Christine M. Schroeder-Fain Vice President -Wealth Management
Financial Advisor, Author, Lecturer, Non Profit Advocate
Chris Schroeder has been in the financial services business since 1983 and is currently a Vice President – Wealth Management Financial Advisor at Morgan Stanley Smith Barney. She moved to Central Oregon in 1979 and raised her two children as a single parent.
She met her wonderful husband, Jay Fain, in 1996 and they married in 1998. Jay is also her business partner at Morgan Stanley Smith Barney. Chris focuses on high net worth families and women. She enjoys helping them plan their financial lives and also prepare for the many changes that life brings along the way. She lectures on topics such as; organizing your important documents and how to plan for the inevitable events such as illness, death and other unexpected events. She encourages women who have been through divorce or loss of spouse with education on how to handle their own financial affairs.
In her early career days, Chris was in the music industry with management company Day 5 Productions/Dawnbreaker Music in San Fernando, California. They managed groups such as Seals and Crofts, Maureen McGovern, England Dan and John Ford Coley and many others. Her innate love of people aligned s perfectly with the roles of that job, which included planning celebrity golf tournaments, TV specials and touring engagements.
Her love of the arts has also helped her stay balanced along with her financial career. After moving to Bend, Chris was one of the ten women who had the vision to start the Network of Entrepreneurial Women of Bend in 1986. She served as program director and president. Chris was also one of the founding facilitators and a board member of Opportunity Knocks for four years. In December 2009 she was asked to facilitate a Women CEO OK team of twelve businesses and enjoyed that very much.
In 2008 she served on the Oregon Community Foundation task force to assess the needs in our community during the recession. She also served on the new web site for all non-profits in Bend called “Volunteer Connect” which was up and running as of January 2010. She has also written the financial page for the Bulletin’s U Magazine for women.
Chris is a resource for many local community organizations. She has spoken to the Cancer Society of Oregon, Network of Entrepreneurial Women, and American Association of University Women and at National Conferences for women financial services. She loves serving on the Assistance League Advisory board and feels the organization serves the community in a tremendous way by clothing underprivileged children and those families that just need a hand up.
A past role was being the Community Development Representative for Partners In Care and educating our community on end of life care and Hospice.
Chris loves this community and says her greatest joy is giving back. Her hobby is writing and Chris wrote a children’s book for her granddaughters in 2007, titled Waffles in the Sand. Chris is currently working a new book, a financial planning tool called “My Answers Book.” Chris enjoys her family, entertaining, traveling, kayaking, and learning new ways to Create and explore.
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