Key Group Management, a Ramsey, New Jersey-based hybrid RIA practice managing $500 million, has switched its broker-dealer affiliation to Concourse Financial Group Securities, a division of Protective Life, from Royal Alliance.
Key Group, which has nine financial professionals and is led by Patrick Murray and Colin Heafy, has offices in New Jersey, Massachusetts and Arizona.
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The firm's 11-partner retirement lineup now includes J.P. Morgan and T. Rowe Price, as it targets the underserved small business 401(k) market.
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