360 Financial Partners

360 Financial Partners

Randall Teegardin, a Furman University graduate who followed his father into wealth management, co-founded the firm in 2006 to deliver financial planning free from the product-driven incentives of large carriers. The firm operates as an independent registered investment advisory headquartered in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, advising individuals, trusts, estates, and corporations. Its core offering rests on a proprietary diagnostic — the 360° Method — designed to synchronize investing, retirement, estate, and risk-management strategies for each client. The firm’s deployment model revolves around direct portfolio management and financial planning, rather than commingled fund structures. Services span retirement distribution strategies, estate conservation, risk management, and college savings planning. The investment approach is unconstrained by mandates from external investment or insurance product manufacturers, allowing advisors to select from the open market. Geographic focus remains concentrated on the Lowcountry region of South Carolina, working primarily with local families and businesses. Led by partners Teegardin and Dusty Hughes alongside advisor David L. Van Rensselaer, the firm operates from a single office on Johnnie Dodds Boulevard. The team structure favors a generalist advisory model where the named professionals address the full spectrum of client financial lives. No adjacent philanthropic foundations, operating companies, or club investment vehicles are disclosed. No personnel counts are publicly available. 360 Financial Partners is structurally differentiated by its posture as an uncompromised fiduciary. Unlike bank-affiliated or insurance-owned wealth managers, the firm’s advisory relationship is not shaped by proprietary product quotas or restricted investment platforms. This independence is the central organizing principle of its governance, though no formal succession plan or second-generation leadership structure is disclosed.