Hank Brock, ChFC, MBA, CPA, CLU

Chartered Financial Consultant

Beginning in 1979, Hank built Brock and Associates, Inc., which was one of the country’s largest independent fee-based financial planning and small-business consulting firms, with headquarters in Salt Lake City, Utah. In 1997 he sold most of his assets in the fifty-person firm while retaining certain sister companies (see below.) This fee-based financial consulting firm was also a Registered Investment Advisory firm with the SEC, and employed financial planners, attorneys, CPAs, MBAs, CFPs, Chartered Financial Consultants, and others to provide strategic financial and tax planning services to individuals, professionals, and business-owners.

Money Magazine (Fall, 1987) named Hank as one of America’s top financial planners, as selected by his peers (his competitors). Hank’s book, Your Complete Guide to Money Happiness , a 554-page hardback, includes testimonials from John Templeton, Bill Marriott, and 11 other Chief Executive Officers of Fortune 500 companies, plus U.S. Senators, and other investment experts. Amazon.com has given the book its highest five-star rating. Hank has been a guest on CBS, NBC, ABC, CNN, Fox (The Bill O’Reilly Factor), and Bloomberg, as well as dozens of other radio and TV programs.

From 1991 through 2003 he also ran Five Star Asset Management, LLC, another Registered Investment Advisory Firm with the SEC that provided fee-based professional portfolio management services to individuals, trusts, and corporations. In 1976 he co-founded his first investments partnership, Brock, Hinckley, Schow, and Company.

Hank received a B.S. degree in Accounting from Brigham Young University with a minor in Economics. He received a Masters degree in Business Administration (MBA) with an emphasis in investment analysis and taxation from the University of Utah, where he additionally completed a year of Ph.D. studies in Finance.He regularly attends numerous advanced-level courses and conferences throughout the country dealing with special issues facing seniors and business-owners, such as investments, taxation, estate planning, charitable giving, and retirement planning.

In 1990 Hank was appointed by Utah Governor Norman Bangerter as one of three members of the Utah Thrift Panel, established by the 1989 Legislature to arbitrate claims against five failed thrift institutions. He is a former trustee of the Utah Accountants Political Action Committee. He has served on numerous professional association committees, including the legislative, ethics, and financial planning committees of the Utah Association of CPA’s, as well as similar positions with other professional societies, including the Society of Financial Services Professionals, NAIFA, and as President of the Financial Planning Association of Utah, 1988-1989.

Brock and Associates, LLC works with “middle-income millionaires” with total assets from $500k to $50M.

Since 1981 Hank has presented hundreds of public and corporate seminars on financial and business planning topics. He has taught some 800 Continuing Professional Education (CPE) accredited programs for Certified Public Accountants, attorneys and other financial planning professionals.

In 2003, with their oldest five children away at school, Hank either sold or divested himself of his remaining businesses and moved with his wife and two youngest children to St. George, Utah, where they enjoy a comfortably slower and simpler lifestyle. In moving to Southern Utah, Hank joins other immediate family members including his mother, Thella Brock, sister Jill (Terry) Beitler, sister Draza (Terry) Esplin, and brother Wendell Brock, MBA, ChFC.

Hank works with strategies applicable to clients that hold from $1.5–50M in total assets.

Hank is married to his wife of 30 years, the former Julie Ann Herzog of Salt Lake City, Utah. They have seven children: Danny, Andrea, Larry, Leslee, Carrie, Beth, and Thomas. A native of Los Angeles, California, he called it home until moving to Salt Lake City in 1979. He enjoys old-time classic movies, reading, travel, and supporting his children in their equestrian pursuits and little league. His wife, Julie, volunteers weekly in the Emergency Room at the St. George IHC Hospital. Both Hank and Julie are fluent in Spanish and love foreign cultures.