Decker Retirement Planning

We have benefited enormously from Marc Knauss’s wise counsel as we navigate our retirement. He listens carefully, asks good questions, and responds to our questions in ways that give us insights and confidence. Marc always talks us through all facets of any prospective action, before recommending any particular course. He also has an excellent team behind him, so action occurs timely. If you’re heading into retirement and looking for counsel and retirement planning, take a good look at what Marc Knauss and Decker Retirement Planning can provide you!

Marc Knauss is very knowledgeable and very informative. He has helped us with retirement planning, and we went with Decker because of Marc. His ability to explain complex investment strategies are very helpful. Very patient and kind.

As always thorough, professional, and amazing! Brian Decker takes his time explaining our growing investment and answers all our questions in depth. We enjoy the weekly emails and videos in addition to our annual meetings. After 8 years of growing prosperity we couldn’t be more pleased with Decker Retirement Planning.

I retired 3.5 years ago. My husband has been retired for over 15 years. I had been with the same financial broker for 30+ years. My husband has been with his for longer. Neither of our two different financial planner brokers reached out to us when my husband retired nor when I retired. In January, we received a flyer in the mail inviting us to a complimentary dinner at one of Woodinville’s finest restaurants. In exchange for dinner, my husband and I were asked to listen to a presentation given by Marc Knauss, CFP Planner for Decker Retirement Planning, Inc. in Bellevue. We attended the informational seminar. We were very impressed with Marc and his presentation. That evening we made an appointment to meet with Marc and discuss our retirement financial future. The three of us had many Zoom meetings together and discussed at length our financial goals now that we are both retired. Marc explained how we could minimize our annual income tax and the minimization of inheritance taxes our estate would be responsible for upon both of our passings, among other earning, saving, investing, and protecting our other assets suggestions. We followed and agreed to all of his suggestions. In a nutshell, Marc is a mastermind. He has established new accounts for us that are earning us higher rates, reducing our income taxes, and growing our current assets in ways we didn’t even know existed. I highly recommend Marc Knauss, CFP Planner for Decker Retirement Planning, for all your wealth management and financial advising. Don’t wait until after retirement like we did.

Brian is always very knowledgeable and does a fantastic job of explaining investments. We are very happy with the way he and his company are helping to handle our retirement funds. We appreciate him very much. It has made a world of difference in our retirement. Would highly recommend Decker Retirement Planning, Inc. to everyone.

Me and my husband spoke to Brian several months back. We told him of our background and shared our 2007-08 crash experience. Like so many others, we lost investment, 401 with company employed with, companies decision to slash salaries without notice which lead to eventual loss of our home. And no, we did not live beyond our means. We have been playing catch up ever since and without much progress. Brian said to us, “I am so sorry you have been through all of that, but I am not able to help you with your financial position.” Needless to say, we felt completely hopeless and like we haven’t done enough to help ourselves. The fact is (we feel), that because we didn’t have a decent retirement with our company now and/or no substantial amount of money put aside we weren’t worth helping out because he wouldn’t make enough income off of us. Our question is,”Isn’t it people in our position, the ones you want to help? The ones that have good company 401’s and retirement plans are in better positions. They don’t need the extra help.” Today, we are still working hard without anyone wanting to help us grow our meager savings. We contacted Fischer Investments as well. They said, “You need to have $100,000 in your own assets before we consider helping you.” So yes, we’ve been trying and feel we are not worthy of help 🙁. Imagine how the truly down and outs feel. The homeless even have help out there offered to them. All they have to do is “accept it”.

Brian Decker is financially brilliant, professional, and sincerely caring and personable. He’s been with us every step of the way in first planning and now executing our retirement plan; we can relax, confident that our financial security is and will remain strong. Highly recommend.

My wife and I have been clients of "Decker Retirement" for almost 5 years now. We are very pleased with the program. After our second ( initial) planning meeting with Brian I remember my wife turning to me in the parking lot and saying "if anything happens to you I feel we have found someone I would be comfortable to work with". I agreed and I felt the same way. Their program has several moving parts and they all work synergistically together. So far we are ahead of we're the plan projects we should be. Being an active trader for many years myself it was important that I found a program that matched my trading philosophy. I was very familiar with the two sided model approach they used when it comes to the market portion of the plan and that was what I was looking for. For me this is the only way to protect capital long term and allows me to sleep at night. With retirement only 5 months away ( March of 2020) we feel we are in good hands heading into our retirement years.