About LPL Financial
Set a New Standard for Your Finances
LPL Financial was formed in 1989 through the merger of two small but successful brokerage firms, Linsco (established in 1968) and Private Ledger (founded in 1973). Today, LPL Financial is America's No. 1 independent brokerage firm* with more than 11,000 financial advisors based in more than 6,000 branch offices nationwide.
LPL Financial's rise to prominence has been driven by a commitment to independence, excellence and the simple premise that achieving your financial goals requires:
* Solid, unbiased advice* Meaningful, timely information and research
* Easy access to value-added investments and services
* Unparalleled customer service
Your LPL Financial Advisor can deliver all of these to you, thanks to support from LPL Financial's technology, our comprehensive training programs and our dedicated personnel.
As LPL Financial moves into our fourth decade, we remain committed to leading the independent brokerage business. We continue to set the highest standards in every aspect of supporting our advisors so that they may help you realize a new standard for your financial future.
* Based on revenues, as reported by Financial Planning magazine, June 1996-2008.
LPL Financial Facts
+ LPL Financial has been the number one independent broker dealer in the nation for 12 consecutive years*
+ Over $1.7 billion in revenue in 2006
+ Over 11,000 affiliated financial advisors
+ Over 6,000 branch offices in the U.S.
+ Service to over 700 financial institutions
+ Over 2,200 staff in Boston, San Diego, and Charlotte headquarters
+ Over $165 billion invested and managed annually
+ Over $60 billion in assets in LPL's fee-based programs
+ Over 5.0 million trades annually
* Based on revenues, as reported by Financial Planning magazine, June 1996-2008.
A Leading Source of Unbiased Financial Guidance
Over the past decade, LPL Financial advisors have become a leading source of objective advice for accumulating and managing personal wealth. As experienced financial services professionals, they possess an average of 10 years of industry experience when they join our organization.
With the freedom to offer unbiased financial guidance, our advisors concentrate their energies on understanding their clients’ financial goals and offering impartial solutions to the challenges of wealth accumulation and management.
We at LPLFinancial provide a solid foundation for our advisors to grow successful and profitable businesses. With exceptional research and superior home office support our advisors have a greater understanding of the economy and markets; more time to evaluate financial strategies; and greater access to comprehensive information. Our advisors assimilate LPL Financial's capabilities into their own offices and provide customized financial solutions to help meet the needs of their clients. Their financial advice reflects LPL Financial principals: trust, honesty, dedication and independence.
Your Needs Come First
LPL Financial offers no investment products of our own, so LPL Financial advisor can devote their time and energies not to product quotas and sales goals, but to understanding your individual financial objectives. To help them meet your needs with suitable options, LPL Financial provides access to thousands of individual securities and forms alliances with the nation's leading providers of investment and insurance products.
LPL Financial advisors have access to the tools that help them provide high-quality, unbiased investment solutions, including comprehensive fee-based asset management accounts and a full array of nonproprietary:
* Mutual funds
* Annuities and other tax-sensitive investments
* Domestic and foreign securities
* Direct investments
* Insurance
* Fee-based programs
* Estate and Financial Planning
* Trust Services*
If you prefer a more comprehensive approach, your LPL Financial Advisor can formulate a personalized investment management strategy. Our fee-based asset management programs range from one that may combine mutual funds, annuities and individual securities in a single portfolio to services that allocate assets among leading institutional portfolio managers, index funds or tax-sensitive investment options. LPL Financial Advisors also have access to proprietary software for integrated estate, retirement and college planning.
* (offered through The Private Trust Company N.A., an affiliate of LPL Financial)
Access to Top-Notch Investment Research
Because LPL Financial offers no proprietary products and engages in no investment banking activities , we are able to provide unbiased investment recommendations that integrate a broad scope of investment products, including stocks, bonds, annuities and mutual funds.
LPL Financial Advisors can construct individual investment portfolios by utilizing LPL Financial's top-notch proprietary research on the economy and a wide variety of investment-related topics. LPL Financial's Research Department uses state-of-the-art, technology-based tools and in-depth personal interviews to monitor open-end mutual funds.
The group also conducts first-hand reviews of individual equities, develops model portfolios for five asset allocation strategies and recommends third-party mutual funds appropriate to each strategy. Most of this investment research is available to LPL Financial Advisors online via BranchLink, LPL Financial's comprehensive Extranet.
We have developed a series of commission and fee-based asset management programs to help meet the needs of a varying client base, together with a wide range of tools and communication pieces to keep financial advisors and their clients apprised of developments within and across the world's capital markets.
The Investorside Research Association certifies its members have no investment banking conflicts.
Our Offices
More than 2,200 employees at LPL Financial's home offices in Boston, San Diego and Charlotte assist our advisors with back-office functions including trade processing, compliance and legal support, marketing assistance and more.
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