Your Trusted Advisor
Helping You Achieve Your Financial and Life Goals

As a registered investment advisor, Servant Financial has the personal commitment along with the professional responsibility to provide you with sound investment advice. Your success is our success, and we only act in your best interest. This is ethical advising you can trust.
LEARN MOREThe Servant Difference
Our step-by-step advisement process is designed to find investment preferences aligned with your values, allowing you to confidently pursue and achieve your financial goals. We never rush into things, and we take our time to ensure expert implementation and monitoring of your investments. Our guiding principles—integrity, compassion, and expertise—can be found in everything we do:
Your success is our success. As a registered investment advisor, Servant Financial is not only legally obligated but personally dedicated to putting your interests ahead of our own. In addition, we invest alongside clients in the same portfolio models and private market investments we recommend for you. This ensures integrity, transparency, security, and trust between investor and advisor.
We proactively monitor emerging investment trends including Environmental, Social, Governance (ESG) investments. We help you invest with purpose by keeping up with trends in social justice, diversity, and governance investments; decarbonization and other environmentally conscious investments; and digitization and technology trends. This also includes investing in the post-COVID world.
We make low-cost, passive investing accessible to you. Our expert knowledge along with low-cost, broadly diversified public investment solutions help you start on a secure path toward your financial goals, right now.
As your personal registered investment advisor, Servant strives to ensure that your investment journey will be specifically tailored to your needs, preferences, and goals. Together, we will invest with purpose and share in success.

Latest Insights
June 1, 2023
Summer Road Trip
The summer season has officially begun and following in the footsteps of the Griswold family, you’ve decided to take a…

April 28, 2023
Speeding Towards the E.R. – Economic Recession
Somebody Call 911, the U.S. Economy is Sick. Ambulance sirens blare, doctors prepare, and the patient is on their way…

March 31, 2023
Jeromeggedon and Calamity Janet
“Guess what guys, it’s time to embrace the horror! Look, we’ve got front-row tickets to the end of the earth!”…

March 6, 2023
Russia and Ukraine… One Year Later
By The Numbers One year ago, the lives of millions of Ukrainians were uprooted, and many more lives around the…

January 31, 2023
Where Have All the Good Workers Gone?
Reminiscent of the 1984 Bonnie Tyler hit from Footloose, many US employers are crooning for working class heroes. “I need…

December 22, 2022
Twelve Themes of Christmas
Contributions made by: John Heneghan & Michael Zhao ‘Twas the week before Christmas, when all through the financial house,…

December 1, 2022
Wild Turkey Inflation Run
Equity and bond market investors have a very busy week ahead of them after giving thanks with friends and family…

October 30, 2022
Commodities Refresh
Investors are shaking out the dustbin of their investment strategies to take a fresh look at commodities that haven’t seen…

September 28, 2022
Almighty Dollar
Current Status of US Dollar What do George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, and Benjamin Franklin have in common? These three American…

August 29, 2022
Don’t Judge A Book By Its Cover
Goals of the Inflation Reduction Act The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 was officially signed into law by President Biden…

July 29, 2022
Riding the Bitcoin Rocket
What is Bitcoin? Over the past few years it is more than likely you have either directly encountered Bitcoin or…

June 28, 2022
Environmental, Social, and Governance Investing
What is ESG Investing? Earlier this year we introduced ESG investing to you as one of our 2022 investing themes…

May 27, 2022
The Rollercoaster Market
Disclosure: This is not investment advice. Consult your investment advisor to make decisions appropriate for your portfolio and life circumstances….

April 29, 2022
Re-Evaluating the Role of Gold in Investment Portfolios
2022 has proven to be a particularly interesting and bumpy ride for investors as we travel the economic path toward…

March 31, 2022
Carbon-Nation: Intro to Carbon Markets
Although agriculture is the fourth leading source of greenhouse gas emissions (see Figure 1), agricultural land also has the unique…

February 24, 2022
Going, Going, Gone! Is Inflation Running Away with our Money and our Investment Returns?
On the field that is the U.S. economy, currently loading the bases are looming interest rate hikes, the value of…

January 25, 2022
Through the Looking Glass – Investment Themes to Watch in 2022
The world has been riding the COVID-19 rollercoaster for the past two years. Similar to Alice’s adventures in Through the…

December 28, 2021
Organic Agriculture: Fad or Durable Trend?
Background on Organic Agriculture Walking down the aisle of the grocery store, a shopper can find a variety of different…

November 29, 2021
One Up On Main Street – A Farmer’s Daughter’s Guide to Farmland Investing
Author’s Note “This past month, I defended my master’s thesis on the Role of Farmland in a Mixed Asset Investment…

October 28, 2021
Rural Broadband: An Investment in Connectivity
Author’s Note “Growing up on a farm in rural Illinois, access to internet was always a hinderance in my family’s…

September 27, 2021
What is Education Technology?
Chalkboards, pencil sharpeners, and slide projectors: all represent old school educational tools. Today these low tech devices are being rapidly…

August 19, 2021
Controlled Environment Agriculture: the Inside Scoop on Indoor Ag
Raging wildfires. Extreme droughts. Violent hurricanes. Rogue tornadoes… Nature is unpredictable. 2020 was a record-setting year for natural disasters, and…

July 20, 2021
Investing with Purpose: Mid-Year Reflections and Resolutions
Investing with Purpose isn’t an oxymoron. At Servant Financial, we believe that profit and principles go hand-in-hand. In early 2021,…

June 21, 2021
Promises and Pitfalls: the Uncertain Future of Carbon Credits
Modern-day Americans enjoy a standard of living that our forebears could only have dreamed of. Cell phones and computers, ready-made…

May 24, 2021
Fad or Fact? Investing in Organics
From fruit to baked goods, burgers to craft beer, organic is in. In 2016, 82% of Americans reported purchasing organic…

April 19, 2021
Food: from Farm to Future
Personal technology devices. Online delivery services. Life insurance. Even gas and oil… Technically speaking, all of these items and services…

March 6, 2021
Solving the Renewables Riddle: Investing in Energy Storage
Imagine a world powered totally by renewable energy. One still, winter night, you nestle in your favorite chair, switch on…

February 5, 2021
Investing With Purpose in 2021
At Servant Financial, our mission is to help you invest with purpose, but what does that mean? Everyone…

December 16, 2020
Reawakening to Bitcoin – in the wake of the pandemic, Bitcoin has reached an all-time high
In the short time since we visited Bitcoin in our feature article, “Wake Up to Bitcoin,” in June, the cryptocurrency’s…

December 9, 2020
Invigorating Our Mission — Re-Designing Our Website and Re-Visiting Our Values
Servant Financial Ltd. recently decided it was time to update our website. Since our initial website launch, we…

November 25, 2020
Soak Up the Sun — Investing in Solar Power
Solar photovoltaic (PV) energy is 2020’s fastest growing renewable energy source. According to the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, the United…

October 14, 2020
Blowin’ in the Wind
The History of Wind Power Seven thousand years ago, the Egyptians and Phoenicians used wind to power sailboats. This was…

September 8, 2020
Go with the Flow — Investing in Hydropower
What is Hydropower? Hydropower is a type of renewable energy that uses the force of flowing water to produce electricity….

July 30, 2020
Investing with Purpose
ESG and SRI Investing Investors use Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) criteria to guide more sustainable and socially responsible investment….

June 2, 2020
Wake Up to Bitcoin
What is Bitcoin and how does it work? Bitcoin (BTC) is the most well-known and successful form of cryptocurrency with…

About Servant Financial

My name is John S. Heneghan, registered investment advisor and president of Servant Financial. I established Servant Financial because I believe in investing with integrity, compassion, and experience. It’s our mission to provide the trusted financial expertise you need to manage your investments and build a better future for you, your family, and your community.
LEARN MORENEWSLETTER