Kermit Johns

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RFC® Managing Partner
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Kermit Johns is the founder and managing director of Johns & Wilkinson LLC, a fee-only registered investment advisory firm in Austin, Texas. He was born and raised in the New York City area and in Central Pennsylvania. Educated at the University of Pittsburgh and Fordham University in New York City, Johns’ education in financial planning and asset and data management continues at Kaplan University and the University of Texas at Austin.

Since 1973, Johns has been engaged in asset management and financial and tax planning for individuals and companies. After a successful career in corporate tax with The Hertz Corporation, Warner Communications, and Time Warner Inc., Johns broadened his experience with arts management before settling on Wall Street to manage a retail brokerage. Using his knowledge of people and his experience as a financial manager, he successfully helped engineer the success of personal investing at the firm, stressing the importance of client services.

At the turn of the century, Johns began to question aspects of the commission-driven retail business. During his search for a better alternative, Johns studied the principles of passive index investing and the research of Rex Sinquefeld, Eugene Fama, and Ken French. Their collective years of market research on the behavior of markets convinced Johns that the long term investor is most effectively compensated for his or her risk when invested in a broadly diversified portfolio that is well-balanced according to the goals and risk tolerance of the client, and allowed to grow. Today, Johns builds his investment portfolios to provide low-cost solutions for the long term investor, honing his skills in analysis and asset allocation with the fine staff at Dimensional Funds, headquartered in Austin, Texas.

Always looking to improve his offering to his clients, Johns has recently increased the breadth of services to include a comprehensive wealth management program. This program transcends the traditional portfolio management process, and the team at Johns & Wilkinson is capable of providing all the services that help transform each client’s personal and financial goals into reality.