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Management pros devoted to advisor success

Advisors are recruited by branch managers and come to rely on them for guidance on how to grow AUM. These elite leaders also serve liaisons with the main office.

About 30% of On Wall Street's top 100 branch managers work for the largest regional brokerages in wealth management. Find out which firms are represented by these respected bosses, each nominated for the list by advisors.

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Ameriprise financial bloomberg

Ameriprise

Christopher Davidson, Clearwater, Fla.

Image: Bloomberg
Baird courtesy of Baird
“Advice around transactions, advice around investment portfolios, advice around wealth management plans: it’s all advice and I’d say the term ‘financial advisor’ is probably a blanket term that would apply appropriately to all those models,” says Baird vice chairman John Taft.

Baird

*Adam Persily, Roseville, Calif.
Paul Westphal, Mequon, Wis.
Brian Kurtz, Cleveland.

*Previously nominated.
BB&T

BB&T Scott & Stringfellow

Timothy Mann, Sr., Winston Salem, N.C.
J.P Morgan Bloomberg

J.P Morgan

Pete Secret, Atlanta.

Image: Bloomberg
Janney Montgomery Scott courtesy of Janney

Janney Montgomery Scott

Gordon Eide, Richmond, Va.
John Goles, Bel Air, Md.
Lawrence Richards, West Chester, Pa.
*George Keith, Darien, Conn.

*Previously nominated.
Oppenheimer by Oppenheimer

Oppenheimer

Chad Allen, New York, N.Y.
Raymond James by Raymond James

Raymond James

Tony Barrett, Conshohocken, Pa.
*Rick Hartman, West Conshohocken, Pa.
*Brian Lampsa, Chicago.
*Rob Larmore, Atlanta.
*Michael O'Meara, St. Louis.
Dan Parker, Charleston, S.C.
Edward Sudzina, Clarkston, Mich.
William Theis, Beachwood, Ohio.
*Thomas Hirsch, Louisville, Ky.
Dan Kraus, Boca Raton, Fla.

*Previously nominated.
RBC Wealth Management by Bloomberg

RBC Wealth Management

*Scott Fergang, Paramus, N.J.
*John Moran, New York.
Skip Morton, Stamford, Conn.
*Ken Ross, Sewickley, Pa.
Amy Sturtevant, Washington.
Kirstin Turner, West Palm Beach, Fla.

*Previously nominated. Image: Bloomberg
Waddell & Reed by W&R

Waddell & Reed

Nick Miskov, Creve Coeur, Mo.
Edward Sweeney, Wyomissing, Pa.
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