Adviser managing $300 million at Morgan Stanley joins LPL

Adviser managing $300 million at Morgan Stanley joins LPL
Francis Ciocari is affiliating with the firm through super OSJ Gladstone Wealth Partners and will be opening an office in Blue Bell, Pennsylvania.
SEP 08, 2021

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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