Specialties
Fiduciary, fee-only, independent financial advisor serving successful families, entrepreneurs, and young high earners — with no commissions, ever.
As your fiduciary, we're legally obligated to put your interests first. No product quotas. No hidden incentives. Just unbiased advice tailored to you.
Our services include:
• Comprehensive financial planning & financial coaching
• Investment management built to outperform
• Retirement planning
• Tax planning, estate planning & stock options
• Business owner support & employer retirement plans (401(k)s, SEPs, etc)
• Transparent fees - we charge based on assets managed, or for qualified clients, a share of profits we generate
Serving clients throughout Southern California and nationwide.
Meet the Business Owner: Kyle DePaolo and Dane May .
Kyle and Dane are the founders of DePaolo & May Strategic Wealth.
Kyle’s entire professional career has been focused in the financial industry. After graduating from UCLA in 2009 with an economics degree, he spent more than a decade with Mitchell Anthony Capital Management, a boutique investment firm in Irvine, CA with $300 million under management. There, after several years progressing through the firm, he worked as a senior member of the investment team actively managing strategies for clients.
Dane, after graduating from Purdue University, spent 10 years in New York City working at Bank of America / Merrill Lynch and J.P. Morgan. He later made his way out to the west coast where he joined Mitchell Anthony Capital Management, a boutique investment firm in Irvine, CA, alongside Kyle. There he helped build active investment strategies to beat benchmarks and manage risk.
Together, Kyle and Dane launched their own wealth management firm, DePaolo & May Strategic Wealth, in 2023.