The Fredman Wealth Management Group was founded with the goal of delivering the vast resources of one of the world's most prestigious wealth management firms with all the intimacy and personal service of a boutique. By taking a a true holistic planning approach to the wealth management process, we aim to assist clients with every aspect of their financial lives.

Andy Fredman has been with Merrill Lynch Wealth Management since 1993 and works with affluent individuals, families and businesses providing a comprehensive approach to planning and wealth management. With the concept that planning is a process and not an event, Andy will provide access to services that help clients establish their true investment policy statement, develop their asset allocation and help quantify risk and return while focusing on investment planning, tax minimization strategies and estate planning services. Utilizing Merrill specialists and client's other advisors (attorneys and accounts), he helps develop the team approach that will allow for a total balance sheet approach to wealth planning.

Andy is a graduate of Boston University with a Bachelor of Science and Business Administration with a focus in Corporate Finance. He is a CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER^™ certificant, CFP^®, a designation awarded by the Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards, Inc. He holds the Chartered Retirement Planning Counselor, CRPC^™, a designation awarded by the College for Financial Planning Institutes Corp. Andy is qualified through the Merrill Investment Advisory Program as a Portfolio Manager. A Portfolio Manager can help clients pursue their objectives by managing on a discretionary basis his own personalized or defined strategies, which may incorporate individual stocks and bonds, Merrill Lynch Wealth Management model portfolios, and third-party investment strategies. 

Andy lives in Creve Coeur with his wife Katy and their four children.