Best of NoVa: Elissa Buie and Yusuf Abugideiri

To whom would you recommend your family and friends who need financial advice? Northern Virginia Magazine posed this question to local financial professionals, and those who received the most recommendations made their prestigious list of Top Financial Professionals.

It is a great honor to share that Elissa Buie, CFP^® and Yusuf Abugideiri, CFP^® have been named to Northern Virginia Magazine’s 2020 list of Top Financial Professionals, receiving top honors as trusted, local advisors. Congratulations, Elissa and Yusuf! Read more about their work and accomplishments below – we think it will become clear why they are deserving of this honor.

More About Elissa Buie, CFP

• Elissa has been practicing financial planning for over three decades.
• She has played a pivotal role in the development of the financial planning profession via her roles as:
  • Past Chair and a member of the Board of Directors for the Foundation for Financial Planning,
  • Past Chair of the Financial Planning Association and Dean for FPA’s Residency Program,
  • A member of the Schwab Advisor Services Advisory Board
  • An Adjunct Professor in Golden Gate University’s Financial Planning Program
• Elissa has been published in:
  • The Journal of Financial Planning:
    • Policy-Based Financial Planning Provides Touchstone in a Turbulent World
    • To Feel… Like a CFP
    • Evidence-Based Financial Planning: To Learn . . . Like a CFP
  • CFP Board:
    • Financial Planning Competency Handbook
• She has received media accolades from:
  • Worth Magazine – Top Advisor
  • Washingtonian Magazine – Top Advisor
  • Bloomberg Wealth Manager– Top Advisor
  • Financial Times – Top 100 Women Financial Advisers
  • InvestmentNews – Inaugural Women to Watch list
  • InvestmentNews – Influential People list
• And she has received the following awards:
  • P. Kemp Fain, Jr. Award
  • Alexandra Armstrong Lifetime Achievement Award

More About Yusuf Abugideiri, CFP

• Yusuf has been practicing financial planning for over ten years.
• He is passionate about mentoring the next generation of financial planners and growing the profession, and he is an active member of the:
  • Financial Planning Association^®
  • CFP Board’s Workforce Development Advisory Group
    • Yusuf contributed to the publication of Financial Planning Career Paths: Building More Sustainable and Successful Businesses.
  • Recent Alumni Board of the Pamplin College of Business at Virginia Tech
    • He visits the campus frequently to speak in financial planning classes.
  • Washington DC Estate Planning Council
    • He serves as the co-chair of the Recruitment Subcommittee on the Diversity and Inclusion Task Force.
  • Pro Bono for Cancer Initiative with the Foundation for Financial Planning
    • He is a volunteer and advocate of the program.
• Yusuf has been published in:
  • The Journal of Financial Planning:
    • Serving Millennial Clients with a 3-Step Model, co-authored with Russell Kroeger
• He has received media accolades from:
  • InvestmentNews – 40 Under 40
  • WealthManagement Magazine – Top CFP^®-Holders Under Age 36
  • Charles Schwab – Independent Difference Campaign
  • Washingtonian Magazine – Top Financial Advisor

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