About Friedland Financial Planning

Robert B. Friedland, Ph.D., founded Friedland Financial Planning, Inc. to help people plan for life with more confidence in their financial plans. To ensure that our focus is entirely on you, we do not sell products or accept any form of commission. We only provide financial and investment advice and assistance in implementing that advice.

Robert is a nationally recognized expert in Social Security, pensions, health care, and long-term care.

He has devoted 30 years to policy research, teaching, and working with state and federal policy makers to help promote public policies that improve retirement and retirement income.

Prior to opening Friedland Financial Planning, Inc, Robert earned a Ph.D. in Economics from the George Washington University, Washington DC. He has held key positions at the State of Maryland Medicaid program, the Employee Benefit Research Institute, AARP, and the National Academy of Social Insurance. In 1994, Robert founded the National Academy on an Aging Society, which became the Center on an Aging Society when it was moved into Georgetown University. Robert continues to conduct research and teach health economics, business statistics and research methods at Georgetown University.

Robert is widely published, including an award winning book, Facing the Costs of Long-Term Care. He has been quoted in dozens of publications, including the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Kiplinger’s and Money, and has been a guest on numerous radio and television shows. He has testified before several committees of Congress and has had the privilege of speaking at conferences all over the country and, occasionally, in Europe.

Robert decided to help people directly by registering Friedland Financial Planning Inc., as an investment adviser and passing the necessary exams to be an investment adviser representative. He has taken financial planning and investment courses and seminars at Boston University, Boston Institute of Finance and Basic Training through the Garrett Planning Network. In addition, he is a member of the Financial Planning Association, The National Association of Personal Financial Advisors, and the Garrett Planning Network.

Married with 3 children, Robert understands the financial issues of raising children and planning for retirement. He is involved with community and professional organizations, including a local Boy Scout Troop. He was recently on The Montgomery County Senior Strategic Plan Advisory Committee, and is currently Board Chair of the Governing Board of the National Academy for State Health Policy, a Commissioner on the American Bar Association Commission on Law and Aging, a member of the Board of the Health Assistance Partnership Program, on the Editorial Board of Aging Today, and on the Board of the Garrett Financial Education Alliance, a not for profit foundation dedicated to improve understanding of financial issues.