Lake Forest Wealth Management Advisor Celebrates 25th Anniversary with Northwestern Mutual
This month, Gordon P. Gruenes, CFP®, CLU®, ChFC, celebrates 25 years serving as a Wealth Management Advisor with Northwestern Mutual's McTigue Financial Group in Chicago.
In honor of this milestone career accomplishment, Northwestern Mutual, through the foundation, is making a $500 charitable donation in Gruenes' name to Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation, the company's nonprofit partner in research for childhood cancer.
Gruenes joined Northwestern Mutual in 1990 as a financial representative. He is part of a strong network of specialists offering a wide array of products, expert guidance and innovative solutions to a variety of needs and goals to help others achieve financial security.
Gruenes holds the Certified Financial Planner®, Chartered Life Underwriter®, and Chartered Financial Consultant® designations. He has earned numerous awards, including the Northwestern Mutual Diamond Award and Life Impact Award, which recognize his goal to help people achieve financial security.
He received a Bachelor of Science in Accounting from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He currently lives in Lake Forest with his wife Mary, and their two children, Peter and Matthew.
About Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation
Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation (ALSF) emerged from the front yard lemonade stand of cancer patient Alexandra "Alex" Scott (1996-2004). In 2000, 4-year-old Alex announced that she wanted to hold a lemonade stand to raise money to help find a cure for all children with cancer. Since Alex held that first stand, the Foundation bearing her name has evolved into a national fundraising movement, complete with thousands of supporters across the country carrying on her legacy of hope. To date, Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation, a registered 501(c)3 charity, has raised more than $80 million toward fulfilling Alex's dream of finding a cure, funding over 450 pediatric cancer research projects nationally. For more information on Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation, visit AlexsLemonade.org.
About Northwestern Mutual Foundation
The mission of the Northwestern Mutual Foundation is to improve the lives of children and families in need. The Foundation has given nearly $270 million since its inception in 1992 and is designed to create lasting impact in the communities where the company's employees and financial representatives live and work. We accomplish this by combining financial support, volunteerism, thought leadership and convening community partners to deliver the best outcomes. Our efforts are focused nationally on curing childhood cancer, and locally on education, neighborhoods and making our hometown of Milwaukee a great destination.
About The McTigue Financial Group
The McTigue Financial Group is a Northwestern Mutual office providing expert guidance in life insurance, investment products and services, retirement and estate planning, education funding and employee benefits. It has more than 130,000 policies in force which have a face value of more than $46 billion.
About Northwestern Mutual
Northwestern Mutual has been helping families and businesses achieve financial security for nearly 160 years. Our financial representatives build relationships with clients through a distinctive planning approach that integrates risk management with wealth accumulation, preservation and distribution. With more than $217 billion in assets, $26 billion in revenues and more than $1.5 trillion worth of life insurance protection in force, Northwestern Mutual delivers financial security to more than 4.2 million people who rely on us for insurance and investment solutions, including life, disability and long-term care insurance; annuities; trust services; mutual funds; and investment advisory products and services.
Northwestern Mutual is the marketing name for The Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company, Milwaukee, WI, and its subsidiaries. Northwestern Mutual and its subsidiaries offer a comprehensive approach to financial security solutions including: life insurance, long-term care insurance, disability income insurance, annuities, investment products, and advisory products and services. Subsidiaries include Northwestern Mutual Investment Services, LLC, broker-dealer, registered investment adviser, member FINRA and SIPC; the Northwestern Mutual Wealth Management Company, limited purpose federal savings bank; and Northwestern Long Term Care Insurance Company.
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