King Financial Planning & Management

King Financial Planning & Management

King Financial Planning & Management launched in 2009 in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Founder Gary King structured the firm as a registered investment adviser under the Investment Advisers Act of 1940, a regulatory posture that imposes a fiduciary duty on every client relationship. The firm's formation came in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis, a period when demand for fee-only, non-broker-dealer advice spiked among households reassessing their retirement plans. King's early client base drew from the military, defense-contractor, and nonprofit communities — demographics that concentrate heavily around Colorado Springs' five military installations and its constellation of evangelical and charitable headquarters. The firm's strategy spans at least three asset-class channels: managed equity and fixed-income portfolios, annuity and insurance placements, and tax-advantaged retirement accounts including IRAs and 401(k) rollovers. King Financial does not pursue direct venture or private-equity co-investments, nor does it operate pooled investment vehicles. Its capital deployment is entirely through public-market instruments and insurance-company products, executed in a fiduciary advisory rather than discretionary institutional model. The firm's geographic radius is concentrated: clients are drawn from El Paso County and the broader Colorado Front Range, with no disclosed satellite offices, remote-advisory licensing, or multistate registration beyond what Colorado securities law requires. Team size and total regulatory assets under management are undisclosed. The firm's Form ADV filings with the SEC, which would disclose AUM, employee count, and fee schedules for any RIA above the $100 million threshold, are not publicly parsed in available records, suggesting the firm likely operates below that reporting tier. No adjacent charitable foundation, family-office conversion, or membership in ultra-high-net-worth networks such as Tiger 21 has been publicly linked to the entity. The firm's scale is consistent with a solo or small-team practice serving fewer than fifty ongoing advisory relationships. The structural differentiator is regulatory simplicity. King Financial is a single-state, fiduciary-only RIA with no broker-dealer affiliation, no proprietary products to distribute, and no institutional capital to steward. In an industry reshuffling around consolidation — LPL, Mariner, and Creative Planning have each acquired dozens of local RIAs in Colorado since 2020 — a stand-alone practice like King's presents an increasingly rare governance profile: wholly owner-operated, unfunded by private equity, and structurally immune to the product-push dynamics that accompany commission-based or aggregator-backed models.