Chris Van Buren, CFP®, CPWA®
Financial Advisor | SixPoint Financial Partners
Chris works with high-net-worth individuals, business owners, and entrepreneurs to bring wealth, succession, and estate decisions together into one clear, coordinated plan.
Financial planning should connect every part of your financial life.
Chris Van Buren provides financial advice and guidance to high-net-worth individuals and families, with a special focus on business owners and entrepreneurs. Working closely with this group has given him deep insight and perspective into the specific wealth management needs that come with building, running, and eventually transitioning a business.
For most owners, the business and the family balance sheet are rarely separate. Decisions about compensation, taxes, succession, and estate planning tend to affect one another, so Chris helps clients see how those pieces connect before choosing a direction.
He strives to provide clients with a breadth of strategies, attentive and responsive service, and the financial tools to help them pursue their goals in both their professional and personal lives. That includes working alongside clients’ attorneys, accountants, and other specialists so the plan is coordinated, not siloed.
As a CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ professional and Certified Private Wealth Advisor®, Chris brings planning depth to the questions high-net-worth families face most often: how to structure their wealth, how to transfer it thoughtfully across generations, and how to prepare both the business and the family for what comes next.
Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards Inc. owns the certification marks CFP®, CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ and CFP® in the U.S. CPWA® is a registered certification mark of Investments & Wealth Institute.
Planning for families whose wealth has many moving parts.
High-net-worth households and business owners tend to face decisions that affect one another. Chris concentrates on four areas where coordination matters most.
High Net Worth Planning
Investments, taxes, cash flow, and risk organized under one plan, so each decision is made with the full picture in view.
Explore Our ServicesEstate Planning
Coordination of beneficiaries, ownership, documents, and family communication, working alongside your estate attorney.
How We Approach Estate PlanningBusiness Succession Planning
Preparing the business, and the owner, for a sale, transfer, or transition well before the timeline is fixed.
Business Owner ResourcesMulti-Generational Wealth Transfer
Helping families decide how, when, and to whom wealth moves, and preparing the next generation to receive it.
Listen to The Great Wealth TransferPlanning for the next important chapter
High-net-worth individuals and families who want their wealth coordinated under one plan
Business owners and entrepreneurs balancing company and personal finances
Owners preparing for the sale, transfer, or succession of their business
Families planning to pass wealth to children and grandchildren with intention
Clients who want their advisor, attorney, and CPA working from the same plan
Six connected areas. One coordinated financial life.
Chris and the SixPoint team organize planning around the areas that most often shape a family’s ability to live well today and prepare confidently for tomorrow.
Investments
A strategy aligned with your goals, time horizon, income needs, and comfort with risk.
Retirement Income
A plan for turning savings, pensions, and Social Security into sustainable income.
Risk Management
Protection for the people, assets, and plans that matter most.
Tax Planning
Forward-looking decisions designed to improve coordination and reduce avoidable surprises.
Estate Planning
Thoughtful coordination of beneficiaries, documents, ownership, and family communication.
Custom Goals
Planning built around your family, priorities, opportunities, and definition of a meaningful life.
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