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Best financial advisors in Charleston, SC

Verified Charleston financial advisors for wealth management, retirement planning, estate and tax strategy - serving Downtown, West Ashley, Mount Pleasant, James Island, Daniel Island, North Charleston and beyond.

Rankings updated September 2026 from Google ratings and review volume - not paid placement

How to pick a financial advisor in Charleston

Ask one question first: are you a fiduciary, and how are you paid? Fee-only fiduciaries answer in one sentence. Anyone who dances around commissions is telling you the answer anyway.

Searching for financial advisors near me in Charleston? Everyone ranked below serves Charleston and the surrounding neighborhoods, including Downtown, West Ashley, Mount Pleasant, James Island, Daniel Island, North Charleston. Check the address and service area on a listing before you call, because the closest one is not always the one a search engine puts first.

How we rank these Charleston businesses

Today this order comes from public Google ratings and review volume, and nothing else.

A quality floor. At least a 4.0 rating and 15 or more reviews to be listed at all.
Confidence, not just stars. A thin rating gets pulled toward the typical rating for its own category, in proportion to how few reviews back it up; a well-reviewed rating is trusted almost entirely as is. A 4.9 from 7 reviews is a weaker claim than a 4.5 from 890, and the order says so.
Recent counts for more. A five star review from four years ago is not evidence about the crew working today.
One customer, one voice, and a burst of reviews in a single day counts for less than the same reviews earned over a month.
Local means local. A business has to actually serve Charleston to be listed here. We measure the distance from the business to the city and drop the ones that are really in another market, which is why you will not see a clinic an hour away sitting above the one down the road.
The ranked order is not for sale. No business can pay to move up in the numbered list. Every position in it is earned on public ratings and review volume and nothing else.
Featured is a labelled spotlight, not a rank. The starred card above the rankings is reserved for businesses that have recently joined Top Rated. A new client can be excellent and still have a short review history, and the numbers alone would bury them for months, so the spotlight gives them visibility while that history builds. It carries no position number, it never moves anyone in the numbered list below it, and it is clearly marked every time it appears. We also rotate it: promotions and seasonal events cycle different clients through the slot, so it is a turn in the spotlight rather than a permanent purchase.

What is changing. We are adding a second signal: reviews left here by customers whose job we can actually trace. It is built and published below so you can see it before it counts, and it is not part of the order yet. A review will count more when we can prove the job happened, not because it was left on our site.

How much each kind of review counts

1.6xVerified job
A Top Rated review from a customer whose job we can trace: we brokered the lead, the work was booked, and the review came after the job.
1.2xVerified account
A Top Rated review from a real, signed-in account that we cannot tie to a specific job.
1xGoogle
A public Google review. This is the baseline and it is not discounted.
0xUnverified
Anything we cannot stand behind. Shown if we show it, counts for nothing.

Still curious? The full methodology and the FAQ.

The full Charleston ranking

Show independents only

Runey & Associates Wealth Management Independent · Locally Owned

★★★★★ 5 · 54 Google reviews · 761 Coleman Blvd Ste E

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Coastal Strategic Capital Independent · Locally Owned

★★★★★ 5 · 52 Google reviews · 115 Fairchild St Ste 320

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PGI Financial Services Independent · Locally Owned

★★★★★ 5 · 30 Google reviews · 2467 Savannah Hwy Ste 520

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Bellerophon Wealth Management Independent · Locally Owned

★★★★★ 5 · 19 Google reviews · 1032 Savannah Hwy

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Oak Street Advisors - Fee-Only Fiduciary Financial & Tax Planners Independent · Locally Owned

★★★★½ 4.8 · 17 Google reviews · 884 Allbritton Blvd #215

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Curran Financial Partners Independent · Locally Owned

★★★★½ 4.8 · 64 Google reviews · 115 River Landing Dr Ste 200

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Financial Advisors in Charleston: common questions

Who are the best financial advisors in Charleston?

Based on Google ratings and review volume as of September 2026, the top rated financial advisors in Charleston are Runey & Associates Wealth Management, Coastal Strategic Capital, PGI Financial Services. See the live ranked list, ratings, and contact details on this page.

How do I find financial advisors near me in Charleston?

Every company ranked on this page serves Charleston and the surrounding area, including Downtown, West Ashley, Mount Pleasant, James Island, Daniel Island, North Charleston. Open any listing for its address, phone number and service area, then call the two or three closest to you. Distance is worth checking yourself: the nearest financial advisor is not automatically the best one, so this page ranks on rating and review volume first and leaves proximity to you.

How do I choose a financial advisor in Charleston?

Ask one question first: are you a fiduciary, and how are you paid? Fee-only fiduciaries answer in one sentence. Anyone who dances around commissions is telling you the answer anyway.

National resources

Useful national platforms for this category. These are not ranked listings: no ratings are involved and placement cannot be bought into the rankings above.

wealth.comOnline estate planning: wills, trusts and beneficiaries, built with advisors

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