August began his career in financial services at Lehman Brothers in 1996 working in operations for derivative securities while pursuing his degree in Economics at St. Peter’s College in Jersey City, New Jersey. He later joined Merrill as an intern, becoming a Financial Advisor in 1998. Today he serves as senior partner of Aiello, Zenzius & Associates.

August is devoted to serving the interests of a wide variety of clients, including corporate executives, business owners and retirees. His process begins by uncovering their feelings about their needs, values and family objectives. He also has conversations about their fears and what might be preventing them from achieving their goals. Once he learns as much as he possibly can about them, August creates disciplined wealth management strategies aimed at trying to accomplish the things in life they truly want to achieve.

August holds the FINRA Series 7, 63 and 65 registrations. He is also a licensed life and health insurance and commercial mortgage representative. Additionally, he holds the Chartered Retirement Planning Counselor, CRPC^TM and Certified Plan Fiduciary Advisor, CPFA^TM designation.

August resides in Allendale, New Jersey with his wife, Maria, son, August IV, and daughter, Victoria. August currently serves as President of the Board and co-head of the capital campaign for the Institute of Educational Achievement. A private, non-profit educational program for children, adolescents and adults with autism. He also sits as the current President of the executive board of the Allendale Holiday Observers—a 100 -year old organization dedicated to arranging various holiday events for the residents of his town. August also sits on the board of Allendale Housing Authority which is a non profit that provides housing for the disabled and senior members of the Allendale community. Additionally, August enjoys coaching his children’s baseball, basketball and soccer teams.

Named to the Forbes "Best-in-State Wealth Advisors" list in 2019*, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023**.

Published annually Jan - April. Rankings based on data as of June 30 of prior year.

Named to the Barron's "Top 1,200 Financial Advisors' list, 2024, 2023, 2022 and 2021*

 Published annually February - March. Rankings based on data as of September 30 of prior year.

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