Francis Ciocari, who managed $300 million at Morgan Stanley in Blue Bell, Pennsylvania, has gone independent and affiliated with LPL Financial through Gladstone Wealth Partners, an office of supervisory jurisdiction for the firm.
He will be opening an office for Gladstone, a super OSJ, in Blue Bell along with his longtime assistant, Christine Buck Nolan.
Ciocari was with Morgan Stanley for eight years and began his career at Merrill Lynch in 1998.
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