Advisers Jason Sherr and Merrick Nguyen, who managed $235 million at Wells Fargo Advisors, have launched StrateFi Wealth Management and affiliated with LPL Financial through its service for breakaway brokers.
The service supports and independent firm launch and then ongoing strategic, administrative, marketing and financial support.
StrateFi, which is based in Irvine, California, and Reno, Nevada, has a client base of about 160 households. Kim Burdeaux-Neal, the firm's director of client relations, joins Sherr and Nguyen in the move.
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.
“We needed to become a more agile and efficient organization,” said American Express CEO Stephen Squeri.
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