues to grow, each with specialties to serve clients across the United States and abroad, we champion the message that Income Is The Outcome That Matters Most In Retirement.
John has been serving clients in the financial services arena since 2003, when he launched a mortgage company in Orlando, Florida. He hosted a financial radio program, “Your Home, Your Money,” heard across Florida for many years. Now, as a nationally recognized and sought-after seminar speaker, John shares a message of hope in a fun and compelling way. He also serves our team as the principal communicator at our Retirement Income Workshops held across the U.S., where we teach business owners and attendees from all sectors how to create streams of predictable and reliable lifetime income.
John served as a United States Marine Officer and is honored to be an Investment Advisor Representative at Smarter Retirement Solutions leading our team of advisors across the country. As our company grows to meet the increased demand for quality and thoughtful retirement advice, John provides oversight of our expansion both domestically and internationally. A proud sponsor of federal retirement workshops around the U.S., John empowers federal employees to maximize their benefits and live their retirement dreams. John appears in this year’s “Retirement Planning” edition of Kiplinger’s Magazine and can be seen on ABC, CBS, NBC and FOX on the “Retire Happy Hour” TV program.”