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says Hill. Trust is the word used to define the
services at Edward Hill Wealth Management.
Hill continues, “This business is built upon
trust. You can either like me or not like me,
but you have to be able to trust me.”
Upon earning his Certified Financial
Planner (CFP) credential, Hill is designated
by law to do what’s in the best interest of each
client. Earning the highest level one can reach
as a financial planner, Ed strives to help his
clients achieve their greatest return. From
his earliest remembrances of childhood, Hill
wanted to be a vet to help animals. In college
he studied Premed to help patients. When
he rolled over his major to business to help
people capitalize on their financial plans,
Hill became the “Financial Doctor” of the
Sandhills.
“I’ve been helping people with their
finances for almost 20 years, and I consider
myself a financial doctor who prescribes
solutions for customized financial plans. I
love my work as I get to meet all walks of life,”
smiles Hill. “Meeting clients and hearing
their end game is important. The end game
is different for everybody because everyone
has different goals. There is no one end game.
Some people want a million dollars by the
time they’re sixty, and other clients just want a
$1,000 per month. Facilitating the end game to
completion is the best part of the job! A good
financial planner needs to be a good listener,
first and foremost.”
In listening to Hill’s story, the numbers
add up to include the greatest investments
of life in family time, hometown pride, and a
financial plan secured to make it all happen.
Called Edward growing up and named after
his grandfather Edd, Hill was born at First
Health Moore Regional Hospital in Pinehurst,
a local from the start. Terry and Amy Hill, Hill’s
parents, both NC State graduates, moved to
Aberdeen right out of college and got involved
with the community. Happy to find Seven
Lakes which was the new, up and coming
community, the Hill family became one of the
first residents in Seven Lakes in 1979, when
they built their house on Lake Echo. “My
grandfather was the brick mason who laid all
the brick and stone work; he built the house
from the ground up. My parents have lived in
the same house for forty-two years!”
Growing up as an only child, Hill enjoyed
life with all of the neighborhood children.
Remembering back, Hill smiles, “I was the
1980’s, get on your bicycle and have free
reign of the community kind of kid. Our
community used to have a summer camp,
and my friends and I would go to camp in the
morning and then spend all afternoon at the
pool. We learned how to play ping pong and
tennis, basketball, volleyball—we had all the
activities one could ever want! As swimming
became his favorite sport, Hill participated
with the Moore County Swim Meet and swam
against the Sandsharks. John Caliri started a
swim team in Seven Lakes in 1989, Hill joined
the team. Earning an athletic scholarship to
swim for NC State, Hill now swims on the US
Master’s team for the Sandsharks.
While growing up in Seven Lakes, most
of the community children attended West
End school which was K-8 as there was no
middle school. Pinecrest High School was
the high school, and Hill graduated in 1998.
Hill shares, “I got off the school bus at the
fire station where my parents would leave my
bike, and my friends and I would get on our
bikes and ride around the community before
going home to do our homework. When I
grew up and left home, I thought I would
never be back. However, once you have a
family, you realize, ‘Wow. This place is pretty
special!’ Now my kids get on their bikes with
their friends and do the exact same thing I did
growing up.”
Remembering back to his close friends,
Hill remarks, “Randy Tyner and I worked
every summer job together from the time
we were fourteen until twenty-two. We did
everything together and swam every practice
together. Randy went to Union Pines; I went
to Pinecrest. We both ended up at NC State on
swimming scholarships and swam together.”
Upon graduation, Tyner moved to Wilmington
and Hill to Boca Raton, Florida.
Using his people skills from giving swim
lessons to now helping clients at the bank,
Hill started a job at Colonial Bank. Starting
off in retail as a bank teller, Hill progressed
to head bank teller and soon transitioned to
the platform side which open accounts and
handles loans. From the accounts department
to commercial real estate, Hill became a
Commercial Analyst.
Always seeking growth, Hill signed up for a
MBA in real estate finance, while capitalizing
on an opportunity to work in the mergers and
acquisitions department. Learning just about
everything one can learn inside banking,
Hill soon earned his Real Estate License and
Mortgage Broker License. Always either in
school or working, Hill started investing his
earnings at age twenty-two which focused his
skill set to the investment side of finance.
Investing in another relationship, Hill met
Alicia, the love of his life, in Florida and so
began the journey home. After saying “I do,”
the Hill family soon learned that the area
wasn’t ideal for raising a family. “Once you
start a family,” tells Ed, “the dynamic changes
really fast. I had a great job; we were doing
really well when Alicia wanted to move closer
to her parents in Baltimore, Maryland. We
moved to Baltimore which lasted about six
months; Baltimore is miserably cold!”
Six month later, Hill bought a house on
the north side of Seven Lakes in 2007. “We
looked at this one house, and my wife said,
‘If you buy me this house, then I’ll move.’ At
the time, I was the #1 mortgage loan officer
for a company in Baltimore, and when my
boss heard I was moving, he offered to buy me
a house because he didn’t want to lose me,”
laughs Hill.
Upon settling in, the Hills traveled the ups
and downs of the market when the Recession
bottomed out in 2008. Happiness came in
welcoming their second son, soon to total
three sons on the roster. The Hill’s consider
William, Caleb and Henry their investments
of a lifetime!
When another opportunity of a lifetime
presented, Hill went for it. At home in Seven
Lakes, raising his family in Seven Lakes,
and desiring a career in Seven Lakes, Hill
established Edward Hill Wealth Management
on March 1, 2018. Since the Seven Lakes area
offered no financial planner, neighbors enjoy
the convenient office in town. Welcoming
clients from Pinehurst, Southern Pines,
Asheboro and all over the country, family
owned and operated Edward Hill Wealth
Management knows no limits.
Certified in trusts, wills, life insurance,
health insurance, long-term care planning,
tax planning and portfolio management, the
services cover the spectrum. Founder and
President Hill assures, “We don’t just look at
a portfolio. We look at the whole lifestyle, and
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