Handling clients whose net worth averages $50 million each day is part of Robert Haynie’s job as a principal and Pacific Northwest area leader of Ernst & Young’s advisory practice. Excelling at his job earned him a spot as one of Worth’s 250 top financial advisors in the magazine’s July/August 2002 issue.
Haynie not only made the top 250 list, but was also one of six advisors ranked among the “brightest and most trustworthy financial advisers,” according to Worth’s editor-in-chief Randy Jones. Haynie is also an advisory board member of Ernst & Young Investment Advisers. He is a certified financial planner, certified investment management analyst, CPA, and personal financial specialist. “I owe this honor to my great clients and to being part of the Ernst & Young team,” Haynie said.
Competition for recognition among the nation’s top financial advisors can be fierce. Background checks, letters of recommendation, sample financial plans, professional designations, client-retention rates, and average portfolio returns are some of the criteria the magazine staff uses to generate the list.
Worth’s senior writer Melissa Phipps said the list contains the “people you can count on during good times and bad.” She continued, “What distinguishes the winners is their broad range of knowledge—from investment advice to tax and estate planning—that allows them to be financial quarterbacks for their clients.”
Haynie is president of the Puget Sound (Seattle) chapter of the BYU Management Society, board member of the University of Washington Gift and Estate Planning Council, member of the Investment Management Consultants Association, and a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and its Personal Financial Planning Division.
For the last six years, Haynie has lectured at BYU Education Week, addressing mass- market issues. He earned his MAcc from BYU in 1978. He and his wife, Ruth, have four daughters, and they reside in Shoreline, Washington.
