{"id":4878,"date":"2015-08-18T09:38:28","date_gmt":"2015-08-18T16:38:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/americanretirementadvisors.com\/?p=4878"},"modified":"2015-08-18T10:25:35","modified_gmt":"2015-08-18T17:25:35","slug":"ara-ranked-on-the-inc-500-list-2nd-straight-year-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/americanretirementadvisors.com\/ara-ranked-on-the-inc-500-list-2nd-straight-year-2\/","title":{"rendered":"ARA ranked on the INC 500 list 2nd straight year"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>For Immediate release:<\/h5>\n<h4>[spacer height=&#8221;20px&#8221;]<\/h4>\n<p class=\"center\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>American Retirement Advisors is ranked on the<br \/>\nINC 500\u00a0list 2nd straight year<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"center\" style=\"text-align: center;\">[spacer height=&#8221;5px&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p class=\"center\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>For second consecutive year, American Retirement Advisors<br \/>\nis ranked the 4th fastest-growing company in Arizona<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"center\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>[spacer height=&#8221;5px&#8221;]<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"center\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>American Retirement Advisors is the No. 12 fastest growing financial services<br \/>\ncompany in the nation with three year sales growth of 2,228.9%<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"center\">[spacer height=&#8221;20px&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p><strong>Scottsdale, August 18, 2015<\/strong> \u2013 Inc. magazine on August 12th ranked American Retirement Advisors No. 4 fastest growing privately held company in Arizona, No. 12 fastest-growing financial services company in the nation and No. 189 overall, on its 34th annual Inc. 500 list of the nation&#8217;s fastest-growing private companies. The list represents the most comprehensive look at the most important segment of the economy\u2014America\u2019s independent entrepreneurs. Companies such as Yelp, Pandora, Timberland, Dell, Domino\u2019s Pizza, LinkedIn, Zillow, and many other well-known names gained early exposure as members of the INC 500.<\/p>\n<p>[spacer height=&#8221;20px&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAmerican Retirement Advisors is honored to be included in the INC 500 for a second consecutive year,\u201d says American Retirement Advisors CEO David P. Schaeffer. \u201cWe remain focused on fulfilling our clients\u2019 needs and eliminating their concerns. Providing financial certainty is our mission. Making healthcare and retirement planning 123 Easy is what we do! We are continuously adding staff and automating processes to maintain high levels of human interaction with our clients. Our clients love the fact that we answer the phones with real live friendly people! I could not be more proud of our team of advisors, planners and client care professionals.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>[spacer height=&#8221;10px&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p><strong>Contact:<\/strong> Alex Flood, 602-281-3839, Alex@ARA123.com, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanretire.com\/\">http:\/\/www.AmericanRetire.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>[spacer height=&#8221;20px&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p><strong>About American Retirement Advisors<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[spacer height=&#8221;2px&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p>Founded in 2001 by David. P. Schaeffer as American Senior Advisors and updated to American Retirement Advisors in 2010 to better describe its clients and services. Today American Retirement Advisors is a full-service retirement planning firm with over 23 team members and five distinct practices:<\/p>\n<p>[spacer height=&#8221;2px&#8221;]<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Accumulation planning<\/span> for people in their working years and raising families. (Beginning 2016)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>[spacer height=&#8221;1px&#8221;]<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Estate and Legacy planning<\/span> managing the transition of a life\u2019s savings to the next generation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>[spacer height=&#8221;1px&#8221;]<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Long-Term-Care planning<\/span> for the time when we may not be able to care for ourselves.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>[spacer height=&#8221;1px&#8221;]<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Medicare and Healthcare planning<\/span> navigating the thousands of choices into one that makes sense.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>[spacer height=&#8221;1px&#8221;]<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Retirement Income planning<\/span> is managing assets to provide inflation-adjusted, consistent income for a family\u2019s lifetime.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>[spacer height=&#8221;20px&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p>To see\u00a0American Retirement Advisors featured on Inc.com click\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.inc.com\/profile\/american-retirement-advisors\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>[spacer height=&#8221;5px&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/americanretirementadvisors.com\" target=\"_blank\">www.AmericanRetirementAdvisors.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>[spacer height=&#8221;10px&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/americanretirementadvisors.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"  alignleft wp-image-4866\" src=\"https:\/\/americanretirementadvisors.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Inc-500-logo_color-stacked.jpg\" alt=\"Inc 500 logo_color stacked\" width=\"217\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/americanretirementadvisors.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Inc-500-logo_color-stacked.jpg 2246w, https:\/\/americanretirementadvisors.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Inc-500-logo_color-stacked-300x249.jpg 300w, https:\/\/americanretirementadvisors.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Inc-500-logo_color-stacked-1024x849.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 217px) 100vw, 217px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-4717\" src=\"https:\/\/americanretirementadvisors.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/American-Retirement-Advisors-logo.jpg\" alt=\"American Retirement Advisors logo\" width=\"340\" height=\"94\" srcset=\"https:\/\/americanretirementadvisors.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/American-Retirement-Advisors-logo.jpg 3177w, https:\/\/americanretirementadvisors.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/American-Retirement-Advisors-logo-300x83.jpg 300w, https:\/\/americanretirementadvisors.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/American-Retirement-Advisors-logo-1024x283.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 340px) 100vw, 340px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For Immediate release: [spacer height=&#8221;20px&#8221;] American Retirement Advisors is ranked on the INC 500\u00a0list 2nd straight year [spacer height=&#8221;5px&#8221;] For second consecutive year, American Retirement Advisors is ranked the 4th fastest-growing company in Arizona [spacer height=&#8221;5px&#8221;] American Retirement Advisors is the No. 12 fastest growing financial services company in the nation with three year sales [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4879,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-retirement-planning"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>American Retirement Advisors 800-568-1095 Expert Advice<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"American Retirement Advisors, David P. 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