Brackens Financial Solutions Network, LLC

Retirement income is the specialty at Brackens Financial Solutions Network, known as BFSN, a boutique financial services firm in Syracuse focused on strategic financial planning for individuals. The goal is building sustainable retirement income, the question of how to turn a lifetime of savings into money that lasts. Its clients are individuals planning for life after work.

The firm approaches that goal through three overlapping disciplines: risk management, investment management and estate preservation. The aim is to control risk without limiting investment flexibility, and the team acts as an advocate for each client’s needs. Its stated mission, held for about a quarter century, is to advocate, advise, monitor and motivate.

What to Know

• The focus is strategic financial planning for individuals, with sustainable retirement income as the central goal.
• Planning draws on risk management, investment management and estate preservation.
• Vicki Brackens is a registered representative of Lincoln Financial Advisors Corp., though the firm itself is not an affiliate of that company.
• The stated mission is to advocate, advise, monitor and motivate each client.
• A member of CenterState CEO, the regional chamber.