Wells Fargo team managing $250 million goes indie with LPL

Wells Fargo team managing $250 million goes indie with LPL
Humanity Wealth Advisors sets up shop in California’s Bay Area.
DEC 09, 2021

Harry Sherdil and associate adviser Nestor Belmonte, who managed $250 million at Wells Fargo Advisors in Fremont, California, have gone independent via LPL Financial and set up Humanity Wealth Advisors in Newark, California.

Humanity affiliated through The Financial Services Network, an LPL office of supervisory jurisdiction, and will use its Strategic Wealth Advisors Group registered investment adviser.

Sherdil, who emigrated to this country from India in 1990, says his goal is to help 100 young men and women from all nationalities join the financial services industry.

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