The rating may not be representative of any one client’s experience and is not indicative of the Financial Advisor’s future performance. Financial Advisors are quantitatively rated based on varying types of revenues and assets advised by the financial professional, with weightings associated for each. Investment performance is not a criterion. Barron’s “Top 100 Women Financial Advisors” bases its ratings on qualitative criteria: professionals with a minimum of seven years of financial services experience, acceptable compliance records, client retention reports, customer satisfaction, and more. Source: Forbes.com (May, 2019). NAPA’s Top DC Advisor Firms, unlike other lists, recognizes firms, or what may, in a wirehouse environment, be referred to as a team, or office, for their defined contribution (DC) practice specifically. The rating is not indicative of the Financial Advisor’s future performance. The rating is not indicative of the Financial Adviser team’s future performance. This award does not evaluate the quality of services provided to clients and is not indicative of the Financial Advisor’s future performance. Additional measures include: in-depth interviews and discussions with senior management, peers, and customers, and telephone-based and in-person interviews with the nominees. Financial Advisors are quantitatively rated based on varying types of revenues and assets advised by the financial professional, with weightings associated for each.
Barron’s is a registered trademark of Dow Jones & Company, L.P. All rights reserved. Neither Morgan Stanley Smith Barney LLC nor its Financial Advisors or Private Wealth Advisors pays a fee to Forbes or SHOOK Research in exchange for the ranking. This award does not evaluate the quality of services provided to clients and is not indicative of the team’s future performance. Investment performance is not a criterion. Neither Forbes nor SHOOK Research receives compensation in exchange for placement on the ranking.
Five Star Professional, as a third-party research firm, identified pre-qualified award candidates based on industry data and contacted all identified broker-dealers, Registered Investment Advisor firms and FINRA-registered representatives to gather wealth manager nominations. Nominees were required to provide various details about their practice and answer essay questions. Because individual client portfolio performance varies and is typically unaudited, this rating focuses on customer satisfaction and quality of advice. Neither Morgan Stanley Smith Barney LLC nor its Financial Advisers paid a fee to PLANADVISER in exchange for the rating.