Rick Kahler is the President of Kahler Financial Group, an advice and fee-only financial planning firm specializing in investment advisory, asset protection, as well as a financial therapy firm that aims to facilitate the transformation of people’s financial and emotional well-being. Rick is a pioneer in integrating financial planning and psychology. BusinessWeek named him one of the top 15 most experienced financial planners in the nation and in 2017 Investopedia.com named him one of the top 100 most influential planners in the U.S. He is a past chairman of the South Dakota Investment Council, managing $6 billion, recognized as a Distinguished Adjunct Professor at Golden Gate University, a past winner of the Financial Planning Association’s Financial Frontiers Awards, and a Past-President of the Financial Therapy Association.
Rick’s work and research has been featured or cited in scores of periodicals and books, including ABC News, NBC, CNBC, Fox Business, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, USA Today, Money, Time, Forbes. He has written a weekly column on personal finance for 27 years that appears in several South Dakota newspapers. He is a co-author of four revolutionary books on money, financial planning, and therapy: Conscious Finance (FoxCraft 2007), The Financial Wisdom of Ebenezer Scrooge (HCI 2006) Wired For Wealth (HCI 2009), and Facilitating Financial Health (NUCO 2016).