My last name is pronounced “fights”.
I own a wealth management firm: Migration Wealth Management
I’m a fee-only financial planner based out of Indianapolis who works with clients across the United States.
I act as a household CFO/financial quarterback to provide a clear action plan for all areas of your financial life so that you can focus more of your time and energy on the things that matter most to you.
I help motivated people who:
- Don’t have the time to focus on their finances and investments like they should
- Know that there’s a lot about money, investing, and personal finance that they just don’t know
- Want to make sure they they’re being responsible with their money and are setting themselves and their families up for financial success
Who I Am
Suits are exclusively reserved for being in a wedding party. If you want a financial advisor who is a “suit”, then I’m not your guy.
I’m the weirdo who wakes up when the first number on the clock is a 4 and is at the gym when it opens at 5 AM.
Last time I didn’t have a beard: 2014 (?)
Last time I drank a pop (pop, not soda): 2007 (?)
High school mascot: Eels
College mascot: Unidentified Woodland Creature
High school graduating class size: 36
I was born on a holiday: Labor Day (yes, it counts)
Professional Bio
Drew Feutz, CFP® is a Co-Founder & Financial Planner with Migration Wealth Management which is an independent fee-only Registered Investment Advisor in Avon, IN. He also publishes his own personal finance blog, Certifiably Financial, and his podcast for professionals in the Indianapolis area, Circle City Success.
Drew got his start in financial planning as an Intern in May 2014, began working part-time as a Financial Planning & Investment Analyst during his final semester of college, and started working as a Financial Planner full-time upon his graduation in May 2015 until February 2022 when he started Migration Wealth Management.
Drew graduated Summa Cum Laude from Indiana State University where he earned a Bachelor of Science with a double major in Financial Planning as well as Investments in May of 2015.
During his time at ISU, Drew was a Scholar in the Networks Professional Development Program, a Service-Learning Scholar partnered with Junior Achievement of the Wabash Valley, President of the ISU Financial Planning Association Student Chapter, member of the Investment Club, and a University Honors Program student. Currently, Drew serves on the Indiana State University Financial Planning Advisory Board.
He spent his summers during college studying abroad at the Athens Centre in Athens, Greece, interning at First Direct Logistics in Dublin, Ireland, and interning at Market Street Wealth Management Advisors in Indianapolis.
Outside of work, Drew serves as a Fellow with the Mitch Daniels Leadership Foundation, as the Treasurer of Young Professionals of Central Indiana, as the Chair-elect of the NAPFA Genesis Committee, and as a board member of the Indiana State University Financial Planning Advisory Board.
Why did I create this blog?
I created this blog to help others and provide good financial information. I realize that most financial advisors only work with very wealthy people and I also know that financial education is something that those who aren’t wealthy need as well.
Most people don’t know that there’s another side to the financial advice industry and end up being stuck with purchasing a financial product from a salesperson rather than receiving the in-depth comprehensive financial planning they need and deserve.
I set a goal at the beginning of 2017 to post financial education topics to my social media at least two times per week which led me to realize how much people appreciate receiving that kind of information for free from someone who isn’t trying to sell them something. I’m not trying to sell you anything. If a financial salesperson comes to you and tries to sell you a product my advice is generally to run!
I’ve always had a passion for helping people and once I started taking courses within the Financial Planning major at Indiana State University, I realized that this was a way to combine something that I enjoy with helping others in a way that can be extremely beneficial to them.
How did I become a financial planner?
I lucked into it.
I was just like everyone else. I didn’t know anything about personal finance until my junior year of college.
I came into financial planning in a roundabout way. I was raised in a middle-class family in a farming community in rural Indiana. I was fortunate enough to have the values of hard work and discipline instilled in me at a young age by my parents and grandparents, which is really the basis of where I am today. I’ve never been the smartest or the most athletic, but I’ve always tried to be the hardest worker in the room.
In high school, I realized that my parents weren’t going to be able to afford to send me to college and that it was going to be up to me to figure it out. I spent hours upon hours filling out scholarship applications, writing essays, and editing those essays with suggestions from my mom (I’m lucky that she’s a teacher and is good at English). One day, I received a scholarship application packet in the mail for the Networks Scholarship at Indiana State University which requires that recipients are business majors.
The scholarship provides full in-state tuition, a $3,000 professional development account, professional development seminars most Thursdays for four years of college, experiential learning, creating and developing professional relationships, and personalized coaching. My mom encouraged me to apply for the scholarship although I felt that I had no chance at being selected for it.
Somehow, I convinced them to pay for my college education. I could not be more grateful for this!
Like many college students, I didn’t really know what I wanted to do entering college, but I thought that I wanted to do something in business. As I made my way through my freshman and sophomore years, I narrowed down my career interests to operations and supply chain management and finance. I was fortunate to have an internship at a logistics firm in Dublin, Ireland the summer after my sophomore year of college. Living in Dublin for 3 months was a fantastic experience and it helped me to realize that this was not the path that I wanted my career to head.
At the beginning of my junior year of college I learned about a new Financial Planning major at the university which piqued my interest. I began taking classes for the major and quickly found that this is where my passion lies. Not only does financial planning allow me to help others, but it’s something that I can use to make my own life better as well.
I was fortunate enough to intern at a fee-only wealth management firm in the summer of 2014. I loved working there and I must have done something right because I was offered a full-time position in September 2014 to begin upon my graduation in May 2015. However, I actually started working over winter break in 2014 and worked 3 days per week during my final semester at Indiana State. I feel very fortunate to have landed at in the fee-only community right off of the bat due to the great support and opportunities that I have received and the focus on always doing what’s best for the client.