Ken's Bio

 In pursuit of achieving our clients’ unique financial goals, Ken Mahoney specializes in investment management, combining his abilities with resources of Aurora Capital LLC and Legent Clearing to provide the highest quality, most comprehensive total financial planning package available. Our intention is to develop long-term relationships based on mutual trust with our clients.

Ken Mahoney established Mahoney Asset Management to provide a comprehensive array of financial planning services designed to help you maintain your desired lifestyle throughout your golden years. With the goal of becoming your primary financial advisor, we embrace a time-tested approach that seeks to help you achieve you goals while reducing risk through proper asset allocation.

The Principle of Mahoney Asset Management:

Ken Mahoney         

An accomplished financial advisor, author, and speaker, Ken brings over 22 years of professional experience to residents of the New York City metropolitan area.  

He is the owner of Mahoney Asset Management.  Ken's opinions on the world of finance have been published nationally. He sat on the Advisory Board of the House of Representatives Banking and Finance Committee, has taught finance at Dominican College, and won 2001’s annual “Stock Picking” contest held by Gannett Newspapers. He is a frequent guest speaker at business associations, corporations, senior groups, and other organizations throughout the region.  Prior to founding Mahoney Asset Management, Ken was Senior Vice President and an Investment Officer with a major brokerage firm.

His expertise has not gone unnoticed by the periodicals either.  Ken's market comments and perspectives are published in the Hudson Valley Business Weekly.  His financial opinions have been published by USA Today, as well as by various local publications.  He is a familiar quoted figure in the business pages of The Journal News and was a respected member of the newspaper’s Business Leaders Roundtable. Ken hosted WRKL Radio’s Smart Investor show from 1992 to 1998, and co-hosted Financial Mobility on WRKL and TKR  He also hosted Invest in You Community in the early 1990s.  Since 1992, Ken has published the financial newsletter, The Smart Investor.  

As a respected leader in the community, Ken has chaired United Way special events and is currently the Co-Chair of the Business Council of the Make-a-Wish Foundation of Hudson Valley.   He was Chair of the Board for Make-a-Wish, sat on the foundation’s Finance Committee, and served as Treasurer of the Executive Committee.  His efforts as co-chairperson of the foundation’s gala events helped raise substantial funds to further the organization’s goals.  Ken and his wife have been honored at past Galas.

            He is now on the Board of Richmond Community Services, on which he works to  support people and their families with developmental disabilities.  He is also the Co-Chair of the Business Council of the Make-A-Wish foundation, for which the goal is to raise funds to support the mission of granting wishes to children. 

Ken also served for seven years as a member of the Board of Directors for Meals on Wheels and has been involved in the agency’s golf and tennis challenge.  Meals on Wheels honored Ken as Rockland’s Community Leader of the Year in 2002.  

He has earned distinguished service awards from the NY State Legislation, County of Rockland, and NY State Assembly for his work with charities.     Ken Mahoney is the creator of the Westchester Stock Index and the Rockland Stock Index, both of which have appeared in a number of newspapers.  The indexes are composed of local companies and are compared to national indexes. 

Building on his financial background, Ken became co-publisher of The Rockland Business Digest in the spring of 2006.  The Digest is the official magazine of the Rockland Business Association and is sent to every business in Rockland. Every issue is sent to 11,000 businesses and has over 70,000 monthly web site hits recenetly.  Ken also writes for the publication.  You can visit the Digest online at www.rocklandbusinessdigest.com

 Ken is also the author of Investing From Within: A Story of Understanding, which offers investment advice to various personality types.  He also launched a series entitled The Zoo Exchange: Teaching Our Kids About Money, which teaches children about finance principles. 

            Ken just released his latest book, Now What? This book focuses on protecting your capital, making tax efficient distributions, and transferring your wealth in the most economical way.  His Now What? blog is updated frequently at http://kenmahoney.blogspot.com/

He now gives a market report every morning on WRCR 1300 am at 9:15  www.wrcr.com and WTBQ 1110 am and 99.1 fm at 7:30 , as well as WHUD 100.7 FM www.whud.com.