Your Goals and Dreams, Our Guidance
You are pursuing your financial goals and deserve someone who can help you with advice and guidance. We are here to listen and help you plan for your future with confidence. We are backed by the resources, expertise, and investment selection of one of the nation’s most recognized financial services companies. Let us help you develop an investment strategy that is flexible and tracks your goals.
Mike Baxter, SE-AWMA
Private Wealth Financial Advisor
Mike Baxter is a Financial Advisor with Wells Fargo Advisors who helps clients think clearly about their financial lives and make decisions with confidence. He works with families, entrepreneurs, coaches, and athletes who are navigating complex choices, evolving priorities, and meaningful transitions.
His approach is straightforward. He begins by understanding what matters most, organizes the full financial picture, and helps establish a clear path forward. His goal is to provide clarity and structure so clients can make informed decisions they understand and feel confident in.
Before entering wealth management, Mike spent more than a decade in professional baseball, including time in Major League Baseball. After his playing career, he coached at Vanderbilt University on a staff that won a national championship in 2019. Those experiences shaped his approach to preparation, discipline, and communication, and continue to influence how he works with clients today.
Mike holds the Sports & Entertainment Accredited Wealth Management Advisor® (SE-AWMA®) designation, which focuses on the financial considerations of athletes and individuals with evolving income and career paths.
At Wells Fargo Advisors, Mike collaborates with planning, lending, and research specialists to provide clients with coordinated guidance in one place.
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Our Services
Your investments should work together to help you reach your financial goals. You have access to many investment products and services. Here are some we offer to help you build your plan for the future and for now.
Retirement Plan Distribution Options
If you’re changing jobs or retiring, you’ll need to decide what to do with assets in your qualified employer-sponsored retirement plan. These savings can represent a significant portion of your retirement income, so it’s important you carefully evaluate all of the options.
Advisory Services
Our Advisory Services can help you save time managing investments. Find out how we can offer financial guidance and help you keep up with the markets. Our programs allow flexibility in how much your professional portfolio manager does for you or with you.
Business Services
Your company is one of your most important assets. It’s the product of your hard work. We can offer your business a variety of customized products and services, from employee benefit plans to insurance and help with succession planning.
College Savings Plans
Saving up to pay for your child’s college education doesn’t have to interfere with your retirement goals. 529 plans and trust funds are designed to help parents and grandparents save for a child’s education. Planning for retirement, managing your investment portfolio, and funding a college education is a balancing act. The trick is to plan ahead.
Estate Planning Services
Everyone could use an estate plan. It’s not about what you own – but putting you in control. Estate planning can often be fairly simple with professional help. Sometimes it’s more complex. Make an appointment with us to talk about your estate planning goals.
Individual Retirement Accounts (IRA)
Find out ideas on how we can help you reach your retirement goals with an IRA. Even if you already contribute to a qualified employer-sponsored retirement plan (QRP), you should consider investing in an IRA. It can help supplement those savings and give you access to a wider range of investments.
Insurance
Insurance can play a key role in helping preserve your assets and achieve your financial goals. Plan to help protect all aspects of your financial life: family, business, retirement, and legacy. Consider how insurance can help protect the people and causes you care about the most.
Investment Products
Developing your investment plan includes choosing which products and services might help you meet your financial goals. We can discuss what might work for your situation and help you feel confident as you work toward achieving your goals.
Retirement Planning
Creating a plan can help you stay focused, plan for challenges, and make choices that work for you. Find out how to create and manage your retirement plan. We’ll look at your whole picture. Together, we’ll prioritize your goals for the future and map out a financial course to help you achieve them.
All investing involves risk, including the possible loss of principal.
Advisory programs are not appropriate for all investors. Please carefully review the Wells Fargo Advisors advisory disclosure document for a full description of our services. There are minimum account size requirements for these programs.
Please consider the investment objectives, risks, charges and expenses carefully before investing in a 529 savings plan. The official statement, which contains this and other information, can be obtained by calling your financial advisor. Read it carefully before you invest.
Wells Fargo and Company and its Affiliates do not provide tax or legal advice. This communication cannot be relied upon to avoid tax penalties. Please consult your tax and legal advisors to determine how this information may apply to your own situation. Whether any planned tax result is realized by you depends on the specific facts of your own situation at the time your tax return is filed.
Insurance products are offered through nonbank insurance agency affiliates of Wells Fargo & Company and are underwritten by unaffiliated insurance companies.
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Find out where you stand
Your path starts by understanding your relationship with money. Throughout your life, what lessons have you learned? What compromises or adjustments have you made to get you where you are today? These personal insights will help guide you to the future you aspire to live.Explore your future possibilities
Consider all the possibilities that your money can bring to you. Travel? Build a home? Start a business? Only by recognizing, communicating and documenting your desired outcomes can you and your advisor create a path toward reaching them.Create your path
You and your advisor are now ready to design your personal path with our robust eMoney Advisor planning tool. Throughout your life, your advisor with eMoney, will provide you with the choices, information and action steps that will help guide you to the future you imagine.Investment expertise and advice in an effort to help clients succeed financially
