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Ladenburg Thalmann Launches Women’s, Next-Gen Diversity Initiatives

June 17, 2019 | Media Mentions

Ladenburg Thalmann introduced a new initiative at the 2019 Seattle National Conference to support women and NextGen advisors. Three Securities America-developed programs form the core of the initiative, including the Super Women’s Summit, Link to the Future, and NxG Connect Study Group.

When Developing A Continuity Plan, It Pays To Sweat The Details

June 12, 2019 | Media Mentions

When it comes to continuity planning, the good news is that more advisors have begun to develop written plans to protect their practices and clients in the event the advisor is unable to manage the business due to a crisis. The not-so-good news is that many of these plans still lack the depth of detail needed to fully protect their firms, employees and clients when the business is unable to operate as usual for any reason.

Seven Questions With Tony Sirianni: Securities America

May 20, 2019 | Media Mentions

AdvisorHub’s Publisher and CEO, Tony Sirianni, sits with established leaders of the largest firms, as well as up and coming disruptors, so advisors can get a sense of how each firm addresses the same issues from different perspectives.

In this spotlight, Tony interviews Gregg Johnson, Executive Vice President of Branch Office Development at Securities America.

2019 IA25 Independent Broker-Dealer Winners

April 30, 2019 | Media Mentions

Securities America President & CEO Jim Nagengast has been named one of the top leaders in the financial industry. He has been with the Omaha-based IBD — which works with about 2,600 financial advisors — since 1994. Last year, in his successful bid for a seat on the FINRA board of governors, he was supported by FSI, whose president and CEO Dale Brown called Nagengast a highly visible leader in the financial industry and his community. 

InvestmentNews: 2019 Top 10 IBDs Ranked By Revenue

April 22, 2019 | Media Mentions

Securities America was among the nation's largest independent broker-dealers (IBD) to have a banner year in 2018. InvestmentNews' annual ranking had Securities America #5 in terms of revenue on the media outlet's annual list of the industry's ten fastest growing IBDs by revenue. The ranking reflects a 26.1% increase in revenue from 2017 to 2018. 

InvestmentNews: 2019 Top 10 IBDs Ranked By Number of CFPs

April 22, 2019 | Media Mentions

Within the top 10 ranked companies in InvestmentNews’ annual list, Securities America claimed the #5 position in the number of CFP® professionals. Last year saw an increase of 4% over 2017; 701 of Securities Americas’ 2,600 reps were also CFP® professionals, putting the IBD at #2 in the ratio of CFP® professional to advisor.

$200M Advisors drop OSJ for Super-OSJ Amid ‘Disruptive’ Forces

April 22, 2019 | Media Mentions

Robo advisors and the fiduciary rule represent two recent “disruptive and game-changing events,” says financial advisor David Quick of Meliora Wealth Management. So disruptive, in fact, they caused Quick to make a game-changing shift of his own. Meliora Wealth Management, along with Allied Financial Advisors, recently made the jump to Securities America.

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.

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.

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.