Steve Hansen was recently featured in USA Today as part of the feature “The Next Big Thing.”

Denver, CO – August 25, 2014 – Best-selling author Steve Hansen, Founder of Altitude Planning Group, was recently featured in USA Today with other leading financial professionals from across the United States. The piece, titled “America’s PremierExperts® Presents: The Next Big Thing,” ran in the August 14th 2014 edition of USA Today. The piece features quotes from these leading financial professionals discussing “The Hottest Trends in Health, Wealth & Success.”

Here is what the readers of USA Today learned from Steve Hansen:

“The only difference between financial failure and financial success is how well you manage your money. The key to financial success is simple: in order to master your money, you must manage your money.”

An advisor since 1991, Steve Hansen founded Altitude Planning Group intent upon providing the personalized financial services retirees and pre-retirees need to achieve the retirement they envision. He emphasizes personalized service because all of his clients have different financial goals and are best served by strategies customized for each client’s unique needs.

Steve’s ability to help clients derives from extensive education and the kind of in-depth knowledge that comes from over 20 years of experience of the principals. He has been named a Five Star: Best in Client Satisfaction Wealth Manager, as seen in 5280 and Denver Biz magazines. The firm has also received the “Gold Star” award from the Denver Better Business Bureau for 11 consecutive years starting in 2003 through 2013.

Steve Hansen has recently been acknowledged by America’s PremierExperts® as one of the leading experts in his field. America’s PremierExperts® recognizes leading experts, across a wide array of industries, who are willing to provide information and education to consumers as a public service.

On the day of release, Steve’s book, The Winning Way, reached best-seller status in three Amazon.com categories – reaching #8 in the “Direct Marketing” category and #12 in the “Marketing For Small Business” category. The book also reached best-seller status in the “Marketing” category. Steve Hansen contributed a chapter titled “Retirement Investing For the 21^st Century: Divide and Conquer!”

To learn more about Steve Hansen, please visit http://altitudepg.com/

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Steve’s passion for assisting people stems from what happened to his wife’s grandmother. Because of inadequate planning, she became destitute after losing her husband and died penniless after her assets were spent down due to Medicaid.

His mission is to help others avoid that nightmare. “We strive to offer solutions that can help you manage risk while growing and protecting your retirement assets,” he says. “Altitude Planning Group’s philosophy is preservation of wealth, both in the accumulation and distribution stages. We provide our clients a clear road map as to how to achieve their individual financial goals.”