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The Guardian Network® is a network of independent agencies offering the full suite of proprietary Guardian products along with those of other top rated carriers. Guardian® is a registered trademark of The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America® Securities products offered through Park Avenue Securities LLC (PAS), member FINRA, SIPC. PAS is an indirect, wholly-owned subsidiary of The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America (Guardian), New York, NY. The Living Balance Sheet® (LBS) and the LBS logo are service marks of The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America (Guardian), New York, NY. © Copyright 2005-2021 Guardian
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Guardian is committed to providing you with some of the best development, training, and tools available.
You have your own career goals, a vision of where you want to go and what success looks like to you. By becoming a part of The Guardian Network®, you gain access to professional development programs and systems organized to help you build your practice, working in the communities you choose, guiding your clients’ financial decisions. No matter your level of experience, we can provide: • what you need • when you need it; and • in the way you prefer to learn.
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In addition to your in-office training and development, you’ll have access to a suite of development opportunities for every stage of your career, as well as sales programs to help you identify opportunities to increase production, manage your business and take your practice to the next level.
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Foundations
Foundations is Guardian’s 90-day structured learning experience, where new Financial Representatives gain the know-how, confidence and belief system they need to get a strong start to their careers. The program integrates in-person, online, and in-agency learning to help you develop and apply fundamental knowledge and skills.
GuardianU
Guardian U is an online learning platform, providing on-demand access to a wealth of training, videos, resources, and tools to help you build a successful practice and refine your skills.
Weylman Partnership
Weylman provides content and resources to financial professionals to help them build strong relationships in the Target Markets they choose to work in. That means building business relationships and a client base in the communities that are important to you. In addition to the Weylman content available on Guardian U, you have access to a wealth of resources on the The Weylman Center. This platform is available to support your client acquisition and market development efforts.
Professional Designations
FRs who hold professional designations can be more productive and are more likely to remain in the career long-term. Guardian is committed to your pursuit of professional designations and offers incentives to help get you on your path to continued development.
LBS Forum
The LBS Forum events are designed for users of The Living Balance Sheet® (LBS), Guardian’s proprietary sales and client servicing platform. They provide an in-depth look at the LBS philosophy, tools, planning concepts and sales narratives proven to help you grow your practice.
BRC Symposium
The BRC (Business Resource Center) Symposium is a multi-day event of seminars and workshops that cover topics pivotal to the advanced planning arena. In addition to enjoying presentations from outside experts on the featured concepts, attendees will have the opportunity to hear top Guardian FRs sharing their wisdom and experience.
Women’s Leadership Summit
WLS is an annual 2½ day development conference with content strategically curated with how women learn in mind. Content is provided to help you grow professionally as well as personally and build relationships with other women in The Guardian Network®.
Retirement Masters Summit
The top producers at Park Avenue Securities, with a significant retirement business, will be invited to engage with some of the best retirement minds in our industry as they connect with peers while becoming “experienced retirement professionals” in the communities they serve.
Wealth Builder Academy
Designed to help keep our financial professionals on the cutting edge of trends in our industry and provide them with ways to better serve their clients. We will share industry best practices and concentrate on topics that can help you and them grow and expand their investments practices which complement their protection businesses.
The Guardian Network® is a network of independent agencies offering the full suite of proprietary Guardian products along with those of other top rated carriers. The Living Balance Sheet® (LBS) and the LBS logo are service marks of The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America (Guardian), New York, NY. © Copyright 2005-2020 Guardian Guardian® is a registered trademark of The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America®
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Conference of African American Financial Professionals
CAAFP (Conference of African American Financial Professionals) focuses on addressing the wealth gap in African American communities with a mission to advance and foster professional relationships as well as the development among African Americans working in the financial services industry. Guardian has been sponsoring this conference since 2016 and is proud to continue to do so as part of our commitment to inclusion and diversity.
InvestmentNews Women Advisors Conference
For over five years, the InvestmentNews Women Adviser Summit has hosted thousands of women across the country with the goal of investing in their business, their brand and themselves, all while collaborating and networking with like-minded peers. In 2020 Guardian became a sponsor as part of our commitment to inclusion and diversity and the development of our female FRs.
Being an FR means being an entrepreneur…
When you join The Guardian Network®, you become a part of an entrepreneurial system and will build your practice with us, working with the clients and in the communities you choose. As a business owner, you need access to tools and technology to help you run the business. From client management to marketing and more, we provide the tools and technology you need to keep track of the day to day and make running your business a little easier.
The Living Balance Sheet® Becoming a Guardian Financial Representative gives you access to The Living Balance Sheet® (LBS), a powerful proprietary web-based and fully-interactive wealth organization and client servicing tool. LBS is built around Guardian’s unique “Protection First” approach and is a proven advantage to growing your practice.
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Built on four core planning principles, LBS makes the complex simple, allowing you to present a balance-driven, long-term financial strategy. This powerful platform will help you understand your client's overall financial picture, and provide an opportunity for a deep conversation about which actions will be needed to achieve financial success.
LBS walks your client through each step of the influential LBS planning process, allowing you to build business today and build long-term relationships for tomorrow.
Integrated with other important Guardian practice management tools you use every day, LBS supports the use of life, disability, investments, and retirement products.
The LBS Team offers comprehensive training and case support to help members of The Guardian Network® master the LBS narratives and planning tools. SmartOffice SmartOffice is Guardian's approved and supported Customer Relationship Management (CRM) solution — designed to help you organize, and automate most, if not all, of your day-to-day business activity, including communication, prospecting, client data, and records. It is deeply integrated with other Guardian systems to maximize efficiency. MarketEDGE360 MarketEDGE360 is a relationship management solution, created for the field and by the field. It offers FRs instant access to targeted lists of clients, prospects, and recruits, where you can execute a comprehensive portfolio of compliance-approved, highly personalized communications that can be customized at a local level for your practice. Regardless of who your prospects or clients are, what holidays they celebrate, or what is important to them, MarketEDGE360, provides the content and media you need to successfully: nurture prospect opportunities, build interest and generate traffic, and drive activity to convert sales …and take full advantage of your market for business growth. Investment & Advisory Solutions Platform Grow your investment business easily and efficiently by leveraging the robust capabilities of Park Avenue Securities, which custodies through Pershing.
NetX360 is the single technology platform you need to manage your client accounts and run your wealth management business efficiently.
NetXInvestor provides your clients with simple and intuitive online and mobile access to account information, eDelivery of documents, ACH money movements and mobile check deposits.
Envestnet allows you to easily tailor advisory solutions (UMA, SMA, Mutual Fund/ETF wrap) across client segments.
Albridge Wealth Reporting provides access to on-demand comprehensive household level performance reporting.
Social Media and Marketing Tools We understand that building a business today means being digitally savvy and having a strong online presence. We provide our Financial Representatives access to tools that help you build a strong online presence including:
Mobile-responsive websites with automated marketing tools to help keep you top of mind.
Digital insights and education hub with multimedia content for you to share with clients and engage prospects.
Online appointment and calendaring solution.
Supported access to Facebook Business Pages, LinkedIn and Twitter and a social media content stream flow to make sharing content on social media simple and effective.
Seminar marketing resources with compliance-approved content and planning resources.
The Guardian Network® is a network of independent agencies offering the full suite of proprietary Guardian products along with those of other top-rated carriers. Guardian® is a registered trademark of The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America® Securities products offered through Park Avenue Securities LLC (PAS), member FINRA, SIPC. PAS is an indirect, wholly-owned subsidiary of The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America (Guardian), New York, NY. The Living Balance Sheet® (LBS) and the LBS logo are service marks of The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America (Guardian), New York, NY. © Copyright 2005-2020 Guardian © Copyright 2020 The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America®
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When you join The Guardian Network®, you become a part of an entrepreneurial system and will build your practice with us.
Guardian is committed to providing you with some of the best development, training and tools available.
Guardian is prepared for any situation.
Why The Guardian Network®? Our firm’s decision to be a member of The Guardian Network® is driven by Guardian’s strength and commitment to uphold their values for employees, customers and financial representatives.
Guardian stands strong As a mutual company, Guardian is guided by the needs of our policyholders, who have trusted us through challenging times for 160 years — through the pandemic of 1918, the Great Depression, other recessions, and Superstorm Sandy in 2012. We are built for this type of situation, and we are prepared. Our well-diversified balance sheet, business model, and investment strategy reinforces our strength and stability in times of market turbulence and uncertainty. Our success and our commitment to fulfill all our promises to our policyholders is the guiding force behind our decision-making processes — it’s the bedrock of who we are as a mutual company, and as a member of The Guardian Network®, you become a part of that. Today, we are stronger than ever Guardian has continually grown on a foundation of strength, with over $9 billion in capital, while maintaining financial strength ratings that are among the top 1% of all insurers, and we were the only major life insurer upgraded during the financial crisis of 2008. Our conservative approach to risk management, combined with a high-quality investment portfolio, has created a solid balance sheet. Our investment philosophy is equipped for a volatile market, and we are one of 6 (out of over 700) life insurance companies in the U.S. with the financial strength rating of AA+ or higher by Standard & Poor's and Fitch. Guardian is prepared for pandemic events. We have stress tested our balance sheet against an event comparable to the 1918 Spanish Flu, and mortality losses in such an event would represent about $300 million, or 3% of our capital. We have an agile, remote-work policy in place, and are prepared to keep operations running with little to no disruption. We are here for you Our clients, colleagues, and their families are counting on us. Every decision we make is founded in our values: we do the right thing, we hold ourselves to high standards, and people count. We will navigate through any situation successfully, side by side with you and your clients.
The Guardian Network® is driven by Guardian’s strength and its commitment to uphold their values for their employees, their customers and their financial representatives.
1 Capital is the amount of money or assets owned by the Company that are available to invest and grow its business, produce its goods and services for its customers and maintain its operations. 2 Guardian has a 98 Comdex, which in turn makes us in the top 1% of insurers based on indexed financial strength. Comdex is not a rating, but a composite of all ratings that a company has received from the four major ratings agencies (A.M. Best, Standard & Poor’s, Moody’s, and Fitch). Comdex represents a company’s percentile standing, on a scale of 1 to 100 (with 100 being the best), in relation to other companies that have been rated by the major agencies. Financial information concerning Guardian as of December 31, 2019, on a statutory basis: Admitted Assets = $62.2 billion; Liabilities = $54.6 billion (including $46.5 billion of Reserves); and Surplus = $7.6 billion. 3 Ratings are as of 12/31/19 and are subject to change. Ratings do not apply to the investments issued by GIAC or offered through Park Avenue Securities (PAS). The Guardian Network® is a network of independent agencies offering the full suite of proprietary Guardian products along with those of other top rated carriers. 4 Based on internal extrapolations from historical data. Guardian® is a registered trademark of The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America® © Copyright 2020 The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America Based on internal extrapolations from historical data.
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As a Financial Representative, you will work hard to help your clients… and we recognize and reward that hard work through one of the industry’s most competitive compensation packages.
The Guardian Financial Representative (FR) Compensation Plan is the primary contract for all Financial Representatives. It is considered one of the most lucrative plans in the financial services industry. Providing exceptional compensation, renewals, and benefits, the plan is an opportunity for every Financial Representative to do well by doing good. No matter your level of experience, we’ll provide:
Accumulation Plan (WAP) Gold Wealth Accumulation Plan 401(k) with up to 3% Match
Platinum Wealth
Defined Benefit Retirement Plan Post Retirement Renewals and Service Fees Comprehensive Fringe Benefits
Employer's Share of Social Security
Persistency Renewals Basic Renewals
Agency Provided Services Supplemental Life Compensation
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Administrative
Renewals
Supplemental compensation
Basic compensation
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Some of the strongest renewal rates in the industry
Recognition Events
Tuition reimbursement for your continuing education
Special discounted membership offering to join top industry associations
Strong leaders are developed, not born.
Whether you have a desire to lead others, or prefer a more informal leadership role by being a leader in your community, you should have the ability to grow and develop in the direction you choose. Our local and national leadership development programs were designed to build a pipeline of frontline, experienced leaders throughout The Guardian Network®. Choose your career path based on how you want to enhance your skills, and our programs will help guide your growth and development.
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If you take the Financial Representative path, you'll have the choice to build your practice on your own or as part of a team. Either way, you'll have the support and leverage of a Fortune 250 company behind you. • Generalist: Market focus individually or through joint work • Specialist: Product-specific as a coach, mentor, or part of a team.
Taking your career in this path direction says you want to develop a specialty within the firm structure, where you can bring out the best of your particular skill set. • Recruiting Director • Mentor • Marketing Director • Training Director • LBS Specialist • Investment Specialist • Disability Income Specialist • Life Brokerage Manager • Agency Compliance Officer • Retirement Specialist
If you see yourself coaching and managing Financial Representatives, you may want to consider this direction. We have a robust platform of development programs to support you in this path. • Managing Associate • Managing Director • Principal Director • Associate General Agent • Career Development Manager • General Agent
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Rewards and recognition of merit
Tools, knowledge and programs to help you take your practice to the next level.
You have plans for the growth of your practice. We will help you along the way with the tools, programs and personal support you need to reach your goals.
The Business Resource Center (BRC) The BRC is founded on knowledge, strategy, and innovation. We strive for excellence every day and in every interaction so we can provide you and your clients with custom-tailored planning solutions for their business and personal needs. Our team of experienced professionals are highly trained and knowledgeable in all areas of advanced business, individual and wealth transfer planning with a wide range of specialities. Our tools The BRC and Guardian provide you access to the tools you need to do the job including:
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The Wealth Steps platform provides easy access to prospecting and presentation material, training and activity tracking. Innovative Underwriters Innovative Underwriters, (IU) is a wholly-owned subsidiary of The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America® with nearly 50 years in the industry as a Brokerage General Agency committed to helping insurance producers serve their clients. When business can’t be offered through Guardian, turn to Innovative Underwriters. IU provides access to a robust suite of non-proprietary products from a diverse set of over 25 top-rated carriers. Our knowledge and experience helps you compete in today’s challenging market environment. Our dedicated teams are committed to providing you with guidance through each case – regardless of size - every step of the way. Innovative Underwriters operates with an extensive pool of experience:
Guardian Momentum™ — A step-by-step system that provides tools for every stage of the sales cycle
GPS Advanced Illustration Support
AMO/BIO third party tool
Business Valuation Calculator
Our relationships The BRC only partners with high quality resources. We offer you relationships with some of the best names in the advanced planning field. Our programs and services We’re here to help you and your clients, by making the complex simple and providing top-notch case consultation and design services. The following are just a few of the things we can do for you:
Buy-Sell Review Program
BizEquity Valuation
Business Owner Life Program
Wealth Steps® Wealth Steps® is a financial wellness program available exclusively through Guardian’s proprietary sales system, The Living Balance Sheet®. The step-by-step approach of Wealth Steps teaches participants the simple logic and order of financial decision-making that will guide them toward a solid financial future. Benefits to you:
Door opener with Business Owners, Associations and Corporate Decision-makers
Segue into individual planning conversations
Provides excellent cross-sell opportunities
75+ years sales experience across multiple carriers
50 years of true underwriting experience
Building relationships for half a century
100 years of service experience
We provide personalized attention to you and take care of the heavy lifting, freeing up more time for you to spend with clients.
We are in the business of helping consumers find financial confidence and well-being in life, health, and wealth. We help people plan for their family and save for retirement. We help companies take care of their employees. And we help both recover and thrive in times of unexpected loss. There is power in the strength of Guardian, and you, as a financial professional to make this possible for all. As a leader in financial services, we offer a complete line of high-quality protection, investment, and worksite products designed to help you meet the unique needs of your clients and support their long-term Financial Balance®.
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High Early Cash Value WL Survivorship Whole Life Pension Trust Riders and Features, including the Long Term Care Rider and Charitable Benefit Rider
Income protection
Individual Disability Income Disability Buy-Out Key Person Coverage
Student Loan Protection Supplemental Income Protection Program Retirement Protection Plus
Retirement planning
401(k) Variable Annuities Fixed Annuities
Immediate Annuities Deferred Income Annuities
Investments
Advisory services Brokerage accounts Mutual Funds & Exchange Traded Funds Annuities IRAs
401(k) Solutions Education Accounts World-class technology and trading platform with Pershing and Bank of New York Mellon
Highly-rated carrier access
Innovative Underwriters Seamless Underwriting Access to a wide range of brands and products – Non-Proprietary Life – IUL
– Annuity – Disability Income – Life Settlements – Structured Settlements
Worksite benefits
Guaranteed Issue Disability Income Insurance Guaranteed Issue Life Group offering – (voluntary perm life and term) 401(k)
Dental Vision Chronic Illness Cancer Accident Stop Loss
Financial Balance® is a service mark of The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America® (Guardian), New York, NY 10004. © 2020 Guardian Securities products and advisory services offered through Park Avenue Securities LLC (PAS), member FINRA, SIPC. Variable universal life and variable and fixed annuities issued by The Guardian Insurance & Annuity Company, Inc. (GIAC), a Delaware corporation and wholly-owned subsidiary of Guardian. Individual variable annuities and variable universal life distributed by PAS. Annuity guarantees are backed exclusively by the strength and claims-paying ability of GIAC. PAS is a wholly-owned subsidiary of The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America® (Guardian).. Guardian, GIAC, and PAS are located at 10 Hudson Yards, New York, NY 10001 1-888-600-4667. Mutual funds, exchange traded funds, variable universal life, and variable annuities and their underlying variable investment options are sold by prospectus only. Prospectuses contain important information, including fees and expenses. Please read the prospectus carefully before investing or sending money. You should consider the investment objectives, risks, fees, and charges of the investment company carefully before investing. The prospectus contains this and other important information. A prospectus may be obtained from your investment professional or by calling 800-221-3253. To download a fund or contract prospectus, please visit www.GuardianLife.com. Individual disability income products underwritten and issued by Berkshire Life Insurance Company of America (BLICOA), Pittsfield, MA or provided by Guardian. BLICOA is a wholly owned stock subsidiary of and administrator for the Guardian Life Insurance Company of America (Guardian), New York, NY. Product provisions and availability may vary by state. Insurance products are underwritten and issued by The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America, New York, NY. Products are not available in all states. Policy limitations and exclusions apply. Optional riders and/or features may incur additional costs. Plan documents are the final arbiter of coverage. Innovative Underwriters is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Guardian. Financial information concerning Guardian as of December 31, 2019, on a statutory basis: Admitted Assets = $62.2 Billion; Liabilities = $54.6 Billion (including $46.5 Billion of Reserves); and Surplus = $7.6 Billion. Guardian® is a registered trademark of The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America. © Copyright 2020 The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America.
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A strong product portfolio provides you with a marketplace advantage.
Tools, knowledge and programs to help you take your practice to the next level
We are committed to continuing to grow an inclusive and diverse workplace.
Benefits of an entrepreneurial system Our dedication to entrepreneurship means that while we teach a shared financial philosophy, you will build your business in a way that feels authentic to you, based on your cultural perspective and serving the clients and community that you want to reach.
As a financial representative with The Guardian Network®:
You are at the forefront of helping communities gain Financial Balance® and build generational wealth.
Your efforts can change the world by being a part of the solution to close wealth gaps that exist in our communities.
Inclusion and diversity commitment in our firms
Supporting our field leadership teams
Supporting our financial representatives
Gender Intelligence training to help our field leaders understand how to actively hire more female FRs and help them thrive.
Generational training to gain an understanding of generational differences and build cultures of support across every generation.
Building Inclusive Cultures training to help leadership have important conversations and understand how unconscious bias may affect firm culture.
Our FRs have access to a library of materials to help them engage prospects and clients including holiday greeting cards, social media content and more.
Celebrating cultural and religious events with clients and prospects helps our FRs build strong, lasting relationships.
We offer our FRs the support to attend training and development opportunities throughout the year, both Guardian-specific and industry-wide such as:
Guardian’s Women’s Leadership Summit
Sponsorship of InvestmentNews Women Advisor Summit
Sponsorship of Conference of African American Financial Professionals
Our shared values come from the top down
At Guardian, our commitment to inclusion and diversity has been a part of who we are since we were founded over 160 years ago. More than an ideal, inclusion and diversity is a vital part of how we do business and is ingrained in our culture and our values.
People count.
We do the right thing.
We hold ourselves to very high standards.
At Guardian, every individual — from our Executive Leadership Team and employees, to our field and brokers — lives these values and they drive every decision, project, and initiative. Inclusion and diversity though, is about more than having a diverse workforce; it is about ensuring that all those who choose to join the Guardian family, feel supported, respected, comfortable and confident that they can show up authentically at work. We are proud of our history and the progress we have made to create an inclusive work environment for all. Inclusion and diversity though, is a journey, and not a point in time. We recognize that the world in which we live is constantly evolving and understand that our future path will need to evolve with it.
We understand that increasing diversity among our employees and firms isn’t just the right thing to do, it is paramount to affecting positive change in our society. That broader and more diverse minds and perspectives make a business, and the world, better. Learn more about our history and commitment to Inclusion and Diversity.
The Guardian Network® is a network of independent agencies offering the full suite of proprietary Guardian products along with those of other top rated carriers. The Living Balance Sheet® (LBS) and the LBS logo are service marks of The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America (Guardian), New York, NY. © Copyright 2005-2020 Guardian.
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Your drive, passion and commitment will determine your success.
Your career path is defined by you, your success and where you want to go.
Inclusion & Diversity
We provide financial professionals with everything they need to grow the practice of their dreams — for them and for their clients.
Our Values
We believe in a genuine “you-first” philosophy that places you and your clients’ interests at the center of what we do.
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We help you deliver an uncommon approach to help clients grow and protect their assets while achieving financial success.
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We foster a culture that enables entrepreneurs to support client acquisition, management, and servicing.
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Business model flexibility Choose how you grow your business — brokerage, advisory, planning, or a combination. Regardless of how you plan to grow, there’s an entity for you. From Park Avenue Securities (PAS), the dual-registrant broker-dealer and corporate RIA, to Park Avenue Investment Advisory (PAA), the standalone RIA, or a hybrid, there’s a good fit for you and your practice. We provide you access to a suite of product, technology, practice management, and service solutions to always help you gather, manage, and service clients more efficiently. Objective wealth management While focus on protection is the core building block to any grounded financial strategy, there are additional ways to complement your clients’ risk management approach to further help them grow and protect their assets. Whether it’s building a long-term investment strategy for retirement, saving for college, or capital preservation, we can help you step forward to be the trusted financial professional and do what’s right for your clients. Building a comprehensive financial strategy requires access to a variety of objective investment solutions to match your clients’ needs, and put you both in control — from Advisory solutions, brokerage accounts, alternatives, high-net worth offerings, cash management, financial planning, and more. A “you-first” approach to wealth management means you and your clients’ needs are placed first, and that you are empowered to provide recommendations in your clients’ interest. You-first means access to objective investment solutions. It means accessing a suite of investment products that support multiple goals and are available to your clients during all life stages. It means ensuring you have a competitive platform at your disposal to offer what your clients need. It means the support of your broker-dealer, RIA, and a mutual company with 160 years of experience. It means making wealth management business easy to do. Simplified technology solutions Taking advantage of our on-platform investment capabilities allows you to create a repeatable advisory business model to efficiently grow, manage, and service your wealth management business to scale. These evolving, integrated technology solutions save you and your staff time, create a more streamlined client experience, and help you better serve your clients.
A “you-first” approach to wealth management means you and your clients’ needs are placed first, and that you are empowered to provide recommendations in your clients’ interest.
Your Core Platform: NetX360
24/7 Client Access1: NetXInvestor
Manage Your Advisory Business: Envestnet (PAS) & Orion (PAA)
Ready for Every Meeting: Albridge Wealth Reporting, AdvicePay, and The Living Balance Sheet®
Practice management to help you grow your business We provide centralized, regional support to help you grow your business.
Potential support in structuring your business through the acquisition lending program (alp) — an optional lending program which enables qualified financial professionals to buy/sell and transition a portion or all of a book of business as part of a long-term succession or retirement strategy.
Training opportunities and events across the entire spectrum of wealth management.
Peer-to-peer wealth management best practices sharing.
Support client building activity and practice growth.
Help you analyze and identify your client-base for most attractive opportunities.
Assist you in developing a repeatable 4-step wealth management process: Discovery, Analysis & Investment Selection, Investor Proposal & Presentation, and Ongoing Review & Monitoring.
Regional, customized support.
Transition Management Our Transition Management Team delivers customized, hands-on support to onboard, and transition experienced financial professionals. The Transition Management Team:
Focuses on the financial professionals and their end client experience
Executes by utilizing a flexible, collaborative transition model with subject matters experts across the organization
Collaborates with key stakeholders in the agency throughout the process
Offers customizable transitions tools
Provides tailored learning solutions to efficiently educate
As part of our offering, you may also qualify for the Transition Assistance Program (TAP). TAP is an optional program which provides eligible recruits forgivable loans to help ease their transition. Regardless of your needs, we are here to support you and your growth.
Securities products and advisory services offered through Park Avenue Securities LLC (PAS), a registered broker-dealer and investment adviser. PAS is a wholly owned subsidiary of The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America and is located at 10 Hudson Yards, New York, NY 10001. PAS is a Member FINRA, SIPC. Park Avenue Investment Advisory, LLC (PAA) is an indirect, wholly owned subsidiary of Guardian. Park Avenue Investment Advisory, LLC is registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission as an investment adviser.
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