As a Wedbush Financial Advisor, I am dedicated to serving my clients and the community. I believe my clients come first and work to help protect their financial success. With many years of experience in the securities industry, I am committed to using my experience and knowledge to educate clients to help them make informed investment decisions.
I also develop personalized investment strategies, to assist my clients in reaching their short and long-term financial goals. Whether you would like to build personal wealth, plan for retirement, minimize estate taxes or prepare for the tuition costs of your children (or grandchildren), I will help you clearly define your investment objectives and risk tolerance to determine an asset allocation strategy designed to help you achieve your financial goals.
Contact me for a complimentary portfolio review or to learn more about creating a plan to grow your financial success.
Catherine Theisen at Wedbush Securities is dedicated to providing an integrated, unbiased, solution-oriented approach to her clients' wealth management needs. Through her processes, she identifies solutions to preserve, control and manage wealth, then integrates all aspects of her clients' financial needs into a cohesive, risk adjusted, investment plan.
For her plan sponsor and trustee clients, who have the legal responsibility of managing assets on behalf of others, she provides guidance in procedural prudence so fiduciaries can meet the Global Fiduciary Standard of Excellence demanded by UPIA (Uniform Prudent Investor Act) and ERISA. Properly designed processes help fiduciaries effectively fulfill their duties under the law and avoid potential liabilities.
Celia “Sid” Garcia is an Independent Investment Advisor based in La Jolla, CA. With over 30 years of experience as an advisor, Sid is committed to using her expertise and a personalized planning process to educate clients and help them make informed investment decisions.
Sid specializes in mutual funds, individual stock analysis, and retirement planning. She is committed to creating a strong financial plan for her clients that will lead them through the economic challenges they may face and on to a successful financial future.
Sid earned a B.A. in Psychology from UC Berkeley and is the current President of the UC Alumni Club of San Diego County. As a Southern California native, Sid is passionate about community service, and places a large emphasis on water conservation and usage. Her out of office interests include: real estate, tennis, golf, college football, and world traveling, which consists of having visited over 40 countries to date.
Contact Sid for a complimentary portfolio review or to learn more about creating a plan to grow your financial success.
With over 40 years of experience as a Financial Advisor, I am dedicated to serving your financial needs and helping you meet your immediate and long-term goals.
I believe that having an understanding of my client’s unique financial situation and future vision is key to selecting appropriate investments. I build long-term relationships with clients based on a prudent approach to investing and a commitment to customer satisfaction.
From 1970 to 1982, I served as First Vice President of a major California investment banking firm and in 1982, I established First Wall Street Corp. in La Jolla, California. In 2008, Wedbush Securities, the largest securities firm and investment bank on the West Coast, acquired the assets of First Wall Street Corp.
Contact me for a complimentary portfolio review or to learn more about creating a plan to grow your financial success.
As a Wedbush Financial Advisor, I am dedicated to serving my clients and the community. I believe my clients come first and work to help protect their financial success. With many years of experience in the securities industry, I am committed to using my experience and knowledge to educate clients to help them make informed investment decisions.
I also develop personalized investment strategies, to assist my clients in reaching their short and long-term financial goals. Whether you would like to build personal wealth, plan for retirement, minimize estate taxes or prepare for the tuition costs of your children (or grandchildren), I will help you clearly define your investment objectives and risk tolerance to determine an asset allocation strategy designed to help you achieve your financial goals.
Contact me for a complimentary portfolio review or to learn more about creating a plan to grow your financial success.
As a Wedbush Financial Advisor, I am dedicated to serving my clients and the community. I believe my clients come first and work to help protect their financial success. With many years of experience in the securities industry, I am committed to using my experience and knowledge to educate clients to help them make informed investment decisions.
I also develop personalized investment strategies, to assist my clients in reaching their short and long-term financial goals. Whether you would like to build personal wealth, plan for retirement, minimize estate taxes or prepare for the tuition costs of your children (or grandchildren), I will help you clearly define your investment objectives and risk tolerance to determine an asset allocation strategy designed to help you achieve your financial goals.
Contact me for a complimentary portfolio review or to learn more about creating a plan to grow your financial success.
For many investors, the financial turmoil of the last decade has eliminated years of savings, dashed hopes for retirement, destroyed confidence in the markets, and increased fears of government change and intervention. While the market has returned to pre-crisis levels, questions still remain about the sustainability of the recent rally.
My goal is to help investors regain control of their financial portfolios by providing an inexpensive, easy to understand, rules-based approach to money management supported by years of academic research.
Over the past eight years I have collected and tested market data in order to develop investment strategies that attempt to achieve positive returns while reducing market risk through valuation-based technical analysis. These strategies can be tailored to your individual goals, time horizon, and risk parameters.
In my educational forums I attempt to dispel investment myths and provide analytical information that is not widely provided to individual investors. I seek to demonstrate:
- How to increase your chances of beating the indexes.
- Why forward P/E ratios can be misleading and often detrimental to your portfolio.
- Why asset allocation is not sufficient in providing risk management.
- How dividend growth can help provide lifetime income and inflation protection.
- The market has historically provided exit signals that avoided many of the major meltdowns.
- Why rising dividends support capital growth.
- Ways to attempt to determine which sectors are poised to outperform the market.
I am confident that I can provide you with useful education about investing tools that can help you take control of your investments and enable you to make better decisions with your money.
Background:
- Over 15 Years of Experience in the Securities Industry
- Believe in using technical applications to help reduce volatility and determine sector/asset reallocation
- Client first philosophy
- Deep understanding of the needs of medical professionals and small business owners
- Exceptional personal service
- Designation of Accredited Asset Management Specialist from the College For Financial Planning
As a Wedbush Financial Advisor, I am dedicated to serving my clients and the community. I believe my clients come first and work to help protect their financial success. With many years of experience in the securities industry, I am committed to using my experience and knowledge to educate clients to help them make informed investment decisions.
I also develop personalized investment strategies, to assist my clients in reaching their short and long-term financial goals. Whether you would like to build personal wealth, plan for retirement, minimize estate taxes or prepare for the tuition costs of your children (or grandchildren), I will help you clearly define your investment objectives and risk tolerance to determine an asset allocation strategy designed to help you achieve your financial goals.
Contact me for a complimentary portfolio review or to learn more about creating a plan to grow your financial success.
In my nearly 60 year career in the financial services industry, I have been an active part of the success of my clients’ portfolios and continue to be a trusted and loyal advisor.
Understanding clients’ concerns, building sufficient liquidity into programs, developing asset allocations that fit the client’s objectives and tolerance for risk, evaluating money managers, and, screening and recommending alternative investments to meet stated objectives are the tools I use to build trusted relationships. I am loyal to the clients I serve and am honored to be a part of Wedbush, which has helped to redefine the financial services industry by continually breaking new ground in advising clients on strategic transactions and providing new opportunities for investors.
After receiving my BA in Arts and Economics, and my MBA from Stanford, I entered the investment banking field. I gradually transitioned to mostly managing my clients’ investments. I have been part of management of a regional, as well as have been a part of well-established firms, such as Drexel Burnham Lambert and Morgan Stanley. Through the decades, I have been a securities agent in 25 states (AZ, CA, CO, CT, DC, FL, GA, ID, LA, MA, MI, MT, NC, NE, NJ, NM, NV, NY, OH, OK, OR, PA, TN, VA, WA), as well as certified with my Series 1, 7, 63 and 65 licenses.
Beyond time with my clients, I have also been a very active part of my community, in both the professional and non-profit worlds, including Securities Industry of America-Member, Executive Committee of California group Kappa Beta Phi-President, Spring Street Forum-President, former Chairman of Stanford Business School Trust and the Beverly Hills Education Foundation, Teach for America/Los Angeles, Stanford Westside Club and Founding Chairman of the Center for the Partially Sighted and the American Jewish Committee-Member National Governing Board (NYC). These are just a few of the organizations I have devoted my free time to.
I am a fourth generation Angeleno, and reside in the Brentwood area of Los Angeles. I am married with three children and four grandchildren. My wife, Susie, has two grown children and four grandchildren. Some of my interests include tennis, skiing, sailing, photography, movies, and reading.