The Story So Far

Petersen Hastings is a fee-only, Registered Investment Advisory firm located in Kennewick, Washington. We have created the WorkOptional Experience™: a process that systematically helps clients toward their bigger future. We specialize in helping physicians, dentists, and owners of closely held businesses in Eastern Washington. We provide each and every client with an advisor experience they have never had before. There are many reasons we are unique; below are a few highlights.

The WorkOptional Experience™
We are the creators of the WorkOptional Experience™: a unique client process that systematically helps each client achieve what is most important to them.

Independent
We are an independent advisory firm that makes our own decisions relating to investments and financial planning. This independence allows us to directly decide what is best for you and not merely what is ‘suitable.’

Transparent
As a fee-only advisor, our only source of compensation comes from you, our clients. This ensures that your interests are our interests as well.

Fiduciary
We are a fiduciary dedicated entirely to your interests. Our leadership in this area enabled us to be one of the first firms in the world to have our processes certified by the Centre for Fiduciary Excellence (CEFEX).

Evidence-Based Investing
Evidence-Based Investing is a concept which applies the strategies backed by some of the most brilliant minds in finance, including Nobel laureates. We use these strategies to reduce investment risk, reduce investment cost, and enhance portfolio returns.

World Class
We are recognized as one of the top advisors in the nation by multiple sources including Medical Economics, Bloomberg Wealth Manager, and Financial Advisor Magazine.

Experienced and Educated
Our seasoned professionals have been through good and bad economic times. They have the experience to communicate a clear path to your bigger future. Our credentialed team consists of Certified Financial Planner® practitioners, Certified Public Accountants, and Certified Retirement Plan Consultant®.

Niche
Although we have clients in many stages of life and in many different areas, we specialize in solving the complexities experienced by physicians, dentists, and owners of closely held businesses.

Retirement Plan Solutions
We have significant experience establishing and maintaining retirement plans that will fit any company’s benefit program. Of course, we are a fiduciary on the Plan and provide individualized investment advice to the Plan’s participants.

Resources
Petersen Hastings is a member of the Zero Alpha Group (ZAG). ZAG is comprised of a group of businesses with the best minds in the investment industry. Through this group we assist each other with financial planning techniques, portfolios, and additional management methods to enhance the client experience. Through the collective bargaining power of this group, we have access to investments and other resources not available to most advisors.