A shakeout among IBDs has prompted three teams managing a combined $245 million to jump to Securities America from Allianz.
The advisors made the switch after
IBDs have been fueling the industry's record consolidation in recent years.
Securities America’s newest additions include: Rockledge, Florida-based Miller & Hurt Wealth Advisors, which manages $110 million in assets; Lincoln, Nebraska-based Hill & Associates, which is responsible for $82 million; and Myrtle Beach, South Carolina-based Duprez Financial, which manages $53 million in client assets.
Securities America will help Duprez Financial “drive the long-term success of our firm,” founder Michael Duprez said in a statement. He was affiliated with Questar for 12 years following a four-year tenure with Allianz Securities, according to FINRA BrokerCheck records.
Like Duprez, Richard Miller and Tony Hurt of Miller & Hurt Wealth Advisors both spent 12 years with Questar. They were previously affiliated for two years with Allianz Securities.
Stephen Hill, president of Hill & Associates, spent six years with Questar following a 12-year association with Woodbury, according to FINRA BrokerCheck records.
After Allianz and Advisor Group announced the Questar-Woodbury deal in October, more than 400 of the roughly 600 advisors chose to join Woodbury.
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Allianz became the second multinational insurance firm to step away from the IBD space this year under a plan to shutter Questar Capital.
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Woodbury Financial Services has added 572 advisors with $22 billion in client assets since the fall of 2017, CEO Rick Fergesen says.
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The group with $175 million in client assets opted for a Ladenburg IBD they think is less likely to change hands in the future, the OSJ manager says.
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A few other practices opted to forgo the preferred affiliation arrangement and found new IBDs. And in March, 11 Questar-affiliated advisors
A representative of Advisor Group said that the firm successfully transitioned to Woodbury more than 400 Questar advisors managing 86% of that firm’s assets under management. “We wish the minority of advisors who were not part of this transition all the best,” spokesperson Mitch Manning said in a statement.
