Industry Leaders

As part of our commitment to providing the best service to you, we have formed a strategic business alliance with one of the nation’s leading brokerage clearing institutions – First Clearing. This relationship brings us the benefit of a firm with 65 years of experience in the full-service brokerage business and the strength of being affiliated with Wachovia.
Headquartered in Richmond, Virginia, First Clearing provides quality securities-execution and brokerage-clearance services to more than 100 securities firms throughout the United States.

The Fourth largest bank holding company in the United States based on assets, Wachovia Corporation is a diversified financial services company that provides a broad range of banking, asset management, wealth management, and corporate and investment banking products and services. With nearly 87,000 employees, they are able to serve banking, brokerage, and corporate customers primarily on the East Coast, as well as through investment banking offices in different locations.

Consulting Services Group

The Consulting Services Group provides a broad and extensive suite of products and services that allow us to offer you the latest unbiased research and a network of recognized private money managers and mutual funds.

The Consulting Services Group manages:

• $21 billion in consulting assets
• 108,000 consulting accounts
• $125 million in annualized revenues
• Over 100 CGS associates in marketing, research, and operations providing service and support to us.

Wachovia’s Advisory Services Group

The Advisory Services Group (ASG) provides us with objective, unbiased investment advice, ranging from strategic asset allocation to the selection of individual stocks and bonds that will fill in that allocation. The Advisory Services Group combines all of Wachovia Securities' advice-giving teams and strategists into a single, unified effort. We benefit from their collective experience in diverse markets, such as large and small cap equities, international investing, investment grade bonds, and high yield securities.