Brent Kessel is one of the top financial advisors in the United States. He is the C.E.O. of Abacus Portfolios and President and co-founder of Abacus Wealth Partners, which has a half billion dollars in client assets under management and was named one of the “top 250 wealth management firms in the U.S.” by Bloomberg’s Wealth Manager. Kessel has a degree in economics and a minor in psychology from UCLA. Kessel has counseled both multi-millionaires in addition to people from more modest means.
Dubbed a “Financial Soul Searcher” by Research Magazine, Kessel has been featured in Newsweek as well as Yoga Journal, and widely quoted in the Los Angeles Times, Newsweek, Business Week, and the Wall Street Journal among other national publications. Having met the Dalai Lama and Mother Teresa when he was a young man, Kessel began practicing yoga and meditation and skyrocketed to success in a career that uniquely combines spirituality and wealth management.
In 1998, Kessel created his own workshop called The Yoga of Money. He has led popular workshops on money and personal growth and trains dozens of financial advisors.
In 2008, Kessel published his novel It’s Not About the Money: Unlock Your Money Type to Achieve Spiritual and Financial Abundance, in which he combines the latest financial thinking with ancient spiritual wisdom to shed light on the relationship between people and their cash. He offers the reader a program for attaining financial and emotional security. It’s Not about the Money includes quizzes for discovering your money type, exercises and meditations for freeing yourself from old patterns regarding money, and customized worksheets and resources providing concrete programs for improving your financial security.
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