Program managers: Categorically the best

For our signature rankings, we use use more than one statistic. With this year's program managers, we used four: the number of advisers they oversee, team assets under management, percentage growth in team production, and production per adviser.

Here we show the program managers who topped the list in each of those individual categories. We also added two more metrics here that we didn't use in the overall ranking (percentage growth in team assets, and tenure in the wealth management industry.)

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Top 25 program managers
Program managers: Categorically the best
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Karen Benedict
Institution: Northwest Federal Credit Union
Location: Herndon, Virginia
TPM: LPL Financial
Number of FAs on team: 10
2016 Total team AUM: $1.1 billion
2015 Total team AUM: $1.1 billion
2016 Team production: $10 million
2015 Team production: $9.9 million
Production per adviser: $1 million
Is the nominee a producing manager? No
Number of years in current job: 3
Number of years in wealth management: 10

Chris Nardone
Institution: United Bank
Location: Glastonbury, Connecticut
TPM: Infinex
Number of FAs on team: 10
2016 Total team AUM: $342 million
2015 Total team AUM: $181 million
2016 Team production: $4 million
2015 Team production: $2 million
Production per adviser: $530,000
Is the nominee a producing manager? No
Number of years in current job: 2
Number of years in wealth management: 14