We took a new look at this year's top advisers and re-ranked them based solely their production per AUM. For the original list, this was one of six metrics we used to determine the ranking. The other five were: assets under management; trailing-12 production; percent change in AUM from previous year; percent change in production and amount of fee-based business.
Since the initial list, we have broken out some of the individual stats for fresh looks of our top advisers. You can see rankings based solely on
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A well-rounded approach wins the day with the annual advisor ranking. No one-trick ponies allowed, as multiple metrics count toward advisors' scores, including AUM, production, growth and fee business.
December 7 - Here is the second segment of the expanded Top 100 Bank Advisors. The top 25, as well as those who ranked 51-100, are included in the corresponding slideshows.
- Here is the third segment of the expanded Top 100 Bank Advisors. You can see the top 50, as well as those who ranked 76-100, in our corresponding slideshows.
- Here is the fourth and final segment of the expanded Top 100 Bank Advisors. You can see all the others (1-75) in our corresponding slideshows.
For this list, there were some very close results, sometimes within hundredths of a percentage point. For that reason, we took the ranking category to three decimal points when necessary. In one case, there was still a tie (in that case, instead of going to 4 decimal points, we just called it a tie.)
Scroll through to see those bank advisers with the highest production-to-AUM ratios. The numbers after their names indicate where they ranked on the original Top 100.