Meritage Wealth Management
Meritage Wealth Management Team

Meritage Wealth Management

The Meritage Wealth Management Group of Wells Fargo Advisors Financial Network team members have in excess of 120 years combined experience providing financial advice, and our group’s name reflects the importance of selecting just the right investment blend for you.

The word meritage is a combination of the words merit and heritage, which resonate with the high quality of work, credibility and experience you can expect from our team. We shepherd your wealth and strive to provide you financial security. We believe in our methodology, and we use the same strategies to manage our assets.


Our high level of engagement with both the market and your personal needs reflects the importance we place on the customization of our investment strategies, making each decision with your needs, family and future in mind.

Our History

The Meritage Wealth Management Group of Wells Fargo Advisors Financial Network team members have in excess of 120 years combined experience providing financial advice, and our group’s name reflects the importance of selecting just the right investment blend for you. The word meritage is a combination of the words merit and heritage, which resonate with the high quality of work, credibility and experience you can expect from our team. We shepherd your wealth and strive to provide you financial security. We believe in our methodology, and we use the same strategies to manage our assets. Our high level of engagement with both the market and your personal needs reflects the importance we place on the customization of our investment strategies, making each decision with your needs, family and future in mind.

Meritage Wealth Management Team

Mason Sommer, Managing Director - Investments

Mason Sommer

Founding Partner

Greg Stevens, Managing Director - Investments

Greg Stevens

Founding Partner

Jeff Price, Associate Vice President - Investments

Jeff Price, CFP ®

Founding Partner

JoAnn Garza, Senior Registered Client Associate

JoAnn Garza

Senior Registered Client Associate

Carey Vestal, Senior Client Associate

Carey Vestal

Senior Client Associate

Contact

We look forward to speaking with you.

Get In Touch
888.494.3701
405.960.3701

Office Address
900 NW 139th St. Pkwy
Edmond, OK 73013

Hours
Mon-Thurs 8:00AM – 4:00PM
Fri 8:00AM – 3:00PM

Email
Mason.Sommer@wfafinet.com
Gregg.Stevens@wfafinet.com
Jeff.Price@wfafinet.com
Carey.Vestal@wfafinet.com
Joann.Garza@wfafinet.com

Our Process

The Meritage Wealth Management Group of Conservant Financial takes a personal, customized approach to managing your investments, with extra care paid to your risk tolerance and the time frame of your financial needs. We address the daily challenges of the investment market for you, giving you confidence in your financial future.

As we begin the process of managing your assets, we will talk to you about your values, what money means to you and your plans for the future. Once we better understand your financial needs and values, we recommend a specific style of investing, which will seek to meet your investment expectations and operate within your risk parameters. As your needs change and evolve, we will reevaluate your situation to ensure we are always operating in your best interest.

Our team takes the management of your assets personally, and we place a premium on preserving your capital. Our foundation of seeking to protect you from undue risk leads to strict asset allocation and buy-and-sell disciplines. We are not restricted to any one asset, section, region, country, or currency, allowing us to select just the right investment strategies for your personal situation. We take a flexible, contrarian approach in managing your assets, and we seek to provide your investments a lower level of volatility within equity markets over time. Each member of the Meritage Group delivers a unique knowledge base and experience to your personalized portfolio, and we are available to you around the clock.

Our end goal is to develop a long-term relationship with you anchored in trust and met expectations, delivering the investment performance you need while mitigating risk to do so.

Our Services

Customized For You

The Meritage Wealth Management Group of Conservant Financial offers a wide range of services to you, including:

Portfolio Management

We offer both financial advisor-directed and client-directed portfolio management options, both accompanied by sound guidance and resources to ensure informed investment decisions. When we manage your portfolio, we customize it based on your risk tolerance and time frame of financial need, offer you personal service based on your financial goals and the current market, and provide you consistent performance evaluations to keep you informed. Our fees are based on the value of your investments rather than commissions.

Retirement Planning

Whether you are young with plenty of time to save for retirement or nearing retirement age and discovering you should have started saving years ago, our retirement planning services are designed to help you identify your specific retirement goals and develop a plan that can help you achieve them. We will help you prioritize your retirement goals, determine income needs, recognize and manage retirement risks, implement a retirement income strategy, and update your retirement plan as your needs change.

Estate Investment Planning

Estate planning strategies help you protect your assets and take care of your family when you’re no longer able to do so yourself. An estate investment plan can also minimize the delays and frustrations of estate settlement for your loved ones. We will work closely with your attorneys, accountants and other key advisors to help recommend the most advantageous and efficient estate settlement strategies for implementing your estate plan.

Education Planning

It’s never too early to begin planning for your child or grandchild’s future. Rising tuition costs and the lack of a college education plan often forces parents and children to make difficult decisions, like taking on student loans or forgoing a higher education. By the same token, even if you feel you’ve already fallen behind on saving for a college education, it’s never too late to start. What you do today can have a great impact on your child or grandchild’s future. We will help you compare a variety of education funding alternatives, selecting the best option for you and your child or grandchild.

Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards Center for Financial Planning, Inc. owns and licenses the certification marks CFP®, CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER®, and CFP® (with plaque design) in the United States to Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards, Inc., which authorizes individuals who successfully complete the organization’s initial and ongoing certification requirements to use the certification marks.

Mason Sommer

Managing Director - Investments
PIM Portfolio Manager

A lifelong Oklahoma City Resident, Mason graduated from the University of Oklahoma with a degree in Business, as well as Oklahoma City University’s Financial Planning Program as prescribed by the Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards.

Since 1992, he has had the privilege to serve as a Financial Advisor to families, institutions, non-profits, religious organizations, businesses and retirement plans. As a Financial Advisor with Meritage Wealth Management of Conservant Financial, Mason enjoys working with the talents of a team with over 120 years of combined experience, as well as the resources of Wells Fargo Advisors Financial Network, to help his clients achieve what is most important to them. His mission is to help his clients build, manage and transition wealth. Mason is a PIM Portfolio Manager*, and has been recognized by Wells Fargo Advisors as a Platinum Council** from 2013-2023.

Staying active in our community is important to Mason. He is a graduate of Leadership Oklahoma City class XXIV, a past board member of the Leadership Oklahoma City Alumni Association, a member and past president of the West Oklahoma City Rotary club, a founding member of the Mustang Public Schools Foundation, and has served as trustee and board member on various boards and foundations for many years. He was also honored to be chosen as the Wings of Rotary team leader where he led a group of high school students on a two week ambassadorial trip to Japan. It was truly a trip of a lifetime! It was this community involvement and success in business that enabled Mason to be named one of The Journal Records “Achievers Under 40 in 2007***” and OKCBUSINESS “Forty Under 40 in 2006***”.

*The PIM program is not designed for excessively traded or inactive accounts and is not appropriate for all investors.  Please carefully review the Wells Fargo Advisors Financial Network advisory disclosure document for a full description of our services. The minimum account size for this program is $50,000.

** The Platinum Council distinction is held by a select group of Financial Advisors within Wells Fargo Advisors Financial Network as measured by one or more of the following: completion of educational components, business production from the previous year, and professionalism. Additional consideration may have included best practices and team structures.

***The 2007 “Achievers Under 40” by The Journal Record and the 2006 “Forty Under 40″ by OKCBUSINESS were bestowed by The Journal Record and OKCBUSINESS, respectively, as a result of community efforts, unrelated to the business of the firm.

Greg Stevens

Founding Partner

How I got here….I spent my early years in South Texas, but most of my growing up happened in Shawnee, OK. After graduating from University of Oklahoma in 1983, with a degree in Business Management, I started my career in the financial services industry. I have been blessed to have represented several respected companies such as Merrill Lynch and Smith Barney, and in 2011, along with a team of advisors, I joined Wells Fargo Advisors. Our practice is named Meritage Wealth Management of Conservant Financial, and I am proud to be the founding member of this group.

Away from work, my life consists of my wife Stacye, children Matt, Luke and Allie and grandson, P.J.  Stacye and I are full time drivers and audiences to our kids sporting events, recitals, concerts and music “gigs”.  When we find time to relax, we enjoy annual family vacations to the beach, and occasionally find ourselves in wine country or the mountains. Sundays, you will find our family at New Covenant Church in Edmond and together for family dinners afterwards.

Favorite part of my work….As a Senior PIM Portfolio Manager, constructing investment portfolios for our clients and actively managing those portfolios is truly a passion of mine after almost 35 years in the industry. While managing money for others can be stressful at times, it gives me great joy to see our clients realizing their goals of secure retirement, paying for college and passing estates to people they love.  Working side by side many clients for two to three decades and beyond, gives me rewarding, lifelong relationships with people that I could never have within most other careers. Attending their children’s graduations and weddings and coming to know their grandchildren is a special part of our client relationships. This job becomes very personal after many, many years and I look forward to many more relationships for many years.

 
The PIM program is not designed for excessively traded or inactive accounts and is not appropriate for all investors.  Please carefully review the Wells Fargo Advisors Financial Network advisory disclosure document for a full description of our services. The minimum account size for this program is $50,000.

Jeff Price, CFP ®

Founding Partner

Jeff’s primary focus for The Meritage Wealth Management Group  is to provide comprehensive investment planning. Since 2000 he has helped clients address their financial concerns and develop strategies by focusing on each individual’s specific needs.  He specializes in retirement planning, estate planning strategies, education, and asset allocation.   If a working relationship is developed, he can work with you to help achieve your financial goals.

Jeff began his career as a Financial Advisor with Morgan Stanley in Dallas, Texas where he developed his fundamental investment knowledge.  He moved back to his home state of Oklahoma in 2002 when he was offered a position with the Oklahoma City Morgan Stanley office. In 2005, Jeff joined the Smith Barney office in downtown Oklahoma City where he felt he could better service his clients.  Jeff earned the CFP® certification in 2008 by completing an approved educational program, passing a rigorous examination and meeting stringent experience requirements.  In 2011, after the merger of Smith Barney and Morgan Stanley, Jeff transitioned his business to Wells Fargo Advisors where he continues to deliver personalized investment planning.  Previous to his financial services career, Jeff had the honor to serve his nation as a member of the United States Air Force.  While serving his country, he earned his bachelor degree at Park University in Parkville, Missouri. 

Jeff and his wife April keep busy in their free time with five children and enjoy many outdoor activities. 

JoAnn Garza

Senior Registered Client Associate

JoAnn has been working in the financial industry since 1994 and joined Wells Fargo Advisors in March of 2001. Her career has been dedicated to giving excellent quality service to clients. The administrative duties that are in her charge include but are not limited to: Contacting clients for current information, setting appointments and managing the team calendar and contact management tools. Jo Ann is responsible for answering client questions and providing assistance to clients to understand their account statement and assist them with Online Access to their accounts. When action is requested by clients she does her best to complete their requests in a timely manner.

JoAnn and her husband have been married for 36 years and have 2 dogs. Disaster Relief, animal care and considerations for the elderly are important to her and she tries to help in these areas of the community as much as possible.  JoAnn enjoys reading, gardening, traveling and spending time with family and friends.

Carey Vestal

Senior Client Service Associate

Carey spends her day in service to others. She strives to ensure that all clients’ administrative and operational needs are handled accurately and efficiently.  She is the first voice clients will hear when calling into the office and she takes tremendous pride in delivering stellar client service. As a Senior Client Associate, Carey is responsible for handling the day-to-day administration of accounts, including the opening of new accounts, updating existing account information, fund transfers and answering any questions the clients may have.

Carey brings more than a decade of experience to the Meritage Wealth Management Group. She has been in the financial industry since 2007. She graduated from East Central University in 1999 with a degree in Business Administration with concentrations in Management and Marketing.

In her spare time you can find Carey spending time with family and friends. One of her favorite activities to do is spending time at the lake whenever weather permits.