About the Founder

 Kendall C Blunt, CLU® began his career in the life insurance industry in 1988, spending more than two decades working exclusively with advisors, attorneys, and fiduciaries in the advanced planning space. His practice has focused on designing and managing life insurance portfolios that integrate with and enhance complex estate, business, and philanthropic strategies.

His experience includes serving as Merrill Lynch’s Estate and Business Insurance Planning Specialist for their Oregon offices in the late 1990s. In the early to mid-2000s, he oversaw a nine-state distribution territory for MassMutual, where he distributed products and provided point-of-sale and technical support for national accounts, including banks, wirehouses, and brokerage firms.  While at MassMutual, he worked closely with product designers and actuaries, gaining expert knowledge of the intricate details of life insurance contracts and their provisions.

For 17 years, Kendall served as a managing principal at CFP Inc. in Salem, Oregon—one of the state’s leading independent advanced markets insurance firms, founded in 1964 by Richard ‘Dick’ Carney. During his tenure, he and Dick worked with more than 200 large, privately held companies in Oregon and 17 other states, managing over $2 billion of in-force coverage.  Because of their geographic location, much of their work was concentrated in agriculture and heavy industry.

Kendall is a graduate of Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon.  He has served on producer advisory councils for several major life insurance carriers. He was a long-standing member of the Forum 400, an invitation-only organization of the nation's top life insurance professionals for 10 years, and is a member of Finseca, the trade association for financial security professionals committed to advancing the highest standards in planning and advocacy.

Kendall resides in the Portland, Oregon area.  He is happily married to his wife of 31 years and together they have 3 wonderful adult children.   Kendall is an avid, lifelong alpine skier and enjoys hiking strenuous "locals" trails in the nearby Cascade mountains and surrounding foothills.



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Requisite Resources, LLC

Requisite Resources, LLC is a member of PartnersFinancial, a community of client focused independent life insurance based firms. In 1999, PartnersFinancial became an integral part of a newly formed company, NFP Corp., headquartered in New York, New York. NFP was subsequently acquired by Aon in 2024 but will continue to operate as an independent platform under the Aon umbrella.

Founded in 1987, PartnersFinancial is dedicated to exceptionally high standards and premiere client service. PartnersFinancial is network of independent financial advisors that includes over 175 firms in 41 states and Puerto Rico, specializing in life insurance and wealth transfer, and corporate and executive benefits.

There is a strong collaborative spirit among the PartnersFinancial membership; many member firms offer niche specialties, and member firms often work together to provide fully customized solutions for clients. Some examples of these specialties include:

·      “Capacity Stacking” resources with the ability to facilitate face amounts of

more than $300MM on a single life

(subject to market variations)

·      Life Settlements

·      Offshore and Expat Life Insurance offerings

·      Bank Owned Life Insurance

• Premium Financing

• Life insurance in Qualified Retirement Plans

The breadth of the PartnersFinancial platform provides us the capability to access state-of-the-art resources for virtually any planning scenario that can be enhanced with the appropriate use of life insurance.