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He takes over for Chris Harvey, who ran the team for four years.

Despite losing more than 295 net advisors in the first three months of the year, the wirehouse had one of its best quarters in history in terms of revenue.

While efforts to recover cash through litigation have repaid nearly 70% of valid claims, hundreds say they have been victimized a second time by that system.

Advisor Kip Adams says access to the IBD’s trading platform and tools have “already improved how we open new accounts and manage our business.”

Jeremy Smith has more than 20 years of actuarial and financial risk management experience. Throughout his professional career, Jeremy has worked extensively with national and global insurance and reinsurance companies as well as with numerous self-insured programs. Jeremy has assisted clients by providing technical actuarial studies for a wide variety of lines of business and risk exposures, and advised clients on actuarial modernization and the future of the actuarial profession.

Scott Weinstein has more than 36 years of actuarial experience. Throughout his professional career, he has worked extensively with national and global insurance and reinsurance companies as well as with numerous self-insured programs. He specializes in identifying and quantifying exposure to risk and improving actuarial processes and reporting.

Ian Sterling has more than 18 years of actuarial experience. Throughout his professional career, Ian has worked with actuaries, claims, underwriting, and finance professionals at regional and global insurance and reinsurance companies, as well as self-insured corporations. Ian has assisted clients in both an audit and advisory capacity. This has included a focus on transformation and innovation, such as, advising on actuarial and finance modernization, machine learning claim / policy level modeling, advanced data exploration and reporting with data visualization. Ian has been a frequent speaker at conferences and written articles on topics, including robotics and automation within actuarial, the changing actuarial role, and loss reserving in the future.

Brett Jurgens is the CEO and Co-founder of Notion, a Comcast company (acquired in 2020), empowering home and property owners to be proactive in monitoring their spaces and most valued possessions. Through partner programs, Notion helps insurance carriers, agents and service providers provide value to their customers with Notion’s DIY smart monitoring technology.

In partnership with Prime Trust, advisors can now custody, trade and rebalance digital asset holdings alongside traditional portfolios.

Dan Shimmerman is president and CEO of Blueprint Software Systems