David C. Templeton, RFC, founder and president of Adage Financial Consultants, Inc., has been in the financial services industry for over 30 years. He specializes in providing both safety and opportunity “with the same dollar at the same time.” David is a passionate advocate of strategies that help his clients (many of whom have been with him for decades) protect their principal while participating in market opportunities. David knows that to be trusted with someone’s financial future is a serious matter and one that deserves his careful, personal attention. That’s why in 1989 he left a lucrative position at one of the nation’s largest financial services firms to strike out on his own and provide client service his way. “After a few years of looking at a relationship from the firm’s perspective, I wanted to concentrate on serving my clients by expanding the solutions and services I could offer,” he says. “I didn’t want to be tied down with only being able to represent the products and services that the firm I was working with offered” David’s independence has served him, and his clients, very well.

After watching clients’ portfolios rise and fall on the stock market rollercoaster, David searched for solutions that actually protected a client’s principal. “I was there when new technologies helped the financial services industries evolve. At that time I was actively searching for a way to help clients preserve the wealth they had worked so hard to accumulate.” David says when the market tanks his phone doesn’t ring. “I never get calls from my clients complaining about the market because my clients are protected from the turbulence,” he says. “I tell people I sell sleep insurance,” he adds. “But I have to sleep at night, too. That’s why I carefully research and make sure I fully understand everything we have access to at AFC.” A New Orleans native, David lives in Maumelle, Arkansas, where his passions are the Razorbacks, LSU and Saints football, Cajun cooking and spending as much time as possible outdoors. “I never pass up an opportunity to be in the outdoors, whether it be hunting, fishing or just relaxing at one of the beautiful lakes in Arkansas,” he says. His son, Drew, also grew up with a love of adventure. His is currently a reigning professional paintball champion, as well as a marketing specialist.