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About LPL Financial

LPL Financial is one of the leading financial services companies and the largest independent broker/dealer in the nation*.  For more than four decades, the firm has served as an enabling partner, supporting financial advisors in their goals of protecting and growing their clients’ wealth.  A chief objective of LPL Financial is to reduce the complexity of running a financial services practice so advisors can focus on what they do best—help their clients attain their financial goals and fulfill their dreams.

With headquarters on both coasts, LPL Financial supports financial advisors in helping their clients by offering a robust mix of services and tools such as:

  • Enabling technology
  • Comprehensive clearing and compliance services
  • Practice management programs and training
  • Independent research

LPL Financial understands that providing Americans with unbiased investment advice is critical to their financial security.  Because the firm has no proprietary products to sell, LPL Financial advisors can provide truly unbiased, conflict-free advice and investment recommendations.

Thousands of financial advisors nationwide rely on LPL Financial to help meet their clients’ financial needs.  They do so by using the firm’s tools and resources that help them discover their clients’ priorities, dreams, and passions; analyze and develop financial plans that support every stage of their clients’ lives; and make product recommendations that put clients on the path to pursuing their goals.

*As reported in Financial Planning magazine 1996-2010, based on total revenues.

A Leading Source of Unbiased Financial Guidance

Over the past decade, LPL Financial representatives have become a leading source of objective advice for accumulating and managing personal wealth. As experienced financial services professionals, they possess an average of 10 years of industry experience when they join our organization.

With the freedom to offer unbiased financial guidance, LPL Financial representatives concentrate their energies on understanding their clients’ financial goals and offering impartial strategies to the challenges of wealth accumulation and management.

LPL Financial provides a solid foundation for representatives like us to grow successful and profitable businesses. With exceptional research and superior home office support we have a greater understanding of the economy and markets; more time to evaluate financial strategies; and greater access to comprehensive information. We have assimilated LPL Financial’s capabilities into our own offices and provide customized financial strategies to help meet the needs of their clients. Our financial advice reflects LPL Financial principals: trust, honesty, dedication and independence.

Your Needs Come First

LPL Financial offers no investment products of their own. So as LPL Financial representatives, we can devote our time and energies to understanding your financial objectives, and not to product quotas and sales goals. To help us meet your needs with suitable options, LPL Financial provides access to thousands of individual securities and forms alliances with the nation's leading providers of investment and insurance products.

As LPL Financial representatives we have access to the tools that help us provide high-quality, unbiased investment solutions, including comprehensive fee-based asset management accounts and a full array of non-proprietary:

  • Mutual funds
  • Annuities and other tax-sensitive investments
  • Domestic and foreign securities
  • Direct investments
  • Insurance
  • Fee-based programs
  • Estate and Financial Planning
  • Trust Services

    LPL Financial Representatives offer access to Trust Services through The Private Trust Company N.A., an affiliate of LPL Financial.

If you prefer a more comprehensive approach, we can formulate a personalized investment management strategy. LPL Financial's fee-based asset management programs range from one that may combine mutual funds, annuities and individual securities in a single portfolio to services that allocate assets among leading institutional portfolio managers, index funds or tax-sensitive investment options. LPL Financial representatives also have access to proprietary software for integrated estate, retirement and college planning.

Access to Top-Notch Investment Research

Because LPL Financial offers no proprietary products and engages in no investment banking activities , we are able to provide unbiased investment recommendations that integrate a broad scope of investment products, including stocks, bonds, annuities and mutual funds.

LPL Financial  representatives can construct individual investment portfolios by utilizing LPL Financial's top-notch proprietary research on the economy and a wide variety of investment-related topics. LPL Financial's Research Department uses state-of-the-art, technology-based tools and in-depth personal interviews to monitor open-end mutual funds.

The group also conducts first-hand reviews of individual equities, develops asset allocation models for five asset allocation strategies and recommends third-party mutual funds appropriate to each strategy. Most of this investment research is available to LPL Financial representatives online via BranchLink, LPL Financial's comprehensive Extranet.

LPL Financial has developed a series of commission and fee-based asset management programs to help meet the needs of a varying client base, together with a wide range of tools and communication pieces to keep representatives and their clients apprised of developments within and across the world's capital markets. 


Disclaimer

Alpern Rosenthal is not affiliated with or endorsed by LPL Financial.

No information on this site is intended to constitute an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to buy shares of any security, nor shall any security be offered or sold to any person, in any jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation, purchase, or sale would be unlawful under securities laws of each jurisdiction. The LPL Financial Registered Representatives associated with this site may only discuss securities or transact business with persons who are residents of, but not limited to, AL, CA, CO, FL, GA, IL, KY, MA, MD, MI, NC, OH, PA, TX, VA.

If your state of residence is not listed, please locate an LPL Financial Registered Representative in your state of residence by accessing www.lpl.com or calling 1.800.877.7210. Securities, financial planning and advisory services offered through LPL Financial, a Registered Investment Advisor Member of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) / Securities Investor Protection Corporation (SIPC).

 
 
 
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