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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.

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.

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.