Ferd LaBrunerie

Ferd grew up St. Joseph, Missouri and often visited his grandparents and uncles in Columbia. After graduation from Harvard College in 1958, Ferd worked in banking in Kansas City. In 1966, seeing an opportunity to enter the then embryonic field of supplemental retirement savings and investments, he moved to Columbia and started a firm emphasizing systematic savings for retirement for Missouri educators. Ferd has been married for 61 years to Ann and they have three children and four grandchildren. Ferd is an avid tennis player.