Stephanie Richman

CFP®, CPCC®

EP Wealth Advisors

Regional Director

Stephanie Richman

CFP®, CPCC®

EP Wealth Advisors

Regional Director

As a fee-only financial planner, my focus is to offer unbiased financial advice to help you achieve your life goals. - Stephanie Richman, CFP®, CPCC®

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Stephanie Richman is a Walnut Creek, CA 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, Stephanie Richman is never paid a commission of any kind, and has a legal obligation to provide unbiased and trustworthy financial advice.

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Stephanie Richman, CFP®, CPCC®, is Regional Director of Northern California/East Bay at EP Wealth Advisors. She started her investment career in 1987 working as an institutional stockbroker of European equities in Tokyo, Melbourne and New York City. After 5 years in the industry, she decided to take a year off and make her way back to California, where she spent 24 years with Fidelity Investments. At Fidelity, she took on multiple roles including Branch Management in Monterey and San Jose, a Regional Planning and Training role covering the Pacific Northwest, a Senior Retirement Counselor role where she met with Faculty and Staff one-one and led workshops on Retirement and Estate Planning at universities across the country, and lastly as a Private Wealth Management Advisor in Palo Alto, CA. In 2018 she founded Richman Financial Planning, LLC. Ms. Richman’s extensive experience in the financial planning arena has made her all the more passionate about helping people understand where they are, and helping them get to where they want to be. While Stephanie was living overseas, she caught the travel bug and has been to 38 countries so far. She also loves to bike, hike, and get caught up in a good book in her free time. Currently, she resides in Berkeley, CA with her partner where you may find her walking with their dog at Point Isabel, riding the Bay Trail, exploring local restaurants, or seeing a play at the Berkeley Rep.

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

  • National Association of Personal Financial Advisors (NAPFA)
    Stephanie Richman is a NAPFA-Registered Financial Advisor

    The National Association of Personal Financial Advisors (NAPFA) is a leading professional association of Fee-Only financial advisors—highly trained professionals who are committed to working in the best interests of those they serve.

  • Certified Financial Planner (CFP)
    Stephanie Richman is a CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ Professional - Click for Verification

    CFP® professionals are held to strict ethical standards to ensure financial planning recommendations are in your best interest. What’s more, a CFP® professional must acquire several years of experience related to delivering financial planning services to clients and pass the comprehensive CFP® Certification Exam before they can use the CFP® designation.

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Office Locations:

  • 1333 N California Blvd.
    Suite 100
    Walnut Creek, CA 94596

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