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Passion for results fuels 50 Below. Healthy client-advisor relationships, improved client prospecting, enhanced brand identity—these are results. With these core results-driven ideas in mind, 50 Below designs and manages the leading Advisor Website programs. 50 Below designs, develops, maintains and constantly upgrades large-scale web applications for corporate enterprises with large networks of agents or advisors. As a veteran in multiple industries, 50 Below hosts over 100,000 websites, advisor locators and other proprietary web tools. Beyond the software, 50 Below excels at one-to-one ongoing web marketing training for advisors and agents participating in our programs. On-call specialists are available via phone, fax and email, and an elite team of professionals travel extensively, conducting regional and national training seminars with our customers across North America. Contact: Charlie Van Derven, Director of Business Development, 50 Below Inc., 5 West First Street, Suite 302, Duluth MN 55802 . . . 866.414.5295 . . . charlie.vanderven@50below.com. . . www.50below.com
BondWave provides a scaleable and customizable marketing system for fixed income. Our system combines white glove service and permission-based marketing to remove the mystery and tedium from fixed income investing. BondWave eliminates challenges to marketing fixed income, making it easy for advisors and investors to insert individual bonds into an overall asset allocation model. Groups of individual bonds can be automatically organized to match the suitability and investment goals of the investor. In addition, custom messages can be targeted to advisors or investors based on the holdings in their bond portfolios. Ideas can be generated manually or automatically based on investment elections. This system can combine the expertise of your fixed income department with the skills of your marketing group to deliver a high quality solution for the growing fixed income investment population.
Contact: Joe Hargrove, Vice President, BondWave, 1001 Warrenville Rd, Suite 407, Lisle, IL 60532 . . . 630.795.7014 . . . joehargrove@bondwave.com . . . www.bondwave.com
Broadridge is a leading outsourcing provider to the financial industry, offering the most comprehensive range of fully-integrated solutions to meet the operational needs of banks and broker/dealers globally. We offer advanced systems and services that are dependable, scalable, and cost-efficient, enabling our clients to increase productivity, mitigate risk, and diminish operating costs. Our solutions provide full front, middle, and back-office support including global securities processing, investor communications, and fully-compliant document management and archival. Outsourcing with Broadridge allows your firm to streamline operations, lower costs, and dedicate resources to core business activities.
Contact: Tony DeMeo, Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc., One Park Avenue
New York, NY 10016 . . . 888.237.1900 . . . info@broadridge.com . . . www.broadridge.com
Situated in the heart of Wall Street lives a company that has been on the cutting edge of the financial technology industry for the past 40 years. Specializing in custom designed, state-of-the-art front-office and back-office systems, The Davidsohn Group has developed one of the largest libraries of financial software in the world. We offer fully integrated software in multi-currency/multi-firm systems with real-time and global capabilities. A unique modular approach to software implementation allows our systems to adapt to changing client needs in a cost-effective manner. A dedicated staff of managers and technicians, experienced in all aspects of the financial industry, stand ready to serve your needs.
Contact: Joseph Davidsohn, Vice President of Marketing and Sales, The Davidsohn Group, 55 Broad Street, 26 th Floor, New York, NY 10004 . . . 212.208.0100 . . . jdavidsohn@dgny.com . . . www.davidsohn.com
Strong client relationships are the key to success for financial advisors, and Dow Jones Wealth Manager is the client loyalty engine that facilitates the meaningful contact affluent clients expect. Advisors build customized profiles of their clients’ goals, interests and holdings, which are mapped against influential Dow Jones sources like Newswires, The Wall Street Journal, & Barron’ s, and other leading publications, offering advisors a continuous supply of meaningful reasons to contact clients through calls or e-mail. Easily integrated with your firm’s proprietary platform, third party applications or accessible on our Web site, Dow Jones Wealth Manager provokes the frequent, thoughtful communication that has been proven to deepen relationships, build client loyalty and gather more assets.
Contact: Steve Reiser, Executive Director, Financial Solutions Marketing, Dow Jones, 800 Plaza Two, Harborside Financial Center, Jersey City, NJ . . . 201.938.5951 . . . steve.reiser@dowjones.com . . . www.dowjones.com
Since it’s founding in 1955, Federated Investors, Inc. (NYSE: FII) has grown to become one of the nation’s largest investment management organizations with assets under management reaching approximately $260 billion. With more than 190 different domestic and international equity, fixed-income and money market investment products. Federated delivers a diversified product line-up to financial intermediaries to help you reach a variety of investment goals for your clients. Product performance, breadth and innovation, combined with one of the largest wholesaling sales forces in the industry, have enabled Federated to achieve substantial asset growth over its 50-year history. Federated is committed to honing its diversified line-up to offer investments with consistent, competitive performance for every economic cycle.
Contact: Richard W. Boyd, Senior Vice President, Federated Investors, 1001 Liberty Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15222-3779 . . . 412.288.1594 . . . rboyd@federatedinv.com . . . www.federatedinvestors.com
Unlimited potential. Clear thinking. The single most compelling business challenge today is no longer how to squeeze more from less. It’s how to profitably grow your business while maintaining a competitive market position. In an inherently complex industry, we are striving to add clarity and innovation built on an unmatched knowledge of the retail investment business. In fact, helping you find ways to better run, grow and protect your business is as much a part of our culture as precise transaction processing and proactive service. Our core competencies can help identify new operating efficiencies while our value-added services can help you remain competitive in the marketplace. Contact us to learn more about how we can provide clear thinking for your business.
Contact: Da vid Williams, Managing Director, First Clearing Correspondent Services, Riverfront Plaza, 901 East Byrd Street, Richmond, VA 23219 . . . 888.FCC.CLEAR . . . david.l.williams@firstclearing.com . . . www.firstclearing.com
Horsesmouth helps advisors build better businesses. The FLAGSHIP HORSESMOUTH SERVICE helps advisors every day to gather more assets, build stronger client relationships and manage their practices more effectively. Horsesmouth also offers a variety of ADVISOR PROGRAMS in the form of customizable presentations, workshops and ongoing learning programs for delivery within firms and branches to advisors at all levels of production, lengths of service, business models, and levels of specialization. These highly successful programs include AUTOMATIC REFERRALS as well as RICH NICHE PROSPECTING, How to Uncover Your Natural Target Market and Start Capturing Wealthy Clients in 30 Days. With a network of hundreds of experts and partners; robust business-building tools; and thousands of actionable resources on sales & marketing, financial planning, wealth management, client service, productivity, practice management and business planning, everything we do at Horsesmouth is designed to help financial advisors succeed.
Contact: Bob David, Director, Advisor Programs, Horsesmouth . . . 804.726.4161 . . . bdavid@horsesmouth.com . . . www.horsesmouth.com
“LEE Training’s Power Blocking technique is amazing! It really makes a difference in the way my partner, I and the members of our team work. We’re so much more focused.” - Top Producer, Louisville, KY
LEE Training, LLC., is a leading provider of sales and management training and consulting services for the financial services industry. Serving clients in the United States and Canada, LEE Training offers custom training programs for new advisors, mid-career advisors, top-producing teams, branch managers and sales support staff. With over three decades of success and experience in the securities industry, LEE Training has gained a thorough and intimate understanding of what investment professionals need to accomplish their goals and achieve personal and professional success. Thousands of advisors and their teams have been greatly impacted by the knowledge, skills and mentoring they received from LEE Training.
Contact: LEE Training, LLC, RR 3 Fowler Road, Box 460 B, Wellston, OK 74881-9781 . . . 405.356.2288 . . . info@leetraining.com . . . www.leetraining.com
National Financial, a Fidelity Investments company, offers Integrated Brokerage Solutions ® to nearly 340 clients ranging from retail broker/dealers to institutional investment firms. Collectively, National Financial’s clients have more than 86,000 brokers. As of June 30, 2007, National Financial custodied over $693 billion in assets representing more than 5.5 million customer accounts. Integrated Brokerage Solutions incorporates innovative technology, products and programs, supported by dedicated client service professionals and trusted industry partners. This holistic, solutions-oriented approach is designed to help client firms attain competitive advantage by driving growth, creating efficiency and managing risk. For more information about National Financial and Integrated Brokerage Solutions, please visit www.nationalfinancial.com.
Contact: George Keith, Executive Vice President, Sales, National Financial, a Fidelity Investments company, 200 Liberty Square, Tower A, New York, NY 10281 . . . 212.335.5953 . . . george.keith@fmr.com . . . www.nationalfinancial.com
Pershing LLC is a leading global provider of business solutions to more than 1,150 institutional and retail financial organizations and independent registered investment advisors who collectively represent over five million active investors. Financial organizations, investment professionals, and independent registered investment advisors depend on Pershing’s depth of experience and consultative approach to provide them with forward-thinking solutions that help them to grow their businesses. Located in 19 offices worldwide, Pershing is committed to service excellence and to providing dependable operational support, robust trading services, flexible technology, an expansive array of investment solutions, and practice management programs. Pershing (member FINRA/NYSE/SIPC) is a member of every major U.S. securities exchange and its international affiliates are members of the Deutsche Borse, the Irish Stock Exchange, and the London Stock Exchange. Pershing LLC is a subsidiary of The Bank of New York Mellon Corporation. Additional information is available at pershing.com.
Contact: J im Crowley, Managing Director, Pershing LLC, One Pershing Plaza, Jersey City, NJ 07399 . . . 201.413.2564 . . . jcrowley@pershing.com . . . www.pershing.com
PriceMetrix is exclusively focused on assisting investment firms increase their productivity and revenue by helping individual FCs to become better CEOs of their business. The patented PriceMetrix Program is a combination of Reporting Dashboards, Tactical User Tools, and comprehensive Support and Training designed just for retail investment firms that enables advisors and management to proactively identify and close Client, Asset, Revenue, Product and Pricing opportunities. For over seven years, PriceMetrix customers have experienced improved assets per rep, revenue per rep and household quality and they have expanded their Fee-based business and enhanced their pricing.
Contact: Stephen Dakis, Director, Sales, PriceMetrix Inc., 40 University Avenue, Suite 200, Toronto, ON, M5J 1T1 CANADA. . . stephen.dakis@pricemetrix.com . . . www.pricemetrix.com
Siegel+Gale is one of the world’s premier strategic branding companies. Since it was founded by Alan Siegel in 1969, the firm has applied the art and science of simplicity to create branding programs that have helped many of the world’s best-known organizations excel. Driven by its philosophy of “Simple is Smart,” Siegel+Gale has led the way in bringing innovation to the corporate branding field, including transforming complex, incomprehensible customer communications into plain English; helping clients create distinctive brand voices across all their communications; transporting brands onto the Internet; and aligning the brand experience for customers with the brand promise. The firm has worked with an array of blue chip organizations, including American Express, Bayer, Lehman Brothers, Medtronic, Dell, Harley Davidson, Lexus, Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley, Yahoo!, Caterpillar, Sony, Motorola, the National Basketball Association, 3M, and Dow. Siegel+Gale has full-service offices in New York, Los Angeles, and London and strategic partnerships around the world. It is part of the Omnicom Group Inc. (NYSE-OMC) (www.omnicomgroup.com), a leading global marketing and corporate communications company. Omnicom’s branded networks and numerous specialty firms provide advertising, strategic media planning and buying, direct and promotional marketing, public relations, and other specialty communications services to over 5,000 clients in more than 100 countries.
Contact: Nancy S. Frank, Vice President, Business Development, Siegel+Gale, 437 Madison Avenue, Floor 12, New York, NY 10022 . . . 212.817.6695 . . . nfrank@siegelgale.com . . . www.siegelgale.com
Success Metrics drives revenue and assets for brokerage firms by enabling individual executives, managers and advisors to take the specific actions that will most improve their performance. Success Metrics makes specific recommendations based on what is statistically proven to drive results for others with similar regions, branches and practices. Success Metrics’ patent-pending solution is the most powerful revenue driver in the industry; quickly driving growth at every level of a firm. In just a few months, firms using our solution have increased asset inflows 10% more and production 5% more than their non-user peers. Success Metrics drives ROI for home offices by identifying the greatest opportunities for each advisor, branch and product, enabling firms to focus their valuable marketing, management and support resources where they will deliver the greatest return. By augmenting these capabilities with best-in-class performance reporting and book-of-business analysis, Success Metrics provides the industry’s most powerful productivity solution.
Contact: Paul Staelin, Vice President, Success Metrics, Inc., 251 Kearny Street, Suite 801, San Francisco, CA 94108 . . . 415.644.5730 . . . pstaelin@successmetricsinc.com . . . www.successmetricsinc.com
Versimark is a leading provider of financial advisor website programs. More specifically, we provide a complete Internet marketing solution for your financial advisor/wealth management channel in a compliant, controlled manner. With our solutions, your advisors will experience more efficient prospecting, higher customer retention, and growing commissions. Whether your sales channel consists of agents, advisors, consultants, or franchisees, we have an Internet marketing solution that provides the tools, training, and advisor support necessary for success. Versimark provides its solutions as Software as a Service (SaaS), which means we offer our solutions over the Internet so that you don’t have to purchase expensive hardware, hire additional support staff, train your users, or perform ongoing support. We take care of all of that for you. At Versimark, we are dedicated to your success. We are proud to represent the solutions we provide and we promise to Exceed your Expectations.
Contact: Paul Galanti, Chief Executive Officer, Versimark, Inc., 529 Court Street, Suite 600, Reading, PA 19601 . . . 800.920.7494 . . . www.versimark.com