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About Us

About Essex private wealth management Your best financial interest
is our only priority — always.

Our first priority is helping you take care of yourself and your family. We want to learn more about your personal situation, identify your dreams and goals, and understand your tolerance for risk. Long-term relationships that encourage open and honest communication have been the cornerstone of my foundation of success.

How We Help We Sit On
Your Side of the Table

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Recommendations here carry a fiduciary duty, which means we are legally required to put your financial interest ahead of our own when we advise you. In practice, that shows up as telling you when an option is wrong for you, even when a different answer would be easier or more profitable for us to give. Decades of experience between us have taught us where we add value and where we do not, so we stay within what we do well rather than reaching for whatever is in vogue. Advice built that way tends to look much the same in a calm year and a frightening one, which is usually the point.

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Meet The Team Our Leaders Who You'll Be Working With

The people who lead here still sit across from clients, which keeps the standards they set grounded in the realities of advising rather than in a memo. They have kept the team small, so the judgment and honesty they expect can be taught and held to in person instead of assumed. What that produces for you is a team of advisors whose recommendations answer to the same principles at every desk, not only at the top.

Brian Woodland

President

Brian Woodland built the company that grew into Essex Private Wealth Management out of a conviction that clients were better served somewhere smaller and independent. He had spent a decade at large Wall Street institutions, leaving a...
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Peter Mulholland

Chief Investment Officer

Peter Mulholland advises from the same stretch of Massachusetts he has always called home, a North Shore native who raises two sons with his wife on the family farm in Topsfield. His career began at Fidelity Investments in 1992, where...
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James Baga

Investment Advisor

For fifteen years, some of New England's best-known hospitals and universities relied on Jim Baga as their on-site Fidelity representative, among them Massachusetts General, Brigham and Women's, Northeastern, and Bowdoin. Organizations...
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Victor Kester

Investment Advisor

Victor Kester works most often with people standing at the edge of retirement, where the question shifts from earning a paycheck to making savings last for decades, and with business owners weighing what comes next. Across nearly two...
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Fernando Garcia

Operations

A client once needed a series of charitable gifts delivered to several small nonprofits before a hard year-end tax deadline, each one with its own transfer rules and none of them built for speed. Fernando Garcia took the case from...
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Contact Us Start the Conversation

Real situations rarely stay inside one category, and yours doesn't have to. The clearest way to learn which of these areas deserves attention first is a conversation about your life as it actually is. Whenever you're ready, we'd be glad to start one.

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