Five Star award winner Bryan Kaarlsen, CFP® ChFC® CLU® RHU® REBC®

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Bryan Kaarlsen, CFP^® ChFC^® CLU^® RHU^® REBC^®

President & Chief Wealth Manager

Texas Retirement Headquarters

401 Isom Rd Suite 205

San Antonio, TX 78216

Office: 210-490-7707

bryan@txretirehq.com
www.txretirehq.com

Professional Approach

Bryan Kaarlsen, CFP®, CLU®, ChFC®, REBC®, RHU®

President & Chief Wealth Manager

Bryan specializes in listening to his clients. This allows him to create custom financial plans based on each individual's unique priorities, needs and goals. As one of the most credentialed and experienced advisers in San Antonio, Bryan can be trusted to navigate the path to your financial future.

At Texas Retirement Headquarters we believe each person has their own unique needs and goals, and we focus on aligning our strategies to your priorities on an individual basis. We do not subscribe to the "One Size Fits All" theory of financial planning. We work as fiduciaries with our clients and in this fiduciary relationship, we always:

Avoid any conflicts of interest
Act in the interest of our client rather than in our own interest
Provide & submit to oversight to assure all business is transacted legally
Make decisions for the purpose of protecting our client's assets

At Texas Retirement Headquarters we never act as custodians of client assets. Instead, we use many of the largest and most prestigious financial service companies and custodians in the world to hold our client's assets.

Additionally, we understand how important it is for our clients that we keep abreast of the ever changing, dynamic world of financial services, so we go beyond the required continuing education.

Every staff member at Texas Retirement Headquarters knows and embraces the fact that OUR CLIENTS COME FIRST! Therefore, we strive to make you feel like family while providing you with outstanding customer service.

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This award was issued on 07/01/2025 by Five Star Professional (FSP) for the time period 10/30/2024 through 05/01/2025. Fee paid for use of marketing materials. Self-completed questionnaire was used for rating. This rating is not related to the quality of the investment advice and based solely on the disclosed criteria. 1855 Greater Texas-area wealth managers were considered for the award; 81 (4 % of candidates) were named 2025 Five Star Wealth Managers. The following prior year statistics use this format: YEAR: # Considered, # Winners, % of candidates, Issued Date, Research Period. 2024: 1,907, 94, 5%, 7/1/24, 10/10/23 - 4/30/24; 2023: 2,757, 90, 3.3%, 7/1/23, 10/10/22 - 5/5/23; 2022: 2,649, 82, 3%.

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Wealth managers do not pay a fee to be considered or placed on the final list of Five Star Wealth Managers. Award winners may pay for marketing tools, including this advertisement. The award is based on 10 objective criteria. Eligibility criteria – required: 1. Credentialed as a registered investment adviser or a registered investment adviser representative; 2. Actively licensed as a registered investment adviser or as a principal of a registered investment adviser firm for a minimum of 5 years; 3. Favorable regulatory and complaint history review (As defined by FSP, the wealth manager has not; A. Been subject to a regulatory action that resulted in a license being suspended or revoked, or payment of a fine; B. Had more than a total of three settled or pending complaints filed against them and/or a total of five settled, pending, dismissed or denied complaints with any regulatory authority or FSP’s consumer complaint process. Unfavorable feedback may have been discovered through a check of complaints registered with a regulatory authority or complaints registered through FSP’s consumer complaint process; feedback may not be representative of any one client’s experience; C. Individually contributed to a financial settlement of a customer complaint; D. Filed for personal bankruptcy within the past 11 years; E. Been terminated from a financial services firm within the past 11 years; F. Been convicted of a felony); 4. Fulfilled their firm review based on internal standards; 5. Accepting new clients. Evaluation criteria – considered: 6. One-year client retention rate; 7. Five-year client retention rate; 8. Non-institutional discretionary and/or non-discretionary client assets administered; 9. Number of client households served; 10. Education and professional designations. FSP does not evaluate quality of services provided to clients. The award is not indicative of the wealth manager’s future performance. Wealth managers may or may not use discretion in their practice and therefore may not manage their clients’ assets. The inclusion of a wealth manager on the Five Star Wealth Manager list should not be construed as an endorsement of the wealth manager by FSP or this publication. Working with a Five Star Wealth Manager or any wealth manager is no guarantee as to future investment success, nor is there any guarantee that the selected wealth managers will be awarded this accomplishment by FSP in the future.