SGC Financial and Insurance Services, a 13-adviser hybrid managing $1 billion, has switched its broker-dealer and corporate registered investment adviser platforms from Securian Financial to LPL Financial, which it will use as its custodian.
The firm, which began as a general agency for an insurance company in 1945, is based in San Mateo, California.
Adviser Matthew Bond has been the firm's president since 2011 and Cara Banchero serves as COO. The team includes 12 other advisers and several support staff members.
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Meanwhile, DPL Financial Partners adds two annuity executives and Prime Capital Financial hires a Mid-Atlantic retirement plan consultant
Andrew Komarow pleaded guilty Thursday in federal court in Hartford to defrauding three financial services companies of close to $3.3 million.
Elsewhere, Cetera picks up a $210 million Connecticut team from MML, while Wells Fargo FiNet adds a San Diego family practice from LPL
Celebrity endorsements, $500M in claimed assets, and a state regulator stepping in.
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