About LPL

LPL 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 is America's No. 1 independent brokerage firm* - with more than 7,000 financial advisors, based in more than 4,500 branch offices nationwide.

LPL'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's technology, our comprehensive training programs and our dedicated personnel.

As LPL moves into its fourth decade, LPL remains committed to leading the independent brokerage business. LPL continues to set the highest standards in every aspect of supporting their advisors so that they may help you realize a new standard for your financial future.

• LPL has been the number one independent broker dealer in the nation for nine consecutive years*
• $891 million in revenue in 2003
• Over 7,000 affiliated financial representatives
• Over 4,500 branch offices in the U.S.
• Service to over 390 financial institutions
• Over 1,000 staff in dual headquarters in Boston and San Diego
• Over $64 billion invested and managed annually
• Over $21 billion in fee-based platform assets
• Over 2.9 million trades annually

A Leading Source of Unbiased Financial Guidance

Over the past decade, LPL representatives 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, LPL representatives concentrate their energies on understanding their clients’ financial goals and offering impartial solutions to the challenges of wealth accumulation and management.

LPL provides a solid foundation for representatives like us to grow successful and profitable businesses. With exceptional research and superior home office support we have a greater understanding of the economy and markets; more time to evaluate financial strategies; and greater access to comprehensive information. We have assimilated LPL’s capabilities into our own offices and provide customized financial solutions to help meet the needs of their clients. Our financial advice reflects LPL Financial Services’s principals: trust, honesty, dedication and independence.

Your Needs Come First

LPL offers no investment products of their own, so as LPL representatives we can devote our time and energies not to product quotas and sales goals, but to understanding your individual financial objectives. To help us meet your needs with suitable options, LPL provides access to thousands of individual securities and forms alliances with the nation's leading providers of investment and insurance products.

As LPL representatives we have access to the tools that help us 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, we can formulate a personalized investment management strategy. LPL's 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 representatives also have access to proprietary software for integrated estate, retirement and college planning.

Access to Top-Notch Investment Research

Because LPL 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 representatives can construct individual investment portfolios by utilizing LPL's top-notch proprietary research on the economy and a wide variety of investment-related topics. LPL'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 asset allocation models for five asset allocation strategies and recommends third-party mutual funds appropriate to each strategy. Most of this investment research is available to LPL representatives online via BranchLink, LPL's comprehensive Extranet.

LPL has 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 representatives and their clients apprised of developments within and across the world's capital markets.

*Based on previous year's revenue, as reported in Financial Planning Magazine June 1996-2007

The Linsco/Private ledger registered representatives associated with this site may only discuss and/or transact securities business with residents of the following states: AZ, CA, CO, CT, FL, GA ,IA, ID, IL, KY, MA, MD, ME, NC, NJ, NY, OH, OK, TN, TX, VA.

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