About the Author
Tom Anderson is the founder and CEO of Supernova Companies, a financial technology company that provides a comprehensive platform focused on managing both sides of an individual's balance sheet.
Tom is a New York Times bestselling author and nationally renowned financial planning expert. While traditional wealth management focuses primarily on client assets, Tom challenges conventional wisdom by demonstrating the value in evaluating individuals' complete financial picture. He has trained more than 10,000 financial advisors nationwide on how to implement his balanced, holistic wealth management strategies.
While he was Executive Director of Morgan Stanley Wealth Management, Tom was recognized as one of the top 40 advisors under 40 years old by On Wall Street Magazine. Throughout his career he has been named multiple times by Barron's Magazine as one of America's Top 1,200 advisors: State by State. His first book, The Value of Debt, is a New York Times and USA Today bestseller and was named the #2 business book of 2013 by WealthManagement.com. His second book, The Value of Debt in Retirement, has been featured in the New York Times, USA Today, Forbes, the Washington Post, CNBC, Fox Business, and Bloomberg.
Tom has his M.B.A. from the University of Chicago and a B.S.B.A. from Washington University in St. Louis, where he achieved a double major in finance and international business. During his undergraduate years, Tom studied abroad extensively, participating in programs at the London School of Economics and the Cass Business School at City University London, and he spent a year at ESCP Europe on their Madrid campus. In 2002, he attended the University of Pennsylvania Wharton School of Business, obtaining the title of Certified Investment Management Analyst (CIMA®), sponsored by the Investment Management Consultants Association (IMCA). Additionally, Tom has earned the Chartered Retirement Planning CounselorSM (CRPC®) designation through the College for Financial Planning.
Prior to his career in private wealth management, Tom worked in investment banking in New York. He is fluent in Spanish and has lived and worked in Spain and Mexico. His extensive academic studies at some of the top schools in finance and economics, international experiences, and institutional background deliver a unique perspective on global markets.
Tom lives in downtown Chicago with his three children and his beautiful Goldendoodle, Harry, who is named after one of Tom's greatest influences, Nobel Prize–winning economist Harry Markowitz.
About Supernova Companies
Supernova is a new way of thinking about your world, challenging conventional wisdom yet representing Theory Implemented™. What began as an education company evolved to a comprehensive platform that centers on the effective management of both sides of the balance sheet and the delivery of balanced, integrated, holistic wealth management services.
The mission of Supernova Companies is to empower individuals to live their best life possible. We believe that the path to financial freedon happens through the effective management of both assets and liabilities, working together as part of a common plan and a bigger picture.
Supernova believes that by managing your life in an interconnected and holistic way, you will have a better chance of living a balanced life where you can not only enjoy the present, but also are prepared for the future and the curve balls life sends all of us along the way.
In the short term, we assist borrowers with refinancing to debt that has lower rates and better terms, striving to save consumers tens of billions per year in unnecessary interest expense.
The long-term vision of Supernova is to Revolutionize Debt™ by making the world safer for savers and to lower costs for borrowers. Supernova envisions a future where people throughout the world have access to borrowing money at rates lower than most governments and companies. Rather than having many loans, borrowers will have a loan—a single lending solution for all of their needs.
Through this process, Supernova envisions a world where interest rates start at zero percent for all borrowers, where there are zero ineffiencies, and where all people will have the biggest pie possible. A world where there is zero risk in the financial system and where you are more concerned about your grocery store having food on the shelf than you are concerned about a financial crisis, recession, or depression.
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