Kevin McAvoy

Kevin McAvoy - CLU®, LUTCF, CFP®

Special Needs Financial Planner
Financial Service Representative

Barnum Financial Group's
Center for Special Needs Planning
6 Corporate Drive
Shelton, CT 06484

Phone: (203)513-6046
Fax: (203)513-6080
E-mail: kmcavoy@metlife.com


Kevin is a Special Needs Financial Planner at Barnum Financial Group's Center for Special Needs Planning.  Kevin began his storied career at MetLife in 1982. Kevin McAvoy is a CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER® certificant from the Certified Financial Planning Board of Standards. He also has earned his Chartered Life Underwriter designation (CLU®) and Life Underwriter’s Training Council Fellow (LUTCF) and is a perennial member of the Advanced Property & Casualty Council.

In 1998 he became a Special Needs Financial Planner for MetLife’s Center for Special Needs Planning, which lead to his appointment on the Planned Lifetime Assistance Network’s Investment Executive Board, as well as the Autism Spectrum Research Center’s Employment Council. Kevin has been the keynote speaker for the Turner’s Syndrome National Conference & charitable giving workshops throughout the special needs communities in Connecticut & New York.  
 
The Barnum Financial Group, an office of MetLife, has opened the doors of opportunity to enhance his capabilities through extensive professional partnering. One such partnership lead to the development of Barnum Financial Group's Center for Special Needs Planning.  Kevin's vast knowledge in special needs planning and advocacy in the community brought him and Anthony together for the development of the Center.  The Center provides families in Connecticut and surrounding states a central resource of information.
 
As a host for WICC’s Smart Money Radio, Kevin’s decades of business experience, satirical humor & a touch of Yankee common sense, helps shed light on complex planning issues, & brings them into an understandable message his listeners can use in their personal financial lives.