We Work For You
Our financial advisory firm is more than just a business; it's a family. And for over 40 years, we've been helping other families just like yours pursue their financial and retirement goals. Our team is not just experienced but also deeply committed to understanding your unique needs.
Ed Thiessen, CFP®, CAP®, LUTCF
Financial Advisor
With a servant’s heart and a steady focus, as a fiduciary, Ed helps guide clients to the financial and retirement futures they’ve envisioned for themselves. By understanding their goals, dreams, priorities — and the charitable causes important to them — he helps craft plans designed to last.
After more than 40 years personally serving clients while also supporting more than 1,000 agents, brokers and advisors as a wholesaler, Ed now works solely with his own clients. His decades of experience as a wholesaler have kept him up to date on the latest planning, insurance and investment information and trends. He reviews his clients’ needs with a broad understanding of the options available.
Ed got his start in the insurance business in Omaha, Nebraska, in 1979, and he’s added additional licenses and certifications over the years, including the Series 7, 63, 65 and 24 securities exams. He is a CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ professional and holds the Chartered Advisor in Philanthropy (CAP®) and Life Underwriter Training Council Fellow (LUTCF) designations.
A graduate of Corn Bible Academy in Corn, Oklahoma, Ed attended Southwestern Oklahoma State University in Weatherford, Oklahoma, and Grace College of the Bible in Omaha, Nebraska, as a music major pursuing music and youth ministry. Today, Ed is active in the music ministry of his church, singing in the chapel choir and playing guitar to accompany soloists and small groups. He enjoys composing music and writing poetry in his spare time.
He and his wife, Janet, Southwest Financial Advisory Group’s Director of Operations, have been married for more than 44 years. They have two grown children, son Kyle and daughter Krysten, and five grandchildren. An Oklahoma native, Ed has lived in Edmond for more than 15 years.
Ed and Janet love to travel, including recent trips to Paris, Positano, Prague and southern France. They also enjoy visiting Cabo San Lucas and taking the occasional cruise, as well as traveling to visit their children and grandchildren.
Janet Thiessen
Director of Operations
Janet’s warm welcome and caring demeanor set clients at ease, and her commitment to outstanding service keeps the Southwest Financial Advisory Group office thriving. After working in two banks, an insurance company home office, and a national marketing firm, Janet has served alongside her husband, Ed, for the past 40 years as Director of Operations for the business.
Like her husband, Janet studied music in college, majoring in piano performance at Grace College of the Bible in Omaha, Nebraska. She is an accomplished pianist and plays regularly for the large chapel services at their church, Crossings Community Church.
Janet and Ed have been married for more than 44 years and have two grown children, a son, Kyle, and a daughter, Krysten, and five grandchildren. The couple loves to travel, and Janet has a special fondness for Paris, her favorite destination.