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Ranking financial advisers

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Virginia Business
August 2007

R. J. Shook's ranking process begins with a national survey of securities firms, insurance companies, banks, independent financial adviser practices, and other organizations that employ series-7 registered financial advisers.

Shook says that each of these firms promotes objective and independent advice and provides clients open access to the best products available in the market.

RANKING CRITERIA

The Winner's Circle® is an organization independent of the firms involved and does not receive compensation from the over 100 participating firms or its affiliates, financial advisers or the media in exchange for ranking purposes.

Each adviser on this year's Virginia Winner's Circle® list was filtered down from a national list from securities firms, banks, independent firms and more. The Winner's Circle team vetted each Series-7 registered adviser through a host of quantitative and qualitative criteria, including assets managed, revenues, experience levels, acceptable compliance records and U4 forms, discussions with management and more.

Because client portfolios vary and are typically unaudited, portfolio performance is not a criteria; instead, The Winner's Circle focuses on customer satisfaction and client retention.

The Winner's Circle is a registered trademark of The Winner's Circle LLC. For more information about The Winner's Circle or to nominate an adviser, visit www.WCorg.com.

He extracted the Virginia rankings from his national research database.
The rankings are based on criteria such as a minimum of seven years of financial services experience and other weighted requirements ranging from acceptable compliance records and wealth management focus to customer satisfaction reports.

Advisers are then ranked based on an algorithm that weighs varying types of revenues, custodied and noncustodied assets advised by the financial professional, and individual versus institutional assets. (Custodied assets are those investments held by the adviser's firm. Noncustodied assets are those held at other financial institutions.)

The rankings do not consider client portfolio performance. See www.winnerscirclenet.com for more information.

 

 

 


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