Outpost Advisors, LLC

Steven Manuel is a financial advisor at Outpost Advisors, LLC in Cincinnati, OH, holding a Series 65 designation with five years of industry experience. He has been with Outpost Advisors since 2020 and is also the creative director and owner of Viva Bella Events, where he develops content and staging for corporate events. Outpost Advisors provides discretionary investment management and financial planning services to individual clients and employer plan sponsors. The firm emphasizes passive, asset-class weighted portfolios using low-cost index funds and ETFs, complemented by fundamental analysis and selective third-party managers, and offers a range of planning options including comprehensive and project-based services.

As a Principal and Financial Planner at Outpost Advisors, Mark spends his time creating unique financial plans that power our clients’ family visions and dreams for life. Mark is raising three girls in Salt Lake City, Utah with his wife Amelia, who practices medicine as an Obstetrician and Gynecologist. After graduating from Princeton University, Mark began his career at the International Monetary Fund teaching central bankers how to budget (whilst managing interest rates, monetary policy and political instability). In his free time he taught classes in financial literacy to DC-area families dealing with poverty. From there, he moved on to mortgage finance giant Freddie Mac, where he helped to execute the largest preferred equity capital raise in US history. Next, he spent a year at Jones Lang Lasalle managing a $750M asset portfolio for the Army, before relocating to Utah where he helped to build the outdoor retailer Backcountry.  Before leaving to found Outpost Advisors Mark spent 5 years as a leader at ExpertVoice, a technology startup funded by Bain Capital and Sorenson Capital. Mark has had the great joy of leading individuals and families in budgeting, family visioneering and financial stewardship for several years – both at work and through volunteer roles at church. Mark can also often be found blogging about all of these at the website Abraham’s Wallet. Mark holds an MBA from The George Washington University with a focus on finance. When he’s not playing with spreadsheets, Mark enjoys everything on offer in the mountains of Utah, whether it’s skiing, trail running, hunting, climbing or riding bikes with his family.