Raymond is a graduate of Wingate College with a degree in technology. He is also a nationally recognized retirement educator, seminar speaker, and national mentor to other financial service professionals and to thousands of his own successfully retired clients, now spread throughout many states. He has taught strategies in Retirement and Estate Planning at colleges, conference centers and retirement workshops all across North Carolina. North Carolina retirees have long enjoyed the safe money retirement advice as a source of insight, commentary and balanced information that Raymond provides. He is the past president of the Salisbury Chapter of the National Association of Financial Professionals and a recipient of the prestigious National Quality Award. Raymond is insurance licensed in Life, Health, Medicare Supplement and Long-Term Care.
For decades, Raymond has been repeatedly named to the ranks of the top retirement professionals in the world by MDRT (TOT), The Premier International Association of Financial Professionals. Raymond is also very deserving of being certified in Long Term Care having the CLTC degree. He has also been featured as one of America’s Retirement Experts in Kiplinger’s Retirement Planning Guide and has appeared on “The Retire Happy Hour” on ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox networks.
Raymond and his wife, Linda, had a vision to have a family-owned Retirement Planning firm and in 1976 formed Bostian Retirement Planning. Today their 2 daughters and sons-in-law are instrumental in the daily operations of the firm. They have four grandchildren and enjoy spending time with them.
