Rick Parkes, financial and retirement planning expert, was recently featured in USA Today as well as major online media outlets, including Yahoo!Finance, Morningstar, CNBC, MarketWatch and many others.

Raleigh, NC – June 23, 2012 – Rick Parkes, CRFA®, co-founder of Diversified Estate Services, was recently featured in USA Today with other leading experts from across the world as an “Emerging Business Leader To Watch.” A feature story about Rick Parkes was also recently seen on the online home pages of major publications such as Yahoo! Finance, CNBC, The Boston Globe, The Miami Herald, Morningstar, Los Angeles Daily News and MarketWatch, among many others.

As seen in the USA Today feature:

Rick Parkes has been changing lives as a financial advisor for over three decades. He helps people who have money keep their money and create a plan that will ensure that they do not outlive their money but live a comfortable life in retirement. He wants his clients to have a real plan instead of wishful thinking so they can Sleep Well At Night both when they are planning for and when they reach retirement. He calls it S.W.A.N. planning. Rick has been interviewed on ABC, NBC, Fox and CBS explaining the strategies that he has designed to help people weather the financial storms that lie ahead. History proves we see, on average, a bear market (a drop of 20% or more) every 4 1⁄2 years but we just can’t pinpoint when they will hit. So we have to have a real plan so as not to fumble the ball in the red zone just before retiring. Many of these strategies are described in his new book, “Help I’m Retiring!”, released by Amazon publishing.

Rick Parkes has also recently signed a publishing deal to co-author the forthcoming book, Cracking The Success Code: The World’s Leading Experts Reveal Their Top Secrets to Help You Crack the Code for Optimum Health, Wealth and Success. The book will feature top advice from leading entrepreneurs, business owners and marketing experts in a variety of industries from around the world. The authors will tackle an array of subjects ranging from health, wealth, marketing and business success.

To read the full feature story about Rick Parkes, as seen on CNBC, Morningstar, CBS MoneyWatch, The Houston Chronicle and others, please visit http://www.rickparkesradio.com/about-rick-parkes-crfa%C2%AE/

To learn more about Rick Parkes please visit http://www.rickparkesradio.com/