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Securities America’s Alternate Corporate RIA Tops $2B With New Team
March 21, 2019 | Media Mentions
Thomas Burke’s Syntegra Private Wealth Group brought $459 million in client assets from Burke’s IBD of 26 years to Securities America. The three-office, St. Louis-area team opted for Arbor Point Advisors rather than opening their own RIA or going with Securities America's traditional corporate RIA, Securities America Advisors.
Email surveillance, cybersecurity and data collection required for recent years’ enhanced regulatory scrutiny is creating “additional burden and risk” for RIAs, says Gregg Johnson, Securities America’s executive vice president of branch office development and acquisitions.
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Securities America Recruits Syntegra Private Wealth Group
March 21, 2019 | Press Releases
Securities America recruits Syntegra Private Wealth Group, a St. Louis-area group of hybrid advisors with $459 million in total client assets.
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11 Advisors Pick Securities America Over Preferred Affiliation Deal
March 15, 2019 | Media Mentions
It was “heartbreaking” for John Lanzetta to leave his longtime independent broker-dealer after an acquisition deal — but he says he chose another he sees as less likely to change hands in the future.
Lanzetta of Quakertown, Pennsylvania-based LifeSpan Financial Associates and the 10 other advisors of his office of supervisory jurisdiction picked Securities America over Woodbury Financial Services after Questar Capital and Woodbury’s parent firms agreed to a preferred affiliation deal in October.
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Securities America Recruits the Lanzetta Group
March 12, 2019 | Press Releases
Securities America recruits the Lanzetta Group, a Philadelphia Metro-based super-OSJ with 11 advisors and $175 million in total client assets.
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Top Four Ways Firms Can Drive Professional Success for Next-Gen Financial Advisors
March 11, 2019 | Media Mentions
With a wave of advisor retirements expected to occur over the next decade, the question of how to find and empower the next generation of successful advisors is top-of-mind for industry leaders. Janine Wertheim, president of Securities America Advisors and chief marketing officer of Securities America and Jeff Sietstra, practice management manager for Securities America provide four key steps to identify the next generation of advisors and help them succeed.
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Securities America Names Nicholas McEvoy Branch Office Development Regional Director
March 05, 2019 | Announcements
Nick McEvoy has joined Securities America as a regional director of Branch Office Development.
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18 Future Financial Advisors Attend ELEVATE
February 14, 2019 | Media Mentions
Ladenburg Thalmann and its five independent advisory and brokerage firm subsidiaries sponsored Link to the Future (LTTF) at the January Ladenburg ELEVATE Advisory Symposium in Nashville, Tennessee. The LTTF program provides scholarships to enable university students who are majoring in business and interested in finance to attend the conference and gain knowledge from experienced advisors and industry leaders.
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Ladenburg IBDs aim growth plans at RIAs
January 31, 2019 | Media Mentions
Helping the firm’s advisors purchase RIAs and recruit new ones into the profession served as the main motivating factors for the firm’s fee-only offering, according to Nagengast. If advisors “want to acquire an RIA-only practice,” they “should be able to bring that into the family,” he says, arguing that the firm is creating “an easier track to get young people into the business” by enabling practices to hire advisors who don’t have Series 6 or 7 licenses. “It is really about growth and flexibility,” he added.
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Many Small IBDs Are Struggling; Is It Time to Become an OSJ?
January 18, 2019 | Media Mentions
In the current environment, this could be the right move for b/d executives seeking to restore growth, strengthen advisor productivity, and deal more efficiently with regulatory and operating responsibilities, says Jim Nagengast of Securities America.
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Securities America Welcomes Tim Petrovich as Senior Regional Director of Branch Office Development
December 04, 2018 | Announcements
Tim Petrovich has joined the firm as a senior regional director of branch office development.
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