Blayne Andersen
Founder & Private Wealth Advisor
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- Full Name
- Blayne A. Andersen
- Title
- Founder, President & Chief Investment Officer
- Firm
- BANDER Wealth Management
- Firm Type
- Independent, locally owned wealth management / financial advisory firm
- Investment Stage
- Private equity and venture placements are referenced; no public stage-specific angel mandate was verified.
- Check Size
- Oil and gas tax-strategy investments are described by BANDER as typically starting at $100,000; no public startup/angel check size was verified.
- Target Company Profile
- Public materials do not describe a startup target-company profile; BANDER’s advisory practice focuses on high-net-worth families, business owners, professionals, retirees, and collegiate/professional athletes.
- Sector Focus
- Wealth management, tax-smart planning, alternative investments, real estate, oil and gas, structured notes, private equity, and venture placements.
- Geographic Focus
- Clients throughout the United States.
- Location
- Idaho Falls, Idaho
Background
Blayne A. Andersen is the founder of BANDER Wealth Management, an Idaho Falls-based independent wealth management firm founded in 2009. The firm says it provides comprehensive, tax-smart wealth management for high-net-worth families, business owners, professionals, retirees, and collegiate and professional athletes across the United States.
Andersen is listed by BANDER as Chief Investment Officer and by firm-authored articles as President and Chief Investment Officer. His firm biography says he has well over a decade of capital markets experience and works across securities, retirement planning strategies, real estate, oil and gas, structured notes, private equity, and venture placements.
He holds CFP and AIF credentials, plus Series 7 and Series 66 registrations, and is a Registered Financial Advisor with the NFLPA. His LinkedIn profile lists Brigham Young University from 2003 to 2006 and an Executive Certificate in Financial Planning from Pepperdine Graziadio Business School issued in January 2013.
In October 2020, Arkadios Capital announced that BANDER Wealth Management, founded by Andersen, had moved more than $125 million in client assets from Parkland Securities to Arkadios Capital’s hybrid broker/dealer platform.
Investment Thesis & Focus
- BANDER’s stated approach is “comprehensive, tax-smart wealth management” integrating investment management, tax strategy, retirement income planning, cash-flow management, risk mitigation, and wealth preservation.
- Andersen’s public bio emphasizes alternative investments including real estate, oil and gas, structured notes, private equity, and venture placements.
- BANDER’s materials focus heavily on accredited-investor strategies, including oil and gas programs with tax deductions, tax-advantaged income, and estate-planning benefits.
- Andersen says he “love[s] entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship” and frames financial planning as a way to create tax and investment strategies that help small business owners take their businesses “to the next level.”
- His quoted investment-planning maxim on the firm site is: “Rich people work hard for their money; wealthy people make their money work hard for them.”
- Public sources did not verify a dedicated seed-stage angel investing thesis, named startup criteria, or a standard angel check size.
Notable Investments
- No specific startup or angel portfolio companies were publicly verified in the sources reviewed.
- BANDER Wealth Management publicly references access to private equity and venture placements, but does not list specific portfolio companies or deal participation.
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