Rich de Gout, MBA, CFP®, RICP®
CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ professional
Mobile: (323) 401-7000
Securing Your Financial Future
Our mission is to provide you with premiere financial planning services. We take the time to understand your unique circumstances, values and goals. We then develop sound comprehensive client-specific financial strategies while working closely with your tax, legal and other advisors. Above all else, we value the ongoing relationships that we develop with individuals, families and businesses.
Rich de Gout has been a financial professional with Equitable Advisors since 2003. Prior to joining Equitable, he had worked as a business and information technology manager in the aerospace and electronics distribution industries for over 15 years. In his last position, Rich de Gout was the General Manager of an award winning webcast marketing business.
Rich is a CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNERTM professional. The educational component of the CFP Board of Standards CFP® Certification program was completed at UCLA. This certification is the recognized standard of excellence for personal financial planning.
Rich also holds the Retirement Income Certified Professional® (RICP®) designation which is sought by financial services sales professionals whose focus includes clients planning for their retirement income. To verify a designee, visit http://www.designationcheck.com.
Rich has also been awarded the title of Credentialed Holistic Financial Coach issued by Columbia University's Coaching Center of Excellence in partnership with Equitable Advisors, LLC. Credentialed Holistic Financial Coach (Equitable Advisors, LLC), The Credentialed Holistic Financial Coach title and custom coaching credential is available exclusively to financial professionals (FPs) of Equitable Advisors who seek to have deeper more personal conversations with their clients. The credential is awarded by Equitable Advisors, based upon the FP’s receipt of a certificate of completion of the Holistic Financial Coach Program. In a collaboration between Columbia University’s Coaching Center of Excellence and Equitable Advisors’ affiliate, Equitable Financial Life Insurance Company (NY, NY), coursework was developed exclusively for Equitable Advisors FPs, and the title may be used only by FPs who have completed the required coursework and maintain the title through ongoing continuing education requirements.
Columbia’s Coaching Center of Excellence has earned a global reputation as the “Ivy-league” of evidence-based, high-impact coaching education and training. To verify that an FP has earned and holds the title in good standing, click here.
We specialize in the following areas:
Investment Management: mutual funds, securities, fixed income, institutional wrap accounts
Insurance Planning: life, disability income, health (individual and group), long-term care
Financial Planning: retirement, education, estate, wealth preservation, family protection
Training and Education
- CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ Professional
- Retirement Income Certified Professional®
- Professional Designation in Personal Financial Planning, UCLA
- FINRA Securities Registrations: Series 7 and Series 66
- California LIfe and Health Insurance License
- MBA from UCLA Anderson Graduate School of Management
- BS in Aeronautical Engineering from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, graduated magna cum laude
- AS in Aeronautical Studies from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
Background and Affiliations
- Licensed private pilot
- Member of the Financial Planning Association
Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards Inc. owns the certification marks CFP®, CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ and federally registered CFP (with flame design) in the U.S., which it awards to individuals who successfully complete CFP Board's initial and ongoing certification requirements.
The Credentialed Holistic Financial Coach title and custom coaching credential is available exclusively to financial professionals (FPs) of Equitable Advisors who seek to have deeper more personal conversations with their clients. The credential is awarded by Equitable Advisors, based upon the FP's receipt of a certificate of completion of the Holistic Financial Coach Program. In a collaboration between Columbia University's Coaching Center of Excellence and Equitable Advisors' affiliate, Equitable Financial Life Insurance Company (NY, NY), coursework was developed exclusively for Equitalbe Advisorss FPs, and the title may be used only by FPs who have completed the required coursework and maintain the title through ongoing continuing education requirements. Columbia's Coaching Center of Excellence has earned a global reputation as the "Ivy-league" of evidence-based, high-impact coaching education and training. To verify that an FP has earned and holds the title in good standing, contact Lynsey Capone-Smith at lynsey.caponesmith@equitable.com. Equitable Advisors is the brand name of Equitable Advisors, LLC (member FINRA, SIPC) (Equitable Financial Advisors in MI and TN).