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Hank Parrott Inducted Into Ed Slott's "Elite IRA Advisor Group™"

"The Senior Financial Coach" among exclusive unit of highly trained IRA experts

BRENTWOOD, TN, 2005 � Estate & Financial Strategies, Inc. (EFS) today announced that the company's President, Hank Parrott, ChFC, RFC, CEP, CSA, has been named to Ed Slott's "Elite IRA Advisor Group™" � a distinction currently held by only 80 financial planners worldwide.  Ed Slott's Elite IRA Advisor Group, in which professionals are included by invitation only, helps financial planners establish themselves as recognized leaders in the IRA marketplace as a cut above even the most highly trained IRA advisors.

Parrott, one of only two Tennessee-based Elite IRA Advisors recommended in Slott's most recent book, has earned the distinction as "The Senior Financial Coach" whose "Financial Playbooks" and "Retirement Game Plans" have become the hallmark of EFS' financial planning services.  

Ed Slott, CPA, named as "The Best" source for IRA advice and "America's IRA Expert" by leading national media outlets, is a preeminent IRA distribution expert, speaker, columnist, and author of Parlay Your IRA Into a Family Fortune, The Retirement Savings Time Bomb and How to Defuse It, and Ed Slott's IRA Advisor, his monthly IRA newsletter. Through this elite group of highly trained IRA specialists, Slott hopes to assure those throughout our nation who utilize IRAs for retirement savings have access to highly skilled and extremely competent advisors to maximize performance of this investment vehicle and, in doing so, help secure their financial future.

"Through his extensive training and education, Hank Parrott understands the many complexities and infinite details of IRAs and, as such, can evade costly, avoidable mistakes and assure asset growth," said Slott.  "Hank's commitment and desire to �go the extra mile' to safeguard and service his clients by staying current on the ever-changing and notoriously confusing IRA marketplace makes him an outstanding addition to my Elite IRA Advisor Group."

Parrott noted, "I'm honored to have been invited, and ultimately inducted, into Ed Slott's Elite IRA Advisor Group, which is truly the �cream of the crop' of IRA experts.  No other assemblage of financial planners have the same in-depth understanding of IRAs, and I am eager to put the specialized knowledge I've amassed through my affiliation with this team to work for my clients and watch their IRAs flourish."

About Estate & Financial Strategies, Inc.
Estate & Financial Strategies, Inc. (EFS) is a financial services firm dedicated to helping seniors safely preserve, protect and proliferate their assets.  As President of EFS, Hank Parrott - also known as "The Senior Financial Coach" - applies the most current and proven methods guaranteed to help senior citizens protect and grow their estate and, in doing so, safeguard their � and their family's - financial future.  Hank can be reached through his Web site at www.SeniorFinancialCoach.com . 

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