The RIA is harnessing the veteran's 20-plus years of experience, most recently at Mariner Wealth Advisors, to accelerate its strategic growth.
Combining CITs and ETFs, the firm's newest offerings include index-based passive exposures from State Street and BlackRock.
The strategic partnership promises to help advisors at the hybrid RIA grow their business around annuities and structured products.
The broker-dealer's latest addition, an outdoors-focused planning practice, previously managed $225M in advisory, brokerage, and retirement plan assets.
The general securities representative formerly with LPL had broken with firm policy by engaging with customers via the unapproved Chinese messaging platform.
Hong comes to the multi-family office and private investment firm with 25 years of experience, most recently at JPMorgan.
Over the first six months of one targeted initiative, the agency scooped $172M from 21,000 wealthy individuals who've been delinquent on their tax filings since 2017.
The Pennsylvania-based team led by a nearly 40-year veteran of the industry is launching their own independent firm in affiliation with Sanctuary Wealth.
"Monitoring officers incorrectly concluded, after only one minute, that there was no relationship between the customer and First Republic."
The Arizona-based firm charged an estimated 59 clients $1.3M more than they'd agreed to pay, according to an SEC complaint filed in court.
