Secura Financial

Overview

Barth and Stone launched the firm in 1997, anchoring it in Orange, California, with a model that treats financial planning as the upfront diagnostic before any product discussion. The firm is a registered investment advisor, but its service stack spans insurance, retirement income structuring, and education savings — a bundled approach common in the independent broker-dealer world, executed here under a fiduciary umbrella. The wealth-origin of the principals is not publicly disclosed; the firm is built on client fees and commissions, not a single-family pool of capital. Secura Financial deploys client capital through portfolio management and insurance vehicles. The firm's website points to short-, mid-, and long-term investment strategies, though it does not disclose specific asset-class allocations, named portfolio holdings, or external fund managers. Its advisory bench reflects a planning-first ethos: every one of the eight listed professionals — including Managing Partners Harry Barth and Jason Stone, and Chief Investment Officer Richard Jackman — holds the CFP designation, a credential that requires a fiduciary standard. The firm serves individuals, high-net-worth families, trusts, and small institutions across the United States, with a practice concentrated in Southern California. The firm lists eight professionals on its website, all based at a single office in Orange, California. No adjacent family-office vehicles, philanthropic foundations, or external club memberships are publicly disclosed. The leadership structure is a partnership model — Barth and Stone share the managing partner title, while Jackman runs the investment function. No recent institutional operational event, such as a strategy launch or leadership change, has been publicly reported in the last 24 months. Secura Financial's structural differentiator is the pairing of a CFP-mandated fiduciary planning process with an in-house insurance agency. Most RIAs outsource insurance placement; Secura keeps it internal, which means the same team constructing a client's retirement drawdown strategy also underwrites the longevity risk. This integrated fiduciary-plus-commission model is less common among fee-only RIAs and more typical of the hybrid independent advisor channel, where suitability standards for insurance sales sit alongside fiduciary standards for investment advice. SECURA FINANCIAL was listed as registered with the SEC in the IAPD firm compilation observed on 2026-10-22. In Form ADV filed on 2026-07-24, it reported 9 employees; 1,242 advisory accounts; services including Financial planning, Pension consulting, Portfolio management for businesses and institutional clients, Portfolio management for individuals and small businesses, Selection of other advisers; client categories including Charitable organizations, High net worth individuals, Individuals (other than high net worth individuals), Pension and profit sharing plans; compensation arrangements including A percentage of assets under management, Fixed fees, Hourly charges. These are dated adviser-reported facts, not independently verified by Altss. Registration does not constitute approval or endorsement. This historical filing does not establish current registration status or operations.