Stacey Hyde featured in The Wall Street Journal

Share via

Stacey Hyde of Envision Financial Planning was quoted in Jason Zweig’s Intelligent Investor for The Wall Street Journal, sharing her perspective on whether everyday investors should have access to private investment funds.

We are still trying to get a couple of clients out of investments they made with prior advisers that promised the moon but have failed to deliver. We are stuck each quarter navigating the redemption process for each fund and hoping we can get out. If financial-planning firms such as ours cannot get comfortable, how is a normal investor going to know how to understand what they’re buying?
—Stacey Hyde, Tennessee

Read the full article in The Wall Street Journal (Paywalled)
Categories

'Better Financial Health in 15 Minutes (or less!)' Podcast

Listen Here

Subscribe to Updates from Envision

We will:
  • • Provide expertise in generational personal financial planning.
  • • Give counsel based on long years of experience.
  • • Motivate our clients through caring about them and their families.
Our approach is to discover a client’s goals, determine the personal financial plan that is needed, and aid the client in reaching those goals. Our success is measured by how well our clients achieve their goals.
Hank has had a distinguished career in the financial services industry, including more than 40 years in the financial planning and securities fields. From 1985 to 2013, Hank provided fee-only financial planning services through his firm, Lifetime Planning, Inc. Hank merged his practice with Stacey’s in 2014. In addition, Hank is a member of both the local and the national chapters of the Financial Planning Association (FPA).
Hank received his bachelor’s degree in business administration from the University of Mississippi, where he also lettered in football. He received his initial securities training at Merrill Lynch. He was a financial planning consultant for the Memphis office of Ernst & Young and financial planner at Morgan Keegan & Company, Inc. from 1982 through 1984. In April 1984, Hank completed his CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ professional requirements with the College for Financial Planning in Denver, Colorado.
In addition to his financial planning practice, Hank has enjoyed serving on the boards of Presbyterian Day School, Second Presbyterian Church, University of Mississippi, and the Christian Community Foundation. Hank served as the chief financial officer of the Christian Community Foundation from its inception in October 1998 until October 2000. Hank enjoys reading, hunting, and attending baseball and college football games.
Clay serves Envision Financial Planning’s clients as the investment officer and portfolio manager. His duties include overseeing the firm’s investment process and money management strategies with a strong focus on “goals-based” investment planning.
As a firm, we believe in concentrating on things we can control such as:
  • • Investment plans that match your needs and risk tolerance
  • • Diversification
  • • Management of expenses, turnover, and taxes
  • • Discipline through both up and down markets

Clay is a native Memphian and a graduate of the University of Mississippi. He began his career working for a regional broker/dealer specializing in fixed-income securities, and prior to joining Envision, Clay was an investment research analyst and portfolio manager for a private wealth management firm in Memphis. Clay currently holds his FINRA Series 66 securities registration and obtained his CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER® designation in 2021.

In his free time, Clay enjoys playing golf, exercising, reading, and cooking with friends and family. He and his wife, Margot, have two boys named Callan and Wiley.