About

Cascade Financial Strategies’ offices are located in the heart of beautiful Bend, Oregon. Our team deeply values the community that calls this beautiful city home.

Our mission is to provide clients with planning-based investment and wealth management strategies that address every financial obstacle they may face throughout their lifetime. We offer Socially Responsible Investing (SRI) that evaluates funds based on the ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) criteria.

With two decades of industry experience, which included two economic recessions and investing challenges, the great value of providing planning-based strategies has been confirmed over and over again. We are able to implement comprehensive financial planning for clients that encompasses: wealth management, retirement planning and income strategies, life and long-term care insurance, tax management strategies, college funding, and estate planning.

Cascade Financial Strategies is owned by Jack Schniepp, whose career in the financial services industry began in 2002. He received his Certified Financial Planner Certification in 2007 and obtained the additional financial planning designation as a Chartered Financial Consultant professional.

Jack Schniepp, CFP®, ChFC® Financial Advisor
Jack founded Cascade Financial Strategies to provide comprehensive financial planning, wealth management, retirement planning, and investment management to families, individuals, small businesses, and non-profit organizations. Before moving to Bend in 2002, Jack spent ten years as a professor and head baseball coach at Concordia University in Irvine CA. His experience and passion for teaching and coaching has provided a natural and successful transition into the realm of financial planning. Jack supports and volunteers regularly at the Central Oregon Adult and Teen Challenge. He is also active in the causes of many other Central Oregon non profits. He and his wife Stacy reside in Bend and are involved in the many local activities and organizations that revolve around their eight children (Yes, you read that correctly!).

Education
Jack graduated from Westmont College in Santa Barbara, CA with a degree in social science and a secondary teaching credential. He then went on to obtain a Masters degree from East Stroudsburg University in PA.

Professional Experience
With over a decade of industry experience, which included two economic recessions and corresponding investing challenges, the great value of providing planning-based strategies has been confirmed over and over again. Jack’s primary focus, and the greatest need of his clients, is establishing and maintaining strategies that address the income needs of current and future generations. Jack is able to implement comprehensive financial planning for clients that encompasses wealth management, retirement planning and income strategies, impact investing, life and long-term care insurance, tax management strategies, college funding, estate planning, and positioning investments to meet these needs.

Professional Credentials
Jack has been a CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ practitioner since 2007. This certification carries the highest requirements in the industry in terms of ethics, education, experience and exams. A CFP® practitioner must adhere to the CFP® Board’s Code of Ethics. These Rules of Conduct require these professionals to put client’s interests ahead of their own at all times and to provide their financial planning services as a “fiduciary”—acting in the best interest of their financial planning clients. Jack has also obtained the additional financial planning designation as a Chartered Financial Consultant™ professional. For more information about the CFP® designation, visit this website: http://www.cfp.net/

Contact Jack at
541-678-5475
jack@cascadefs.com