Dave Tate
ChFC®, CLU®
EP Wealth Advisors
Vice President
Dave Tate
ChFC®, CLU®
EP Wealth Advisors
Vice President
As a fee-only financial planner, my focus is to offer unbiased financial advice to help you achieve your life goals. - Dave Tate, ChFC®, CLU®
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Dave Tate is a Salt Lake City, UT fee-only financial planner. EP Wealth Advisors provides comprehensive financial planning, tax planning, and investment management to help individuals, couples, families and small businesses organize, grow and protect their assets through life’s transitions. As a fee-only, fiduciary, and independent financial advisor, Dave Tate is never paid a commission of any kind, and has a legal obligation to provide unbiased and trustworthy financial advice.
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Dave Tate, Vice President at EP Wealth Advisors, has over 25 years of experience in the financial industry. Dave knows the right questions to ask, how to pinpoint the relevant decisions, and how to lay out a financial plan in a simple and meaningful way. Dave considers listening to be one of his best skills. With his wife Julie and seven children (including triplet girls!), he has had plenty of practice. Dave especially values EP Wealth Advisors’ fiduciary status, as listening to—and being responsible for—his clients’ objectives and uniquely personal situations is essential to creating a successful financial plan. He also enjoys the outdoors, flyfishing, golf, playing the guitar and singing, and making quality memories with his family.
EP Wealth Advisors is a fee-only registered investment advisory and financial planning firm headquartered in Torrance, California. EP Wealth manages over $16.1 billion in AUM as of December 31, 2022. With offices from coast to coast, EP Wealth combines the resources of a large firm with a local approach to provide client-centric financial planning, wealth management and investment management services to individuals and businesses. EP Wealth continues to grow and enrich the lives of our clients and team and has been recognized as a leader in the RIA space by multiple financial and industry publications, including Barron's 2022 list of top RIA’s, Financial Planning’s top firms of 2022, and many more at both the national and regional level. The firms Torrance headquarters has been named a Best Place to Work by the Los Angeles Business Journal, and several advisors and functional leaders have been named to varied "Best", "Rising Star" and "40 Under 40" lists.
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Specialties
- Comprehensive Financial Planning
- Retirement Income Planning
- Investment Management
- College Education Planning
- Tax Planning
Ideal Clients
- Retirees and Near Retirees
- Growing Families
- Business Owners and Executives
- Sudden Money Situations
- Novice Investors
Working Together
- In-Office Meetings
- Virtual Meetings
- Clearly Defined Fees
- No Product Sales
- Complimentary Initial Consultation
Professional Designations & Affiliations
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Dave Tate is a Chartered Financial Consultant® (ChFC®)
Chartered Financial Consultant® designations are granted upon completion of seven required courses and two elective courses. Those who earn the designation are understood to be knowledgeable in financial matters and to have the ability to provide sound advice.
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Dave Tate is a Chartered Life Underwriter® (CLU®)
A Chartered Life Underwriter® (CLU®) is a professional designation for individuals specializing in life insurance and estate planning. Individuals must complete five core courses and three elective courses, and successfully pass all eight two-hour, 100-question examinations in order to receive the CLU® designation.
Contact Dave Tate
Office Locations:
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3115 E. Lion Lane
# 100
Salt Lake City, UT 84121